Don’t sleep on Myrtle Beach.
The third-year Tour event offers the winner 300 FedExCup points and a two-year exemption, along with the last possible invite to the PGA Championship in Aronimink next week.
Brooks Koepka, the tournament favorite, wasn’t able to compete at Quail Hollow but he’ll be hoping to use this opposite-field event to earn future signature starts.
The Truist Championship has a $20 million purse. Koepka and Co. will be playing for a fifth of that at Dunes Golf and Beach Club. Here’s how oddsmakers have it figured out so far.
ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic odds (as of Wednesday afternoon, courtesy of DraftKings)
- Brooks Koepka (+1600)
- Davis Thompson (+1700)
- Rasmus Hojgaard (+2150)
- Mac Meissner (+2800)
- Rico Hoey (+3000)
- Max Greyserman (+3100)
- Stephan Jaeger (+3400)
- Rasmus Neergaard-Peterson (+3600)
- Haotong Li (+3600)
- Aaron Rai (+3800)
- Kevin Yu (+3800)
- Max McGreevy (+3900)
- Eric Cole (+3900)
Note: Marco Penge was the fourth favorite listed and has withdrawn from the tournament. Taylor Montgomery is in the Myrtle Beach field in his place.
Dunes Golf and Beach Club winner prediction
First thing you notice with the odds for the split event is that there’s just compressed value: The more you go down the board the numbers don’t inflate like a balloon, they stay flat to ground level.
For comparison, if you go about a names down from Cole (arbitrary editorial cutoff, for what it’s worth) you’ll find Kris Ventura listed at +5000. In your standard PGA Tour field, they’d likely be going off at +8000 or higher. Nonetheless, we’ll take a stab at Ventura who is riding in off a second-place finish at the Zurich team event two weeks ago.
The original play for winner was Penge at +2200 but he has since withdrawn. Pivoting on the fly, we’ll tap Kevin Yu at +3800 coming off a seventh place finish at the Valero Texas Open in early April and hope his top 40 approach play is good enough to contend.
Myrtle Beach Classic first-round leader
Giving out two names here for the sake of generosity, one is listed above and the other is a proverbial longshot.
We’ll start with Stephan Jaegar at +4400 who has a pair of top-10 finishes this season and showed fine form in two Texas tournaments last month. He has no course history so logic is he’ll be overlooked even though he’s a top 35 player in putting, driving distance and scrambling this season.
Deeper down we’ll take a slice at Erik van Rooyen at +7400 who has made the cuts in three consecutive events after opening 0-for-8 to start the year. Additionally, he finished T-4 here two years ago.
Best bets for Myrtle Beach
Mac Meissner to finish T-20 including ties at +116 is the play of the week for Myrtle. Don’t hate Aaron Rai at +140 either.
Messner missed the cut here last year but finished T-13 in 2024 and is also carrying a streak of three straight made cuts.
No course history here for Rai but he is fifth in driving accuracy and 16th in greens in regulation.
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