2024 Zurich Classic odds, picks: Predictions and best bets for this week's PGA Tour event from golf expert

The PGA Tour switches from its regular format to its annual team event this week, the 2024 Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana. Eighty two-man teams will compete in both best ball and alternate shot formats in the PGA Tour's lone team event, which begins on Thursday. 

While Nick Hardy and Davis Riley are the defending champions, the team of Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele is the +500 favorite in the latest 2024 Zurich Classic odds. The duo that won the tournament in 2022 is followed by Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry (+800), Will Zalatoris and Sahith Theegala (+1100) and Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama (+1600) on the PGA odds board. Tom Hoge and Maverick McNealy, as well as brothers Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick, round out the top choices at +2500.

Before you consider any 2024 Zurich Classic picks, make sure you check out the Zurich Classic 2024 predictions and best bets from golf betting and fantasy expert Sia Nejad.

Nejad specializes in betting and DFS in golf, among other sports. He's had incredible success in the outright and first-round leader markets, as well as in betting head-to-head matchups. He also has been solid with his head-to-head matchups since last year's Charles Schwab Challenge, going 40-27-3 and returning 9.14 units over that span. That's a $914 profit for $100 bettors since May 2023.

Nejad also nailed 75-1 longshot Wyndham Clark as the outright winner at the Wells Fargo Championship. In 2023, SportsLine debuted The Early Wedge, and in the first three months of the show, he hit two first-round leaders and three outright winners.

Now, Nejad has scoured the 2024 Zurich Classic field for the best value and locked in his best bets and favorites to avoid. One thing we can tell you is that Nejad is fading the team of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, even though the team is among the pre-tournament favorites. "They clearly forme one of the elite tandems in this field, but I think the number is too short considering that McIlroy isn't playing elite-level golf and Lowry has looked lost at times over the last two weeks," Nejad says.

Instead, Nejad is jumping on one big longshot team that would pay more than 30-1! These teammates "complement each other well," Nejad says. If this team can pull off the victory, anyone who backs them would cash in huge. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who they are before locking in any 2024 Zurich Classic picks of your own!

So which 2024 Zurich Classic teams should you target or avoid? And which team in the Zurich Classic 2024 field could bring a payday of more than 30-1? ... Join SportsLine right now to see Sia Nejad's top picks for the 2024 Zurich Classic, all from the expert locked in on golf betting and DFS, and find out!