Is this the week Rory McIlroy ends his major drought? Is Troon ripe for a first-time major winner? Who are our favorite sleepers? Our panel of golf writers and gambling experts break down the week at Royal Troon.
The 2024 British Open has arrived, and the fourth major of the season is packed with storylines and an elite field as the week kicks off at Royal Troon. Here to break it down we have once again convened a panel ofHe’s at +450 on DraftKings
. Rory McIlroy is the second choice, followed by Xander Schauffele , Ludvig Aberg and Bryson DeChambeau . Do the books have the right top five?Hard to argue with that lineup and that order. We’d be quibbling. Scheffler is undoubtedly the favorite, even if he has no experience at the course. He’s coming off a victory in his last start. Skipped the Scottish Open to be better prepared. The other major winners along with a couple of excellent iron plays makes perfect sense.
We’ve spent a lot of time discussing Scheffler in these betting previews, but McIlroy may enter as the biggest story, as he makes his major return after a Pinehurst U.S. Open that will go down as an all-time major heartbreak. How are you betting McIlroy this week?His chances are no worse for having fallen at Pinehurst. McIlroy has fallen before and dusted himself off, got up and fought again. He will do that this time. Will he win? Maybe not.
This will be Troon’s 10th Open, and the last featured an epic final-round duel between Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson. What player profile are you looking for when setting your lineups and making your wagers this week?The best players typically excel no matter the venue. Mickelson and Stenson were not exactly outliers eight years ago, although they blew everyone else in the field away. Sticking with the best of the best makes sense here.I think this is the hardest major to bet by far.
The Open is the season’s last chance for a major-less player to remove himself from the Best Without a Major list. Xander Schauffele extracted himself from the list at Valhalla. Who has the best chance to do it at Troon?Patrick Cantlay. He finally got himself deep in the mix at a major last month at the U.S. Open. The hope is that the injury issue that knocked him out of the John Deere was more of a precautionary move.Ludvig Aberg.
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