In a span of 11 days that began Thursday, fans and bettors can feast their eyes on a smorgasbord of baseball, the Final Four and NCAA championship and the Masters.
Golf
The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California but would not release details Wednesday, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star.
There are more than 20 notable players in the Valero Texas Open field who haven’t qualified for the Masters, and Wes Reynolds lists several as his best bets.
Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka are on crutches and won’t be part of the tournament, and the other top players never made the weekend at last week’s WGC Match Play Championship.
Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm are the 12-1 co-favorites at the Westgate sportsbook to win the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play tournament in Austin, Texas.
The format guarantees everybody gets at least three matches. It also means viewers — and sometimes the players — are often lost about what is happening the first three days.
The colors pop like fireworks at the Rockstar Bar, one of first new clubs to open in Las Vegas since the pandemic.
Daniel Berger, ranked No. 15 in the world, is the 12-1 favorite at the Westgate sportsbook, followed by Sungjae Im (14-1), Joaquin Niemann (18-1) and Lee Westwood (20-1).
It was after the first round of The Players Championship last year that golf was shut down for three months because of COVID. Players returned to TPC Sawgrass last week.
World No. 2 Jon Rahm is 16-1. Bryson DeChambeau, fresh off his win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, is 19-1, and world No. 3 Justin Thomas is 22-1.
Korn Ferry Tour event at the Sun Mountain course at the Paiute Golf Resort will be the first major golf event in Las Vegas to allow spectators since the pandemic.
Tiger Woods was unconscious in a mangled SUV after he crashed the vehicle in Southern California last week, according to a court document that also revealed a nearby resident and not a sheriff’s deputy was first on the scene.
Handicapper Wes Reynolds and Westgate vice president of risk Jeff Sherman expect Francesco Molinari to make a triumphant return to the event this week at Bay Hill.
Danielle Kang doesn’t talk about goals, even though she has reached so many at a young age. Just 28, she has five wins and a major championship victory, to name a few.
PGA champion Collin Morikawa shook off an early mistake and played a steady hand, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-shot victory in the Workday Championship.
