Online PGA Golf Betting - Mickelson seeks PLAYERS repeat
Tiger Woods
didn’t pay off for
those doing any golf betting at last
year’s THE PLAYERS Championship – he
finished 11 strokes back of the lead
in a tie for 37th place. And Woods won’t
get the chance to turn in a better online
betting performance this year, as he’s
still recovering from minor knee surgery.
That leaves the field headlined by Phil
Mickelson.
Mickelson
is the defending champion at this event
at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Florida – he’s
the golfer that ended up 11 strokes ahead
of Woods after the final round of the
lucrative tournament. Mickelson roared
out of the gates with a 5-under 67 back
in 2007, and he shot back-to-back rounds
of 69 on the weekend to secure the win.
That’s enough of a resume for
the BetUS oddsmakers to peg Mickelson
as the +1000 favorite to win THE PLAYERS
Championship this week. Lefty is the
No. 2-ranked player in the world (behind
Woods), while No. 3 Adam Scott is just
behind him on this week’s odds
list at +1200. Scott won this tournament
back in 2004, and he was sixth last year.
Jim Furyk (+1600), Vijay Singh (+1800),
and Padraig Harrington (+2000) round
out the Top 5 of the odds list this week,
but none of them had a strong showing
at this event in 2007. Furyk tied with
eight other golfers for 28th place (at
1-under for the tournament), while Singh
was another two strokes behind in 44th,
and Harrington ended up in 52nd.
Sergio
Garcia was the runner-up to Mickelson
at this tournament in 2007 (at 9-under),
and he’s at +3500 odds to get the
victory this week. That puts him behind
Stewart Cink (+2200), Geoff Ogilvy (+2200),
Ernie Els (+2800), K.J. Choi (+2800),
and Retief Goosen (+3000). Cink finished
one stroke behind Garcia for third place
in this tourney last year.
Anthony
Kim won the Wachovia Championship by
five strokes at Quail Hollow last weekend,
which moved him from 37 to 16 in the
latest World Rankings. Kim missed the
cut at THE PLAYERS Championship last
year, but he’s tied with Garcia
at +3500 odds to win it all this time
around. Henrik Stenson is also listed
at +3500 odds to get the win.
2006 tournament champion Stephen Ames
is back at +6000 odds for this week,
while 1998 champion Justin Leonard is
behind him at +6500.
Fred Couples, who won this event in
1996, is at +8500 odds, while two-time
champion Steve Elkington (1997 and 1991)
is a bigger longshot at +10000. Masters
champion Trevor Immelman is at +6000.
Other top
odds to get the win this week include
Luke Donald (+4500), Lee Westwood (+4500),
Zach Johnson (+5000), Sean O’Hair
(+5000), Steve Stricker (+5000), and
Aaron Baddeley (+5000). As well, Robert
Allenby and Boo Weekley are both at +6000.
Meanwhile,
the European Tour will be in Milan
this week for the Italian Open at the
Castello di Tolcinasco Golf and Country
Club. Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano won
this event last year, but he’s
well down at +3000 odds to repeat as
the champion. 2006 champion Francesco
Molinari is higher up on the list; he’s
only pegged at +1800 to win.
The tournament favorite, though, is
Robert Karlsson, who is listed at +1400
odds. Other top contenders to win overseas
this week include Charl Schwartzel (+1600),
Anders Hansen (+1600), Nick Dougherty
(+1800), Bradley Dredge (+2000), Alastair
Forsyth (+2200), and Alexander Noren
(+2200). 2001 champ Gregory Havret is
back at +4500.
The European
Tour will head from Italy to Ireland
next week for the Irish Open, with
the BMW PGA Championship in England
and the Celtic Manor Wales Open completing
the tour’s May schedule. The PGA
Tour moves on to TPC Sugarloaf in Georgia
for the AT&T Classic next week, with
the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
(in Fort Worth, Texas) and the Memorial
Tournament (in Dublin, Ohio) finishing
out this month’s slate.
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