{"id":26600,"date":"2025-08-20T08:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/scheffler-favorite-at-the-tour-championship-like-tiger-woods-in-2009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:52:06","slug":"scheffler-favorite-at-the-tour-championship-like-tiger-woods-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/scheffler-favorite-at-the-tour-championship-like-tiger-woods-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler: Favorite at the Tour Championship, like Tiger Woods in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Scottie Scheffler, Favorite at the Tour Championship<\/h2>\n\nGolfer Scottie Scheffler is shaping up as the top favorite to win this week&#8217;s Tour Championship in Atlanta, according to the latest estimates from bookmakers.\n\nScheffler, at +160, presents the shortest odds of his PGA career, although he is competing in a reduced field of 30 players. These odds are the lowest for any player in a PGA Tour event (excluding tee shots) since Tiger Woods had the same odds to win the Tour Championship in 2009.\n\nRory McIlroy, three-time FedEx Cup champion, is second with the lowest odds, but still, five times higher than Scheffler&#8217;s.\n\nDespite the low odds, bettors are leaning towards Scheffler, who, as of Tuesday, had attracted 33% of the total money wagered on the tournament winner at DraftKings. This figure is almost equal to the sum wagered on the next three contenders: McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, and Russell Henley.\n\nThis year&#8217;s tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta will be played without the tee shots used in previous years, and the winner will be crowned FedEx Cup champion.\n\nJeff Sherman, a recognized golf betting expert with three decades of experience in Las Vegas, estimated that Scheffler would be around +350 against a full field this week, with the season championship on the line.\n\nScheffler has finished in the top 10 in each of his last 13 PGA Tour starts, the second-longest streak in history, surpassed only by Jack Nicklaus, who achieved 14 consecutive top 10s in 1977. Scheffler has won five times on Tour this season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The best we&#8217;ve seen since the good Tiger Woods.<\/p><cite>Jeff Sherman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFleetwood is at 12-1, followed by Ludvig \u00c5berg and Henley, both at 16-1.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler, Favorite at the Tour Championship Golfer Scottie Scheffler is shaping up as the top favorite to win this week&#8217;s Tour Championship in Atlanta, according to the latest estimates from bookmakers. Scheffler, at +160, presents the shortest odds of his PGA career, although he is competing in a reduced field of 30 players. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3993,1519,626,407],"class_list":{"0":"post-26600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-mcilroy","9":"tag-odds","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-scottie-scheffler"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}