Truist Championship betting preview

The PGA Tour returns to Philadelphia for the first time since 2018 for the Truist Championship 2025 PGA Tour event. The Philadelphia Cricket Club is the new title sponsor and its Wissahickon Course is new to the players with a compact and elite field of 72 players shooting for a top prize of $3.6 million from a $20 million prize pool. Golfers odds, preview and information you can bet on is provided below and updated ahead of the tournament with matchups and picks.

The Truist Championship was formerly the Wells Fargo Championship. It's a Signature Event, and you can check out the link for last year's players results and odds. World No. 2 and 2025 Masters champion Rory McIlroy is the favorite as defending champion, and he's won the event four times. World No. 3 Xander Schauffele finished runner-up last year. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will not play in the Truist. He just won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson by 9-strokes (-31), and will rest and prepare for the following week's PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, NC. 

Truist, a top 10 U.S. Bank through mergers six years ago, has made a longer term commitment to the event after signing on as title sponsor last summer. The tournament will return to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte next year, as Quail Hollow is the host course for next week's PGA Championship.  

The Truist Championship 2025 event is a no-cut tournament played across four days over Mother's Day weekend May 8-11. 

Golf Odds To Win Truist Championship

Golf odds from BetOnline and leading online sportsbooks refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on futures, props and live betting. Top finishing position odds and tournament matchups are other popular bets, and available Tuesday. 

+500: Rory McIlroy
+1200: Collin Morikawa
+1600: Justin Thomas
+1800: Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg, Patrick Cantlay
+2500: Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland
+2800: Tommy Fleetwood, Hideki Matsuyama, Russell Henley
+3500: Corey Conners, Sepp Straka, Daniel Berger
+4000: Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre
+4500: Maverick McNealy
+5000: Min Woo Lee
+5500: Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Wyndham Clark
+6000: Sungjae Im, Jason Day, Si Woo Kim, Andrew Novak
+6500: Davis Thompson, Brian Harman
+7000: Michael Kim, Taylor Pendrith, JJ Spaun, Ben Griffin
+7000: Justin Rose, Aaron Rai, Akshay Bhatia, JT Poston

72-Hole Winning Score: Over/Under 260.5 (Par 70)

Golf Picks, Props And Stats

As you target some golfers of interest this week, note that there is no strokes gained data from this course as golfers play it for the first time. Picks to win will be limited, and tournament matchups and odds updated as available by BetOnline and top online sportsbooks. 

Targeting golfers with stronger Off-the-Tee play, and then adding Approach, Tee-to-Green and some Scrambling, and the short list of top, capable contenders looks like Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Daniel Berger, Corey Conners and Keith Mitchell as a potential sleeper and a player to add in the right tournament matchup along with the top tier mentioned. Others being considered ahead of posted matchups included Aberg, Pendrith, Cantlay, MacIntyre and Rai. 

Truist Tournament Matchups

Matchup offerings and moneyline odds vary from leading online sportsbooks, and are subject to change. Notable tournament matchups offered at BetOnline by Tuesday with others available at BetOnline.ag also offering spread betting on matchups (+/- 1.5 strokes). Check Wed. for any additions and picks. 

- McIlroy (-159) vs. Morikawa (+132)
- Schauffele (-110) vs. Thomas (-110)
- Cantlay (-120) vs. Aberg (+100) - Bet Cantlay
- Spieth (-110) vs. Hovland (-110)
- Fleetwood (-120) vs. Henley (+110)
- Conners (-115) vs. Matsuyama (-105) 
- Lowry (-120) vs. Straka (+100)
- Berger (-120) vs. McNealy (+100)
- Bradley (-128) vs. Clark (+107)
- Mitchell (-110) vs. Poston (-110) - Bet Mitchell
- MacIntyre (-120) vs. Day (+100)
- Thompson (-120) vs. McCarthy (+100)
- Rai (-120) vs. Burns (+100)
- Novak (-115) vs. Harman (-105)
- Griffin (-122) vs. Spaun (+102)

Cantlay has gained strokes on Approach in seven straight starts, and 5-of-6 Off-the-Tee including his T13 recently at RBC Heritage. He's had positive SG Total in 9 straight starts and only his Around the Green game has held him back from more top finishes, although his bunker game is strong and his putting on preferred bentgrass greens with past success on Tillinghast designs. Aberg's Off the Tee game is typically strong. But he's missed a pair of cuts in his last five starts while losing strokes in three of those Tee-to-Green, Approach, Around-the-Green and Putting, including last out T54 at RBC Heritage. 

Keith Mitchell continues to perform well will a pair of top 20's in his most recent starts while ranking No. 4 in this field Off-the-Tee over his last 24 rounds. He's gained strokes OTT, T2G, Approach and Total in 8-of-9 starts this year. Poston has one top-20 in his last seven starts and lost strokes on Approach in hist last 3 events and Tee-to-Green his last two. 

You can check out my past PGA Tournaments including matchup picks and player analysis as I posted weekly in Forbes. We cashed in on McIlroy over Scheffler in the AT&T Pebble Beach and The Masters, and our tournament matchup reports and picks were posting more birdies on the scorecard from Jan. - April. 

Philadelphia Cricket Club and Wissahickon Golf Course 

Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon golf course will play to just over 7,100 yards at par 70 for the PGA Tour pros. It isn’t as well known nationally, but its a showcase of pride for its membership and community with the course serving as designer A.W. Tillinghast's home course from 1922 until his death in 1942. 

Learn more about the architectural design of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, golden-age gem that’s been resurrected through a major renovation and has hosted several major events since. 

Visual challenges are part of what makes the designers courses so special, and the Tillinghast touch is highlighted by the “Great Hazard,” where 13 bunkers lie in the middle of the fairway on the par-5 7th. This is not a bombers paradise, but a calculated design where the fairways have varying slopes, forcing players to hit different shot shapes. The undulating bentgrass greens, after being extended during the renovation, have small plateaus for tough pin placements. Water in in play on just one hole, but the 118 bunkers are the most for any tournament on the PGA Tour. 

The biggest adjustment the PGA Tour is making for the Truist Championship is the routing of the holes. Players will start on what is usually the 365-yard par-4 8th and move to another short par 4 on the 9th. Then they’ll play 10 through 18 before moving to 1 and 2. The final three holes—the 215-yard, par-3 5th, 498-yard, par-4 6th and 517-yard, par 4 4th—will provide a challenging finish to a worthy champion. 

More golf and sports betting coverage with information you can bet on as the PGA Championship tees off next week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, NC where McIlroy won two of his previous Truist/Wells Fargo events and Xander Schauffele tries to defend his PGA Championship title where he won his first of two major championships last year. 

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