The PGA Tour heads to the Southern Californian desert for this weeks pro-am event, The American Express at La Quinta. Some of the top PGA Tour players return this week to strengthen the field and we pick a fourball to take on the bookies.
Courses
This weeks format is a bit different from usual. The players will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at a different course before returning to Pete Dye’s Stadium Course for the final 18 on Sunday.
Pete Dye’s Stadium Course at PGA West
The most difficult of this weeks three courses, water is a feature throughout it and it is the ideal course for the final round.
Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West
The course is know to be forgiving off the tee, but is very demanding around the greens. Although the greens are larger than PGA Tour average, speed and contours provide the challenge.
La Quinta Country Club
It is the oldest of the three courses and also one of the easier courses on the PGA Tour rotation. Players starting the tournament at La Quinta have the opportunity to go low and apply scoreboard pressure.
Past Winners
2024 Nick Dunlap (a) (United States) -29 1 stroke
2023 Jon Rahm (Spain) -27 1 stroke
2022 Hudson Swafford (United States) -23 2 strokes
2021 Kim Si-woo (South Korea) -23 1 stroke
2020 Andrew Landry (United States) -26 2 strokes
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Betting – Click here to bet
Sungjae Im 13.00
Justin Thomas 13.00
Sam Burns 17.00
Patrick Cantlay 19.00
Tony Finau 23.00
Tom Kim 29.00
34.00 and better the balance, prices correct at the time of posting but subject to change
SELECTIONS:
Sungjae Im at 13.00
Im opened his 2025 PGA Tour season with an impressive 3rd place finish two weeks ago at The Sentry. He also has impressive form at the American Express, finishing in the top 25 in all of his last six starts in the tournament. Four of those results were top fifteen finishes. Coming off the back of the third place finish, IM will be looking for another strong finish in a tournament he feels comfortable with.
Sungjae Im each way at 13.00.
Adam Hadwin at 76.00
Golfers often have a tournament in the calendar where no matter what their run of form is, when they come back to play in it they do well. This is the American Express for Adam Hadwin. In Hadwin’s last eight appearances at the tournament, he had finished outside the top twenty-five on only one occasion. He has two runner-up finishes, a third-place finish as well as two top ten finishes.
Adam Hadwin each way at 76.00 and a bigger bet on a top 10 finish at 7.50.
Nick Dunlap at 56.00
Dunlap will be looking to defend the title that he won last year as an amateur, which to be fair is not very easy to do especially on the PGA Tour. He is coming off the back of a tenth-place finish at last weeks Sony Open and that bodes well for his chances of defending.
Nick Dunlap each way at 56.00
Harry Hall at 46.00
The 27 year old Englishman doesn’t have much course form but he has really come into his own in recent weeks with a pair of top 10’s. He won his 1st PGA Tour event in 2024 beating 4 players in a playoff at the ISCO Championship so he clearly has the mettle required to close the deal. Ignore his course form, he is a big runner in my book.
Harry Hall each way at 46.00
