2025 Houston Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are the two clear favourites on the golf odds.
The Top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings after this week automatically qualify for the Masters if they haven’t already. Rickie Fowler is a big name outside the Top 50 currently who wouldn’t be able to play at Augusta.
There was no Houston Open in 2023 as it transitioned from a fall event back to the spring. In its return last year, Germany’s Stephan Jaeger closed his final round with nine straight pars, still good enough to shoot a 3-under 67 on Sunday and win at 12-under 268 and a shot up on Scheffler, Tony Finau, Taylor Moore, Thomas Detry and Alejadnro Tosti.
Scheffler had a 5-footer for birdie playing with Jaeger in the final pairing Sunday but missed – about the only thing that went wrong for Scheffler in 2024. He was trying to become the first player since 2018 to win three straight starts on the PGA Tour.
It was Jaeger’s first PGA Tour win in his 135th attempt. The 35-year-old hasn’t won since but has a couple of Top 10s this year and is +4500 to repeat. No one has done that at the Houston Open since Vijay Singh won it a third time in 2005. He and Curtis Strange are the only three-time winners. We cashed on Scheffler for a Top 10 last year but our value winning pick at +6600 was Joel Dahmen. He shot a first-round 69 but missed the cut after a 75 on Friday.
Memorial Park Golf Course has been hosting since 2020 and is a par 70 at 7,435 yards – one of the few municipal golf courses on the PGA Tour calendar. It’s a long track with four par 5s of at least 575 yards, five par-4s of at least 490 yards and two par 3s each at least 215 yards.
Texas Children’s Houston Open Golf Odds
Last year, current world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (+350) played five PGA Tour tournaments in March and April — and the only one of those he didn’t win was the Houston Open with that T2 – he was also a runner-up here by two shots to Jason Kokrak in 2021. Scheffler is yet to win this year but also not been worse than T25.
While Rory McIlroy (+600) is No. 2 in he world, he’s No. 1 in the FedExCup standings with two victories, including last time out at the Players Championship, and McIlroy already has said this will be his Masters tune-up. McIlroy, who has earned more World Ranking points during 2025 than any other golfer, hasn’t played this tournament since 2014.
It’s such an interesting field because Scheffler and McIlroy stand so far about everyone else as the third-favourite down at +2500 is England’s Aaron Rai. He enters with three straight Top 15s on Tour this year and has been seventh in his past two trips to this tournament. Rai’s lone Tour win career was last year’s Wyndham Championship. Viktor Hovland, who won Sunday’s Valspar Championship in the Tampa area, is among those skipping this week.
No Canadian has won this tournament, which dates to 1946. Mackenzie Hughes was the top finisher last year at T14, while Ben Silverman and Taylor Pendrith were both T36, Roger Sloan T45 and Adam Svensson T57. Pendrith is +5000 this week with Hughes and Nick Taylor both +8000, Adam Hadwin +17500, Svensson +22500 and Silverman +40000.
Texas Children’s Houston Open Golf Predictions
Hard to bet against the duo of Scottie Scheffler/Rory McIlroy, but we think the Canadian Mackenzie Hughes is good value at +8000 as he has been no worse than 16th in three of his past four trips to the Houston Open (29th in the other). Hughes comes off a T36 Sunday to conclude the Florida Swing.
