2025 Memorial Tournament: PGA Tour Betting Odds

Per usual, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is favoured to win on the golf odds.

While some Signature Events don’t have a cut, this one does after the typical 36 holes to the Top 50 players and ties, in addition to any players within 10 strokes of the 36-hole lead – there are 72 players in this year’s field. The Memorial, Arnold Palmer Invitational and Genesis Invitational are the only Signature Events with cuts.

Note that there is not an opposite-field event this week. This will be the last time some top guys play ahead of the U.S. Open in two weeks – the Canadian Open is next week at TPC Toronto.

Nine of the world’s Top 10 are playing this week and the only one not is No. 2 Rory McIlroy. He was the best golfer in the world in 2025 though about mid-April. But when McIlroy won the Masters that month to complete the career grand slam, it’s understandable why he has been a bit flat and not contended in an event since. It’s the first time he won’t play here since 2017. The only other world Top 20 guy not in Ohio is No. 10 Bryson DeChambeau and of course he plays in the LIV Golf League.

Scheffler is the defending champion, which we will say a lot in 2025, as he finished last year at 8-under 280 and a shot up on Collin Morikawa. Scheffler drained a slippery 5-foot par putt on the 18th to avoid a playoff. He didn’t play well overall in the final round with a 2-over 74 but never lost the lead after starting Sunday four shots ahead. We cashed simply an American winner at -200.

The conditions were very demanding in the final round at Muirfield Village with swirling gusts as only six players broke par, and the average score was nearly 75. Morikawa shot a final-round 71, the only one from the final 13 groups to break par. Canada’s Adam Hadwin was within one shot of the lead before finishing the front nine with a pair of bogeys and finished third at 4 under.

The Nicklaus-designed Muirfield Village Golf Club is a par 72 at about 7,600 yards — the name is inspired by Muirfield, Scotland, where Nicklaus won his first of three British Open titles in 1966. There was a re-design on the par-3 16th ahead of last year as it played incredibly tough in 2023 but no changes anywhere for this year. The course has held a spot on the PGA Tour since 1976, two years after it opened.

The Memorial Tournament Golf Odds

The last repeat winner here was Tiger Woods in 2001. He won this a record five times. Scottie Scheffler is only +300 to join Tiger on Sunday – you can get the entire field at -500 against Scheffler, and I’d absolutely take that (mix in another play or two to bring that number down).

Scheffler was trying for his third straight win on Tour last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge in his native Texas but finished T4, four shots back of first-time individual American winner Ben Griffin, who is +5000 to go back-to-back. Scheffler hasn’t finished worse than third here since 2020.

Justin Thomas (+1400), Collin Morikawa (+1600), Patrick Cantlay (+1600), Xander Schauffele (+1600) and Tommy Fleetwood (+2000) round out the favourites. Cantlay won here by two shots in 2019 in shooting 19-under 269 and then won again two years later in a playoff after he and Morikawa finished 72 holes at 13-under 275. Cantlay has three top-five finishes this year, with two at Signature Events.

Morikawa also finished runner-up last year to Scheffler and won the 2020 Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Village. That tournament was played a week prior to the Memorial as a fill-in event that COVID season. Thomas has not contended here this decade. Schauffele was eighth last year. Fleetwood is still looking for his first win in the USA and comes off a T4 at the Charles Schwab. He was 20th here in 2024.

No Canadians have won this tournament. We mentioned Adam Hadwin’s third-place finish in 2024. Corey Conners was T20, Adam Svensson and Nick Taylor both T27 and Taylor Pendrith T33. Mackenzie Hughes missed the cut. Conners is +2800 this week with Pendrith +6000, Hughes and Taylor both +12500 and Hadwin +35000.