Going for the Green at the Travelers Championship | Betting favorites

Our experts weigh in with their top picks for the 2024 Travelers Championship, including outright winner picks, best value bets and insight for setting DFS lineup.

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The PGA TOUR continues on the West Coast this week for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Club. For the third-straight year, this event will be played from Wednesday through Saturday. Max Homa returns this week to defend his title. Alongside winning the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa in November, Homa has not finished worse than T21 since missing the cut at the Travelers Championship last June. Xander Schauffele will also be in California this week. He’s making his ninth start in San Diego where his best finish was T2, five shots off the winner in 2021. The American claimed T10 at The Sentry and T3 last week at The American Express to start the new season. Australian Min Woo Lee will also be in California this week after closing out 2023 winning twice in his last five events worldwide, including victories in Macau and Australia. He’ll be looking to improve on the T21 he managed last week at The American Express. Others to look out for are Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay and Sungjae Im.

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okay we welcome you back time now for going for the green presented by DraftKings Sportsbook as we preview the field this week at The Travelers Championship outside of Hartford and offer a little Intel a little insight and a little guidance uh as you invest wisely and responsibly in the players on the board here this week here to help us from golf bet is Chris Bree who’s on location this week at TPC River Highlands Chris it’s good to see you short field this week just 69 players competing who will be the last man standing outside Hartford on Sunday evening well let me tell you what swanie uh everybody remembers the iconic weekend at the US Open I wonder how many folks remember who was leading that tournament halfway through it was ludvig oberg that’s my pick this week at The Travelers and look ludvig clearly did not have his stuff on the weekend it was because he was learning how to win a major champion venue experience was everything last week he does not have that issue this week when you’re looking at a guy who’s hitting the ball really well I don’t know if anybody is playing as well right now as ludig oberg is give me that plus 1200 and the big narrative this week Swan you tell me if you agree with this is fatigue and exhaustion uh I hate to say it but fatigue hits a little bit different for somebody who’s 24 years old as opposed to maybe you or me no doubt about it and $20 million hours to play for this week I think uh they can reasonably expect to shake off the fatigue that’s just my view on it listen because it is a short field there’s going to be more value than there traditionally is with a field of 144 or 156 a little further down the board Chris who’s your value pick this week and that’s why I’m looking at the top 20 market and we do something every week on golf back called key stats figuring out what all the winners did recently here to make them successful the shorter course at TBC River Highlands 125 yards to 150 yards 50% of shots are hit from that range Tom hogi is third on tour in that stat I got him top 20 at plus 250 and look you talk about wanting to be in good form he did not make the cut last week at the US Open but I think there’s value in guys who are rested hogi by the way made 15 straight cuts before that eight of those John were inside the top 20 and he’s only got a beat 23 of the field yeah he hasn’t had his best stuff hasn’t contended at the top but top 20 you don’t really need that much you just got to beat a handful of guys and I think Hog’s got the wedge game to do it yeah I like that pick a lot the ball comes off the center of the club face routinely from Tom hogi shortest golf course of the season on the PJ Tour by the way this week at 6800 and change and there’s some really intriguing head-to-head matchups Chris including the guys ranked one and three in the world talking about Scotty and Xander which way you leaning in that head to ahe swanie it would have been a cop out if I didn’t pick this match up with two major winners this year I’m not fully buying into the hoopla that sheffer’s exhausted but let’s keep in mind this guy has had a 4mon historic stretch in just a little bit he’s having maybe some issues playing at the top of his game I’m going to go Xander mainly for the massive plus money plus 130 to beat Scotty and Xander’s been playing almost as good as Sheffer has the last 5 six months this is a guy who has been top 25 in every event since I believe the beginning of February he won here a couple of years ago I think he nips Sheffer just a little bit and a fantastic matchup all right good stuff Chris you can follow Chris Bree on X and his social media accounts you can read his terrific editorial content in the golf bet space on pj.com he’ll be working this week from TPC River Highlands thanks Chris good to catch up with you yeah of course so draftking Sportsbook is an official sports betting partner of the PG in this week new customers can bet $5 in Pocket $150 in bonus bets instantly download the app and use promo code range when you sign up DraftKings Sportsbook the crown is yours okay time now for Fantasy 4 presented by DraftKings as we help all of you fantasy gamers get your lineups locked in this week for The Travelers Championship here’s the way it works six golfers on your roster Locked In by Thursday morning for the first te time there are salary cap implications you got to manage that 50,000 is the cap that’s the way the scoring works the salaries are provided by DraftKings daily fantasy sports and there are a lot of big names with short odds in the field here this week if you want Scotty Sheffer on your team you can have them but it’s going to cost you a chunk of that $50,000 salary cap number one of the world shley is number three at 11,200 so with that in mind experts and we’ll start with you Billy of the players like Sheffer the guys we just saw on the board there with the short odds which way you leaning I didn’t I didn’t see my guy I’m going with Tommy Fleetwood but uh um there’s good reason to go with Fleetwood uh it’s a short golf course he’s a great driver of the golf ball he’s third on the PGA tour with you look at the guys that that drive it accurately and he’s only missed one cut he got his seventh win on the DP World Tour he’s just that guy that puts the ball in the Fairway he gives himself plenty of opportunity when he does Miss a green the scrambling ability is really good and I think if his iron Play Just sharpens up just just a little bit I think he’s going to be there on Sunday 9100 the salary cap hit for Tommy Fleetwood Amilia how about you did you see your guy on the board there earlier I did see my guy on the board the third one at $10,200 ludvig oberg has had six top 10 this year including some notables tied for second at the Masters his first Masters by the way and then was the 36 hole leader at the US Open he didn’t play as well as he wanted to on the weekend so expect him to come out firing this week at The Travelers one of the best ball Strikers in the world already as a 24-year-old coming out of Texas Tech I’m really excited to see how he per forms here at TPC River Highlands he is so impressive right it’s it’s astonishing how much Faith we’re putting in this young guy based on his relative lack of experience but he’s such an impactful player Amilia how about some value picks a guy who’s maybe a little further down the board this week a little further down the leaderboard I like Matthew Pavone at $6,800 he finished fifth last week at the US Open and specific things he’s improved in his game first thing is his driving this season he’s been 9 first in driving accuracy well the US US Open last week he finished 24th so really improving on the driver and his iron play is also back to the strength 12th last week at the US Open so he’s going to perform well this week I think he’s a great value pick and he’s up to 20th in the world Pavone Billy the winner at the farmers this year one of around 60 guys who’s made the trip from Pinehurst up to TPC River Hollands who’s your value pick I want to go with Denny McCarthy um even though the form hasn’t been kind of what he’s wanted lately he’s such a good Putter and when you look at The Strokes game he’s third on the PGA tour I just think if he hits a number of greens he’s going to have that good look where he’s going to make a lot of putts and um when you when you look at him and you look at what he did the work last year he opened up with a 60 last year he ended up finishing TI for seventh but he has good memories of TPC River Highland so I think going forward he’s kind of a guy that even though the form hasn’t been good this is is a place that he liked so maybe yeah and he pushed aay batia to the brink at the Valero burning his final seven holes Denny McCarthy on Sunday to force that sudden de playoff all right let’s recap the picks from Amilia and Billy Tommy Fleetwood with a salary cap hit 9100 for Mr katzer Amelia going with the the 24-year-old Swedish sensation and the value picks Pavone the Frenchman for ailia and Denny McCarthy looking for more magic at TPC River High that he was able to produce last year hey DraftKings Sportsbook is an official daily fantasy sports partner of the PG and this week new customers can play free for your share of millions in prizes with your first deposit download the DFS app and use promo code range when you sign up DraftKings the crown is yours [Music]