2026 Presidents Cup Odds: Player Rankings, Best Bets, USA vs. International Team Predictions

One of the most exciting weekends in golf, Presidents Cup odds are here to inject a little life into the fall golf betting season. We are now just days away from tee-off at Medinah No. 3 in Chicago. Given the volatility of this event, this article will pivot away from the typical deep-dive modeling analysis of the players and course, and instead look to uncover where the greatest betting edges are with what information is available on projected team pairings and individual player opportunities.

2026 Presidents Cup Odds: USA vs. International

Team to Score Most Points – Presidents Cup 2026
USA	−420
International	+460
Tie	+1425

2026 Presidents Cup Top Point Scorer Odds

Country	Player	Odds
🇺🇸	Scottie Scheffler	+340
🇺🇸	Xander Schauffele	+830
🇺🇸	Patrick Cantlay	+1000
🇺🇸	Sam Burns	+1150
🇺🇸	Russell Henley	+1225
🇺🇸	Cameron Young	+1325
🇺🇸	Chris Gotterup	+1425
🇰🇷	Si Woo Kim	+1475
🇦🇺	Adam Scott	+1700
🇺🇸	Wyndham Clark	+1750
🇯🇵	Hideki Matsuyama	+1800
🇺🇸	Jackson Koivun	+2050
🇺🇸	Collin Morikawa	+2200
🇰🇷	Tom Kim	+2450
🇺🇸	Justin Thomas	+2500
🇺🇸	Jacob Bridgeman	+2700
🇰🇷	Sungjae Im	+2700
🇦🇺	Min Woo Lee	+2700
🇨🇦	Corey Conners	+4000
🇿🇦	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+5700
🇯🇵	Ryo Hisatsune	+6400
🇳🇿	Ryan Fox	+6800
🇨🇦	Nick Taylor	+9400
🇨🇴	Nicolas Echavarria	+14000

2026 Presidents Cup Top USA Point Scorer Odds

Country	Player	Odds
🇺🇸	Scottie Scheffler	+255
🇺🇸	Xander Schauffele	+640
🇺🇸	Patrick Cantlay	+760
🇺🇸	Sam Burns	+850
🇺🇸	Russell Henley	+910
🇺🇸	Cameron Young	+990
🇺🇸	Chris Gotterup	+1050
🇺🇸	Wyndham Clark	+1175
🇺🇸	Jackson Koivun	+1550
🇺🇸	Collin Morikawa	+1600
🇺🇸	Justin Thomas	+1850
🇺🇸	Jacob Bridgeman	+1850

2026 Presidents Cup Top International Point Scorer Odds

Country	Player	Odds
🇰🇷	Si Woo Kim	+445
🇯🇵	Hideki Matsuyama	+510
🇦🇺	Adam Scott	+530
🇰🇷	Tom Kim	+670
🇦🇺	Min Woo Lee	+770
🇰🇷	Sungjae Im	+780
🇨🇦	Corey Conners	+1075
🇿🇦	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+1375
🇳🇿	Ryan Fox	+1500
🇯🇵	Ryo Hisatsune	+1600
🇨🇦	Nick Taylor	+2050
🇨🇴	Nicolas Echavarria	+2800

2026 Presidents Cup Odds Introduction

The Americans have the home-course advantage at Medinah No. 3, and they look poised to continue what has been a decades-long display of dominance at the Presidents Cup over their International Team adversaries. It has been a complete one-sided affair since the inception of this event, with the U.S. Team holding a 13-1-1 overall record over the Internationals. Three players on the International Team have not lived to see their team win, as you would have to go back to 1998 at Royal Melbourne to find the last, and only, International Team victory.

Medinah No. 3 is built for the moment this week, having recently undergone an extensive renovation in preparation to host this event. Medinah has plenty of history hosting big events, but this new, renovated version is still a relative unknown by PGA Tour standards (more on that later). 

The Americans are consistently the prohibitive favorites at this event, and that is especially true on home soil. USA has never lost when playing at home in the Presidents Cup and is a -600 betting favorite to retain the Presidents Cup.

There is plenty of continuity on both sides, as the USA will return seven of the same players from the 2024 contest in Montreal: Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, and Russell Henley. Justin Thomas and Cameron Young will also carry over valuable match play experience from last year’s Ryder Cup. Similarly, the International side will feature seven players who competed in both 2024 and 2022: Si Woo Kim, Tom Kim, Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott, Sungjae Im, Corey Conners, and Christiaan Bezuidenhout.

Match Play is a unique beast in golf betting, with subjective factors like momentum and gamesmanship often usurping the importance of tried-and-true analytics like course fit and leading form. It’s that “anything can happen” aura that draws so much intrigue to the Presidents Cup every two years.

Presidents Cup Format Explained

The Presidents Cup features a couple unique wrinkles relative to the Ryder Cup. It is a race to 15.5 points this week with 30 total points up for grabs at the Presidents Cup. That is two more than the Ryder Cup, with the opening two sessions this week featuring an extra fifth match.

The Presidents Cup is played over four days. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature five sessions of Four Ball (AKA Best Ball). Day 2 (Friday) will feature five sessions of Foursomes (AKA Alternate Shot). Day 3 (Saturday) will be split into two morning and afternoon sessions, with four groups playing Four Ball in the morning, and four groups playing Foursomes in the afternoon. Day 4 (Sunday) features 12 singles matches. The first team to reach 15.5 wins the Presidents Cup, and in the event of a 15-15 tie, the U.S. Team will retain the Presidents Cup, as the standing 2024 champions.

From a betting perspective, it is Four Ball that produces the most volatility. There is some inherent luck involved in the format, as it often rewards the teams who can best stagger their best and worst holes. For example, if Player A and Player B on the U.S. Team par every hole and Player A and Player B on the International Team each bogey and birdie every other hole, they would each shoot the same score in stroke play, but the Internationals would sweep 10 & 8 in match play. We tend to see first-timers or players with a weaker overall match play record compete in Four Ball, as team chemistry is less crucial in this format. Historically, Four Ball has not been the issue for the International side, as the U.S. Team holds a narrow 78-73 lifetime advantage in this category.

It is Foursomes and Singles where the U.S. has leaned on its skill advantage, holding a combined record of 189-140 in these two formats. The Americans partnering up each year at either the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup gives them a distinct advantage in Foursomes, in my opinion, as they’re pressure-tested comfortable pairings like Schauffele & Cantlay and Scheffler & Henley for several iterations of this event. With that said, a stable core of return players on the International side may lead to steadier improvements in Foursomes, as we’ve now seen Tom Kim & Si Woo Kim and Hideki Matsuyama & Sungjae Im get plenty of competitive reps together in this event. 

Introduction To Medinah No. 3

Medinah Country Club is a classic parkland course just outside of Chicago, and is sure to bring a raucous American home crowd from one of its most passionate golf cities. Medinah has been a staple venue to host championship golf, serving as the home site for three Western Opens, three U.S. Opens, two PGA Championship, the 2012 Ryder Cup, and, most recently, the 2019 BMW Championship.

Miracles do happen at Medinah, as the European Team displayed here in 2012. They entered the Sunday Singles session at a four-point deficit and needed to win at least 8.5 points on the final day to win the Ryder Cup. They did just that, pulling off the Miracle at Medinah and winning 14.5-13.5 in one of the most climactic Ryder Cup finishes ever. It is yet another miracle the International side will be hoping for in this week’s David vs. Goliath matchup.

We’ll see plenty of familiar faces from that BMW Championship seven years ago. Justin Thomas won at 25-under-par, setting the course record and prevailing over the next closest competitor, Patrick Cantlay, by three strokes. From an International perspective, plenty of players in this event will return with fond memories of Medinah. Hideki Matsuyama (3rd), Corey Conners (T7), Adam Scott (T9), and Sungjae Im (T11) each played well in their last trip to Chicago. 

2022 Renovation

The club just celebrated its Centennial anniversary in 2024, and Medinah No. 3 will enter its second century with a significant facelift. Coincidentally led by International Team captain Geoff Ogilvy’s design team, OCM Golf, Medinah No. 3’s renovation was a massive undertaking. A $23.5M project, the renovation began in 2022 and was completed 20 months later.

The renovation was driven by a need to modernize this 1924 gem, prepare it to host future championship events like this, and adjust for the advancements of modern distance. Once known as the “Monster of the Midway”, Justin Thomas’ 25-under-par trouncing of the course in 2019 was seen by many as the tipping point in realizing the course was no longer equipped to properly challenge the best players in the world.

In summary, the course changes post-renovation include widened fairways to promote taking strategic angles into the pins, re-routing of the final six holes to create peak drama for Match Play, modernized bunkering with more depth, and revamped turf and irrigation systems to help withstand Chicago’s rainy seasons. 

Course Breakdown: Medinah No. 3

After these renovations, Medinah No. 3 now stands as a 7,548-yard par-70. That is very long by PGA Tour standards for a course with just two par-5s, and will placed a heightened importance on distance and long-iron approach play. 

Considering all six of the International players rank below Tour average in driving distance, the U.S. Team may prove to have a distinct advantage on this type of long and demanding course set up. Aside from Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott, and Ryan Fox, the International Team’s make-up is far better suited for accuracy-premium, positional venues. On the American side, Chris Gotterup, Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns, and Justin Thomas each average 300+ yards off the tee and rank top-10 in this field in Driving Distance.

The new agronomy at Medinah No. 3 features Creeping Bentgrass in its fairways and greens, and 4-inch Kentucky Bluegrass and Fescue in the rough. While the fairways are generous in width, there will be a steep penalty for tee shots that miss the fairway, especially considering the overall length of this course. In short, this is a week where power should prevail over precision, and putting will be of premium importance. 

Presidents Cup Golfer Power Rankings

Before betting on the 2026 Presidents Cup, it’s best to understand how the composition of both team rosters stack up. In 2022, Team USA dominated from start to finish, capitalizing on their talent and home-field advantages at Quail Hollow. On road soil two years later, the talent gap still tippped considerably towards Team USA, however the International Team showed plenty of fight, especially in Foursomes, where they swept Day 2 5-0. Ultimately, the Americans prevailed again, winning 18.5-11.5 in 2024, and they will once again be prohibitive favorites to win this week. 

According to consensus Top Point Scorer odds, USA features a top-heavy team, including each of the first five favorites in the Top Point Scorer market (Scheffler, Schauffele, Morikawa, Cantlay, Burns). United under one flag with opportunities across the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup every other year, Team USA will always have a slight edge over the International Team as far as camaraderie and chemistry in the team format. The Schauffele & Cantlay, Scheffler & Burns, and Young & Thomas pairings have paid dividends in recent years, but Team USA will need to get creative to feed an incoming batch of trending talent, with Chris Gotterup and Wyndham Clark each coming in off of three-win seasons in 2026. Jacob Bridgeman was expected to be Team USA’s weakest link, earning the final captain’s pick from Brandt Snedeker, and he’ll come into this week red hot, having just won the Biltmore Championship Asheville. 

The International Team are prohibitive underdogs in this matchup, and their odds reflect that, with their top players (Matsuyama, Im, and Tom Kim) available at 16-1 consensus Top Point Scorer odds. The Presidents Cup puts a bit more emphasis on team depth than the Ryder Cup, which may ultimately be the International Team’s downfall, as I have seven of the bottom-9 players in my Power Rankings hailing from the International side. We’ve seen miracles happen at Medinah in the past, however, and who better than Geoff Ogilvy to lead them, having led the renovation of Medinah himself. The case for an International Team upset is a case for budding team chemistry over recent years. Seven International players will be returning for their third consecutive Presidents Cup competition since 2022.

International Team Projected Pairings

There’s plenty of flexibility to mix and match pairings on the International side, and a few successful and sensible ones that they can go back to this week. Corey Conners played alongside his countrymate Mackenzie Hughes in three matches in 2024, and Hideki Matsuyama in the other. Considering his form and the change of scenery, we’re unlikely to see Conners play a full five sessions this time around, but he has pairing flexibility to play alongside either Nick Taylor (the only other Canadian on this year’s squad) or Hideki Matsuyama. 

Matsuyama also has experience playing with Sungjae Im, and would be a natural fit to play with fellow Japanese teammate, Ryo Hisatsune in his Presidents Cup debut.

The most exciting International duo in 2024 was without a doubt Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim. They may be better suited to stagger their best talent across multiple pairings with a thinner pool of talent in 2026, but I expect to see at least two sessions of the two Kims together.

Adam Scott played alongside Taylor Pendrith throughout the week in Montreal. With Pendrith not here, I would expect him to split time with fellow Oceania bombers Min Woo Lee and Ryan Fox.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout won his foursomes match with Jason Day in 2024 and surprisingly holds a 2-0 career record in Presidents Cup singles. Without a prior partner in this field, however, Nico Echavarria may end up being his partner by process of elimination.

Typically, when you have a top-heavy team week on depth, you want to lean into your stars early and often. Given the nature of the International Team’s composition, however, I don’t see them rolling out all of their best players for all five sessions. I mean, can you really expect Hideki Matsuyama and Adam Scott to play Thursday, Friday, and both Saturday Sessions before Sunday singles? More likely, we’ll see the Internationals lean into Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim for all sessions, adapting on the fly to who has the hot hand, and mixing and matching pairings with these top veterans and younger newcomers.

USA Team Projected Pairings

The USA pairings tend to be a bit more predictable, having the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup as an annual Match Play event to reference. The Presidents Cup has brought out some surprise pairings, however, as captains have used this as a testing ground to establish new partnerships based on complementary skillsets and chemistry.

It was in 2024 when Team USA first experimented with splitting up the long established duos of Scheffler & Burns and Cantlay & Schauffele. Instead, we saw Scheffler play often with Russell Henley, a partnership that stuck through last year’s Ryder Cup. Cantlay established a fruitful partnership with Sam Burns, going 2-0 together across the two foursomes sessions. Cantlay and Schauffele remained together in four ball, and I expect that to be the plan once again in 2026.

Cameron Young and Justin Thomas are each without a partner from their 2024 pairings, but played very well together at the 2025 Ryder Cup. I expect we’ll see that combination for the first time at the Presidents Cup this week. 

Presidents Cup rookies, Chris Gotterup and Jacob Bridgeman happen to be best friends from their junior golf days, and would logically make for a great complementary pairing in fourball. 

Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa each have plenty of experience playing for Team USA and are each in great form leading in with complementary skill sets. I expect they will rotate across multiple partners this week, but they should also see some reps together in Foursomes. 

That leaves Jackson Koivun as a sort of odd man out. As one of the last men on the team, he’s likely only going to play in one or two team sessions, and it would make sense to partner him with an established veteran like Russell Henley or Justin Thomas in Foursomes to ease any nerves for the 21-year-old recent college grad.

It remains to be seen how the rest of the pairings shake out, but as always, it’s best to pay close attention to the practice round pairings throughout the week before odds adjust.

MY GAME-BY-GAME PREDICTIONS

Presidents Cup Futures are tricky to bet on, as we’re forced to do a great deal of speculating as to which pairings the captains will roll out, how much rest they’ll afford each player, and what adjustments will be made day-over-day. Oh, and match play also happens to be the most volatile format in golf to predict, with no certainty that the more talented player or team will win.

Be that as it may, I’ve assumed the role of captain for both Team USA and Team International to deploy what I believe are the best possible pairings and my projected results of these forecasted matchups. I’m embracing the home course advantage for Team USA and project a hot start from the Americans, but I’m giving this International Team a little more credit than most. As they continue to build experience together, I believe this core of seven multi-time Presidents Cuppers will show up better than ever at Medinah, ultimately falling just short on away turf.

My Best Bets For 2026 Presidents Cup Odds

With all of these projected pairings in mind, these are my three favorite Presidents Cup Future bet values to consider before tee off in Chicago this Thursday.

Overall, when I look to place my Presidents Cup points, I am betting on a player’s availability and the number of matches they are likely to play in. To do so, I also look at historical partnership performances, on-the-course insights from practice rounds on potential pairings, course fit, and players who possess the versatility to play in both Foursomes and Fourball with multiple partners. If a player does not fit that mold, they also make for a prime fade target to bet against.

Top Overall Point Scorer: Sam Burns 

Best Odds Available: +1150

Match Play record, partner versatility, and current form are the three things I look for when assessing Presidents Cup players with the highest ceiling. Not to be too dramatic, but this could be a legacy-defining week for a player like Burns, who is a young, consistent piece to this U.S. group. Burns’s Presidents Cup record is solid, at 3-3-3 over two career appearances. That means he’s sat out just one session in his Presidents Cup career, a testament to his captain’s confidence in him as a Match Play difference-maker. Burns’ most recent PGA Tour win also just so happens to have come in the Match Play format at the WGC-Dell Match Play.

Coming off of his best career season from a Strokes Gained perspective, I see no reason for Captain Snedeker to ease off of Burns this week. He is known for his close friendship with Scottie Scheffler, and is likely to continue to get some matches alongside the World No. 1. More encouragingly, though, he’s built up great rapport with other players on this team like Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa. There’s an easy path to 5 sessions for Burns this week, and looking at the quality of partner he’s likely to play alongside, he’ll be favored in all of them.

Top Captain’s Pick Points Scorer: Patrick Cantlay 

Best Odds Available: +415

It’s not very common to see a Captain’s pick go the full five sessions at the Presidents Cup, but it does happen, and I expect Cantlay to have his name called each and every day. Experience matters in Match Play, and no American in this event has won more Presidents Cup points than Cantlay (10). Like Burns, I’m drawn to Cantlay for his partner versatility, as he is likely to play alongside Xander Schauffele in Foursomes, and then mix it up with Sam Burns in Fourball. 

For the first time all year, it’s Cantlay whose game I feel more confident in than Schauffele’s leading into this event, with the latter holding the shortest odds in this market. Cantlay has been unflappable from tee-to-green of late, with three top-12 finishes over his last four starts. The putts are going to need to start dropping in order for him to convert this prop, but we’ve always seen the best of Cantlay’s game come out in match play. 

Top 3 International Point Scorer: Ryan Fox

Best Odds Available: +455

The depth of talent is thin on the International side, and it could conceivably only take up to 2.5 total points won to convert this prop if this goes on to be the rout I expect it to be. If things get out of hand early, I expect captain Ogilvy will feel comfortable turning to the “Adult” in the room in Fox, even if he is just a Presidents Cup rookie. Fox proved he can rise on the biggest stage, winning The Open earlier this summer, and has picked up three wins since the last Presidents Cup was played.

He is good mates with fellow Oceanians, Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee, and that triumvirate also happens to make up the three longest hitters on the International squad. Given his veteran poise, current form, and partner versatility, I believe Fox will play in both Fourball sessions, and at least one Foursomes match. We know Sam Burns and Cameron Young hate to see him coming based on how The Open finished, so he’s a player that can intimate in Singles matches as well.

Exact Score: USA 19.5 – INT 10.5

Best Odds Available: +1400

You’ve seen my mock game-by-game breakdown, so I’d be remiss not to double down on it. Yes, there is an argument to be made that the International Team should continue to improve year-over-year as they build more chemistry with more reps together. They have a tight core of seven players who have played in three consecutive Presidents Cups, after all.

But, save for a few exceptions at the top, this is not an International Team that offers much hope with their current form. And on the other side, the USA Team is on fire entering this week. It’s “worst” player is coming off of a win last week, Scheffler, Clark, and Gotterup have each won three times this year alone, and regardless of form, Thomas, Cantlay, and Schauffele seem to always rise on this stage. USA picked up 18.5 points on the road at the last Presidents Cup, and now at home, I expect them to improve on that mark. 

Plus, the real Scottie Scheffler has to show up in these events at some point, right?

Best of luck betting Presidents Cup odds!

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