5 best bets for the 2024 Valspar Championship
Throughout the PGA Tour season, I use statistical modeling to see how each golfer should fit that week’s course by parsing strokes gained data at a granular level before placing bets on outright winners. We’ll use this same data to identify the best DFS plays and fades, finding the guys who score tons of points that very few other players may decide to roster.
Along the way we’ll let you know when we find some value among prop bets. I’ll be primarily using data and the tools from RickRunGood.com, PGA Tour and Shotlink for this column.
Rejoice. For there is no Scottie Scheffler and his newfound putter to ruin the party this week in Florida.
Needless to say after his victory at The Players Championship, when Scheffler can put at an average level, he's probably going to win. He is that good tee-to-green. We are witnessing a stretch of golf that is so good it does occasionally remind you of a certain large feline.
In any case, we continue the Florida swing at Innisbrook Copperhead for the Valspar Championship still in search of our first outright winner of the week, which actually feels nearly impossible. We will keep taking swings because we simply do not know any other way. Mike Trout, arguably the greatest hitter in baseball once went through an 0-for-23 stretch. There's a million other comparisons that I'm quite frankly too lazy to look up. I ask you simply one question: Why not us?