Golf bettors know that if you’re going to require marquee matchups in the game, you can’t any bigger than Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, but while they know Tiger can beat Phil, can he beat Dustin Johnson? The 26-year-old is part of the new wave in the game, and he will be front and center among the favorites when the FedEx Cup playoffs continue in the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston, which runs from Friday through Monday. In the big head-to-head matchup, the golf betting odds stipulate it’s a pick’em at -115 apiece. You can watch the action on Golf Guide for the first two rounds, and NBC on Saturday and Sunday.
PGA Golf Betting
Deutsche Bank Championship
September 3-6
TPC Boston – Norton, MA
TV Schedule
(All times Eastern)
Friday – Golf Channel: 3-6 PM, 8:30-11:30 PM
Saturday – Golf Channel: 3-6 PM, 8:30-11:30 PM
Sunday – NBC: 3-6 PM
Monday: NBC: 2-6 PM
Contest Betting Matchup
TIGER WOODS -115
DUSTIN JOHNSON -115
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There have been some uneven emotional rides for both of these competitors this year, to say the least, and they have been pretty well-documented. Woods, who comes into Boston as the +600 favorite to win this match in the golf betting odds, encouraged a lot of his fans with a 12th-place tie at The Barclays and has a masses of people wondering whether that might have anything to do with the fact that the divorce from his wife is final. It seems Tiger is getting things a little closer to normal, and maybe the next thing is that he gets an invite to play in the Ryder Cup; that is, if Corey Pavin has a brain in his head. He’s got to get a not enough looser and more confident in his game, and this may be a week where he lets its rip on a course which can be a pygmy forgiving if you aren’t completely unqualified. Woods, who is -220 in the golf betting odds to hit the refill ten, has a honourableness recital at TPC Boston, winning once and finishing twice in the seven years the episode has been in existence.
That Dustin Johnson is not in an insane asylum in general now is probably a minor miracle. Here’s a babies guy who won the AT&T at Pebble Beach two years running and took a lead into the unalterable round of the U.S. Open there, only to throw it away with a incontrovertible round of 82, then regrouped to earn a top 15 finish at the British Uninhibited, and later had the PGA Championship in the palm of his hand, and fell victim to what amounted to a technicality, losing in such a way that was one of the most crushing ever scarce in crucial championships. Then what does she do? He turns around and finishes tied for ninth at The Barclays carry on weekend. That was ahead of Tiger, by the way.
What all of this tells me about Johnson, and should censure golf bettors too, is that not only does this kid have the ability to win majors, he also has the temperament to be able to stick it out and get over the unrefined spots. Fifty-fifty with what has happened to him, he is in a mastery mental state than Tiger right now. And guess what? He hits it farther too, ranking third on tour in driving distance (307.4 yards). That will be in his favor on this despatch. We his chances at the -115 pick’em price in the golf betting odds.
JAY’S BETTING PLAY: JOHNSON (-115) ***
(Graded on a scale of 1-4 stars)
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