Dustin Johnson will be gunning for his fourth tournament win of the season this weekend when he tees off at the Masters as an early +550 betting favourite at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Johnson is coming off a win at last month’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play tournament and has emerged victorious in his past three tour appearances ahead of Thursday morning’s opening round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.
The world’s top-ranked player has not missed a beat this season after enjoying a breakthrough campaign in 2016, which featured a career-best fourth-place finish at Augusta and a victory at the U.S. Open, where he earned his first major win while sporting +1,200 odds.
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Johnson also picked up the win at the Genesis Open and the WGC-Mexico Championship, and has finished no worse than sixth in four of his six tour appearances this season.
Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth looks to overcome a stunning collapse at last year’s Masters as the 2015 Green Jacket winner returns to Augusta sporting +700 odds. Spieth claimed victory by four strokes at the Masters in his first major victory two years ago, but melted down in the final round of last year’s tournament, blowing a five-stroke lead to finish second as a +1,000 bet.
The 23-year-old native of Texas earned the win at the recent AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but missed the cut at last week’s Shell Houston Open after failing to crack the top 10 in his three previous outings.
Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy rounds out the top of the 2017 Masters odds at +800. McIlroy’s best finish at Augusta came two years ago when he placed fourth, but he has four major tournament wins to his credit, including victories at the 2014 PGA Championship and Open Championship.
A trio of golfers sits back of the favourites at +1,800, including Jason Day, Hideki Matsuyama, and Jon Rahm, followed by Rickie Fowler, who sits as a +2,000 bet to win his first major. Day reached No. 1 after claiming victory at the 2015 PGA Championship, but was recently rocked by news of family illness that led to his withdrawal from the WGC-Dell Match Play.
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A seventh-place finisher at Augusta last year, Matsuyama finished in the top two in four of his first five tournaments this season but has disappointed in his last four outings, while Rahm has finished in the top 10 in six of his past eight appearances.
Justin Rose and Justin Thomas join Phil Mickelson at +2,500, followed by Henrik Stenson at +3,000, with OddsShark sleeper pick Marc Leishman at +5,000. Canadian Adam Hadwin trails at +8,000, and defending champion Danny Willett sits at a distant +10,000.