PGA Tour: Consummate golf insider releases his selections for 2020 PGA Championship
Sal Johnson was on his game with his predictions before last week's event in Memphis. He also picked Brooks Koepka to repeat last year at the PGA Championship as part of an outstanding 2019, when the golf guru completely nailed the season-ending Tour Championship. Here are his picks for the first major of the year in San Francisco.
The first major of the season tees off Thursday in San Francisco with the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. Two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka and new world No. 1 Justin Thomas are the 10-1 co-favorites in the latest 2020 PGA Championship odds at William Hill. Before you make any 2020 PGA Championship picks of your own, you MUST check out who Sal Johnson is backing.
A media legend and consummate golf insider, Johnson predicted the PGA Championship last year, singling out Koepka in his best bets. Koepka built a seven-shot lead entering the weekend at Bethpage and rolled to his fourth major victory. "I really like him a lot this week," Johnson told SportsLine before that event, "he is playing well and this is a course he can attack and play well on."
The prediction was part of Johnson's banner 2019 season, when he featured Tiger Woods in his best bets for the Masters, and Woods walked away with his fifth green jacket.
Johnson also completely nailed the season-ending Tour Championship. He predicted Koepka, Rory McIlroy or Xander Schauffele would win, and those were the top three finishers. Anyone who followed Johnson's golf picks saw HUGE returns.
His success has carried over into this season, and before last week's WGC-St. Jude Invitational, Johnson tabbed Thomas in his best bets and also touted 100-1 long shot Phil Mickelson to contend for the title.
Thomas went 5 under par Sunday to win by three strokes and take over the No. 1 spot while Mickelson tied for second as he sought to become the first player over 50 to win a WGC event.
Now, Johnson, the first producer of "Inside the PGA Tour," a longtime ABC Sports golf producer who worked with Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Greg Norman, and the founder of the world's top golf stats database, has released his highly confident 2020 PGA Championship picks, and they WILL surprise you.
We can tell you Johnson is fading Bryson DeChambeau, even though the 26-year-old has been hot all season and is the third-biggest favorite! The golf expert says the course doesn't suit his big-hitting game, so he is passing on him this week.
Instead, Johnson is all over a MONSTER long shot who comes in at odds higher than 50-1! This young golfer hasn't been great at majors, but he has been hot and has the stats to play well at Harding Park! He could be primed for a major breakthrough, and anyone who backs this MASSIVE underdog could cash in BIG.
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