Scottie Scheffler sits at +450 to win the 2027 PGA Championship, and that price implies a 18.2% chance of actually closing the deal. That number isn’t a guess, it’s what the market has settled on after weighing everything bettors know about this field. I pull it from 3 sportsbooks tracking this board, and right now 80 players carry a live price, last updated September 28, 2026.

A field this size doesn’t shrink the favorite’s job, it makes the rest of the board harder to read. Plenty of recognizable names show up with a number attached, but a price and a real chance to win are two different things. That gap is where this market earns its keep.

2027 PGA Championship Odds

Updated Monday, September 28 · best price across 3 booksDraftKingsBetRiversBetMGM
Favorite#1
Scottie Scheffler
+45018.2% implied · DraftKings
7d –open even
Second favorite#2
Rory McIlroy
+80011.1% implied · DraftKings
7d –open even
Third favorite#3
Jon Rahm
+12007.7% implied · BetRivers
7d –open even
#PlayerBest priceBookImplied7 daysSince start
1Scottie Scheffler+450DraftKings18.2%–even
2Rory McIlroy+800DraftKings11.1%–even
3Jon Rahm+1200BetRivers7.7%–even
4Xander Schauffele+1600BetRivers5.9%–even
5Ludvig Aberg+1800DraftKings5.3%–even
6Cameron Young+1800DraftKings5.3%–even
7Bryson DeChambeau+2200DraftKings4.3%–even
8Tommy Fleetwood+2800BetRivers3.4%–even
9Matthew Fitzpatrick+3300DraftKings2.9%–even
10Justin Thomas+3300DraftKings2.9%–even
11Collin Morikawa+3300DraftKings2.9%–even
12Wyndham Clark+4000BetMGM2.4%–even
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13Sam Burns+4000DraftKings2.4%–even
14Brooks Koepka+4000DraftKings2.4%–even
15Jackson Koivun+4000BetRivers2.4%––
16Justin Rose+5000BetRivers2.0%–even
17Viktor Hovland+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
18Tyrrell Hatton+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
19Russell Henley+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
20Patrick Reed+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
21Patrick Cantlay+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
22Christopher Gotterup+5000DraftKings2.0%–even
23Min Woo Lee+6000DraftKings1.6%–even
24Hideki Matsuyama+6000DraftKings1.6%–even
25Robert MacIntyre+6600BetRivers1.5%–even
26Si Woo Kim+6600DraftKings1.5%–even
27Jordan Spieth+6600DraftKings1.5%–even
28Joaquin Niemann+6600DraftKings1.5%––
29Nicolai Hojgaard+7000DraftKings1.4%–even
30Jake Knapp+7000DraftKings1.4%––
31Maverick McNealy+8000BetRivers1.2%––
32J.J. Spaun+8000BetRivers1.2%–even
33Rickie Fowler+8000BetRivers1.2%–even
34Ben Griffin+8000BetRivers1.2%–even
35Shane Lowry+8000DraftKings1.2%–even
36Sepp Straka+8000DraftKings1.2%–even
37Aaron Rai+8000DraftKings1.2%–even
38Adam Scott+9000BetMGM1.1%–even
39Akshay Bhatia+10000DraftKings1.0%––
40Kurt Kitayama+10000DraftKings1.0%–even
41Kristoffer Reitan+10000DraftKings1.0%––
42Jacob Bridgeman+10000DraftKings1.0%––
43Harris English+10000DraftKings1.0%–even
44Cameron Smith+10000DraftKings1.0%–even
45Rasmus Hojgaard+12500DraftKings0.8%–even
46Jason Day+12500DraftKings0.8%–even
47Tiger Woods+15000DraftKings0.7%–even
48Max Greyserman+15000DraftKings0.7%––
49Keegan Bradley+15000DraftKings0.7%–even
50Brian Harman+15000DraftKings0.7%–even
51Alex Smalley+15000DraftKings0.7%–even
Only one book still prices these
52Joohyung Kim+6600BetRivers1.5%––
53Gary Woodland+8000DraftKings1.2%––
54Sungjae Im+10000DraftKings1.0%––
55Marco Penge+10000DraftKings1.0%––
56David Puig+10000DraftKings1.0%––
57Corey Conners+10000DraftKings1.0%––
58Alex Fitzpatrick+10000DraftKings1.0%––
59Ryan Gerard+11000DraftKings0.9%––
60Thomas Detry+12500DraftKings0.8%––
61Ryan Fox+12500DraftKings0.8%––
62Nick Taylor+12500DraftKings0.8%––
63Michael Thorbjornsen+12500DraftKings0.8%––
64Alexander Noren+12500DraftKings0.8%––
65Tony Finau+15000DraftKings0.7%––
66Sudarshan Yellamaraju+15000DraftKings0.7%––
67Sahith Theegala+15000DraftKings0.7%––
68Pierceson Coody+15000DraftKings0.7%––
69Angel Ayora+15000DraftKings0.7%––
70Michael Kim+17500DraftKings0.6%––
71Daniel Berger+17500DraftKings0.6%––
72Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen+20000DraftKings0.5%––
73Max Homa+20000DraftKings0.5%––
74Matt McCarty+20000DraftKings0.5%––
75Harry Hall+20000DraftKings0.5%––
76Christiaan Bezuidenhout+20000DraftKings0.5%––
77Billy Horschel+20000DraftKings0.5%––
78Matthias Schwab+25000DraftKings0.4%––
79Matti Schmid+25000BetRivers0.4%––
80Phil Mickelson+40000DraftKings0.2%––

Best price is the longest number we found across DraftKings, BetRivers, BetMGM. Implied probability strips nothing out; the whole board adds to more than 100% and that gap is the books’ margin. Movement is the change in what a winning dollar pays, so a move means the same thing at the top of the board and at the bottom; green means the price shortened. It reads across the books quoting a player both then and now, and a row too thinly quoted to compare shows a dash rather than a number. Since start runs from the first day we have every book’s price, which is not the market’s opening line.

Separating Contenders From Famous Names in a Crowded Field

On paper this is a deep field, and that depth is the whole bet. A packed leaderboard means a lot of familiar names carry a price simply because bettors recognize them, not because they’ve shown the form to back it up. Betting reputation instead of recent play is how tickets go bad in a major with this many entries.

The practical move is to treat every name below the top of the board as unproven until current form says otherwise. Recent finishes, how a player has handled major-caliber setups lately, and where they stand right now matter more than a big name from a few seasons back. That’s the separation this market demands, and it’s the difference between a price that pays and a price that just feels safe.

What Backing the Favorite Actually Pays, and Where the Board Overprices

Backing Scottie Scheffler or any name at the top of the board is a bet on consistency, not a discount. Chalk in a field this deep still has to beat a huge number of live entries, so the price rarely feels generous even when the player is clearly the best in the group. That’s fine as a small piece of a ticket, but it isn’t where the profit usually sits over a full season of these bets.

The middle of the board is where pricing mistakes actually live. That’s where a name like Phil Mickelson at +40000 either gets buried by long odds that ignore real course fit, or props up a price nobody bothered to update. Watch for movement here too.

The Math Every PGA Championship Price Has to Pass

Every price on this board converts to an implied probability, and that number already has the book’s juice baked in. A favorite at +450 implying 18.2% isn’t purely a reflection of skill, part of that number is the house’s cut for booking the bet in the first place. Knowing that keeps you from treating a short price as a sure thing.

That juice is exactly why shopping matters more here than a hunch ever will. The same player can carry a different number across DraftKings, BetRivers, BetMGM, and grabbing the best of those prices is free value sitting in plain sight. Compare the board before placing anything, because the gap between the best price and the worst one is real money left on the table for anyone who doesn’t bother to check.

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