PGA Best Bets - Shriners Children's Open

Well, there was no money to win last week for us, even with a 1 in 5 chance in a playoff to have the winner of the Sanderson Farms Championship.

Last week, four of my five golfers made it to the weekend but sluggish starts and finishes doomed any chances of a win.

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Let’s go into this week’s Bets to Win!

Vincent Norrman

+3500 on DraftKings

You are going to see a pattern with this week’s Bets to Win – it’s the no-putt club and it starts with Norrman.

He’s strong in SG: tee to green and SG: off the tee and fills three checkmarks on my four course fit stats. However, he ranks in the bottom quarter of the PGA Tour in putting.

He does have a win the World Tour at the Irish Open in September and won the PGA’s Barbasol Championship in July.

Nicolai Hojgaard

+4000 on DraftKings

Hojgaard was part of the European Ryder Cup winning team as a rookie, but only thing missing on his early pro resume is an individual PGA victory.

He checks all the right boxes this week and had 2 Top-10 finishes in August on the World Tour.

His weakness is his accuracy off the tee, but unless he gets an unlucky break the rough and most of the native areas around the TPC Summerlin are manageable.

Aaron Rai

+5500 on DraftKings

Rai is another part of the no-putt club, but he has shown the ability to score well in the first round. The problem is his troubles retaining first-round leads.

He had a share of the first-round lead at Farmers Insurance Open and the solo first-round lead at RBC Heritage this season.

Now he just needs to put four rounds together.

Akshay Bhatia

+9000 on DraftKings

Bhatia is looking for his second win this season, but it’s his putter that has held him back.

He won the Barracuda Championship in July, but his 176th-ranked putting on the PGA Tour has limited his upside.

But he comes into the Shriners with some hope as he is ranked in the Top 20 of all four categories I have for course fit on my spreadsheet.

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