What perhaps makes the Hyundai Tournament of Champions more difficult to handicap than others is that every player in the field is by definition a winner. The field is restricted to players who won on tour the previous year. Twenty eight winners will tee it up starting Friday.
Eleven players who qualified will not tee it up. (I actually don’t blame them. The season seemingly just ended.).
Of the remainder, bettors have established Webb Simpson and Steve Stricker as favorites at 8/1. Nick Watney is close, at 9/1. Following those at 16/1 are Bill Haas, KJ Choi, Bubba Watson and Keegan Bradley.
My money would be on Simpson and Watney. No one played better golf over the course of the year than those two.
The complete odds are below, courtesy of Bovada (formerly Bodog), the world’s largest betting destination:
| Player | Odds |
|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 5/1 |
| Lee Westwood | 11/2 |
| Luke Donald | 10/1 |
| Martin Kaymer | 12/1 |
| Sergio Garcia | 14/1 |
| Paul Casey | 18/1 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 22/1 |
| Ian Poulter | 22/1 |
| Robert Karlsson | 22/1 |
| Graeme McDowell | 28/1 |
| Alvaro Quiros | 33/1 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 33/1 |
| Peter Hanson | 33/1 |
| Anders Hansen | 40/1 |
| Joost Luiten | 40/1 |
| Retief Goosen | 40/1 |
| Y-E Yang | 40/1 |
| Alexander Noren | 50/1 |
| Gonzalo Fernandez | 50/1 |
| Ernie Els | 66/1 |
| Francesco Molinari | 66/1 |
| George Coetzee | 66/1 |
| Gregory Havret | 66/1 |
| Matteo Manassero | 66/1 |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 66/1 |
| Richie Ramsay | 66/1 |
| Ross Fisher | 66/1 |
| Simon Dyson | 66/1 |
| Thomas Aiken | 66/1 |
| Thomas Bjorn | 66/1 |
| Edoardo Molinari | 80/1 |
| Hennie Otto | 80/1 |
| Jaco Van Zyl | 80/1 |
| Jamie Donaldson | 80/1 |
| Lorenzo Gagli | 80/1 |
| David Horsey | 100/1 |
| Nicolas Colsaerts | 100/1 |
| Pablo Larrazabal | 100/1 |
| Peter Lawrie | 100/1 |
| Shane Lowry | 100/1 |
| Darren Clarke | 125/1 |
| David Lynn | 125/1 |
| Gregory Bourdy | 125/1 |
| Mark Foster | 125/1 |
| Michael Hoey | 125/1 |
| Rafael Cabrera -Bello | 125/1 |
| Raphael Jacquelin | 125/1 |
| Christian Nilsson | 150/1 |
| Felipe Aguilar | 150/1 |
| Fredrik Andersson Hed | 150/1 |
| James Morrison | 150/1 |
| Johan Edfors | 150/1 |
| Rhys Davies | 150/1 |
| Robert Rock | 150/1 |
| Paul Lawrie | 200/1 |
| Thorbjorn Olesen | 200/1 |
| Scott Jamieson | 250/1 |
| Thomas Levet | 250/1 |
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Yes very difficult to pick a winner even in such a small field. Steve Stricker played well in the event last year and might go that extra step and record a victory.