2025 Travelers Championship PGA Tour Betting Odds

Scottie Scheffler is favoured to win the 2025 Travelers Championship on the golf odds.

Were the Travelers Championship not a Signature Event, it would not draw a very strong field playing the week after the most gruelling tournament in golf, the U.S. Open. That was won at mega-tough Oakmont Country Club on Sunday by American J.J. Spaun for his first major championship. After birdieing the 17th hole to take a one-stroke lead, Spaun made a 64.5-foot birdie putt on the 18th to secure his unlikely victory and defeat Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre by two.

Spaun was the only golfer to finish under par at 1-under 279 and as of now is in this week’s field and +5000 to win, but everyone would understand if he decided to withdraw after that career-altering victory. That the U.S. Open was held not far from Connecticut in the greater Pittsburgh area also helped this field. It’s the only PGA Tour event held annually in the Northeast and the third year in a row it’s a Signature Event. It is expected to stay that way through at least 2030.

There are 72 players in the field and no cut. The only player among the world’s top 14 not playing at the Travelers is Bryson DeChambeau. He is ineligible because he plays on the LIV Golf Tour. World No. 1 Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy are in the same Signature Event field for the first time since the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March during the Florida Swing. McIlroy withdrew from last year’s Travelers Championship the Monday before the tournament began.

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley has played in the Travelers Championship every year since he joined the PGA Tour in 2011 and that continues in 2025. Bradley set the tournament scoring record, finishing at 23-under-par, winning by three shots in 2023. Last year, Bradley, a Vermont native, tied for 39th. He’s +3300 this week.

It’s going to take into double digits under par to win at The TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., a short par 70 at about 6,844 yards (among shortest on Tour) and hosting for the 41st straight year. Jim Furyk shot a Tour-record 58 here in 2016.

The defending champion is Scheffler as he and Tom Kim finished 72 holes last year at 22-under 258 and then Scheffler won in a playoff — his sixth of seven PGA Tour titles in 2024. Kim nearly delivered a potential walk-off victory on the 72nd hole by holing his approach for eagle. Kim converted the birdie and Scheffler narrowly missed a birdie of his own, pushing the tournament to extra holes.

On that first sudden-death playoff at No. 18, Scheffler hit his approach in the playoff to 11 feet, while Kim found a greenside bunker. Kim’s blast from a plugged lie ran 36 feet past the hole, leaving Scheffler with an easy two-putt par for the victory. It was the first playoff in the event since Harris English beat Kramer Hickok in 2021.

Each champion of the Travelers since 2016 teed it up at the U.S. Open the week prior. That there’s a playoff for the second year in a row is +350 with no at -500. There haven’t been back-to-back playoffs since 2004-05.

Travelers Championship Golf Odds

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the +275 favourite after entering at +400 last year on his way to winning. His previous best finish here was fourth. I have to recommend the field at -400 against Scheffler, who comes off a T7 at the U.S. Open.

No. 2 Rory McIlroy (+1200) hasn’t looked quite right since winning the Masters and was 19th at the U.S. Open. McIlroy has been transparent about how difficult it’s been to re-find motivation after completing the career grand slam in April. If this weren’t a Signature Event, McIlroy would not be playing at the Travelers. He last did in 2023 and was seventh.

Patrick Cantlay (+1600) was our pick to win in 2024 and finished fifth, his seventh straight Top 15 at the tournament but yet to win it. Since 2019, Xander Schauffele (+1600) has a round scoring average of 66.19 at this event, best of anyone in the field, and won in 2022. Collin Morikawa (+2000) has a best result of 13th in the tournament last year.

No Canadian has won this event. Dave Barr was a co-runner-up in 1988 when he and Joey Sindelar lost in a playoff to Mark Brooks. Adam Svensson was the top finisher last year at T16, while Taylor Pendrith was T23, Corey Conners and Adam Hadwin were T27, Mackenzie Hughes T36 and Nick Taylor T42.

Conners is +4000 this week despite withdrawing from the U.S. Open with a wrist injury. He was ninth here two years ago. Pendrith is +6000, Taylor +8000, Hughes +12500 and Hadwin +3500.

Travelers Championship Golf Predictions

Americans have won 26 of the last 29 editions and that’s our play – it cashed at the U.S. Open. But for individual value, take Cameron Young at +4000 off a fourth at Oakmont. Last year here, Young shot a third-round 59 in 2024 en route to a T9.