The 2026 Masters will start subsequent week in Augusta, Georgia, and a well-recognized face — Scottie Scheffler — is the betting favorite to win the first main of the 12 months at +500 odds at BetMGM.
Scheffler gained the 2024 Masters by 4 strokes — his second inexperienced jacket — and got here in fourth place final 12 months at -8, three photographs behind 2025 Masters winner Rory McIlroy (-11), who gained his first title at Augusta in a playoff over Justin Rose. Patrick Reed (-9) completed in third.
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Scheffler was a +450 favorite coming into final 12 months’s match and a +500 favorite coming into the 2024 Masters.
McIlroy and two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau have the next-best odds to win this 12 months’s match at 10-1, adopted by Jon Rahm (12-1), Ludvig Aberg (14-1) and Xander Schauffele (14-1). No different golfers have odds higher than 20-1 at BetMGM.
Scheffler has continued his terrific type thus far in 2026, profitable The American Express in January and ending in the prime 25 in each match he’s performed in — together with three top-five finishes.
All eyes have been on the standing of Tiger Woods, who was involved in a car crash last Friday afternoon, and was arrested after failing a area sobriety check. Police officers found two hydrocodone capsules in his pants pocket and Woods informed police he was trying at his cellphone earlier than the crash, in response to an affidavit released on Tuesday.
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Woods, a five-time Masters champion, was nonetheless amongst the checklist of entries as of Tuesday afternoon — and had 250-1 odds to win at BetMGM — however he introduced that he’s stepping away from golf “for a period of time” to hunt remedy and concentrate on his personal restoration.
The Masters is normally the most-bet golf occasion of the 12 months, each resulting from its reputation and since sportsbooks now maintain futures odds on the match open practically 12 months spherical.
