American Tiger Woods will enter the Open Championship betting as hot favourite. The Championship taking place at Royal Lytham will begin next place but the bookmakers are already taking plenty of golf bets as interest reaches fever pitch. The American is the only player comes into this major as the only to have won three times on the PGA tour.
Although the Tiger will be not be best pleased with his form coming into this major having failed to make the cut at GreenBrier but he’ll still be very confident coming into this historic major after finding his best form in wining the Congressional and the Arnold Parmer Invitational. His swing is looking superb and will quite rightly be the favourite heading into this gold major
It’s been a long time for Tiger Woods but he is certainly looking more like his old self with some excellent word around the greens which has helped him find his winning ways.
The bookmaker have Tiger at 8/1 to win The Open but we feel that is too short for a tournament that will boost the best golfers in the world. Especially as this is links golf and is very weather dependant something not even the great Mr Woods can control. One player that is looking very strong heading into The Open is Molinari who managed a 62 ten under par in Scotland earlier in the week. If you are looking at using any of the betting exchanges then we suggest taking a look at laying Tiger Woods as that price will drift if he doesn’t get off to the best of starts.
Woods’ form at St Anne’s and Roya Lytham courses isn’t the best having finished outside the top 20 when he last played there some 10 years ago, when he was playing some of his best stuff. With so many external influences on this course the smart move really does look like laying the great man as crazy as that sounds but it really is an open championship this year if you excuse the pun.
If you’re looking to place a bet on the Open then we certainly suggest backing any player with Betfred who are paying out 6 players which is fantastic especially as their odds are as strong as any in market. If you do place a bet with Betfred make sure you take advantage of the Betfred free bet which is £50 matched bet. It’s a pretty easy free bet to claim as well and is available to use on The Open.
Expect a fantastic 2012 Open which four days of top quality golf in predictably unpredictable weather but it’s certainly what makes links golf and The Open in particular the greatest European golf tournament and argubly the best best in the World.
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