Genesis Invitational Betting Tips
All golfing eyes will be on Riviera Country Club this week as the California course hosts the Genesis Invitational, the third of the PGA Tour’s signature events of the year, especially as 15-time Major winner Tiger Woods will be making his first appearance of 2024.
Defending champion Jon Rahm will not be there after leaving to join the LIV Tour, but the top two in the world rankings, Scottie Scheffler, who finished third at last week’s Phoenix Open and recent Dubai Desert Classic winner Rory McIlroy, will be heading to Pacific Palisades looking for a big share of the massive prize pool.
Both will fancy their chances on a course where tee-to-green ability and course management are of crucial importance, but it looks like a tournament where plenty of in-form players can make their presence felt.
Tip 1 - Adam Scott to win the Genesis Invitational @ 33/1 each-way
Scheffler and McIlroy dominate the betting, but one player to keep an eye on is 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott, who has won this tournament twice.
His 2020 triumph was the last time he was in the winners’ circle, but things are coming together for the 43-year-old, whose tee-to-green game looks to be in the best of order.
Scott has been knocking on the door for weeks and his eighth place at last week’s WM Phoenix Open was his fifth top-10 finish in his last six tournaments.
That finish at Scottsdale came after he recovered from an indifferent first round of 72 and weekend rounds of 65 and 66 will have left him feeling that the end to his four-year wait for a win could be about to come to an end.
Maybe it will come where he won what was then the Nissan Open way back in 2005.
Tip 1 - Adam Scott to win the Genesis Invitational @ 33/1 each-way
Tip 2 - Sahith Theegala to win the Genesis Invitational @ 33/1 each-way
Sahith Theegala has now established himself in the world’s top 20 and secured his second top-five finish of the year when he was fifth at Scottsdale, where he also went close to winning here 12 months ago.
Only Chris Kirk was too good for him in the opening signature event of the year, The Sentry in Hawaii, when Theegala closed with an excellent round of 63.
He was unable to build on two excellent opening rounds in Arizona, but the encouraging signs are there and he was sixth at Riviera last year, when his closing round of 66 was bettered by just three players, so there is a decent chance he will make a strong impression.
Tip 2 - Sahith Theegala to win the Genesis Invitational @ 33/1 each-way
Tip 3 - Wyndham Clark to finish in the top 10 - 7/2
US Open champion Wyndham Clark seems to have been too easily dismissed this week, just two weeks after he carded a closing 60 to win the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
That tournament was played over three rounds due to poor weather, but Clark remains in a good place.
He was 41st at Scottsdale, but he shot 65 and 66 in the second and third rounds before falling away, so it was not a disaster and he can flourish at a venue where he was eighth three years ago.