Scottie Scheffler betting favorite at U.S. Open, but faces longer odds - ESPN

Scottie Scheffler will be favored heading into the 2026 U.S. Open — his 15th consecutive major as the pre-tournament favorite or co-favorite — but his odds to complete the elusive career Grand Slam are not quite as short as bettors are used to.

Scheffler shows +445 odds at DraftKings Sportsbook to win at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club this weekend, but his odds are longer across the sportsbook marketplace, reaching as high as +550 as of Wednesday morning. It's a stark contrast to last year, when Scheffler entered the U.S. Open at an extremely short +275 coming off a PGA Championship victory a month earlier.

Caesars Sportsbook golf lead Anthony Salleroli told ESPN that depending on action that comes in before tee-off, he could see Scheffler's price reach as high as +700 but is expecting it to stay a bit shorter than that. Per usual, the 29-year-old Scheffler is the leading ticket attractor at several books, but it's not to the same extent as usual, according to bookmakers.

«He's taken some bets, but he's not getting the kind of action that he was when he was unstoppable,» DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello told ESPN.

The betting public could be at least vaguely aware of the potential for long shots at recent majors, particularly the U.S. Open.

Two of the past three winners of this tournament — Wyndham Clark in 2023 and J.J. Spaun in 2025 — were 100-1 or longer coming into the fray, while Aaron Rai made history at the 2026 PGA Championship by becoming one of the longest pre-tournament underdogs to win a major at up to 290-1.

According to several sportsbooks, Tommy Fleetwood (22-1), Matt Fitzpatrick (23-1), Si Woo Kim (35-1) and Sam Burns (36-1) have been popular in early betting. Clark and Spaun — coming in at much