2022 Shriners Children’s Open Betting Card Picks and Preview

The swing season continues this week in Las Vegas at TPC Summerlin for the Shriners Children’s Open, a swing season mainstay on the PGA Tour. We have a significant upgrade in field quality this week compared to last week’s Sanderson Farms, with 12 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings teeing it up this week in the desert.

TPC Summerlin has been one of the easiest courses on Tour for the past few seasons. Played at altitude, the 7,255-yard Par-71 has three Par-5s that are reachable by the entire field. It also features enormous Bentgrass greens that are relatively flat, so this has been a putting contest, with the winning score pushing into the low -20s. For more course details, check out Ron’s course preview, but here’s an important tidbit: 

Similar to the past two weeks, Driving Accuracy on these fairways is lower than the Tour average, but GIR% is among the highest. The Bermuda rough is only two and a quarter inches and causes little trouble for players with wayward tee shots. The bentgrass greens are the sixth-largest on Tour and rank as one of the easiest putting surfaces. Looking back at the course history over the last five years, it is the sixth-easiest course on Tour at 1.98 strokes under par.

As mentioned above, TPC Summerlin is the definition of a “birdie-fest”, and this is despite the fact there are only three Par 5s to score on. Two years ago, this event set the PGA record for the lowest cut-line in PGA Tour history at 7-under par. In fact, this course is so undemanding that over the past five years, it has ranked in the top-three easiest courses for Good Drive%, GIR%, and BoB%. It is also the easiest course on Tour for BoB% from the rough and Birdie to Bogey ratio. It contains the lowest-scoring Par 4s on Tour as well as the furthest average Driving Distance.

We have a short course that’ll put scoring wedges in the hands of the world’s best players. Your golfers need to go low, and they need to go low on Thursday and Friday if they’re going to see the weekend here.

There are millions of ways to bet on this beautiful game, and my goal with this piece is to touch on the golfers I’m targeting this week. When pricing out finishing position bets, I’ll often lean towards BetMGM even if there’s a better number elsewhere because of MGM’s advantageous dead-heat rules. Know the rules of the books that you’re betting on, folks! 

Please take advantage of the Discord feature and community. It’s the best way to get up-to-the-minute lines and advice, and if you need help getting started, please reach out. That’s where my full card will be posted, along with any live in-tournament bets. Betting markets are fluid, but I’ll note the best number available at the time of this writing.

I’m not sure how I’ll be allocating funds for the swing season yet, but for now, I’m concentrating on outright selections in this space. 

*Betting lines are accurate at the time of publication.