OK, PGA tour fans, the Masters is over. It’s time to take a little breather and let everyone relax.
Well, maybe not.
That’s because this week’s tournament, the RBC Heritage Classic, is a signature event.
That means the purse is elevated ($20 million) and there are more FedEx Cup points awarded to the winner (700).
With that in mind, many of the big names in last week’s first major won’t take a week off to rest as they will also be right back in action and tee it up this week at Harbour Town in Hilton Head, S.C.
The course, a par-72 layout, features a famed 18th hole which plays alongside the Calibogue Sound (which we think should be changed to Calibirdie Sound for the week of the tournament just to turn a negative into a positive).
The tournament is limited to a 70-player field and that’s going to include many of the usual suspects when it comes to playing in big events.
Scottie Scheffler will be here (unless the couple’s first child decides to make his/her appearance early). Rory McIlroy is signed up. Wyndham Clark and Max Homa will join the fun.
With the field limited, there will be no cut so everyone’s going to be around for four days in search of the $3.6 million top prize.
Let’s check out a couple of favorites, a longshot and a couple of prop bets for this week.
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RBC Heritage odds: Don't bet against Scottie Scheffler
We can only say it so many times: If there’s one thing we’ve learned it’s never bet against a hot golfer.
And to find anyone who has been hotter than Scheffler, we’ve got to go back to Tiger Woods in his heyday.
Even at odds, Scheffler is still going to gather more than his share of attention this week when it comes to bets.
And let’s face it, we haven’t seen betting numbers this low since those Woods’ days.
Scheffler’s start to the 2024 season would be a great career for most players.
He’s coming off a Masters victory (his second one) and he’s won three of his last four starts. Oh, and that other start? It was a T-2 that could have easily been a fourth win without a missed putt on the 72nd hole that would have forced a playoff.
And we’re not even in May yet.
The only positive note for those not wanting to back Scheffler is that he only wound up T-11 at the RBC last year. A final-round 70 saw him drop out of the top-10.
There’s just no way to keep Scheffler off your radar any time he tees it up no matter the betting number.
It worked for Woods for years and years and years. There’s a great chance Scheffler will be in that same rare air for bettors for years to come.
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Defending champ Matthew Fitzpatrick odds at RBC Heritage
Sometimes things just line up perfectly in the betting world.
That just might be the case this week with the defending champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick, who comes in at .
Fitzpatrick won on the third playoff hole over Jordan Spieth for his first win on the PGA Tour. He would go on to win the U.S. Open to add his first major to the resume.
Fitzpatrick is coming into this week after a solid T-22 at the Masters despite a final-round 75 so his game is solid.
Add in the fact Fitzpatrick has called this tournament one of his favorites (along with the majors) because of his ties to the area. He and his brother played the course numerous times as their family visited the area often.
With that in mind, everything seems to be in line for him to go back-to-back.
RBC Heritage Classic longshot bet to consider
Emiliano Grillo, at , has a solid track record here.
He has top 10s in three of his last four outings including a T-7 last year and a T-2 in 2021.
He’s coming in to this week playing well in 2024. Not great, but well.
He just keeps hanging around and cashing nice paychecks.
He’s nine-for-nine in cuts made in 2024 with two top 10s, the last coming at the Arnold Palmer Invitational where he was T-9.
It seems like it is feast or famine with Grillo but with his good memories here, we like his chances to have a good, if not great, week and maybe get back in the winner’s circle after picking up his second PGA Tour win in 2023.
2024 RBC Heritage prop odds and picks
We’re going to go with the bet that there will be a playoff this week at +350.
The reason is simple: The last two tournaments have gone into a playoff with Fitzpatrick beating Spieth in extra holes last year and Spieth beating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff two years ago.
If bettors want to go out on a limb, a three-man playoff bet comes in at +1200. A reminder there hasn’t been a three-man playoff since 1999.
Speaking of Spieth, we’re going to back him in a five-man matchup. Spieth comes in at +330 against Wyndham Clark, Will Zalatoris, Tony Finau and Justin Thomas.
With him being in the playoff the last two tournaments here, there’s no reason to believe he’s not going to feel right at home on the first page of the leaderboard come Sunday.
And finally, we’re going to look at Collin Morikawa to come in with a top-five finish at .
Morikawa has struggled in 2024 to say the least. He has made six-of-eight cuts but has just two top 10s.
Those came at his bookend events as he was T-5 at The Sentry on Maui to open the year and then he was T-3 at the Masters last week.
In between are events he would just as soon forget but the fact that he was in the hunt on Sunday at the year’s first major gives us hope he’s on track to hit a hot streak.
A victory would be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to feeling better about his game.
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