How To Bet Scottie Scheffler in Remaining 2024 Majors

Scottie Scheffler is inevitable.

Plenty of my media brethren spent Sunday night at Augusta National typing flowery prose to explain just how dominant the Masters champion has become. Many spoke in breathless phrasing about his generational talent level.

I consumed much of that content and appreciated all the takes, but I’d like to offer up one of my own, which is a bit more succinct: He’s the best player in the world, and he once again played better than everyone else this past weekend.

I know, I know. That’s probably not flowery or breathless enough.

It’s difficult to find the right terminology to describe Scheffler, because he’s not nearly as dynamic as Tiger Woods in his prime, he’s not as intriguing as Rory McIlroy when he was playing his best golf, and he’s certainly not as confident as Brooks Koepka in recent majors.

He’s just really damned good.

All of which helps explain his prices in the futures market for the remainder of this year and beyond.

Scottie Scheffler PGA Championship Odds

With the PGA Championship looming next month at Valhalla, the world’s No. 1-ranked player is currently +450  – right around where he spent the days leading up to last week’s Masters, when he moved to as short as +400.

Aside from a missed cut at Southern Hills two years ago, he owns three finishes of eighth or better in four career PGA starts, as the traditionally lengthy tracks seem to fit his profile. If there’s a reason to fade him here, it might only be because he’ll be a new father, elbows deep in diaper changes, though that prospect certainly didn’t rattle him in Augusta.

Scottie Scheffler U.S. Open Odds

Scheffler is similarly listed at +450 for the following month’s U.S. Open, being played at Pinehurst No. 2 for the first time in a decade. Much as with the PGA, he’s enjoyed success in recent editions of this tournament without winning, finishing seventh-or-better in each of the last three.

A former U.S. Junior Amateur champion, Scheffler is everything you’d want in a modern-day U.S. Open player, as the event has favored strong, powerful players in recent years. If you’re only taking him at one more major this year, this should be the one.

Scottie Scheffler Open Championship Odds

At the year’s final major, Scheffler owns a longer price, currently at +600 to win The Open Championship. That makes sense based on his history. By comparison, he hasn’t seem the same results at this one, with finishes of 8th-21st-23rd in the last three editions, which of course isn’t exactly terrible.

Royal Troon, this year’s host venue, does have a tradition of separating contenders from pretenders, though, as the last one here featured Henrik Stenson beating Phil Mickelson by three and everyone else by at least two touchdowns.

How To Bet Scottie Scheffler in Remaining 2024 Majors

If you’re truly bullish on Scheffler and believe he can accomplish what nobody has ever done before, you can find him at +8000 to claim the grand slam. Even the so-called Tiger Slam only included three majors in a single calendar year. If you think that price seems short, though, keep looking.

Scheffler is currently just +800 to win exactly two more majors this year. That means the odds are shorter for him to claim three this year than they are for Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka or anyone else to win any of them individually.

It might seem unlikely, considering his recent heater, but there’s obviously a possibility Scheffler only wins one of the final three majors. Want to make that play, without specifically choosing which major he’ll win? The odds for that are +160.

And then there’s the last option, which seems improbable based on what we’ve witnessed lately. If you think Scheffler is done winning majors this year, if you think he can only come close without replicating that recent success, he is currently -150 to finish the year with exactly one major title. For what it’s worth, no Masters champion since Jordan Spieth in 2015 has claimed another major later in that same year.

In the wake of Scheffler’s second Masters win, there are plenty of ways to describe his domination. Flowery prose. Breathless phrasing. In betting terms, though, nothing explains his current form better than a price much shorter than even-money for him to not win another major this year.