The 2026 Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event, takes place this week at TPC Sawgrass, and Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy top the betting favorites. Here’s everything you need to know about the Players Championship odds and other betting favorites to start the week.
Players Championship Betting Favorites
As Players Championship week kicks off at TPC Sawgrass, the two most recent winners top the pre-tournament betting odds. They also happen to be among the few pros to have won two Players titles in their careers.
Of course those players are Scottie Scheffler And Rory McIlroy.
Scheffler, the number 1 in the world, emerges as the big betting favorite at the Players with +350 winning odds. The 2023 and 2024 Players champion won his first start in 2026, but he posted his worst finish of the year, a T24, at last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Mclroy, the defending Players champion, is second in the Players odds and enters the week with odds-to-win of +1200. Although he finished T2 at the Genesis Invitational, McIlroy withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational after two rounds with a back injury.
Finishing the top 5 in the pre-tournament betting is a cinch PGA Tour stars Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood And Xander Schauffeleall with a +2500 chance of winning.
Below you can view the top 20 and tied betting odds for the 2026 Players Championship as of Monday morning, or download the Fanatics Sportsbook app to view the full list of odds and bets for this week.
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Betting Odds for the 2026 Players Championship
Scottie Scheffler (+350)
Rory McIlroy (+1200)
Collin Morikawa (+2500)
Tommy Fleetwood (+2500)
Xander Schauffele (+2500)
Ludvig Aberg (+3000)
Cameron Young (+3250)
Si Woo Kim (+3500)
Hideki Matsuyama (+4000)
Chris Gotterup (+4500)
Russel Henley (+4500)
Akshay Bhatia (+5000)
Brooks Koepka (+5000)
Matt Fitzpatrick (+5000)
Patrick Cantlay (+5000)
Shane Lowry (+5000)
Viktor Hovland (+5000)
Jake Knapp (+5500)
Min Woo Lee (+5500)
Rickie Fowler (+5500)
Robert MacIntyre (+5500)
Sepp Straka (+5500)
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