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Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay look to recapture some of the team’s magic when they team up again for the 2024 Zurich Classic. The PGA Tour’s annual team event begins Thursday at TPC Louisiana in New Orleans, and 80 teams of two men will be present for the match on Thursday. Schauffele and Cantlay were the winning duo in 2022 and are the 5-1 favorites on the 2024 Zurich Classic odds board. Should you back this pair of California natives with your 2024 Zurich Classic picks? Or should you back Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry at 8-1 odds?
Will Zalatoris and Sahith Theegala are listed at 11-1 in the latest 2024 Zurich Classic odds, and Collin Morkiawa and Kurt Kitayama follow at 16-1. Defending Zurich Classic champions Nick Hardy and David Riley have 80-1 odds of repeating their success. Before making any Zurich Classic 2024 choices, make sureo see golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been on a roll since the PGA Tour restarted in June 2020. In fact, the model has won over $9,000 on its best bets since the restart, winning tournament after tournament.
McClure’s model correctly predicted that Scottie Scheffler would finish atop the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Players Championship and RBC Heritage this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit +9,000, and throughout the tournament, McClure’s best bets returned nearly $1,000.
The model also predicted that Jon Rahm would be victorious in the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model scored the second major victory of Rahm’s career over the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead in the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the model’s second consecutive victory at the Masters, which also guaranteed Scheffler’s victory in 2022.
Additionally, McClure’s best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing at the top of the table 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic rankings.
This same model also hit 11 majors entering the weekend and has reached the Masters three years in a row. Anyone who followed it saw massive returns.
Now that the Zurich Classic 2024 field is finalized, SportsLine has simulated the tournament 10,000 times and the results have been surprising. Visit SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.
Top Zurich Classic predictions for 2024
A big surprise the model awaits at the 2024 Zurich Classic: McIlroy and Lowry, who have combined for 26 PGA Tour victories, barely managed to get into the top five. McIlroy is set to play in his fourth consecutive event when he starts at TPC Louisiana. He has failed to crack the top 10 in seven of his eight PGA Tour starts this season, while Lowry has finished T-19 or worse in six of his last eight events.
Both players have struggled on the pitch this season. McIlroy enters the 2024 Zurich Classic ranked 78th in strokes gained: putting (.119) and 72nd in putting average (1.758), a big reason why he ranks 98th in scoring average (70.44). Lowry, meanwhile, ranks 99th in strokes gained: putting (-0.012) and 143rd in strokes per round (29.38), which doesn’t bode well for his chances of finishing at the top of the leaderboard this week.
Another surprise: Rasmus Højgaard and Nicolai Højgaard, with 35-1 from distance, are having a good campaign for the title. The twin brothers have a much better chance of winning it all than their odds suggest, so they’re a target for anyone looking for a big payout.
The Danish duo have been making headlines overseas for years, becoming the first brothers to win events in consecutive weeks on the European Tour in 2021. They are now making noise on the PGA Tour, as Nicolai finished second at the Farmers Insurance Open back in January and finished T16 in his first Masters appearance earlier this month. Nicolai also contested this event last year, so their experience makes the pair an unknown contender for the 2024 Zurich Classic. See who else to choose here.
How to make Zurich Classic 2024 picks
The model also targets three other teams with odds of 35-1 or better to have a strong title run. Anyone who supports these longshot hypotheses could hit big. You can only see the model choices here.
Who will win the 2024 Zurich Classic and which long shots will surprise the golf world? Check out the odds for the Zurich Classic 2024 and beyond below visit SportsLine to see the projected Zurich Classic leaderboardall from the model that won 11 golf courses, including the last three Masters.
Zurich derby 2024 odds, pitch
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Patrick Cantlay / Xander Schauffele +500
Rory McIlroy / Shane Lowry +800
Will Zalatoris / Sahith Theegala +1100
Collin Morikawa / Kurt Kitayama +1600
Tom Hoge/Maverick McNealy +2500
Matt Fitzpatrick / Alex Fitzpatrick +2500
Taylor Pendrith / Corey Conners +3500
Rasmus Højgaard / Nicolai Højgaard +3500
Taylor Montgomery / Ben Griffin +4000
Sepp Straka / Brice Garnett +4000
Nick Taylor / Adam Hadwin +4000
Keith Mitchell/Joel Dahmen +4000
Brice Garnett/Sepp Straka +4000
Thomas Detry / Robert MacIntyre +4500
Doug Ghim / Chan Kim +4500
Davis Thompson / Andrew Novak +4500
Daniel Berger / Victor Perez +4500
Kevin Yu/CT Pan +5000
Billy Horschel / Tyson Alexander +5000
Beau Hossler / Sam Ryder +5000
Andrew Putnam/Joe Highsmith +5000
Aaron Rai / David Lipsky +5000
Thorbjorn Olesen / Matt Wallace +6500
Taylor Moore/Matt NeSmith +6500
KH Lee / Michael Kim +6500
Greyson Sigg / Chesson Hadley +6500
Gary Woodland/Lee Hodges +6500
Garrick Higgo / Ryan Fox +6500
Austin Eckroat / Chris Gotterup +6500
Steve Stricker/Matt Kuchar +8000
Nate Lashley / Rafael Campos +8000
Lucas List / Henrik Norlander +8000
Kevin Streelman/Martin Laird +8000
Dylan Wu / Justin Bottom +8000
Davis Riley/Nick Hardy +8000
Chandler Phillips / Jacob Bridgeman +8000
Carson Young / Ben Martin +8000
Ben Silverman/Kevin Dougherty +8000
Zach Johnson / Ryan Palmer +10000
Vincent Norrman / Jorge Campillo +10000
Nico Echavarria / Max Greyserman +10000
Alex Smalley / Matti Schmid +10000
Thriston Lawrence / Aldrich Potgieter +13000
Ryan Brehm / Mark Hubbard +13000
Justin Suh / Rico Hoey +13000
Jhonattan Vegas / Bronson Burgoon +13000
JJ Spaun / Hayden Buckley +13000
Erik Barnes / Harrison Endycott +13000
Chad Ramey / Martin Coach +13000
Carl Yuan / Zecheng Dou +13000
Sam Stevens/Paul Barjon +15000
Peter Malnati/Russell Knox +15000
