Is there a better week on the PGA Tour schedule for Xander Schauffele than this one?<\/p>\n
He won the Baycurrent Classic last October<\/a> in the country where his mother grew up, with many of his extended family members present to support him. He closed with a 64 to beat Max Greyserman by a shot and end a 15-month winless drought.<\/p>\n Oddsmakers expect more of the same. Schauffele opened as a clear favorite over the 72-player field at Yokohama Country Club<\/a>. At +940 he is the only one on the board under 10-1.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s Hideki Matsuyama is playing on home turf and is second in the odds. The 2021 Masters champion won this event that same fall, back when it was the Zozo Championship.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how DraftKings priced the top of the board early in the week.<\/p>\n 2026 Baycurrent Classic odds (as of October 5, courtesy of DraftKings)<\/p>\n Xander Schauffele (+940)Hideki Matsuyama (+1450)Wyndham Clark (+1550)Collin Morikawa (+1600)Jacob Bridgeman (+1850)Justin Thomas (+1900)Doug Ghim (+2200)Adam Scott (+2300)Min Woo Lee (+2450)Ryan Gerard (+2500)Michael Thorbjornsen (+2500)Kurt Kitayama (+2700)Michael Brennan (+2800)Maverick McNealy (+2900)Rickie Fowler (+3100)Keith Mitchell (+3200)Matt Wallace (+3200)Sungjae Im (+3300)Jordan Spieth (+3300)Keegan Bradley (+3500)<\/p>\n Baycurrent Classic: Familiar names further down<\/p>\n Greyserman finished second here in 2024 and again last year. He is still chasing his first PGA Tour win, and DraftKings has him at +5600 to win and +385 for a top 10.<\/p>\n Thorbjornsen was third a year ago as a rookie. Takumi Kanaya, who tied for fourth last fall, is +10000. Nico Echavarria won the 2024 edition at Narashino and sits at +9200.<\/p>\n Baycurrent Classic: Top-10 prices<\/p>\n Schauffele is the only player priced as a favorite to finish inside the top 10, at -110. Matsuyama (+128), Clark (+138) and Morikawa (+142) are next.<\/p>\n Baycurrent Classic: What\u2019s at stake<\/p>\n There is no cut, so all 72 players play four rounds. The $8 million purse comes with 500 FedExCup points for the winner, and the event is the third of eight in the FedExCup Fall. Yokohama plays as a par 71 at 7,322 yards.<\/p>\n Two notables withdrawals occured in the wake of victories; Tom Kim withdrew after winning gold at the Asian Games<\/a>, and Austin Smotherman pulled out after winning the Bank of Utah Championship.<\/a><\/p>\n The longest price on the board belongs to amateur Koshin Nagasaki at +350000. He got in by winning the Hideki Matsuyama Amateur Challenge.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call the National Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is there a better week on the PGA Tour schedule for Xander Schauffele than this one? He won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-872085","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\/872085","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=872085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}