Zurich Classic Predictions, Expert Betting Picks and Odds April 22-25

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Sportsmemo golf handicapper Nick Borrman offers his thoughts on the Zurich Classic teeing off from TPC at Louisiana in New Orleans, LA. Nick discusses the guys at the top of the odds board, golfers to fade and other expert picks surrounding the Zurich Classic this week!

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Zurich Classic	PGA Tour Betting Notes
When:	April 22-25
Where:	TPC at Louisiana in New Orleans, LA
Defending Champ:	Patrick Cantlay / Xander Schauffele
Current Favorite:	Patrick Cantlay / Xander Schauffele (+850 at DraftKings)
TV:	GOLF Network & CBS

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Zurich Classic Odds Board

Top-10 Total Strokes Gained over the last six months (betting odds via FanDuel or DraftKings)
Cantlay/Schauffele +4.74 (+400)
Homa/Morikawa +3.47 (+850)
Im/Mitchell +2.37 (+1400)
T. Kim/S.W. Kim +2.27 (+1600)
Clark/Hossler +2.05 (+3300)
Montgomery/Kitayama +1.92 (+2400)
Taylor/Hadwin +1.80 (+2200)
Buckley/Spaun +1.78 (+2000)
Theegala/Suh +1.77 (+3100)
Dahmen/McCarthy +1.46 (+4500)

Zurich Classic Course and Field – TPC Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana

From Nick Borrman:

The unique partners event is here which is giving most of the top players in the world a much needed break this week. With the addition of the designated events, it just feels like every week is a bigtime golf tournament.

This week will certainly present less on the ‘stress-o-meter’. This fun format is the only official partners event on the TOUR schedule as the QBE Shootout in December is not an official event.

80 teams will tee it up this week as the players rotate between four-ball (best ball) and foursomes (alternate shot) on Thursday and Friday. After the cut, the remaining field repeats the same formats for Saturday and Sunday, respectively, to crown a champion.

Last year, Cantlay and Schauffele, easily the two best players in the field, set a tournament record of 29-under par and there is a reason the pair are heavy favorites again this week with both coming off Top-5 finishes last week at Harbor Town (Cantlay 3rd, Schauffele 4th).

It’s understandable to want to put all your eggs in a repeat of that formidable duo, but this tournament has shown that it’s not always the most obvious pairing that wins or plays well. Since this became a partner’s event back in 2017, here are the results:

Winners Runners-up
2022 Cantlay/Schauffele Burns Horschel
2021 Leishman/Cam Smith Oosthuizen/Schwartzel
2019 Rahm/Palmer Garcia/Fleetwood
2018 Horschel/Piercy Dufner/Perez
2017 Blixt/Cam Smith Kisner/Brown

While it may not be the top of the oddsboard that wins this week, at least one of the players from the winning or runner-up combo came into the event in top form so it’s probably not wise to venture too far down the list either. I fully believe the winner will come from the Top-10 (actually 11 with one notable) list at the beginning of the article.

I’ll end with some notes on the course. The Pete Dye designed track is a par-72 measuring at just over 7,400 yards in the wetlands.

Hazards by the means of water and bunkers are all over the property which will certainly come into play in foursomes.

While a hot putter will be needed to make birdies on Thursday and Saturday, ball-striking will take the cake on Friday and Sunday as players look to avoid bogeys.

Zurich Classic Predictions

Most of these teams can fire a 56 or 57 in the best ball format, but only a few have the talent to shoot 68 in alternate shot. Focus your attention on that format.

Outright Winner

The Kims, Tom & Si Woo +1600 (FanDuel or DraftKings)

Partner events always tend to bring out personalities and a more fun atmosphere which is perfect for young Tom Kim who is still in his first full year on TOUR.

He is one of the most exciting personalities you will find and thrived in the President’s Cup format as really the only threat that was consistently taking points from the Americans back in September.

After a torrid fall in which he won the Shriners Children’s Open, part of a run of seven Top-25s in eight starts including five Top-10s, Kim has cooled of late. But let’s be honest. The last two months have been mostly designated events as Kim has competed in all seven beginning with the WM Phoenix Open.

He had made the cut in the first five stroke play formats until last week at Harbor Town. He lacked the flair that we saw in the fall with only one Top-25 finish which did come at Augusta where he finished T16.

Still, this is the perfect format for his swagger and Tom certainly has that, plus this event is very top heavy with this pairing easily considered as one of the favorites.

Tom ranks 10th in this field in Total SG over the last six months while his partner Si Woo ranks 14th. Even better, both rank in the Top-8 in SG Tee-to-Green meaning don’t expect too many blunders when it comes to the alternate shot days.

Leaderboard Finish

Wyndham Clark & Beau Hossler Top-10 +250 | Top-20 +105 (Bet365)

Whenever there is a weak field event on the schedule, the first thing you do is immediately bet Wyndham Clark.

He played great in the fall, which is mostly weak field events, finishing in the Top-20 in three of his final four starts, and in his two most recent, he had chances to win both in Puntacana and at the Valspar, finishing 5th and 6th in those events.

What I really like from Clark is that he has made the cut in 13 straight events which includes five designated events including a T29 last week at Harbor Town.

The same can’t be said for his partner as Hossler has missed the cut in four of his last six starts, but three of those were designated events.

Going back to the fall, he too has solid finishes in weaker field events with five Top-25 finishes in a span of ten starts. His strength is his putter where he ranks inside the Top-20 in this field in SG Putting over the last 12 months which will certainly come in handy during the go-low better ball days.

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