US Open 2025 betting tips: Predictions and best bets from the UK's top tipsters

DeChambeau broke the heart of Rory McIlroy at last year's US Open with a one-shot victory, and the current Masters champion will be looking for some form of closure at one of the toughest courses in the circuit.

McIlroy already has this year's Masters in his pocket, but will want to put a disappointing PGA Championship behind him to claim his fourth victory of the season.

PGA Champion and World number 1 Scottie Scheffler is the other obvious danger along with a host of other top challengers looking for glory at the historic Oakmont Country Club.

Here we've put together some of the best tips from the world's top golf tipsters, can they help you scoop some chunky winnings?

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(All odds are correct at the time of article publication)

Planet Sport US Open tips

Shane Lowry - 28/1 (e/w)

Shane Lowry just needs a bit of extra luck to turn an impressive 2025 into a winning one.

He has been runner-up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Truist Championship this year and finished 13th in Canada last week, so he could trouble the top of the leaderboard - if he can get the better of his inconsistency on the greens.

Drawing on his performance at Oakmont in 2016, where he tied for second just three strokes behind winner Dustin Johnson, will certainly help.

At the US Open, he finished T-19 in 2024 and T-20 in 2023, so those looking for a safer bet might want to chalk him down for a top-20 finish, especially as he flopped at this year's other majors.

Jon Rahm – 11/1 (e/w)

Rahm will be hoping to put the ghosts of the PGA Championship behind him when he tees off at Oakmont.

The 2021 U.S. Open champion held a share of the lead on the back nine at Quail Hollow before a late collapse handed victory to Scottie Scheffler.

His switch to LIV Golf saw his majors form dip in 2024, missing the cut at the PGA Championship was a particular low, but he appears to be clawing his way back.

Rahm was 14th at Augusta and eighth in the PGA, and has posted a top-10 finish in all 20 LIV Golf regular-season events, although he admits it's easier to finish that high in smaller fields.

Despite saying Oakmont’s challenging layout isn’t one he’d like to play every day, he was the leading amateur here at the 2016 US Open and has done well in previous tournaments, with a victory, a T12, and a T10 in his last three appearances.

Tommy Fleetwood – 28/1 (e/w)

Oakmont is a tough course that demands accuracy off the tee, and that suits Tommy Fleetwood, who thrives in trickier situations.

While he doesn’t win tournaments, he's worth an each-way shout, especially as he's posted four top-20 finishes in his last five tournaments, including T4s at the Charles Schwab and the Truist.

Fleetwood was 21st at Quail Hollow and 16th on his last start at The Memorial, and he has recorded four top-five finishes at major championships in the last five years.

Maybe this is the year he finally cracks it.

Paddy Power US Open tips

Tony Finau - first round leader (e/w)

Tony Finau is no longer the top-10 machine he once was at majors. However, he did post a T3 at last year’s US Open, and while Muirfield Village was a blip, his long game has been steady over the past two months.

The American made a fast start at each of the four majors in 2024. He was T2 through 18 holes at the PGA Championship, and T6 after round one of the US Open.

Rahm and Schauffele both to Finish in the Top 20 (incl. ties)

High finishes have come easily for Jon Rahm in LIV Golf events, with 21 consecutive top 10s since jumping ship. Now, he is translating that consistency to majors, contending at Quail Hollow after a T14 at Augusta and a T7 at last year’s Open Championship.

Given his dependability with the driver over the past year, a top-20 finish should be the baseline of his expectations.

Xander Schauffele's US Open track record of never finishing outside the top 15 makes him a perfect complement for a top-20 pairing with Rahm.

With gains from tee to green in each of his last six starts, Schauffele should remain competitive if he can find enough fairways.

Harris English - Top 20 Finish (Incl. Ties)

Oakmont's setup plays to English’s strengths and positions him for another positive showing.

Third in 2021 and T8 in 2023, English, a winner at Torrey Pines this year, is one of the straighter hitters in the field. Plus, he tends to fare well on fast greens where two-putts are the order of the day.

Justin Thomas - to miss the cut

Justin Thomas has missed six of his last 10 cuts at majors and has only once finished in the top 30. The two-time PGA champion has played well this year after a couple of subpar seasons, but his iron play deserted him at Quail Hollow and got even worse at the Memorial Tournament.

At Oakmont, where accuracy off the tee is paramount, things could get ugly for Thomas. He is outside the top 75 in the field for both greens in regulation and fairways found over the last 36 rounds.

Thomas failed to make the cut at the 2023 and 2024 US Opens, and this course is arguably an even worse fit.

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Today's Golfer US Open tips

Outright winner - Jon Rahm e/w

After a lean spell at the start of 2024 in the majors, Jon Rahm closed the year out with a T7 finish at the Open Championship, and he’s shown signs of life again in the biggest events of the year in 2025.

A 14th-place finish at Augusta suggests it’s business as usual for the Spaniard there, where he always plays well, and I am willing to put the 2024 missed cut down to the lack of form for defending champions in the event.

It wasn’t the Masters that really caught my eye, though, it was at the PGA Championship where for a short period on Sunday it looked like he could win. A blowup at the end of his round meant he fell down the leaderboard, but make no mistake about it, he was the only one putting pressure on Scottie Scheffler, and we should not overlook the importance of contending at a recent major.

Rahm has already enjoyed success in this event, having won the 2021 renewal at Torrey Pines, and while the event being held there was the perfect storm for the Spaniard, he has already shown a liking for this layout as well. Finishing T23 on his debut here, Rahm finished the week as Low Amateur, and his final three rounds were really strong, after starting poorly on Thursday.

Outsider - Joaquin Niemann

Joaquin Niemann cracked the top 10 in a major for the first time by finishing 8th at the PGA Championship.

Since that strong performance at Quail Hollow, where he grew into the event after a slow start, Niemann has just won his fourth LIV Tour event of the year, closing out with four birdies from the 14th to the 17th hole at LIV Virginia, then going on to par the last to get the job done.

No matter what you think about the LIV Tour, Niemann has to beat Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm every time he tees it up, and those two feature heavily at the top of every major odds board.

Twice a winner on the PGA Tour, once on the DP World Tour, another win in Asia, and six wins on the LIV Tour, Niemann is a winning machine at the age of 26, and there is really only one thing left for him to do and that is for him to contend in one of the four biggest events.

Niemann missed the cut in this event as an amateur back in 2017, but in his last four U.S Open starts, he has made all four cuts, with a best finish of T23.

Longshot - Harris English

We have backed Harris English a couple of times this season, first at the Truist Championship, where he just missed out on the places at these same odds, and then again at a much shorter price at the Charles Schwab, where he didn’t make the grade.

Either side of those results, though, English finished 2nd at the PGA Championship and 12th at The Memorial to suggest he’s in rock-solid form. With career-best finishes in both The Masters (12th) and the PGA Championship (2nd), he will need a 2nd place finish or a win here to make it a hat-trick, having finished 3rd at the U.S. Open when Rahm won in 2021.

With four top-12 finishes in his last six starts and a great start to the year in the majors, English will be looking to capitalise with another win to add to his collection, especially in a Ryder Cup year.

In addition to his strong recent form, English should be confident returning to Oakmont, where he was inside the top 16 for the first two rounds back in 2016, and was still 21st going into the final round – eventually finishing 37th.

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Betfair US Open each-way tips

Cameron Young (10 Places)

With 10 and 12 Place markets on offer, it's worth looking at some big prices and the one who leaps out at three figures is 80/1 Cameron Young.

Young needed to birdie the par-5 closer in Canada last week to make a play-off. Instead he made bogey and there was a collective eyeroll from those who are convinced he'll never get over the line. 

But let's be clear, Young is a class act, a superb driver of the ball and a player with a history of top 10s in the majors.

He certainly has been driving it well. Young has been 3rd for SG: Off The Tee in both his last two events (4th in Canada and 25th at Memorial) while at the start of May he finished seventh at nearby Philly Cricket Club, Young ranking 3rd for SG: Putting.

As for that Majors pedigree, he has five top 10s in just 16 appearances - a second, a third, a seventh an eighth and a ninth.

They all came in a run of nine Majors between 2022 and 2024 and he now looks to be back in the form he was then.

Sepp Straka (8 Places)

The Austrian won the Truist Championship at Philly Cricket Club, a course located less than 50 miles away from Oakmont.

That was his second win of a sensational season that also includes a string of top 20s along with fifth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and third last time at Memorial.

We want strong driving this week and there to be a notable dose of accuracy within that.

Straka ranked 1st for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee at Muirfield Village two weeks ago and also 1st for Driving Accuracy. Perfect!

The four-time PGA Tour winner was also 2nd for SG: Putting at the Truist and 3rd for SGP at Memorial so he'll arrive at Oakmont full of confidence. 

The only negative about his season is that he's missed the cut in both Majors so far but let's recall that Straka was joint runner-up in the 2023 Open (also in rainy conditions) at Royal Liverpool and seventh in that year's US PGA.

Harris English (8 Places)

70/1 is still very acceptable for a player with a third, a fourth and an eighth in the last five US Opens. 

English, of course, was also runner-up in the PGA Championship last month and 12th in the US Masters so he's been excellent in the Majors this season.

Some other notable stats: he ranks 19th for SG: Putting this season and is 18th for 3-Putt Avoidance.

At the nearby Truist where he was 11th, English was 6th for SG: Off The Tee and he's ranked 18th, 12th and 21st in that metric in three tournaments since.

In other words, he's driving it better now than he did when scoring that gutsy win with 8-under at Torrey Pines.

The 35-year-old US Open specialist was 12th at Memorial on his last start.

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TalkSport US Open tips

Shane Lowry

He has come second at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Truist Championship this year and also had impressive weeks at the Valspar Championship, the Arnold Palmer and The Masters.

He also led the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday before falling away late on and unfortunately, a few bad Sunday finishes have put paid to Lowry’s chances of victory this year.

Lowry will also have fond memories of returning to Oakmont - he led the 2016 US Open at the iconic venue before a final day 76 let Dustin Johnson take glory.

Sepp Straka

He has won The American Express and Truist Championship this year and has three other top ten finishes.

However, Straka’s fine form has not translated into the majors as he has missed the cut in both The Masters and the PGA Championship this summer.

Jordan Spieth

The American claimed major glory at the infamous Chambers Bay event a decade ago but has struggled in his home open since.

Like Lowry, he hasn’t tasted victory this year but has been knocking on the door at a host of tournaments throughout the season.

He played well at The Masters in April and had a sniff of victory at Memorial.

Harris English

Another man in red-hot form, English is quietly having a stellar season, which could see him make Team USA’s Ryder Cup side come September.

English finished T2 at the PGA Championship, T12 at The Masters and has five other top 20 finishes this year.

His best week came with victory at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in January.

Torrey Pines is, of course, a US Open venue and English was third when the tournament was last held there in 2021.

Cameron Smith

The Australian was one of the very best in the world a few years ago when he followed up glory in The Players by beating Rory McIlroy to the Claret Jug at St Andrews.

But his move to LIV has signalled a downturn in fortunes, especially in the majors, missing the cut in his last three events.

However, his last big showing in a major was at the 2023 US Open, and he has performed well in LIV in recent months.

Nick Taylor

There has never been a Canadian winner of the US Open and Taylor will be out to change that.

The 37-year-old has won some huge events in recent years including the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the Pheonix Open and his home event, the RBC Canadian Open.

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How to watch and listen to the US Open

In the UK, Sky Sports will have live coverage of the US Open which begins on Thursday, June 12 until Sunday, May 15.

Coverage from the opening round begins on Thursday at 1230pm (BST) on Sky Sports Golf and at the same time on Friday for the second round.

Live action starts at 4pm on Saturday and 4pm for Sunday's final round, with one-hour highlights available the morning after each day's action.

For a US audience, NBC, USA, Peacock, USOpen.com and the USGA app will provide extensive coverage on TV and via streams.

There will be live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds across all four days.

All times are BST

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