Royal Liverpool in Hoylake will play host to the year’s 4th and final major this week. The Open Championship is set to begin on Thursday morning from England as players try to win the coveted Claret Jug.
Below, we search for the best value prop bets among The Open Championship odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions.
Scottie Scheffler comes into The Open as the top-ranked golfer in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin rankings, followed by Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay. Last year’s champion, Cameron Smith, is ranked 33rd entering the 151st Open Championship.
Royal Liverpool is hosting The Open for the 15th time, with the last coming in 2014 when McIlroy won by 2 shots over Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia. It’s a par 71 and 7,313 yards, but it will play considerably longer when the wind is blowing into the players’ faces. The 10th hole has also been changed to a par 4 instead of a par 5, while the stretch from 15-17 has also been altered because of the creation of the par-3 17th hole – a diabolical short par 3 with bunkers all around and a green that runs off to every side.
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The Open Championship – Top-5 picks
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Spieth missed the cut at the Scottish Open last week, which wasn’t the way he wanted to start his 2-week stretch in the UK. However, he’s a master on links courses, in part because of the creativity required to win on them. In his last 5 Open Championship starts, he’s finished outside the top 9 once, and that was a T-20 in 2019. He’s never missed the cut and has 3 top-5s, including a win in this championship.