Who Is Doug Ghim? The 2026 Austin Championship Favorite
Andy Molitor
an hour ago
Doug Ghim is the betting favorite for the 2026 Austin Championship, and he still has never won on the PGA Tour. On Tuesday morning he sat at +1200 to +1650 across six books, level with or shorter than Jackson Koivun everywhere but DraftKings and well ahead of last week’s winner Blades Brown, which is a lot of respect for a 0-for-his-career player. Our read: the form is real, but the outright price is short, and his record points at the placement markets instead.
Here is who he is, how he got to the top of the board, and where the numbers say the value sits this week at Barton Creek.
Who is Doug Ghim?
Doug Ghim is a PGA Tour player who played his college golf at the University of Texas, so this week’s trip to Austin is a homecoming of sorts. His biggest moment so far came as an amateur, when he was low amateur at the 2018 Masters as a Texas senior. As a professional, the PGA Tour lists him with zero Tour wins.
He is one of several former Longhorns in the field this week, a group that also includes Pierceson Coody, who is priced around +3000 to +3500.
Why is Doug Ghim the Austin Championship favorite?
Doug Ghim is the Austin Championship favorite because he has finished inside the top 20 in six straight PGA Tour starts, a run that includes a runner-up at the Bank of Utah Championship and a tie for sixth at the VidantaWorld Mexico Open. In a fall field without many stars, that kind of steady form puts a player at the top of the board.
The six-start run began at the Rocket Classic in August, according to the PGA Tour’s results page and RotoWire. The best of it came in Utah in October, where he shot 24 under and finished two shots behind Austin Smotherman. His last start was the Mexico Open, which Andrew Novak won. Ghim closed with a 69 there to finish 18 under.
The table below lists Doug Ghim‘s last ten PGA Tour starts in the 2026 season, from the PGA Tour’s results page as of Tuesday, November 10.
| Event (2026) | Finish | Score |
|---|---|---|
| RBC Canadian Open | T15 | -10 |
| John Deere Classic | T6 | -17 |
| Genesis Scottish Open | Missed cut | E |
| 3M Open | Missed cut | -1 |
| Rocket Classic | T15 | -11 |
| Wyndham Championship | T19 | -11 |
| Biltmore Championship Asheville | T17 | -17 |
| Bank of Utah Championship | 2nd | -24 |
| Baycurrent Classic | T17 | -10 |
| VidantaWorld Mexico Open | T6 | -18 |
Look at the shape of it. One runner-up, two top-6 finishes, and a whole lot of 15th to 19th. That is a player who almost never hurts you, but it is not the profile of someone who closes out tournaments, at least not yet.
Doug Ghim odds for the 2026 Austin Championship
Doug Ghim‘s best outright price for the 2026 Austin Championship was +1650 at DraftKings on Tuesday morning, November 10, with bet365 and Fanatics at +1400 and BetRivers the shortest at +1200. That spread is wide for a favorite, so shopping the number matters here more than usual.
The table below shows Doug Ghim‘s prices by market and book from our odds pull at 5:44 AM Central on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
| Market | DraftKings | FanDuel | Fanatics | bet365 | BetRivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | +1650 | +1500 | +1400 | +1400 | +1200 |
| Top 5 | +410 | +340 | +330 | +350 | Not posted |
| Top 10 | +205 | +185 | +170 | +187 | Not posted |
| Top 20 | -104 | -120 | -125 | Not posted | Not posted |
| First-round leader | +3300 | +3300 | +2800 | Not posted | Not posted |
Is +1650 a good price? It works out to about a 5.7 percent chance, and +1200 at BetRivers is closer to 7.7 percent. For a player who has not won on Tour, in his first look at a brand-new course, that feels like the market paying for the streak. Nobody in this field has a single round of course history at the Fazio Canyons Course, so the price is resting entirely on recent form.
How to bet Doug Ghim this week
The cleanest way to bet Doug Ghim at the 2026 Austin Championship is in the placement markets, not the outright. His six straight top-20 finishes line up with a top-20 bet at -104 at DraftKings, and the top 10 at +205 at DraftKings asks him to repeat what he did in Utah and Mexico.
If you want an outright on him anyway, take the +1650 and not the +1200. That gap is worth real money over a season of betting favorites. If you are weighing his steady form against a hotter, more volatile name like Blades Brown, our guide on which stats to weigh when you build a golf pick walks through how much recent form should count. You can also compare the rest of the board in the best golf odds this week.
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What to know about the course
The 2026 Austin Championship is played on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek, a par 72 that measures 7,451 yards on the tournament card. It is the first PGA Tour event at the course, and the greens are Bermuda. There are four par 5s, all between 562 and 591 yards, and three of the four par 3s are 215 yards or longer.
No par 4 on the card reaches 500 yards, so this sets up as an approach and positioning test more than a bomber’s course. That is not a bad fit for a grinder like Ghim, but nobody can prove a course fit on a layout the Tour has never played.
Frequently asked questions
When and where is the 2026 Austin Championship?
The Austin Championship runs Thursday, November 12 to Sunday, November 15, 2026, on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. The purse is 6 million dollars, with 500 FedExCup points to the winner.
What is at stake for Doug Ghim in the FedExCup Fall?
Ghim came out of the Mexico Open 55th in the FedExCup Fall standings, according to RotoWire. Players who finish 51st to 60th earn spots in the first two Signature Events of 2027 at Pebble Beach and Riviera, and the Austin Championship is the second-to-last event before the RSM Classic closes the fall.
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