Archive for August, 2009

Golf & Sports Betting: US Tour

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Friday Aug 21st, 2009

Golf is undoubtedly one of the hardest sports in the world to master, with some punters hacking away til the day they die and never truly being happy with their golfing game.

 

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Only a select few will ever grace the rolling greens of the world’s most prestigious courses and compete for honour, glory and some of the most lucrative cash prizes in the world of sport today.

The professional golf circuit is one of the most cutthroat and highly competitive sporting battle fields in the world.

It is little wonder then that golf is one of the hardest sports to pick a winner because ever major and every tour event is so hotly contested by any number of golfers who, on their day, could well be the best player in the world.

This month sees a great deal of golfing action right around the world, not the least of which is the US PGA tour, the most lucrative tour in the world today.

Tour events this month include the Legends Reno – Tahoe Open live from Nevada as well as the US PGA Championship – the biggest one of them all.

The US open is the last event on the US PGA calendar.

Online book makers such IASbet, Sportingbet and Centrebet offer live and up to the minute betting on options such as outright betting, head to head betting, live betting and exotic betting.

Although golf can prove one of the hardest sports to pick winner, it is without a doubt one of the most lucrative sports to back with some of the best and biggest odds of any sport.

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Having a Sports Bet on British Golf Open

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Friday Aug 21st, 2009

Golf is one of the most open sports to bet on in the world market today with the one unbeatable Tiger Woods meeting stiff opposition in all the majors, in fact the 2009 season is the first season that Woods as gone without a major since he turned professional.

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In fact for his most recent outing, Woods was so highly favoured that some online bookmakers took him out of the betting to open up the rest of the field meaning he was just about unbackable.

When the British Open rolls around, Tiger Will have the rest of the field feeling well and truly comfortable after he choked in the final round of the U.S. Open to go down by three shots to a little known Korean Golfer – the first Asian to ever win a major title.

The British Open is a Golfing tournament steeped in history and, as with all the other Major Golf events on the tour calendar, it is widely followed by both golfing fans and punters alike.

Those looking to place a bet on the British Open can do so at a number of different outlets, venues and online bookmakers.

The best place to get a bet on the British Open is undoubtedly one of the many online bookmakers operating around Australia today.

They offer futures betting on the British Open, as well as outright winner, head to head challenges (who will finish higher out of two golfers) and live betting (meaning you can place a bet at any stage during the British Open).

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Golf Masters – Sports Betting

Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Friday Aug 21st, 2009

(Masters has already been played? USPGA coming up this month)

There will be plenty of money floating on the final golf major of the year, the USPGA Championship, with countless punters – and golf fans – involved. To put it all into context, let’s have a look at the odds of a number of betting agencies across the world and see if we can pick a winner for the upcoming tournament.

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At Ireland’s PaddyPower.com, there are a number of options for punters, including outright betting, betting without the great Tiger Woods, top English player, top European player and top Australian and New Zealand player. Tiger Woods, as usual, is the favourite for the tournament at PaddyPower.com, at 7/4, followed by Phil Mickelson and last year’s winner, Padraig Harrington, who are both rated a 20/1 chance currently.

Lee Westwood is favoured to be the top English player at 9/4, while you can get 6/1 on Adam Scott to be the top player from Australian and New Zealand (Geoff Ogilvy is 3/1 favourite).

Australia’s centrebet.com will also jump on board in a big way. Tiger Woods is the $2.75 favourite with Centrebet.com. You can also place a wager on players to finish top-5, top-10 or top-25, and to make the cut. Betting is also available on which player from each country will fare the best over the four-day tournament.

At Betfair.com, Tiger Woods is 15/8 to claim the tournament, followed by Mickelson and Harrington. Betfair punters can lay a wager on the likelihood of a hole-in-one during the event and also what the victory margin will be for the winner.

It is heating up in the lead-up to the final major of the golf season.

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