DP World Tour Soudal Open 2025 odds and top picks explored ft. LIV Golf’s Thomas Pieters

The DP World Tour will continue its European Swing with the Soudal Open 2025 this weekend. The event is set to begin on Thursday, May 22, at the Rinkven International GC in Antwerp, Belgium. The competition will see a stacked European field compete for the winner’s paycheck from the event’s record $2.75 million prize purse. The field is being headlined by LIV Golf star and local hero Thomas Pieters.

The Soudal Open will have the conventional 72-hole strokeplay format for the fourth year since reverting from the ‘strokeplay and matchplay’ Belgian Knockout. Pieters, who has six wins on the European Tour, will tee it up against some of the biggest names on the DP World Tour roster. He comes into the event with 22-1 odds, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Interestingly, the LIV star shares the odds with Jordan Smith.

The top duo can make Team Europe for the Ryder Cup 2025 later this year at Bethpage. Needless to say, the golfers will be looking to boost their hopes of representing the continental side led by Luke Donald.

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For the unversed, Pieters is yet to clinch a victory on LIV Golf. The golfer, who defected to the breakaway tour in 2023, currently sits 24th in the individual season rankings. He comes into the Belgian outing after a strong T4 finish at LIV Korea.

Meanwhile, Englishman Smith joins the competition after a T7 finish at the Turkish Airlines Open earlier this month. He also topped the US Open Final Qualifying leaderboard at Walton Heath to make a major return.

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Soudal Open 2025 odds

The Soudal Open reigning champion, Nacho Elvira, also returns to defend his title this weekend. However, the Spanish golfer isn’t among the favorites. As per FanDuel Sportsbook, Pieters and Smith are followed by former LIV Golfers Laurie Canter and Eugenio Chacarra alongside Chinese DP World Tour star Haotong Li. The trio share 25-1 odds.

Keita Nakajima (30-1), Matthew Jordan, Wenyi Ding (35-1), Joost Luiten, Marco Penge (40-1), Adrien Saddier, Richard Mansell (45-1), and Sam Bairstow are among other big names on watch this weekend. Notably, PGA Tour star Matt Fitzpatrick’s brother Alex is a longshot favorite with 65-1 odds.

Listed below are the top odds list for the Belgian event (via FanDuel Sportsbook):

Jordan Smith +2200
Thomas Pieters +2200
Laurie Canter +2500
Haotong Li +2500
Eugenio Chacarra +2500
Keita Nakajima +3000
Matthew Jordan +3000
Wenyi Ding +3500
Joost Luiten +3500
Marco Penge +4000
Adrien Saddier +4000
Richard Mansell +4500
Sam Bairstow +4500
Ewen Ferguson +5000
Jorge Campillo +5500
Martin Couvra +5500
Guido Migliozzi +5500
Brandon Stone +5500
Daniel Hillier +6000
Frederic Lacroix +6000
Julien Guerrier +6000
Alex Fitzpatrick +6500
Brandon Robinson Thompson +6500
Ugo Coussaud +6500

More details on the DP World Tour’s Soudal Open will be updated as the event progresses.

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Vishnu is a Golf journalist at Sportskeeda. He completed his post-graduation diploma in Print Media Journalism. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked as an entertainment writer at Zee5 and a news writer at Republic.

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Edited by Vishnu Mohan