2022 PGA Championship Odds: 5 Players Trending Upward Entering Southern Hills

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2022 PGA Championship Odds

GolferOdds
Jon Rahm+1200
Scottie Scheffler+1200
Rory McIlroy+1400
Collin Morikawa+1600
Justin Thomas+1600
Dustin Johnson+1800
Brooks Koepka+2000
Cameron Smith+2000
Patrick Cantlay+2000
Shane Lowry+2000
Viktor Hovland+2000
Jordan Spieth+2200
Xander Schauffele+2500
Hideki Matsuyama+3300
Will Zalatoris+3300
Daniel Berger+4000
Sam Burns+4000
Sungjae Im+4000
Tiger Woods+4000
Joaquin Niemann+4500
Louis Oosthuizen+4500
Tony Finau+4500
Corey Conners+5000
Matthew Fitzpatrick+5000
Paul Casey+5000
Tommy Fleetwood+5000
Abraham Ancer+6000
Max Homa+6000
Tyrrell Hatton+6000
Patrick Reed+6600
Webb Simpson+6600
Adam Scott+7000
Gary Woodland+8000
Jason Day+8000
Justin Rose+8000
Marc Leishman+8000
Rickie Fowler+8000
Sergio Garcia+8000
Si Woo Kim+8000
Billy Horschel+9000
Jason Kokrak+9000
Bubba Watson+10000
Harold Varner+10000
Harris English+10000
Matthew Wolff+10000
Robert MacIntyre+10000
Russell Henley+10000
Seamus Power+10000
Talor Gooch+10000
Maverick McNealy+10000
Brandt Snedeker+12500
Brian Harman+12500
Cameron Champ+12500
Charl Schwartzel+12500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout+12500
Keegan Bradley+12500
Phil Mickelson+12500
Tom Hoge+12500
Alex Noren+15000
Branden Grace+15000
Cameron Davis+15000
Cameron Tringale+15000
Carlos Ortiz+15000
Charley Hoffman+15000
Emiliano Grillo+15000
Francesco Molinari+15000
Ian Poulter+15000
Kevin Kisner+15000
Kevin Na+15000
Kevin Streelman+15000
Matt Jones+15000
Thomas Pieters+15000
Luke List+15000
Aaron Wise+17500
Brendon Todd+17500
Charles Howell+17500
Erik van Rooyen+17500
Andy Sullivan+20000
Byeong-Hun An+20000
Dylan Frittelli+20000
Joel Dahmen+20000
Kyoung-Hoon Lee+20000
Lanto Griffin+20000
Lee Westwood+20000
Mackenzie Hughes+20000
Matt Kuchar+20000
Matt Wallace+20000
Matthias Schwab+20000
Rafael Cabrera Bello+20000
Rasmus Hojgaard+20000
Sam Horsfield+20000
Sebastian Munoz+20000
Thomas Detry+20000
Victor Perez+20000
Sepp Straka+20000
Min Woo Lee+20000
Chez Reavie+25000
Garrick Higgo+25000
Graeme McDowell+25000
Harry Higgs+25000
Stewart Cink+25000
Bernd Wiesberger+30000
Danny Willett+30000
Henrik Stenson+30000
Martin Kaymer+30000
Ryan Palmer+30000
Zach Johnson+30000
Lucas Herbert+30000
J.J. Spaun+30000
Padraig Harrington+50000
Lucas Glover+50000
Jason Dufner+50000
Hudson Swafford+50000
Jimmy Walker+50000
Guido Migliozzi+50000
Chad Ramey+50000

We are less than one week away from the year’s second men’s major championship, as the world’s best players will descend upon Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., for the first PGA Championship at this venue since 2007.

That week, Tiger Woods entered as the pre-tournament favorite (surprise, surprise) at +300 and wound up cashing those outright tickets (surprise, surprise), grabbing the lead with a second-round 63 and never relinquishing it.

Nobody is nearly that much of a fave for this one – in fact, no player is shorter than 10/1 – and it shouldn’t come as a shock if this is a tourney whose lead changes hands a bunch of times next weekend.

As we start preparing for the festivities, let’s take a look at five players, from the top of the odds board to way down it, who are trending in the right direction heading into this one.

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Scottie Scheffler (+1200)

All Scheffler has done so far this year is win four titles, ascend to the No. 1 ranking in the world and claim a green jacket — and yet, it’s still not enough to make him the PGA Championship favorite, as Jon Rahm owns that honor in most books. (Rahm isn’t exactly trending poorly, either, with a victory in his most recent start.)

Scheffler will have one final opportunity to prove to oddsmakers and the public alike that he deserves the lowest number here, as he’ll play one last tune-up at this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson. Nobody has captured the first two legs of the Grand Slam since Jordan Spieth in 2015, but if there’s reason to believe it can happen this time around, this might be it: At one time, Scheffler listed his favorite course in the world as — you guessed it — Southern Hills.

Rory McIlroy (+1400)

I hate the idea of a “backdoor” top-five finish — and hate the usual criticism of such results even more. The insinuation is that a certain player is out of the mix, then plays well on the weekend to rise on the leaderboard when it matters less. But I’ll always maintain that it beats a so-called “front-door” top-five, which I assume is what we’d call it when a player is seriously contending, then falls back when it matters the most.

Anyway, Rory has obviously held this backdoor label for years, and his two most recent starts — a runner-up at the Masters and T5 at the Wells Fargo — haven’t done much to shed it. The reality is, though, that McIlroy is very close to turning his one poor round each week into just a palatable one in order to start winning tourneys again. It’s entirely conceivable that this could happen next week.

Jordan Spieth (+2200)

There aren’t many occasions when an elite-level player would consider the PGA Championship as the toughest of the four majors to win, but that’s the case for Spieth, at least over the past several years, when every time he shows up here, it’s like McIlroy at the Masters or Phil Mickelson at the U.S. Open — he has an opportunity to become just the sixth player to ever capture the career Grand Slam.

Spieth is coming off a victory just a few weeks ago at the RBC Heritage, though he admittedly didn’t play his best golf. That might be a sign he’s not quite ready to win another major — or it might be a sign that with a few tweaks in the right direction, his B-plus game can turn into the A-game he’ll need to win this one.

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Robert MacIntyre (+10000)

Since my first three players to watch here weren’t exactly shockers, I’m going to skip past a few dozen players and delve down into the triple-digits for the next one.

While the 25-year-old MacIntyre hasn’t exactly been knocking on the door lately, he has finished between ninth and 36th in each of his last seven worldwide starts. He’s also shown an early propensity for not being intimidated by major championships in his young career, making the cut in all eight appearances so far.

We should expect him to be a more popular play for The Open later this summer — and for good reason — but I don’t mind taking a shot at this number.

Stewart Cink (+25000)

If a 50-year-old can win last year’s edition of the PGA Championship, then why can’t a guy who will turn 49 on the day of next week’s third round? OK, so Cink isn’t exactly Phil Mickelson, but he does have some history at Southern Hills, having missed a short par putt on the final hole that ultimately would’ve gotten him into a playoff at the 2001 U.S. Open.

Cink is hitting the ball longer than ever off the tee and with top-10s in two of his last four starts, he’s at least worth a ticket for a similar result, even if you don’t want to chase that 250-1 outright number.

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