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2023 Tour Championship Odds, Picks & Predictions: Viktor Hovland

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The 2022-2023 PGA Tour season will come to a dramatic conclusion this week with the Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

There's a great deal at stake for the 30 players who qualified for this event by making it through the first three tournaments of the four-week FedEx Cup Playoffs. The winner of the Tour Championship will receive $18 million and a five-year PGA Tour exemption. Second place is worth $6.5 million. Every player in the field will earn at least $500,000 for making it this far, along with a two-year PGA Tour exemption and a 2024 Masters invitation.

The Tour Championship uses a unique “starting strokes” system that rewards players based on the number of FedEx Cup points they’ve accumulated throughout the season. The FedEx Cup points leader starts at -10. The No. 2 player starts at -8, the No. 3 player starts at -7, the No. 4 player starts at -6, and the No. 5 player starts at -5. The rest of the field is sorted into groups of five, with groups starting at -4, -3, -2, -1 and even par. Bear in mind that betting odds for the Tour Championship take the starting strokes system into account.

The field features betting favorite Scottie Scheffler, reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm and defending FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy. Will one of the big names claim the title, or will we see a less heralded but red-hot player such as Lucas Glover or Brian Harman win at East Lake?

Let's look at the betting outlook for one of the players who'll be competing in this week's Tour Championship.

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2023 Tour Championship Odds & Picks: Viktor Hovland

Here is our betting outlook and picks for Viktor Hovland.

2023 Tour Championship Betting Stats to Know

  • Best Odds to win: +1000 (BetMGM)
  • World Ranking: 5
  • Best Tour Championship finish: T5 (2021)
  • Last 4 event finishes: T25, T13, T13, 1

2023 Tour Championship Betting Outlook

Viktor Hovland has secured two outright wins this season for the first time in his PGA Tour career. We just witnessed a record-setting final round of -9-under-par at the BMW Championship, where the Norwegian relied on his ballstriking and improved putter to bury seven birdies on the back nine. He recorded a T5 finish at East Lake in 2021, then finished T15 in 2022, so there's a lot to like about Hovland's outright odds at 10-1, especially since he's No. 2 in the FedEx Cup standings and will start at -8.

2023 Tour Championship Betting Advice

Due to his staggered starting position at -8-under-par, behind only Scottie Scheffler, betting on Hovland's 10/1 outright odds is a strong wager to place. Let's confidently bet on Hovland to win his first FedExCup at the 2023 Tour Championship.

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