2012 FedEx Cup Updated Odds To Win – Woods & McIlroy Favored
By Drew Sharper
(TheSpread) – The 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs are set to begin play this week. Here is an updated look at the odds to win the FedEx Cup.
The FedEx Cup playoffs span four tournaments (The Barclays, the Deutsche Bank Championship, the BMW Championship, and the Tour Championship) over four successive weeks. The playoffs begin with 125 players and then whittle down to the final 30 for the final event. The player with the most FedEx Cup points at the end of the playoffs wins the title.
According to oddsmakers, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are favored to win this playoff, as each has 5/1 odds. Bubba Watson has 12/1 odds to win.
Woods currently leads the FedEx standings by 159 points over Jason Dufner, who will not play in the first event. Woods has won the FedEx Cup twice in his career and he has won the BMW Championship twice since it became part of the playoffs and the Tour Championship once since it closed the tournament.
McIlroy is third in the standings, 177 points back of Woods. McIlroy has never won the FedEx Cup and not won a playoff event in his career.
Watson is fifth in the standings. He sits 492 points out of first. That is little ground to make up over the next four weeks. Bubba has never won this Cup and never won a playoff event.
The 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs begin this week with The Barclays and will span over the next four tournaments, concluding with Tour Championship the week of Sept. 20.
Odds to win 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tiger Woods 5/1
Rory McIlroy 5/1
Bubba Watson 12/1
Luke Donald 15/1
Matt Kuchar 20/1
Phil Mickelson 20/1
Hunter Mahan 20/1
Zach Johnson 20/1
Keegan Bradley 20/1
Steve Stricker 25/1
Adam Scott 25/1
Lee Westwood 25/1
Webb Simpson 25/1
Justin Rose 25/1
Rickie Fowler 30/1
Ernie Els 30/1
Dustin Johnson 30/1
Jim Furyk 40/1
Graeme McDowell 50/1
Bill Haas 50/1
Sergio Garcia 50/1
Bo Van Pelt 50/1
Louis Oosthuizen 50/1
Brandt Snedeker 60/1
Ian Poulter 60/1
Nick Watney 60/1
Martin Laird 80/1
Padraig Harrington 80/1
Charles Howell III 100/1
Charl Schwartzel 100/1
Vijay Singh 100/1
KJ Choi 100/1
Geoff Ogilvy 100/1
Jason Day 100/1
Bud Cauley 100/1
Tim Clark 100/1
David Toms 125/1
Ben Crane 150/1
Fredrik Jacobson 150/1
Kevin Na 150/1
Aaron Baddeley 150/1
Ryan Moore 150/1
Sean OHair 150/1
Field (Any Other Golfers) 8/1