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Following world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler’s dominating win at The Masters for his second green jacket and third PGA Tour title in 2024, the top golfers head about 140 miles Southeast to Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town. Scheffler is right back on the tee as prohibitive betting favorite for a Signature Event at Harbour Town Golf Links. The tournament and $20 million purse drew an elite field for the second straight year, and note that this is a no cut event with all golfers playing 72 holes. The field includes just 69 players and all but two of the top-30 in the Official World Golf Rankings (Matsuyama and Hovland out).
Betting favorites and top players continue to take a bulk of the betting action when wagering to win, and bettors also include many of those players in other types of bets like top finishing position (top 5, 10, 20) and other prop bets like Round 1 birdies or better. Most players have an over/under of 4.5 for birdies or better with different odds. For example, FanDuel Ambassador and 2022 Heritage champion Jordan Spieth is -150 for under 4.5 birdies or better, and +105 for over. The 2023 Heritage winner of the plaid jacket who beat Spieth in a playoff was Matt Fitzpatrick, who is -140 for under 4.5 birdies or better and +100 for over. The two tournament favorites, Scottie Scheffler is -175 to go over 4.5 birdies or better in Round 1 while Rory McIlroy is -140 over. Patrick Cantlay also has four top-3 finishes in six starts at Harbour Town plus a T7. He’s -115 to make more than 4.5 birdies in Round 1 and an over/under score of 68.5 (-140 over) at FanDuel Sportsbook.
Harbour Town Golf Links
A players favorite on the Pete Dye design, Harbour Town Golf Links is a Par 71 tree-lined track that plays to 7,213 yards for the RBC Heritage event. Experience helps as players navigate a claustrophotic course where water is in play on all 18 holes. Golfers shape shots into tiny greens that average 3,700 square feet - second smallest on the PGA Tour. The perennial ryegrass rough is down from last year’s cut of 2.5 inches.
The doglegs around the trees and penalty areas don’t allow for the big hitters to separate themselves off the tee, as players often hit to similar target areas with more approach shots from 175 yards range.
Scottie Scheffler finished T11 here last year in his tournament debut shooting 68-65 before falling over the weekend with 69-70. Scheffler commented in the press room Tuesday before the 2024 event about the difference in coming from Augusta National to a completely different golf course here at Harbour Town.
“Yeah, it's very different. I think sometimes when you're coming from Augusta — we were talking about it today, the green at No. 14 just looked so small. I'm sitting there with a 6-iron looking at this small green, and Augusta everything is really big at times and then you come here and everything is really, really small it seems like,” Scheffler said.
Harbour Town Golf Links - Hole By Hole
“It's a great golf course, and it's a lot of fun to play. I think it's very interesting,” Scheffler added. “I think for some people, distance debate type people if they're ever looking at golf course design and how to combat people only trying to hit the ball really far, they need to come here and do a case study on this golf course because it's really, really good. You've got to curve the ball both directions, and you have to control your distance. You have to control where the golf ball is going. It's not just a place where you can go bomb it.”
RBC Heritage Golf Odds And Favorites
Leading favorites and contenders golf odds from FanDuel Sportsbook refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live betting.
- +450: Scottie Scheffler
- +1200: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele
- +1400: Ludvig Aberg
- +1600: Patrick Cantlay
- +1800: Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa
- +2500: Matt Fitzpatrick
- +2800: Max Homa
- +3000: Jordan Spieth, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Young
- +3500: Si Woo Kim, Wyndham Clark
- +4000: Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley
- +4500: Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry
- +5500: Tom Kim, Sam Burns, Corey Conners
- +6000: Tony Finau, Akshay Bhatia, Brian Harman
- +6500: Chris Kirk, Jason Day, J.T. Poston
- +7000: Denny McCarthy
- +7500: Byeong Hun An, Harris English, Cam Davis
- +8000: Taylor Moore, Sungjae Im, Lucas Glover
- +8000: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Sepp Straka
- +9000: Brend0n Todd, Matthieu Pavon
- +11000: Eric Cole, Kurt Kitayama, Stephan Jaeger
- +11000: Adam Hadwin, Keegan Bradley, Adam Schenk
- +12000: Tom Hoge, Emiliano Grillo
72 Hole Winning Score (Par 71): 266.5
Top 5 and Top 10 Finish
- +110 Top 5, -200 Top 10: Scheffler
- +260, +120: Schauffele
- +280, +130: McIlroy
- +300, +140: Aberg
- +350, +160: Cantlay
- +360, +160: Fleetwood
- +360, +175: Morikawa
- +500, +230: Matt Fitzpatrick
- +550, +240: Homa
- +600, +260: Zalatoris
Those 10 top players all have odds from -110 to -230 to finish Top 20 with Scheffler -550 to finish Top 20.
Looking at recent course history, 11 players have multiple Top-15 finishes over the last five years: Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay, Corey Conners, Cam Davis, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Emiliano Grillo, Brian Harman, Sungjae Im, J.T. Poston and Jordan Spieth.
Team RBC ambassadors include: Sam Burns, Corey Conners, Adam Hadwin, Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Svensson, Nick Taylor, Sahith Theegala and Cameron Young.
RBC Heritage Golf Picks
Leading golf analysts and contributors picks to win and top finishing position include:
- Golf Digest - Tommy Fleetwood (2), Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, Shane Lowry, Si Woo Kim, Cam Davis
- SportingLife: Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and longshots Tom Kim, Adam Hadwin, Eric Cole
- Golf Bet - Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay, Will Zalatoris and longshots Cam Davis, J.T. Poston and Lucas Glover. Top 10’s Shane Lowry, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood and Akshay Bhatia
- FanDuel - Scottie Scheffler, Si Woo Kim and longshots Harris English, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Each of the last five RBC Heritage winners have been top-11 in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green.
Tournament Matchups
Additional golf betting odds from FanDuel and leading online sportsbooks are updated and adjusted througout the tournament along with props and tournament matchups.
- Rory McIlroy (-125) vs. Patrick Cantlay (+105)
- Max Homa (-140) vs. Wyndham Clark (+110)
- Collin Morikawa (-140) vs. Matt Fitzpatrick (+110)
- Will Zalatoris (-120) vs. Jordan Spieth (+100) - bet Zalatoris
- Tommy Fleetwood (-165) vs. Cameron Young (+130)
- Xander Schauffele (-125) vs. Ludvig Aberg (+100)
- Justin Thomas (-125) vs. Sam Burns (+100)
- Corey Conners (-110) vs. Tom Kim (-110)
- Brian Harman (-115) vs. Denny McCarthy (-105)
- Xander Schauffele (-115) vs. Rory McIlroy (-105) - Round 1
- Ludvig Aberg (-120) vs. Collin Morikawa (-105) - Round 1
- Wyndham Clark (-120) vs. Justin Thomas (-105) - Round 1 - bet Thomas
- Patrick Cantlay (-115) vs. Tommy Fleetwood (-110) - Round 1
Despite Jordan Spieth winning here in a playoff in 2022 and finishing runner-up last year in a playoff, the 30-year-old is not likely to find as much success this week with his game in a poor place. Spieth has missed the cut in three of his last four events including in The Players Championship which requires precision iron play. Spieth has lost strokes Tee-to-Green in four of his last five tournaments and his Approach stats rank outside the top-100 over his last 24 rounds.
Meanwhile, Zalatoris has continued his elite ball striking while also averaging 4+ strokes on the field Tee to-Green over his last five events. That includes a T9 last week at The Masters, T4 at the Arnold Palmer Inviational and T2 at The Genesis Invitational.
How To Watch The RBC Heritage
All times Eastern. Tournament April 18-21
- Thursday-Friday: 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel)
- Saturday-Sunday: 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS)
Thursday and Friday pairings and tee times.
Featured Groups
Thursday PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
- 1:40 pm hole #1: Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg
- 1:50 pm hole #1: Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa
Friday
- Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg
- Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth
- Will Zalatoris, Akshay Bhatia
- Harris English, Tom Kim
Featured holes Par 3’s at No. 4, 7, 14, 17
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