The Open Betting Tips 2025: Who will conquer Portrush?

For only the third time ever, Royal Portrush will host The Open in 2025.

Northern Ireland has not been a regularly visited battleground for golf’s oldest major but, such was the success of the 2019 Open, it will be back and so will Portrush’s last champion Shane Lowry.

Lowry won by six shots in dream fashion. Englishmen don’t even win The Open in England, let alone Irishmen in Ireland. All eyes will be on Lowry in 2025, but more so on Rory McIlroy who is looking for his second Claret Jug and what would be another incredible Irish display of golf in front of the home crowd.

As the Masters champion and golf’s most recent grand slam winner, he will need no more motivation. Xander Schauffele is the defending champion, and Scottie Scheffler arrives at the event as the world’s best player yet again.

At Portrush, there is the Dunluce and the Valley Links. The Open will be played on the Dunluce, a par 71 designed by the iconic Harry Colt.

So let’s get stuck into who we think will win The Open and why.

HERE IS WHAT THE BOOKIES ARE SAYING

The Open Betting 2025

Venue: Royal Portrush (Dunluce), Portrush, Northern Ireland
Date: July 17-20, 2025
Course stats: Par 71, 7,337 yards
Defending champion: Xander Schauffele (-9)

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Xander Schauffele @ 9/1 (January)

Price in the week before The Open: 25/1

It is very hard to win two Open Championships in a row. The last person to do that was Padraig Harrington in 2008, but you cannot fail to be impressed by Xander Schauffele’s performance at Troon in 2024. In horrific conditions, he toughed it out to beat Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose and Billy Horschel.

Schauffele won in the wind and the rain after winning in ideal conditions at Valhalla at the PGA Championship, so he is versatile. He was second in strokes gained in total on the PGA Tour in 2024, 12th in putting and first in scrambling.

Not only is he a statistical machine, but Schauffele has 16 major top-10s since 2017. He is always there at the big tournaments and he came tied for second at Carnoustie in 2018, a golf course known to have sharp teeth.

It has been a season of frustration in 2025 with some injury trouble in February, but he still finished tied for 8th at the Masters, tied for 12th at the Valspar Championship and the US Open, and tied for 11th at the Truist Championship.

He is a Scottish Open champion and clearly takes to links golf. Although he has ballooned in price since January, watch this space.

Tommy Fleetwood @ 25/1 (January)

Price in the week before The Open: 22/1

This might be a sentimental pick or just something I want to happen. But how can’t you fancy Tommy Fleetwood to win an Open? He grew up in an area littered with links luxury, and he has come close before too.

His first proper performance at The Open came in 2018 at Carnoustie. He came tied for 12th and then outright second one year later at Royal Portrush, but he was realistically not catching Lowry. He came tied for fourth at St Andrews in 2022 and tied for 10th at Hoylake in 2023.

The popular Englishman has constantly hit the bar at majors. He came tied for third at the 2024 Masters and has seven top-fives at majors in general. His driving is good and his scrambling is excellent, but the shots have never been made and putts have never dropped when it matters. This could be the time for Fleetwood.

Despite throwing away the Travelers Championship to the delight of the winner Keegan Bradley, Fleetwood has performed solidly in 2025. He came tied for fifth at the Genesis Invitational, tied for 11th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, tied for 14th at TPC Sawgrass, seventh at the RBC Heritage, and tied for fourth at the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club.

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Tyrrell Hatton @ 28/1 (January)

Price in the week before The Open: 25/1

Tyrrell Hatton hadn’t appeared in contention in the back nine of a major championship before, until he almost won the US Open at a soaking Oakmont. A touch of bad luck in the last few holes cost his title bid.

He played well when The Open was at Royal Portrush in 2019. He came tied for sixth, and he also came tied for fifth at Troon in 2016.

He is a winner too. That is important. He has won on the PGA Tour, seven times on the DP World Tour and he won LIV Golf’s Nashville event in 2024 by six shots. He was ranked second in birdies in the LIV Golf League in 2024 and second in putting, which is a crucial quality to have on greens on a links course.

There is no denying Hatton’s class now. He is a huge part of the European Ryder Cup team and he’s maintained a good world ranking despite his avenues to points largely shut by LIV.

Importantly, Hatton is ranked ninth in the Data Golf rankings, which matches up all of the statistics from every player’s game in the world, regardless of which tour they play on. He is one of the most in-form players there is at the moment.

Tom Kim @ 40/1 (January)

Price in the week before The Open: 150/1

Tom Kim has mixed results in the majors, but there has been promise. The 2023 Open might have been a damp squib, but he came tied for second behind Brian Harman in miserable conditions at Royal Liverpool. But he also came tied for eighth at the 2023 US Open in hard and fast conditions at Los Angeles Country Club.

He came in the top 30 in three of the four majors in 2024. Kim is young too at 23 years old. I wasn’t telling you to steam in at 40/1, but there is value there for a three-time PGA Tour winner, now he has drifted to 150/1, who has won more already in the States than some players do in their entire careers.

Statistically, Kim wasn’t great in 2024. But he came tied for fourth in Canada and lost in a playoff to Scottie Scheffler at the Travelers Championship. That could’ve easily been a fourth win on the PGA Tour by his early 20s.

He has left a lot to be desired when it comes to his form on the PGA Tour in 2025. He had made one top 10, which might explain why his price has trebled.

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Matthew Jordan @ 200/1

Price in the week before The Open: 200/1

On paper, this is a bizarre pick. He has only played in four majors all of which but one have been The Open, but in 2023 and 2024, he came tied for 10th. And I suspect he was about 200/1 on both occasions and at majors, you can definitely get 10 places each way.

He has been a member of Royal Liverpool since he was a kid. Jordan is clearly at one on the links and can cope with tough conditions, as has been shown at his own course and Royal Troon on the last two editions of The Open.

This choice is mostly based on two performances which, granted, isn’t much. Jordan made the DP World Tour Championship in 2024, rewarding a solid season in Europe that saw five top-10 finishes. He is 200/1 for obvious reasons, but don’t come crying to me when Jordan is near the top of an Open leaderboard for the third time in a row, and you’ve left him untouched in the market.

In 2025, he qualified for the US Open at Walton Heath, came tied for ninth at the Soudal Open, tied for sixth in Singapore and 12th at the Hero Indian Open.

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