McIlroy enters with five top-6 finishes - but no victories - in 2019 while Johnson blitzed the field last month in the WGC-Mexico Championship to ascend to No. Jeff Sherman, the premier golf oddsmaker in Vegas, said his Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, receives 25-30 percent more action when Woods is in the field. At the time, the Imperial Palace was one of the only Vegas sportsbooks to offer golf odds, specifically head-to-head matchups. Each week, Sherman contacted the tournament office directly and requested a copy of the field faxed to his office. “The Players gets twice of what a World Golf Championship or strong weekly Tour event might get but it’s nowhere near the stratosphere of what the four majors tend to get,” Sherman said.

Source: Forbes March 13, 2019 22:30 UTC