Best bets to win for LIV Houston

LIV Golf returns to action Friday for its first event in over a month when it visits The Golf Club of Houston.

Jon Rahm enters as the betting favorite this week as he still looks for his first win since joining the league. Brooks Koepka is the latest winner, having won in Singapore in early May.

PGA Tour fans will recognize this week’s venue. Houston Golf Club, formerly known as Redstone Golf Club, hosted the Houston Open from 2003 to 2019. Past Houston Open winners in the field this week include Paul Casey, Phil Mickelson, Matt Jones, Ian Poulter and Anthony Kim.

The top 10 odds to win listed below are via DraftKings Sportsbook

Abraham Ancer +1600

Abraham Ancer has already had an impressive outing at The Golf Club of Houston, finishing eighth at the Houston Open in 2018. He will also enter this week’s event in fine form. After winning LIV Hong Kong, he finished in the top 10 in three consecutive events.

It’s only a matter of time before he picks up his second win with LIV and his success this week makes sense as he returns to a course he’s already played well on during his career.

Ancer leads LIV in driving accuracy this season, hitting 67.01 percent from the fairways. This is the best in the league at 2.04%.

Thomas Pieters +5000

Thomas Pieters has played competitive golf more recently than the vast majority of the field, playing in the DP World Tour’s Soudal Open two weeks ago. He had a successful event, finishing T2 while earning a shot in the field with his approach game.

Second place wasn’t just a flash in the pan for the Belgian, his game has been moving in the right direction since April when he finished T9 at LIV Miami. Since then, he has finished T14 at LIV Adelaide, T5 at LIV Singapore and then T2 at Soudal Open.

I’m going to take a chance on a 50-1 dark horse that has been in fantastic form the last couple of months.

Ratings are updated periodically and are subject to change.

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