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AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf 2025 – Tournament Outright Tips and Betting Preview

The PGA Tour continues the West Coast Swing with the latest Signature Event of the year this week as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am takes place out in California as the professionals and amateurs come together for a week of golf.

The tournament was reduced to 54 holes last year and that was music to the ears of Wyndham Clark who came out on top and he is back in the field this time around looking to make a successful defence of the crown. A bumper field is out to deny him.

Recent Winners

2024 – Wyndham Clark

2023 – Justin Rose

2022 – Tom Hoge

2021 – Daniel Berger

2020 – Nick Taylor

2019 – Phil Mickelson

2018 – Ted Potter Jr

2017 – Jordan Spieth

2016 – Vaughn Taylor

2015 – Brandt Snedeker

The Courses

Usually this tournament is a three course event but last year it was changed to just the two and seemed to work a whole lot better and that format remains in place this year so we can forget about the Monterrey Peninsula and focus just on Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill, the two courses which generally were the tougher two when there was three on the rota. As ever when the amateurs join the professionals neither course will be setup too tough to begin with but as the weekend comes along those still in action might need to work harder for their scores.

Both courses are par 72s with Pebble Beach stretching no more than 6,972 yards and Spyglass Hill only a little longer at 7,041 yards so neither would register in the particularly long bracket so you don’t need to pound the ball to content in this thing. What you do need is quality iron play and a hot putter because generally the scores in this thing head towards the 20 under mark if not go past it and with the wind unlikely to be too much of a factor here it would be a surprise if that isn’t the scoring bracket.

The Field

This is a Signature Event these days so the field is always going to be very strong and that is certainly the case here, not least because it is the first tournament of the year for the clear number one in the world rankings in Scottie Scheffler who has overcome injury to tee it up this week. The field also has the defending champion Wyndham Clark in it while another former winner in Jordan Spieth also makes his 2025 bow after recovering from a wrist issue.

The European charge will be led by Rory McIlroy but will also contain the likes of Shane Lowry, American Express winner Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland while a sizeable International contingent will be headed up by The Sentry champion Hideki Matsuyama and also includes Sungjae Im, Jason Day, Taylor Pendrith, Tom Kim and Adam Scott. Other Americans wanting to do well here include Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and the Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley. Xander Schauffele is pretty much the only big name missing.

Market Leaders

Scottie Scheffler tees it up for the first time in 2025 and he is 11/2 on the best prices to get the job done this week. He has never won this tournament so that might be a negative but rust built up over the time he has been out injured certainly is on a couple of tracks where scoring low is of paramount importance. That said he is the best golfer on the PGA Tour by a distance at the minute and it wouldn’t be a total surprise were he to blow the field away once again.

Rory McIlroy starts out as a 12/1 second favourite to win a title that he too has never won in the past. He comes into this tournament having lost out to Tiger Woods in their TGL battle on Monday night but he’ll probably be much more assured in this event, although his past two outings in it wouldn’t suggest that. His best is T66 here last year and that immediately puts me off backing him. He wants a test where his length puts him ahead of more of the field than it does here.

Two American players come next in the betting at 14/1 in the form of Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas. Morikawa hasn’t played since The Sentry where he was the closest challenger to Hideki Matsuyama and you wonder if the edge will have come off his game in those four weeks. Thomas surprisingly has never won this tournament but he is trending in the right direction with his game and wouldn’t be a complete surprise winner were this to be his year.

Patrick Cantlay is another who hasn’t won this tournament which is a bit of a surprise and he is 18/1 to do that this week. While he hasn’t won this thing he has contended on a number of occasions with his last four trips resulting in a pair of top three finishes and nothing outside the top 11. He was T5 at The American Express a couple of weeks ago so his game looks to be in decent shape to have a proper crack at finally getting his hands on a trophy that has eluded him so far.

Main Bets

Ludvig Aberg ticks a lot of boxes this week not least the price of 20/1 which is almost double the price he was last week in a much more reduced field. Admittedly this one is loaded with more quality but the Swede remains one of the best players in the world. There is no weakness in his bag and although the wind looked like it got him over the weekend last week, a stomach bug seemed to get him after a good start, and the wind caught everyone out. In calmer conditions on a duo of courses he finished second on a year ago, assuming he is over that illness I think the Swede is a great bet here.

Jason Day has a wonderful record around here and with the quality of his iron play and his ability with the short stick we shouldn’t be surprised by that. Day has played here on 14 occasions, made the cut each time and has ridiculously finished in the top seven nine times so this event must feel very comfortable for him. Often with Day form and fitness has to be checked but there haven’t been any fitness problems for a while and he was third at The American Express just a couple of weeks ago. Form and course form all points to a big week for the Aussie here.

Outsiders

Tom Kim warmed up for this tournament by partnering Kevin Kisner and Tiger Woods to a win in the TGL on Monday night and if that doesn’t inspire him to perform well here nothing will. Although that was simulator golf he clearly hit the ball well and his short game and putting looked in great touch. He has the temperament for this event and can go low when the need arises. In conditions where the wind isn’t likely to be as much of a factor around here as it can be, I think the Korean is worth a bet.

Nick Taylor is a former champion of this tournament and having opened the year with a win at the Sony Open he looks to be in the sort of form to go well again here. He has had three other top 20 finishes in this tournament on top of his win and followed up the win in Hawaii with another decent showing at The American Express. Course form can be huge around here so the Canadian looks a perfectly decent each way punt this week.

Tips

Back L.Aberg to win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am (e/w) for a 1.5/10 stake at 21.00 with Spreadex (1/5 1-6)

Back J.Day to win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (e/w) for a 1/10 stake at 34.00 with William Hill (1/5 1-7)

Back T.Kim to win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (e/w) for a 0.5/10 stake at 61.00 with Spreadex (1/5 1-6)

Back N.Taylor to win AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (e/w) for a 0.5/10 stake at 81.00 with Spreadex (1/5 1-6)