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A note on one of yours -- Clanton just wrapped his sophomore season at Florida State, and Sunday he became the first player since Billy Jo Patton in 1958 to record back-to-back top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR as an amateur. His summer to remember began at the U.S. Open, where he made the cut en route to a T41 finish in his first TOUR start, then he followed with a T10 result at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

The 20-year-old went even better last week at the John Deere Classic, where he closed with a final-round 63 to finish T2 behind Davis Thompson. Now he heads to Keene Trace Golf Club with a unique distinction, as the first amateur in recent memory to headline a PGA TOUR field as the betting favorite.

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Oddsmakers at BetMGM believe Clanton is the first amateur to hold the distinction of pre-tournament betting favorite. He will look to follow in the footsteps of Nick Dunlap, who earlier this year became the first amateur to win on TOUR since 1991 when he captured The American Express. But Dunlap’s victory came as a +50000 pre-tournament longshot, not as the outright favorite.

https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/betting-dfs/2024/07/08/amateur-as-betting-favorite-luke-clanton-tops-isco-championship-field