Will Rory McIlroy win a PGA Tour major championship in 2020? Based off BetMGM‘s golf betting odds, I analyze McIlroy’s best opportunities to win along with some of the best potential golf betting lines to cash in on McIlroy’s play this year. This piece is part of a SportsbookWire series, which will look at the PGA Tour’s biggest names and their chances of winning a major championship in 2020.
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- Odds On Mcilroy To Win Open Golf
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After a wild tournament at Torrey Pines the PGA TOUR heads to TPC Scottsdale for the 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open. While a few big names, such as Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed, won’t make the trip to Arizona, we’ve got a world-class field ready to tee it up at “The People’s Open” with five of the top-10 players in the world and 21 of the top-50 are set to participate. Due to the lack of spectators in attendance, the usually boisterous Phoenix Open will be significantly quieter this time around – especially around the par-3 16th hole. There will be only 5,000 fans allowed on the grounds per day due to COVID-19 protocols. McIlroy is teeing it up at the Phoenix Open for the first time in his career. Rory McIlroy is the betting favorite to win The British Open in 2021, and with the tournament so far away you can still get a terrific payout of +900 by wagering on the Northern Irishman. McIlroy is the +850 front-runner to win the Open, with Brooks Koepka (+950), Dustin Johnson (+1600), Jon Rahm (+1600), Tiger Woods (+1600), Justin Rose (+2200), Patrick Cantlay (+2500), Xander Schauffele (+2500), Adam Scott (+2800) and Francesco Molinari (+2800) rounding out the top 10.
Rory McIlroy’s 2019 PGA Tour Highlights
T-4 Sentry Tournament of ChampionsT-5 Farmers Insurance OpenT-4 Genesis Open2nd WGC-Mexico ChampionshipWon The Players ChampionshipWon RBC Canadian OpenT-4 FedEx St. Jude InvitationalWon Tour ChampionshipT-2 Omega European MastersT-3 Zozo ChampionshipWon WGC-HSBC Champions4th DP World Tour Championship, DubaiPGA Tour odds to win a major in 2020
| Name | Official World Golf Ranking | Odds | Last PGA Tour win (Solo) | Last major |
| Brooks Koepka | 1 | +200 | July 2019 | 2019 PGA Championship |
| Rory McIlroy | 2 | +250 | Nov. 2019 | 2014 PGA Championship |
| Jon Rahm | 3 | +350 | Jan. 2018 | NA |
| Justin Thomas | 4 | +450 | Oct. 2019 | 2017 PGA Championship |
| Dustin Johnson | 5 | +200 | Feb. 2019 | 2016 US Open |
| Tiger Woods | 6 | +400 | Oct. 2019 | 2019 Masters |
| Patrick Cantlay | 7 | +500 | June 2019 | NA |
| Justin Rose | 8 | +400 | Jan. 2019 | 2013 US Open |
| Xander Schauffele | 9 | +500 | Jan. 2019 | NA |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 10 | +600 | NA | NA |
While Rory won four times on the PGA Tour in 2019 and now has 26 worldwide wins in 309 career events, he hasn’t won a major since going back-to-back at The Open and PGA Championship in 2014. He has eight top-10 major finishes in that time, however, including two in 2019.
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Where is Rory McIlroy’s best chance of winning a major in 2020?
| Event | 2020 Venue | Best career result | Odds |
| Masters | Augusta National | 4th (2015) | +800 |
| PGA Championship | TPC Harding Park | Won (2012, 2014) | +1000 |
| US Open | Winged Foot | Won (2011) | +1000 |
| Open Championship | Royal St. George’s | Won (2014) | +1200 |
McIlroy’s best chance of ending his major drought in 2020, according to BetMGM, comes at the one major separating him from the career grand slam. Last year’s event was his first time finishing outside the top-10 at Augusta National since 2013.
He finished T-25 the last time The Open was at Royal St. George’s in 2011, and he has never played professionally at either Winged Foot or TPC Harding Park.
Will Rory McIlroy win a major in 2020?
McIlroy certainly finished up his 2019 season well, and he has been a strong early-year golfer for the majority of his career, as seen by his top finishes a year ago. His frequent trips to the winner’s circle in 2019 should boost his confidence heading to Augusta as a rightful favorite.
I’m betting McIlroy at the Masters and pairing up a green jacket win with each of the other majors, as well. Victories at the Masters and Open, for example, would return a profit of $1,160, for example, with +11600 odds.
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The strongest PGA Tour field of the year thus far is in La Jolla, California, for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. The first two rounds will be played on the North Course with the weekend played on the South Course. The South Course will host the 2021 US Open scheduled for June 17-20. Below, we look at the 2021 Farmers Insurance Open odds, and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions to win.
Four of the top seven golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings are in attendance, as are last week’s winner Si Woo Kim and defending champion Marc Leishman. The European Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic is poaching a few of the world’s top-ranked golfers, including Tyrrell Hatton and Collin Morikawa.
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Marc Leishman (+4000)
Leishman was off last week following a T-4 finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii. The 2020 champion did so while gaining 2.68 strokes per round putting with 1.58 Strokes Gained: Approach per round. Both of those aspects of his game were sharp in Hawaii, and he also gained 1.86 strokes per round from tee-to-green.
The Australian has played 44 career rounds at Torrey Pines’ South Course with an average of 1.68 strokes gained on the field per round. He had four top-10 finishes in this event in 10 appearances before winning last year.
Last year’s win came against a similar strength of field with many of the top odds favorites back again. Leishman may have relied a little too heavily on his putter in 2020, but he knows these greens well, and his irons are in excellent form. He’s a good value while sharing the 11th-best odds.
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2021 Farmers Insurance Open betting picks – Contender
Gary Woodland (+5000)
Woodland’s T-16 finish last week was his best result since a T-5 at the Workday Charity Open last summer. His strengths last week were 1.32 SG: Tee-to-Green and 0.90 SG: Off-the-Tee per round. His driver will need to be a strength at the 7,765-yard, par-72 South Course.
The 2019 US Open winner shares the 29th-best odds to win this week. He is 29th by the odds to win the 2021 US Open in five months but at a considerably lower price of +6600 in a stronger field.
The course conditions this week will more closely resemble Pebble Beach Golf Links where Woodland won at minus-13 than they will in June. Tiger Woods won the last US Open at Torrey Pines at just 1-under par.
2021 Farmers Insurance Open betting picks – Long shot
Joel Dahmen (+12500)
There have been few long-shot winners of this event in recent years. Other than a young Jon Rahm, Scott Stallings in 2014 was the last to rank outside of the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking at the time of their victory. For that reason, I’m only willing to go as far as Dahmen for a long-shot bet this week.
He ranks 65th in the OWGR but 27th in the Golfweek rankings. He missed the cut at minus-1 last week, but he led the field with 1.94 SG: Off-the-Tee through his 36 holes.
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Dahmen has still never won on the PGA Tour, but he has performed well in big tournaments and on long courses, including a T-9 finish in this event in 2019.
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