Golf Betting – Top 10 for this Week’s Wells Fargo Championship

The Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow is this week’s PGA Tour Event. Defending champion Rory McIlroy is one of the golf betting favorites, but the presence of Phil Mickelson makes McIlroy the second choice in the sportsbook.

Keep reading for the rest of my Top 10 for this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Wells Fargo Championship:  Top 10

When:  May 5 – May 8, 2011

Where:  Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Course:  par 72, 7,442 yards 

TV:  Golf, CBS

Top 10

Martin Kaymer +1300 – - Last year’s Race to Dubai winner on the European Tour is third in the Dubai standings in 2011.  Kaymer didn’t tee-off at Quail Hollow in 2010, but there’s no doubt that he’ll have a shot this week.  I’m backing him.

Nick Watney +1500 – - N-dub has been disappointing since the victory at the WGC-Cadillac with his best finish being a thirteenth at the Transitions.  He’s a decent guy at Quail Hollow, though, and the form should turn around eventually.

Rory McIlroy +1200 – - The defending champ shot a 273 in this tournament last year.  The 273 includes a 66 third round and a 62 fourth round.  That’s nasty good.  The odds in the golf sportsbook are sweet on Rory Mac this week.

Phil Mickelson +1000 – - Mickelson would have hoisted the Quail Hollow trophy if not for McIlroy’s 62 final round last year.  Lefty lost by 4 strokes to Rory in 2010.  The chalk could turn it around against his rival this week.

Dustin Johnson +1800 – - DJ’s fourth round 77 in 2010 put in him twenty-ninth place.  Johnson hasn’t teed off on the PGA Tour since the Masters, however, meaning that he should be ready this week.

Bubba Watson +2000 – - Watson scored three rounds of 70 or higher in last year’s tournament. That’s not good.  Bubba goes into this off of a victory in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last week, though, making him a contender.

Justin Rose +4000 – - The online golf odds on Rose is why I put him ahead of some others on this list.  40 to 1 makes him an overlay even though he missed the cut in the Zurich.  Why?  He finished fifth at the Transitions and third at the Arnold Palmer earlier this year.

Hunter Mahan +2500 – - The seventeenth place finish at the 2010 Wells Fargo Championship wasn’t bad.  Before the missed cut at the Masters, Hunter finished eighth at the Shell Houston Open.

Paul Casey +2800 – - In 5 tournaments this year on the PGA Tour, Paul Casey hasn’t finished better than twelfth.  But the man’s name is Paul Casey.  The name Paul Casey is synonymous with good golf.

Jim Furyk +2000 – - I might be undervaluing Fury in this spot.  He finished seventh at last year’s Wells Fargo Championship, but the online betting odds are too low for me to like him that much this week.