Pga Championship Tips 2019

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The PGA Championship is organised by the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of America. It is an official money event on the PGA Tour, European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour.

PGA Champions are automatically invited to play in the other three majors for the next five years and are exempt from qualifying for the PGA Championship for life. They also receive membership on the PGA and European Tours for the following five seasons and invitations to The PLAYERS Championship for five years.

The PGA Championship features the strongest field of any of the majors based on the Official World Golf Ranking, with 156 players competing annually for the Wanamaker Trophy.

This year’s host course for the 102^nd PGA Championship is TPC Harding Park, formerly Harding Park Golf Club and commonly known as Harding Park. This will be the fifth occasion that the PGA Championship will make its appearance in California and the first to be staged in San Francisco.

TPC Harding Park is a municipal golf course owned by the city and county of San Francisco. The 2020 PGA Championship will be the first major championship to be held at a TPC property.

Named after U.S. President Warren G. Harding, Harding Park Golf Course was opened in 1925 along the shores of Lake Merced, in San Francisco. The initial 18-hole, 163 acre course was designed by Willie Watson and Sam Whiting, who also designed the nearby Olympic Club Lake Course.

Harding Park established itself as one of the top golf courses on the West Coast. It hosted a number of important tournaments and became a regular stop for PGA Tour events. However, after the San Francisco Open Invitational in 1969, the PGA Tour left Harding Park due to deteriorating conditions and out-dated facilities.

Course conditions got progressively worse due to city budget cuts which caused devastation to overall maintenance. The low point came in 1998, when Harding was used for parking during the US Open at the nearby Lake Course of the Olympic Club.

In 2002 a $16M restoration began featuring a complete redesign of the course. The character and integrity of the original layout was maintained while incorporating changes to challenge the modern golfer. As part of the redesign, the Par 70 layout was lengthened to 7,200 yards.

The new-look Harding Park was officially reopened in August 2003. The redesigned championship course was well received and and with it came the return of the PGA Tour. In November 2010, Harding Park became a part of the PGA Tour’s Tournament Players Club (TPC) network of courses.

Notable tournaments played at Harding Park since it reopened in 2003 include;

• 2005 WGC American Express Championship – Tiger Woods
• 2009 Presidents Cup 2009 – US Team (Captain Fred Couples)
• 2010 Charles Schwab Cup Championship – John Cook
• 2011 Charles Schwab Cup Championship – Jay Don Blake
• 2012 Charles Schwab Cup Championship – Tom Lehman
• 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match Play – Rory McIlroy

In preparation for this week’s major, the fairways have been considerably reduced and the rough will be challenging. Solid play from the tee will be crucial to keep the ball on the short stuff. Playing from the fairway will present the best chance to set up scoring opportunities. Those players who drive the ball long and well should prosper. This is backed up by the PGA Championship Winning Formula data which shows the strokes gained breakdown for the past three champions.

Course management looks to be key this week with scoring opportunities hard to come by. Taking advantage of the two Par 5’s will also be important. Greens are tiered so putting will be extremely challenging particularly if players fail to hit the proper target on the green. A razor-sharp short game won’t go astray either. Players will need to scramble well and drain their fair share of putts.

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It goes without saying that Major Championships are not tournaments to be coming to to-find-your-game. History tells us that excellent Current Form is key this week. In this regard it is worth having a closer look at the WGC FedEx St Jude Invitational and the Memorial Tournament for clues as to who might do well.

Like with all the Majors, it is worth holding back some wager money to have a bet in running after 36 or even 54 holes are completed.

In a nutshell, this week is all about distance accuracy, holding the green, three-putt avoidance, keeping big numbers off the card and trying to convert chances when they present

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Webb Simpson 25/1 (E/W) – a regular at the PGA Championship his best result in the recent past is a T13 at Baltusrol GC in 2016. Already a multiple winner on Tour this season at the WM Phoenix Open and RBC Heritage (both ball-strikers tracks), he also has a further 4 x Top 10’s from a total 10 starts. Tops the pile comfortably in this week’s Stats Analysis which demands attention in its own right. The 34 year from North Carolina is also 14th on Tour for GIR and 4th for Scoring Average. Assembling his best year on Tour, the time is now to add another Major to his US Open victory at the Olmpic Club in 2012. The Olympic Club, like TPC Harding Park, was designed by Willie Watson and Sam Whiting and is also located on the shores of Lake Merced in San Francisco. The stars are aligning.

Daniel Berger 40/1 (E/W) – owes nothing after last week’s place finish in the WGC FedEx St Jude Invitational so happy to stick with him again this week. Best result at the PGA Championship in the recent past is a T12 at Bellerive CC in 2018, so knows what it takes. Since the Tour’s restart his results read Win-T3-MC-T2 – his victory coming in the Charles Schwab Challenge. Places 2nd in this week’s Stats Analysis which is noteworthy considering it is the strongest field of any of the majors based on the OWGR. The 27 year old is also 14th on Tour for Strokes Gained Putting and 5th for Scoring Average. Statistically he should be a perfect fit for the challenge of TPC Harding Park. Game has elevated to new heights and with it his confidence. Like last week, what’s not to like?

Abraham Ancer 66/1 (E/W) – happy to stick with him again this week after a solid T15 finish in last week’s WGC FedEx St Jude Invitational. This will be his second appearance at the PGA Championship having finished T16 last year at Bethpage Black. Has four Top 15 finishes from five starts since golf’s return, including a solo 2nd at the RBC Heritage. Last week could have been so much better around TPC Southwind only for a second round 75 which spoilt rounds of 67, 65 and 66. Statistically balanced with zero red flags puts him third in this week’s Stats Analysis. Recent form and skill set make a compelling argument for consideration. May not win, but good each way chance.

Below is a rundown of my outright PGA Tour betting tips – you can see which outsiders I am backing here. But first…

The details

The venue: Bethpage Black, Farmingdale, New York, USA

Date: May 16-19, 2019

Course stats: Par 70, 7,459 yards

Course summary: The sign warning players of its extreme difficulty isn’t just for show. It’s the hardest on the PGA Tour – long with ball grabbing rough and some tricky small greens. Hitting the fairway is imperative.

Purse: $11 million

Defending champion: Brooks Koepka (-16)

TV Coverage

Thursday: Featured groups, Sky Sports Golf and Main Event, 1pm; Sky Sports Golf, 6pm; Sky Sports Main Event, 10pm

Friday: Featured groups, Sky Sports Golf, 1pm; Sky Sports Golf, 6pm; Sky Sports Main Event, 10pm

Saturday: Sky Sports Golf, 4pm; Sky Sports Main Event, 5.30pm

Sunday: Sky Sports Golf, 4pm; Sky Sports Main Event, 7pm

PGA Championship betting tips: Steve’s leading contenders

Brooks Koepka (11/1)

Probably should be going into this week on the back of a win but Sung Kang claimed the Byron Nelson and it might be a concern for some – at this short a price – that he’s put himself in position a couple of times to win without doing it.

Who knows what would have happened at the Masters had he not dunked his ball in the drink at 12 but, of more importance to me, is that he was bang in the frame at another major championship.

Something happens to Koepka during one of the big four week’s and so I look at his Byron Nelson form as a huge positive.

Well down the leaderboard the only time he has played Bethpage Black (he was 70th at the 2016 Barclays), the three-time major winner is a very different player now.

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You need to be very long and strong to have a chance of taming this track and, fortunately, Koepka is both.

Paul Casey (50/1)

I’m going to forgive the Englishman his Masters aberration. He’d publicly said Augusta was his best chance to win a major and, on the back of defending the Valspar Championship, probably put a bit too much pressure on himself. Cue 81 and 73 and a weekend on the couch.

But that shouldn’t deflect from what has been a very consistent few months for Casey and he bounced back well when finishing inside the top five at Wells Fargo.

That was the 41-year-old’s fifth top 10 in 13 PGA Tour events and I can’t see any reason – at the price – why he wouldn’t contend for each-way money at least.

Casey missed the cut when Bethpage Black staged the US Open in 2002 and didn’t play when it returned seven years later.

But even though 31st at the 2016 Barclays is his best display on the Tillinghast classic I think he has a better chance of contending then his price suggests.

Sergio Garcia (40/1)

It’s no surprise that the likes of Tiger, Brooks and Rory are sucking the oxygen out of the prices at the top of the betting market but, even so, I am thrilled to get 40/1 on the Spaniard.

The 2017 Masters champion is principally known this season for throwing his toys out of the pram – and digging his putter into the greens – at Saudi Arabia but there has been good golf.

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Top 10 at the WGC-Mexico Championship and a quarter-finalist at the Dell Match Play, he missed the cut at Augusta National but has a love-hate relationship with that course despite the fact it’s the site of his only major win.

He teamed up with Tommy Fleetwood to find only Jon Rahm and Ryan Palmer better at the Zurich Classic and then finished 65, 68 on the weekend at Wells Fargo to break into the top 5.

There’s few better from tee to green than Garcia and you’d hope that would hold him in good stead on a course where you need to put the ball in the right spots.

He didn’t play the Black at The Barclays in 2016 but was third in 2012, 10th at the 2009 US Open and 4th at the 2002 US Open. It’s a course where he has performed consistently and I think he’s big at the price.

Rickie Fowler (20/1)

One of these days Rickie is going to get over the major hump and maybe this is the year. Seventh at Bethpage in 2016 and 24th at the Barclays four years earlier, the course clearly suits the 30-year-old.

I’d want him to be coming off the pace on Sunday – we all know how he can squirm when leading a PGA Tour event so the last thing you want is him sleeping again on an overnight lead for his maiden major.

But he comes here in form that is as good as any of the leading contenders, having finished tied 9th at Augusta and tied 4th at the Wells Fargo.

A winner in Phoenix, although not without some mishaps, the best putter on the PGA Tour could get some traction on Bethpage’s relatively straightforward greens.

And Tiger Woods?

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The GOAT won the US Open here in 2002 and was sixth when the national championship returned to Farmingdale seven years later.

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After his fifth Masters, and 15th major, last month we have returned to pre-2013 normality where Tiger is pretty much favourite for everything but, at 12/1, his price is short enough for me.

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