Dustin Johnson opted on a week off after taking the title at the Saudi International last week with a late WD on Monday evening. The World No. 1 was scheduled to make the across-the-world journey to Pebble Beach to play in this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (which isn’t a pro-am this year, with the amateur portion canceled due to COVID-19) where he had been pegged as the favorite that reached historic levels.
When odds opened Monday with DJ still in the field, he was listed as a 4-1 favorite (even lower at some books), and to put that in perspective, we asked Golf Digest contributor Rick Gehman, who tracks historical odds at his website RickRunGood.com, to see how long it’s been since we’ve had such a heavy favorite. According to his records, over the past three or four years, DJ's odds were the biggest outright betting favorite in any full-field event. The next lowest odds: Jordan Spieth (4 ½-1 at the 2018 Sony Open) and DJ (4 ½ at the 2018 Genesis Invitational). We won't find out how DJ would've backed up those expectations.
Speaking of Spieth, his game showed strong glimmers of his past self over the weekend at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, as he entered the final round tied for the lead before finishing in a tie for fourth. Oddsmakers have confidence in Spieth’s game (or they’re adjusting to the fact he’ll be a popular bet this week given Spieth’s history at Pebble), assigning him 22-1 odds of winning. Context is key: Last week, you could’ve bet Spieth at 150-1 odds, so that huge shift is extremely noteworthy. Spieth won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2017.
With the DJ news, Patrick Cantlay moved from 10-1 to 7-1 and is now the heavy favorite after his runner-up finish at The American Express. Daniel Berger, on a run of nine top-10 finishes since 2019 is 14-1; Paul Casey, who won the Dubai Desert Classic a few weeks ago and finished runner-up at Pebble in 2019, sits at 16-1; and Will Zalatoris, the 24-year-old who earned special temporary status with his stellar play this season is 18-1.
Here are the complete list of odds for the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (odds courtesy of Bet365, as of Tuesday morning after Dustin Johnson's WD):
Patrick Cantlay: 7-1
Daniel Berger: 14-1
Paul Casey: 16-1
Will Zalatoris: 18-1
Jason Day: 18-1
Jordan Spieth: 22-1
Francesco Molinari: 22-1
Si Woo Kim: 30-1
Max Homa: 33-1
Sam Burns: 33-1
Cameron Davis: 35-1
Kevin Streelman: 35-1
Rickie Fowler: 40-1
Cameron Tringale: 40-1
Phil Mickelson: 45-1
Henrik Norlander: 45-1
Brian Harman: 45-1
Matt Jones: 50-1
Brendan Steele: 55-1
Alex Noren: 55-1
Matthew Nesmith: 60-1
Peter Malnati: 60-1
James Hahn: 66-1
Joel Dahmen: 66-1
Brandt Snedeker: 66-1
Nick Taylor: 66-1
Harold Varner III: 66-1
Chris Kirk: 70-1
Patton Kizzire: 70-1
Maverick McNealy: 70-1
Michael Thompson: 70-1
Rafa Cabrera Bello: 75-1
Chez Reavie: 75-1
Adam Long: 75-1
Rory Sabbatini: 75-1
Doug Ghim: 75-1
Branden Grace: 75-1
Scott Stallings: 80-1
Russell Knox: 80-1
Mark Hubbard: 80-1
Kyle Stanley: 90-1
Stewart Cink: 90-1
Scott Piercy: 90-1
Andrew Putnam: 90-1
Charley Hoffman: 90-1
Bo Hoag: 100-1
Jim Furyk: 100-1
Ryan Moore: 100-1
Tom Hoge: 125-1
Harry Higgs: 125-1
Pat Perez: 125-1
Kramer Hickok: 125-1
Chesson Hadley: 125-1
Jhonattan Vegas: 125-1
Tom Lewis: 125-1
Patrick Rodgers: 140-1
Sam Ryder: 140-1
Nate Lashley: 150-1
Kevin Chappell: 150-1
Brandon Hagy: 150-1
Bronson Burgoon: 150-1
Austin Cook: 150-1
Keith Mitchell: 150-1
Will Gordon: 150-1
Denny McCarthy: 150-1
C.T. Pan: 150-1
Joseph Bramlett: 150-1
Troy Merritt: 150-1
Ted Potter Jr.: 160-1
Chase Seiffert: 160-1
Ben Martin: 160-1
Beau Hossler: 160-1
Ryan Armour: 160-1
Padraig Harrington: 160-1
J.B. Holmes: 160-1
Andrew Landry: 160-1
Vaughn Taylor: 160-1
Brian Stuard: 160-1
Cameron Percy: 160-1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat: 160-1
Aaron Baddeley: 175-1
Brian Gay: 175-1
Jim Herman: 175-1
Peter Uihlein: 175-1
Tyler Duncan: 175-1
Kristoffer Ventura: 175-1
Adam Schenk: 175-1
Andy Ogletree: 200-1
Seung Yul Noh: 200-1
David Hearn: 200-1
Roger Sloan: 200-1
Akshay Bhatia: 200-1
Josh Teater: 225-1
Jason Dufner: 275-1
Brice Garnett: 275-1
Davis Riley: 275-1
Xinjun Zhang: 275-1
Seamus Power: 300-1
Min Woo Lee: 300-1
Tyler McCumber: 300-1
Grayson Murray: 300-1
Tim Wilkinson: 300-1
Sebastian Cappelen: 300-1
Bill Haas: 300-1
Rob Oppenheim: 300-1
Nick Watney: 300-1
Luke Donald: 350-1
Rhein Gibson: 350-1
Sung Kang: 350-1
Sean O'Hair: 350-1
Jimmy Walker: 350-1
D.J. Trahan: 400-1
K.J. Choi: 400-1
Scott Brown: 400-1
Satoshi Kodaira: 400-1
Kelly Kraft: 400-1
J.J. Spaun: 400-1
Wes Roach: 400-1
Roberto Castro: 400-1
Chris Baker: 400-1
Jonathan Byrd: 400-1
Hank Lebioda: 400-1
Shawn Stefani: 500-1
Matt Every: 500-1
Michael Gligic: 500-1
Johnson Wagner: 500-1
Vincent Whaley: 500-1
Mark Anderson: 500-1
Ryan Brehm: 500-1
Michael Kim: 500-1
Ricky Barnes: 500-1
Ryan Blaum: 600-1
Scott Harrington: 600-1
Nelson Ledesma: 600-1
Dominic Bozzelli: 600-1
Zach Sucher: 750-1
Kenny Pigman: 750-1
Jim Knous: 750-1
William McGirt: 750-1
Ben Taylor: 750-1
Bo Van Pelt: 750-1
Rafael Campos: 1,000-1
Fabian Gomez: 1,000-1
Tom Lehman: 1,000-1
Hunter Mahan: 1,000-1
Kevin Stadler: 1,000-1
Martin Trainer: 1,250-1
Michael Gellerman: 1,500-1
Kevin Hall: 1,500-1
Kamaiu Johnson: 1,500-1
D.A. Points: 1,500-1
John Senden: 1,500-1
John Daly: 2,500-1
David Duval: 2,500-1
Matt Gogel: 2,500-1
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