Davis Thompson vs. Beau Hossler Prediction on October 17-20, 2024

Match info

The 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is the next stop on the race for the men’s golf PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup. The event, which starts Thursday, October 17 at 6:55 a.m. local time and runs through Sunday, October 20, is the fourth event of the professional men’s golf tour this season.

Although there isn’t the same distinctive plotline as last year’s field because of the absence of Lexi Thompson (the LPGA star missed the cut by three strokes when he played on a sponsor's exemption a year ago), Tom Kim is vying for a rare three-peat, which he’ll face fierce opposition for.

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The field line-up is led by Tom Kim, the defending winner who hasn’t participated in a Tour event since the FedEx St. Jude Championship in August. The Korean is going for a hat-trick at TPC Summerlin. He’s the top-ranked player in the field and the two-time defending champion.

The majority of players in the field are vying for 2025 status in this fourth tournament of the eight-event “FedEx Cup Fall”. Given that the two-time reigning champion Kim is set for next year, he isn’t one of those players. Since Steve Stricker won the John Deere Classic in 2009–11, Kim is trying to become the first player to win the same tournament three times in a row. The Korean’s outright win is estimated at 13.00 on Galaxy.bet.

Kim will face a lot of deserving competition from players looking to enhance their playing status for the upcoming season. We think that one name sticks out among the other players teeing it up from Thursday through Sunday: Beau Hossler. Over the past two weeks, the American has been playing some excellent golf. He tied for 11th place at the Black Desert Championship and lost in a playoff at the Sanderson Farms Championship. With two top-10 places in six starts, including a T-7 showing the previous season, he’s making a comeback to a location where he has had some success. It’s time for Hossler to win his first tournament, and the odds for that if you place bet that pays in dollars are around 30.00.

You might want to think that some other players should come in as second-biggest favorites before Hossler, but if you know that this is the first start of Taylor Pendrith since he finished T8 at the Tour Championship and the first start of Davis Thompson since the BMW Championship, you’ll be clear why we picked him as the second-biggest favorite.

Let’s stick to Thompson a bit, who’s considered the best American player right now. This season, he has competed in 23 tournaments and won one of them. He has additionally achieved four top-10 performances and three top-5 finishes. Thompson has placed in the top 20 once in his last four events. By making it to the weekend of this tournament, Thompson will try to increase his run of cuts to 10. In his last two appearances at this tournament, Thompson has only finished in the top 20 once. During that time, he has finished in 24th place on average.

Match analytics

As the two-time defending champion, Kim naturally starts as the overwhelming pre-tournament favorite. Although he played in last month’s Presidents Cup, where he contributed to the most intense drama of the event, this is his first stroke-play event since the first leg of the playoffs. Here we’ll focus on the battle between the two Americans: Hossler vs. Thompson. We think that Hossler will end up in the top 5 for sure and become the best-placed American golfer in the tournament.

Tip: 2024 Shriners Children’s Open – Top American Hossler, Beau, with odds of 22.00 on Campeónbet.