Golf Odds: Deutsche Bank Championship

Matt Kuchar has seven Top-10 finishes in his past nine starts. (AP Images)

The PGA Tour’s second leg of its four-event FedEx Cup playoffs begins Thursday at TPC Boston with the Deutsche Bank Championship, and things seem back to normal in the golf world because Tiger Woods is the betting favorite this week at 7/1 to win on Bodog’s golf odds.

Tiger finished tied for 12th at The Barclays last week for his first Top-20 finish since the U.S. Open back in June. And even more promising was that Tiger had had just one round in the 60s since Pebble Beach but had two such rounds last week: a first-round 65 and final-round 67, in which he needed just 27 putts in each. If Tiger’s putter is working, look out. Tiger is currently 65th in the FedEx Cup points standings and needs to finish likely at least T54 this week to advance to the next tournament. Tiger is a former winner at the TPC Boston, taking home the trophy in 2006 and tying for runner-up a year later. Last year he was T11.

Steve Stricker is the defending champion and is the second-favorite on Bodog’s golf odds at 11/1 this year. Stricker has never missed a cut in 13 tries in FedEx Cup playoff events and finished 17-under 267 here last year. His worst finish at this tournament in the past four years was a T13 and he was third last week at The Barclays.

Can Matt Kuchar win in back-to-back weeks? Kuchar, who is 22/1 this week, leads the PGA Tour with 10 top-10 results and is tops on the money list in scoring average and in all-around ranking. Right now, he’s probably the leading candidate for Player of the Year. Last week in winning at The Barclays, Kuchar played his final 25 holes at 10 under. He was T15 in this tournament last year.

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