2025 Masters odds, predictions: Favorites, long-shot bets to make
The 89th edition of The Masters is finally here!
Last week, Marc Leishman won LIV Miami , shooting 4-under on Sunday to put up a 6-under for the tournament. His strong day was good enough to outlast Charl Schwartzel by a stroke. Of the 95 golfers who will play at Augusta in Georgia from April 10 through 13, 12 of those are from LIV.
On the PGA Tour last week, Brian Harman won the Valero Open, closing out with a 3-over-75 for a three-shot victory— his first title since the 2023 Open Championship.
To play in the Masters, a golfer must be invited in one way or another — think of it more as qualifying, despite the language. Being a former Masters champion, or placing well enough in a recent major event, can get you a proverbial ticket to Augusta, which is how most of the LIV participants find themselves heading to Georgia once again for the Masters. Favorites
Last year's favorite entering the tournament was Scottie Scheffler at +500, and the 2022 winner of the tournament took home the title for the second time in his career. He is again the favorite this year at +400, followed by Rory McIlroy at +650. The Irishman has won every major except for the Masters, with his best finish coming in 2022 when he placed second. Rounding out the top five are Jon Rahm (the 2023 Masters winner), Collin Morikawa (finished third last year), and Xander Schauffele (finished second in 2019). Check out some other notable names along with their odds to win below.
After Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau at +2000 and Brooks Kopeka at +3000 are the LIV golfers with the best odds to win the event. Check out some other notable names along with their odds to win below. 2025 Masters Odds (DraftKings Sportsbook, as of April 7)
Scottie Scheffler : +400 (bet $10 to win $50 total)
Rory McIlroy : +650 (bet $10 to win $75 total)
Jon Rahm : +1300 (bet $10 to win $140 total)
Collin Morikawa : +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)
Xander Schauffele : +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)
Bryson DeChambeau : +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)
Ludvig Aberg : +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)
Justin Thomas : +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)
Brooks Kopeka : +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)
Hideki Matsuyama : +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)
Jordan Spieth : +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)
Viktor Hovland : +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Tommy Fleetwood : +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Patrick Cantlay : +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Joaquin Niemann : +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Shane Lowry : +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)
Tyrrell Hatton : +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)
Russell Henley : +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Cameron Smith : +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Sergio Garcia : +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Min Woo Lee: +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Robert MacIntyre: +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Corey Conners: +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
Will Zalatoris : +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)
Akshay Bhatia: +7500 (bet $10 to win $760 total)
Sepp Straka: +7500 (bet $10 to win $760 total)
Jason Day : +7500 (bet $10 to win $760 total)
Tony Finau : +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)
Wyndham Clark : +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)
Patrick Reed : +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)
Keegan Bradley : +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)
Tom Kim: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Aaron Rai: +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total)
Daniel Berger: +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total)
Phil Mickelson : +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total)
Justin Rose : +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total)
Davis Thompson: +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total) Long-shot bets to make
Golf is one of the best sports to bet on long-shots to win, as there have been several instances of huge underdogs winning major tournaments. For the 2025 Masters, there are several big name players with some real value from a wagering standpoint.
Here are a couple of bets worth sprinkling some cash on: Brooks Kopeka: +3000 Joaquin Niemann: +4000 Cameron Smith: +6000 Bubba Watson to make the cut: +115 Phil Mickelson to finish Top 20: +280 Bubba Watson to finish Top 10: +1800 Sergio Garcia to finish Top 5: +1000
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Punch Shot: Who wins the 2025 U.S. Open? Winning score under or over par?
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Washington Post
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- Washington Post
Will Bryson DeChambeau ever be satisfied?
OAKMONT, Pa. — Bryson DeChambeau is a nerdy golfing colossus with two major championships, a booming YouTube channel and the leader of the free world on speed dial. A near-pariah not long ago for his brash confidence and his role in splintering the sport, he's now the closest thing golf has to a transcendent star, with the supernatural ability to both hit golf balls and schmooze with virtually anyone. But what if he wasn't a golfer? 'He might be trying to put people on Mars,' suggested Chris Parra, one of his college coaches at SMU. 'People say it's uninhabitable, right? He'd want prove them wrong. He loves proving people wrong.' That's one hypothesis. Another: 'I've always said if he didn't have this, he'd be a cocaine addict on the side of a road somewhere,' his estranged childhood coach, Mike Schy, said with a laugh. 'A lot of people forget that he was a physics major — one of the hardest majors you could probably do. 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'It just became a bit of an obsession of 'How do I get better than others?'' he said. '… I definitely lost a lot of my childhood practicing golf, but I wouldn't change it for the world.' The preoccupation was mixed with a yearning to please and a drive to experiment. Schy and DeChambeau worked on a single-plane swing — where the club head stays on a fluid path from backswing to impact. They adopted irons with single-length shafts and paired them with large grips. Later Schy introduced DeChambeau to his beloved Krank driver. 'He seeks validation,' Schy said. 'He wants to win and to be the best. But it has to be different. He has to able to say: 'Nobody's doing this. I'm the only one.' That's always, always been his quest.' DeChambeau often referred to Schy as a second father, but the two had a falling-out shortly after the golfer won the U.S. Open last June at Pinehurst. Schy felt he wasn't properly recognized and went public saying DeChambeau wasn't holding up his end of a deal to fund a junior tour in California named after DeChambeau's late father, Jon. DeChambeau's camp denied this, and his agent said Schy tried to extort $2 million from the golfer after the U.S. Open, a charge Schy denies. 'It's an unfortunate situation,' DeChambeau said at last year's British Open. 'I've loved that man for all of my life.' Schy said he's still rooting for DeChambeau and hopes the two can reconcile. 'I think I've learned over the years that this is all a never-ending journey,' Schy said, 'and the goal is to hopefully try to keep improving — not only as a golfer but my hope would be that he'd improve as a person.' Said DeChambeau: 'Mike has been an inspiration and incredible for me growing up as a kid to just practice and do what I needed to do to get better. He may not have had all the answers, but he led me toward the right answers, and I learned that work ethic was the most important thing.' A decade ago, DeChambeau had just won an NCAA championship and was on the verge of winning the U.S. Amateur. He was 21 and about to become just the fifth player to win both titles in the same year, a list that includes Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson and Woods. A reporter asked, 'What do you view as your role in golf moving forward?' Even then, audacity was among the biggest tools in DeChambeau's bag. He responded, 'I hope that I can honestly revolutionize the game of golf in a unique way — in a way that tells everybody, 'Do it your own way.'' In retrospect, he was signaling to the golf world just what kind of disrupter he would become. He breaks down courses, equipment and his own mechanics unlike anyone else, constantly searching for an edge. He once explained that when he was younger, he practiced writing cursive backward and left-handed — 'to help my fine motor skills with my hands, create more sensitivity and increase my brainpower.' Said Parra, the SMU coach: 'He strives for greatness in a way that he believes is not the norm. Bryson's looking for his own perfection.' The boldness, the idiosyncrasies, the detailed analysis — it all rubbed many people the wrong way. DeChambeau heard the critics, and he couldn't always tune them out. 'I think as time has gone on, I think you realize that we're all human and it's okay if somebody has a perspective,' he said. 'And you just try to show them through your actions, not what you say, but through your actions of what you're doing for this great game of golf. That's all I focus on now.' DeChambeau has changed equipment, and he has changed tours. He has changed the people around him, and he has changed his body, bulking up to an almost comical degree, then slimming back down. Meantime, the sport around him shifted in a way that accelerated his rise. Especially among young people, DeChambeau might be the most recognizable and influential person in the sport. Far more fans watch him swing a golf club in his lighthearted YouTube videos than during his live competitions on LIV Golf. 'I've always seen this side of him,' Mickelson said, 'this playful fun side, intelligent side, interesting side of him. … Now everybody gets to see it because he's able to showcase that and not have who he is be filtered by a middle person.' While his YouTube channel offers a direct connection to fans — he has far more followers than the PGA Tour, LIV Golf or any other pro — he also finds other ways to break through. After he won the U.S. Open last year, saving par with a miraculous 54-yard bunker shot on the final hole to douse Rory McIlroy's hopes, DeChambeau paraded around Pinehurst until after midnight, sharing the trophy with fans, smiling for every camera, even returning to the 18th hole to talk through the memorable shot with Golf Channel's Johnson Wagner. It wasn't image rehabilitation as much it was a reputational eruption. 'He's the game's ultimate marketer right now,' NBC analyst Dan Hicks said. 'I think he's been incredibly smart with his transformation. … I think he's the same guy, but he's just used the showmanship routine to really take his stardom to a whole new level.' DeChambeau finished in the top five at this year's Masters and PGA Championship. He won a LIV event in South Korea last month, and his game is well-suited for Oakmont. Still, he turned to a new set of irons this week, in search of an edge. And he hopes to soon debut a new golf ball after further testing. 'But I'm excited to keep researching and trying and experimenting and optimizing,' he said. 'My goal right now is just to optimize myself to another level, and if I can't, so be it.' He'll probably always be known for his epic range sessions, but DeChambeau said he doesn't hit nearly as many balls as he used to because he has never felt more comfortable with his equipment and his mechanics. As his manager, Connor Olson, pointed out, DeChambeau is now transferring that energy elsewhere, exploring investments, brainstorming YouTube ideas, discussing partnerships for both himself and the Crushers, the LIV team he captains. 'A lot more time grinding on business ventures these days, I'd say,' Olson said. Now that he has celebrity and a devoted following, DeChambeau is figuring out what to do with his platform, a subject he has discussed with Trump. 'What he does to build his brand and content, the way his brain works, how he thinks through ideas, the people he surrounds himself with — it's all extra,' said Scott O'Neil, the CEO of LIV. 'The way he engages partners and sponsors, the president — this guy is a once-in-a-lifetime type of talent, on the course and off.' That partnership will soon be put to a test. DeChambeau's contract with LIV expires next year. He's hoping to negotiate a new deal by the end of this year, saying, 'I know my worth.' 'They see the value in me. I see the value in what they can provide,' he said. 'And I believe we'll come to some sort of resolution on that. Super excited for the future. I think that LIV is not going anywhere.' While some major champions jumped ship and pocketed LIV's money only to see their games suffer, DeChambeau attributes his success and his increasing popularity to his decision to leave the PGA Tour in June 2022. The lighter competition schedule gave him more free time, and he has used that time to test himself in new ways. 'YouTube has massively helped, I can tell you that,' he said, 'being able to just release the emotions in the way that I know I can. When I was a kid, I was super emotional, obviously, but I got frustrated on the golf course, I got really excited on the golf course.' 'Then when I got on tour, it was like everybody [said]: 'Hey, no, come on, just be in control. Control yourself. Control yourself.' There were times where I got frustrated but also times where I realized: 'Hey, no, I should be expressing my emotions, because that's me. I don't want to be someone that I'm not.'' Even if he captures another major title this weekend, DeChambeau is unlikely to be content. He wants to affect the entire sport, and then do it again and again. 'I think Bryson, in his mind, would really like to do some great things for the game,' Parra said. 'Obviously, he does it different than everyone else. But you do see a lot of guys that have made a lot of money and get a little complacent. They're okay with finishing 20 to 50th. That's not Bryson. Bryson is not going to stop.'
Yahoo
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Bryson DeChambeau Makes Defiant Statement on LIV Golf Future Ahead of 2025 U.S. Open
Bryson DeChambeau Makes Defiant Statement on LIV Golf Future Ahead of 2025 U.S. Open originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The 2025 U.S. Open is scheduled for this weekend at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, marking the 125th time the prestigious tournament will be played. Advertisement Two-time winner Bryson DeChambeau, who won the event last year at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina, is expected to compete for the U.S. Open Trophy this year as one of the top players in the field. On Tuesday DeChambeau, who also plays for the LIV Golf League's Crushers team, made a defiant statement on his future with LIV as he prepares to defend his 2024 U.S. Open Championship. Bryson DeChambeau speaks during a practice round on June 10, 2025. © Bill Streicher-Imagn Images DeChambeau wore a Crushers polo shirt as he answered a loaded question about the league. "When does your deal with LIV expire and have you thought beyond what your professional life would be after your LIV career?" DeChambeau was asked. Advertisement "Next year is when it looking to renegotiate, end of this year, and I'm very excited. They see the value in me. I see the value in what they can provide," DeChambeau said. "And I believe we'll come to some sort of resolution on that, and, super excited for the future. I think that LIV's not going anywhere," he added, calling LIV a "viable option" going forward. "We're starting to grow and move in the right direction," DeChambeau added. "I know my worth, I know what LIV brings to the table, and I'm excited for the future of what golf is gonna be." DeChambeau reportedly signed a $100-plus million deal with LIV in June 2022. Related: Rory McIlroy Makes Major Revelation Before US Open This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
