2024 Memorial Tournament picks, predictions, odds, field: Proven golf expert fading Patrick Cantlay

The 2024 PGA Tour makes its only stop in Ohio with the 2024 Memorial Tournament beginning Thursday. Muirfield Village Golf Club hosts the event, which was founded by Jack Nicklaus and takes place in the same Columbus metro where the Golden Bear was born and raised. The 2024 Memorial Tournament is an exclusive event and the last tournament before next week’s US Open, so the field is packed with the best golfers on the PGA Tour. Each of the top 25 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings is teeing off this week, with No. 1 Scottie Scheffler being the +360 favorite.

He is followed by Rory McIlroy at +800 in the latest 2024 Memorial Tournament odds after the Irishman has recorded two wins in his last four matches. PGA champion Xander Schauffele is the only other golfer with single-digit odds at +900, while defending champion Viktor Hovland is at +1800. Before securing any 2024 Memorial Tournament picks, be sure to See PGA Tour predictions and best bets from golf and fantasy betting expert Sia Nejad.

Nejad specializes in betting and DFS in golf, among other sports. He has had incredible success in the outright leader and first round leader markets and in head-to-head betting. He’s also been solid in his head-to-head matchups since last year’s Charles Schwab Challenge, going 48-30-3 and returning 15.09 units in that span. This represents a profit of $1,509 for $100 bettors since May 2023.

Nejad also nailed Wyndham Clark, a long shot at 75-1, as the outright winner of the Wells Fargo Championship. In 2023, SportsLine premiered “The Early Wedge” and, in the show’s first three months, has hit two first-round leaders and three outright winners.

Now, Nejad has turned his attention to the 2024 Memorial Tournament field and made his best bets, the best sleepers and the favorites to avoid. See who they are at SportsLine.

2024 Memorial Tournament Experts’ Top Picks

One surprise: Nejad has little chance of Patrick Cantlay (+2,500), although he has won this event twice in the last five years (2019, 2021). Cantlay also has three other top-10 finishes at Muirfield since 2018. However, he finished 30th at the Memorial last year and is struggling on tour this season. He has just two top 10s this year after having at least 10 such finishes in each of the last two seasons.

One of Cantlay’s strengths in the past has been his long game, as he ranked in the top 25 in both strokes gained: approach to the green and greens in regulation last season. However, it now ranks outside the top 100 in both metrics this year, which bodes poorly for Muirfield, which relies on accuracy on approach shots due to its tight bentgrass greens. Torrey Pines is one of the closest comparisons to Muirfield, and Cantlay finished 56th on that course earlier this year at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Instead, Nejad sits atop Corey Conners, who has a +5500 long shot. The Canadian is coming off a sixth-place finish last week in his home country, marking his best result of the season. His strengths should also play well at the Memorial, with Nejad saying, “he’s typically a fantastic ball striker and showed a newfound ability to hit the putter by winning an insane 6.42 strokes at last week’s RBC Canadian Open (he also won ARG ).”

That showing continued a strong run of play for Conners, who has had a rough start to the 2024 PGA Tour season. He has failed to place in the top 25 in each of his first four events, but has seven top 25s in his last 11 starts, as well as three top 15s in his last four tournaments. Additionally, the best part of Conners’ game is his iron play, as he ranks second on both greens in regulation percentage and strokes gained: approach to green, behind Scheffler on both. See which other players to bet on at SportsLine.

How to make picks for the 2024 Memorial Tournament

Nejad has made his best bets for the 2024 Memorial Tournament and is betting on several long odds, including one that costs over +7,000. This player “prepares very well for this field to be in such a long number” and is a long shot that could surprise. You can see Nejad’s PGA Tour picks only on SportsLine.

So which players should you target or avoid in the 2024 Memorial Tournament, and which player in the 2024 Memorial Tournament field could bring a big payday of over +7,000? Check out the odds below, then Visit SportsLine to see Sia Nejad’s top picks for the 2024 Memorial Tournamentall from the specialist who is 48-30-3 in his last 81 head-to-head picks.

2024 Memorial Tournament odds, field

See Nejad’s picks, best bets and predictions here.

Scottie Scheffler +360
Rory McIlroy +800
Xander Schauffele +900
Collin Morikawa +1400
Viktor Hovland +1800
Ludvig Aberg +1800
Patrick Cantlay +2500
Justin Thomas +2500
Wyndham Clark +3500
Tommy Fleetwood +3500
Max Homa +3500
Hideki Matsuyama +3500
Sahith Theegala +4000
Jordan Spieth +4500
Matt Fitzpatrick +5000
Byeong Hun An +5000
Tony Finau +5500
Sungjae Im +5500
Si Woo Kim +5500
Russell Henley +5500
Corey Conners +5500
Cameron Young +5500
Tom Kim +6000
Sam Burns +6000
Jason’s Day +6000
Sepp Straka +6500
Keegan Bradley +6500
Will Zalatoris +7000
Shane Lowry +7000
Billy Horschel +7000
Denny McCarthy +7500
Brian Harman +7500
Tom Hoge +8000
Harris English +8000
Alex Noren +8000
Christian Bezuidenhout +9000
Stephan Jaeger +10000
Robert MacIntyre +10000
Kurt Kitayama +10000
Akshay Bhatia +10000
Mackenzie Hughes +11000
Lucas Glover +11000
Justin Rosa +11000
JT Poston +11000
Thomas Detry +13000
Taylor Moore +13000
Rickie Fowler +13000
Davis Thompson +13000
Chris Kirk +13000
Ben Griffin +13000
Austin Eckroat +15000
Taylor Pendrith +18000
Patrick Rodgers +18000
Andrew Putnam +18000
Adam Schenk +18000
Adam Hadwin +18000
Lee Hodges +20,000
Jake Knapp +20,000
Davis Riley +20000
Cam Davis +20000
Adam Svensson +20000
Victor Perez +25000
Seamus Power +25,000
Nick Taylor +25000
Nick Dunlap +25000
Mac Meissner +25000
Eric Cole +25000
Matthieu Pavón +30000
Chris Gotterup +30000
Brendon Todd +30000
Emiliano Grillo +35000
Matt Kuchar +40000
Pierceson Coody +60000
Pedro Malnati +60000
Jackson Koivun +100000
Brandt Snedeker +200,000