This week the PGA Tour is in Texas for the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open at Memorial Park, and we’re picking a player who almost triumphed last week as our long shot to win. Here’s our pick, the Texas Children’s Houston Open odds, betting favorites and everything else you need to know.
Texas Children’s Houston Open odds: Long-shot bet
Our long-shot pick for this week’s event in Houston is PGA Tour rookie Chandler Phillips at +12500.
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You don’t need to look far to learn why. At last week’s Valspar Championship, Phillips put together the best start of his young PGA Tour career, a T3 finish, and he was contending for the win all weekend long.
Phillips was the college roommate of fellow Tour pro Cameron Champ. After finally earning his PGA Tour card for the 2024 season, he’s played well so far. In addition to last week’s top 10, Phillips has two other top-25s in the seven tournaments he’s played this year. And he’s only missed one cut.
If you entrust $10 on Phillips to win his first title and he does, you’ll earn $1,250. For insurance, consider placing additional small bets on Phillips to finish top 10 and top 20.
Looking for more long-shot bets for the Texas Children’s Houston Open? Our honorable mentions this week are K.H. Lee (+6600) and Carl Yuan (+1000).
Texas Children’s Houston Open odds: The favorites
One name looms above all others in the field, and in the betting odds, at this week’s Houston Open: World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler comes in as the prohibitive betting favorite at +300 odds to win.
Next in line in a distant second is 2023 U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark (+1400), followed by Will Zalatoris at +1800.
Filling out the top six in odds to win are defending champion Tony Finau (+2000), Sahith Theegala (+2200) and Jason Day (+2500).
You can see the top 15 in Texas Children’s Houston Open betting odds as of Monday afternoon below or head over to BetMGM to see the full list of odds and bets for this week.
2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open betting odds (Top 15 and ties)
Scottie Scheffler (+300)
Wyndham Clark (+1400)
Will Zalatoris (+1800)
Tony Finau (+2000)
Sahith Theegala (+2200)
Jason Day (+2500)
Alex Noren (+3300)
Keith Mitchell (+3300)
Si Woo Kim (+3300)
Billy Horschel (+4000)
Aaron Rai (+5000)
Beau Hossler (+5000)
Jake Knapp (+5000)
Mackenzie Hughes (+5000)
Stephan Jaeger (+5000)
Tom Hoge (+5000)
