Sports Betting Odds: 2010 Barclays – Mickelson, Woods Favored

The 2010 FedEx Cup playoffs have approached us and the first event starts this coming Thursday at the Ridgewood Country Club for the 2010 Barclays event.  The event will kick off Thursday, August 26 and end on Sunday, August 29, 2010.

This event will have the top 125 golfers in the PGA Tour.  Once this event is complete, the FedEx Cup standings will be reevaluated and updated.  Once this occurs, the top 100 golfers will advance to the next round of the playoffs, which will be the Deutsche Bank Championship.

As for the favorite for this year’s Barclays event, we are look at two – Phil Mickelson as well as Tiger Woods.  Given the divorce being finalized and Tiger’s recent struggles in the latest events, he may actually be a long shot; however, he is still considered a favorite due to his past performances.  Although he is winless this year and currently in 112th position in the point rankings, Woods performs well, he’ll be able to advance into the top 100, which will allow him to advance to the next round of the playoffs.  Phil Mickelson, on the other hand, has a single win for 2010 and is currently fourth in the power rankings.

Apart from Woods and Mickelson, next odds go to Rory McIlory as well as Steve Stricker, who was able to claim the victory for this event in 2007.  Stricker is also second in the point standings just behind first place Ernie Els.  Rounding out the top five of the point standings is Jim Furyk, Mickelson, and Justin Rose respectively.

While he is the defending champion of this particular event, Heath Slocum doesn’t have the best of odds coming into this event to win.  In both 2006 and 2008, Vijay Singh claimed the win for this event but also doesn’t have great odds to win this year.

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