Jordan Spieth is just one former winner who will be in the field at Royal Troon Golf Club when the 2024 Open Championship, also known as the British Open, tees off Thursday. The Texan has three top-10 finishes on the season but has yet to win an event and hasn’t won a major since he topped the leaderboard at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. He finished T30 at Royal Troon the year before that and he enters the 2024 Open Championship field as a 40-1 longshot in the 2024 Open Championship odds.
Defending Open Championship winner Brian Harman is also a longshot in the Open Championship 2024 odds at 60-1. Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler is the 4-1 favorite to win the Open 2024. Before making any 2024 Open Championship picks or bets, you need to see the Open Championship 2024 predictions and best bets from golf insider Patrick McDonald.
McDonald joined CBS Sports as a golf writer in 2022 after stops at NBC Sports and RyderCup.com. Covering the sport from a broader perspective, McDonald still likes to dip his toes into the betting pools on a weekly basis between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and more. Featured weekly on the Early Wedge, he has given out numerous winners already in 2024, including Jake Knapp (50-1) at the Mexico Open and Xander Schauffele (20-1) at the PGA Championship. Anyone who has followed his lead is way up.
Now, McDonald has focused his attention on the 2024 Open Championship field and has locked in his best bets, top sleepers and favorites to avoid. You can only see them here.
Top 2024 Open Championship expert picks
One shocker from McDonald: The expert is fading Collin Morikawa (10-1), who is priced too short to back in such a deep and talented field. Morikawa finished T-4 at last weekend’s Scottish Open but he hasn’t won any of his 17 tournaments this season. The 27-year-old has only won one of his 61 tournaments since the start of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season, leaving his 10-1 odds with a deep major field looking rather surprising.
Morikawa is an Open Championship winner, doing so in 2021, but he followed that by missing the cut in each of his last two Open Championship events. Morikawa is fourth in the FedEx Cup standings, receiving a lift with seven top-10 finishes over 17 events. He’s not playing horrible golf, but his inability to piece together a victory even in some lesser PGA Tour events doesn’t give McDonald much confidence in Morikawa taking home the 2024 Open Championship at 10-1 odds. See who else to fade here.
On the other hand, McDonald loves the value on Brooks Koepka at 25-1. The 34-year-old hasn’t finished strong in major events this season, but fans know he has the potential to turn his game up a notch under a big spotlight.
Koepka has won the U.S. Open twice and the PGA Championship three times, including his most recent major win in 2023. He has never competed at Royal Troon, but he has top-10 Open Championship finishes at St. Andrew’s in 2015 (T10), Royal Birkdale in 2017 (T6), Royal Portrush in 2019 (T4) and Royal St. George’s in 2021 (T6). See who else to back here.
How to make 2024 Open Championship golf picks
McDonald has locked in his best bets for the Open Championship 2024 and also has selected an epic longshot who’s priced at nearly 100-1. This golfer “continues to drive the ball as well as ever and has gained strokes in three straight tournaments for the first time all season.” You can only see the picks at SportsLine.
So which players should you target or avoid for the 2024 Open Championship, and which golfer could bring a huge payday of almost 100-1? Check out the 2024 Open Championship odds below, then visit SportsLine to see Patrick McDonald’s top picks for Open Championship 2024, all from the expert who has given out numerous winners already this year, including Xander Schauffele at the PGA Championship.
2024 Open Championship odds, field
See full the Open Championship 2024 picks, best bets and predictions here.
Scottie Scheffler 4-1
Rory McIlroy 8-1
Bryson DeChambeau 9-1
Ludvig Aberg 9-1
Collin Morikawa 10-1
Xander Schauffele 13-1
Tommy Fleetwood 20-1
Jon Rahm 22-1
Viktor Hovland 22-1
Brooks Koepka 25-1
Tyrrell Hatton 25-1
Patrick Cantlay 28-1
Cameron Smith 30-1
Tom Kim 33-1
Wyndham Clark 33-1
Shane Lowry 35-1
Tony Finau 35-1
Matt Fitzpatrick 40-1
Hideki Maysuyama 40-1
Robert MacIntyre 40-1
Jordan Spieth 40-1
Justin Thomas 40-1
Joaquin Niemann 45-1
Sahith Theegala 45-1
Sungjae Im 50-1
Max Homa 50-1
Min Woo Lee 55-1
Dustin Johnson 55-1
Cameron Young 55-1
Dean Burmester 60-1
Brian Harman 60-1
Sam Burns 60-1
Will Zalatoris 65-1
Corey Conners 65-1
Aaron Rai 65-1
Sepp Straka 70-1
Byeong Hun An 70-1
Akshay Bhatia 75-1
Adam Scott 75-1
Nicolai Hojgaard 80-1
Patrick Reed 85-1
Justin Rose 90-1
Louis Oosthuizen 90-1
Talor Gooch 100-1
Davis Thompson 100-1
Abraham Ancer 100-1
Russell Henley 125-1
Mattieu Pavon 125-1
Si Woo Kim 125-1
Rickie Fowler 125-1
Keegan Bradley 125-1
Sebastian Soderberg 125-1
Alex Noren 125-1
Christiaan Bezuidenhout 125-1
Rasmus Højgaard 150-1
David Puig 150-1
Phil Mickelson 150-1
Adam Hadwin 150-1
Keith Mitchell 150-1
Tiger Woods 150-1
John Catlin 150-1
J.T. Poston 150-1
Tom McKibbin 150-1
Billy Horschel 175-1
Harris English 175-1
Denny McCarthy 175-1
Marc Leishman 175-1
Kurt Kitayama 175-1
Keita Nakajima 175-1
Lucas Glover 175-1
Adrian Meronk 175-1
Ryan Fox 175-1
Seamus Power 200-1
Tom Huge 200-1
Victory Perez 200-1
Jordan Smith 200-1
Stephen Jaeger 200-1
Eric Cole 200-1
Aaron Wise 200-1
Davis Riley 200-1
Henrik Stenson 200-1
Thorbjorn Olsen 200-1
Daniel Berger 200-1
Yannik Paul 200-1
Sam Horsfield 200-1
Austin Eckroat 200-1
