Haotong Li Payout Odds to Win the 2025 Open Championship

Despite sitting atop the leaderboard coming into Friday, Haotong Li payout odds were still at +5500.  That's a payout of $5500 for every $100 bet if he manages to pull this off.  At 500-1 odds to win coming into Thursday, that payout would be $50000 for every $100 bet. 

Li got off to a strong start in Thursday's round of the Open Championship.  Whether he can sustain this success over the course of the next three days remains to be seen. 

He shot an opening-round 67 to put him at the top of the leaderboard.

So who is this Chinese phenom with the very long odds of winning? 

The Open Championship is the one major where Li has both the most experience and his best major finish,  so it's not a surprise that he played well to begin the event in 2025, Daniel Chavkin of Yahoo Sports reveals. 

Li turned professional on the OneAsia Tour and the PGA Tour Australasia in 2011, and he saw some success on those tours in the following few years. Li later joined the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour China, but has since settled as a member of the DP World Tour.

Li has four career DP World Tour wins, including one in 2025 at the Qatar Masters. His first win on the DP World Tour came in 2016, when he won the Volvo China Open, becoming the fourth Chinese golfer to win the event.

He also has two wins on the OneAsia Tour and three wins on PGA Tour China, with four of those five wins coming in 2014. Li has eight total victories, as the China Open win came in a joint event with the DP World Tour and the OneAsia Tour.

Recently, Li has struggled, which is why he hasn't participated in a major since 2022. However, the Qatar Masters' victory has helped him get back on track with a strong performance this year overall.

Opening Odds to Win the 2025 Open Championship

Rot     Odds to Win The Open Championship     Moneyline
1001     Scottie Scheffler         +420
1002     Rory McIlroy         +600
1003     Jon Rahm         +1100
1004     Bryson DeChambeau         +2200
1005     Ludvig Aberg         +2300
1006     Tommy Fleetwood         +2200
1007     Xander Schauffele         +2200
1008     Shane Lowry         +2500
1009     Robert MacIntyre         +2800
1010     Tyrrell Hatton         +2500
1011     Viktor Hovland         +2800
1012     Collin Morikawa         +3300
1013     Justin Thomas         +5500
1014     Brooks Koepka         +7000
1015     Matt Fitzpatrick         +3800
1016     Hideki Matsuyama         +8000
1017     Joaquin Niemann         +5500
1018     Jordan Spieth         +6000
1019     Patrick Cantlay         +6000
1020     Justin Rose         +5500
1021     Russell Henley         +5500
1022     Sepp Straka         +4900
1023     Cameron Smith         +9000
1024     Ben Griffin         +7500
1025     Cameron Young         +9000
1026     Corey Conners         +6000
1027     JJ Spaun         +10000
1028     Min Woo Lee         +9000
1029     Sam Burns         +7500
1030     Adam Scott         +6600
1031     Tom Kim         +12500
1032     Aaron Rai         +8000
1034     Brian Harman         +10000
1035     Jason Day         +8000
1036     Louis Oosthuizen         +15000
1037     Patrick Reed         +7500
1038     Ryan Fox         +6600
1039     Sergio Garcia         +20000
1040     Sungjae Im         +17500
1041     Thomas Detry         +15000
1042     Carlos Ortiz         +17500
1043     Harry Hall         +8000
1044     Sahith Theegala         +30000
1045     Tony Finau         +15000
1046     Wyndham Clark         +12500
1047     Akshay Bhatia         +15000
1048     Chris Gotterup         +5900
1049     Dustin Johnson         +17500
1050     Keegan Bradley         +8000
1052     Rasmus Hojgaard         +14000
1053     Si Woo Kim         +10000
1054     Harris English         +90000
1055     Aldrich Potgieter         +20000
1056     Andrew Novak         +15000
1057     Daniel Berger         +12500
1058     Davis Thompson         +17500
1059     Dean Burmester         +20000
1060     Lucas Herbert         +20000
1061     Marc Leishman         +22500
1062     Marco Penge         +10000
1063     Nick Taylor         +10000
1064     Nicolai Hojgaard         +10000
1065     Rickie Fowler         +15000
1066     Thriston Lawrence         +15000
1067     Byeong-Hun An         +20000
1068     Tom McKibbin         +11000
1069     Lee Westwood         +30000
1070     Matt Wallace         +15000
1071     Taylor Pendrith         +11000
1072     Thorbjorn Olesen         +17500
1073     Christiaan Bezuidenhout         +17500
1076     Bud Cauley         +22500
1077     Denny McCarthy         +20000
1078     JT Poston         +20000
1079     Matthew Jordan         +25000
1080     Maverick McNealy         +10000
1082     Daniel Brown         +20000
1084     Jordan Smith         +15000
1085     Kevin Yu         +20000
1086     Laurie Canter         +25000
1087     Lucas Glover         +25000
1088     Matthieu Pavon         +40000
1089     Max Greyserman         +17500
1090     Michael Kim         +22500
1091     Niklas Norgaard         +25000
1092     Romain Langasque         +45000
1096     Chris Kirk         +25000
1098     Kristoffer Reitan         +25000
1100     Matti Schmid         +22500

- Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com