The Open Championship 2025 Betting Tips: Rose can lead home charge

Our golf tipster Jamie Worsley is a busy boy this week, with multiple articles including his Jamie's full in-depth preview and The Open Championship 2025 Golf Tips here. 

We've also tasked him with checking out some of the more niche specials markets and he's done just that with two nice looking angles in his The Open Championship 2025 Betting Tips below...

The Open Championship Odds

3 pts Jon Rahm (Top 5) @ 11/4

Jon Rahm is trending nicely in the majors this season, and in an event at which he’s excelled in recent years, he was firmly on the radar in my outright preview. He didn’t quite make it there, but there looks a bit of value about his top-five price and I’m happy to jump on here.

Rahm hasn’t won on LIV this year, though nor has he really put a foot wrong. He’s finished no worse than 11^th in his 10 starts and has twice finished 2^nd: in Riyadh at the start of the year, and last week at Valderrama. More importantly, he’s looked much better in the majors this season compared to last, recording finishes of 14^th in The Masters, 8^th in the PGA Championship, and 7^th in the US Open.

The Spaniard hit the ball well enough in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, ranking 13^th in ball-striking. He was even stronger when we last saw him in major championship action, ranking 2^nd at Oakmont in the US Open, and he was also 2^nd in greens-in-regulation that week. This represents only a small part of impressive season-long stats, ranking 4^th in the field in strokes-gained: total in 2025.

Rahm initially took a little time to find his feet in The Open, missing one cut and failing to record a single top 40 in his first three attempts. However, he turned that around at Royal Portrush in 2019, finishing 11^th, and following with consecutive finishes of 3^rd at Royal St George’s (2021), 34^th at St Andrews (2022), 2^nd at Hoylake (2023), and 7^th at Royal Troon (2024), this two-time Irish Open winner now looks about as comfortable on the links as anyone.

1 pt Justin Rose (Top UK & Ireland) each-way (1/4 - 4 places) @ 16/1

Justin Rose had really struggled for form following his 2^nd-place finish in The Masters back in April, missing three cuts and finishing no better than 40^th in his next six starts. He burst back into life last week, finishing 6^th in Scotland after a month-long break and can cause some real damage in our final major of the season.

Rose’s runner-up finish at Augusta was no surprise. He’d shown form earlier in the year, finishing 3^rd at Pebble Beach and 8^th in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and was displaying quality across his game. His ball-striking went missing after The Masters, but he hit it beautifully last week, ranking 5^th in ball-striking, 5^th in greens-in-regulation, 7^th in approach, and 12^th in driving accuracy.

He's finished 2^nd in two of his last five Open Championship appearances – last year, two shots behind Xander Schauffele and in 2018, again two shots adrift of Francesco Molinari. This is part of a wider book of excellent form in the tournament, recording four top-10s and 10 top-25s in 21 starts. One of those top-25s came at Royal Portrush in 2019, but he was actually positioned considerably better than that thru 54 holes, entering the final round in 4^th place before an eight-over 79 saw him vanish down the leaderboard.

This is obviously an ultra-competitive market, headed by Rory McIlroy and also including Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Tyrrell Hatton, Robert MacIntyre, and Matt Fitzpatrick ahead of him in the betting. That being said, Rose’s recent form in this event is better than most, and if able to keep the gains he made with the long game at The Renaissance Club, the 44-year-old may again take the beating among the UK & Ireland contingent.

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