Best prop bets and picks for 2024 Olympic men's golf tournament: Course history at Le Golf National is key

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Best prop odds and picks for 2024 Olympic men's golf tournament
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Americans hold three of the top-five positions on the 2024 Olympic men's golf tournament odds board at DraftKings.

Those odds, of course, are for the outright gold medal win, and you can find them in our main Olympic golf betting preview.

There are several ways to bet on Olympic golf, and we've identified four prop bets worth considering ahead of Thursday's opening round at Le Golf National.

Check out the best 2024 Olympic men's golf tournament prop odds and picks now. 

 

Olympic golf tournament matchup: Tommy Fleetwood over Viktor Hovland (-130 at DraftKings)

England's Tommy Fleetwood is very familiar with Le Golf National, where he won the Open de France by four strokes in 2017. Fleetwood was also a major factor in Europe's 17.5-10.5 Ryder Cup win over the US at Le Golf National the following year. 

Fleetwood's a horse for this course due to his driving accuracy and iron play. It's been a disappointing season for Hovland, whose short-game struggles have returned somewhat.

Both players will try to rebound from missing the cut at the British Open, and we expect Fleetwood's course pedigree to be the difference here.

Boosted three-leg parlay: Schauffele, Morikawa, Aberg all to have top-10 finishes (+485 at Bet365)  

This is an intriguing prop bet at Bet365. Schauffele is the defending gold medalist from Tokyo, and he's coming off his second major tournament win at the British Open. Frankly, it would be surprising if he fails to crack the top 10 given his recent form.

Morikawa has done everything but win this season, and he's registered six top-10s, with three of those in his last six events. Morikawa narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games when he finished fourth. He'll be among our bets to win gold this time around. 

Sweden's Aberg has taken the PGA Tour by storm this season, and you'll typically find him near the top of odds boards any given week. He's reeled off seven top-10 finishes on the year, and we're banking on him to anchor this parlay with another one.

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2024 Olympic tournament matchup: Alex Noren over Corey Conners (-110 at Caesars)

Conners is favored in this matchup at -120, but Noren's course history and recent form suggests that's a mistake.

Noren was a productive member of the European Ryder Cup team in its win over the US at Le Golf National in 2018. He showed out with an overall record of 2-1 including a win over Bryson DeChambeau in his singles match. That same year, Noren picked up a victory in the DP World Tour's HNA Open at Le Golf National.

Noren's also been in fine form, coming off a T-13 in the British Open and a T-10 in the Scottish Open.

Thorbjorn Olesen to record top-10 finish (+400 at DraftKings)

One caveat here: Make sure you get this bet including ties at DraftKings. There's nothing more frustrating than having a dead heat reduction applied to your payout. We know from recent experience after Adam Scott's T-10 at the British Open.   

Denmark's Olesen made his Olympic debut in the 2016 Rio Games, and he finished T-30. He did not compete in the 2020 Olympics.

Most importantly, he plays this course regularly on the DP World Tour. His best finish at Le Golf National (T-3) came back in 2017, but he also registered a T-10 in last year's event. 

Again, be sure this bet includes ties!

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Kris Johnson serves as lead writer. With more than 15 years in sports journalism, his work has been featured in Sports Business Journal, Sports Business Daily, The Sporting News, NASCAR Illustrated, and more. Johnson, who also wrote a sports betting novel entitled The Endgame, graduated from Middlebury College. 
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