AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Betting Picks: Patrick Cantlay To Make His Mark

Pebble Beach Pro-Am Betting Picks

• Patrick Cantlay To Win (Each-Way) (+1800 BetVictor) (Five Places)

The PGA Tour starts in earnest this week at the Pebble-Beach Pro-Am where Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are both in action.

Like last year, this tournament has Signature Event status which means a reduced field of 80 and thankfully, for the purists, amateurs only play on the first two days.

Monterey has once again been shelved as one of the courses, so Pebble Beach will be played three times and Spyhill Glass once.

Scheffler, back from undergoing surgery after wounding his hand serving food at Christmas, is the +500 favourite with betting sites, followed by McIlroy at +1200.

The Northern Irishman has only twice played this tournament; a missed cut in 2018 and a share of 66th last year which was cut to 54 holes because of wind and rain.

Both players look vulnerable this week, so we are looking elsewhere for their AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am betting tips.

Pebble Beach Pro-Am Betting Picks: Cantlay California Dreamin'

It’s been almost two and a half years since Patrick Cantlay entered the winner’s circle at the BMW Championship, but the stars seem to be aligning for the Californian to end the drought in his home state.

While Scheffler and McIlroy are making their first appearances of the year on the PGA Tour, Cantlay has already warmed up nicely with 15th place at the season-opening Sentry and then fifth at The American Express two weeks ago.

Cantlay also loves playing at Pebble Beach which he has described as “one of my favourite places in the world” and his performances on this iconic course certainly reflect that statement.

Since 2020, Cantlay’s record reads 11-3-4-11 and his average round of 68.67 between 2019-24 is the best of all 80 players in this week’s field.

Cantlay also finished just outside the top 20 when the US Open was played at Pebble Beach in 2019, so aside from a couple of mid-table finishes in the previous two years, these are courses that seem designed for the Californian.

Plenty of golf betting sites are offering seven or eight places, but we're taking the five and bigger odds of +1800 for our Pebble Beach Pro-Am prediction.

Pebble Beach Pro-Am Prediction 1: Patrick Cantlay To Win (Each-Way) (+1800 BetVictor) (Five Places)