Last Updated on July 18, 2023 8:58 pm by Erwin Noguera
The Barracuda Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour celebrated in California. Founded in 1999, it is an alternate event played usually in August. Previously held at Montrêux Golf and Country Club outside Reno, Nevada.
The tournament moved west in 2020 to Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course in nearby Truckee, California. Until 2010, it was held in August, the same week as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. For its first three years, it had a full field of 156 players, while the World Golf Championship event had a field of about 40.
When the WGC event expanded to about 80 players in 2002, the field for the Reno–Tahoe Open was reduced to 132 players. With the launch of the FedEx Cup in 2007, the tournament and the WGC event were moved from late to early August. In 2010 the Reno–Tahoe Open was played several weeks earlier, opposite the Open Championship in mid-July.
This lasted only one year, as it returned to early August in 2011, opposite the WGC-Bridgestone. The purse in 2022 was $3.7 million, with a winner’s share of $666,000. The Reno–Tahoe Open gained its first title sponsor for the 2008 event, the Legends at Sparks Marina.
After two years the name was returned to “Reno–Tahoe Open” in 2010. Barracuda Networks became the title sponsor in 2014. The Reno–Tahoe Open is an alternate event, which means the winner does not earn a Masters Tournament invitation.
The winner still earns 24 OWGR points, 300 FedEx Cup points, a two-year tour exemption, and entry to the PGA Championship. In August 2021, it was announced that from 2022 onward, the event would become a co-sanctioned event with the European Tour.
Event Overview – Barracuda Championship 2023 – PGA Golf Tour
One of the players to be on the lookout for at the Barracuda Championship 2023 will be Sam Bennett, who made a run at the Masters in April and is one of the top favorites this week.
He burst onto the scene as an amateur, shooting a 4-under-par opening round at the Masters in April, carding the first bogey-free round by an amateur in 30 years. Bennett also became the first amateur to be in the top 10 after three rounds at Augusta National since 1964. However, he has not finished better than T20 at his five PGA tournaments since then, including a missed cut at the Travelers Championship.
We also believe that Justin Suh, a 35-1 long shot, will make a strong run at the title. Suh is an up-and-coming star, topping the Korn Ferry Tour Points List last season before finishing tied for sixth in his debut at The Players Championship. He has only missed one cut since October, carding a top-20 finish at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Suh is one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, ranked just outside the top 10 in strokes gained in that statistic. The 26-year-old is still undervalued due to his relative newness to the PGA Tour.
Schedule:
- Thursday, July 20 — First Round of the Barracuda Championship
- Friday, July 21 — Second Round of the Barracuda Championship
- Saturday, July 22 — Third Round of the Barracuda Championship
- Sunday, July 23 — Final Round of the Barracuda Championship, Closing Ceremonies
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Current Odds for all Golfers:
Stephan Jaeger +1800
Keith Mitchell +1800
Vincent Norrman +2500
Patrick Rodgers +2500
Mark Hubbard +2800
J.J. Spaun +2800
Beau Hossler +2800
Taylor Pendrith +3000
Sam Bennett +3000
Nicholas Lindheim +3500
Justin Suh +3500
Akshay Bhatia +3500
Ryan Palmer +4000
Peter Kuest +4000
Nick Hardy +4000
Joseph Bramlett +4000
Harry Hall +4000
Chez Reavie +4000
Sam Stevens +4500
Rico Hoey +4500
MJ Daffue +4500
S.H. Kim +5000
Matt NeSmith +5000
Luke List +5000
Niklas Norgaard +6000
Nathan Kimsey +6000
Marcel Schneider +6000
Greyson Sigg +6000
Grayson Murray +6000
Cameron Champ +6000
Andrew Novak +6500
Maximilian Kieffer +7000
Matthieu Pavon +7500
David Lipsky +7500
Chad Ramey +7500
Justin Lower +8000
Charley Hoffman +8000
Carson Young +8000
Ryo Hisatsune +8000
Trevor Cone +9000
Sean Crocker +9000
Scott Piercy +9000
Jimmy Walker +9000
Aaron Baddeley +9000
Marcus Helligkilde +9000
Troy Merritt +10000
Scott Jamieson +10000
Chesson Hadley +10000
Zecheng Dou +11000
Tano Goya +11000
Sebastian Soderberg +11000
Ryan Gerard +11000
Peter Malnati +11000
Marcus Kinhult +11000
Julien Guerrier +11000
Joel Dahmen +11000
Carl Yuan +11000
Augusto Nunez +11000
Adam Long +11000
S.Y. Noh +13000
Ryan Moore +13000
Russell Knox +13000
Nico Echavarria +13000
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