Waste Management Phoenix Open Sunday Betting Picks: Tony Finau Leads, But Xander Schauffele Looms

Do this golf betting thing long enough and there are bound to be enough close calls and crazy results to leave you in a straightjacket.

I’m not quite there yet, but Sunday afternoon could be the clincher.

Last week, I picked Tony Finau as my outright winner based on his strong course history at Torrey Pines. (Spoiler alert: He didn’t win.)

This week, I picked Bryson DeChambeau as my outright winner based (in part) on the karma play of withdrawing from the European Tour event in Saudi Arabia and competing in the Waste Management Phoenix Open instead — something Finau did, as well.

And now? Wouldn’t you know it, with 18 holes left to play, Finau is your tournament leader.

Consider it the golf betting equivalent of peppering the stick on a couple of par-3 holes, only to three-putt for bogey.

Finau is now +188 to claim just the second PGA Tour title of his career, with a bevy of solid options — including Webb Simpson (+225), Xander Schauffele (+600) and J.B. Holmes (+900) close behind.

You know what happens next, right? Either I continue to recommend fading Finau and he posts another 62 to run away with this thing or I recommend the live outright in some sort of double-reverse psychology type of move and that 62 quickly becomes a 72.

It’s impossible for me to jump on — or off, as the case might be — the Finau bandwagon right now, but it’s another one of those names I listed above that perhaps intrigues me the most.