Who will win the Canadian Open in 2022? Odds, betting favorites, knowledgeable picks & extra to know

The Canadian Open was canceled in each 2020 and 2021 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, however it’s returning to the PGA Tour in 2022. RBC and St. George’s Golf and Nation Membership can be combining to host the occasion in Toronto as Canada crowns its first champion since 2019.

Rory McIlroy is the defending champion on the RBC Canadian Open. He gained the occasion in 2019 with a cumulative rating of 258, one of the best within the 118-year historical past of the match.

McIlroy can be returning to Canada to defend his title in 2022. Nevertheless, 2018 champion Dustin Johnson is not going to be part of the sector. He has opted to play within the first occasion of the LIV Golf Sequence in London. In consequence, RBC has dropped Johnson as a sponsor together with Graeme McDowell, who can also be taking part in on the Saudi-backed start-up tour.

Nonetheless, the Canadian Open area seems stacked. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will take part within the occasion with fellow top-five golfers Cameron Smith and Justin Thomas. In the meantime, Canadian star Corey Conners will take part within the occasion together with Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Hadwin and Adam Svensson as a Canadian seeks to win the occasion for the primary time since Pat Fletcher gained in 1954.

Who will win the Canadian Open in 2022? Here is all the pieces you could know to guess on the match, together with the newest odds and finest bets to win at St. George’s Golf and Nation Membership.

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Canadian Open odds 2022

It is no shock that world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (+800) is favored to win the Canadian Open. Scheffler is having one of the best season of his profession and has gained 4 occasions this season. Most not too long ago, he gained the Masters in April and at his final occasion two weeks in the past, the Charles Schwab Problem, he misplaced in a playoff to Sam Burns (+1200).

Talking of Burns, he checks in with the fourth-shortest odds to win the match behind PGA Champion Justin Thomas (+900) and Rory McIlroy (+900). Burns and Thomas have gained two of the final three occasions on the tour and rank Nos. 9 and 6 on the earth respectively.

In the meantime, McIlroy is the reigning Canadian Open champion and has logged 4 wins since his victory in 2019. He’ll look to have comparable success and earn his first win of 2022.

Corey Conners (+1900) has the shortest odds amongst Canadians trying to win the occasion whereas neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson will take part on this occasion.

Beneath are the percentages for the highest golfers on this 12 months’s RBC Canadian Open, per Sports activities Interplay. Solely opponents with 100-1 or higher odds are listed. These odds are topic to vary all through the week.

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Canadian Open course breakdown: St. George’s Golf and Nation Membership

St. George’s Golf and Nation Membership was scheduled to host the Canadian Open in each 2020 and 2021. The membership elected to proceed to attempt to host the occasion in 2022 and was rewarded after the 2 cancellations.

St. George’s course performs at about 7,079 yards and is a par-70 course. It will likely be among the many shorter programs featured on the PGA Tour, and it’ll certainly be a respite for the golfers which have performed at Southern Hills Nation Membership (7,556 yards) and Muirfield Village (7,533 yards) in latest weeks.

The size of the St. George’s course can even negate the significance of trusting a giant driver. Accuracy and method will matter extra at this occasion, so trusting golfers which have good driver accuracy and hit fairways and greens in regulation (GIR) can be vital.

Talking of the greens, they’re difficult, so rolling with a high quality putter can be necessary this week. So too can be gamers which might be good at scrambling from the sand, because the St. George’s course is plagued by loads of bunkers, each on the green and close to the inexperienced.

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Canadian Open knowledgeable picks

Beneath is a breakdown of a number of candidates to think about on this 12 months’s Canadian Open area. You possibly can guess all of them as winners, however some match higher into betting playing cards as top-10 finishers, sleepers or DFS worth picks.

Canadian Open finest bets to win match

There are two favorites that stand out nearly as good bets to win the match. They’re Scottie Scheffler (+800) and Cameron Smith (+1400).

It is by no means enjoyable to guess the favourite, however Scheffler has as sturdy a case as any golfer within the area on this week’s match. He has among the finest method video games within the area and ranks twenty sixth in strokes gained placing (SG:Placing). He ranks second on the tour in inexperienced is regulation share (GIR%) so that ought to give him an opportunity to get near the opening typically on a shorter course.

Scheffler’s lone concern is his middle-of-the-pack driver accuracy, however that should not hinder him an excessive amount of on a shorter course. As long as he would not have huge shanks, he ought to have the size wanted to get to the inexperienced whereas scrambling most of the time.

Smith is similar to Scheffler. He is an important putter with an elite method recreation and ranks top-10 in each strokes gained on method (SG:APP) and SG:Placing. Smith is also simply middle-of-the-pack by way of driver accuracy, however his correct method recreation ought to give him an opportunity to set himself up for loads of birdie probabilities. That can show invaluable in what could possibly be a low-scoring weekend.

Canadian Open finest picks for top-10 end, DFS lineups

It should not shock anybody that Shane Lowry (+1800) is without doubt one of the finest picks for DFS lineups and a top-10 end on this week’s area. He is without doubt one of the most constant gamers on the tour and ranks prime 15 in each SG:APP and SG:Placing, so he ought to be in rivalry on the Canadian Open.

The one query is whether or not Lowry can rating low sufficient to win on a course that might produce a 20 underneath par scorer. He ranks 119th on the PGA Tour in rounds within the 60s, and whereas he has performed in simply 19 occasions, he could not have the firepower to maintain up with the likes of Scheffler and Smith.

You possibly can nonetheless guess Lowry to win, however betting him as a top-10 finisher or utilizing him in a DFS lineup would in all probability be the safer play.

The identical may be stated of Matt Fitzpatrick (+1800). He is not as sturdy as Lowry is on his method or along with his placing, however he nonetheless ranks prime 32 in each SG:APP and SG:Placing. He additionally ranks prime 50 in driving accuracy and No. 7 total in sand saves, which might show vital on any such course.

Fitzpatrick missed the lower on the Memorial Event by one stroke however end prime 5 within the PGA Championship within the occasion previous to that. His efficiency this week ought to be nearer to that of the PGA, so be happy to belief him in DFS lineups or as a mid-tier worth guess.

Canadian Open sleeper picks, DFS values

It is exhausting to seek out an abundance of sleepers to focus on on the Canadian Open, however there are a pair that stand out. One is Adam Hadwin (+5200), a Canadian who’s coming off a T-18 end on the Memorial Event.

Hadwin ranks prime 30 in SG:APP and GIR% whereas rating prime 50 in driver accuracy. He is an correct golfer who ought to be at his finest on a shorter course. The one query is whether or not his placing — he ranks 66th in SG:Placing — can be ok to take down among the different extra constant putters like Scheffler and Smith.

Nonetheless, Hadwin can be at house on a shorter course, and a Canadian has to win the Canadian Open sooner or later, proper?

If you happen to’re on the lookout for a bit extra worth, you may take a flier on Matthias Schwab (+10100). Schwab ranks center of the pack in driver accuracy and SG:APP, however he ranks prime 15 in SG:Placing and prime 20 in sand saves. He hasn’t logged a top-10 PGA Tour end since March, however he has missed a lower simply as soon as in his final seven occasions. Think about him a long-shot that might include a pleasant top-10 payout.

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Canadian Open winners by 12 months

The Canadian Open is the third-oldest repeatedly operating match on the PGA Tour, inserting behind The Open Championship and the U.S. Open. It has been held since 1904 and has solely been canceled consequently World Battle I, World Battle II and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The occasion was most not too long ago performed in 2019. Rory McIlroy gained the occasion by seven strokes after carding a cumulative rating of 258, the bottom in Canadian Open historical past. His rating of twenty-two underneath par was tied for the fourth-best of all time with Tiger Woods. Johnny Palmer (-25) has the match report.

Beneath is a run-down of the year-by-year winners on the occasion.