2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans: PGA Tour Betting Odds

While the LIV Tour has a team component in every tournament, the PGA Tour has just one official team event, and that’s this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Two-man teams compete, but players can choose with whom they want to play. Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are +350 favourites to win on the PGA Tour odds.

It’s the eighth year the Zurich Classic has been played as a team event and there is a cut with the top 33 teams and ties progressing to the weekend. Each duo starts the week playing Four-ball (best ball) before switching to Foursomes (alternate shot) for the second round. Saturday’s third round will be Four-ball and then Foursomes for the final round. There are a total of 80 teams competing, and we get some really interesting pairings in this tournament and sometimes family members.

Each of the top available players from the Tour’s Priority Ranking who commits to the tournament chooses his partner, who in turn must have Tour status unless he is chosen as a sponsor exemption. TPC Louisiana is a par 72 at 7,425 yards with many water hazards as it stretches over 250 acres of wetlands about 15 minutes from downtown New Orleans. The signature hole is the par-5 18th.

Rasmus and Nicolai Højgaard, twins from Denmark, will compete again this year. The missed the cut at the 2024 Zurich Classic following rounds of 68-71. They made history earlier this month as the first set of twins to compete in the Masters with Rasmus finishing T32 and Nicolai missing the cut. In 2021, they became the first brothers in the history of the DP World Tour to win titles on consecutive weeks. Brothers but not twins Matt Fitzpatrick and Alex Fitzpatrick also are playing together.

American Billy Horschel is the only player to win as an individual (2013) and in the two-man team format (2018 with Scott Piercy) in New Orleans.

Last year, McIlroy and Lowry rallied from a two-stroke deficit after 54 holes and secured the victory over the team of Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer with an alternate-shot par on the first playoff hole. It was McIlroy’s first time playing the event.

Trainer pushed a 6-foot par putt to the right of the cup to end it. Both teams finished 72 holes at 25-under 263. Former BYU teammates Patrick Fishburn and Zach Blair, the leaders through three rounds, were still tied for the lead heading to the par-3 17th, only to make a double bogey. They are playing again this year and +8000.

The Zurich Classic of New Orleans Golf Odds

I completely understand why Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are such heavy +350 favourites to repeat, but that’s also a crazy-low number in a team competition. If it were just McIlroy playing himself, we might understand as he has three wins this year, including the Masters two weeks ago to complete the career grand slam. He and Lowry have been friends for 20-plus years and Ryder Cup teammates. Lowry is also having a solid season, including a runner up to McIlroy at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Collin Morikawa/Kurt Kitayama are +1200, with Robert MacIntyre/Thomas Detry +1800 and J.T. Poston/Keith Mitchell also +1800. Morikawa joins McIlroy as the only world Top 10 players in the field. The 2023 winning team of Davis Riley/Nick Hardy is +8000. They set a tournament record score of 30-under 258 then.

No Canadian has won this tournament in either format, but the 2023 runner-up team was Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor, and they are +2800 this week. They were in contention last year entering Sunday but shot 71 and finished 10th. Canadian Adam Svensson is playing with Aussie Cam Davis, and they are +6600. Svensson has yet to make the cut here in two tries. Canada’s Ben Silverman and Finland’s Sami Valimaki are +10000.

The Zurich Classic of New Orleans Golf Predictions

I like the European team of Robert MacIntyre/Thomas Detry at +1800 as each has won individually on the PGA Tour in the past 12 months, and they were T8 here last year.