ZOZO Championship Odds: It’s Beau Time

• Narashino in Japan hosts for the fifth time

• It was the scene of Tiger Woods’ most recent PGA TOUR win 

• Collin Morikawa returns to defend the title

Zozo Championship 2024 Odds

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ZOZO Championship 2024 Predictions

• Beau Hossler each-way (1/4 1-2-3-4-5-6-7) at +3300 with bet365

• Si Woo Kim to beat Will Zalatoris over 72 holes at -120 with bet365

• Gary Woodland for Top 10 at +333 with bet365

ZOZO Championship 2024 Intro

The ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP is a relatively new tournament on the PGA schedule, this being the sixth edition.

It’s the fifth to be staged at Narashino Country Club in Chiba, Japan after Sherwood CC in California stood in during the pandemic-hit 2020 season.

One fact that the great man will want to re-write is that this tournament currently stands as the last of Tiger Woods’ astonishing tally of 82 PGA TOUR wins.

That came in 2019, the same season he memorably won his fifth Masters green jacket.

Tiger fired 19-under to triumph by three shots five years ago but the last three winning scores of -14, -15 and -15 need a little more detail.

Hideki Matsuyama (-15) won by five in 2021 while Collin Morikawa (-14) was six clear of second place last year. 

In other words, this course isn’t a pushover.

The field is limited to just 78 players this time and includes defending champion Morikawa. There is no cut.

But 2022 winner Keegan Bradley doesn’t line up and there’s no sign of Tiger either.

With Patrick Cantlay (the champion when it moved to California in 2020) also absent, only two of the five former winners here take part.  

Last 5 Winners of the ZOZO Championship 2024

Course Notes

• The layout uses nine holes each from the King Course and Queen Course

• Measuring 7,079 yards, the resultant par 70 has five par 3s and three par 5s

• The parkland track was designed by Kinya Fujita

• Tiger Woods holds the 72-hole record of 261 (2019)

• John Huh (2023) holds the Narashino 18-hole record of 61

Favorites to win the ZOZO Championship 2024

Xander Schauffele (+450) at bet365

The World No.4 has Japanese heritage which made it that more thrilling when he won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021. But he’s not enjoyed the same success in this event and finishes of 10-28-9-38 are somewhat short of what we’d expect. That said, it’s been a sensational year for Schauffele with two Major wins (PGA and Open) and he was joint-top scorer at the Presidents Cup in Montreal.

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Collin Morikawa (+700) at bet365

Morikawa also has strong Japanese links so it meant a lot to him when he took this trophy last year. A superb 7-under 63 on Sunday secured a six-shot success and ended a 27-month winless drought. Also seventh in 2021, Morikawa, like Schauffele, also won four points out of five in the Presidents Cup while he ended the post-season by scoring the lowest 72-hole score at the TOUR Championship.

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Hideki Matsuyama (+800) at bet365

Local hero Matsuyama is the other member of a ‘big three’ at the front of the betting. The World No. 7 obviously has plenty of pressure on him this week but it didn’t stop Matsuyama winning by five in 2021 after finishing runner-up on his previous start in 2019. It’s been less good since with 40th and 51st. A brilliant winner of the St Jude Championship in August, Matsuyama won two and lost three at the Presidents Cup.

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Hossler to get First Win 

Beau Hossler has been knocking at the door and this could be the week when it opens for the 29-year-old from California.

The converging trends put Hossler in a great spot to get it done.

Starting with current form, he’s been one of the stars of the Fall Series and so nearly secured his first PGA TOUR win at the Sanderson Farms Championship.

He lost a playoff to Kevin Yu there but has kept the engine running and followed that second place with 11th in the Black Desert Championship and 23rd in last week’s Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas.

He posted a pair of 66s on the weekend in Vegas and that gives him momentum for his third start in this event.

Hossler was 16th on debut in 2022 and last year he finished runner-up to Morikawa.

Reading his comments back then about how much he loved Japan and its food, there’s no doubt that Hossler will be itching to return and hopefully go one better.  

Back the in-form Texas resident to finally hoist the silverware at +3500 (7 places) with bet365.  

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Kim to Beat Zalatoris

For this week’s 72-hole match bet, I’ll take Si Woo Kim to beat Will Zalatoris.

Kim was the standout and joint-top scorer for Mike Weir’s Internationals at the Presidents Cup and his latest strokeplay form is impressive too.

The Korean was fifth at the BMW Championship and then came over to England to post 18th at Wentworth.

His course form here isn’t spectacular but he finished 18th in the middle of his three visits and posted a Friday 66 last time.

And as this is a shortish tree-lined test, it’s definitely a course that the former PLAYERS and Wyndham winner should play well when arriving in form - as he is now.

Zalatoris, who is still building his way back after a long-term injury, could only manage 54th on his one appearance here and this is the first we’ve seen of him since August where he was 13th in the BMW Championship.    

Kim should be sharper and gets the nod at -120 with bet365.

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Woodland for Top 10

For a Top 10 bet, let’s try back-to-form Gary Woodland at 5/1 with bet365.

The former US Open champion had worrying health problems just over a year ago but he’s now starting to show some strong form again with 16th (Sanderson Farms) and 9th (Shriners) in his last two starts.

Woodland has some impressive form in Asia and that includes a fifth place in this event on his only previous visit. 

How to Watch the ZOZO Championship 2024

• Tournament: ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP 2024

• Location: Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Chiba, Japan 

• Date: Thursday October 24 - Sunday October 27

• How to Watch: Wednesday-Saturday 11 p.m.-2 a.m. (Golf Channel). And all four days on Sky Sports