Doing a deep dive into the marquee matchup between Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler for this week's PGA Tour event, the Memorial Tournament.
We're less than 24 hours away from the opening tee shot at the 2024 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
In case you didn't know, there are a plethora of ways you can bet on a PGA Tour event. One of those is betting on which of two golfers will finish higher on the leaderboard. The best of those matchups bets this week pits Scheffler against McIlroy.Scheffler enters the Memorial Tournament as the -200 favorite to finish with a lower score than McIlroy. If you translate those odds to implied probability, he has a 66.67% chance of beating McIlroy.In my opinion, they are.
While there's no debating how good of a season McIlroy is having, Scheffler has just been on a different level. The No. 1-ranked golfer in the world is gaining +2.842 total strokes on the field per round this season while the Northern Irishman is gaining +1.723. That's a difference of +1.119 strokes per round in favor of Scheffler.
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