Black Desert Championship first-round golf threeball betting tips and predictions

When to bet on the Black Desert Championship

By 2.40pm on Thursday

Where can I watch the Black Desert Championship

Live on Sky Sports Golf from 5.30pm on Thursday

Best bets

Lucas Glover to win 8.03pm threeball
1pt 8-5 Betfair, Paddy Power

Patton Kizzire to win 8.14pm threeball
1pt 8-5 Betfair, Paddy Power

Black Desert Championship first-round predictions

PGA Tour golf returns to Utah for the first time since 1963 when the opening threeball for the Black Desert Championship tees off at Black Desert Resort on Thursday.

Kevin Streelman, Seonghyeon Kim and Scott Gutschewski will begin proceedings in the Beehive State at 2.40pm UK and Ireland time while pre-tournament favourite Keith Mitchell will tee off at 8.25pm.

Mitchell, who spurned a golden chance to claim a PGA Tour victory at the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday, is odds-on to outperform threeball rivals Tyler Duncan and Sean O'Hair, although the visor-wearing Chattanooga man will still be thinking about what might have been when he arrives at Black Desert.

Better first-round threeball options come in the form of Lucas Glover and Patton Kizzire, who can both be backed at 8-5.

Glover finished third behind Kevin Yu at Country Club of Jackson last week. He has been striking his irons with his customary zest and has shown improvement with the putter in his last two outings, which has so often been his Achilles heel.

He can get the better of out-of-form Harris English, who has failed to break 70 in any of his last six PGA Tour rounds, and Nick Taylor, who won the Phoenix Open at another Tom Weiskopf design – TPC Scottsdale – in February but has been dismal for several months.

Kizzire won the Procore Championship last month, then finished 11th at Jackson, opening up with a 65, and he should be confident in a state where he won a Korn Ferry Tour title.

Chris Kirk is the favourite to triumph in that 8.14pm threeball but he hasn't played since the Tour Championship in August and is likely to be rusty. Peter Malnati completes the trio but has been in dire form.

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