The World Golf Championship (WGC) Workday Championship moves from Mexico to Florida due to COVID-19. The field for WGC events is limited to a mix of players from the top-Tours around the world and the top-fifty players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).
That means the saying that “any player can pull out a win during any given tournament” applies in full. This is a packed field led by Dustin Johnson as the favorite coming in at +600. Johnson holds onto the No. 1 OWGR ranking this week following his T8 finish last week at the GENESIS Open.
Like last week, Johnson is trailed by Jon Rahm at +900 and Rory McIlroy at +1600. Rahm holds onto the No. 2 OWGR spot again from last week but McIlroy dropped from No. 7 to No. 8 on the rankings released on February 21st.
Every player coming in at +1800 and under is in the OWGR top-ten. Here are the top-five favorites according to Intertops.
Dustin Johnson +600
Jon Rahm +900
Rory McIlroy +1600
Xander Schauffele +1600
Patrick Cantlay +1800
Justin Thomas +1800
2021 WGC Workday Championship Preview
Where: Bradenton, Florida
Course: The Concession Golf Club
Format: Stroke Play
Par: 72
Length: 7,470
When: February 25 –28, 2021
Purse: $10.5 Million.
TV Coverage: Golf Channel/NBC
The Concession Golf Club is a classic Jack Nicklaus designed course. The layout takes full advantage of the gently rolling terrain, natural grass areas, and tree-lined fairways. It’s beautiful, has a classic look, and it’s a hard course to play.
Water comes into play on 12 of the 18 holes with six dozen bunkers. The greens are well protected as are all landing areas forcing players to carefully judge their tee-shots. Greens are medium to large with undulations.
The course is not seaside, it’s located a few miles inland but sometimes the wind can come into play. Heading into the opening rounds the weather looks sunny with highs in the mid-80s. Bottom line – even with nice weather; the Concession Golf Club will demand plenty of finesse this week.
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2021 WGC Workday Championship Predictions
Xander Schauffele +1600
Xander Schauffele is on fire in 2021. He’s played in eight events and finished T5 or better in five of them! In case you’re wondering about the other three tournaments he’s played in so far in 2021, he was T17, T17, and T15 respectively. That’s eight tournaments where he’s been well inside the top-twenty.
Tony Finau +2000
Last week Tony Finau missed a chance to capture a playoff win at the GENESIS Open against Max Homa. Finau has been so close to a win the last few seasons that one would have to think it’s just a matter of time. In 2021 he’s already finished second at the GENESIS, finished T2 at the Farmers Open, and was fourth at the American Express.
Daniel Berger +2800
Daniel Berger took last week off following his win at Pebble Beach two weeks ago. He has two recent wins on the PGA Tour and has carded seven finishes in the top-five over the last twelve months. This year (2021) Berger has his Peeble Beach win as well as a T7 at the Sony Open and a sole tenth place finish at the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Others I Like: This is what I said about Dustin Johnson last week – he’s the favorite for a reason. But there are too many great players in this select field for him to run away with it. A nice value player is Harris English at +6000. English has a nice 2021 resume to date; he won the Tournament of Champions, was fourth at the U.S. Open, and T5 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.
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2021 WGC Workday Championship Odds
One note about the players listed below or the lack of some familiar names as the WGC Workday Championship features a select field. This is a dual tournament weekend with the alternate PGA Event being the Puerto Rico Open.
Here are the odds for the 2021 WGC Workday Championship.
Dustin Johnson +600
Jon Rahm +900
Rory McIlroy +1600
Xander Schauffele +1600
Patrick Cantlay +1800
Justin Thomas +1800
Bryson DeChambeau +2000
Tony Finau +2000
Tyrrell Hatton +2000
Viktor Hovland +2200
Brooks Koepka +2800
Webb Simpson +2800
Daniel Berger +2800
Patrick Reed +2800
Sungjae Im +3500
Tommy Fleetwood +4000
Collin Morikawa +4000
Scottie Scheffler +4000
Jason Day +5000
Hideki Matsuyama +5000
Adam Scott +5000
Joaquin Niemann +5000
Justin Rose +5000
Max Homa +5000
Matthew Fitzpatrick +5000
Cameron Smith +5000
Harris English +6000
Louis Oosthuizen +6000
Will Zalatoris +6000
Robert Macintyre +8000
Ryan Palmer +8000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +8000
Sergio Garcia +8000
Jason Kokrak +8000
Marc Leishman +8000
Shane Lowry +8000
Bubba Watson +8000
Victor Perez +8000
Matthew Wolff +8000
Abraham Ancer +10000
Billy Horschel +10000
Kevin Kisner +10000
Kevin Na +10000
Carlos Ortiz +10000
Rasmus Hojgaard +10000
Andy Sullivan +12500
Lee Westwood +12500
Lanto Griffin +12500
Bernd Wiesberger +12500
Mackenzie Hughes +12500
Gary Woodland +12500
Rafael Cabrera Bello +15000
Lucas Herbert +15000
Laurie Canter +15000
Cameron Champ +15000
Thomas Detry +15000
Matt Kuchar +15000
Brendon Todd +15000
Sebastian Munoz +15000
David Lipsky +20000
Jason Scrivener +20000
Sami Valimaki +20000
Erik Van Rooyen +20000
Aaron Rai +25000
Yuki Inamori +30000
Chan Kim +30000
Min Woo Lee +30000
Brad Kennedy +50000
Wade Ormsby +50000
Daniel Van Tonder +50000
JC Ritchie +50000
Trevor Simsby +75000
