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2021 U.S. Open odds: Jon Rahm the heavy favorite at Torrey Pines

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The U.S. Open is here, and though he may not be a major champion yet, bookmakers have priced up Jon Rahm as the prohibitive favorite this week in California.

The Spaniard is 10/1 to land his maiden major title this week, ahead of Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Xander Schauffele, who are all priced up as 16/1 shots.

Bryson DeChambeau is next in the betting at 18/1, as he looks to go back-to-back at one of the toughest events on the calendar.

Here’s a look at the full list of odds courtesy of BetOnline.ag.

  • Jon Rahm 10/1
  • Brooks Koepka 16/1
  • Dustin Johnson 16/1
  • Xander Schauffele 16/1
  • Bryson DeChambeau 18/1
  • Jordan Spieth 20/1
  • Rory McIlroy 20/1
  • Collin Morikawa 22/1
  • Justin Thomas 22/1
  • Patrick Cantlay 25/1
  • Tony Finau 25/1
  • Patrick Reed 28/1
  • Viktor Hovland 28/1
  • Hideki Matsuyama 40/1
  • Scottie Scheffler 40/1
  • Webb Simpson 40/1
  • Will Zalatoris 45/1
  • Daniel Berger 50/1
  • Shane Lowry 50/1
  • Tyrrell Hatton 50/1
  • Cameron Smith 55/1
  • Louis Oosthuizen 55/1
  • Paul Casey 55/1
  • Justin Rose 60/1
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick 60/1
  • Garrick Higgo 66/1
  • Abraham Ancer 70/1
  • Jason Kokrak 70/1
  • Joaquin Niemann 70/1
  • Marc Leishman 70/1
  • Phil Mickelson 70/1
  • Charley Hoffman 80/1
  • Corey Conners 80/1
  • Tommy Fleetwood 80/1
  • Adam Scott 100/1
  • Gary Woodland 100/1
  • Harris English 100/1
  • Max Homa 100/1
  • Sungjae Im 100/1
  • Sam Burns 110/1
  • Branden Grace 125/1
  • Brian Harman 125/1
  • Sergio Garcia 125/1
  • Carlos Ortiz 150/1
  • Christian Bezuidenhout 150/1
  • Kevin Streelman 150/1
  • Lee Westwood 150/1
  • Ryan Palmer 150/1
  • Si Woo Kim 150/1
  • Billy Horschel 175/1
  • Bubba Watson 175/1
  • Stewart Cink 175/1
  • Wilco Nienaber 175/1
  • Charl Schwartzel 200/1
  • Ian Poulter 200/1
  • Jhonattan Vegas 200/1
  • Matt Jones 200/1
  • Matt Wallace 200/1
  • Matthew Wolf 200/1
  • Robert MacIntyre 200/1
  • Bernd Wiesberger 250/1
  • Cameron Champ 250/1
  • Erik van Rooyen 250/1
  • Francesco Molinari 250/1
  • Matt Kuchar 250/1
  • Russell Henley 250/1
  • Brendon Todd 300/1
  • Cameron Young 300/1
  • Chez Reavie 300/1
  • Jimmy Walker 300/1
  • Kevin Kisner 300/1
  • Kevin Na 300/1
  • Lanto Griffin 300/1
  • Sebastian Munoz 300/1
  • Adam Hadwin 350/1
  • Dylan Frittelli 350/1
  • Henrik Stenson 350/1
  • Martin Kaymer 350/1
  • Patrick Rodgers 350/1
  • Rafael Cabrera Bello 350/1
  • Victor Perez 350/1
  • Zach Johnson 350/1
  • Brendan Steele 400/1
  • Kyoung-Hoon Lee 400/1
  • Thomas Detry 400/1
  • Troy Merritt 400/1
  • Wyndham Clark 400/1
  • Adrian Meronk 500/1
  • Bo Hoag 500/1
  • Brain Stuard 500/1
  • Dylan Wu 500/1
  • Fabian Gomez 500/1
  • Greyson Sigg 500/1
  • Guido Migliozzi 500/1
  • JJ. Spaun 500/1
  • John Huh 500/1
  • Jordan Smith 500/1
  • JT. Poston 500/1
  • Justin Suh 500/1
  • Mackenzie Hughes 500/1
  • Marcus Armitage 500/1
  • Martin Laird 500/1
  • Peter Malnati 500/1
  • Pierceson Coody 500/1
  • Richard Bland 500/1
  • Robby Shelton 500/1
  • Ryo Ishikawa 500/1
  • Sahith Theegala 500/1
  • Sam Ryder 500/1
  • Sung Kang 500/1
  • Taylor Pendrith 500/1
  • Thomas Aiken 500/1
  • Tom Hoge 500/1
  • Akshay Bhatia 600/1
  • Chan Kim 600/1
  • Dave Coupland 600/1
  • Edoardo Molinari 600/1
  • Hayden Buckley 600/1
  • Johannes Veerman 600/1
  • Matthew Southgate 600/1
  • Tyler Strafaci 600/1
  • Luis Fernando Barco 750/1
  • Matthias Schmid 750/1
  • Alvaro Ortiz 1000/1
  • Andy Pope 1000/1
  • Brad Kennedy 1000/1
  • Hayden Springer 1000/1
  • Joe Long 1000/1
  • Paul Barjon 1000/1
  • Taylor Montgomery 1000/1
  • Wade Ormsby 1000/1
  • Andrew Kozan 1500/1
  • Charles Osbourne 1500/1
  • Dylan Meyer 1500/1
  • Rick Lamb 1500/1
  • Rikuya Hoshino 1500/1
  • Spencer Ralston 1500/1
  • Yosuke Asaji 1500/1
  • Carson Schaake 1750/1
  • Roy Cootes 1750/1
  • Wilson Furr 1750/1
  • Chris Baker 2000/1
  • Christopher Crawford 2000/1
  • Cole Hammer 2000/1
  • Davis Shore 2000/1
  • Eric Cole 2000/1
  • Jimmy Hervol 2000/1
  • Joe Highsmith 2000/1
  • Kyle Westermoreland 2000/1
  • Luis Gagne 2000/1
  • Mario Carmona 2000/1
  • Matthew Sharpstrene 2000/1
  • Michael Johnson 2000/1
  • Steve Allan 2000/1
  • Zach Zaback 2000/1
  • Zack Sucher 2000/1

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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