BetMGM Bettors Like Rory McIlroy to Win the 2022 US Open and be First Round Leader

The 122nd US Open Golf Championship tees off Thursday from The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, and while plenty of big names and recent tournament winners crowd the list of favorites to be at the top of the leaderboard when the tournament concludes on Sunday, who will be on top after Thursday’s round one is a much more wide-open proposition.

2022 US Open Golf Odds

Rory McIlroy is the favorite in BetMGM books as of Tuesday morning, coming in at +1100, trailed by Justin Thomas at +1200, Jon Rahm at +1400 and Scottie Scheffler at +1400.

Wire-to-wire winners at the US Open are rare but BetMGM bettors like McIlroy  to go wire-to-wire. The last player to achieve that feat Martin Kayman in 2014 and the time before that, by McIlroy in 2011.

After his game collapsed during the 2011 Masters, Rory McIlroy proved the doubters wrong by recovering and winning the U.S. Open by eight shots that very same year. pic.twitter.com/ziP96TElRb

— Xonic Golf (@XonicGolf) June 8, 2022

Perhaps it’s that history from 11 years ago at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, when McIlroy ran away from the field by 8 strokes, that has bettors thinking the 33-year-old from Northern Ireland, fresh off a victory at the RBC Canadian Open last weekend, can repeat the wire-to-wire feat.

BetMGM reports 4.8% of the ticket for First Round Leader and an even more impressive 13.6% of the handle is coming in on McIlroy. 

The 4.8% ticket take is matched by Cameron Young, while trailing McIlroy in terms of handle is Jordan Spieth at 7.8%.

Spieth, who became the youngest U.S. Open champion in 108 years with his win at Chambers Bay Golf Course in Tacoma, Washington in 2015, is third in ticket take for First Round Leader, according to BetMGM, at 4.2%.

2022 US Open Golf First Round Leader Odds

Rory McIlroy +1800

Jon Rahm +2500

Collin Morikawa +2800

Jordan Spieth +2800

Justin Thomas +2800

Patrick Cantley +2800

Will Zalatoris +2800

Xander Schauffele +2800

2022 College World Series Futures

The College Baseball World Series begins this weekend in Omaha, Nebraska with the 8 survivors from regional tournaments advancing.

According to BetMGM, Stanford and Texas come in as co-favorites, each as +400 favorites to win, but betting results reported Tuesday morning show considerably more favor from bettors going Texas’ way.

The Longhorns opened at +700 to win, and Arkansas, which opened at +1000, moved up to +650 and sits second to Texas (22.22%) for ticket percentage at 20.4 and second to the Longhorns (24.7%) in handle at 18.3%.

Ole Miss in third for ticket percentage (14.4) and Texas A&M third in handle at 17.7% continues bettors’ preference for SEC schools ahead of Friday’s opening games.

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