Golf picks: Honda Classic best bets from Diane Knox Balas

New strategy – just put money on John Rahm and Max Homa every week and the pot will steadily grow!

It's like these guys are playing ping-pong with PGA Tour wins right now. Another exceptional victory from the Spaniard, who's won 5 of his last 9 worldwide starts. Although he has said he doesn't need a world ranking to validate his game, he's back to No. 1 in the OWGR. Plus, he's won just shy of $10 million so far in 2023 and we haven't even reached March! Rahm is on a Tiger-esque run. In addition, Homa finished right behind him in solo second.

We made some money with Patrick Cantlay's top-10 finish at +320 last week at the Genesis Invitational. However, the prop bet we really wanted to cash was the Tiger top-20, and despite it looking good after Saturday, he fumbled down the home stretch to finish T45.

Here's this week's opportunity/challenge now that the West Coast Swing is over – we have a golf tournament in Florida WITHOUT the likes of Rahm, Homa and Cantlay, and the door is wide open.'The Honda Classic takes place down in Palm Beach Gardens, and it's Jack Nicklaus' PGA National that will provide the challenge. The highest-ranked players teeing it up this week are Billy Horschel, Sungjae Im and Shane Lowry, and last year's winner Sepp Straka will try to defend his title.

  
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