2026 The Players Championship: PGA Tour betting odds, futures picks and winner tips
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2026 The Players Championship: PGA Tour betting odds, futures picks and winner tips

A photo of golfer Hideki Matsuyama


The 2026 The Players Championship continues the PGA Tour season with the event at TPC Sawgrass' Players Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, welcoming 123 world-class players to the PGA Tour major-like event.

The 2026 The Players Championship betting odds indicate this week's favorite is Scottie Scheffler, who comes in at +400 betting odds.

Rory McIlroy is 13-to-1 this week and next best on the odds table this week as he looks to win a third Players title.

Collin Morikawa is next on the board at 24-to-1 heading into the week, and the rest of the board follows for the first PGA Tour field of the year.

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2026 The Players Championship betting picks

The The Players Championship is the 10th event of the season, as the PGA Tour goes to its headquarters for their crown jewel event.

The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass is such a brutal ask because it relentlessly asks different questions, making it challenging for any player to keep up. Slow and steady often wins the race here, but big numbers lurk everywhere.

Si Woo Kim has won here and has been excellent all year. He's also a much better player than when he won here the first time.

Hideki Matsuyama has enjoyed a very good year, though he's cooled off recently. He likes the Stadium Course and has done well here.

Shane Lowry has done all kinds of great things in this tournament, short of winning it. He's put himself in position to win twice this year.

Min Woo Lee has been on the first page of a leaderboard basiscally every time I've seen him play. He's contended here in the recent past.

2026 The Players Championship betting odds: Outright winner

PLAYER ODDS
Scottie Scheffler +400
Rory McIlroy +1300
Collin Morikawa +2400
Xander Schauffele +2500
Tommy Fleetwood +2600
Ludvig Aberg +2800
Cameron Young +3300
Hideki Matsuyama +3700
Si Woo Kim +3700
Matt Fitzpatrick +4500
Viktor Hovland +4500
Russell Henley +4500
Chris Gotterup +4500
Akhshay Bhatia +4500
Min Woo Lee +4700
Jake Knapp +4800
Brooks Koepka +5000
Patrick Cantlay +5000
Robert MacIntyre +5000
Rickie Fowler +5000
Sepp Straka +5100
Shane Lowry +5400
Maverick McNealy +5600
Kurt Kitayama +5700
Jordan Spieth +5900
Ben Griffin +6000
Daniel Berger +6000
Harris English +6000
Adam Scott +6600
Sam Burns +6600
Jacob Bridgeman +7000
Justin Rose +7000
Nicolai Hojgaard +8000
J.J Spaun +8000
Sahith Theegala +8200
Pierceson Coody +9000
Harry Hall +9000
Keith Mitchell +9000
Alex Noren +9000
Ryan Gerard +9800
Justin Thomas +10000
Taylor Pendrith +10000
Jason Day +10000
Rasmus Hojgaard +10000
Keegan Bradley +10000
Michael Thorbjornsen +10000
Aaron Rai +10500
Corey Conners +11500
Davis Thompson +12500
Wyndham Clark +12500
Nick Taylor +12500
Marco Penge +13000
Ricky Castillo +13500
Max Greyserman +13500
Tony Finau +14000
Matt McCarty +14000
Thorbjorn Olesen +15000
Sam Stevens +15000
Kristoffer Reitan +15000
Max Homa +17500
Nico Echavarria +17500
Jordan Smith +17500
Sungjae Im +17500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +17500
Mac Meissner +17500
Ryan Fox +17500
Max McGreevy +20000
Alex Smalley +20000
Denny McCarthy +20000
Ryo Hisatsune +20000
J.T Poston +20000
Hao Tong Li +20000
Michael Kim +23000
Stephan Jaeger +23000
Brian Harman +23000
Johnny Keefer +25000
Rico Hoey +25000
Mackenzie Hughes +25000
Patrick Rodgers +25000
Bud Cauley +25000
Kevin Roy +28000
Michael Brennan +29000
Aldrich Potgieter +30000
Kevin Yu +30000
Garrick Higgo +30000
Zecheng Dou +30000
Tom Hoge +31000
Andrew Novak +32500
Vincent Whaley +32500
Eric Cole +32500
Sami Valimaki +33000
Emiliano Grillo +35000
Chad Ramey +35000
Taylor Moore +35000
Matti Schmid +36000
Lucas Glover +37500
Joel Dahmen +39000
Chris Kirk +40000
Steven Fisk +40000
Lee Hodges +40000
Austin Smotherman +41000
Seonghyeon Kim +42500
Gary Woodland +46000
William Mouw +50000
Takumi Kanaya +60000
AJ Ewart +60000
Mark Hubbard +60000
Sudarshan Yellamaraju +70000
Andrew Putnam +75000
Davis Riley +75000
Chandler Phillips +75000
Jhonattan Vegas +75000
Karl Vilips +100000
Zach Bauchou +100000
Matthieu Pavon +100000
Erik van Rooyen +150000
Danny Walker +160000
Adam Schenk +160000
Brian Campbell +200000
Cam Davis +200000
Joe Highsmith +225000

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