Long gone are the days of a single golf tournament each week buried at the bottom of a sportsbook’s listings. There are more tours and more tournaments than ever, and If you are a golf fan and golf bettor, 2025 is the year for you.
We have the PGA and LPGA, the DP World Tour still attracts some of the biggest names in golf, and LIV Golf gets its season going again in February. And now we have made-for-TV indoor virtual team golf with the TGL, a golf league created by TMRW Sports, a venture formed by sports executive Mike McCarley with pro golfers Tiger Woods and Rory Mcllroy. The new outlet is in a partnership with the PGA, and employs a combination of traditional golf with simulated indoor golf, spotlighting players from the PGA Tour.
Thanks to the TGL staging its matches on Monday and Tuesday, competitive golf is now being played seven days a week.
PGA Schedule
On Thursday, the PGA Tour tees off at The American Express, the first tournament of the PGA’s early season California swing. The American Express is at PGA West in La Quinta, followed by the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am the first weekend of February.
Sungjae Im (+1200) is the pre-tournament betting favorite at The American Express.
The Phoenix Open is played the week after Pebble Beach, and you can already begin placing bets on the winner there. Scottie Scheffler is the early favorite, paying +400. Xander Schauffele is +700, and Rory McIlroy is +900.
DP World Tour
You can never get too much McIlroy, with the cofounder of the TGL and four-time major champion the early betting favorite at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic this week. McIlroy pays +350, two-time major champion Jon Rahm pays +550, and Tyrrell Hatton is third at +900.
They tee off in Dubai early Thursday morning Dubai time, which is Wednesday night in the United States.
The prize fund for the Dubai Desert Classic is a season-high $9 million, which is why the big names on the DP World Tour (the sponsorship name for the European Tour) are participating. Next week, at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship, the field will be less top-heavy with marquee talent.
After tournaments in the U.A.E. and Bahrain, the DP World Tour goes to Africa for tournaments in Kenya and South Africa.
TGL Schedule
The TGL next plays on Tuesday, January 21, with the New York Golf Club taking on the Atlanta Drive Golf Club. New York features Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, and Cameron Young. The four golfers for Atlanta are Patrick Cantlay, Lucas Glover, Billy Horschel, and Justin Thomas.
The TGL regular season schedule goes through the first Tuesday of March, and then there are two semifinal matches and a three-match championship scheduled for March 24 and 25.
The co-favorites to win the inaugural season at +300 are The Bay Golf Club and Los Angeles Golf Club. Playing for The Bay Golf Club are Min Woo Lee, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg, and Shane Lowry. The Los Angeles Golf Club has Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, and Justin Rose.
Jupiter Links Golf Club, which has Tom Kim, Max Homa, Kevin Kisner, and Tiger Woods, is a +1600 longshot.
LPGA Celebrates 75th Anniversary Season
The LPGA tees off its 75th season on January 30 at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in Orlando. It will be the first of 35 events (33 official) that will hand out an LPGA-record $131 million in prize money.
Reflecting the international makeup of the LPGA, not only does this year’s schedule hit 14 different U.S. states, there are also tournaments in 11 different countries, including two different swings through Asia and a European swing in July.
LIV Golf Schedule
The 2025 LIV Golf schedule will take the tour to nine different countries on four continents, and it begins on February 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From there, the LIV tour goes to Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, before making its first U.S. stop in Miami on April 6.
In this, the fourth season of LIV Golf, there are 14 tournaments on the schedule. Last year, the leading money winner on the tour was Jon Rahm, with $34.7 million in prize money won.
With over 25 years of experience as a distinguished sports writer for renowned platforms such as Fox Sports and ESPN, Kyle Garlett is a sports betting specialist who has been at the forefront of documenting the global surge in sports betting and online gaming. Based in Denver, Colorado, Kyle hosts an NFL betting YouTube show and podcast. Kyle also has two sports books published by HarperCollins.
Kyle graduated the Azusa Pacific University in 1996 with a B.A. Degree in Communication and Journalism.
