The WGC CA Championship is a relatively new event. The tournament has been held only ten times and six of those were won by Tiger Woods. However, Tiger is not taking part this year, giving the chance for several of golf's biggest names to compete for $8.5 million purse on the 'Blue Monster' course at Doral, Miami, Florida. The course, a 7,266 Par 72, gets its name from the twelve water hazards it boast and it will be a real test for every player.
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US PGA Tour Golf – Sony Open in Hawaii
The Sony Open tees off tonight at the Waialae course in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Waialae has been the course for this tournament four forty-five years and is 7,044 yards long, having been designed in 1927. It will host the first full-field event of 2010 and 144 golfers will be competing for a purse of $5.5 million, with $990,000 to the winner.
European Tour Golf betting – JBWere Masters in Melbourne
Tiger Woods has made the long journey to Australia for the JBWere Masters, which represents a huge step forward for Australian Golf. The American is rumoured to have been paid twice the total prize money of A$1.5 million for his participation in the event, held at Kingston Heath for the first time having moved from Huntingdale, which has seen the tournament sell out and drawn crowds expected to be as large as 100,000.
HSBC Champions Tour Golf betting
The HSBC Champions trophy starts tomorrow in Shanghai at the Sheshan International. The course is 7,199 yards long and Par 72, with 78 players competing and $7 million in prize money up for grabs. Obstacles litter the course, with pine forests and difficult bunkers, many holes featuring canals, lakes or the quarry, fifty metres deep, over which holes 16 and 17 are played.
Tiger Woods 6/4 not to win a Major next year
Bookmakers are betting on whether Tiger Woods wins a Major next year, following his failure to win one in 2009, the first year since 2004 when he has not claimed one of golf’s most important titles. Sky Bet offers 6/4 (bet $40 to make $60 profit) that he does not win a Major in 2010 and [...]
Y.E. Yang a hero to bookmakers
Y.E. Yang's victory in the PGA Championship may be being hailed in South Korea as a superstar but bookmakers around the world were also lauding him as a hero last night.
Tiger Woods odds on to win PGA after Round 1
Tiger Woods is odds on to win the PGA Golf Championship after recording a five under par first round to lead the tournament by one shot. Woods can be backed at -118 (bet $118 to make $100 profit) with Betfair, while many bookmakers are running scared with odds as low as -150 in some places. Woods was a +200 chance (bet $100 to make $200 profit) at the offset with all other golfers on offer at 25/1 or bigger.
