No other futures market lets a course setup reshape the favorite’s chances before a single shot is struck. Narrow the fairways, grow the rough an inch, and the leaderboard math changes even though nobody has swung a club yet. A U.S. Open number reacts to agronomy reports and pin placements the way other majors react to actual scores on a Sunday back nine.

That is what separates this board from the rest of the golf calendar. The setup rewards the player who finds short grass and turns fairway discipline into a real strategy, and the market usually takes longer than it should to price that reality in. A bettor who understands that gap is working with information the odds have not fully absorbed yet.

2027 U.S. Open Odds

Updated Wednesday, October 28 · best price across 3 booksBetRiversDraftKingsBetMGM
Favorite#1
Scottie Scheffler
+45018.2% implied · BetRivers
7d evenopen even
Second favorite#2
Rory McIlroy
+80011.1% implied · BetRivers
7d evenopen even
Third favorite#3
Jon Rahm
+14006.7% implied · BetMGM
7d evenopen even
Movers this weekShane Lowry+6600 → +6500-2%Scottie Scheffler+450 → +450evenRory McIlroy+800 → +800evenJon Rahm+1200 → +1200even
#PlayerBest priceBookImplied7 daysSince start
1Scottie Scheffler+450BetRivers18.2%eveneven
2Rory McIlroy+800BetRivers11.1%eveneven
3Jon Rahm+1400BetMGM6.7%eveneven
4Xander Schauffele+1600BetRivers5.9%eveneven
5Ludvig Aberg+2200DraftKings4.3%eveneven
6Tommy Fleetwood+2200DraftKings4.3%eveneven
7Matthew Fitzpatrick+2500DraftKings3.8%eveneven
8Cameron Young+2500BetRivers3.8%eveneven
9Bryson DeChambeau+2800BetRivers3.4%eveneven
10Sam Burns+3300DraftKings2.9%eveneven
11Wyndham Clark+3300DraftKings2.9%eveneven
12Collin Morikawa+3300BetRivers2.9%eveneven
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13Justin Rose+4000DraftKings2.4%eveneven
14Tyrrell Hatton+4000DraftKings2.4%eveneven
15Brooks Koepka+4000BetRivers2.4%eveneven
16Justin Thomas+4000BetRivers2.4%eveneven
17Russell Henley+4500DraftKings2.2%eveneven
18Viktor Hovland+4500DraftKings2.2%eveneven
19Christopher Gotterup+5000DraftKings2.0%eveneven
20Jackson Koivun+5000DraftKings2.0%eveneven
21Patrick Reed+5000DraftKings2.0%eveneven
22Si Woo Kim+5000DraftKings2.0%eveneven
23Joaquin Niemann+5500DraftKings1.8%––
24Hideki Matsuyama+6000DraftKings1.6%eveneven
25Patrick Cantlay+6000DraftKings1.6%eveneven
26Jordan Spieth+6600BetMGM1.5%eveneven
27Robert MacIntyre+6600BetMGM1.5%eveneven
28Shane Lowry+6600BetMGM1.5%-2%-2%
29Ben Griffin+7000DraftKings1.4%eveneven
30J.J. Spaun+7000DraftKings1.4%eveneven
31Maverick McNealy+7000DraftKings1.4%––
32Min Woo Lee+7000DraftKings1.4%eveneven
33Gary Woodland+8000DraftKings1.2%––
34Aaron Rai+8000BetRivers1.2%eveneven
35Michael Brennan+8000BetRivers1.2%––
36Kurt Kitayama+8400DraftKings1.2%eveneven
37Jake Knapp+9000DraftKings1.1%––
38Adam Scott+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
39Akshay Bhatia+10000BetRivers1.0%––
40Alex Fitzpatrick+10000BetRivers1.0%––
41Cameron Smith+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
42Corey Conners+10000BetRivers1.0%––
43David Puig+10000BetRivers1.0%––
44Dustin Johnson+10000BetRivers1.0%––
45Harris English+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
46Jacob Bridgeman+10000BetRivers1.0%––
47Kristoffer Reitan+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
48Rickie Fowler+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
49Ryan Gerard+10000BetRivers1.0%––
50Sepp Straka+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
51Nicolai Hojgaard+10000BetRivers1.0%eveneven
52Keith Mitchell+11000DraftKings0.9%––
53Joohyung Kim+11000DraftKings0.9%––
54Alexander Noren+12500DraftKings0.8%––
55Alex Smalley+12500DraftKings0.8%eveneven
56Sahith Theegala+12500DraftKings0.8%––
57Jason Day+12500DraftKings0.8%––
58Keegan Bradley+13000DraftKings0.8%eveneven
59Ryan Fox+13000DraftKings0.8%––
60Brian Harman+15000DraftKings0.7%eveneven
61Sam Stevens+15000BetRivers0.7%––
62Sungjae Im+15000BetRivers0.7%––
63Ryo Hisatsune+18000DraftKings0.6%––
64Benjamin James+20000BetRivers0.5%––
65Pierceson Coody+20000BetRivers0.5%––
66Max Greyserman+25000DraftKings0.4%––
67Adrien Dumont+30000DraftKings0.3%––
68John Keefer+30000DraftKings0.3%––
69Michael Kim+30000DraftKings0.3%––
70John Parry+40000DraftKings0.2%––
71Max McGreevy+40000DraftKings0.2%––
Only one book still prices these
72Eugenio Lopez Chacarra+6600BetMGM1.5%––
73Bud Cauley+10000BetRivers1.0%––
74J.T. Poston+10000BetRivers1.0%––
75Rasmus Hojgaard+15000BetMGM0.7%––
76Sudarshan Yellamaraju+17500DraftKings0.6%––
77Nick Taylor+17500DraftKings0.6%––
78Ben Kohles+20000BetRivers0.5%––
79Nicolas Echavarria+20000DraftKings0.5%––
80Harry Hall+20000DraftKings0.5%––
81Davis Thompson+20000DraftKings0.5%––
82Emiliano Grillo+25000BetRivers0.4%––
83Laurie Canter+25000BetRivers0.4%––
84Niklas Norgaard Moller+25000BetRivers0.4%––
85Matt McCarty+25000DraftKings0.4%––
86Lucas Herbert+25000DraftKings0.4%––
87Daniel Berger+25000DraftKings0.4%––
88Chris Kirk+25000DraftKings0.4%––
89Carlos Ortiz+27500DraftKings0.4%––
90Matthias Schwab+30000DraftKings0.3%––
91Jackson Suber+30000DraftKings0.3%––
92Andrew Putnam+30000DraftKings0.3%––
93Andrew Novak+30000DraftKings0.3%––
94Angel Hidalgo+35000BetRivers0.3%––
95Harry Higgs+35000BetRivers0.3%––
96Zac Blair+35000BetRivers0.3%––
97Patrick Rodgers+40000DraftKings0.2%––
98Jayden Trey Schaper+40000DraftKings0.2%––

Best price is the longest number we found across BetRivers, DraftKings, 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.

Grinding Beats Glamour on This Setup

The identity of this market comes straight from the course. A U.S. Open layout is built to punish anyone who tries to overpower it, and that turns fairway-finders and grinders into live threats even when a marquee name sits ahead of them on the board. Betting this market well means weighing driving accuracy and scrambling numbers as seriously as scoring average, because the setup rewards exactly that kind of game over raw distance.

The price on Shane Lowry tells that story on its own. It has shortened by 2% to sit at +6600, a move that usually traces back to how the course is expected to play rather than anything that happened in competition. Reports on rough length and green speed shift prices here the way injury news moves other sports, and a bettor who tracks those reports is often ahead of the number.

Turning a U.S. Open Price Into a Real Probability

Every price on this board converts to a probability, and every one of those probabilities carries juice the sportsbook keeps for itself. Scottie Scheffler at +450 implies a 18.2% chance of winning the 2027 U.S. Open, and Rory McIlroy at +800 backs out to a smaller number still. Add up every player’s implied probability and the total runs well past one hundred percent, and that gap is the house’s cut on the whole field.

That is why shopping BetRivers, DraftKings, BetMGM before placing a ticket beats trusting one number on one screen. The same player can carry a different price at each book, and on a field this deep those differences add up fast. A bettor who checks each one before betting is paying less juice for the same outcome, which is the only edge on this market that does not require picking a single winner.

What the Top Actually Pays, What the Middle Gets Wrong

Backing the top of a U.S. Open board pays the way favorites pay anywhere: less often than a hunch, but with a real shot most players on the board simply do not have. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy carry shorter prices because the market trusts their overall games, and that trust is usually earned. The mistake shows up further down, where players built exactly for this kind of test get buried under a bigger name’s shadow.

Jayden Trey Schaper at +40000 is the extreme version of that mistake. A price that long only cashes if the setup breaks in that player’s favor and the fairways get found often enough to survive four hard rounds, but it also proves this board does not price for reputation the way other majors do. The middle third of the field, not the very bottom, is usually where a fairway-finder gets priced like an afterthought instead of the live threat this course can make of him.

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