2023 The American Express Odds and Picks

The Hawaii PGA TOUR swing is over after some thrilling endings. Now It’s time for more drama, as The American Express is set to tee up! This is the event made famous by Bob Hope and his famous Hollywood friends. It features a three-course format and as always, the field for this tournament is a nice mix of solid big-name players, as well as value picks down the odds list.

As mentioned above, the event takes place on three courses in La Quinta, California. The courses are the La Quinta Country Club, the PGA West Stadium Course and the PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course. Players rotate on the three courses with the final round returning at The Stadium Course.

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Hudson Swafford will not be in the mix as the defending American Express champion, as he has moved from the PGA TOUR to LIV exhibition events. That opens the door for another winner of this tournament, which is Jon Rahm who enters as the lone favorite this week at +650. He won this event in 2018 in a playoff against Andrew Landry. Then, Landry went on to win here in 2020.

Here are the top five favorites to win The American Express tournament outright:

Jon Rahm +650

Patrick Cantlay +1000

Scottie Scheffler +1000

Tony Finau +1200

Will Zalatoris +1800

The tournament had a reputation for ending in a playoff as it has for 3 of the last 10 times. However, a playoff has not happened in the last four years. This is not a tournament that sees one player dominate the field by a bunch of strokes. The last time that happened was when Tom Kite won by 6 strokes over the field back in 1993.

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2023 The American Express Preview

Where: La Quinta, California

Courses: La Quinta Country Club, PGA West Stadium Course, and the PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course

Par: 72 (All three courses) 7,060 (LQ), 7,140 (S), 7,181 (NT)

When: January 19-22, 2023

Purse: $8.0 million

TV Coverage: Golf Channel/Peacock/ESPN+

The American Express continues its Bob Hope Desert Classic history by utilizing several area courses. The final day of play for PGA TOUR Players that make it past the cut line comes on Sunday at the famed Stadium Course designed by Pete Dye. The layout features deep bunkers and immaculate green landing areas with manicured natural boundaries with many holes playing over and around water features. Bunkers are dotted everywhere on all the courses, so expect plenty of great recovery shots from the sand.

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2023 The American Express Predictions

Jon Rahm +650

Jon Rahm won here in 2018 and has been in the mix at this event several times. Rahm has been playing incredible golf recently as he has two wins and three additional finishes of T4 or better in his last five starts worldwide. That’s impressive and may be an indicator that playing on several courses should not be an issue for him – it has not been in the past. He’s the hottest golfer in the field this week with a No. 4 ranking by the OWGR and No. 4 in FedEx points.

Scottie Scheffler +1000

Scottie Scheffler is playing great golf as always. Last season at this time golf fans were waiting for him to grab his first PGA TOUR victory. It happened – he won four times last season and held the No. 1 spot in the world for a long time. He has not slipped much as he’s now in the No. 2 OWGR spot. He was T7 at the Tournament of Champions, 2nd at the Hero World Challenge, T9 at the Houston Open and T3 at Mayakoba.

Tom Hoge +4000

Tom Hoge should have had enough time to put the TCU defeat at the hands of the Georgia Bulldogs at the National Championship behind him. He finished T6 here in 2020 and 2nd last season behind Swafford. Hoge had a rough Sony Open with a T41, but he has finished T13th or better in six of his nine outings this season. He was T3 at the TOC two weeks ago.

Others: Will Zalatoris (+1800) is coming off his back issue, but did finish T11 at his first event back from his time off. Rickie Fowler (+6600) continues to work his way back and a three-course challenge will be a great gauge of his overall game.

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2023 The American Express Betting Lines

Jon Rahm +650

Patrick Cantlay +1000

Scottie Scheffler +1000

Tony Finau +1200

Will Zalatoris +1800

Xander Schauffele +2000

Sungjae Im +2000

Tom Kim +2000

Cameron Young +2200

Sam Burns +2800

Brian Harman +2800

Si-Woo Kim +3300

Taylor Montgomery +4000

Tom Hoge +4000

Cameron Davis +4000

Aaron Wise +4000

Andrew Putnam +5000

Sahith Theegala +5000

Kyoung-Hoon Lee +5000

Adam Hadwin +5000

JT Poston +5000

Jason Day +6600

Taylor Pendrith +6600

Rickie Fowler +6600

Wyndham Clark +6600

Justin Rose +6600

Denny McCarthy +8000

Davis Riley +8000

Joel Dahmen +8000

Christiaan Bezuidenhout +8000

Keith Mitchell +8000

Patrick Rodgers +8000

Thomas Detry +8000

Harris English +8000

Chris Kirk +8000

Will Gordon +8000

Emiliano Grillo +10000

Alex Smalley +10000

Brendan Steele +10000

Sebastian Munoz +10000

David Lipsky +10000

Brendon Todd +12500

Stephan Jaeger +12500

Dean Burmester +12500

Luke List +12500

Taylor Moore +15000

S.H. Kim +15000

Lee Hodges +15000

Matthew Nesmith +15000

Ben Taylor +15000

Jhonattan Vegas +15000

Greyson Sigg +15000

Martin Laird +15000

Ben Griffin +15000

Callum Tarren +15000

Aaron Rai +15000

Justin Suh +15000

Robby Shelton +15000

Mark Hubbard +15000

Patton Kizzire +15000

Russell Knox +15000

Byeong-Hun An +20000

Beau Hossler +20000

Nick Taylor +20000

Danny Willett +20000

Stewart Cink +20000

Nate Lashley +20000

Adam Long +20000

Kevin Yu +20000

Troy Merritt +20000

Carl Yuan +20000

Michael Thompson +20000

Davis Thompson +20000

James Hahn +25000

David Lingmerth +25000

Lucas Glover +25000

Dylan Frittelli +25000

Aaron Baddeley +25000

Doug Ghim +25000

Sam Ryder +25000

Charley Hoffman +25000

Joseph Bramlett +25000

M-J Daffue +25000

Brandon Wu +25000

Justin Lower +25000

Erik Van Rooyen +25000

Austin Eckroat +25000

Satoshi Kodaira +25000

Ryan Armour +30000

Adam Schenk +30000

Garrick Higgo +30000

Harry Hall +30000

Scott Piercy +30000

Chesson Hadley +30000

John Huh +30000

Ben Martin +30000

Zac Blair +30000

Chez Reavie +30000

Danny Lee +35000

Matthias Schmid +35000

Ze-Cheng Dou +35000

Zach Johnson +35000

Austin Cook +35000

Andrew Landry +35000

Peter Malnati +40000

Matthias Schwab +40000

Brice Garnett +40000

Taiga Semikawa +40000

Erik Barnes +40000

Michael Kim +40000

Rory Sabbatini +40000

Andrew Novak +40000

Ryan Moore +40000

Tyson Alexander +40000

Harry Higgs +40000

Vincent Norrman +50000

Paul Haley +50000

Robert Streb +50000

Tyler Duncan +50000

Brian Stuard +50000

Kevin Chappell +50000

Eric Cole +50000

Kramer Hickok +50000

Michael Gligic +50000

Augusto Nunez +50000

Nicolas Echavarria +50000

Kevin Tway +50000

Sam Stevens +50000

Sunghoon Kang +50000

Jason Dufner +50000

Kevin Roy +75000

Jimmy Walker +75000

Brian Gay +75000

Harrison Endycott +75000

Philip Knowles +75000

Ryan Brehm +75000

Nick Watney +75000

Kyle Stanley +75000

Bill Haas +100000

Brent Grant +100000

Gunner Wiebe +100000

Trevor Cone +100000

Brandon Matthews +100000

Kyle Westmoreland +100000

Caleb Surratt +100000

Anders Albertson +100000

Scott Harrington +100000

Carson Young +100000

Tano Goya +100000

Max McGreevy +100000

Wesley Bryan +100000

Trevor Werbylo +100000

Richy Werenski +100000

Michael Block +100000

John Pak +150000