2023 British Open odds, picks, predictions, field: Golf expert fading Jon Rahm at Royal Liverpool
Golf's major season concludes with the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club beginning on Thursday. The first three majors were won by Jon Rahm (Masters), Brooks Koepka (PGA Championship) and Wyndham Clark (U.S. Open). All three will try to win their first Claret Jug, but the last time a player won two majors in the same season was in 2018, when Koepka won the U.S. Open and PGA. Rory McIlroy, who won the Open the last time it was played at Royal Liverpool, in 2014, is the +525 favorite (risk $100 to win $525) in the latest 2023 Open Championship odds from Caesars Sportsbook.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (+750), Rahm (+1200) and Rickie Fowler (+1200) round out the top four in the Open Championship odds 2023. Before locking in any 2023 Open Championship picks, make sure you see the PGA predictions and best bets from golf betting and fantasy expert Sia Nejad.
Nejad specializes in betting and DFS in golf, among other sports. He's had incredible success in the outright and first-round leader markets and in betting head-to-head matchups. The expert has been on fire on head-to-head matchups since the Charles Schwab Challenge, going 19-5-1 and returning 11.76 units over that span. That's a $1,176 profit for $100 bettors in the past eight weeks.
Nejad also nailed 75-1 longshot Wyndham Clark as the outright winner at the Wells Fargo Championship. In 2023, SportsLine debuted "The Early Wedge," and in the first three months of the show, he hit two first-round leaders and three outright winners. Nejad also had a winning head-to-head record in seven of nine weeks. He was up more than 70 units over that three-month span.
Now, Nejad has focused his attention on the 2023 Open Championship field and has locked in his best bets, top sleepers and favorites to avoid. See who they are at SportsLine.
Top 2023 Open Championship expert picks
One surprise: Nejad is low on the chances of Jon Rahm (+1200), even though he leads the FedEx Cup standings and is one of the top 2023 Open Championship favorites. Ranked No. 3 in the world, Rahm has four wins and nine top-10 finishes in the 2022-23 season. He is trying to become the first player to win two majors in the same season since Brooks Koepka in 2018.
However, Rahm doesn't enter The Open 2023 on a high note. He is coming off a missed cut in his most recent event, the Travelers Championship, last month. "He is very capable of winning this tournament, but his recent form doesn't justify the short number, especially when you consider how well the top tier of talent is playing around him," Nejad told SportsLine. See who else to fade at SportsLine.
However, Nejad is bullish on Dustin Johnson, even though he is a +3000 longshot. The 39-year-old has a history of success at the Open Championship, with one runner-up finish, in 2011, and four other top-10 finishes, including the last two years.
Unlike Rahm, Johnson enters the Open Championship 2023 with his game trending in the right direction. He has a win and four other top-10 finishes on the LIV tour this year. "His form appears to be in good shape with back-to-back top 10 finishes, alongside a 10th at the U.S. Open," Nejad told SportsLine. See who else to pick at SportsLine.
How to make 2023 Open Championship golf picks
Nejad has locked in his best bets for the 2023 Open Championship and is picking his longshots, including one who is priced around 50-1. This player "has the complete game to light up the scorecard" and is a longshot who could surprise. You can see the picks only at SportsLine.
So which players should you target or avoid for the 2023 Open Championship, and which player in the Open Championship 2023 field could bring a huge payday at around 50-1? Check out the odds below, then visit SportsLine to see Sia Nejad's top picks for Open Championship 2023, all from the expert who was up more than 70 units on his recent golf picks.
2023 Open Championship odds, field, contenders
Rory McIlroy +525Scottie Scheffler +750Jon Rahm +1200Rickie Fowler +1200Tommy Fleetwood +1500Viktor Hovland +1500Cameron Smith +1500Brooks Koepka +1800Xander Schauffele +2500Tyrrell Hatton +2500Collin Morikawa +2800Shane Lowry +3000Dustin Johnson +3000Jordan Spieth +3000Patrick Cantlay +3000Matt Fitzpatrick +3500Tom Kim +4000Justin Rose +4500Cameron Young +4500Tony Finau +5000Adam Scott +5000Bryson DeChambeau +5000Max Homa +5000Wyndham Clark +5000Justin Thomas +5500Min Woo Lee +5500Hideki Matsuyama +6500Jason Day +6500Robert ManIntyre +6600Taylor Gooch +7000Sam Burns +7000Sungjae Im +8000Patrick Reed +8500Denny McCarthy +8500Keegan Bradley +8500Corey Conners +8500Ryan Fox +9000Louis Oosthuizen +9000Padraig Harrington +10000Sepp Straka +10000Branden Grace +10000Russell Henley +10000Sahith Theegala +125000Joaquin Niemann +12500Phil Mickelson +12500Victor Perez +15000Paul Casey +15000Antoine Rozner +1500Harris English +1500Si-woo Kim +1500Rasmus Højgaard +15000Thomas Detry +15000Yannik Paul +15000Taylor Moore +15000Brian Harman +17500Adrian Meronk +17500Adam Schenk +17500Lucas Herbert +17500Nicolai Hojgaard +17500Jordan Smith +20000Christian Bezuidenhout +20000Richie Ramsay +20000Sergio Garcia +20000Marc Leishman +20000Davis Riley +20000Thobjorn Olesen +20000Thomas Pieters +20000Kurt Kitayama +20000Gary Woodland +20000Brendon Todd +20000Byeong Hun An +20000Alex Noren +20000Aaron Wise +20000Abraham Ancer +22500Keith Mitchell +22500Adrian Otaegui +25000Lee Westwood +25000Ewen Ferguson +25000Danny Willett +25000Seamus Power +25000Tom Hoge +25000KH Lee +25000Richard Bland +25000Harold Varner +25000Rikuya Hoshino +30000JJ Spaun +30000Guido Migliozzi +30000Connor Syme +30000Takumi Kanaya +30000Billy Horschel +30000J.T. Poston +30000Francesco Molinari +30000Jazz Janewattanond +30000Charl Schwartzel +30000Hurly Long +30000Christen Lawrence +30000Cameron Tringale +30000Pablo Larrazabal +30000Emiliano Grillo +30000Callum Shrinkwin +30000Mackenzie Hughes +30000Matthew Southgate +30000Matt Wallace +35000Henrik Stenson +35000David Lingmerth +35000Ari Arnaus +35000Luke List +35000Matthew Jordan +35000Dan Bradbury +35000Laurie Canter +35000Andrew Putnam +40000Sami Valimaki +40000Zach Johnson +40000Lee Hodges +40000Shubhankar Sharma +50000Scott Stallings +50000Paul Lawrie +50000Michael Kim +50000Stewart Cink +50000Ben Griffin +50000Trey Mullinax +50000Nacho Elvira +50000Todd Hamilton +50000David Micheluzzi +50000Kalle Samooja +50000Alejandro Canizares +50000Ernis Els +50000Kazuki Higa +50000Ockie Strydom +50000Marc Warren +75000Ben Curtis +75000Oliver Farr +75000Alex Fitzpatrick +75000Bio Kim +75000Darren Clarke +100000Justin Leonard +100000John Daly +150000
