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 contenders to win The Open include English golfers Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood, both at +1500, Jon Rahm (+2000) and Xander Schauffele (+2700). 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.
Top 2026 The Open Championship expert picks
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, and is now at +6500 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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How to make 2026 Open Championship picks
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.
2026 Open Championship odds, field
See 2026 Open Championship picks, best bets and predictions here. Odds via FanDuel (subject to change)
Scottie Scheffler +700 Rory McIlroy +850 Tommy Fleetwood +1500 Matt Fitzpatrick +1500 Jon Rahm +2000 Xander Schauffele +2700 Collin Morikawa +3000 Viktor Hovland +3000 Robert MacIntyre +3000 Wyndham Clark +3300 Chris Gotterup +3300 Cameron Young +3300 Tyrrell Hatton +3300 Ludvig Åberg +3300 Justin Rose +3300 Russell Henley +4000 Shane Lowry +4500 Si Woo Kim +4500 Tom Kim +4500 Sam Burns +4500 Min Woo Lee +5000 Patrick Reed +5000 Justin Thomas +5500 Aaron Rai +6000 Alex Fitzpatrick +6000 Patrick Cantlay +6000 Bryson DeChambeau +6500 Joaquin Niemann +6500 Brooks Koepka +7000 JJ Spaun +7000 Jordan Spieth +8000 Ben Griffin +8000 Hideki Matsuyama +8000 Rickie Fowler +10000 Maverick McNealy +10000 Brian Harman +10000 Adam Scott +10000 Nicolai Højgaard +10000 Harris English +10000 Kurt Kitayama +10000 Matt Wallace +10000 Ryan Gerard +10000 Keegan Bradley +10000 Akshay Bhatia +10000 Kristoffer Reitan +10000 Alex Noren +10000 Corey Conners +12500 Tom McKibbin +12500 Eugenio Chacarra +12500 Victor Perez +12500 Alex Smalley +15000 Bud Cauley +15000 Cameron Smith +15000 Ryan Fox +15000 Keith Mitchell +15000 J.T. Poston +15000 David Puig +17500 Sepp Straka +17500 Jacob Bridgeman +17500 Jake Knapp +17500 Marco Penge +17500 Jordan Smith +17500 Max Homa +17500 Michael Kim +17500 Casey Jarvis +17500 Nick Taylor +17500 Jason Day +17500 Gary Woodland +17500 Eric Cole +17500 Johnny Keefer +17500 Michael Thorbjornsen +17500 John Parry +22500 Haotong Li +22500 Sahith Theegala +22500 Sam Stevens +22500 Max Greyserman +22500 Angel Ayora +22500 Harry Hall +22500 Matt Mccarty +22500 Sungjae Im +25000 Sami Valimaki +25000 Pierceson Coody +25000 Rasmus Højgaard +25000 Andrew Novak +25000 Lucas Herbert +25000 Laurie Canter +25000 Thomas Detry +25000 Nico Echavarria +25000 Ryo Hisatsune +25000 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +25000 Aldrich Potgieter +25000 Jayden Schaper +35000 Daniel Hillier +35000 Billy Horschel +35000 Jackson Suber +35000 Daniel Berger +35000 Michael Brennan +35000 Bernd Wiesberger +35000 Matthew Jordan +35000 Stewart Cink +35000 Hennie du Plessis +50000 Jesper Svensson +50000 Scott Vincent +50000 Keita Nakajima +50000 Daniel Brown +50000 Andy Sullivan +50000 Francesco Molinari +50000 Shaun Norris +75000 Padraig Harrington +75000 Adrien Saddier +75000 Francesco Laporta +75000 Joe Dean +75000 Peter Uihlein +100000 Alejandro De Castro Piera +100000 Kota Kaneko +100000 Nevill Ruiter +100000 Matthew Southgate +100000 Baard Bjoernevik Skogen +100000 Travis Smyth +100000 Dan Bradbury +100000 Naoyuki Kataoka +100000 MJ Daffue +100000 Marcus Plunkett +100000 Cameron John +100000 Tiger Christensen +100000 Ryutaro Nagano +100000 Jeong Woo Ham +100000 Lev Grinberg +100000 Martin Couvra +100000 Jack Buchanan +100000 Joakim Lagergren +100000 Frederic Lacroix +100000 Stuart Grehan +100000 Matthew Baldwin +100000 Kazuki Higa +100000 Sam Bairstow +100000 Darren Clarke +100000 Fifa Laopakdee +100000 David Duval +100000 Mason Howell +100000 Ren Yonezawa +100000 Jiho Yang +100000 James Nicholas +100000 Michael Hollick +100000 David Howard +100000 Mateo Pulcini +100000 Kazuma Kobori +100000 Henrik Stenson +100000 Tim Wiedemeyer +100000 Jack McDonald +100000 Antoine Rozner +100000 Caleb Surratt +100000 Alistair Docherty +100000 Jose Luis Ballester +100000 Austen Truslow +100000 Tom Sloman +100000
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