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Golf betting tips: Valero Texas Open and LIV Miami
This week our expert’s golf betting tips cover the PGA Tour Valero Texas Open and LIV Miami
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The Masters is just around the corner and a host of key contenders are putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the year’s first major at either the PGA Tour's Valero Texas Open or LIV Golf Miami.
The Texas Open, staged at TPC San Antonio since 2010, has been played the week prior to the Masters since 2019 and the tournament affords one final chance to qualify for Augusta National.
Rory McIlroy, one of 30 Masters invitees who are teeing it up in Texas, is the 10/1 favourite at the Oaks Course while his Ryder Cup colleague and the current Augusta champion, Jon Rahm, is 13/2 to win LIV Miami at Trump National Doral.
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Valero Texas Open golf betting tips
- Outright winner – Ludvig Aberg @ 12/1 with bet365
- Outright winner – Corey Conners @ 25/1 with bet365
- Outright winner – Erik van Rooyen @ 80/1 with bet365
Aberg has A-game to win
It’s remarkable to think that Ludvig Aberg will make his major championship debut next week and the Swede, already ranked ninth in the world, could make the drive down Magnolia Lane holding a second PGA Tour trophy.
Aberg has been superbly consistent in recent starts, finishing ninth at the Farmers Insurance Open, runner-up in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, 19th at the Genesis Invitational, 25th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and eighth on his Players Championship debut last time.
The 24-year-old missed the cut on his Texas debut as an amateur in 2022 but he has become a complete performer over the last two years and he knows TPC San Antonio, well having attended Texas Tech University.
Tip: Outright winner – Ludvig Aberg @ 12/1 with bet365
Conners a course specialist
Corey Conners won the 2019 Texas Open as a Monday qualifier and lifted the trophy for the second time last year – and the Canadian could be set for more success at a track he adores.
Conners boasts one of the best tee-to-green games on the PGA Tour and he’s coming to the boil at just the right time, having finished 18th at the Arnold Palmer and 13th at the Players.
Tip: Outright winner – Corey Conners @ 25/1 with bet365
Iron play makes Van Rooyen a threat
Erik van Rooyen captured his second PGA Tour title in Mexico in November and the South African is playing well enough to suggest he could threaten a third in Texas this week.
Van Rooyen is a precise iron-player who has been producing some excellent results so far this season, chalking up six top-25 finishes in nine events, including second at the Cognizant Classic. He was 14th on his San Antonio debut in this event in 2021.
Tip: Outright winner – Erik van Rooyen @ 80/1 with bet365
LIV Golf Miami golf betting tips
- Outright winner – Dustin Johnson @ 14/1 with bet365
- Outright winner – Cameron Smith @ 14/1 with bet365
‘Blue Monster’ suits Johnson
Dustin Johnson is one of 13 LIV Golf players who will tee it up in the Masters next week and the former champion could return to Augusta with a second LIV victory of the year under his belt.
Infamously dubbed the ‘Blue Monster’, Doral sets up well for DJ, as he demonstrated when winning the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship at the venue in 2015. The Florida resident was also a runner-up in that event in 2011 and fourth in 2014, so he looks an obvious threat.
Tip: Outright winner – Dustin Johnson @ 14/1 with bet365
Aussie Smith to go one better
Cameron Smith was just denied at the LIV Hong Kong event last time out, losing to Abraham Ancer in a play-off, but the Aussie has every chance of going one better in Miami.
Smith shot a final-round 65 at Doral in the 2022 LIV Team Championship as his Punch GC team nearly pipped Johnson’s Four Aces to the title, and he beat Martin Kaymer in his only match at the venue in the team event last season, making eight birdies in a 19-hole contest.