Golf's Longest Day sent a 17-year-old to Shinnecock with Charlie Woods on the bag, the Canadian Open rolls out one of its strongest fields ever at TPC Toronto, and Scottie Scheffler heads to next week's U.S. Open chasing the career Grand Slam while his price quietly drifts. Let's get you ahead of the room.

Top 3 Stories

1. Golf's Longest Day delivers chaos, and a 17-year-old headed to Shinnecock

The 10 sites of U.S. Open Final Qualifying wrapped Monday and the carnage was real. The feel-good headline belongs to amateur Miles Russell, the world's top-ranked junior, who locked up his first major start at BallenIsles in Palm Beach Gardens with fellow 17-year-old Charlie Woods, Tiger's son, caddying for him. Russell led through 16 holes, stumbled at the 17th, and then survived a three-for-two playoff to punch his ticket to Shinnecock. Will Zalatoris called him "one of the most naturally gifted kids I've ever seen." Meanwhile a wave of established names went home: Tony Finau (-5 at Springfield), Max Homa (-6 at Lambton) and Matt Kuchar all missed, while Chris Kirk, Davis Thompson, Billy Horschel, Tom Kim and Carl Yuan all advanced. The 156-man field is essentially set.

Source: Golf.com  |  Source: The Fried Egg

2. RBC Canadian Open rolls out one of its strongest fields ever, minus the champ

TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley's North Course (Par 70, 7,389 yards) hosts for just the second time, and the PGA Tour is billing this as one of the strongest Canadian Open fields in history, with four top-10 ranked players in Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood, plus PGA Championship winner Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka and Viktor Hovland making his event debut. Defending champion Ryan Fox is back to chase the first repeat title since Jhonattan Vegas went back-to-back in 2016 and 2017. One name you will not see: Memorial winner J.T. Poston withdrew Monday morning, the day after his 31-hole Sunday marathon and playoff win, and is replaced by Ben Martin. This is also the final event of the Aon Swing 5, so bubble players have one last shot at bonus FedExCup points.

Source: PGA Tour  |  Source: Yahoo Sports

3. Scheffler eyes the career Grand Slam at Shinnecock, but the price is drifting

With the field now finalized, attention turns to next week's U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, a William Flynn par 70 of roughly 7,400 windswept yards where firm, fast greens make the short game king. Scottie Scheffler is the favorite at +567 and would complete the career Grand Slam with a win, joining Sarazen, Hogan, Player, Nicklaus, Woods and McIlroy. But the market is hedging: his implied win probability has slipped from 18% to 15% on the back of a putting wobble and a win drought stretching to January. Rory McIlroy sits second (+1090) and Jon Rahm third (+1823), with Ludvig Aberg, Cameron Young and Xander Schauffele rounding out the top six.

Source: Covers  |  Source: Golf.com

Player Movement & Status

• J.T. Poston withdrew from the RBC Canadian Open on Monday, one day after his Memorial win; Ben Martin takes his spot. Poston is already exempt into the U.S. Open. Source: Yahoo Sports
• Viktor Hovland is making his RBC Canadian Open debut this week, so there is no course history to draw on. Source: PGA Tour
• Tony Finau (-5 at Springfield) and Max Homa (-6 at Lambton) both failed to qualify for the U.S. Open; Matt Kuchar also missed. Source: Golf.com
• Chris Kirk (medalist in Georgia), Davis Thompson, Billy Horschel and Tom Kim all qualified for Shinnecock. Source: Golf.com
• Amateur Miles Russell, 17, qualified for his first major with Charlie Woods caddying. Source: The Fried Egg

This Week's Tournament Read

RBC Canadian Open | TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, North Course | Caledon, Ontario | June 11-14

The Doug Carrick-designed North Course is a long par 70 (7,389 yards) with generous fairways, four brawny 500-yard par 4s, and undulating greens guarded by steep runoffs that punish missed shelves. It hosted for the first time in 2025 and plays scorably when the wind lies down, which puts a premium on making birdies in bunches rather than grinding pars. Defending champ Ryan Fox outlasted Sam Burns in a playoff a year ago and is trying to become the first back-to-back winner here since Jhonattan Vegas.

Trending up:

• Tommy Fleetwood opened as the clear betting favorite (+1100) and his iron play and birdie-making fit a scorable setup like a glove.
• Collin Morikawa (+2000) is the elite approach play that thrives when the test is about precision iron-to-green more than survival.

Worth a look:

• Sam Burns drifted to +1400 despite losing in a playoff on this exact course last year. The board is fading him; his course fit says otherwise.

Source: PGA Tour  |  Source: VegasInsider

Golf Betting Odds: Tournament Watch

RBC Canadian Open — outright "to win," pre-tournament (Round 1 begins Thursday). Consensus top 10 favorites by shortest odds:

1. Tommy Fleetwood  +1100
2. Matt Fitzpatrick  +1200
3. Sam Burns  +1400
4. Collin Morikawa  +2000
5. Wyndham Clark  +2200
6. Robert MacIntyre  +2500
7. Justin Rose  +2500
8. Kristoffer Reitan  +2500
9. Brooks Koepka  +2500
10. Nicolai Hójgaard  +3000

Sharp movement: Fleetwood has firmed into the outright favorite (he sat around +1250 on Monday), while Sam Burns has drifted from roughly +1275 to +1400. Fitzpatrick has held steady near +1200.

Odds are a snapshot (VegasInsider consensus, last updated June 8) and will differ from the price you see at bet placement.

Source: VegasInsider

Key Stats (Course Fit)

Four categories that best predict success on the North Course:

1. SG: Approach — undulating greens ringed by steep runoffs mean the right tier and the right spin matter; flushed irons get rewarded, leaks get short-sided.
2. Par-4 Scoring (especially the long ones) — four par 4s stretch to 500 yards, so the players who can make pars (and the odd birdie) on the brutes separate from the field.
3. SG: Off-the-Tee / Driving Distance — at 7,389 yards on a par 70, length into wide fairways turns those long par 4s from survival holes into scoring chances.
4. SG: Around-the-Green / Scrambling — the steep green-side runoffs create awkward recovery lies, so short-game touch saves the rounds where the irons run cold.

House analysis based on course characteristics.

Comp Courses

• TPC Twin Cities (3M Open) — long, wide, modern parkland that yields low scores and rewards bombers who can also putt; the closest archetype for a scorable, length-friendly North Course.
• Detroit Golf Club (Rocket Classic) — another birdie-fest with a similar field tier; the recent leaderboards there read like a who's-who of confident iron players and hot putters, the same profile that should contend in Caledon.
• TPC Deere Run (John Deere Classic) — precision-and-pace scoring venue; players who routinely pop on this style of course are the ones to prioritize when their Canadian Open price lags their form.

Read-through: cross-reference your shortlist against recent 3M and Rocket performers. Birdie-makers who gain on approach at those events tend to travel well to this setup, and any of them priced like a mid-tier this week is where the value hides.

House analysis.

Under the Radar

• The course-history trap. The North Course has been staged exactly once on Tour (2025), so any betting or DFS model weighting "course history" is leaning on a single data point. That is noise, not signal. This week, course-fit comps and current form should carry far more weight than who happened to play well here last June. Hovland and the rest of the debutants are not actually at the disadvantage the "no history" tag implies. Source: PGA Tour
• The Aon Swing 5 pressure cooker. This is the final event of the Aon Swing 5, the last chance to bank bonus FedExCup points before the window closes. Players hovering on that bubble have a built-in reason to press for birdies rather than protect a number, which nudges their scoring variance up. That is a quiet tailwind for aggressive, birdie-or-bogey profiles in matchups and top-20 markets, and a subtle reason to be careful backing bubble guys to simply "make the cut." Source: PGA Tour