2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship Odds & Sleeper Picks: 5 Longshots to Bet, Including Will Gordon, Garrick Higgo and Kevin Yu

As far as PGA TOUR fields go, this week’s crop in Bermuda is about as thin as you’ll ever see. According to the Official World Golf Ranking field strength metric, it’s the worst PGA TOUR field since July, when Tony Finau brought some star power to the 3M Open, which he won.

Take a look at the betting markets, and you’ll quickly notice there are no names of Finau’s caliber teeing it up at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

The favorite at most books is Denny McCarthy, currently the 83^rd-ranked player in the world. He’s joined at the top by names only golf junkies would recognize, like Justin Lower and Adrian Meronk. Remember: this is the top of the odds sheet we’re talking about here.

Scan down the odds a bit further, and recognizable names become scarce for most golf bettors. We, however, have a task at hand – we’re looking for sleepers. Amongst this cavalcade of Korn Ferry call-ups and TOUR stalwarts well past their primes, there are plenty of players eager to use this weak field as their chance to lock up a much-needed win to secure their future on TOUR.

This group of five stands a chance to make a big move in Bermuda this weekend:

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 Will Gordon +5500 (bet365)

This might be stretching your definition of sleeper, but it felt necessary to squeeze Will Gordon in here. He enters this week with his game in solid form, earning a PGA TOUR card with a red-hot finish to the Korn Ferry Tour season. Over a three week stretch in August, he posted back-to-back T5 finishes before securing a victory at the Albertsons Boise Open.

In his first three starts under the bright lights, Gordon has looked worthy of his spot, making all three cuts. His T30 at Sanderson was his best performance of the three, but he has the game to compete at the top level, especially against a lesser field like this one.

At FanDuel, he’s listed at +4200, so you’d be wise to secure this number at bet365.

Garrick Higgo +6500 (DraftKings)

Remember the three-week stretch in 2021 where Garrick Higgo looked like the next big thing in the golf world? Starting in April of that year, he ripped off a stretch of impressive finishes on the DP World Tour – T4, a win, T8 and another win. He then ventured stateside, making the cut at the PGA Championship and winning his next start on the PGA TOUR. He was as hot as golfers get.

Then, he just faded away. He didn’t have another top 20 the rest of 2021 and didn’t post a finish higher than T18 in an individual event in the 2022 season. The International Presidents Cup Team was decimated by LIV defections, and yet, no one was clamoring to have this 24-year-old TOUR winner on the squad.

Starting the 2023 season, he may have flashed his first signs of life in a while. In three starts so far, he’s missed two cuts but was T3 at the Sanderson Farms Championship. He was T34 in Bermuda last year and could be a nice bet to best that mark this weekend.

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Kevin Yu +9000 (bet365)

While looking for sleepers in a field like this, it’s easy to build a narrative to find a winner. A 24-year-old PGA TOUR rookie with a recent top-20 finish and a penchant for going low pulls off his first victory? You don’t have to squint hard to see that one come true.

Yu was a threat to win throughout last year’s Korn Ferry Tour season, nabbing three top-three finishes in a span of nine starts at one point.

Perhaps best of all for his chances this week, one of his only prior PGA TOUR starts bodes well for strong week in Bermuda. Last year, playing a resort course in island conditions at the Puerto Rico Open, Yu was T7. If he can re-engage that playbook this week, he’s got a chance to compete.

Brian Gay +20000 (BetMGM)

Here’s the pitch: Brian Gay is a big time “horse for the course” here in Bermuda and is playing some of his best golf in a while.

He won this event at this course two years ago, with a T3 and a T12 in 2019 and 2021. Of the players in this week’s field, only Harry Higgs (more on him in a second…) has gained more strokes per round on the field than Gay has at Port Royal Golf Course (per DataGolf). Among players with more than four rounds at this venue, no one is even close to Gay’s +2.13 strokes gained per round at this course.

On top of that, he’s finished T6 or better in two of his last three events. Sure, those events were on the Champions Tour, but top 10s don’t grow on trees, even when playing against the senior crowd. The now-50-year-old Gay might have a pep in his step returning to Bermuda with a chance to extend his career a few more years with a win.

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Harry Higgs +25000 (Parx)

As mentioned above, no one has performed better at this venue than Higgs, though the sample size isn’t much. In his only start in Bermuda, back in the 2020 season, The Big Rig finished solo second.

Unfortunately for Higgs, he hasn’t returned to those heights in quite a while. He’s posted just two top-five finishes since then (one of which was the PGA Championship at Kiawah).

His game, once believed to be rock-steady, has been unstable over the last 18 months, leading to a slew of missed cuts and missed opportunities.

Perhaps a stop in sunny Bermuda is just what the doctor ordered for the fun-loving Higgs. Facing this week’s field, he could be poised for a return to the top of the leaderboard.

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