2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Betting Preview

The PGA Tour heads eight hours North from Torrey Pines to Pebble Beach along the beautiful Monterey coastline for this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The field lacks star power with just seven of the top 50 players in the world rankings playing the three course rotation. Still, plenty of golf odds and betting opportunities to take a shot at with players shooting for birdies and the top prize of $1.6 million from an increased prize pool of $9 million.

Most top golfers are taking a week off ahead of next week’s Phoenix Open and massive $20 million prize pool. That popular event is played during Super Bowl week in nearby Glendale, AZ. But plenty of celebrities and amateurs take their swings alongside the pros at Pebble Beach making this a fun event to watch and wager on with FanDuel brand ambassador Jordan Spieth heading the field.

Golf Courses and Odds to Win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

• Pebble Beach Golf Links – 6,972 yards, Par 72
• Spyglass Hill Golf Course – 7,041 yards, Par 72
• Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course) – 6,957 yards, Par 71

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Leading favourites, contenders and popular players

• Jordan Spieth
• Viktor Hovland
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Maverick McNealy
• Tom Hoge
• Kevin Streelman
• Seamus Power
• Kevin Kisner
• Kurt Kitayama
• Denny McCarthy

Major champions Webb Simpson and Justin Rose along with Matt Kuchar add to the popular players in this year’s event with former Stanford All-American golfer Maverick McNealy another favorite and contender who finished runner-up in this tournament in 2021.

Golf Betting Strategy and FAQ

The last seven editions of the tournament have seen a winning score from 17 to 19 under par. Jordan Spieth won the event in 2017. The four-time major winner has also finished top-10 each of the last three years including T-3 in 2021 and runner-up in 2022 when he made a hole-in-one and also this hole-out eagle.

When marketing the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, product (the item or service), price (what the consumer pays), promotion (the marketing communications), and the place (the location) are keys to a successful campaign. The Monterey Peninsula’s premier Par 72 golf courses are the attraction, and two weeks to tee-off has arrived.

The Pebble Beach event promotional materials indicated that while much of the tournament remains devoted to the world-class golf professionals who compete each year, “the heart and soul of tournament week on the Monterey Peninsula are the celebrity icons – Bing Crosby, Jack Lemmon, Clint Eastwood, Bill Murray – whose legendary antics inside and outside the ropes account for the tournament’s continued popularity and ardent following worldwide.”

Notable Celebrities

Some of this year’s notable celebrities include NFL QB’s Aaron Rodgers and Josh Allen, seaside native and Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera, country music star Jake Owen, sports broadcaster Chris Myers and legendary actor and famed Caddyshack film comedian Bill Murray.

Also, former NFL stars Steve Young, Alex Smith, Larry Fitzgerald, former NBA star Pau Gasol, former San Francisco Giants MLB star Buster Posey join rapper and songwriter Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) and country music singer and songwriter Eric Church at Pebble Beach. Also, actors, directors and comedians trying to chip-in for birdie include Jason Bateman, Chris O’Donnell, Josh Duhamel and Ray Romano with the full list of celebrities all adding to the fun and festive event.

While many celebrities are outside their comfort zone and element playing alongside PGA Tour pros, even the games best players have nervous moments on the golf course.

Jordan Spieth said “That was by far the most nerve wracking shot I’ve ever hit in my life,” when he stood over this cliffhanger at last year’s Pebble Beach Pr0-Am.

Popular Types of Golf Betting Odds

Types of bets and how to read the odds

• Winner: Bet on who will win this week’s PGA tour event
• Finishing Position Odds: Bet on a golfer to finish in the top 5, top 10, top 20 or top 40 in this week’s golf tournament
• Round Leader Betting: Golf odds on who will win the first round, second round, third round, and fourth round separately.
• Golf Matchup Betting: Prop bets on which golfer will finish better in the tournament head to head between the two golfers listed for each matchup.

Golf Picks and Stats

When considering top finishing position bets, know that only a handful of players in this field have delivered multiple top-10 finishes over the last six years: Jordan Spieth, Maverick McNealy, Kevin Streelman, Scott Stallings and Brian Gay. Yet, many newcomers cracked the top-10 last year without previous success in the event including winner Tom Hoge, Beau Hossler (3rd), Andrew Putnam (T6) and Matt Fitzpatrick (T6), who all return this week.

Leading contender pick: Maverick McNealy

According to Fantasy National stats, McNealy ranks No. 2 in this field behind Spieth in Strokes Gained: Total at Pebble Beach including best in the field Short Game and Around the Green golf stats with excellent putting over his eight rounds played. McNealy has made the cut in his last seven tournaments with four top-12 finishes. The 27-year-old now plays an event he favors and almost won in 2021 (2nd), and near where he grew up and played college golf. Maverick’s dad Scott McNealy co-founded Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara and sold it to Oracle for $7.4 billion in 2009.

Over the last 36 rounds played on Tour, these players’ stats top the field. Tom Hoge is No. 1 in Strokes Gained: Approach. Matt Fitzpatrick is the Strokes Gained: Total leader. Andrew Putnam is No. 1 in Short Game and No. 2 in Putting while McNealy No. 2 in Putting and No. 5 in Short Game.

Golf Courses

Description by Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN)

Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of the game’s most iconic courses. The par-72, 6,972-yard coastal layout features nine holes played by the Pacific Ocean. Pebble Beach is the second-shortest annual course on the PGA Tour. It is also heavily bunkered (118) and wind can definitely affect scoring on this exposed track. The Poa/Ryegrass fairways are the seventh-widest on the PGA Tour at an average of 40.7 yards. The Poa Annua greens are the smallest on tour (Ave. 3,500 square feet) and slower (approx. 10.5 stimpmeter) to keep the amateurs from posting too many high scores. Pebble Beach has been part of this event’s rotation since 1947 and typically plays as the hardest layout of the week.

Due to the angular hole layouts, Pebble Beach concedes the shortest average driving distance on tour, forcing layups on many holes off the tee and almost completely removing any advantage for longer hitters. The emphasis on approach shots is even higher this week, with the course yielding some of the lowest Greens In Regulation percentages on tour.

Spyglass Hill Golf Course is a par-72, 7,041-yard tree-lined track. The Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design is still the fifth-shortest of the courses played annually on the PGA Tour. It has substantially more protection from the wind than Pebble Beach but can play more difficult. Poa Annua greens await the players here as well, but they are larger (5,000 square feet) and slower (10 stimpmeter) than the ones at Pebble Beach.

Monterey Peninsula Country Club is a par-71, 6,957-yard course that is more of a coastal/links setup like Pebble Beach. Monterey typically plays the easiest of the three golf courses. The fairways are a Bentgrass/Fescue mix and play into Poa Annua greens that average 6,000 square feet and roll to about 10.5 on the stimpmeter.

Check out more players golf odds and tournament coverage of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am including tee times and pairings by Wednesday as betting on golf continues to be a most popular sport offering more ways to win.

Next week, the Tour heads to Scottsdale for the Phoenix Open playing the tournament alongside Super Bowl LVII. More top pros will be competing next week and even more celebrities and a massive media following will be tracking the action.

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