Scottie Scheffler is looking to make more history at TPC Sawgrass. Here are the latest odds and our staff picks for The Players.
The first of six massive events on the 2025 golf calendar is now upon us.
The Players Championship, held annually at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, features 144 of the best players on the PGA Tour. Forty-eight of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) are in the field this week. That includes Laurie Canter, a former LIV Golf player who left the Saudi-backed circuit in 2023 and has flourished on the DP World Tour over the past year. Canter has won twice, which helped raise his OWGR ranking to within the top-50 — those within the top-50 in the OWGR receive exemptions into The Players.
But the biggest storyline of the week revolves around World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who is not only eyeing a third straight victory at The Players but also his first win of 2025. Scheffler hit the ball well from tee-to-green last week at Bay Hill, but an ice cold putter prevented him from threatening the winner’s circle. He tied for 11th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Still, Scheffler arrives at TPC Sawgrass as a massive favorite.
The Players Championship Odds:
Here are the latest odds for players to win The 2025 Players, courtesy of FanDuel:
Scottie Scheffler +400
Rory McIlroy +1100
Collin Morikawa +1400
Ludvig Åberg +1800
Justin Thomas +2200
Xander Schauffele +2500
Tommy Fleetwood +3000
Hideki Matsuyama +3300
Russell Henley +3500
Shane Lowry +4000
Patrick Cantlay +4000
Sepp Straka +4500
Keegan Bradley +5000
Sungjae Im +5500
Corey Conners +6000
Wyndham Clark +6000
Jason Day +6500
Daniel Berger +6500
Si Woo Kim +6500
Robert MacIntyre +6500
Jordan Spieth +7000
Tony Finau +7500
Michael Kim +7500
Maverick McNealy +7500
Aaron Rai +7500
Sam Burns +8000
Viktor Hovland +8000
Will Zalatoris +8000
Tom Kim +9000
Denny McCarthy +9000
Taylor Pendrith +10000
Min Woo Lee +10000
Adam Scott +10000
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Playing Through’s Picks:
Jack Milko — Staff Writer, Golf
Outside of being wayward off the tee this season, every aspect of Hideki Matsuyama’s game has been world-class. The 2021 Masters winner is sixth on tour in strokes gained overall and second in scrambling — his short-game is highly underrated.
Another thing that is world-class? Matsuyama’s resume at TPC Sawgrass.
In his 10 career starts at The Players, Matsuyama has four top-10 finishes and held the first round lead in 2020 before COVID-19 cancelled the tournament. Matsuyama also has the best scoring average at TPC Sawgrass since 2019, averaging a score of 69.5, per golf statistician Justin Ray. That does not include the 9-under 63 Matsuyama fired on March 12, 2020.
That’s all to say that if he can find the fairway more consistently off the tee, Matsuyama will win on Sunday.
FanDuel Odds: Matsuyama to win at +3300
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RJ Ochoa — Senior Producer, Blogging the Boys
History says that players who are hot generally find a way to win at The Players. Obviously it kickstarts the major, no pun intended, tournaments on the season.
It is as chalk as it gets, but I am going with Scottie Scheffler. I am not going to vote in a way that works against history because that feels unwise relative to who he has demonstrated to be.
Give me Scottie versus the field, literally, and some history on Sunday with a three-peat.
FanDuel Odds: Scheffler to win at +400
Mark Schofield — Staff Writer, NFL and Formula 1
Going outside the box a bit, I’m rolling with Keegan Bradley this week.
His stunning 7-under 29 on the challenging front nine at Bay Hill last Sunday certainly caught some eyes, and Bradley has yet to miss a cut this season. Granted, his history at The Players Championship has not been great, as the last time he made the cut in this tournament came back in 2022.
Still, with how he finished at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Ryder Cup Captain is an intriguing pick headed into TPC Sawgrass.
FanDuel Odds: Bradley to win at +5000
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Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko.
