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The world’s best PGA Tour players–or at least those who were able to prevail last season–are in Maui this week for the prestigious Tournament of Champions.
Pitting all of the year’s previous tournament winners (minus a few who have dropped out) against each other, the first tournament of the calendar year is always one of the most compelling. Leading the way this year is Jordan Spieth (5/1), who rolled to a dominant eight-stroke victory a year ago but will have plenty of competition as the mountain-top of golf seems to continually be getting more crowded.
The co-favorite in Kapalua along with Spieth is Hideki Matsuyama, who ended 2016 on an unbelievable run. After closing the official 2015-16 season with a fifth-place finish at the Tour Championship, the 24-year-old piled up an absurd four wins in six events (along with a runner-up and a T6), including an impressive triumph at the WGC-HSBC Champions. If 2016 was the year Dustin Johnson went from good to elite, 2017 could very well be the year the same thing happens for Matsuyama.
Speaking of DJ, he’s the next favorite in line (11/2), while World No. 1 Jason Day (8/1) and 2015 champion Patrick Reed (12/1) aren’t far behind.
Here’s a complete look at the odds for every player in the field at Kapalua:
Tournament of Champions 2017 Odds to Win
Note: Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com and are as of January 4
Hideki Matsuyama: +500
Jordan Spieth: +500
Dustin Johnson: +550
Jason Day: +800
Patrick Reed: +1200
Justin Thomas: +1600
Brandt Snedeker: +1600
Bubba Watson: +1800
Jimmy Walker: +2500
Daniel Berger: +2800
Ryan Moore: +2800
Russell Knox: +3300
Branden Grace: +3300
Si-Woo Kim: +4000
Tony Finau: +4500
Jason Dufner: +5000
Brendan Steele: +5500
Fabian Gomez: +6600
Pat Perez: +6600
Charley Hoffman: +8000
Jhonattan Vegas: +8000
William McGirt: +8000
James Hahn: +8000
Aaron Baddeley: +8000
Billy Hurley III: +12500
Mackenzie Hughes: +12500
Cody Gribble: +12500
Vaughn Taylor: +15000
Jim Herman: +20000
Rod Pampling: +20000
Brian Stuard: +20000
Greg Chalmers: +250000