Golf best bets: Dougherty's outright picks for Paris Olympics

There isn't a PGA Tour event on the schedule this week, but that's because many of the best players in the world will be teeing it up in Paris for the Olympics. The men's golf competition will be held at Le Golf National, which recently hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018 and hosts the Open De France on the DP World Tour every year. 

Le Golf National is a shorter course with tight fairways and water hazards lurking on most holes. This isn't a course that can be overpowered by the longer hitters. You need to be extremely accurate off the tee and with your irons to stay out of trouble, even if that means taking less than driver on a handful of holes.

With that in mind, here's how we're betting the outright market at the Paris Olympics. 

Scottie Scheffler to win (+400 Bet365)

We can already hear the boos reverberating from your laptops and phones, and we don't blame you one bit. The last time we took a swing on Scheffler in the outright market, he barely made the cut at the U.S. Open and finished T41. This is much different. 

The men's golf competition features only 60 players, and at least 20 of them have no chance of winning the gold medal. So, that leaves us with about 40 contenders, and Scheffler is the same price he was at the U.S. Open in a field four times the size. Let's see how the World No. 1 has fared in limited fields this year, shall we?