Best Bets For The Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2024

Last week saw Austin Eckroat take home his second title of 2024. The 25-year-old fended off advances from Carson Young and Justin Lower to win at 24 under par in what was again a lower-scoring event, despite the heavier winds.

The PGA season now moves to Bermuda and has just two events left on the fall schedule. 

2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship Betting Breakdown

This year represents the sixth running of the Bermuda Championship, which has always been played in early November or late October. The event has full status on the PGA and the winner this week will get an exemption into the Masters in August, giving it even more significance for the players who take part.

The field this season doesn’t have a ton of top names, which will make it somewhat of a wide-open affair. The event will also be played at a wide-open course in Port Royal GC, which only measures 6,828 yards and plays as a standard Par 71 with three par 5s. Port Royal isn't long but it does have smaller greens, and numerous holes that skirt the ocean, so even a little wind can make this technical track much harder than it appears. 

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Overall, the venue has a ton of similarities with several other small, technical venues we see on the PGA TOUR, with Waialae Country Club, Harbour Town Golf Links, and Pebble Beach likely being three of the better comparables. 

This season, the winds may get up to or past 25mph in spots, so the volatility will likely get ramped up a notch–and scoring may be the highest we’ve seen for this event to date.

Here are the last three winners of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and their closing odds. 

• 2021 – Lucas Herbert (+6600) -15 (winner over Danny Lee and Patrick Reed)
• 2022 – Seamus Power (+1800) -19 (winner over Thomas Detry)
• 2023 – Camilo Villegas (+12500) -24 (winner over Alex Noren)

Betting Odds For The 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship

*2024 WWT Championship Top 10 names in betting odds (DraftKings)

2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship Best Bets

Below are my favorite betting targets for the week. I’ve created an entire card you can peruse at the end and also added unit sizing for each play. 

While I have a handful of outright plays I do like playing many of these names in the placing department, or as matchup plays as well. I’ve also included placing options for some names if you want exposure to both options (or only want to bet some players for a place).

For odds, I’ve also used the best options available at the time of writing so you know where to look and what to look for. 

Additionally, if you can make each-way bets (win and place bets in one) then I’ve included that option for some players as well where the odds are relevant. 

For more information on how each-way bets work, you can click here. 

Andrew Putnam Each-Way 1/4 Top 5 (+3300; bet365)

Putnam enters the week 3rd in strokes gained around the green stats over the 24 rounds, 28th in approach, and 20th in bogey avoidance. He’s well suited for the tougher conditions that we may have on tap for this season in Bermuda and has excelled at other coastal stops like Waialae CC in Hawai (T2 – 2019, T4 – 2023), Corales in Punta Cana (T5 – 2018), and Coco Beach in Puerto Rico (T5 -2021) throughout his career.

The American enters off a week of rest having not traveled to Mexico last week but has already put in a couple of solid fall starts, finishing T27 at the Zozo and T16 at the Shriners, where he gained 2.7 strokes on approach and 4.1 strokes on the greens.

Putnam’s only played Port Royal once but finished T21 here in 2020 while coming in with far worse form than what he’s shown this season. Given his ability to spike for a big week at any time on the greens, he’s a player you can always look to back when he’s in form, especially around these tighter, shorter courses. With his betting number above +3000, I don't see any reason not to take advantage and back him this week at an ideal setup. 

Michael Kim Each-Way 1/5 Top 8 (+5000; bet365)

Kim went through a terrible stretch of play late in the summer/early fall, missing six cuts in a row at one point. His form looks rough from a finishing position perspective but the American was still hitting the ball purely through much of his slump and gained strokes on approach in five of those six starts.

After popping for a T5 finish at the Shriners–where he gained 8.3 strokes ball-striking and 2.4 strokes putting–Kim now comes in on a two-event made-cut streak after a T30 finish in Mexico, where he closed with a final round 67.

While he has missed the cut at Bermuda in three straight starts, his history at this venue isn’t something I’m worried about, as he tends to be a streaky player. He also has a solid record of excelling at other coastal courses, similar to Port Royal, a record which includes a recent T5 finish in Puerto Rico in 2023 and a T11 at Pebble Beach in 2023 as well.

Just given how elite his iron play has been lately, and how consistent he tends to be around the green (16th in SG: ATG-last 40 rounds), I expect we might see Kim finally put together a few solid rounds at this venue this season. If his putter cooperates like it did in Vegas, a big week could be on tap.

David Lipsky Each-Way 1/5 Top 8 (+6000; bet365)

Lipsky has played all over the world and has shown good upside in these off-mainland events. He was T4 last year at the Sony Open in Hawaii, T7 in 2022 at Corales, and T6 at the Mexico Open in 2022 (and T6 in Mexico last week). He also finished T13 at this event last season, shooting three rounds of 67 or better on Port Royal, despite coming in with far worse form.

The former Euro Tour regular has had a good fall swing, posting a T6 last week in Mexico, his second top-six finish of the fall after he finished runner-up at the Procore in September. He’s excelled with his irons of late but has also gained strokes putting in five of his last six starts. 

With some great fall results already in the bag, I don’t see any reason why he can’t compete this week, and his price still offers lots of value in this weaker field. 

Bermuda Championship Championship Longshots and Placement Bets

Brandt Snedker Each-Way 1/5 Top 8 (+19000; bet365)

• Top 20 (+550; FanDuel)

Snedeker has played in two events this fall and has finished T26 (Procore) and T16 (Sanderson Farms), gaining multiple strokes on approach and putting in both of those efforts.

Like three of the past five winners of the Bermuda Championship, the 43-year-old also comes in fresh, having not played the week prior, and I do think that is an advantage with the extra travel and potentially tougher conditions on tap for this season.

Regardless, the veteran is a coastal expert who has won twice at Pebble Beach and Torrey Pines and still excels around the greens (18th SG: ATG last 24 rounds); which should give him an edge in the windy conditions.

Given the sort of veteran names we have seen win (at big odds) at Port Royal the last few seasons (Villegas, Todd, Gay) I wouldn’t be all that shocked to see the eight-time PGA winner get himself into contention this week. If he does, he’ll have loads of experience to fall back on in what could be a very volatile final round. 

Kelly Kraft Outright (+20000; FanDuel)

• Top 20 (+450; FanDuel)

Kraft is another player well-suited for these shorter coastal courses. He’s posted multiple top-five finishes at Corales in Punta Cana over his career and has finished top 25 at the RSM Classic on Sea Island each of the last two seasons as well. One of his best PGA finishes is also a runner-up at Pebble Beach from back in 2017, a venue I consider a solid comparable for this week’s test.

Kraft’s recent form doesn’t give us much, but he did pop up with a T24 in Mexico last week and was certainly stroking the ball well on and around the greens, as he ranked 20th in scrambling and T13 in Putts per GIR.

Just given the fact the wind this week is going to make things a bit wild (and likely place more emphasis on short games), he’s a player I like adding on as a speculative outright play, and into my basket of top 20 bets, at the current prices. 

Ben Taylor Top 20 (+800; FanDuel)

I’ll make one more addition with Englishman Ben Taylor who has a superb short game and is the sort of player who may thrive in the windy conditions.

Taylor has made the cut at Port Royal in each of his previous three appearances and tends to do well at these volatile, open venues having also landed top-five finishes at both the Honda Classic and Sony Open in 2023. 

The 32-year comes in off a missed cut in Mexico but is just a few months removed from a T6 at the ISCO Championship, where he gained strokes on the field across the board. With loads of volatility on tap and a great short game to anchor him this week, I don’t see any reason not to get some exposure to him in the top 20 market, where he’s available as big as +800.

Full Card: 

• Andrew Putnam +3000 EW-5 .5u/.5u
• Michael Kim +5000 EW-8 .5/.5
• David Lipsky +6000 EW-8 0.35u/0.35u 
• Brandt Snedeker +19000 EW-8 0.15/0.15u | Top 20 0.7u
• Kelly Kraft +20000 0.1u | T20 +450 0.70u 
• Ben Taylor +800 Top 20 .5u