Phil Mickelson PGA Win Fueling US Open Betting, Lefty Major Liability for Sportsbooks

Phil Mickelson made history on Kiawah Island at the PGA Championship shoemaker's last month when he became the oldest man to win a major. Now, with the world’s topper players arriving inwards Southern CA at Torrey Pines, a slew of golf game bettors are hoping the nearly 51-year-old testament deliver another labialise of heroics.

Numerous sportsbooks are reporting big liabilities on Mickelson for this week’s US Open. That shouldn’t come in as a surprise. Along with Lefty impertinent off his 6th major championship, Torrey Pines is where the World Golf Granville Stanley Hall of Fame fellow member grew up.

The San Diego aborigine has won ternion times at Torrey Pines, but his utmost triumph at the storeyed line came ii decades ago inward 2001.

Lefty Largest Liability

BetMGM opened its US Open odds on Mickelson at 150/1. But next his PGA title, and a hotfoot of bets on the 50-year-old, that line of products has been slash to 50/1.

Numerous other oddsmakers are also reporting wakeless activeness on Mickelson. William Hill said that after Phil won the PGA on 200/1 odds, the rule book opened him at 85/1 for the US Open. Due to big amounts of wagers, he’s knock down to 45/1.

There will follow seven-figure liability on him when this kicks off. He’s really confining to leading in dollars, only if [Brooks] Koepka has more. Tickets, it’s not yet close, he’s got the most,” revealed Nick Bogdanovich, manager of trading for William James Jerome Hill US.

“I believe the only if bigger liability in a recent golf major was when Tiger [Woods] was coming rearwards from all those injuries and won the [2019] Masters,” Bogdanovich added.

At BetMGM, the volume says Mickelson is responsible for(p) for 9.9 percent of the money wagered. Only Jon Rahm has more at 10.5 percent. In terms of tickets, Mickelson’s figure is on sixer percent of the slips, trailing only when Koepka at 6.2 percent.

Golf analysts, however, aren’t sold on Mickelson winning the US Open, which would pileus sour the calling grand sweep for the veteran.

“I’d pose his chances at exceedingly slim,” opined Golf.com Senior Editor Sean Zak. “Lightning struck erstwhile at Kiawah. It was amazing. Torrey will spiel unbelievable different.”

Who Oddsmakers Favor

The superior general consensus among the books is that Rahm is the frontrunner. He has the shortest odds at William Hill, BetMGM, SuperBook, FoxBet, Unibet, and BetRivers. All hold him at 10/1. FanDuel has Lefty slightly shorter at 19/2.

Rahm held a six-shot conduct inward the tertiary round out at the Memorial Tournament before this month before he was forced to withdrawal due to testing confirming for COVID-19.

After Rahm, William Hill’s frontrunners include Koepka (12/1), Dustin President Andrew Johnson (14/1), Xander Schauffele (15/1), and Rory McIlroy, Jordan River Spieth, and Bryson DeChambeau — apiece at 20/1.

Those players — Schauffele beingness the lone exclusion — have got US Open titles to their resumes. Koepka is a two-time US Open winner, patch DeChambeau is the defending champ.

Many golf fans are hoping Koepka and DeChambeau are paired together at some gunpoint this week, as the ii hold plentitude of recent risky blood inward what’s suit a kinda ugly — albeit entertaining — plunk for and onward on societal media.