Golf Betting – Top 10 for this Week’s Valero Texas Open

It’s time to get the Top 10 for this week’s Valero Texas Open onto paper. The online sportsbook has posted odds for players not taking the week off after the terrific Masters Tournament.

I wrote the above sentence that way for a reason. The Masters was awesome, but green jacket winner Charl Schwartzel and the soon to win a tournament Tiger Woods will both be on the links’ bench this week. One guy who will tee-off is second place Masters’ finisher Adam Scott.

Valero Texas Open: Top 10

When: April 14 – April 17, 2011

Where: TPC San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Course: par 72, 7522 yards

TV: ESPN, CBS

Top 10

Adam Scott +1000 – - This could be the year where Adam Scott finally jumps into the upper echelon. He’s been fantastic since the WGC-Cadillac on March 13. Scott finished sixth in that tournament and then he finished second at the Masters. Scott also won the 2010 Valero Texas Open. He’s going to be tough this week.

Bo Van Pelt +2000 – - Van Pelt’s twenty-eighth place finish at the 2010 Valero Texas Open was much better than it looks like on paper. He scored a 69 second and a 69 third round. Not only that, but Van Pelt also finished in eighth place at the Masters last week.

Geoff Ogilvy +1000 – - Ogilvy’s ninth at the Accenture Match Play Tournament earlier this year was impressive. After a forty-ninth place finish and then a twenty-eighth at the Transitions, he came back with a fourth at the Masters. The only knock on G.O. are the low golf odds.

Martin Laird +1600 – - Martin Laird won the Arnold Palmer Invitational before securing that terrific twentieth place finish at the Masters last week. Laird’s also currently ranked seventh on the PGA Tour in the all-around.

Marc Leishman +2800 – - He’s done well in Texas, overall, and Leishman did finish third at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before having that weird run in the Shell Houston Open where he had a round of 75 and a round of 74 to go along with rounds of 69 and 71.

Anthony Kim +2500 – - The missed cut at the Masters was a huge disappointment. AK is better than that. He obviously hasn’t returned to the form that he had to begin last year but he’s still got a lot of talent. I’m going to put him in the mix because of that and, eventually, he’s going to get it together.

Ryan Palmer +3000 – - Tough not to like a guy going off at online betting odds of +3000 who his 70% of his fairways and greens at the Masters last week. Palmer ended up finishing in tenth place. That’s better than good. That’s fantastic.

Brian Gay +3500 – - Once in a while, BG will bust out with a fifth place finish, or something akin to it, after bombing at a few tournaments. He’s finished twenty-fourth, thirty-seventh and fifty-fifth in his last 3 tournaments played. A good to great finish should be on tap this week.

Kevin Na +4500 – - Yes, he missed the cut at the Masters and has finished better than thirtieth since a third place finish at the Northern Trust Open on February twentieth. Like Brian Gay, I see Na possibly coming up huge and finishing in the Top 5, at the very least, on Sunday.

Stewart Cink +2800 – - An eleventh at the Transitions Championship, a twelfth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational is enough for me to put Stewart on the list even though he missed the cut at the Masters last week. The odds in the online sports betting book aren’t bad either.