2025 British Open: PGA Tour Betting Odds

Scottie Scheffler is favoured to win the Claret Jug on the PGA Tour golf odds.

Like the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, the British Open moves around each year. There are generally a handful of courses in the British rotation, but Royal Portrush is staging The Open for only the third time. Max Faulkner claimed the Claret Jug in 1951 when Portrush became the first course outside Scotland and England to host the championship. It remains the only one. This week, it will play to par 71 at approximately 7,380 yards.

Ireland’s Shane Lowry won when The Open returned to the County Antrim coast in 2019. Lowry finished at 15-under 269 to beat out second-place Tommy Fleetwood of England by a whopping six shots. Weather is the No. 1 defence for all British Open courses, and it was tame back then. The forecast for this week is what you would expect for that area: chilly, rainy and windy. Lowry tries to become only the sixth player since World War II to win multiple British Opens on the same course and is +2500.

American Jordan Spieth (+5500), the 2017 British Open, will tee it up for the first time in about a month. He hasn’t played since the Travelers Championship the week after the U.S. Open and retired after just 13 holes with what he called “a weird neck spasm” in the first round. It was the first withdrawal of Spieth’s PGA Tour career.

The defending tournament champion is American Xander Schauffele – his second major title of 2024 after the PGA Championship. At Royal Troon in Scotland, Schauffele shot a brilliant 6-under 65 in the final round to overcome a two-shot deficit and give the Americans a sweep of the majors for the first time since 1982. The last repeat winner at the British Open was Ireland’s Padraig Harrington in 2008 at Royal Birkdale.

The British Open playoff format is four-hole aggregate, and if still tied then sudden death. We haven’t seen one since 2015 when American Zach Johnson beat out two others at St. Andrews. That there’s a playoff this year is +350.

There is an opposite-field PGA Tour event this week, the Barracuda Championship in California.

British Open Golf Odds

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (+500) could all but wrap up PGA Tour Player of the Year yet again even before the FedExCup playoffs – if he hasn’t already – by adding the British Open to his PGA Championship title. The American had a 10^th straight Top-10 finish on Tour this year at the Scottish Open on Sunday. His best finish at the British Open came last year when he finished T7.

Winning the Claret Jug in his native Northern Ireland on basically his home course would be the cherry on top of the year for Rory McIlroy (+700), who just finished second at the Scottish Open on Sunday. McIlroy won the 2014 British at Royal Liverpool. He missed the cut at Royal Portrush in 2019, so there certainly will not be a lack of motivation.

Jon Rahm (+1200), Bryson DeChambeau (+2200), Ludvig Aberg (+2200), Shane Lowry (+2500), Tommy Fleetwood (+2500), Tyrrell Hatton (+2500) and Xander Schauffele (+2500) round out the favourites.

Fleetwood and Hatton try to give England its first winner of the tournament since 1992. Fleetwood was a runner-up on this course in 2019 to Lowry and is having a good 2025. Rahm has finished Top 7 in three of the past four British Opens but yet to win it. DeChambeau has only one Top-30 finish in seven career starts. Schauffele is still seeking his first PGA Tour win since the 2024 British Open. Aberg has played in seven career majors and missed the cut four times.

No Canadian has won this tournament. Mackenzie Hughes was the top finisher last year at T16, while Corey Conners was T25. Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin missed the cut. Conners is +10000 this week with Taylor Pendrith +12500, Nick Taylor +17500 and Hughes +30000.