US Open Golf 2015: Early Betting Odds from Vegas for Entire Field
The 2015 U.S. Open is inching nearer and nearer before play finally tees off Thursday morning on the Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Washington, with no shortage of first-rate contenders topping the sportsbook.
Bettors could be swayed in a number of different ways simply based on what criteria they're looking for in golfers. Top names such as Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth litter the top of the odds list and rightfully so, having won each of the last three major tournaments between them.
While payouts certainly aren't seismic for slotting one of those favorites as the winner, folks have plenty of opportunity to hit a home run with massive odds for the likes of Matt Kuchar, Brandt Snedeker and Martin Kaymer—the last of whom, by the way, won last year's U.S. Open by eight strokes.
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For more information on how the odds break down, take a look below.
2015 U.S. Open Odds
| Rory McIlroy | 7-1 |
| Jordan Spieth | 8-1 |
| Dustin Johnson | 16-1 |
| Justin Rose | 18-1 |
| Phil Mickelson | 18-1 |
| Rickie Fowler | 18-1 |
| Adam Scott | 25-1 |
| Henrik Stenson | 25-1 |
| Bubba Watson | 33-1 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 33-1 |
| Jason Day | 33-1 |
| Jim Furyk | 33-1 |
| Jimmy Walker | 33-1 |
| Sergio Garcia | 33-1 |
| Martin Kaymer | 40-1 |
| Matt Kuchar | 40-1 |
| Patrick Reed | 40-1 |
| Billy Horschel | 50-1 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 50-1 |
| Brooks Koepka | 50-1 |
| Tiger Woods | 50-1 |
| Byeong Hun An | 66-1 |
| J.B. Holmes | 66-1 |
| Keegan Bradley | 66-1 |
| Lee Westwood | 66-1 |
| Paul Casey | 66-1 |
| Ryan Moore | 66-1 |
| Zach Johnson | 66-1 |
Odds courtesy of Odds Shark, last updated June 15 at 12 p.m. ET
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Rory McIlroy
Losing out on the Masters—and the chance to win a third-straight major along with his first at Augusta—did little to quell the momentum of McIlroy, as he's continuing to prove his consistency throughout 2015 entering Chambers Bay.
Appearances have been few and far between for McIlroy since Augusta, but that's not to say he hasn't been playing well. In fact, the opposite could be said. He won in his first appearance after the Masters at the WGC Match Play, followed it up with an eighth-placed finish at the Players before winning again at Wells Fargo in his last PGA Tour action.
Of course, his level of play only seems to rise under the major spotlight, producing as many wins as other established stars have top-10 finishes, as Kyle Porter of CBS Sports noted:
Just like every other golfer, McIlroy will have to battle the extra rigors of a Chambers Bay course seeing its first major action, a course that hasn't been without its controversy among players, as told by John Strege of Golf Digest.
To that tune, McIlroy hopes that beginning to work on the course Saturday will help but acknowledged every other golfer is facing the same demands, per USA Today's Maggie Hendricks:
"It's a bit of an unknown for everyone. From what I've heard, it's going to be sort of different. At the end of the day, I'm competing against the same players I've been able to beat before. Hopefully, I get there again.
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McIlroy already has four major championships to his name.
Jordan Spieth
Don't count Jordan Spieth among those on the tour who are voicing their displeasure with the course being played on this weekend. Like any 21-year-old, he's just happy to be a part of it.
He made that clear with his post ringing in U.S. Open week, as he's surely already taking in the course he'll attempt to win major No. 2 at, per his personal Twitter:
Anyone who remotely witnessed Spieth's iconic Masters victory earlier this year is well aware of his prowess, after lighting up arguably golf's most historically headache-inducing and trickiest course to near-record numbers.
Any sort of Masters hangover (paging Bubba Watson) proposed after his missed cut at the Players was subsequently flushed with a second-place finish at the Crowne Plaza Invitational and a third-place finish at Memorial.
As such, he's raking in the second-best odds to win this weekend at a course his longtime caddie Michael Greller is well accustomed to, it being in his hometown, as he told ESPN's Jason Sobel:
"When it was announced in 2008 that the U.S. Open was coming to Chambers Bay, it was my dream to find a way to caddie in it. I was going to do anything to find a way to make that happen. Here we are. It'll be my fourth U.S. Open, and I'm bringing the Masters champion to my hometown.
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Greller has a decent chance to turn the hand he's been dealt into a storybook moment for him. And with a golfer who has proven able to make virtually any shot, it would be foolish to count Spieth out—especially with a caddie who is well-versed with the course.
Save for maybe McIlroy, there's no golfer in the world capable of catching—or even staying with—Spieth once he gets rolling on his signature tear of birdies. Doing so at Chambers Bay will be no easy task, but it's one you wouldn't put past him.
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