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Starts: 6th February 2025
Course: TPC Scottsdale
Par:71
Length: 7,261 yards
2024 Champion: Nick Taylor

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2025 WM Phoenix Open Course Info

Designer: Tom Weiskopf
Hosted since: 1987
Course Type: Desert
Fairways: Generous, Bermuda Grass
Rough: Bermuda
Greens: TifEagle Bermuda, 12 on the Stimp
Water Hazards: In play on 6 holes
Par 5's :3rd, 13th and 15th
Premium on: Approach play

2025 WM Phoenix Open Trends

Winning Score
Winning score ranged from -14 to -19 in the ten years prior to Nick Taylor winning last year. Taylor won with a score of 21 under par.

Phoenix Open odds
Nick Taylor was the first winner who had odds greater than 50/1 since 2014. Kevin Stadler took the title that year but this is a difficult venue for outsiders to win. You may want to focus on the front of the betting when making your Phoenix Open picks.

Correlating Courses
Look for strong performances at other desert events such as The American Express and Shriners Children's Open.

Course Form
Brooks Koepka won on his debut in 2015, but the following nine champions each recorded a top 10 finish prior to winning. Side with strong course experience when looking to make your Phoenix Open selections.

Recent Form
You don't need to be in blistering form to win. Although five of the past nine champions have recorded a prior top 12 finish in the calendar year, Brooks Koepka, Gary Woodland and Hideki Matsuyama won following poor starts to the season.

Nationality
Of the last 15 champions, only Hideki Matsuyama's wins in 2017 and 2018 and Taylor's triumph last year prevent it from being a clean sweep of Americans.

Previous PGA Tour wins
Nine of the last twelve winners had won on Tour before winning in Phoenix.

WM Phoenix Open 2025 Trends Shortlist

Using the information above, we have taken into account the three most relevant trends to establish a shortlist of potential winners and make golf picks. Phoenix Open trends used were:

✅ American
✅ Previous top 10 in this event
✅ Won on the PGA Tour before

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2025 WM Phoenix Open Stats Analysis

We are looking for a player with high SG: Approach stats.

SG: Off The Tee
The last eight winners have ranked 42nd, 18th, 4th, 11th, 26th, 3rd, 20th and 13th. Strong driving is preferred.

SG: Approach
Five of the past eight winners have ranked inside the top 3 for SG: Approach.

SG: Around The Green
The best ranking of any of the past seven winners is 8th (Scheffler, 2022).

SG: Putting
We've seen varied putting performances from the winners over the past eight years. Rankings of 1st, 13th, 2nd, 18th, 15th, 1st, 23rd and 59th indicate that a competent putting performance is required but it doesn't necessarily have to be exceptional.

2025 Phoenix Open In-Play Golf Betting Advice

Fast or Slow Start
Three of the last six winners have been outside the top 15 after the opening round. However, five of the last six winners were inside the top eight at the halfway stage.

Bogey Holes
Holes eleven, twelve and fourteen trradtionally play as three of the hardest holes on the course. The par five thirteenth hole offers a little respite in between but par is a good score on these three holes.

Closing stretch
The 16th is infamous as the loudest hole in golf. A par three that can intimidate even the most confident of golfers, it is a tricky hole to be navigated. The 17th is a driveable par 4 but water lurks ont he left hand side. The 18th hole is no pushover either, with a demanding drive over water and bunkers waiting for players who try to take a safer line.