Golf tips
Australian PGA Championship
Cam Davis Winner W/O Cam Smith, Jason Day, Marc Leishman, Min Woo Lee
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen Top Nordic Player
RSM Classic
Mackenzie Hughes to win (each-way)
Garrick Higgo Top African Player
*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
Australian PGA Championship
Cam Davis – Winner W/O Smith, Day, Marc Leishman & Woo Lee
The 2024-25 DP World Tour kicks off with a doubleheader Down Under and the first of those events, the Australian PGA Championship, typically produces short-priced winners.
Adam Scott has lifted the trophy twice, while Cameron Smith has three titles to his name, including one triumph at Royal Queensland which began hosting the tournament in 2022.
Scott is absent this week but Smith returns along with several quality Aussies. Cam Davis sits just below the top four in the market, and we can back the two-time PGA Tour winner to win without his high-pedigree compatriots.
The 29-year-old finished seventh in both of his Royal Queensland appearances and despite only playing once in the last three months, he can compete towards the summit again.
It was an excellent summer for Smith, who won the Rocket Mortgage Classic in June and tied for fifth at the BMW Championship, falling just short of a place in the TOUR Championship.
His tee-to-green game was in good nick during that stretch, and after missing out on the Presidents Cup, he will be out to prove that he belongs with the elite.
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen Top Nordic Player
One of the fastest-rising stars in Europe, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen has had a remarkable year. The Dane displayed outstanding consistency on the DP World Tour and racked up three victories on the Challenge Tour.
He became a DPWT regular too late to make a push for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the DP World Tour Championship, but with a Tour Card in hand, the Oklahoma State graduate can stake a serious claim in 2024-25.
Neergaard-Petersen has won in India, Abu Dhabi, and Germany on the Challenge Tour in 2024, and boasts amateur successes in the United States. His all-round game translates to all conditions and setups, and with none of the other big-name Scandinavians in attendance Down Under, he will take some beating in the Top Nordic market.
RSM Classic
Mackenzie Hughes to win (each-way)
The back nine caused Mackenzie Hughes all sorts of problems at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship last week. The Canadian played holes 11 to 18 terribly over the weekend, shooting +5 on Saturday and +6 on Sunday across those tricky patches in horrendous wind. His return from a five-week hiatus resulted in a T67.
Sea Island has been a happy hunting ground for the Presidents Cup star. He won in Georgia in 2016 and has been runner-up in two of his last three visits. There are four missed cuts in there too, but given the bump in odds this week following the Bermuda collapse, it is worth chancing the upside on the world number 63.
Garrick Higgo Top African Player
It has been a positive fortnight for Garrick Higgo in his quest to break the top 125 in the FedEx Cup Fall Standings, with back-to-back top 20s pushing him up to 135th with one event to go.
He is one of just three Africans participating in the RSM Classic, and he looks like a clear favourite to record the highest finish. MJ Daffue was struggling before his WD in Bermuda and missed his four previous cuts.
Christo Lamprecht, who was T23 last week, is a bigger threat to Higgo, but with more to play for and a greater body of work on the PGA Tour, Higgo is a strong preference.
Golf betting tips
Australian PGA Championship
Cam Davis Winner W/O Cam Smith, Jason Day, Marc Leishman, Min Woo Lee
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen Top Nordic Player
RSM Classic
Mackenzie Hughes to win (each-way)
Garrick Higgo Top African Player
*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
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