2025 Truist Championship betting tips: Our expert’s top picks in Philadelphia
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Tom Jacobs picks out his top Truist Championship betting tips ahead of the PGA Tour’s sixth Signature event of 2025.
Truist takes over sponsorship duties from Wells Fargo for the sixth Signature event of the 2025 PGA Tour season, with the tournament moving from its spiritual North Carolina home for just the third time since 2003, when it was called the Wachovia Championship.
With Quail Hollow set to host the PGA Championship next week, the Truist Championship moves to The Philadelphia Cricket Club in Pennsylvania for its debut running under its new guise.
Newly crowned Grand Slam winner Rory McIlroy is the tournament’s most prolific winner, having lifted the trophy on four occasions, albeit all at Quail Hollow. Regardless of whether four becomes five this week, McIlroy will be heavily fancied to contend for a second straight major of the season at one of his happiest hunting grounds.
This week’s Signature event does not feature a 36-hole cut, meaning the whole field will get four rounds to sharpen their games ahead of their quest for the Wanamaker Trophy.
Before diving into my Truist Championship betting tips for the week, here’s everything else you need to know…
Truist Championship key details
Venue: The Philadelphia Cricket Club, Wissahickon Course, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Par 70 – 7,119 yards)
Format: 72-hole strokeplay with no cut
Purse: $20m with the winner receiving $3.6m
FedEx Cup points: 700
Favorite: Rory McIlroy 4/1
Defending champion: Rory McIlroy (NIR), -17
Most wins: Rory McIlroy (NIR), 4
How to watch the Truist Championship
US viewers can catch all the action on the Golf Channel.
All times EDT
Thursday, May 08: The Golf Channel, 14.00
Friday, May 09: The Golf Channel, 14.00
Saturday, May 10: The Golf Channel, 13.00
Sunday, May 11: The Golf Channel, 13.00
UK viewers can catch all the action on Sky Sports Golf.
All times BST
Thursday, May 08: Sky Sports Golf, 19.00
Friday, May 09: Sky Sports Golf, 19.00
Saturday, May 10: Sky Sports Golf, 18.00
Sunday, May 11: Sky Sports Golf, 18.00
Truist Championship tee times
Tee times and groupings can be found here.
Truist Championship betting tips
The Banker: Jordan Spieth 28/1 e/w (General 6 Places)
It’s been a tough few years for Jordan Spieth, who hasn’t won since the 2022 RBC Heritage, and he is going the topic of conversation when it comes to Grand Slam talk next week, now that Rory has ticked off the Masters.
While I don’t think he’s going to get the PGA Championship win he is looking for next week at Quail Hollow, based purely on his form on the golf course, that position could change with a win this week.
Spieth finished 4th last week, and that extends a run of top 20s to four. 12th at the Valero Texas Open and 14th at the Masters were perhaps overlooked given his affinity with both, but adding the18th at the Heritage and 4th last week means we should be on notice, and I certainly am.
He ranked 3rd in SG Tee to Green last week, one of his better ball striking efforts in a long time, and he now has two top 5 Approach weeks in his last five starts, showing his form.
Twice this season he’s spiked with his ball striking, both times finishing 4th at the WM Phoenix Open and last week at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. On each occasion he simply ran into runaway winners, Thomas Detry and Scottie Scheffler.
With a new course and a tougher field, I don’t think anyone will be spreading the field in that way this week, and Spieth can get himself firmly in the mix.
When looking at a new course, we should see if there are any links to the designer, and with A.W. Tillinghast that means looking at a select few events. The 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black, and the 2018 Northern Trust at Ridgewood Country Club are the most recent leaderboards to consider. The 2016 Barclays, which was also hosted at Ridgewood, and the 2016 PGA Championship at the Tillinghast-designed Baltusrol are also worthy of consideration.
The 2020 U.S. Open was simply too long for Spieth, but he was 3rd and 10th at Bethpage in the 2019 PGA and 2016 Barclays respectively, 13th at Baltusrol in 2016 in the same event, and a solid enough 25th at The Northern Trust.
With the way he’s playing, I think Spieth has to be strongly considered at 28/1, and he’s my favourite bet, as he looks for an overdue win.
The Outsider: Jason Day 50/1 e/w (General 6 Places)
Jason Day LOVES Tillinghast courses, having finished 2nd at the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol, and 2nd and 5th at the 2014 and 2010 Barclays respectively, both held at Ridgewood. He also finished 4th at the 2016 Barclays, this time held at Bethpage Black.
In addition to him being a clear fan of Tillinghast designs, Day is just playing some rock-solid golf, having finished 8th twice in his last four starts. One of those came at The Masters and the other at Bay Hill, a Signature Event, and both times he was positioned better going into Sunday.
Clearly in decent form then, Day is surely just waiting for the right course to come up, and if history is anything to go by, this might just be the one.
We might be past the point where Day is considered a leading contender for the major championships, but as Justin Rose has shown recently, talented players like this, who have been World No.1s in the past shouldn’t be counted out, and this might be the step towards him getting seriously back into major contention, with Rose using a similar platform at Pebble Beach in 2023, before getting in the mix in four of his next nine major starts.
Given his form and his clear affinity with the designer, I felt 50/1 was too good to pass up on.
The Longshot: Harris English 100/1 e/w (General 6 Places)
Harris English won at Torrey Pines earlier this season, and has looked pretty handy since then, so when remembering he had finished 4th at Winged Foot at the 2020 U.S. Open, my interest piqued. It gets even more interesting when you consider Keith Foster, who renovated this course, also had a hand in the Old White course used for the Greenbrier Classic, where English has finished 3rd.
Course designer links ticked off then, it was then important to really dig into how English is playing, and since his win at the Farmers Insurance Open, English has finished inside the top 30 four more times. 24th at Torrey Pines again for the Genesis Invitational, 30th at the Players where he was 11th at halfway, 18th at the Houston Open, and 12th at The Masters are all reasonably eye-catching. His 12th at Augusta is particularly pleasing given it was a career-best effort there by a distance and came as a result of a strong ball-striking week.
I simply think English, who has a knack for popping up in big events, and already has a win this season, is priced generously this week. He clearly enjoys some of the designers’ work and is playing well enough to suggest he can contend in this strength of field again.
The Bonus Pick: Viktor Hovland 28/1 e/w (BetVictor 5 Places)
Viktor Hovland is working his way back to something close to his best, and he has shown that even when he is short of that, he can win, as he did at the Valspar Championship. Now that he’s continued to improve since winning in Tampa, I am of the opinion that he should be looked at most weeks, and that includes here.
We are playing at a new course here at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, so there is very little to go on in that regard, but while other picks further down my list are somewhat based on some A.W. Tillinghast course form, Hovland is simply a pick based on his current run.
Since winning the Valspar, Hovland has finished 21st at the Masters, where he was 9th at the halfway mark, and then 13th at the Heritage, where he improved his position every day. While Hovland will, of course, have half an eye on next week, as most of the field will, he is also the type to want to focus on the job at hand, and he has shown he’s capable of racking up wins.
Hovland has ranked 6th, 13th and 22nd in SG Approach and 11th, 27th and 27th again in SG Tee to Green in his last three events, which is the level of consistency we expect from the Norwegian., and he has gained strokes putting in his last three events as well, which has been the difference maker.
While I didn’t focus on Tillinghast form when picking Hovland, he did finish 13th at the 2020 U.S. Open, held at Winged Foot, and form there might be worth considering, based on our lack of knowledge for this specific course.
I will sacrifice the extra each way place and take the very best price on Hovland, who does still feel a bit win or bust for me at the moment, even if the consistency is starting to creep in again.
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2025 Truist Championship betting tips from Today's Golfer.
