French professional Matthieu Pavon has an opportunity to win gold on his house turf.
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The 2024 Olympic golf occasion begins for the boys’s aspect on Thursday, Aug. 1, at Le Golf Nationwide, and we’re selecting a French professional as our lengthy shot to take house gold. Right here’s our long-shot decide, the Olympic golf odds for the boys’s event, betting favorites and every thing else it is advisable to know.
Olympic golf odds: Lengthy-shot guess
The Summer time Olympics are again, and for the third Video games in a row, golf is an enormous a part of the motion. First up is the boys’s occasion, and we’re selecting French professional Matthieu Pavon as our lengthy shot to win gold at +6,600 odds-to-win.
Scottie Scheffler couldn’t assist however flex about how a lot he’s received
To danger stating the plain, Pavon is one of the best French golfer alive, and this yr’s Olympics are in Paris, with the golf happening close to town at Le Golf Nationwide — so the home-country favourite ought to have further inspiration to carry out at a excessive degree this week.
However Pavon may have earned long-shot respect even with out his nationality thought-about. He captured his first PGA Tour victory earlier this season on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open and adopted that up with a third-place end in his subsequent occasion, the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am. A T12 on the Masters in April and a high 5 on the U.S. Open in June show that Pavon’s sport is in high-quality type, even when enjoying towards the sport’s finest.
Should you guess $10 on Pavon to win and he grabs the gold, you’ll earn $660. In search of extra long-shot bets for the Olympics? This week’s honorable mentions are Jason Day (+5,000) and Adrian Meronk (+6,000).
Olympic golf odds: The favorites
Forgive us if this appears repetitive, however the betting favourite for the Olympic males’s golf occasion is similar favourite for each large occasion this yr: World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler at +400 odds-to-win.
However Scheffler has some firm close to the highest within the type of two-time main champion and defending gold medalist Xander Schauffele (+550).
Rory McIlroy, representing Eire, is available in with +850 odds-to-win to spherical out the highest three.
You possibly can see the highest 15 in Olympic betting odds as of Monday afternoon under or head over to BetMGM to see the total record of odds and bets for this week.
2024 Males’s Olympic golf betting odds (Prime 15 and ties)
Scottie Scheffler (+400)
Xander Schauffele (+550)
Rory McIlroy (+850)
Collin Morikawa (+1,100)
Jon Rahm (+1,100)
Ludvig Aberg (+1,100)
Tommy Fleetwood (+2,000)
Shane Lowry (+2,200)
Viktor Hovland (+2,200)
Joaquin Niemann (+2,500)
Hideki Matsuyama (+2,800)
Tom Kim (+3,000)
Alex Noren (+3,300)
Corey Conners (+3,300)
Matt Fitzpatrick (+3,300)
