Talk about an exciting past week for golf fans! Team USA beat the Europeans during last week’s Ryder Cup in an exciting fashion. Now we switch gears from a targeted European-style course in Wisconsin at Whistling Straits to a classic Southern-style course in Mississippi. Next up is the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson Mississippi at the Country Club of Jackson.
Sam Burns comes in as the favorite in the limited field event at +1400 with Sergio Garcia among the favorites at +1800. Garcia joins the field fresh off the Ryder Cup event last week and he’s the defending Sanderson champion. He won last season by one stroke over Peter Malnati who was the winner of this tournament in 2015.
As for this being a limited-field event, time changes and fewer daylight hours signal the start of 144 player fields until a few months into 2022. Now that the Sanderson Farms Championship is a full-schedule event and not an alternate, the stakes have risen. The winner gets 500 FedEx Cup points instead of 300 and all of the benefits of a PGA Tour win including an automatic trip to the Masters.
Also, the total purse for this event continues to grow! It’s now at 6.6 million. Here are the favorites through +2000 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship outright according to Intertops.
Sam Burns +1400
Will Zalatoris +1600
Sungjae Im +1800
Sergio Garcia +1800
Corey Conners +2000
2021 Sanderson Farms Championship Preview
Where: Jackson, Mississippi
Course: Country Club of Jackson
Format: Stroke Play
Par: 72
Length: 7,460
When: September 30-Oct 3, 2021
Purse: $6.6 Million.
TV Coverage: Golf Channel
This course can play deceptively tight! The Country Club of Jackson features multiple white- sand bunkers set to defend tight approach shots. Water hazards come into play on a few holes with pond grass along the sides of some fairways. It looks wide open but players can get into some rough second shots if not careful.
The course is a natural setting with mostly open fairways dotted with large trees. The course has undergone many renovations over the years with the latest being by John Faught in 2008 which helped set the layout for current PGA Tournaments.
Putting will be something to watch as some of the greens are deceptive and roughs will be playing a thick 3+inches. A slight chance of rain and pop-up thunderstorms could be an issue on both Friday and Sunday.
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2021 Sanderson Farms Predictions
Sam Burns +1400
Sam Burns comes in as the favorite this week after a great run last season that include his first PGA Tour win. He’s played this event five times with a T3 in 2018. Last season he won the Valspar Championship, came in second at the AT&T Byron Nelson and had a 3 rd place run at the Genesis Invitational.
Harold Varner III +3300
Harold Varner III was strong two weeks ago at the Fortinet Championship before the Ryder Cup. Varner finished that event T16 with some clutch shots and a strong putter. He enters the Sanderson Farms Championship with a string of top-20 runs including five in his last seven events.
Luke List +9000
A possible dark horse? Luke List is a player that seems on the verge of a win every time he’s inside the top 20! Last season List was a player pushing for a victory during several events including a T4 at the John Deere Classic which he followed up with a T5 at the Barbasol Championship. List carded over ten missed cuts last season but he also posted six top-20s.
Sergio Garcia +1800
Others: I want to look at Sergio Garcia (+1800) but I’m wary after such an emotional event as the Ryder Cup. He’s well worth watching. Keegan Bradley (+3300) plays a tight game that is well suited to the Country Club of Jackson. He finished T4 here last year.
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Sanderson Farms Championship Odds
Sam Burns +1400
Will Zalatoris +1600
Sungjae Im +1800
Sergio Garcia +1800
Corey Conners +2000
Charley Hoffman +2800
Cameron Tringale +3000
Si-Woo Kim +3000
Keegan Bradley +3300
Cameron Davis +3300
Mito Pereira +3300
Harold Varner III +3300
Kevin Streelman +4000
Talor Gooch +4000
Seamus Power +4500
Carlos Ortiz +5000
Sebastian Munoz +5000
Aaron Wise +5000
Chez Reavie +5500
Gary Woodland +6000
Mackenzie Hughes +6000
Matthew Wolff +6000
Emiliano Grillo +6000
Patton Kizzire +6000
Scott Stallings +6000
Matthias Schwab +6600
Taylor Pendrith +6600
Patrick Rodgers +6600
Kyoung-Hoon Lee +6600
Joseph Bramlett +7000
C T Pan +7000
Keith Mitchell +7000
Doug Ghim +7000
Brendon Todd +7500
Joel Dahmen +8000
Chad Ramey +8000
Zach Johnson +8000
Lucas Glover +8000
Chris Kirk +8000
Scott Piercy +8000
Luke List +9000
Lucas Herbert +9000
Sahith Theegala +10000
Brandt Snedeker +10000
Bronson Burgoon +10000
Adam Hadwin +10000
Lanto Griffin +10000
Stephan Jaeger +10000
Aaron Rai +10000
Matt Wallace +10000
Adam Schenk +10000
Ryan Armour +10000
Taylor Moore +10000
Rory Sabbatini +10000
Nick Taylor +10000
Tom Hoge +12500
Hudson Swafford +12500
Andrew Putnam +12500
Roger Sloan +12500
David Lipsky +12500
Martin Laird +12500
Brian Stuard +12500
Henrik Norlander +12500
Sepp Straka +12500
Kiradech Aphibarnrat +12500
Greyson Sigg +12500
Ryan Moore +12500
Peter Malnati +12500
Doc Redman +12500
Adam Svensson +12500
Russell Knox +12500
Kevin Tway +15000
Brendan Steele +15000
Robert Streb +15000
Richy Werenski +15000
Dylan Frittelli +15000
Denny McCarthy +15000
Nick Hardy +15000
JT Poston +15000
Dawie Van Der Walt +15000
John Augenstein +15000
Brandon Hagy +17500
Alex Smalley +17500
Nate Lashley +17500
Wyndham Clark +17500
Vincent Whaley +17500
Tyler McCumber +17500
Sam Ryder +17500
Jimmy Walker +20000
Davis Riley +20000
Michael Thompson +20000
Hayden Buckley +20000
Camilo Villegas +20000
Anirban Lahiri +20000
David Skinns +20000
Brice Garnett +20000
Kevin Chappell +20000
Chesson Hadley +20000
John Huh +20000
Matthew Nesmith +20000
Austin Cook +20000
Kramer Hickok +20000
Dylan Wu +20000
Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra +20000
Seth Reeves +20000
Sung Kang +25000
Joshua Creel +25000
Brandon Wu +25000
Andy Ogletree +25000
Andrew Landry +25000
Michael Gligic +25000
Adam Long +25000
Trey Mullinax +25000
Lee Hodges +25000
Davis Thompson +25000
Kurt Kitayama +25000
Nick Watney +30000
Bill Haas +30000
Scott Gutschewski +30000
Paul Barjon +30000
Cameron Young +30000
Andrew Novak +30000
Ben Kohles +30000
Tyler Duncan +30000
Seung-Yul Noh +35000
Callum Tarren +35000
Max McGreevy +35000
Bo Van Pelt +40000
Jared Wolfe +40000
JJ Spaun +40000
Cohen Trolio +40000
Curtis Thompson +40000
Brian Gay +50000
Jonas Blixt +50000
Kelly Kraft +50000
William McGirt +50000
Cody Gribble +50000
Kevin Stadler +150000
Martin Trainer +150000
Greg Sonnier +200000
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