{"id":12884,"date":"2009-09-09T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:58:14","slug":"2009-bmw-championship-preview-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/pga-golf\/2009-bmw-championship-preview-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 PGA BMW Championship Preview\/Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PGA Betting \u2013 BMW Championship\u00a0Predictions\/Picks<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Golf Odds \u2013 Harrington turns FedEx Cup into three-horse race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though NFL Week 1 odds kick off on Thursday, there is also the beginning of the third event of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the BMW Championship at Cog Hill. <strong>Camilo Villegas<\/strong> won last year at Bellervie, but everyone will be focused on Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods, which suit Padraig Harrington just fine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Woods<\/strong> is the favorite at +150 after finishing T-11 at the Deutsche Bank Championship, but that\u2019s misleading because he shot a final-round 63 after struggling all week with the putter. But he returns to Cog Hill, where he\u2019s won in 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2007, and he\u2019ll have extra motivation as he was passed for first place in the FedEx Cup standings.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/baff.betonline.com\/aspx\/affiliateGetImage.aspx?ID_SC=2225&amp;ID_I=1646\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stricker<\/strong> is the man that passed him, and the veteran is rated at +1400 this week after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship with a birdie on the final hole. Stricker won at Cog Hill in 1996, and he finished third here in 2007, following up with a T-10 last year at Bellervie. He\u2019s finally proving to be a legitimate online betting adversary to Woods, now let\u2019s see how he holds up under the pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Furyk<\/strong> is listed at +2000 after a T-8 at the Deutsche Bank Championship, and he finished T-14 at Cog Hill in 2007. He also won here in 2005, but you should go with a player like <strong>Scott Verplank<\/strong> instead, as he offers better value for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\/\">betting management<\/a> players at +5000. Furyk has been slumping as of late, while Verplank has two straight top-10s, including a runner-up result at the Deutsche Bank Championship. Verplank won at Cog Hill as an amateur in 1985, and came in T-30 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick<\/strong>: While everyone waits for a Stricker-Woods duel, Padraig Harrington will be laying in the shadows, plugging along as he has all season. Harrington\u2019s T-4 last week was his fourth top-10 in a row, and his third top-five in four outings. He didn\u2019t do too well here in 2007, finishing T-55, but he\u2019s playing with a lot of confidence after his early-season struggles.<\/p>\n<h3>2009 BMW Championship Prediction<\/h3>\n<p>He also thrives on big events, and there aren\u2019t more mentally tough players on the Tour than Harrington, who should be in your weekend sports picks.<\/p>\n<h3>LOOKING TO BET ON THIS WEEK\u2019S BMW CHAMPIONSHIP? CHECK OUT BETONLINE.COM\u2019S PGA TOUR BETTING ODDS TODAY!!!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview and free golf picks for the third FED EX Cup Playoffs Tournament of 2009. The PGA BMW Championship, which is hosted by Cog Hill Golf &#038; CC. The purse is $7.5 million, and the defending champ is Camilo Villegas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[17023,9709,206,17026,17027,17024,17028,528,1676,534,10988,17025,6794,980,10989,11245,11246],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga-golf","tag-2009-bmw-championship-picks","tag-betonlinecom","tag-bmw-championship","tag-bmw-championship-picks","tag-bmw-championship-predictions","tag-bmw-championship-preview","tag-cog-hill-golf-course","tag-golf-betting-picks","tag-golf-odds","tag-golf-predictions","tag-pga-betting-picks","tag-pga-bmw-odds","tag-pga-odds","tag-pga-picks","tag-pga-predictions","tag-pga-tour-golf-preview","tag-pga-tournament-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109166,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/109166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}