The PGA Tour’s foolish season rolls on this week in Naples, Florida, with the Grant Thornton Invitational, the place Tour stars might be partnered in two-person groups with their LPGA counterparts.
A number of the notable duos embody Tony Finau and Nelly Korda, defending champions Jason Day and Lydia Ko, Rickie Fowler and Lexi Thompson, and Sahith Theegala and Allisen Corpuz.
Grant Thornton: Full discipline, groups
Tiburon Golf Membership will play host, and if that identify sounds acquainted to you, this Greg Norman-designed observe is the annual house of the LPGA’s CME Group Tour Championship. This yr’s CME winner, Jeeno Thitikul, is within the Grant Thornton discipline and paired with fan-favorite Tom Kim.
Every spherical of the three-day match—motion will get underway Friday—will function a distinct format. Friday might be a scramble, Saturday might be foursomes and Sunday might be modified four-ball.
Golf course
Tiburon Golf Membership | Par 72 | 7,382 yards
Lydia Ko of New Zealand and Jason Day of Australia stroll from the third tee throughout the second spherical of the Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Membership on December 09, 2023, in Naples, Florida. (Picture by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Photographs)
Grant Thornton Invitational betting odds
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Korda/Finau
(+450)
Thitikul/Kim
(+500)
Ko/Day
(+700)
Henderson/Conners
(+800)
Corpuz/Theegala
(+1100)
Kupcho/Bhatia
(+1200)
Coughlin/Younger
(+1400)
Boutier/Pavon
(+1400)
Thompson/Fowler
(+1400)
Lee/Greyserman
(+1600)
Khang/Kuchar
(+1600)
Stark/Poston
(+1800)
Ruffels/Dunlap
(+1800)
Vu/Listing
(+2200)
Tavatanakit/Knapp
(+2500)
Reid/Champ
(+5500)
Grant Thornton Invitational picks to win
Jeeno Thitikul and Tom Kim
Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand poses with the trophy after profitable the CME Group Tour Championship 2024 at Tiburon Golf Membership on November 24, 2024, in Naples, Florida. (Picture by Michael Reaves/Getty Photographs)
Odds: 5/1
Evaluation: This decide could seem apparent — and that’s as a result of it’s. Thitikul received on this very golf course just some weeks in the past, and Kim is recent off a runner-up end to Scottie Scheffler on the Hero World Problem. Powerful to not decide the new fingers.
Brooke Henderson and Corey Conners
Corey Conners of Canada and Brooke M. Henderson of Canada stroll from the second tee throughout the second spherical of the Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Membership on December 09, 2023, in Naples, Florida. (Picture by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Photographs)
Odds: 8/1
Evaluation: The Canadian duo is a good staff so as to add to your card. Conners was in South Africa final week for the Nedbank Golf Problem and completed the occasion in a tie for sixth. Henderson made it to the LPGA finale and tied for eighth. This staff completed second to Day/Ko final yr.
Jennifer Kupcho and Akshay Bhatia
Akshay Bhatia of the US follows a shot on the third gap throughout the closing spherical of the Hero World Problem 2024 at Albany Golf Course on December 08, 2024, in Nassau, Bahamas. (Picture by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photographs)
Odds: 12/1
Evaluation: Kupcho didn’t fairly have the week Thitikul did at Tiburon in November, however she did end in a tie for twelfth. Her teammate Bhatia, like Kim, performed within the Hero final week and grabbed solo fourth. One other partnership that includes two gamers in good type.
