A really sturdy discipline and an especially tough course cannot cease bookmakers from making Scottie Scheffler a historic favourite for the one hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Open. His extremely brief odds additionally aren’t stopping bettors from backing him en masse.
Scheffler exhibits +275 odds to win the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Nation Membership, in keeping with ESPN BET odds. That makes him the most important favourite for any males’s golf main since Tiger Woods was +225 or shorter for each main in 2009, although he wouldn’t win any of these tournaments. Scheffler surpasses his personal private finest main odds of +325 going into the 2024 U.S. Open, the place he finally completed tied for forty first.
The brief odds and checkered historical past for giant favorites is not scaring away the betting public: ESPN BET experiences over 50% of deal with and a number one 22.6% of bets backing Scheffler to win at Oakmont.
“Scheffler’s value coming into match week displays his constant performances, knack for exhibiting up in majors, and the outsized betting curiosity that he garners match after match, irrespective of how a lot of a favourite he’s,” ESPN BET VP of Sportsbook Technique & Development Adam Landeka mentioned over e mail. “He is been the favourite for nearly each match over the previous few years, and as he is continued to carry out, it was solely a matter of time till we noticed a traditionally brief line like this.”
Within the sportsbook’s yearlong U.S. Open market, Scheffler opened at +500 and regularly shortened together with his sizzling play within the first half of 2025, coming all the way down to +400 after his PGA Championship win and +300 after his triumph on the Memorial Event. Regardless of the heavy assist, Scheffler’s very brief odds imply he isn’t a horrible situation for sportsbooks ought to he seize the third leg of his profession grand slam.
“It is not that [the bettors] will not guess him, as a result of they’ll guess him, it is simply that they’ll take a a lot shorter value and we cannot usually have publicity on that,” DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello informed ESPN. “I feel the place the publicity could are available is the place he is near the lead and it is in-game wagering, and at that time is after I’ve seen there’s been a piling up on him [in the past].”
Except for Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, who’s the second favourite on ESPN BET’s oddsboard at +750, can also be garnering significant public assist marketwide, taking upwards of 15% of the deal with at a number of main sportsbooks. The defending U.S. Open champion has seen his odds reduce virtually fully in half from his opener at +1400.
In the meantime, Rory McIlroy’s odds have lengthened immensely amid his poor kind: After successful The Masters in April, the 36-year-old was +550 to win the U.S. Open, however fell to +1150 after lacking the reduce on the Canadian Open and is presently +1400, per ESPN BET odds.
“There isn’t any buzz, he is virtually like a sleeper at this level,” Caesars Sportsbook lead golf dealer Anthony Salleroli informed ESPN. “I assumed for positive we might’ve had three single bullets coming into the U.S. Open in case you requested me across the PGA Championship time, however Rory fell out of that class and now folks cannot get sufficient of two guys, Scheffler and DeChambeau.”
The one different golfers garnering any kind of consideration throughout the sportsbook market are Jon Rahm (+1200), Ludvig Åberg (+2200), Collin Morikawa (+2500), Shane Lowry (+3300) and Harris English (+8000).
Bookmakers chalk up a number of the gravitation in direction of favorites on the reported issue of Oakmont, which produced successful scores of -4 and +5 the final two instances the U.S. Open was staged there.
“A U.S. Open at Oakmont is without doubt one of the hardest exams these gamers will face,” BetMGM senior sports activities dealer Matt Wall mentioned in a launch. “BetMGM prospects are leaning in direction of the confirmed high quality within the discipline.”
