Bets of the Week at the 2021 Lotte Championship

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Aloha to the bets of the week from the Lotte Championship! The tour did not play in Hawaii in 2020 due to Covid-19, granting a one-year reprieve from Brooke Henderson, going for three in a row in the Aloha state.

The tournament is not at Ko Olina Golf Club this year. Instead, it's having a cameo appearance at Kapolei Golf Club, which hosted the Cup of Noodles Championship in 2001.

Factors to include this week include recent play, ability to play in windy conditions (success in Scotland/England), and past performance in the tournament.

Draft Kings, Bovada, MyBookie, and Intertops are the sites this week. Full odds are listed below. Now, for the bets.

Brooke Henderson (+1400) (Bovada)

Henderson is her own biggest fan at tournaments she has won at before. The winningest Canadian of all time in golf has six of her nine career wins at three events- the Meijer LPGA Classic, the Cambia Portland Classic, and the Lotte Championship with two trophies from each.

In four career appearances in the Lotte Championship, Henderson has two victories, a T10 and T11 to her ledger. Henderson won twice a season from 2016 through 2019. That streak came to a standstill with the rest of the world during 2020. The fact that Henderson is 7th most likely to win, with that resume? That’s like rejecting a Mai Thai while sitting along the ocean on the Hawaiian shores.

This one is to you Bovada, who gives Henderson (+200) better odds than the other three betting sites.

Bet: 7.5 Units to win 105 units

Minjee Lee (+1800) (Draft Kings)

The Australian returns to the Lotte Championship riding a three straight top 25 finish wave. The 2016 champion has four top 25s in five career starts in the Aloha state, with a T3 in 2019 at Ko Olina Golf Course. It's not for lack of opportunity that Lee hasn't found the winner's circle, as she has seven top 5s since her last victory in Los Angeles in 2019. It’s an opportunity to get in at an attractive price on a player that continually knocks on victory’s door, including a solo 3rd at the 2020 AIG Women’s Open.

The world no. 10 is favorably priced at Draft Kings, falling a tier behind Hyo Joo Kim and Lexi Thompson by (+400) and has (+200) better odds at the daily fantasy site than elsewhere.

Bet: 5 Units to win 90 units

Ariya Jutanugarn (+5000) (DraftKings)

Coming off a tournament where she nearly double eagled at the ANA Inspiration, it's a quizzical case for the Thai player. For the first time in ages, she's no longer the highest-ranked player out of her country, with Patty Tavatanakit surpassing her after leaping into Poppie’s Pond.

The T61 isn’t the most encouraging sign, but Jutanugarn has consistently played well at the Lotte Championship and high wind events. She has a victory and a 5th place finish in four starts at the ASI Ladies Scottish Open, a win and three other top 25s in seven starts at the AIG Women’s British Open, and four top 10s, including three 3rd place finishes, in seven starts at the Lotte Championship.

That extensive resume is reason enough to bet on the immense talent of Jutanugarn to shine through. Draft Kings gives her (+1000) better odds than elsewhere, with her sister Moriya (+3300). That's the first time I've noticed the elder sister with lower odds than Ariya.

Bet: 5 Units to win 250 Units

Ally Ewing (+6000) (Bovada)

Ewing is making her 4th career start at the Lotte Championship this week, with no strong track record to her name. She’s made two cuts with a best finish of T50 in 2019.

However, this was two years ago. Ewing has emerged as a new player since her last name changed from McDonald. Her game has stepped up to another level after her first career victory at the LPGA Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee last October. Over her last nine starts, she's had three of her nine career top 10s, including a T7 at the ANA Inspiration.

Shortly before that victory, Ewing finished T22 at the AIG Women’s Open, where she has three top 25 finishes in four career starts, with a T28 in 2018 as the other result.

She gets nearly double the odds from Draft Kings at Bovada, with (+3300) at DK and (+5500) at MyBookie.

Bet: 5 units to win 300 units

Georgia Hall (+10000) (Draft Kings)

The 2018 AIG Women’s Open Champion is making her second career start at the Lotte Championship, where she finished T62 in 2019.

It's not the most encouraging sign with her past performance, but it's slightly less indicative with a new course. She also knocked off her first victory on American soil in 2020 in Portland, taking down Ashleigh Buhai in a playoff.

If patterns are anything, Hall finished T37 at the 2020 ANA Inspiration and then won the Cambia Portland Classic in her next start. The British woman comes into Hawaii off a T36 finish at the 2021 ANA Inspiration.

Bet: 2.5 units to win 250 Units

2021 Season Results

Units Spent: 125

Units Won: 105

ROI: -18%

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