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2021 Masters odds: Dustin Johnson favorite to go back-to-back

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It’s Masters week, and the man to beat is still the defending champ Dustin Johnson, according to the books. DJ will begin his defence as a 9/1 favorite for the tournament, but the pack of challengers are not far behind the multiple major champ in the betting.

Jordan Spieth’s victory at the Valero has propelled the Texan up to second on the board at 10/1, while big-hitting Bryson and the 2021 Players champ Justin Thomas are both 11/1 shots to triumph for the first time at the Masters.

Check out the full list of 2021 Masters odds (as of April 5) courtesy of BetOnline.ag.

  • Dustin Johnson 9/1
  • Jordan Spieth 10/1
  • Bryson DeChambeau 11/1
  • Justin Thomas 11/1
  • Jon Rahm 12/1
  • Rory McIlroy 18/1
  • Patrick Cantlay 20/1
  • Xander Schauffele 22/1
  • Brooks Koepka 28/1
  • Collin Morikawa 30/1
  • Patrick Reed 35/1
  • Tony Finau 35/1
  • Viktor Hovland 35/1
  • Daniel Berger 40/1
  • Paul Casey 40/1
  • Sungjae Im 40/1
  • Webb Simpson 40/1
  • Cameron Smith 45/1
  • Lee Westwood 45/1
  • Tyrrell Hatton 50/1
  • Hideki Matsuyama 55/1
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick 55/1
  • Scottie Scheffler 55/1
  • Sergio Garcia 55/1
  • Tommy Fleetwood 55/1
  • Jason Day 60/1
  • Joaquin Niemann 70/1
  • Adam Scott 80/1
  • Bubba Watson 80/1
  • Louis Oosthuizen 90/1
  • Matt Wallace 100/1
  • Abraham Ancer 110/1
  • Billy Horschel 110/1
  • Justin Rose 110/1
  • Corey Conners 120/1
  • Will Zalatoris 120/1
  • Gary Woodland 125/1
  • Matt Kuchar 125/1
  • Matthew Wolff 125/1
  • Phil Mickelson 125/1
  • Shane Lowry 125/1
  • Max Homa 135/1
  • Brian Harman 150/1
  • Harris English 150/1
  • Jason Kokrak 150/1
  • Marc Leishman 150/1
  • Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175/1
  • Dylan Frittelli 175/1
  • Ian Poulter 175/1
  • Si Woo Kim 175/1
  • Victor Perez 175/1
  • Cameron Champ 200/1
  • Francesco Molinari 200/1
  • Kevin Kisner 200/1
  • Robert MacIntyre 200/1
  • Ryan Palmer 200/1
  • Sebastian Munoz 200/1
  • Kevin Na 225/1
  • Carlos Ortiz 250/1
  • Danny Willett 250/1
  • Lanto Griffin 250/1
  • Matt Jones 250/1
  • Zach Johnson 250/1
  • C.T. Pan 300/1
  • Bernd Wiesberger 400/1
  • Brendon Todd 400/1
  • Charl Schwartzel 400/1
  • Mackenzie Hughes 400/1
  • Henrik Stenson 500/1
  • Stewart Cink 500/1
  • Bernhard Langer 750/1
  • Brian Gay 750/1
  • Hudson Swafford 750/1
  • Jim Herman 750/1
  • Jimmy Walker 750/1
  • Martin Laird 750/1
  • Michael Thompson 750/1
  • Mike Weir 750/1
  • Charles Obsorne 1000/1
  • Fred Couples 1000/1
  • Joe Long 1000/1
  • Robert Streb 1000/1
  • Tyler Strafaci 1000/1
  • Jose Maria Olazabal 2000/1
  • Vijay Singh 2000/1
  • Ian Woosnam 5000/1
  • Larry Mize 5000/1
  • Sandy Lyle 5000/1

Who is your money on for Masters glory, WRXers?

Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at gianni@golfwrx.com.

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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

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An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.

However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.

Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.

Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”

Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.

Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.

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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

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Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.

Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.

Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.

Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.

Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.

“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.  Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”

According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.

“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”

Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.

Check out Young’s winning WITB here.

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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

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Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.

Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.

Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.

The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.

Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”

“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”

Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.

However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.

“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”

Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.

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