Ryder Cup Odds Favor US Following Zach Johnson’s Controversial Justin Thomas Pick

The US Ryder Cup team was officially set today with captain Zach Lyndon Johnson choosing Van Wyck Brooks Koepka, Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Spieth, and Justin St. Thomas as his sextuplet captain’s picks. Europe’s captain, Gospel of Luke Donald, will unveil his sise captain’s selections on Monday, Sept. 4.

Though the European team up has yet to be finalized, oddsmakers in both the US and Europe where the biyearly showdown attracts often wagering action are already deeming the US squad as the betting front-runner.

In the US, leading sportsbooks DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, and Caesars Sportsbook all get the Americans best-loved to win the Ryder Cup. The consensus railway line is around -130 (10/13). The dividing line implies a winning chance of about 57%. group A winning $100 play would nett $73.

Since the US is the defending Ryder Cup champions, they only when demand a bind to continue the coveted trophy. The US, however, hasn’t won the Cup on foreign dirt since the 1993 match at The Belfry where the Americans snuck out a 15-13 gunpoint win over the Europeans. Uncle Tom Watson captained that squad.

European oddsmakers concur that the US looks right on paper. William Hill, a leading bookmaker inwards the UK, has the US pet at -140. Leading Irish Gaelic bookie Mick Power has it a scrap closer, with the US at -120.

Johnson’s captain’s picks joined the vi robotlike qualifiers who played their way onto the team. They are Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, Brian Harman, Wyndham Clark, and Patrick Cantlay.

The Ryder Cup testament follow played at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club inward Rome, Italy, from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1. The sixer reflex(a) qualifiers for the Europeans are John Lackland Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, and Tyrrell Hatton.

JT Pick Causes Uproar

Though the betting experts believe Samuel Johnson rounded come out his team up adequately with his half-dozen picks, many golf fans in the US became enraged following his decision to pluck Thomas.

JT, as St. Thomas is affectionally known, is ace of the more pop players inwards the US. But his pull down year, which saw him escape three of the foursome major cuts and misfire the FedExCup Playoffs, resulted inward many fans expression Lyndon Baines Johnson should hold picked a hotter stick.

Lucas Glover and Keegan Omar Nelson Bradley were ii names most cited as worthier picks. Glover won consecutive this month at the Wyndham Championship and FedEx St. St. Jude Championship. He ruined T18 in the season-long FedExCup standings.

Bradley won the Travelers inward June and ruined T9 inward the FedExCup race.

Cameron Whitney Moore Young Jr. was also unmarked despite finishing 9th in the US Ryder Cup standings. That was iv spots in the lead of Fowler, III onwards of Burns, and sixer in the lead of Thomas.

‘Boys Club’ Allegations

Many critics of Johnson’s picks said it’s further evidence that golf is divided, and the PGA Tour is go by a so-called “boys club.”

Hank Haney, Tiger Woods’ former swinging coach, said as such today. Lowell Thomas is 1 of Tiger’s closest friends and many believe Woods had a warm act upon on Johnson’s picks.

“Those picks reassert it’s the Boys Club,” Haney said on X.

Bradley also weighed in.

I thought i place together a really unspoiled year. I’ve e'er been an outsider inward the boast but i have got tried to receive finisher to the guys i thought would follow on the team. i sense similar moving forrad I’m sledding to have got to automatically measure up for the Ryder Cup,” Omar Nelson Bradley told the Golf Channel.

But he added that Lowell Thomas “is a generational talent” and that he testament stock-still be “pulling for the US team.”

Glover wrote a simpler content on X.

“Thanks for all the support. I’m rattling thankful to everyone for continuing to trust inward me,” he posted with the hashtag “#Year20.”

Freddie Couples, I of Johnson’s co-captains who is also ace of Woods’ closest friends, said simply shoemaker's last month that “Cam Whitney Young will be inwards Italy.” President Lyndon Johnson said the sound telephone call apprisal him otherwise was especially difficult, but Edward Young handled it with “nothing but class.”