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2022 British Open: PGA Tour Golf Odds and Betting

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Rory McIlroy is favoured on the golf odds.

We are getting tired talking about the LIV Golf Series, but this will be the last time those players will be allowed to play in a PGA Tour event the rest of the way, so that rules out the likes of Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson from non-LIV events the rest of the way.

Who knows, this might be the last time they are allowed to play in a major championship if those four tournaments alter their rules for 2023 (not likely as they are self-run and it would only lessen the field). Tiger Woods is a member of the PGA Tour but this might be his last official event of the year as well simply with his injury concerns.

The 2022 Open Championship is played at the “home of golf,” St Andrews in Scotland. It’s a par 72 at approximately 7,300 yards and of course links-style. It hosts for the 30th time. Tiger loves it so much that he skipped the U.S. Open to ensure his health for St Andrews. He has won the British Open three times, including in 2005 at St Andrews.

It hosts every handful of years and last did in 2015 when American Zach Johnson, Aussie Marc Leishman and South African Louis Oosthuizen all finished 72 holes at 15-under 273 and Johnson won in a playoff. That playoff format is three-hole aggregate, followed by sudden death if the lead is still shared.

The defending champion is American Collin Morikawa, who shot 15-under 265 last year at Royal St George’s to beat out Jordan Spieth by two. The winning score at any Open Championship will always be determined in large part by the weather. Could be 18 under, could be 3 over. Morikawa is +2500 to repeat.

British Open Golf Odds

Rory McIlroy was one of the few big-name golfers to skip the Scottish Open over the weekend, but he’s the +900 favourite to win the Claret Jug for the second time – he did in 2014 and was co-runner-up in 2018. Rory and Will Zalatoris (+2600) are the only players to finish in the Top 10 of each major this year.

Xander Schauffele won the Scottish Open on Sunday and his odds here improved to +1300. His lone finish inside the Top 20 at the British Open was T2 in 2018. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is +1600, with Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth both +1700. Spieth is the 2017 champion who was runner-up last year and could have won at St Andrews in 2015 but had a late crushing bogey to miss the playoff. Scheffler’s British Open debut was T8 last year. Rahm’s best finish is T3 last year.

No Canadian has won this tournament. Mackenzie Hughes was the top finisher last year at T6, never shooting worse than 69. Corey Conners was T15, while Adam Hadwin and Richard T. Lee missed the cut. Conners is +9300 to win and Hughes +24400 this week. Head-to-head, Conners is -175 and Hughes +125.

British Open Golf Predictions

The last five major champions have all been in their 20s. We like 27-year-old Jon Rahm at +1700. He closed last year’s British Open with rounds 64-68-66, the same score over the final 54 holes as winner Collin Morikawa. Rahm is overdue another major/Claret Jug.