2021 PGA Championship: PGA Tour Betting Odds
Rory McIlroy is favoured on the golf odds.
The PGA Championship, like the U.S. Open and British Open, rotates courses every year. This time, it’s being held at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Resort in South Carolina. A total of 10 holes run along the Atlantic Ocean with the other eight running parallel. It’s a very long par 72 at more than 7,850 yards – the longest major championship course ever.
Kiawah Island hosted the 2012 PGA Championship as well and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy won by a whopping eight shots (biggest margin in this event’s history) at 13-under 275. Rory would win the PGA Championship a second time at a different course in 2014. Since 2016, only Americans have won this tournament.
The 2020 PGA Championship was pushed back late in the year due to the pandemic and won at 13-under 267 by Collin Morikawa at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. Seven players were tied at one point on the back nine Sunday. Morikawa started the final round two shots back of Dustin Johnson, who finished as the co-runner-up two shots back with England’s Paul Casey.
Morikawa was playing in just his second all-time major and first PGA Championship. He was the fifth player to win in his PGA Championship debut and first since Keegan Bradley in 2011. Morikawa won again back in February at the WGC-Workday Championship in Florida.
There will be a limited number of fans allowed each day this weekend.
2021 PGA Championship Golf Odds
Not often you see the world No. 7 as the betting favourite when all of the Top 10 is playing, but Rory McIlroy is ranked seventh yet the oddsmakers’ player to beat at +1000. He won two weeks ago at the Wells Fargo in Charlotte and didn’t play this past weekend at the Byron Nelson in Texas. Don’t expect the winning score to be 13 under this week again, though, as the course is projected to play tougher than nine years ago when the tournament was held in August.
Jon Rahm, looking for his first major championship, and 2017 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas are each +1200. Neither played nine years ago at Kiawah. Rahm was T34 on Sunday at the Byron Nelson.
Jordan Spieth (+1400) Bryson DeChambeau (+1400) and Dustin Johnson (+1600) round out the favourites. As noted above, Johnson, who grew up in South Carolina, was runner-up at the PGA Championship last year for the second straight time. He became first player to finish second in back-to-back years since Jack Nicklaus in 1964-65 and has nine straight rounds in the 60s at this tournament.
Spieth would complete the career Grand Slam with a win. DeChambeau hits it longer than anyone so he might have an advantage at this monster layout. Both played in Texas over the weekend with Spieth T9 and DeChambeau T55.
No Canadian has won this tournament. Last year, Adam Hadwin and Mackenzie Hughes were both T58, while Corey Conners and Nick Taylor missed the cut. Conners is +6000 this week with Hadwin +30000 and Hughes at +31000. None of those guys has ever finished Top 10 in a PGA Championship.
PGA Championship Golf Predictions
McIlroy and Thomas will finish Top 10 (not Johnson, who is struggling a bit), but the winner at +2000 is Xander Schauffele. He has been T10 and T16 in the past two PGA Championships and has four straight Top 20 finishes on the PGA Tour overall and has been runner-up three times this season.