{"id":500156,"date":"2026-02-24T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500156\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:38:08","slug":"cognizant-classic-2026-odds-favorites-for-the-champions-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500156\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant Classic 2026: Odds, favorites for the Champions Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a handful of withdrawals Monday, which included the top three players on the board, Shane Lowry and Ryan Gerard are the new odds-on favorites for the Cognizant Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Genesis Invitational winner Jacob Bridgeman, Ben Griffin and Adam Scott were all late WD\u2019s for the PGA Tour\u2019s first event of the Florida swing, which was already lacking the the world\u2019s top 10 players. That put Lowry and Gerard at the front of the betting line, followed closely by the Hojgaard twins.<\/p>\n<p>Lowry has finished no worse than T-11 in his last four Cognizant starts. Gerard was fourth in 2023 and tied for 25th last year.<\/p>\n<p>Cognizant Classic odds (as of Monday afternoon, courtesy of DraftKings):Shane Lowry (+1950)Ryan Gerard (+1950)Rasmus Hojgaard (+2200)Nicolai Hojgaard (+2400)Michael Thorbjornsen (+2600)Keith Mitchell (+2600)Brooks Koepka (+2800)Daniel Berger (+3300)Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (+3400)Davis Thompson (+3400)Thorbjorn Olesen (+3600)Aaron Rai (+3700)Will Zalatoris (+3800)Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+4000)Alex Smalley (+4000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a handful of withdrawals Monday, which included the top three players on the board, Shane Lowry and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-500156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}