US PGA Championship betting tips: Five contenders to consider

US PGA Championship odds: 10/1

Major wins: 1 (US Open 2021)

Rahm had always looked a major winner in waiting and got over the line in style with a birdie-birdie finish to win the 2021 US Open at Torrey Pines, just 15 days after being forced to withdraw from the Memorial Tournament after testing positive for coronavirus.

Rahm recorded four top-eight finishes in last year’s majors and bounced back from a tie for 27th in April’s Masters by winning on his next start in Mexico.

Rory McIlroy

US PGA Championship odds: 12/1

Major wins: 4 (US Open 2011, US PGA 2012, 2014, The Open 2014)

McIlroy’s runner-up finish at the Masters has to be assessed in the light of a closing 64 when the pressure was off and a three-stroke margin aided by Scheffler’s four-putt on the 72nd hole.

However, there is no denying McIlroy is putting up some impressive numbers on the PGA Tour as he ranks third in strokes gained off the tee, fifth from tee to green and 17th around the green.

A third US PGA title for the 33-year-old would come as no surprise.

Jordan Spieth

US PGA Championship odds: 14/1

Major wins: 3 (Masters 2015, US Open 2015, The Open 2017)

Former Masters champion Spieth missed the cut at Augusta National for the first time in his career but also rebounded immediately, winning the RBC Heritage nine days later.

The 28-year-old Texan needs to win the US PGA to become only the sixth player to have won all four major titles and will be a big threat if he can ally some impressive approach play with an improvement in his unusually poor putting – he ranked 186th in strokes gained putting for the season even after his win at Hilton Head.

Spieth’s odds were slashed after he finished runner-up at the AT&T Byron Nelson last week.

Tiger Woods

US PGA Championship odds: 55/1

Major wins: 15 (Masters 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019, US Open 2000, 2002, 2008, US PGA 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, The Open 2000, 2005, 2006)

Naming someone in our US PGA Championship betting tips whose last two competitive individual starts were more than 500 days apart and separated by a life-threatening car accident would normally be ridiculous, but not when the player in question is Tiger Woods.

Woods defied the odds by even competing in the Masters and amazingly carded an opening 71 before fading. He has not played since but took a recent scouting trip to Southern Hills with the club’s director of golf Cary Cozby as his caddie.

“I think he can contend,” Cozby said. “Whoever wins here is going to have to be a great chipper and he is still that.”

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