2023 Zurich Classic Odds, Field: Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele Favored Over Collin Morikawa & Max Homa

2023 Zurich Classic Odds, Field: Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele Favored Over Collin Morikawa & Max Homa article feature image
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Via Rob Carr/Getty Images. Pictured: Patrick Cantlay of the United States and Xander Schauffele of the United States walk up the 18th green during the final round of the BMW Championship at Wilmington Country Club on August 21, 2022 in Wilmington, Delaware.

2023 Zurich Classic Odds

Odds via BetMGM.

TeamOdds
Cantlay/Schauffele+350
Morikawa/Homa+700
Horschel/Burns+1000
Im/Mitchell+1200
SW Kim/T Kim+1600
Theegala/Suh+2200

TeamOdds
Clark/Hossler+2800
Kitayama/Montgomery+2800
Moore/NeSmith+2800
Lipsky/Rai+3300
N Taylor/Hadwin+3300
Riley/Hardy+3300
Spaun/Buckley+3300
Dahmen/McCarthy+4000
Hoge/English+4000
Olesen/N Hojgaard+4500
Perez/Detry+4500
Todd/Kizzire+4500
Hodges/Shelton+5000
M Fitzpatrick/A Fitzpatrick+5000
Ryder/Redman+5000

TeamOdds
Palmer/Piercy+5500
Mullinax/Stallings+6000
An/SH Kim+6600
Hadley/Martin+6600
Hall/Bhatia+6600
Johnson/Stricker+6600
Lower/D Wu+6600
Wallace/Shinkwin+6600
B Wu/Bramlett+8000
Duncan/Lebioda+8000
Ghim/Hickok+8000
List/Norlander+8000
Sigg/Garnett+8000
Van Rooyen/Daffue+8000
D. Thompson/Gordon+10000
Griffin/Gerard+10000
Matthews/O'Hair+10000

TeamOdds
McGreevy/Stevens+12500
Pendrith/Gligic+12500
Saunders/Cole+12500
Schwab/Normann+12500
Brehm/Hubbard+15000
Donald/E Molinari+15000
Goya/Werbylo+15000
M Kim/Noh+15000
Smotherman/Higgs+15000
Tway/Kraft+15000
Young/Westmoreland+15000
B Taylor/Tarren+17500
Haley ll/Gribble+17500

TeamOdds
Blair/Dou+20000
Cone/Novak+20000
Dufner/Chappell+20000
Endycott/Baddeley+20000
Frittelli/Schmid+20000
Grant/Roy+20000
Lingmerth/Blixt+20000
Nunez/Gomez+20000
Streb/Merritt+20000
Stroud/McGirt+20000
Watney/Hoffman+20000
Werenski/Brown+20000
Alexander/Yuan+25000
Eckroat/Harrington+25000
Haas/Byrd+25000
Herman/Armour+25000
Knox/Stuard+25000
Landry/Cook+25000
Ramey/Trainer+25000
Kang/Bae+30000
Percy/Chalmers+30000
Collins/Trahan+35000
Walker/Points+35000
Barnes/Stanley+50000
Bryan/Murray+50000
Ogilvy/Stadler+50000
Ernst/Garrigus+75000
Daly/Duval+100000
M Thompson/Amin+100000


The PGA Tour heads to Avondale, Louisiana from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for the 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana. Since 2017, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans has been the lone team event on the PGA Tour schedule, and this week 80 two-man teams will compete in the sixth playing in this format.

Each two-man team will play Four-ball (best ball) on Thursday before playing Foursomes (alternate-shot) on Friday. The top 33 teams and ties will make the weekend when teams will play Four-ball on Saturday before closing with Foursomes on Sunday. With 160 total players in the field, it is the largest field of the year on the PGA Tour, with each winner receiving 400 FedEx Cup points and $1.5M.

Eight of the top 20 players in the Official World Golf Rankings are in the field this week, including defending champions Patrick Cantlay (fourth in OWGR) and Xander Schauffele (fifth in OWGR).

Cantlay and Schauffele are rolling into town with momentum after each player finished in the top five this past weekend at the RBC Heritage. Unsurprisingly, they opened as the betting favorites at BetMGM at +350 to win outright after they set the tournament record at 29-under par.

They are followed by the two-man team of Max Homa and Collin Morikawa at +700. Both Homa and Morikawa, or Homakawa, if you will, hail from the Los Angeles area and went to college at the University of California, Berkeley. They are playing together this year after Homa played with Talor Gooch (T21) last year while Morikawa was paired with Viktor Hovland (T29).

Billy Horschel is the only player to win this event as both an individual (2013) and as a part of a team (2018 with Scott Piercy). He and Sam Burns teamed up last year to finish in solo second at -27, two strokes behind Cantlay and Schauffele. They opened with the third-shortest odds to win outright at +1000 at BetMGM.

Sungjae Im and Keith Mitchell opened with the fourth-shortest odds to win the 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans at +1200. This is another newly-formed team, although both players played here last season. Mitchell and Brandt Snedeker missed the cut last year at -5 while Im and Byeong-Hun An finished T14 at -20. Im finished T7 this past weekend at the RBC Heritage and has finished in the top 21 in each of his last five starts (all of which were designated events).

Finally, Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim were the fifth and final team with odds shorter than 20/1 as they opened at +1600. The Kims famously defeated Cantlay and Schauffele at the Presidents Cup on Saturday in 2022, and they could be poised to pull another upset this week.

Course Preview

TPC Louisiana is a 7,425-yard par-72 designed by Pete Dye featuring Bermudagrass greens with Poa Trivialis overseed. The course features greenside water and bunkers throughout, which has rewarded strong approach play over the years. Consequently, players who get hot with their irons and putter who are not necessarily elite off the tee have shown that they can compete at TPC Louisiana.

The par-3s are the most challenging part of the course, with all four playing over 205 yards with water looming to sink wayward approaches. Three of the four par-3s are on odd-numbered holes, so teams can strategically plan for the stronger long-iron player to hit three of these tee shots in Foursomes (alternate-shot).

Past Winners

TPC Louisiana hosted this event in 2005 and has been the host each year of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans since 2007. This year's tournament will be the 17th playing at TPC Louisiana, and a handful of past winners are in the field this week. In addition to Cantlay and Schauffele, Billy Horschel, Ryan Palmer, Jonas Blixt, Nick Watney and Scott Piercy are all teeing it up in the Bayou this week.

YearTeamWinning Score
2022Patrick Cantlay & Xander Schauffele29-under
2021Marc Leishman & Cameron Smith20-under
2019Jon Rahm & Ryan Palmer26-under
2018Billy Horschel & Scott Piercy22-under
2017Cameron Smith & Jonas Blixt27-under
2016Brian Stuard15-under
2015Justin Rose22-under
2014Seung-Yul Noh19-under
2013Billy Horschel20-under
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