Scottie Scheffler is getting the kind of treatment from oddsmakers that has almost exclusively been reserved for Tiger Woods.
The world’s No. 1 golfer is listed at +160 at FanDuel Sportsbook to win this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson, according to GolfOdds.com, giving the reigning tournament champion one of the shortest pre-tournament outright prices in the site’s archive.
The number comes in a weakened field, with Scheffler towering over the board as the clear class of the tournament while trying to defend his title.
The last time a golfer went into a tournament with odds shorter than Scheffler’s was when Woods was +125 to win the 2009 Buick Open. The Big Cat won the event by three strokes.
Scheffler is no stranger to gaudy pre-tournament odds, having been a pre-CJ Cup personal-best +225 favorite ahead of the Waste Management Phoenix Open and a ridiculous +275 before the 2025 U.S. Open.
One week after the PGA Championship in Philadelphia, few of the sport’s best apparently wanted to make the trek down to Texas for this weekend’s tournament.
Si Woo Kim (+1500), Jordan Spieth (+1600), and Brooks Koepka (+2200) appear to be Scheffler’s biggest competition, with no other player listed shorter than 35/1.
Scheffler comes into the weekend after a disappointing showing — by his standards — at Aronimink Golf Club.
After finishing Thursday tied atop the leaderboard with seven other golfers, Scheffler faded down the stretch, finishing T14 at 2-under, seven shots back of unlikely winner Aaron Rai.
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In the weeks leading up to the second major of the year, Scheffler had been playing some of his best golf of the season, finishing alone in second place in three straight starts, including the Masters in April.
A year ago, Scheffler faced a similarly thin field and ran away with the CJ Cup, winning by eight strokes.
He was a +275 favorite before that tournament.
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