2023 Honda Classic Odds and Picks

One year ago Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka battled till the end for the 2023 Honda Classic title. It was Straka who won by one stroke for the win by going 19-under and 270 overall. This season the Honda Classic comes after a dramatic return to the game by Tiger Woods and the excitement of an elevated PGA Tour event with a huge purse.

Now it’s back to reality with the Honda Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Florida and a smaller purse than last week. But the field is packed with value and a strong group of favorites. Sungjae Im comes in at +800 as the lone favorite to win outright. He won this event in 2020. His closest competition on the leaderboard is Lowry who comes in as the only player at +1200.

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As for the defending Honda Classic Champion, Straka comes in well behind the favorites to win outright at +4000. The good news for his fans is that there are a bunch of quality players ranging from +2200 through +4000 and beyond.

Here are the favorites through to win the 2022 Honda Classic outright:

Sungjae Im +800

Shane Lowry +1200

Matt Kuchar +2200

Min Woo Lee +2200

Alex Noren +2200

Chris Kirk +2200

As you can see there are several players bunched together at +2200 including Matt Kuchar who is returning to PGA National for the first time in several years. He does have some great history here as he’s never missed the weekend out of four visits.

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2023 Honda Classic Preview

Where: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Course: PGA National Resort and Spa Champion Course

Format: Stroke Play

Par: 70

Length: 7,125

When: March 23 –26, 2023

Purse: $8.4 Million.

TV Coverage: Golf/NBC/Peacock

There have been some changes at the PGA National Champion Course mostly dealing with some of the bunkers. There is some debate if the changes will come into play or will be regulated as being simply cosmetic. We will know down the stretch on the weekend.

The Par 70 course can be brutal at times especially if the wind is blowing which could be the case in Palm Beach this week. That being said, the course is always stunning to view and short enough for the big hitters on the Tour to lay back a bit. This is a second-shot course that forces players to be precise off the tee to hit landing areas while staying away from well-placed bunkers.

PGA National is also the home of the “Bear Trap” which is considered among the toughest three-hole stretch on the PGA Tour. It consists of holes 15, 16, and 17. Players will have to navigate lots of water and some of the aforementioned stretch of bunkers.

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2023 Honda Classic Predictions

Sungjae Im +800

Sungjae Im won this event in 2020 by going 6-under and beating hard-charging Mackenzie Hughes by one stroke. Im finished T8 in his Honda Classic title defense last season but is coming off a rough outing at the Genesis where he carded a T56. However, before that, he finished T6 at the Phoenix Open and T4 at the Farmers. in 2021 but he’s playing better golf as of late. He is now ranked 28th in FedEx points and No. 18 on the OWGR list. If Im has his putter and wedges going he’ll be hard to beat.

Chris Kirk +2200

Chris Kirk has been a regular at PGA National since he hit the PGA Tour in 2011 after a few years in what is now the Korn Ferry. Last year he played great and was able to scramble around some of the tricky areas around the course. That short game helped him card a T7 here last season. So far this year the same skill around the greens has helped him finish 3rd twice this season. He’s missed the cut three times this season but seems to show well at the Honda Classic.

Harris English +3300

Harris English is looking like he’s just about fully recovered from his injuries which held him out for a few months last season. He carded a strong T12 last week at the Genesis Invitational which could have been better except for a few missed fairways. He finished inside the top 20 at the Honda Classic in both 2019 and 2020. He had a string of missed cuts before the Genesis but has a strong T3 at the QBE Shootout. If English continues to remain healthy and his poker-face putter is on point then he should be in the mix on Sunday.

Others I Like: Let’s look at the two players who took it to the last hole at the Honda Classic last year Shane Lowry (+1200) almost won here last season and he’s never missed the weekend at PGA National. Sepp Straka (+4000) pushed ahead of Lowry for the win last year and he’s shown signs of being strong once again in 2023. Both of these two players can carve up approaches and greens when they get things rolling.

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2023 Honda Classic Betting Lines

Sungjae Im +800

Shane Lowry +1200

Matt Kuchar +2200

Min Woo Lee +2200

Alex Noren +2200

Chris Kirk +2200

Denny McCarthy +2500

Aaron Wise +2500

Billy Horschel +2800

Thomas Detry +3300

Harris English +3300

JT Poston +3300

Adam Svensson +3300

Taylor Pendrith +3300

Jhonattan Vegas +3300

Adrian Meronk +4000

Christiaan Bezuidenhout +4000

Sepp Straka +4000

Lee Hodges +4000

Cameron Davis +5000

Patrick Rodgers +5000

Garrick Higgo +5000

Robby Shelton +5000

Nick Hardy +5000

Justin Suh +5000

Stephan Jaeger+5000

Ben Griffin+5000

Hayden Buckley +6000

Ryan Palmer +6000

Aaron Rai +6000

Byeong-Hun An +6000

Erik Van Rooyen +6600

Will Gordon +6600

Danny Willett +6600

Joseph Bramlett +6600

Davis Riley +6600

Webb Simpson +6600

S.H. Kim +6600

Padraig Harrington +8000

Ben Taylor +8000

Lanto Griffin +8000

Brandon Wu +8000

Russell Knox +8000

Charley Hoffman +8000

Dylan Frittelli +10000

Adam Schenk +10000

Adam Long +10000

Matthias Schwab +10000

Greyson Sigg +10000

Peter Malnati +10000

Matt Wallace +10000

Callum Tarren +10000

Mark Hubbard +10000

Pierceson Coody +12500

Kevin Tway +12500

Kramer Hickok +12500

Zach Johnson +12500

Luke Donald +12500

Harry Hall +12500

Aaron Baddeley +12500

Harry Higgs +12500

Ryan Moore +15000

Akshay Bhatia +15000

Satoshi Kodaira +15000

Chesson Hadley +15000

Ben Martin +15000

Michael Kim +15000

Sam Stevens +15000

Eric Cole +15000

Ryan Armour +15000

M-J Daffue +15000

J.B. Holmes +20000

Andrew Novak +20000

Jimmy Walker +20000

Tano Goya +20000

Matti Schmid +20000

Tyler Duncan +20000

Ze-Cheng Dou +20000

David Lingmerth +20000

Danny Lee +20000

Doc Redman +20000

Carl Yuan +20000

Erik Barnes +20000

Dylan Wu +20000

Austin Eckroat +20000

Brent Grant +25000

Augusto Nunez +25000

Paul Haley +25000

Jason Dufner +25000

Sean O'Hair +25000

Harrison Endycott +25000

Seung-Yul Noh +25000

Ben Silverman +25000

Jonas Blixt +25000

Brian Stuard +25000

Austin Cook +25000

Tyson Alexander +25000

Cameron Percy +25000

Henrik Norlander +25000

Robert Streb +25000

Hank Lebioda +25000

Rory Sabbatini +30000

Kyle Stanley +30000

Andrew Landry +30000

Fabian Gomez +30000

Zac Blair +30000

Camilo Villegas +30000

Vincent Norrman +30000

Chris Stroud +30000

Kelly Kraft +30000

Austin Smotherman +30000

Curtis Thompson +30000

Nicolas Echavarria +30000

Chad Ramey +30000

Martin Trainer +30000

Kyle Westmoreland +30000

Richy Werenski +30000

Sung Kang +30000

Brice Garnett +30000

Trevor Werbylo +50000

Brian Gay +50000

Jim Herman +50000

Andrew Kozan +50000

Cody Gribble +50000

Jonathan Byrd +50000

Scott Harrington +50000

Kevin Roy +50000

Bill Haas +50000

William McGirt +50000

Ryan Brehm +75000

Trevor Cone +75000

Brandon Matthews +75000

Carson Young +75000

Max McGreevy +75000

Michael Gligic +75000

Ben Crane +100000

Marcus Byrd +100000

Arjun Atwal +100000

Anders Albertson +100000

Tyler Collet +100000