2008 Travelers Championship
June 17, 2008
Its hard to image more golf after an exciting weekend of US Open play, but in less than 2 days players will be teeing it up at TPC River Highlands for the 2008 Travelers Championship. While many of the top players taking the weekend off to rest up after the US Open there is still a couple of big names that will be taking on the difficult task. Last year Hunter Mahan showed that you could take advantage of playing well at the Open and turn it into a win at the Travelers Championship. There are 6 former winners that will be playing this weekend that includes Mark Brooks who won the tournament back in 1988. The course has seemed to favor guys who hit the ball a long way like Mahan and 2006 winner J.J. Henry. With the tournament right around the corner Jason Lowry is going to take a closer look at some of the favorites this weekend.
Stewart Cink – 14/1 odds at Bodoglife.com
Cink is currently 5th on the money list and 7th in the FedEx Cup Point standings, and is one of 9 former champions of the this tournament to play this weekend. Cink won this tournament back in 1997. While you probably didn’t hear his name to much Cink played pretty well at the US Open where he finished tied for 14th after a 4 under 67 on Sunday. Cink hasn’t won this year, but has a number of quality starts including a second place finish at the PODS Championship, and a very impressive 3rd place finish at the Masters.
Vijay Singh – 14/1 odds at Bodoglife.com
Singh holds the favorite to win the tournament with Cink. If you want to look at the US Open to how he will play this weekend, then it doesn’t look good for Vijay as he came in tied for 65th. Singh does have two 2nd place finishes this season that include the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the WGC-CA Championship. But don’t count Vijay out as he did come in 4th here last year.
Kenny Perry – 16/1 odds at Bodoglife.com
Perry has been pretty solid this year, even though he really isn’t a big name in the game of golf. Perry comes in 6th in both the point standings and the money list. Perry is 12th this season in driving distance and he could be a great fit to come in and play well at River Highlands. Perry didn’t play at the US Open so he should be rested, and it was only a few weeks ago when Perry won the Memorial Tournament.
Hunter Mahan – 20/1 odds at Bodoglife.com
Mahan is your defending champion and he just seems to kick it in gear around this time of the year. He was the runner up in 2006, so it won’t be any surprise to see Mahan near the top again this year. Mahan had a really good weekend at the US Open again this year finishing tied for 18th. For some reason this guys season doesn’t seem to kick in gear till the US Open, and it was no different this year. Mahan has been lights out with his irons this season as he is 4th in greens in regulation, but will need to improve on his driving and putting if he wants to win again this weekend.
Justin Rose – 22/1 odds at Bodoglife.com
Rose would of likely been a much better favorite this weekend had he not stunk it up at the US Open, as he failed to even make the cut. Many thought Rose would play better after finishing 2nd at the Memorial tournament behind Perry. It was Rose’s only finish in the top 10 this season, and its hard to imagine him being that good this weekend. Even though they got him up there in the top 5 odds to win this weekend, we would look elsewhere if we were you.
Professional Handicapper Jason Lowry will continue to take a weekly look at each tournament, and if you are looking to place a bet on this tournament, head over to Bodoglife.com and get an account started today. For those of you that are interested in the rest of the fields odds, here is a list of each golfers odds thanks to Bodoglife.com
Stewart Cink 14/1
Vijay Singh 14/1
Kenny Perry 16/1
Hunter Mahan 20/1
Justin Rose 25/1
Stuart Appleby 28/1
Ryan Moore 28/1
Rod Pampling 28/1
Carl Pettersson 28/1
Heath Slocum 28/1
Chad Campbell 28/1
Nick O’Hern 28/1
Pat Perez 30/1
David Toms 30/1
Briny Baird 40/1
Zach Johnson 40/1
Kevin Sutherland 40/1
Woody Austin 50/1
Steve Elkington 50/1
Nathan Green 50/1
J.B. Holmes 50/1
Jerry Kelly 50/1
D.J. Trahan 50/1
Steve Marino 66/1
Tom Pernice Jr. 66/1
Ben Curtis 80/1
Bill Haas 80/1
Dudley Hart 80/1
Matt Kuchar 80/1
John Mallinger 80/1
Kevin Na 80/1
Brett Quigley 80/1
Vaughn Taylor 80/1
Bo Van Pelt 80/1
Gavin Coles 100/1
Brian Gay 100/1
Lucas Glover 100/1
Tim Herron 100/1
Cliff Kresge 100/1
Peter Lonard 100/1
Billy Mayfair 100/1
Joe Ogilvie 100/1
Corey Pavin 100/1
Eric Axley 125/1
Ken Duke 125/1
Bob Estes 125/1
George Mcneill 125/1
John Rollins 125/1
Johnson Wagner 125/1
Bubba Watson 125/1
Charlie Wi 125/1
J.J. Henry 125/1
Brian Davis 150/1
Chris Dimarco 150/1
Fred Funk 150/1
Brandt Jobe 150/1
Frank Lickliter 150/1
Jeff Maggert 150/1
Shigeki Maruyama 150/1
Troy Matteson 150/1
Jeff Overton 150/1
Tim Petrovic 150/1
Michael H. Thompson150/1
Brett Wetterich 150/1
Jay Williamson 150/1
Tommy Armour lll 150/1
The Field ( Any Other Golfer) 5/2
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