Rory McIlroy has won two of the last three major championships in golf with wins in The Open Championship and PGA Championship in 2014. McIlroy enters the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay as the favorite to win the tournament, which starts Thursday.
U.S. Open odds preview: McIlroy, Spieth the leaders on the betting lines
Having combined to win the last three major championships, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are the betting favorites heading into the U.S. Open.
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McIlroy is currently going off at 7/1 to win the U.S. Open according to sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The No. 1 ranked golfer in the world has missed two consecutive cuts, but he isn’t worried about his form and expects to be ready to compete for the U.S. Open title. McIlroy won his first major championship when he won the U.S. Open in 2011.
No one has had a more impressive season in 2015 than Jordan Spieth to this point. Spieth has finished in the top 10 of nine of the 16 events he has played, including one third-place finish, three second-place finishes and two tournament wins. One of those wins came in the Masters back in April.
Spieth is going off at 8/1 to win this tournament and become the first golfer since Tiger Woods in 2002 to win the Masters and U.S. Open back-to-back.
Justin Rose won his first and only major event in 2013 when he won the U.S. Open, and he will be looking for a repeat performance this weekend. It has been an all-or-nothing type of season for Rose, who has cracked the top 25 in just four of the 11 events that he has played. In those four instances he has two second-place finishes and one tournament win. Rose is going off at 18/1 to win the U.S. Open at the sportsbooks.
Rickie Fowler is still in search of his first major championship and is going off at 18/1 to win it on home soil in this year’s U.S. Open. Fowler finished in the top five in all four major tournaments in 2014, but couldn’t find his way up to the top of the leaderboard by Sunday in any of them.
Other potential contenders include Phil Mickelson (16/1), Dustin Johnson (18/1), Henrik Stenson (25/1), Adam Scott (28/1), Bubba Watson (28/1) and Hideki Matsuyama (28/1). Tiger Woods is going off at 50/1 odds to win the U.S. Open.
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