Rory McIlroy and his new green jacket may be taking this week off after his dramatic victory in the Masters, but there will still be a stacked field on Hilton Head Island for the PGA Tour’s Signature Event on the South Carolina coast. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is the commanding +360 odds favorite at Sportsbook in the RBC Heritage, even though the world No. 1 continues to be winless on the year.
He's hardly playing badly—Scheffler’s fourth-place finish last week in Augusta was his second consecutive top-five, and he’s been top 20 in every start so far this season. But by this time last season, he’d already won three times. By his own standard he’s been good but not great to this point in 2025, leading some to wonder if his preseason palm surgery (that darn broken glass at Christmas) is having more of an effect than first believed.
PGA Tour RBC Heritage Odds
| Golfer | Odds |
|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | +360 |
| Collin Morikawa | +750 |
| Ludvig Aberg | +1200 |
| Xander Schauffele | +1200 |
| Russell Henley | +1800 |
| Patrick Cantlay | +1800 |
| Justin Thomas | +2000 |
| Corey Conners | +2200 |
| Jason Day | +2500 |
| Viktor Hovland | +2500 |
| Shane Lowry | +2800 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | +2800 |
| Aaron Rai | +3000 |
| Sungjae Im | +3000 |
| Sepp Straka | +3500 |
Odds as of April 15 at Sportsbook
This weekend will certainly offer a litmus test, given that Scheffler went 69-65-63-68 to win at Harbour Town last year. The field on the Pete Dye design will feature 10 of the top 12 players in the world, among them Masters runner-up Justin Rose, whose best finish in Hilton Head was a T7 two decades ago.
PGA Tour RBC Heritage Picks
Ludvig Aberg to Win (+1200) at Sportsbook
Fantastic odds on a monster of a player who’s now finished second and seventh in two career Masters appearances, and was T10 last season in his debut at the RBC Heritage. We (foolishly, as it turned out) backed off Aberg at Augusta because he had missed two straight cuts and not finished better than 22nd since his win at the Genesis. His play last week erased any doubts, and he had an excellent opening three days last year at Hilton Head (going 66-66-68) before faltering on Sunday.
Scottie Scheffler Top American (+270) at Sportsbook
Scheffler has recorded seven consecutive rounds under 70 at Harbour Town, and his career average finish of 6.0 in the Heritage is the best among all active players, according to GolfStat.
Despite his goose egg in the win column, Scheffler has the second-lowest scoring average this season on Tour (behind only a fellow named McIlroy), and clearly his current game is good enough to stake out a place high on the leaderboard. The nationality prop offers far more favorable odds than a top-five wager on Scheffler, which carries a negative moneyline.
Jordan Spieth Top-10 Finish (+300) at Sportsbook
Harbour Town was the site of Spieth’s most recent victory, a 2022 triumph that was only his second since winning the 2017 Open Championship. Spieth can be really good on the Dye layout—he followed up his 2022 win with a runner-up finish the following season, and he’s gone sub-70 in 11 of his last 13 rounds there. And he seems to be finally trending in the right direction after recovering from wrist surgery, as a T12 at Augusta would indicate.
PGA Tour RBC Heritage Betting Tips
Harbour Town is a gem of a layout that’s stood the test of time for more than a half-century, with its difficulty inherent in his design—postage-stamp greens, lots of water, ridiculous bunkering, all those railroad ties—more so than its length. Try to subdue it with bombs off the tee, and you’re liable to end up knee-high in pampas grass (and maybe alligators). Players love it or hate it, and the guys who are good there tend to be good year after year.
Scheffler and Spieth certainly seem to fit that mold. So does Patrick Cantlay, who hasn’t finished worse than T3 in Hilton Head in three seasons, and owns five career top-three finishes on the island. But Cantlay has never won there, and his recent results—T36 at Augusta, and three of his last four finishes in the 30s—don’t exactly inspire confidence this week. Same for Sahith Theegala, who’s gone second and fifth the past two years at Harbour Town, but doesn’t even have a top-10 this year.
For Corey Conners, it’s the opposite—he’s among the hottest players on Tour not named Rory, finishing T18 or better in five straight starts, including a T8 at Augusta. But his lone top-10 on Hilton Head, a T4 in 2021, is swamped by an average finish of 51.5 over eight career starts. Justin Thomas has two top-eight finishes in his last four Heritage starts and owns two runners-up this season, but his 2025 average in Signatures and majors is 31.6. So many options and so many hazards, just like the railroad ties and gators at Harbour Town.
