PGA Championship 2015: Field Odds, Favorites and Tournament Preview

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Published: August 10, 2015

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The eyes of the golf world will be on Whistling Straits this week as the top golfers in the world aim to capture the final major championship of the 2015 season: the PGA Championship.

This is the third time the venue has hosted the event, with the last two coming in 2004 and 2010. Back in '04, Vijay Singh won what is the last of his three major tournaments, while Martin Kaymer reigned supreme six years later.

Both of those PGA Championships required a playoff to determine a winner, and with any luck, this year's edition will feature a similarly dramatic finish.

 

PGA Championship Odds

 

Preview Jordan Spieth will enter the PGA Championship as the favorite, and rightfully so. He won the first two majors of the year and was one stroke away from getting into a four-way playoff to determine The Open Championship winner.

Clearly, the 22-year-old can handle the weight of expectation.

Even scarier for the competition is the fact Spieth said he is going into the PGA Championship with a chip on his shoulder, according to ESPN.com's Bob Harig:

I'm hoping to kind of prove, coming off of this last major, that I've kind of got a little bit of revenge that I need to get out from having control of the Open Championship with two holes to go and not closing it out. That leaves kind of a bad taste in my mouth, not because of the third in a row, but strictly because you don't get many opportunities to contend in a major, in an Open at St. Andrews, in your life.

Between his disappointment at The Open Championship and somewhat lackluster finish at the Bridgestone—by his standards—Spieth will be a man on a mission at Whistling Straits.

Rory McIlroy is unquestionably one of the best golfers on the planet, but he is a bit of a wild card heading into the PGA Championship, which seems kind of weird to say yet isn't withou...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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