{"id":646537,"date":"2026-05-16T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:49:08","slug":"2026-pga-championship-odds-weekend-picks-proven-golf-model-reveals-projected-leaderboard-surprising-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646537\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 PGA Championship odds, weekend picks: Proven golf model reveals projected leaderboard, surprising predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golf&#8217;s second major of the year heads for the weekend as the 2026 PGA Championship continues on Saturday at Aroniminik Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a crowded top of the leaderboard with eight players at either 4 under or 3 under. Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy are the co-leaders at 4 under. While there are some less familiar names right at the top of the leaderboard, there are some stars close behind with Hideki Matsuyama (-3), Cameron Young (-2), Scottie Scheffler (-2) and Ludvig Aberg (-2) all very much in the mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler, the defending champion, is the +390 favorite heading into the weekend in the latest 2026 PGA Championship odds. Young is +950 and Ludvig Aberg at +1200, alongside McNealy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before locking in any 2026 PGA Championship picks for the weekend, you NEED to see the golf prediction and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.<\/p>\n<p>Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, simulates every PGA Tour tournament 10,000 times, and has a lengthy history of being extremely profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the 2026 PGA Championship heading into the weekend, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising.<\/p>\n<p>One major surprise the model is calling for: Smalley, the co-leader at 4 under, barely finishes inside the top 10. Another surprise: Chris Gotterup rises up the leaderboard despite having longer odds of +1500. He&#8217;s a target for anyone looking for a HUGE payday!<\/p>\n<p>The model is also targeting another MASSIVE longshot of around +3000 to surge towards the top of the leaderboard!\u00a0You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any PGA picks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf&#8217;s second major of the year heads for the weekend as the 2026 PGA Championship continues on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-646537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}