2025 Sony Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Hideki Matsuyama is favoured on the golf odds.
The Sentry in Maui was won Sunday by Japan’s Matsuyama as he finished at 35-under 257 at the Plantation Course at Kapalua, three strokes clear of Collin Morikawa, to set a PGA Tour record for the lowest 72-hole score in relation to par. It was Matsuyama’s 11th career Tour win. He made only one bogey over the final 59 holes.
The Sentry was a Signature Event with a $20 million purse (US) and a limited field – about half of the guys from the Sentry are playing this week. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is still sidelined by a puncture wound to his right palm from some broken glass during a Christmas-time accident. The Sony Open field features 144 players (purse of $8.7 million US) and some of them making their PGA Tour career debuts after qualifying off the Korn Ferry Tour.
Waialae Country Club, a par 70 at 7,044 yards, has hosted the Sony Open since 1965 and is shorter, flatter and narrower than Kapalua. Being a par 70 that means only two par 5s, and they conclude each nine. The par-3 17th at 194 yards parallel to the ocean is considered the signature hole. A 59 was shot here by Justin Thomas in 2017.
There will undoubtedly be some sort of memorial this week for defending champion Grayson Murray as he took his own life last May. Last year at this tournament, Murray, Keegan Bradley and Byeong Hun An all finished 72 holes at 17-under 263, and Murray won with a 39-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th playoff hole. Bradley missed his 18-foot birdie putt, and An missed a short putt. It was the second career win for Murray, who had admitted past struggles with addiction, after taking the Barbasol Championship in 2017 as a 22-year-old rookie.
My pick last year was another American in Russell Henley at +2000, and he finished T4 at 16 under. Murray was the first USA player to win the Sony Open since Kevin Na in 2021.
Sony Open Golf Odds
It’s rare for a player to win the season-opening event in Maui and then the Sony Open, but it has happened a few times and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (+900 favourite) already has won this event as well, taking it in 2022 in a playoff over Russell Henley. Matsuyama is one of six past champions in the field but hasn’t contended the past two years.
Canada’s Corey Conners (+1600) hasn’t won at Waialae but has four Top-15 finishes in six total starts including a third in 2019. He comes off a T5 at the Sentry. Tom Kim (+1800), Henley (+2000) and Byeong Hun An (+2200) round out the favourites.
Kim makes his season debut, and we last saw him with a runner-up at Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge in December. Kim missed the cut in his only visit here. Henley won here in 2013 and lost in that playoff two years ago. His scoring average of 67.14 at this event since 2019 is No. 2 among players in this year’s field. An had that runner-up last year and was 12th in 2023.
No Canadian has won the Sony Open. Nick Taylor was the top finisher last year at T7, while Taylor Pendrith was T10, Ben Silverman T18, Adam Svensson T30 and Conners T57. Adam Hadwin missed the cut. Pendrith is +3300 this week with Mackenzie Hughes +5000, Hadwin +10000, Svensson +10000, Nick Taylor +10000 and Silverman +20000.
Sony Open Golf Predictions
We don’t take a Canadian to win on Tour often but will back Corey Conners at +1600 with his solid track record at the Sony and a strong finish last week.
