Scottie Scheffler looks to go back-to-back at The Open Championship when he competes in the 2026 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, July 16-19. Scheffler won last year's event by four strokes over Harris English. Scheffler, who missed the cut at the Scottish Open last week, is looking to win consecutive The Open Championship titles since Padraig Harrington of Ireland did it in 2007 and 2008.
The last American to do so was Tiger Woods in 2005 and 2006. He enters Round 1 on July 16 as the +700 favorite (risk $100 to win $700) in the latest 2026 Open Championship odds from FanDuel Sportsbook, followed by Rory McIlroy (+850). Other top British Open contenders include Matt Fitzpatrick (+1500), Tommy Fleetwood (+1800) and Jon Rahm (+2200). Before making any 2026 The Open Championship picks, you need to see the 2026 The Open Championship predictions from golf expert David Bearman.
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Bearman joins SportsLine after serving as ESPN's golf researcher from 2008-11 and as the Deputy Editor of ESPN Chalk from 2019-23, where he authored the weekly golf betting column for that site. He started the year by chasing 28 placement golf betting picks (top 5/10/20) in the first 11 tournaments and hit Cam Young outright at The Players Championship. He also hit on Matt Fitzpatrick at the RBC Heritage and Cam Young at the Cadillac Championship, and is up more than 18 units in 2026.
Now, Bearman has focused on the 2026 The Open Championship field and locked in his predictions, sleepers and golfers to avoid. You can only see them here.
One of Bearman's 2026 The Open Championship predictions: He is fading two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, suggesting that he could miss the cut if his poor form continues. DeChambeau opened as low as +2800 at some books, but is now at +5000 on FanDuel. DeChambeau has nine wins on the PGA Tour and 16 wins as a professional. He has five LIV Golf League wins, including a playoff victory at the LIV Golf South Africa tournament this past March, but Bearman doesn't like his outlook at Royal Birkdale this year.
"He was downright awful at the last two majors, losing 2 shots on approach at the U.S. Open and 2.16 strokes to the field around the greens at the PGA Championship in May," Bearman told SportsLine. "A repeat of that, and his flight back to the States will depart Saturday morning. He has not played since the U.S. Open, and while making YouTube videos is fun and all, you have to ask yourself where his head is right now with the LIV future in question." See who Bearman is backing at SportsLine.
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Bearman has revealed his best bets, including a surprising longshot who is priced at around 100-1 who is an elite putter and "plays well in these conditions." You can only see who it is at SportsLine.
What are the best bets for the 2026 Open Championship, and which gigantic longshot should you target? Check out the 2026 The Open Championship odds below, then visit SportsLine to see David Bearman's top picks for the 2026 Open Championship, all from the expert who is up over 18 units in 2026.
Scottie Scheffler +700Rory McIlroy +850Matt Fitzpatrick +1500Tommy Fleetwood +1800Jon Rahm +2200Xander Schauffele +2500Wyndham Clark +3000Chris Gotterup +3000Collin Morikawa +3000Cameron Young +3000Justin Rose +3000Ludvig Åberg +3300Robert MacIntyre +3300Tyrrell Hatton +3500Viktor Hovland +4000Russell Henley +4500Sam Burns +4500Bryson DeChambeau +5000Tom Kim +5000Patrick Reed +5500Shane Lowry +6000Brooks Koepka +6000Joaquin Niemann +6000Justin Thomas +6000Si Woo Kim +6000Aaron Rai +6500Min Woo Lee +6500Alex Fitzpatrick +6500Jordan Spieth +6500Patrick Cantlay +7000Rickie Fowler +10000Maverick McNealy +10000Brian Harman +10000Corey Conners +10000Adam Scott +10000Nicolai Højgaard +10000Harris English +10000Kurt Kitayama +10000Cameron Smith +10000JJ Spaun +10000Akshay Bhatia +10000Kristoffer Reitan +10000Ben Griffin +10000Hideki Matsuyama +10000Michael Thorbjornsen +10000David Puig +12500Sepp Straka +12500Marco Penge +12500Eugenio Chacarra +12500Alex Noren +12500Jason Day +12500Victor Perez +12500Jacob Bridgeman +15000Bud Cauley +15000Jake Knapp +15000Jordan Smith +15000Rasmus Højgaard +15000Max Homa +15000Ryan Gerard +15000Ryan Fox +15000Angel Ayora +15000Johnny Keefer +15000Sungjae Im +17500Alex Smalley +17500Jayden Schaper +17500Haotong Li +17500Sahith Theegala +17500Tom McKibbin +17500Matt Wallace +17500Keegan Bradley +17500Harry Hall +17500Keith Mitchell +17500Gary Woodland +17500Ryo Hisatsune +17500Eric Cole +17500Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +17500J.T. Poston +17500Andrew Novak +22500Lucas Herbert +22500Thomas Detry +22500Daniel Berger +22500Casey Jarvis +22500Max Greyserman +22500Michael Brennan +22500Louis Oosthuizen +25000Pierceson Coody +25000Billy Horschel +25000Jackson Suber +25000Michael Kim +25000Matthew Jordan +25000Matt McCarty +25000John Parry +35000Hennie du Plessis +35000Jesper Svensson +35000Daniel Hillier +35000Sam Stevens +35000Scott Vincent +35000Keita Nakajima +35000Nick Taylor +35000Daniel Brown +35000Bernd Wiesberger +35000Michael Hollick +35000Peter Uihlein +50000Sami Valimaki +50000Laurie Canter +50000Nico Echavarria +50000Francesco Laporta +50000Kota Kaneko +75000Matthew Southgate +75000Joakim Lagergren +75000Shaun Norris +75000Frederic Lacroix +75000Sam Bairstow +75000Padraig Harrington +75000Kazuma Kobori +75000Andy Sullivan +75000Francesco Molinari +75000Adrien Saddier +75000Antoine Rozner +75000Caleb Surratt +75000Jose Luis Ballester +75000Alejandro De Castro Piera +100000Nevill Ruiter +100000Baard Bjoernevik Skogen +100000Travis Smyth +100000Dan Bradbury +100000Naoyuki Kataoka +100000MJ Daffue +100000Marcus Plunkett +100000Cameron John +100000Tiger Christensen +100000Ryutaro Nagano +100000Jeong Woo Ham +100000Lev Grinberg +100000Martin Couvra +100000Jack Buchanan +100000Stuart Grehan +100000Matthew Baldwin +100000Kazuki Higa +100000Darren Clarke +100000Fifa Laopakdee +100000David Duval +100000Mason Howell +100000Ren Yonezawa +100000Jiho Yang +100000James Nicholas +100000David Howard +100000Mateo Pulcini +100000Henrik Stenson +100000Tim Wiedemeyer +100000Stewart Cink +100000Jack McDonald +100000Alistair Docherty +100000Austen Truslow +100000Tom Sloman +100000
Originally reported by CBS Sports.