PGA Tour 2023 US Open Betting Update: Three Early Predictions

The week of the 2023 U.S. Open is here, and the players have arrived in Los Angeles for the third major tournament of the year. The 123rd playing of the U.S. Open is taking place at the Los Angeles Country Club, right in the heart of the City of Angels. 

Every shot in the bag will be needed to win on this golf course that many players are seeing for the first time this week. This will be the first major tournament hosted at the venue and the first PGA Tour event since 1940.

Let’s jump into three early predictions for the golf tournament as Thursday’s first round nears.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at our first three pre-tournament US Open Betting predictions for the third major tournament of the year.

 

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2023 United States Open Championship | June 15–18
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Koepka Finishes Top 5

Brooks Koepka captured his fifth major title last month at the PGA Championship last month at Oak Hill Country Club outside of Rochester, New York. Now healthy, Koepka appears back to his old form of dominating the major tournaments as he has in the past. 

The 33-year-old already has a pair of U.S. Open titles on his mantle, winning back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018. Koepka followed those wins up with a solo second in 2019 and T4 in 2021.

When healthy, no one in the game of golf has the confidence that the LIV golfer possesses, and he has the game to navigate what is expected to be four days of mental and physical stress. Don’t be surprised if Koepka is at or near the top of the leaderboard on Sunday afternoon.

 

LIV Golfers will Litter the Leaderboard

We mentioned the expectations for Koepka, but don’t be surprised if there are a handful of LIV Golf members scattered throughout the first page of the leaderboard. Dustin Johnson had a solid first day at the PGA Championship before carding three-straight rounds of 74 to take him out of contention. Johnson won the U.S. Open in 2016 and has finished inside the top 25 in his last three outings.

Bryson DeChambeau won the 2020 U.S. Open title and, after missing the cut at Augusta, finished T4 at the PGA Championship. DeChambeau has the length to give himself a lot of scoring opportunities this week, but he’ll need to find the accuracy off the tee to avoid the penal rough.

Finally, don’t count out the defending Open Champion Cameron Smith in L.A. The Aussie has missed the last two cuts at U.S. Open tournaments but posted a T9 at the PGA Championship and has a PLAYERS Championship trophy on his mantle. Smith has the ball-shaping golf game to score at this course that’ll play like many of the courses he finds back home in Australia.

 

Scottie Scheffler will Rise to the Top

Scottie Scheffler is due for another major title based on the recent play of the top golfer in the world. Scheffler tees it up this week on the heels of four consecutive top 5 finishes and a T10 and T2 at the first two majors of the year.

Already a Masters champion, if Scheffler can figure out his putting, he could dominate this tournament. The 26-year-old has finished T7 and T2 in this event in the last two seasons.

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5 U.S Open Predictions That Shouldn’t Go Unnoticed

From June 15-18, 156 of the best golfers in the world will be chasing down a major at the Erin Hills golf course in Wisconsin, but only 1 can emerge victorious. The player who eventually emerges victorious is going to be the one who can best master a course that is absolutely brutal. There are already several players who have stated that the course is too tough, but shouldn’t that be the case for one of the most prestigious events on the PGA Tour calendar? Rather than trying to predict a winner in this piece, we are instead going to focus on 5 predictions about how things might play out. Let’s see how many we actually get correct and some of the latest golf betting predictions.

A Closer Look At The 5 U.S Open Predictions That Shouldn’t Go Unnoticed

   

Don’t Expect a Lot of Low Scoring

As we have already said, Erin Hills is a course that is not for the faint of heart. This is a set-up that rewards accuracy over power, and we all know that staying accurate over a period of 4 rounds of golf is incredibly taxing, which means that mistakes are going to be made. Combine that with weather conditions that might well wreak havoc and you get a winning score that is not likely to break any course records.

Look for the Europeans to Excel

Deep rough and howling winds are going to make this US Open feel as though it is being played on British soil. As such, we can probably expect to see a lot of European players hanging around near the top of the leaderboard on Sunday afternoon. We might even see Sergio Garcia land back to back major wins.

Sunday is Playoff Time

Since we expect the scoring to be not particularly low, there is a distinct possibility that the leaders are all going to be tightly bunched come Sunday afternoon, which sets up the real chance of playoff holes being required. If there were not a playoff this year, it would be the longest without one at the US Open in history. It has been 8 years since the last playoff, and 9 would break the longest streak. All signs point to extra holes.

A Relative Unknown Will Win

Dustin Johnson, who is currently the best player in the world, will once again be the favorite to win, but will he? I think this course is set up for someone to come out of nowhere and steal the win. The most logical choice would be a good European player who is not really a household name on this side of the pond. This is going to be a tough tournament to handicap for so many reasons, and a longshot may well be the way to go.

Things are Going to Get Rough

The fairways at Erin Hills are incredibly nice, but fail to hit them and you are in for a world of trouble. When you tune in over the 4 days of the US Open, expect to see a lot of players standing in knee deep rough looking horribly frustrated. As we mentioned earlier, accuracy is key, but the ability to get out of trouble will also decide who wins.