Travelers Championship 2025 Odds and Picks

Following the U.S. Open and longshot JJ Spaun’s first major title and only golfer to finish under par at Oakmont CC, the select field of 72 players head to the New England area for the Travelers Championship 2025 tournament – the 8th and final PGA Tour Signature Event at TPC River Highlands.

The $20 million no-cut event ($3.6M to winner) has world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler as the favorite and defending champion, and the Signature Event link above has last year’s top-15 finishers and more, which I provided in my coverage for Forbes. Xander Schauffele and Keegan Bradley are also recent winners of the event, and players odds, picks and inforamation you can bet on are provided below.

The Travelers Championship 2025 tee times start early Thursday, and I provide some added insight with chip-ins from my colleague at Golf Stats with tournament previews and more insight for those that join.

TPC River Highlands

The most famous portion of the course, the three-hole stretch from 15 to 17, incorporates a four-acre lake affectionately dubbed the “Golden Triangle.” Those three holes and the 18th make up one of the top finishing stretches on the PGA Tour.

Holes 4 and 10 are the biggest challenge and often the most difficult scoring holes on the course.

Bentgrass fairways with bentgrass and a mix of Poa annua greens offer scoring opportunities for those that avoide the 5-6 inch rough and water on six holes.

TPC River Highlands yielded a 67.63 scoring average last year, making it the 40th hardest course (out of 50 on tour last year). The two previous years scores averaged 68.40 and 69.39 before it became a Signature Event with far less players in the field.

Travelers Championship 2025 Odds

Travelers Championship golf odds from BetMGM are subject to change, and link has full odds with favorites listed below.

• +275: Scheffler
• +1200: McIlroy
• +1600: Schauffele, Cantlay
• +2000: Morikawa
• +2200: Thomas, Aberg
• +2800: Burns, Straka, Hovland
• +3000: Fleetwood
• +3300: Bradley, MacIntyre, Henley, Lowry
• +3500: Conners
• +4000: Spieth
• +4500: Griffin, Young, Matsuyama

72-hole winning score: O/U 259.5 (Par 70) and just 6,844 yards.

While I do bet outrights, finish position and more match-ups, I don’t always bet every player in my picks. But I do bet others that may be after I post and dig into more strokes gained stats and other performance indicators and players. It may be due to low odds, adjusted odds and I missed best number, or just trying to find other options in finishing position, match-ups and props. As I’m able to dig deeper and research and handicap more, I add others, including match-ups. Time constraints factor in, along with odds and value, which you should always be shooting for in your pursuit of profit, fairways and greens.

That’s what we did at last week’s U.S. Open, going 4-0-1 on our tournament matchup picks at OSGA, and adding more winners on these pages and hitting top finishing position bets. We just missed outrights on Hatton (85/1), Hovland (55/1) and Young (125/1) – all finishing top-5 with a chance to win and tied for lead in closing holes.

Travelers Championship 2025 Picks

Fairway’s Favorites: Schauffele, Morikawa, Fleetwood, Straka
Fairway’s Longshots: Henley, Young, Harman, McCarthy

Tournament Match-ups: Young (+115) over Finau (-135) – Circa. Also, Young (+115) over JJ Spaun (BetOnline)

Additional exposure on Cameron Young, who I expect to continue playing well and break through soon for his first PGA Tour win.

PGA tournament matchups winners posted in Forbes from Jan-April include 2-0 in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am with tournament winner Rory McIlroy over Scottie Scheffler. Phoenix Open followers of FairwayJay went 1-0 with Justin Thomas (T6) over Hideki Matsuyama plus Justin Thomas over Xander Schauffele in The Players Championship, 1-0 in the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld and Houston Open winner Min Woo Lee also a tournament matchup winner. The Masters outright winner Rory McIlroy was another matchup winner over Scottie Scheffler as a big plus underdog again. Daniel Berger was the winner (1-0) in our RBC Heritage matchup at Harbour Town. A 2-0 tournament matchup result in the Truist Championship with both picks Mitchell and Cantlay winning easily and performing very well with top 10 finishes. Canadian Open winner (1-0) on Burns as underdog, and he finished runner-up in a playoff behind our outright winner on big longshot Ryan Fox. The 2025 U.S. Open included a 4-0-1 result on Tournament matchups at OSGA, and 4-2-1 on these pages including a big ‘Dog (+180) first round winner on Morikawa over Scheffler.

Chip-in for additional tournament match-up picks, and email me for added direct picks and updates:  FairwayJay@gmail.com.

Next week it’s the Rocket Classic in Detroit as summer kicks in ahead of next month’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush (which I’ve played) in Norther Ireland.

Golf Betting Notes and History from FairwayJay

My golf coverage and research includes use and references from sites at Golf Stats along with Fantasy National, and Data Golf. I gain added information and betting news from other sites and golf analysts. That includes top golf insider Justin Ray Golf, who contributes to PGA Tour (dot com) and The Athletic with insightful stats. The site GolfStats has also has player performance charts and a player competitor tool plus added stats and previews.

2022 PGA Tour tournament match-up picks finished 20-12 and concluded with the TOUR Championship.

The 2021 tournament match-ups finished 21-15 following a 17-5 start January through May.

Chip-in for additional tournament match-up picks, and email me for added direct picks and updates: FairwayJay@gmail.com.