2024 British Open Pick Strategy & Advice For Tiers Pools

Value picks and data-driven strategies to give you an edge in tiers-based pools for the 2024 British Open Championship at Royal Troon.

by Jason Lisk - Jul 16, 2024

England's Aaron Rai looks to continue his hot recent form at Royal Troon in Scotland (Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire)

For tiers-based Majors pools that cover all four events, we are at the end of the line with the British Open (or Open Championship, if you like). A big part of your pick strategy should be accounting for your place in the standings and how much you need to lean into, or avoid, the popular picks in your pool.

We’ll hit on some of those considerations in the article below, discussing how you might want to play different pool types.

Majors Pool Strategy

We have written a Majors pool strategy article on how to think about tiers-based Majors pools, which require picking golfers from different groupings. If you haven’t read it, you should review that article as some of the concepts will be discussed here.

This article will also serve as a companion to our customized pick advice and data in our Golf Majors & Masters Picks product, which is based on how specific golfers are organized into tiers your pool.

Every pool could have different variations of value picks, depending on which golfers are grouped together in tiers. We cannot cover every possibility in an article, but we will highlight some themes and strategies to consider.

2024 British Open Value Picks For Tiers-Based Pools

We used a few of the more popular tiers defaults for British Open pools as the basis of this analysis, so depending on your pool’s tier structure, the golfers below may or may not show up as highly graded picks for your specific pool.

(For example, if a golfer has the lowest win odds within a tier, he is not likely to be graded highly, even if he’s an unpopular pick. But throw that same golfer into a different tier, and low pick popularity coupled with better odds of being the top performer in that new tier could make him a great pick.)

For the most specific advice, set up your pool at Golf Majors & Masters Picks. With that caveat, here are some intriguing potential value picks, followed by a lengthy general strategy discussion: