Rory McIlroy has seen his odds of winning this year’s Masters cut into 11/2 (from 7/1) after closing out last week’s Houston Open with a 64 for a top-5 finish.
The Holywood man has started his 2025 season in blistering form, carding successes at the AT&T Pebble-Beach Pro-Am and the Players Championship to bolster top-20 finishes at both the Genesis Open and Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Odds of 11/8 suggest that a win in at least one of golf’s four major events beckons this year for the world number two, who was last seen winning at the highest level at the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla.
A decade long major drought continues to dominate headlines, but with 21 top-10 finishes in majors since and an agonising defeat at the US Open last year behind him, punters are now banking on McIlroy to take advantage of his fine form and complete a career grand slam at next week’s Masters.
Scottie Scheffler is set to tee it up as the 9/2 favourite to secure a third green jacket, with Collin Morikawa (14/1), Ludvig Åberg (16/1) and last year’s US Open winner Bryson DeChambeau (20/1) all well-fancied to earn themselves a winner’s interview in the famous Butler Cabin.
Shane Lowry will have to overcome odds of 33/1, but the Offaly man is a better fancied 20/1 shot for the Open Championship in July, which returns to the scene of his 2019 triumph at Royal Portrush.
Brian O’Keeffe, spokesperson for BoyleSports, said: “We’ve entered an 11th year without a major for Rory McIlroy but he is heading to Augusta in red-hot form, and punters think that a Masters victory and career grand slam will finally be on his scorecard in 2025.”
The Masters 2025
9/2 Scottie Scheffler
11/2 Rory McIlroy
14/1 Collin Morikawa
16/1 Ludvig Åberg
16/1 Jon Rahm
20/1 Bryson DeChambeau
20/1 Xander Schauffele
22/1 Justin Thomas
25/1 Joaquin Neimann
33/1 bar
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