{"id":5507,"date":"2009-09-08T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/golf-odds-five-or-six-to-watch-at-cog-hill\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:14:00","slug":"golf-odds-five-or-six-to-watch-at-cog-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/golf-odds-five-or-six-to-watch-at-cog-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Odds &#8211; Five (Or Six) To Watch At Cog Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While everyone is excited for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/football\/nfl\/nfl-week-1-matchups\" title=\"NFL Week 1 matchups\">NFL Week 1 <span class=SpellE>matchups<\/span><\/a>, the FedEx Cup playoffs are heating up heading into the third of four events, the BMW Championship at Cog Hill. <span class=SpellE>Camilo<\/span> Villegas is the defending champion, and he&#8217;ll be one of our five (or six) to watch this weekend.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>BMW Championship odds &#8211; Thursday, September 10<\/span><\/font><\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Tiger Woods (+150):<\/span><\/font><\/b> the world&#8217;s No.1 player won here in 2007 before missing last year&#8217;s event due to injury. His putter let him down all weekend at the Deutsche Bank Championship before he blistered the <span class=SpellE>TPC<\/span> Boston for a final-round 63, which gave him a T-11. Woods trails Steve <span class=SpellE>Stricker<\/span> by 909 points in the standings, but anytime he tees it up, he&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"online sports betting\">online sports betting<\/a>&nbsp;favorite.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Steve <span class=SpellE>Stricker<\/span> (+1400):<\/span><\/font><\/b> <span class=SpellE>Stricker&#8217;s<\/span> final-hole birdie gave him his third win of the season, and he has six top-10s in 10 FedEx Cup events. He&#8217;s also not bad at Cog Hill, where he finished third in 2007, and T-10 in 2008. <span class=SpellE>Stricker<\/span> seems to know how to win now, but can he hold off Woods in the standings?<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Padraig Harrington (+1400):<\/span><\/font><\/b> Paddy&#8217;s T-4 was his fourth top-10 in a row, and third top-five in four starts. He stumbled here last year, finishing T-55, but like <span class=SpellE>Stricker<\/span>, he&#8217;s playing with as much confidence as anyone on the <span class=SpellE>PGA<\/span> Tour. Golf may be a game where momentum counts more than any other sports, so watch out for the three-time major winner in your offshore sportsbook.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Jim <span class=SpellE>Furyk<\/span> (+2000):<\/span><\/font><\/b> <span class=SpellE>Furyk<\/span> improved on his T-14 finish at Cog Hill from 2007 with a T-3 last year at <span class=SpellE>Bellervie<\/span>, and he finished T-8 at the Deutsche Bank Championship last week. However, this was his first top-10 since early July, so you may want to avoid him in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbetonline.org\" title=\"sports picks\">sports picks<\/a>.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Scott <span class=SpellE>Verlplank<\/span> (+5000)\/<span class=SpellE>Camilo<\/span> Villegas (+6600):<\/span><\/font><\/b> <span class=SpellE>Verplank<\/span> has top-10 finishes in each of the first two FedEx Cup events, and he has finishes of T-28 and T-30 in this event. Meanwhile, Villegas hasn&#8217;t broken into the top 10 since March, but he followed up a T-7 in 2007 at Cog Hill with last year&#8217;s two-stroke win. If you&#8217;re looking for <span class=SpellE>longshots<\/span>, put this pair into your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\/\" title=\"gambling software\">gambling software<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone is excited for NFL Week 1 matchups, the FedEx Cup playoffs are heating up heading into the third of four events, the BMW Championship at Cog Hill. Camilo Villegas is the defending champion, and he&#8217;ll be one of our five (or six) to watch this weekend. BMW Championship odds &#8211; Thursday, September 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/golf-odds-five-or-six-to-watch-at-cog-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golf Odds &#8211; Five (Or Six) To Watch At Cog Hill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}