5 finest bets at Pinehurst together with Scheffler, Morikawa

It’s main match time as soon as once more in professional golf as the game turns its consideration to the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, which is internet hosting the match for the fourth time and first since 2014.

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Tiger Woods is within the discipline. Jon Rahm will not be. And the query everybody has at this level is whether or not or not anybody within the discipline can cope with Scottie Scheffler throughout his Prime Tiger-like run.

We now have 5 finest bets listed beneath, every with various odds however all value a detailed look. Better of luck!

All odds through BetMGM

Scottie Scheffler (+333)

Okay, certain, let’s get this out of the best way. You’re wagering on Scottie as a result of there’s no cause to not. Even when the worth is objectively terrible for a discipline with greater than 150 opponents. Scheffler is golf betting’s equal of making use of to a security faculty at this level. He received the Masters. He in all probability may’ve received the PGA Championship if not for some, uh, off-course distractions. Oh, and he simply tore up Muirfield Village to win the Memorial whereas barely breaking a sweat. The priority, as at all times, with Scottie is his putter — and the greens at Pinehurst will do him no favors there — however so long as he’s placing the ball within the fairway like regular, he must be in rivalry once more on Sunday.

Collin Morikawa (+1400)

Morikawa is constructed for a course like Pinehurst this week and if we have been enjoying this occasion on paper (with Scottie’s identify crossed out) he’d in all probability be our winner. Morikawa is No. 1 general on Tour in driving accuracy, No. 4 in tough avoidance, No. 8 in three-putt avoidance and twenty third in scrambling. He doesn’t miss the green typically, and when he does it hardly ever results in dropped photographs.

Brooks Koepka (+2200)

You’ll be able to just about throw out the general stats for Koepka when the majors roll round. There’s maybe no higher huge recreation hunter in golf than the two-time U.S. Open winner. In reality, Koepka has extra high 5 finishes within the 4 majors (14) than he does missed cuts (4). I additionally wouldn’t advise betting in opposition to the famous Florida Panthers fan together with his crew so near successful the Stanley Cup.

Max Homa (+5000)

Is that this an overreaction to Homa’s efficiency at The Masters? Maybe, however it will be silly to not take somebody like Homa who each exhibits up on the massive stage and is great at scrambling (twenty ninth general). The U.S. Open is a check of how effectively a golfer can tame the hardest situations. Issues are going to go fallacious. Trusting somebody like Homa to make up for these errors with stable placing and strategy photographs makes loads of sense.

Sepp Straka (+8000)

Straka is a decide primarily based on his strengths greater than expertise, although he hasn’t seemed too dangerous in majors a lot as he’s been inconsistent. He was T16 at  2024 The Masters and pulled off high ten finishes on the 2023 PGA Championship and the 2023 Open Championship. Since lacking the reduce on the PGA Championship at Valhalla, Straka has back-to-back T5 finishes on the Charles Schwab and the Memorial. There are three stats that really make me like him right here: He’s No. 2 general on the PGA Tour in driving accuracy, No. 3 in tough avoidance and No. 22 in three-putt avoidance. That’s a stable recipe to win a U.S. Open.