The season's fourth and final major takes place beginning on July 18 at Royal Troon in Scotland, with the world's best golfers gathered to see who gets their name on the famous Claret Jug. The par-71 layout will play just shy of 7,400 yards and features plenty of bunkers in play off the tee and around the greens. But it's all about the wind at Royal Troon. If it's howling and playing into the players' faces, the course will be a bear. If the wind is at their back most of the time, scores should be low. A field of 156 players will tee it up with a purse likely to be the same or slightly more than last year's $16.5 million. The top-70 and ties will make the cut and play into the weekend. The first tee times come at 1:35 a.m. ET on Thursday.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the +450 favorite, followed by Rory McIlroy (+700), U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (+1200), PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele and Ludvig Aberg (+1400), Collin Morikawa (+1600), and Viktor Hovland (+1800).

With golfers looking for their final chance in 2024 to claim a major title, who can you trust for your Open Championship golf picks? Before you set your Open Championship golf lineups or make any PGA Tour bets, you NEED to see the Fantasy golf rankings from Fantasy expert Eric Cohen.

Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2024 John Deere Classic (Davis Thompson +2200), 2024 U.S. Open (Bryson DeChambeau +2000), 2024 Players Championship (Scottie Scheffler +550), 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scheffler's first career victory at +2800). 

Eric is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show (live on Tuesday, July 16th at 7 p.m. ET). Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions is up big! Now, Cohen has studied the field set to play at Royal Troon and revealed his Open Championship Fantasy golf rankings. 

We can tell you he is high on veteran Tyrrell Hatton at 28-1 odds, saying: "Could the Englishman be on the verge of a major breakthrough? His game has been very solid this season including a T9 at Augusta, playing in one of the final groups at Pinehurst, and a win at LIV Nashville to snap a long winless streak. He finished T5 at Royal Troon in 2016."

On the other hand, Cohen is fading Jon Rahm at 22-1 despite him finishing tied for second in this event last year. "Rahm skipped the U.S. Open due to a foot problem and didn't fare so well in The Masters and PGA Championship (the only 72-hole events he's played in this season) posting a T45-MC respectively."

Cohen is also backing several underdogs in his Open Championship fantasy golf picks, including a 200-1 longshot who could be a difference-maker for your Fantasy golf lineups! If this player can pull off a stunning result, it would bring a HUGE payoff and be valuable pieces for Open Championship golf lineups. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any fantasy golf picks.

Who wins the Open Championship, and which 200-1 longshot could bring a HUGE payout and be the difference for your Fantasy golf picks? Join SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's Fantasy golf rankings and picks for the Open Championship, all from the Fantasy expert who has called nine outright winners since 2022!