The 2nd of 4 Majors is here. For the Masters there were over a 100 entries and quite a few from OB. Read below for info and to place your entry.
Championship will be held at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. As always the field is stacked so we should see lots of movement on our leaderboard. If it's anything like the final few hours of the Masters we are in for another treat. The course will play at 7,609 yards according to the PGA Championship website. Make your picks at https://major-bets.griley.dev/ If you have any issues, e-mail, or text me so we can try and address them immediately. Please (I said please) send your payment after you've selected your team; I really dislike chasing people down for payment so don’t be that person. We are using the Vegas Insider Odds that were posted at 10:37 AM on 5/13 and I've included the link. The rules have remained the same as in years past and are spelled out in this e-mail. If you still have questions (you shouldn’t) feel free to reach out. Good luck and Happy PGA Championship week.
Fun facts about Valhalla Golf Club
$20 each entry – Enter as many times as you want. Please forward to any golfing buddies or gals you think might want to play. The rules are straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If 2 people select the same 3 players & the same tie breaker score the prize money will be split between them.
Rules
Pick ONLY 1 Player from top 9 (Red Highlighted Players)
Pick ONLY 1 player from 10 - 27 (Blue Highlighted Players)
Pick ONLY 1 player from 28 - 57 (Green Highlighted Players)
Pick Only 1 Alternate from the 3rd group (Green Highlighted Players) - if any one of your 3 original picks misses the cut and your alternate makes the cut you we will swap out that one player with your alternate.
TIE BREAKER – Guess what the winning score will be. (example -2 or +1) Valhalla Golf Club, is a Par 71
Your score will be based on all 3 golfers (Cumulative) for all 4 rounds. (If one of your golfers misses the cut and your alternate pick makes the cut we switch them out.) If your golfer does not tee off, you can opt out without penalty or select a golfer in the same color grouping that has not teed off yet. We need to have your picks in by 10PM on Wed. 5/15 – once you’re in (Submitted picks) send money via the preferred choice Venmo @Thomas-Aguillon or if you have to PayPal @ https://www.paypal.me/Traguillon and please don’t market as goods and services. I can also collect cash from you if you see me over the next few days. Payouts will be based on a percentage of the number of entries, we will be paying a small amount to 1st ,2nd & 3rd round leaders and the bulk of the money to top 3 places. Good luck!!!
2024 PGA Championship Odds
1. Scottie Scheffler +400
2. Rory McIlroy +700
3. Brooks Koepka +1200
4. Ludvig Åberg +1600
5. Xander Schauffele +1600
6. Jon Rahm +1800
7. Bryson DeChambeau +2500
8. Collin Morikawa +2500
9. Max Homa +3300
10. Joaquin Niemann +3500
11. Cameron Smith +3500
12. Viktor Hovland +3500
13. Wyndham Clark +4000
14. Tommy Fleetwood +4000
15. Patrick Cantlay +4000
16. Cameron Young +4000
17. Justin Thomas +4500
18. Hideki Matsuyama +5000
19. Jordan Spieth +6000
20. Will Zalatoris +6000
21. Jason Day +6000
22. Sungjae Im +6500
23. Dustin Johnson +6500
24. Min Woo Lee +6500
25. Tyrrell Hatton +6500
26. Sahith Theegala +7000
27. Matt Fitzpatrick +7000
28. Byeong Hun An +7500
29. Tony Finau +8000
30. Sam Burns +9000
31. Talor Gooch +10000
32. Shane Lowry +10000
33. Corey Conners +10000
34. Sepp Straka +11000
35. Si Woo Kim +12000
36. Adam Scott +12000
37. Russell Henley +12000
38. Tom Kim +12000
39. Dean Burmester +15000
40. Rickie Fowler +15000
41. Akshay Bhatia +15000
42. Nicolai Højgaard +15000
43. Patrick Reed +15000
44. Alex Noren +17000
45. Stephan Jaeger +17000
46. Denny McCarthy +17000
47. Brian Harman +17000
48. Tiger Woods +17000
49. Keith Mitchell +20000
50. Cam Davis +20000
51. Christiaan Bezuidenhout +20000
52. Jake Knapp +22000
53. J.T. Poston +22000
54. Billy Horschel +22000
55. Taylor Pendrith +22000
56. Tom Hoge +25000
57. Lucas Herbert +25000
Championship will be held at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. As always the field is stacked so we should see lots of movement on our leaderboard. If it's anything like the final few hours of the Masters we are in for another treat. The course will play at 7,609 yards according to the PGA Championship website. Make your picks at https://major-bets.griley.dev/ If you have any issues, e-mail, or text me so we can try and address them immediately. Please (I said please) send your payment after you've selected your team; I really dislike chasing people down for payment so don’t be that person. We are using the Vegas Insider Odds that were posted at 10:37 AM on 5/13 and I've included the link. The rules have remained the same as in years past and are spelled out in this e-mail. If you still have questions (you shouldn’t) feel free to reach out. Good luck and Happy PGA Championship week.
Fun facts about Valhalla Golf Club
- FOUR-TIME CLUB: By hosting a PGA Championship for the fourth time, Valhalla joins some select company. Only Southern Hills (5) and Oak Hill (4) have hosted the event as many times.
- TOP-RANKED PLAYGROUND: Other than Augusta National, which has the advantage of hosting the same major every year, no other course in the world has seen two different players ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings than Valhalla. Tiger Woods did it in 2000. Rory McIlroy did it in 2014. If Scottie Scheffler, can pull it off this year, he’d be No. 3.
- PLAYOFF PENCHANT: The first PGA held at Valhalla resulted in a playoff, where Mark Brooks beat Kenny Perry. The second one here saw Woods hold off Bob May. Only one other venue has hosted multiple playoffs for the PGA Championship: Whistling Straits in 2004 and 2010.
- HISTORY IN LOUISVILLE: Louisville just played host to the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby. The PGA Championship has a long history of its own. This year will be the 106th PGA Championship, though the event is 108 years old. It was canceled in 1917 because of World War I and in 1943 because of World War II.
- TROPHY TALK: The Wanamaker Trophy, given to the PGA Championship winner, was produced by Dieges & Clust of New York City in 1916, the same company that produced the Heisman Trophy. The winner gets a replica trophy to keep permanently but must return the original. The trophy was actually lost for several years until it turned up in 1930 in the cellar of L.A. Young and Company. That was the company that made the clubs for Hagan, who had lost it. He said he’d given it to a taxi driver, who didn’t return it to his hotel. Subsequent champions have been more careful.
$20 each entry – Enter as many times as you want. Please forward to any golfing buddies or gals you think might want to play. The rules are straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If 2 people select the same 3 players & the same tie breaker score the prize money will be split between them.
Rules
Pick ONLY 1 Player from top 9 (Red Highlighted Players)
Pick ONLY 1 player from 10 - 27 (Blue Highlighted Players)
Pick ONLY 1 player from 28 - 57 (Green Highlighted Players)
Pick Only 1 Alternate from the 3rd group (Green Highlighted Players) - if any one of your 3 original picks misses the cut and your alternate makes the cut you we will swap out that one player with your alternate.
TIE BREAKER – Guess what the winning score will be. (example -2 or +1) Valhalla Golf Club, is a Par 71
Your score will be based on all 3 golfers (Cumulative) for all 4 rounds. (If one of your golfers misses the cut and your alternate pick makes the cut we switch them out.) If your golfer does not tee off, you can opt out without penalty or select a golfer in the same color grouping that has not teed off yet. We need to have your picks in by 10PM on Wed. 5/15 – once you’re in (Submitted picks) send money via the preferred choice Venmo @Thomas-Aguillon or if you have to PayPal @ https://www.paypal.me/Traguillon and please don’t market as goods and services. I can also collect cash from you if you see me over the next few days. Payouts will be based on a percentage of the number of entries, we will be paying a small amount to 1st ,2nd & 3rd round leaders and the bulk of the money to top 3 places. Good luck!!!
2024 PGA Championship Odds
1. Scottie Scheffler +400
2. Rory McIlroy +700
3. Brooks Koepka +1200
4. Ludvig Åberg +1600
5. Xander Schauffele +1600
6. Jon Rahm +1800
7. Bryson DeChambeau +2500
8. Collin Morikawa +2500
9. Max Homa +3300
10. Joaquin Niemann +3500
11. Cameron Smith +3500
12. Viktor Hovland +3500
13. Wyndham Clark +4000
14. Tommy Fleetwood +4000
15. Patrick Cantlay +4000
16. Cameron Young +4000
17. Justin Thomas +4500
18. Hideki Matsuyama +5000
19. Jordan Spieth +6000
20. Will Zalatoris +6000
21. Jason Day +6000
22. Sungjae Im +6500
23. Dustin Johnson +6500
24. Min Woo Lee +6500
25. Tyrrell Hatton +6500
26. Sahith Theegala +7000
27. Matt Fitzpatrick +7000
28. Byeong Hun An +7500
29. Tony Finau +8000
30. Sam Burns +9000
31. Talor Gooch +10000
32. Shane Lowry +10000
33. Corey Conners +10000
34. Sepp Straka +11000
35. Si Woo Kim +12000
36. Adam Scott +12000
37. Russell Henley +12000
38. Tom Kim +12000
39. Dean Burmester +15000
40. Rickie Fowler +15000
41. Akshay Bhatia +15000
42. Nicolai Højgaard +15000
43. Patrick Reed +15000
44. Alex Noren +17000
45. Stephan Jaeger +17000
46. Denny McCarthy +17000
47. Brian Harman +17000
48. Tiger Woods +17000
49. Keith Mitchell +20000
50. Cam Davis +20000
51. Christiaan Bezuidenhout +20000
52. Jake Knapp +22000
53. J.T. Poston +22000
54. Billy Horschel +22000
55. Taylor Pendrith +22000
56. Tom Hoge +25000
57. Lucas Herbert +25000
