{"id":604513,"date":"2026-04-13T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:18:15","slug":"scotty-scheffler-4-1-or-better-to-win-each-of-the-next-four-golf-majors-rory-mcilroy-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604513\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty Scheffler 4-1 or better to win each of the next four golf majors, Rory McIlroy next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After closing with fourth-best +1175 odds ahead of the 2026 Masters, <a data-player-guid=\"65575c5e-0ef2-9f58-6495-42da8638a332\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3470\/rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> became just the fourth golfer in history to win green jackets in consecutive years. Impressive as it was, McIlroy&#8217;s odds to win the PGA Championship (+650) and The Open Championship (+750) did not move as a result of his triumph at Augusta National Golf Club, though his odds to win the U.S. Open did improve from +800 to +700.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"38cbeebe-aac8-fb36-dce0-cf45436086e4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9478\/scottie-scheffler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> is still the favorite for the year&#8217;s three remaining majors, showing +400 or better at each one. Most of the top players &#8212; including <a data-player-guid=\"f7192f24-1537-e91b-de6f-3548d5989626\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9780\/jon-rahm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"b9dfbb7c-0b61-caad-280f-512c677e8e8f\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10046\/bryson-dechambeau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"b74101c7-47ae-12d2-20e6-4d78dec884d7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/437597\/ludvig-aberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludvig \u00c5berg<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"e23e62a8-8995-6b06-42f2-018c8a27e916\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10140\/xander-schauffele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xander Schauffele<\/a> &#8212; did not see their odds fluctuate based on the Masters results.<\/p>\n<p>One player whose odds did improve across the board was <a data-player-guid=\"43c55459-a359-d86e-e2a9-54961c57a033\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/442590\/cameron-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Young<\/a>, who is the reigning Players champion and was in the running with McIlroy for much of the Masters. Young was 30-1 for all three remaining majors before Augusta and is now 22-1 for the next two, as well as 25-1 for The Open. <a data-player-guid=\"25cd1b68-2fd7-49bb-68e9-6abe8d8896ba\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/569\/justin-rose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Rose<\/a>, who briefly held the solo lead at the Masters, improved to 35-1 for the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open, with his Open odds staying put at 30-1.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Masters, DraftKings offered a To Win a Major special market, which McIlroy cashed at +170 on Masters Sunday. Scheffler was -150, while DeChambeau and Rahm were +260 to be the only other golfers shorter than +500 to win a major in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsbooks also opened their odds boards for the 2027 Masters, which Scheffler (+400) and McIlroy (+600) predictably top, with no other player better than 12-1 at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Odds by <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/sports\/golf\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.espncdn.com\/i\/espnicons\/SVG\/external.svg?w=10&amp;h=10\" width=\"10\"\/> and subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Majors Title Odds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After closing with fourth-best +1175 odds ahead of the 2026 Masters, Rory McIlroy became just the fourth golfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-604513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}