McIlroy vs. Scheffler Prediction on July 23, 2023

Match info

At Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, the 2023 British Open will be played as the fourth and final Major (PGA Tour) men’s golf competition of the year. Find the best golf odds at the bookmakers with Android apps to boost your potential winnings. On the 2023 sportsbook odds tables for The Open Championship, which will start on Thursday, July 20, and end on Sunday, July 23, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy opened as co-favorites.

Meeting statistics

The fourth and final Major championship of 2023 will feature a fusion of the top golfers in the world from the PGA TOUR, DP World Tour, and LIV Tour. The 151st Open Championship will be held at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, usually referred to as simply Hoylake, which has a lengthy and illustrious history. With our customary course preview and a glance at the British Open odds, we'll start the event prediction.

In regard to The Open, there’s nothing not to be adored. The purest form of golf is links golf. It penalizes a careless bomb-and-gouge strategy by rewarding intelligent, strategic, and inventive play with real hazards. Hoylake’s well-positioned pot bunkers, lush grass, gorse bushes, and internal out-of-bounds next to the fairways will force golfers to consider their options before pulling the trigger on each hole’s driver. With nothing else on the land to interfere with the wind this week, the extraordinarily flat design is only a few meters from the coast. In comparison to the other three majors on the schedule, The Open Championship’s elimination of pure distance advantage makes the field feel more open.

The Open is one of the most challenging events of the year from a data-predictive perspective for golf betting. The volatility of the weather and its impact on some waves more than others, the lack of historical ShotLink/Strokes Gained data that PGA got accustomed to basing its models on, and the fact that links golf is a whole different species are all contributing factors to this. A good example is the large number of competitors whose final 12 rounds were split between TPC Deere Run, Detroit Golf Club, and TPC River Highlands. That doesn’t really translate to what will happen at Royal Liverpool, so we’ll base our betting choices this week more on hints.

Match analytics

Big shoes to fill after watching Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods win the Claret Jug at the last two British Opens held at Royal Liverpool, we anticipate this recently upgraded facility (in 2014) to once again reward the best, in-form players from tee to green. We’re trying to identify the most reliable overall drivers who are strong in the short game on and near big, slow greens and Par-4: 450+ and Prox: 200+. As is typically the case at any British Open, it will be critical to keep an eye on the weather forecast throughout the week because Hoylake is vulnerable to strong winds and bad weather.

The top 3 favorites on BetMGM are shown below and we suggest that you pay attention to this before placing your bets:

• Rory McIlroy 8.00
• Scottie Sheffler 9.00
• Jon Rahm 13.00