The 2026 Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flgaship event, goes down this week at TPC Sawgrass, and Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy top the betting favorites. Here is 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 begins at TPC Sawgrass, the two most recent winners are atop the pre-tournament betting odds. They also happen to be two of a small handful of pros who have won two Players titles in their careers.
Those players, of course, are Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
Scheffler, the World No. 1, comes into the Players as the big betting favorite with +350 odds-to-win. The 2023 and 2024 Players champion won his first start in 2026, but he earned his worst finish of the year, a T24, at last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Mclroy, who is the defending Players champion, is second in the Players odds, coming into the week at +1200 odds-to-win. Though he finished T2 at the Genesis Invitational, McIlroy withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational after two rounds with a back injury.
Closing out the top 5 in the pre-tournament betting odds are fellow PGA Tour stars Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and Xander Schauffele, all at +2500 odds-to-win.
You can see the top 20 and ties in the 2026 Players Championship betting odds as of Monday morning below, or download the Fanatics Sportsbook app to see the full list of odds and bets for this week.
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2026 Players Championship betting odds
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)
Russell 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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