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Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth are the early betting favorites for the next PGA Tour outing, the Valspar Championship. Thomas is the favorite, with Spieth right behind him. After coming up short in the Players Championship, Justin Thomas will be eager to get back to winning ways.
Thomas is +1000 to win it all and Spieth is following closely with +1400.
Here are the rest of the odds:
- +1600 Sam Burns and Matt Fitzpatrick
- +2200 Justin Rose
- +2500 Adam Hadwin, Keegan Bradley and Tommy Fleetwood
- +3300 Denny McCarthy
- +4000 Gary Woodland, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Davis Riley and Justin Suh
- +5000 Aaron Rai, Ben Griffin, Maverick McNealy, Taylor Moore and Brandon Wu
- +5500 Victor Perez
- +6600 JT Poston, Jhonattan Vegas, Joel Dahmen, Ryan Gerard, Stephan Jaeger, KH Lee and Byeong Hun An
- +8000 Tyler Duncan, Sam Ryder, Will Gordon, Beau Hossler, Garrick Higgo, Ludvig Aberg, Luke List, Nate Lashley, Nick Taylor, Pierceson Coody and Robby Shelton
- +9000 Patrick Rodgers
- +10000 Akshay Bhatia, SH Kim, Trey Mullinax, Webb Simpson, Alex Smalley, Ben Martin, Eric Cole, Joseph Bramlett, Kramer Hickok, Lee Hodges and Matthew NeSmith
A win for Thomas would help continue his ascent on the OWGR leaderboard. The 10th-ranked golfer in the world dipped from ninth and will be banking on Valspar to get himself back on track.
Jordan Spieth working on fixing his mistakes
Jordan Spieth is currently working on fixing a few mechanical errors in his game related to short-putting. He said (via Golf.com):
"I’ve had a tendency for a few years that’s been a really bad tendency. It was trying to continue to find ways, instead of just in a path feel, but actually in a big — I’m trying to take my hands out and use my big muscles more. I’ve always been a little handsy putting in a good way. A lot of great putters are handsy. Rickie Fowler and Tiger use his hands, Ben Crenshaw. So I think I’ll always still have that, but I was relying on it."
Spieth continued:
“When I would have pressure on or as I got closer to the hole I didn’t have time to make up for what was going on in the stroke. I was just putting really bad strokes on it. Now I feel like I don’t have to save it and it’s a very freeing, feeling it just needs more and more reps in tournament rounds and it just gets better.”
Jordan Spieth has been one of the most renowned golfers in the world for a while. He's certainly had a few ups and downs, but he's remained a consistent figure on the PGA Tour.
The fact that he's still working to improve aspects of his game could spell trouble for other golfers. It'll be interesting to see how he fares in the Valspar Championship.
