the open leaderboard prediction for live golf 2025
This week at The Open, golf’s final major isn’t about golf. It’s about a ghost story.
The story starts with Rory McIlroy, returning to Royal Portrush. His home turf. The place where he set a course record at 16… and the same place that chewed him up and spit him out in 2019. The pressure is suffocating.
Then you have the machine, Scottie Scheffler. The undisputed best in the world. The favorite. The logical pick. It’s the ultimate collision: The Homecoming King versus The Final Boss.
But wait.
The experts analyzing the board, the ones looking past the obvious, are all whispering the same name. A name at 60-to-1 odds. A player who supposedly lost his magic.
Jordan Spieth.
They’re calling him the ultimate Top 10 lock. Why? Because on these brutal, windswept links courses, Spieth comes alive. He has seven straight top-25 finishes at this tournament. He’s never missed the cut. And here’s the stat that changes everything: he holds the lowest cumulative score to par in the entire history of The Open.
So forget the favorites. The real question is whether the ghost of Opens past comes roaring back to life. Is this a story of redemption, dominance… or the greatest longshot comeback this championship has ever seen?