USPGA Championship Betting Stats: Will another outsider follow 534/1 Mickelson?

Phil Mickelson was backed at enormous odds of 535.0534/1 on the Betfair Exchange to win the USPGA Championship last year, so it could pay to look down the market for an outsider at the 2022 edition this week.

The world's golfing talent is in Oklahoma for the tournament, which starts tomorrow at Southern Hills, and Steve Rawlings has highlighted the players he's backing at long odds.

Scheffler favourite to win second Major

At the top of the market, Scottie Scheffler is the favourite at 13.525/2. He's been in sensational form this year and put in a nerveless display to win the Masters in April. It would be no surprise if he scooped the season's second Major championship at Southern Hills, Oklahoma this Sunday.

But winners at odds like Scheffler's have been in fairly short supply at the USPGA Championship over the past decade.

Brooks Koepka was an average price of 12.523/2 when he was victorious for the second time in 2019. Rory McIlroy was a mere 6.05/1 in 2014 and Jason Day only averaged 15.014/1 the following year.

Apart from those three, though, we've seen winners backed at long odds. Mickelson was by far the biggest price but Jimmy Walker's 214.0213/1 in 2016 was a shock too.

Two years ago Collin Morikawa was 33.032/1 while Justin Thomas averaged 47.046/1 in 2017.

Other than Mickelson, the biggest-priced Major winner in the past two years was Hideki Matsuyama who averaged 70.069/1 en route to his Masters title in 2021. Our tipster Dave Tindall is among those who fancy the Japanese this week.

In 2022, on the eve of the big tee-off at Southern Hills, the Spaniard Adri Arnaus 530.0529/1 is the player currently trading at odds closest to Mickelson's last year.

Unlike Lefty, however, Arnaus is not going in as a five-time Major winner (including one USPGA) so it would be an even bigger shock were he to triumph.

Mickelson won't be competing at Southern Hills so there is no prospect of a successive title.

The last player to win the USPGA twice in a row was Koepka (2018 and '19) and he's 55.054/1 to win a third this weekend.

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