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Scottie Scheffler 2023 PGA Championship: Best Bets & Predictions

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The PGA Championship used to bat cleanup as the fourth and final major of the season, but this will be the fifth time that the PGA has been held in May, in between the Masters and the U.S. Open.

Justin Thomas is the defending champion. He shot a final-round 67 at Southern Hills last year and beat Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the Wanamaker Trophy, the giant piece of hardware awarded annually to the PGA champ. Thomas and Brooks Koepka have combined to win four of the last six PGA Championships, with Collin Morikawa and Phil Mickelson interrupting the Thomas/Koepka reign in 2020 and 2021.

This year’s PGA Championship returns Oak Hill in Pittsford, N.Y., where Jason Dufner finished -10 to win the 2013 PGA, beating runner-up Jim Furyk by two strokes. But the East Course at Oak Hill will look much different than it did at the last PGA here 10 years ago. Course architect Andrew Green presided over a major remodeling intended to make the course more faithful to the original Donald Ross design. The course will once again play at par-70, and after playing at 7,163 yards in 2013, it has been stretched to 7,400 for this year’s event.

Will favorites Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler flex their muscles at Oak Hill? Will Thomas and Koepka extend their stretch of PGA dominance? Or will an unexpected winner emerge from the field the way Jimmy Walker did at Baltusrol in 2016? Read on for betting profiles of the top contenders for the 2023 PGA Championship.

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Scottie Scheffler 2023 PGA Championship Best Bets

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Scottie Scheffler Stats to Know

    • Best odds to win: +800 (Bet Rivers)
    • World ranking: 2
    • Best PGA Championship finish: T4 (2020)
    • Last three PGA Championship finishes: T4, T8, MC
    • Last four tournament finishes: 1, 10, 11, 5

Scottie Scheffler Course History

Scottie Scheffler has played in three career PGA Championships. His first appearance resulted in a tie for fourth at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco in 2020. The next year, he tied for eighth at Kiawah Island. His missed cut at last year’s PGA at Southern Hills came in the midst of a rare period of scuffling with his game in his breakout season.

Scottie Scheffler Recent Form

Among the other top golfers in the world, Scheffler is entering Oak Hill in top form. His dominant victory at the Players Championship was followed by a top-10 at The Masters and a top-5 finish at last week’s Byron Nelson. Even B+ Scottie is good enough to win the PGA Championship, but we’re likely to be privileged with an even more dialed-in version.

Scottie Scheffler Betting Outlook

Scottie Scheffler is the only golfer in the field who might actually be worth his confident odds. Oak Hill demands a bag full of thoughtful, well-executed shots. This bodes well for Scheffler, who enters the event on a real heater. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if he captures his second major this week. I also like throwing some skin on a top-5 finish, which is stable at plus-odds.

2023 PGA Championship Golfer Profiles

Check out our previews for each of the top golfers competing at Oak Hill this week:

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