Sports Interaction Staff
July 9, 2025

2025 Scottish Open: PGA Tour Betting Odds

One of those reigning major winners, Scottie Scheffler, is favoured on the golf odds.

It’s the fourth straight year this event is co-sponsored by both Tours, with about 75 guys from each, and points are awarded toward the Race to Dubai Rankings and the FedExCup. It’s a regular-sized field stroke-play event with a 36-hole cut. It was very smart of the PGA Tour to hitch its wagon to this event in Scotland because most American players were either playing here regardless or skipping the Tour entirely the week before the British Open – which is next week – to prepare for links-style golf.

Eight of the world’s Top 10 will tee it up with the only ones not as No. 6 Russell Henley and No. 7 Keegan Bradley, the 2025 USA Ryder Cup captain who just recently won on the PGA Tour. The four sponsor exemptions this week are Luke Clanton, David Ford, Alex Noren and Brandt Snedeker.

The Renaissance Club, a par 70 links course at 7,282 yards, hosts the Scottish Open for the seventh time. It is located between North Berwick and Muirfield, both iconic British Open layouts. The par-3 sixth hole has been fully enclosed with grandstands for the first time at the event, giving it a stadium feel. The top-three finishers this week not already exempt for the British Open earn a spot. Richard Mansell, Aaron Rai and Alex Noren got those spots in 2024 from the Scottish Open.

The defending champion is Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre. His first career PGA Tour win came in the 2024 Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, and then a handful of weeks later MacIntyre got No. 2 on his native soil. He drained a 22-foot birdie on the 18^th hole on Sunday last year to shoot a final-round 67 and finish at 18-under 262 and one up on Aussie Adam Scott.

MacIntyre, who was runner-up to Rory McIlroy in 2023, was the first Scot since Colin Montgomerie in 1999 to win his national open. He’s +2500 to repeat, which no one has done in the event. I liked South Korea’s Tom Kim in 2024, but he finished T25.

There is an opposite-field event this week on the PGA Tour, the ISCO Championship in Louisville, Ky.

Scottish Open Golf Odds

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler skipped last year for family reasons but is the +450 favourite on the PGA golf odds board. He was third at the Renaissance Club in 2023 in his last appearance for his best result in the event. Amazingly, the American hasn’t finished outside the Top 10 on the PGA Tour this year (three wins) since the Players Championship in March.

Rory McIlroy is next at +850, and he won here in 2023 at 15-under 265. But I tend to think McIlroy will have his mind on the British Open next week that is basically being played on his home course of Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

Xander Schauffele (+2000), England’s Tommy Fleetwood (+2200), the USA’s Collin Morikawa (+2500) and Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg (+2500) round out the favourites.

Schauffele won this event in 2022 at 7-under 273 but not contended since. He has no wins and just a single Top 10 this year. Fleetwood has a handful of international wins on his resume but none on the PGA Tour yet. He almost did a couple of weeks ago at the Travelers Championship, blowing a late lead and finishing second. Fleetwood hasn’t won here but has three Top 10s, including a 2020 runner-up.

Morikawa will play with a new caddie as he will have legendary looper Billy Foster on his bag for this week and for the British Open. Morikawa’s best result here was fourth last year. Aberg missed the cut in his first time in the Scottish Open in 2023 but was fourth last year. He has a win among three Top 10s this year but hasn’t had a T10 since the Masters.

No Canadians have won this event and not too many have played it. Corey Conners was the top finisher last year at T10, followed by Adam Hadwin at T34, Mackenzie Hughes at T46 and Nick Taylor T57. Conners, playing for the first time since withdrawing from the U.S. Open with a right wrist injury, is +4400 this week with Taylor Pendrith +6000, Nick Taylor +8000 and Hughes +17500.