A really robust area and an especially troublesome 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 biggest 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 large favorites is not scaring away the betting public: ESPN BET studies over 50% of deal with and a number one 22.6% of bets backing Scheffler to win at Oakmont.
“Scheffler’s worth getting 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 & progress Adam Landeka stated over e mail. “He is been the favourite for almost each match over the previous couple of 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 scorching 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 Match. Regardless of the heavy help, Scheffler’s very brief odds means he is not a horrible situation for sportsbooks ought to he seize the third leg of his profession grand slam.
“It isn’t that [the bettors] will not wager him, as a result of they’ll wager him, it is simply that they’ll take a a lot shorter worth and we can’t usually have publicity on that,” DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello advised ESPN. “I believe the place the publicity might are available is the place he is near the lead and it is in-game wagering, and at that time is after I’ve observed there’s been a piling up on him [in the past].”
Apart from Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, who’s the second favourite on ESPN BET’s oddsboard at +750, can be garnering significant public help 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 minimize nearly solely in half from his opener at +1400.
In the meantime, Rory McIlroy’s odds have lengthened immensely amid his poor type: After profitable The Masters in April, the 36-year-old was +550 to win the U.S. Open, however fell to +1150 after lacking the minimize on the Canadian Open and is at present +1400, per ESPN BET odds.
“There is no buzz, he is nearly like a sleeper at this level,” Caesars Sportsbook lead golf dealer Anthony Salleroli advised ESPN. “I believed for positive we might’ve had three single bullets coming into the U.S. Open for those who 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 among the gravitation in direction of favorites on the reported problem of Oakmont, which produced profitable scores of -4 and +5 the final two instances the U.S. Open was staged there.
“A U.S. Open at Oakmont is likely one of the hardest checks these gamers will face,” BetMGM senior sports activities dealer Matt Wall stated in a launch. “BetMGM clients are leaning in direction of the confirmed high quality within the area.”
