The Masters Golf Betting Tips – Who Dons The Green Jacket?
By Matt Coles
It’s finally here! The pristine fairways and gorgeous greens! But who are our betting tips for golf glory at the Masters?
It is finally here! The major season in golf begins with the Masters, but who are our betting tips for glory at Augusta National?
The temperature is warming up, the leaves are back on the trees, and the hallowed turf of Augusta National is in full view once more.
Spain’s Jon Rahm is the defending champion having won by four shots at the 2023 Masters. Can he add to the number of Spanish victories?
Will World No 1 Scottie Scheffler be the man to beat? Can Rory McIlroy finally complete the Grand Slam? Or will we see another first-time major winner?
Who will win? Matt Coles takes a look at some of his favourites for the Masters…
The Masters golf betting tips and preview
Venue: Augusta National, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Date: April 11-14, 2024
Course stats: Par 72, 7,555 yards
Defending champion: Jon Rahm (-12)
Scottie Scheffler @ 7/2 with bet365
How can you bet against this man? He is the World No 1 for a reason and he has showed exactly why over the last year, and the last few weeks.
Scottie Scheffler, armed with a new putter, blew the field away to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by five. He then returned to TPC Sawgrass to become the first player to ever successfully defend his title at the Players Championship.
Add on to that a runner-up finish at the Texas Children’s Houston Open on Sunday and the fact that Scheffler was victorious at Augusta National in 2022 (amazingly his only major to date).
The American is by far the favourite, and is just 7/2 with bet365 – some of the shortest odds for a major championship since the days of Tiger Woods at his very best. You would be a fool to not have money on Scottie to win the Masters for a second time.
Brooks Koepka @ 18/1 with bet365
Only two men in the field for the Masters have won more major titles that Brooks Koepka. A three-time PGA Champion and two-time US Open winner, Koepka will be looking to finally don the Green Jacket come Sunday at Augusta.
He is one of several LIV Golf stars who you could argue are in with a shout for victory in the season’s first major championship. Koepka is a two-time runner up at Augusta, including in 2023, where he lost out on the final day.
Koepka is always one that has tried to trend upwards for the majors, and with three top-12 finishes in LIV Golf this season, could that trend be aimed towards a first Green Jacket?
Hideki Matsuyama @ 18/1 with bet365
A man that has been mentioned a lot in the run-up to the 2024 Masters is Hideki Matsuyama. The Japanese star is a former champion, having won at Augusta National three years ago.
He has also been in brilliant form so far this year, with a win at the Genesis Invitational. That was followed by a T12 finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and a T6 result at the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Augusta National is obviously a course that Matsuyama loves, with eight top 20 finishes in his last nine appearances. That run includes his 2021 victory and two more top ten results. At 18/1, Hideki is a great shout for victory.
Ludvig Aberg @ 25/1 with bet365
The Swede’s rise to fame has been meteoric. Within the space of a year, Ludvig Aberg has turned professional, won on both the DP World Tour and PGA Tour, played for Europe at the Ryder Cup and risen into the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings.
Incredibly, this will be Aberg’s first appearance in a major championship. If he was to win, he would join an exclusive club of those to win a major on debut. He would become just the seventh in men’s major golfing history.
The Swede is only 25/1 to achieve such a feat, which would see him join the likes of Willie Park Sr., Francis Ouimet and Keegan Bradley in doing so.
Justin Rose @ 110/1 with bet365
My outside shot this week is England’s Justin Rose. The former World No 1 may have never won the Masters, but he has done pretty well throughout his long career at Augusta National.
He has finished runner-up on two occasions (2015, 2017), along with four other top-ten finishes. The 2013 US Open champion has missed a couple of cuts recently, but he does seem to perform at the majors. At 110/1, Rose is worth an each-way punt for glory.
Other Big Name Odds
10/1 – Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm
14/1 – Xander Schauffele
18/1 – Jordan Spieth
25/1 – Joaquin Niemann, Wyndham Clark
28/1 – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay
30/1 – Viktor Hovland
33/1 – Cameron Smith, Matt Fitzpatrick
35/1 – Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson
40/1 – Tony Finau, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawak
45/1 – Shane Lowry, Sahith Theegala
50/1 – Max Homa, Brian Harman, Jason Day
60/1 – Tyrrell Hatton
66/1 – Patrick Reed, Min Woo Lee, Si Woo Kim
80/1 – Sergio Garcia
90/1 – Adam Scott
110/1 – Rickie Fowler, Denny McCarthy
150/1 – Tiger Woods, Keegan Bradley
175/1 – Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson
Fancy a punt on this week’s action? Take a look at the latest odds with bet365.
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Matt Coles
Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…
Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.
He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.
Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…
Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.
