The 2025 RBC Heritage: PGA Tour Betting Odds
Scottie Scheffler is favoured on the golf odds.
Normally, most of the world’s top-ranked players would take the week off to decompress after playing at Augusta National with No. 2 Rory McIlroy winning Sunday in a playoff for his first green jacket to complete the career grand slam. McIlroy already was a Hall of Famer, but now he’s a legend. Totally understandable why he is skipping this week, but the RBC Heritage is a big-money ($20 million US) Signature Event with a limited field (max of 72 players) with no cut, so many guys are playing.
It’s also only about 135 miles from Augusta. Note there is an opposite-field event this week, the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic, so some Canadians may play there who didn’t qualify for the RBC.
Scheffler, who finished fourth on Sunday in his bid to repeat at the Masters and win his third green jacket overall, is the defending champion here. The American shot 19-under 265 to beat out Sahith Theegala by three shots. The previous two tournaments had gone to a playoff. Scheffler entered the fourth round up by one, but after an amazing eagle chip-in on No. 2 the game was basically over – although Scheffler had to play his final three holes Monday due to thunderstorms late Sunday.
Scheffler made just two bogeys or worse all week: A double bogey on the third hole of his first round and a meaningless one on his 72nd hole. Scheffler’s win marked the first time since Tiger Woods in 2006 that a player won a major championship and then won on Tour the next week. The last player to pull off the Masters/RBC Heritage double had been Germany’s Bernhard Langer in 1985. The last repeat winner here was Boo Weekley in 2008.
I expected a bit of a letdown last year for Scheffler off his second Masters win and went with Cameron Young at +2800 to win as the value play. He got off to a good start with a 67 but wouldn’t shoot under 70 again and finished T62 in the field of 69. We did get Patrick Cantlay for a Top 10 as he finished T3.
It’s the 57th year of the RBC Heritage and played again at the picturesque Harbour Town Golf Links, a par 71 at approximately 7,213 yards. The Pete Dye/Jack Nicklaus design has tight fairways, strategically-placed bunkers and small, contoured putting surfaces. It’s a ball-strikers’ course. Among other things, the winner gets a Tartan jacket. A few weeks from now, Harbour Town is set to be closed for an extensive restoration project.
The 2025 RBC Heritage Golf Odds
If Scottie Scheffler (+400) isn’t careful, he’s going to lose his world No. 1 ranking soon to the red-hot Rory McIlroy. Scheffler hasn’t won in seven events this year but hasn’t been worse than T25. He was 11th in his RBC Heritage debut in 2023 before last year’s win.
Collin Morikawa (+1000), Ludvig Aberg (+1100), Xander Schauffele (+1200) and Patrick Cantlay (+1800) round out the favourites. We were high on Morikawa to win his first Masters, but he finished T14. He got his second career Top 10 here last year with a T9. Aberg has a win on Tour this year and was in the hunt Sunday at Augusta before finishing T7. He was 10th here last year in his debut.
Schauffele hasn’t had a great season in part due to injury but appears to be rounding into form off a T8 at the Masters. He has a best of fourth here in 2023. Since 2019, no golfer has a better round average at Harbour Town than Cantlay’s 68.00. He has yet to win the RBC Heritage despite finishing no worse than seventh in six of his past seven trips with four third-place finishes and a runner-up in 2022 to Jordan Spieth (+3300 this week).
No Canadian has won this tournament. Jim Nelford finished runner-up by two shots to Fuzzy Zoeller in 1983. Mackenzie Hughes was the top finisher last year at T39, with Adam Hadwin T42, Corey Conners T44 and Adam Svensson T44, and Nick Taylor T49. Conners is +2200 this week off his eighth-place finish at Augusta. He has a best of fourth here in 2021. Taylor Pendrith is +8000, Nick Taylor +12500, Hughes +15000 and Hadwin +25000.
The RBC Heritage Golf Predictions
Take Patrick Cantlay for yet another Top 10 but we like fellow American Sahith Theegala at +8000 as the best value because he has been second and fifth his past two years at Hilton Head.
