March Madness is upcoming a fever pitch, and not simply on the hoop court. While using WGC-Dell Match Play on tap this week, tennis fans are going deep on bracketology, too.

Sixty-four players, selected by the Official World Golf Position, will be going at them at Austin Country Club, with regards to format that splits one into 16 groups of entire. After three days of round-robin competition, the winner of each group will move on to some sort of single-elimination Round of 07, culminating with the finals for Sunday.

Billy Horshel is the shielding champion. Jon Rahm is the number-one seed. And furthermore Bryson DeChambeau has returned in action after missing months due to injury.

So many ways to wager!

GOLF. com fort prognosticator Erick Lindgren will be here to help us sort through finally the madness. As usual, we’re adding him a $1, 000 budget (in play money), and he’s supplying you and me with his 5 top recommendations for the event, which begins Wednesday in the Texas metropolis.

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Xander Schauffele to win the eventgames, joust, match, meet, meeting, series, sport, test, tilt, tourney, +2, 200 (wager: $200)

The toughest part of this event is getting through group participate in, and Schauffele, Lindgren is marked, has the easiest group.

Scottie Scheffler to win the meeting, +2, 000 (wager $100)

Last year’s runner-up may possibly on fire, with two gains all the perks already in the bank soon.  

Matt Wolff Group 16 winner, +450 (wager: $200)

Wolff is hardly proof to blowups, but he or she also makes birdies doing bunches. In short, match playing suits him. “He is going to take a snowman on one situation and step up to the next possessing clean slate, ” Lindgren says. “I love his / her upside here. ”

Bubba Watson, group 15 winner, +333 (wager: $200)

Aside from Watson’s solid history here, Lindgren likes the fact that the big hitter is up against a triada of relatively short knockers in Abe Ancer, Brian Harman and Webb Simpson. Money on the bomber.

Tom Hoge, group 12 winner, +240 (wager: $300)

A sleeper talent, Hoge has had a great breakout season. To get through web page group, he will have to direct with Thomas Pieters, Minute Woo Lee and guarding champ Billy Horschel, might flashed good form of advanced. But Lindgren says that a lot of Hoge has had the hottest arms of all.

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A tennis, food and travel writer, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Défilé contributor since 2004 and now gives across all of GOLF’s networks. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, on-line Are We Having An Fun Yet: the Grilling and cooking and Partying Handbook.