PGA Championship odds 2016: Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy among favorites at Baltusrol

What big three? At the start of the week in Baltusrol, Dustin Johnson is your ever-so-slight favorite to win the PGA Championship. DJ has probably had the most consistent major championship season, and while the Big Three have gone 0-for-3, the big hitter did get on the board with his first title at Oakmont. He’s arguably had the strongest summer of any player in the world and he comes to the final major of the season as an 8/1 favorite, just ahead of that trio of Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, and Jordan Spieth.

Day is still world No. 1 despite falling off a bit in his last five PGA Tour events after a torrid midseason. He begins the week at 9/1 to win his second major — slightly behind DJ and and even with McIlroy.

Spieth, last year’s two-major winner, is still among golf’s so-called “Big Three,” at No. 3 in the world, and comes in at 12/1. Meanwhile, newly crowned (just two weeks ago) British Open titleholder Henrik Stenson is at 15/1. He and Phil Mickelson ran away from everyone else in Scotland, but as the perennial major runner-up, Lefty enters the week at 20/1. It was Mickelson, however, who took the PGA the last time it visited Baltusrol in 2005.

Day probably offers the closest thing to a Tiger Woods sighting at the PGA, as the oft-injured Aussie has channeled his sensei’s mentoring into three victories in 2016, including The Players Championship. He finished T22 at Royal Troon, where Stenson’s 20-under tied his 2015 PGA record for major score relative to par.

Day failed to defend at last week’s Canadian Open, where he ran up a T14 to Johnson’s T2 on Sunday. Though neither big hitter pulled down the trophy North of the Border, the golf gods may smile and treat us to a JD-DJ final-round pairing come this Sunday as a run-up to a Jason-Dustin-Jordan-Rory-less Rio.

The odds may be in their favor, but it’s golf, so anything can happen on Any Given Sunday, and the wise guys are giving some love to Spieth, despite his breaking par just once at Troon and finishing T30.

Indeed, Spieth and McIlroy could use some major juice to bounce back from controversial, if not particularly, successful weeks in the U.K. The former may have two wins and five other top 10s this season, but he’s also put up some stinkers, including a missed cut at The Players and a T37 at his national championship at Oakmont.

A T5 at the British may sound good, but McIlroy has a case of third-round-itis, starting with that Saturday 77 at Augusta and, most recently, a 73 at Royal Troon. He took a lot of heat for his brutally honest opinions about his upcoming no-show for the Olympics and could use a fifth major triumph to bolster his popularity as well as his confidence.

They’re all top players at the top of the board but, with such low odds in such an unpredictable sport in a major tournament squeezed in between the British and Rio, the value may not be there for any of them.

Here are your odds for the field as the PGA Championship kicks off (via GolfOdds.com):

Dustin Johnson -- 8/1
Jason Day -- 9/1
Rory McIlroy -- 9/1
Jordan Spieth -- 12/1
Henrik Stenson -- 15/1
Phil Mickelson -- 20/1
Sergio Garcia -- 25/1
Adam Scott -- 30/1
Justin Rose -- 30/1
Bubba Watson -- 30/1
Rickie Fowler -- 40/1
Branden Grace -- 40/1
Matt Kuchar -- 40/1
Patrick Reed -- 40/1
Brooks Koepka -- 50/1
Louis Oosthuizen -- 50/1
Zach Johnson -- 50/1
Jim Furyk -- 50/1
Charl Schwartzel -- 50/1
Brandt Snedeker -- 50/1
Danny Willett -- 60/1
Hideki Matsuyama -- 60/1
Martin Kaymer -- 60/1
J.B. Holmes -- 60/1
Lee Westwood -- 80/1
Jason Dufner -- 80/1
Bill Haas -- 80/1
Steve Stricker -- 80/1
Shane Lowry -- 100/1
Justin Thomas -- 100/1
Rafael Cabrera-Bello -- 100/1
Marc Leishman -- 100/1
Kevin Chappell -- 100/1
Tony Finau -- 100/1
Scott Piercy -- 100/1
Gary Woodland -- 100/1
Paul Casey -- 125/1
Keegan Bradley -- 125/1
Andy Sullivan -- 125/1
Russell Knox -- 125/1
Jimmy Walker -- 125/1
Webb Simpson -- 125/1
Daniel Berger -- 125/1
Danny Lee -- 125/1
Francesco Molinari -- 125/1
Kevin Na -- 125/1
Emiliano Grillo -- 125/1
Matthew Fitzpatrick -- 150/1
David Lingmerth -- 150/1
Kevin Kisner -- 150/1
Graeme McDowell -- 150/1
Billy Horschel -- 150/1
Soren Kjeldsen -- 150/1
Harris English -- 150/1
Charley Hoffman -- 150/1
Jhonattan Vegas -- 150/1
Chris Wood -- 200/1
Byeong Hun An -- 200/1
Luke Donald -- 200/1
Andrew Johnston -- 200/1
Ryan Moore -- 200/1
Ryan Palmer -- 200/1
Alex Noren -- 200/1
Thomas Pieters -- 200/1
Chris Kirk -- 200/1
Brendan Steele -- 200/1
Tyrrell Hatton -- 200/1
Russell Henley -- 200/1
William McGirt -- 200/1
Padraig Harrington -- 200/1
Kevin Streelman -- 200/1
Smylie Kaufman -- 250/1
Ernie Els -- 250/1
Anirban Lahiri -- 250/1
Joost Luiten -- 250/1
Bernd Wiesberger -- 250/1
Kyle Reifers -- 250/1
Matt Jones -- 250/1
Colt Knost -- 250/1
Jason Kokrak -- 250/1
Si Woo Kim -- 250/1
Aaron Baddeley -- 250/1
James Hahn -- 250/1
Bryce Molder -- 250/1
K.J. Choi -- 250/1
Nicolas Colsaerts -- 250/1
Daniel Summerhays -- 250/1
Jonas Blixt -- 250/1
Victor Dubuisson -- 300/1
Thongchai Jaidee -- 300/1
Thorbjorn Olesen -- 300/1
Jamie Donaldson -- 300/1
Jamie Lovemark -- 300/1
Jeunghun Wang -- 300/1
Kyung-Tae Kim -- 300/1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat -- 300/1
George Coetzee -- 300/1
Robert Streb -- 300/1
David Toms -- 300/1
Roberto Castro -- 300/1
Patton Kizzire -- 300/1
Vijay Singh -- 300/1
Scott Hend -- 300/1
Harold Varner III -- 300/1
Freddie Jacobson -- 300/1
Jim Herman -- 300/1
Gregory Bourdy -- 300/1
Ross Fisher -- 300/1
Troy Merritt -- 300/1
John Senden -- 300/1
Younghan Song -- 300/1
Brandon Stone -- 300/1
Cameron Tringale -- 300/1
Billy Hurley III -- 500/1
Marcus Fraser -- 500/1
Rikard Karlberg -- 500/1
Jason Bohn -- 500/1
Y.E. Yang -- 500/1
Hideto Tanihara -- 500/1
Soomin Lee -- 500/1
Jon Curran -- 500/1
Peter Malnati -- 500/1
Greg Chalmers -- 500/1
Fabian Gomez -- 500/1
Brian Stuard -- 500/1
Yuta Ikeda -- 500/1
Vaughn Taylor -- 500/1
Kristoffer Broberg -- 500/1
Bradley Dredge -- 500/1
James Morrison -- 500/1
Zac Blair -- 500/1
Darren Clarke -- 1000/1
John Daly -- 2000/1
Rocco Mediate -- 2000/1
Rich Beem -- 2000/1
Shaun Micheel -- 2000/1
Omar Uresti -- 2000/1
Rod Perry -- 2000/1
Matt Dobyns -- 2000/1
Rob Labritz -- 2000/1
Rick Schuller -- 2000/1
Michael Block -- 2000/1
Mitch Lowe -- 2000/1
Tommy Sharp -- 2000/1
Joe Summerhays -- 2000/1
Wyatt Worthington II -- 2000/1
Brad Ott -- 2000/1
Mark Brown -- 2000/1
Brian Gaffney -- 2000/1
Ben Polland -- 2000/1
Rich Berberian -- 2000/1
Ryan Helminen -- 2000/1
Josh Speight -- 2000/1
Brad Lardon -- 2000/1
Johan Kok -- 2000/1
David Muttitt -- 2000/1