The PGA Tour is back in Las Vegas this week for the 2023 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin.
The defending champion Tom Kim returns to Sin City hoping to go back-to-back. Since finishing tied for 20th at the Tour Championship, Kim has finished T-18 at the BMW PGA Championship and T-6 at the French Open on the DP World Tour.
He’s joined in the field by European Ryder Cupper Ludvig Aberg — T-2 at the Sanderson Farms Championship last week — Si Woo Kim, Cam Davis, J.T. Poston and Chicken Open winner Luke List.
This week’s winner will earn $1.512 million and 500 FedEx Cup points.
Golf course
TPC Summerlin | Par 71 | 7,255 yards
Course history
Course history at TPC Summerlin for the #ShrinersOpen going back to 2014.
-Includes average finish position and Strokes Gained per round in each category. Players are sorted by SG: Total.
-13th most predictive annual course on Tour. pic.twitter.com/8931Zw1NpJ
— Ron Klos (@PGASplits101) October 10, 2023
Betting preview
Odds
| Player | Odds | Player | Odds |
| Tom Kim | (+1100) | Beau Hossler | (+3500) |
| Ludvig Aberg | (+1200) | Andrew Putnam | (+3500) |
| Si Woo Kim | (+2200) | Adam Hadwin | (+3500) |
| Cam Davis | (+2200) | Nicolai Hojgaard | (+4000) |
| J.T. Poston | (+2800) | Emiliano Grillo | (+4000) |
| Adam Schenk | (+3000) | Adam Svensson | (+4000) |
| Vincent Norrman | (+3500) | Lucas Herbert | (+4500) |
| Tom Hoge | (+3500) | Alex Smalley | (+4500) |
| J.J. Spaun | (+3500) | Mark Hubbard | (+5000) |
| Eric Cole | (+3500) | Garrick Higgo | (+5000) |
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Ludvig Aberg (+1200)
Exhaustion might be a problem for Aberg this week, but you can’t argue with how he’s been playing. Since winning the DP World Tour’s European Masters, Aberg has finished T-10 at the BMW PGA Championship and T-2 at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Throw in an appearance at the Ryder Cup and there hasn’t been much downtime for the Swede, but I still like his chances in Vegas.
Tom Hoge (+3500)
This week will be a birdie barrage on a short golf course, so why not take one of the best iron players in the world?
Hoge has finished T-14 at the BMW PGA Championship and T-13 at the Sanderson Farms Championship in his last two starts.
The TCU product has seen his share of success at TPC Summerlin over his last five appearances: 4th (2022), 14th (2021), 24th (2020), MC (2018) and 7th (2017).
Davis Thompson (+5000)
After finishing T-30 at the Fortinet Championship in September, Thompson returned to action last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship and eventually tied for 16th.
Last year, Thompson tied for 12th at TPC Summerlin.
Matthew NeSmith (+7000)
It’d be tough to name a player who’s played better at TPC Summerlin over the last few years than NeSmith.
He finished T-2 last year, T-14 in 2021, T-8 in 2020 and T-18 in 2019. Plus, he tied for 25th last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
