2024 WM Phoenix Open: PGA Tour Betting Odds

Payton Matthews
Last Updated: February 5, 2024

Two-time champion Scottie Scheffler is favoured on the PGA golf odds.

This is a very popular stop on the PGA Tour because it’s less like a golf tournament in some spots and more like a raucous soccer match, especially at the par-3 16^th – nicknamed “The Coliseum” and easily the rowdiest hole on the Tour. Lots of alcohol for sure. The last hole in one there was in 2022 by Sam Ryder.

TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course is a par 71 at around 7,260 yards. Many players live/have homes in the area such as LIV golfers and former Arizona State stars Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm. Lefty won here three times and tied the tournament scoring record of 28-under 256 in 2013.

I will be curious if some guys skip simply because they plan to attend Super Bowl 58 between the 49ers and Chiefs on Sunday not far away in Las Vegas. I’d expect the final round Sunday to tee off earlier than normal so the finish doesn’t go up against the start of the game. Also possibly hurting the tournament is that it’s not a Signature Event like last week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Open was (one of eight Signature Events in 2024) and last year’s tournament was when it had a purse of $20 million. Now it’s $9 million.

The Super Bowl was in the Phoenix area last year when Scheffler successfully defended his title at the WM Phoenix Open, going off Thursday priced +1100. It was windy in the final round in 2023 and Scheffler hit just five of 14 fairways but still managed a final-round 65 to finish at 19-under 265 and two up on Canadian Nick Taylor. Scheffler led the field overall in approaches and scrambling and made only two bogeys all week.

Scheffler was the first repeat winner of the tournament since Hideki Matsuyama in 2017. In 2022, Scheffler beat Patrick Cantlay in a playoff after both finished 72 holes at 16-under 268. Matsuyama is the only non-American to win the tournament since 2008, and he’s +5000 to win here a third time this week.

One player who would have been a favourite this week, Sweden’s Viktor Hovland, has opted to withdraw. Hovland, the world No. 4 who finished T58 in last week’s shortened AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, was replaced in the field by Victor Perez. Hovland’s withdrawal leaves six of the Top 10 players in the world competing.

We know now what recently retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban is planning to do with some of his free time as he will compete in the pro-am Wednesday. So will former Arizona Cardinals receiver and future Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald.

WM Phoenix Open Odds

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the +500 favourite as he looks to threepeat in the tournament. Only Phil Mickelson, Mark Calcavecchia, Gene Littler and Arnold Palmer won this event three times and none of them three in a row. Scheffler comes off a T6 at the shortened AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The last PGA player to win the same tournament three years in a row was Steve Stricker at the John Deere Classic from 2009-11. Viktor Hovland, Sam Burns, Rory McIlroy and K.H. Leeall tried for threepeats last season but failed in other events.

Justin Thomas is +900 with Jordan Spieth, Max Homa and Sam Burns each +1600. Thomas has finished no worse than 13^th here in his past five visits with two thirds but yet to win. He comes off a T6 as well at Pebble Beach. Spieth was sixth here last year and also has a few other Top 10s but yet to win in Scottsdale. He was T39 at Pebble. Homa was T66 over the weekend and has a best of sixth here. Burns also has a best of sixth at this tournament, coming last year. He was 10^th on Sunday.

Wyndham Clark was declared the winner after 54 holes of the AT&T Pebble Beach. The plan was to finish on Monday, but there’s an atmospheric river causing weather havoc in California so Monday play was scuttled. Clark is +3300 to win back-to-back. His best result here was 10^th last year.

Canada’s George Knudson won this tournament in 1968, while Graham DeLaet was runner-up by a shot to Kevin Stadler in 2014 and Nick Taylor was by two to Scheffler in 2023. Adam Hadwin was T10 last year, with Corey Conners T50 and Taylor Pendrith T57. Mackenzie Hughes and Adam Svensson missed the cut. Hadwin is +5500 this week with Conners +5500, Nick Taylor +10000 and Svensson +12500