2021 World Golf Championships Match Play 3/24/21 - PGA Picks, Odds & Betting Predictions
Last Updated: 03/23/2021 at 11:26 AM ET
This week the PGA tour heads to Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas for the World Golf Championship-Dell Technologies Match Play. This week's field, as is the case with all WGC events, will have the best players in the world from top to bottom.
Headlining the event this season are Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas amongst others. Five players who qualified to play in the event will not participate, Four players will miss due to injuries including Tiger Woods, while Brooks Koepka recovers from knee surgery, Justin Rose withdrew due to a back problem and Gary Woodard is sidelined with covoid issues. Adam Scott decided to skip the event.
The Austin Country Club was established in 1899 and is a 7,082-yards par 71. The course has Bermuda grass but the fairways have been overseeded with ryegrass, while the greens are a mix of both poa trivialis and bentgrass. Fairways have canyons and other natural hazards surrounding them and on the back nine there are more water hazards than on the front nine, Plenty of bunkers protect the greens on each hole.
Betting Odds for 2021 World Golf Championships Match Play
- Bryson DeChambeau +1200
- Justin Thomas +1200
- Jon Rahm +1400
- Dustin Johnson +1600
- Rory McIlroy +1800
- Collin Morikawa +1800
- Patrick Cantlay +2000
- Jordan Spieth +2500
- Xander Schauffele +2500
- Patrick Reed +2500
- Tony Finau +2500
- Viktor Hovland +2500
- Paul Casey +2500
- Webb Simpson +3300
- Daniel Berger +3300
- Tyrrell Hatton +3300
- Sungjae Im +3300
- Cameron Smith +3300
- Matthew Fitzpatrick +3300
- Sergio Garcia +4000
Matchplay is very difficult to predict as on any given day, the 64th ranked player in the world could beat the No. 1 ranked player. Justin Thomas (+1200) is playing as well or better than any other player on the PGA Tour. Thomas was the winner of the Players Championship two weeks ago. Thomas was in the last four of Match Play in 2018 and in the 2018 Ryder Cup was 4-1. This season a missed cut was the only time Thomas finished outside the top 15. Final Pick Prediction, Justin Thomas +1200
