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Golf betting at William Hill
Golf betting with William Hill
There’s never a shortage of golf betting opportunities available at William Hill, with regular events running each week across various tours around the globe.
Most regular are the PGA Tour and the European Tour, with the opening rounds generally teeing off on a Thursday and the closing action on a Sunday.
As one tournament finishes, the golf odds for another become available, with a wide selection of markets ensuring there’s plenty to get stuck into.
On top of the weekly events, four golf majors are spread throughout the year. These attract many of the sport’s biggest names to compete against each other, with the likes of Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods almost certainly to be positioned prominently in the golf betting.
The Majors
The four golf majors traditionally take place at the same time each year. Up first is the Masters at Augusta in early April, followed by the US Open golf in mid-June, the Open Championship, approximately a month later and then finally the PGA Championship.
However, the running order is set to change in 2019, with the PGA Championship slotting into May instead. This is part of a wider shuffle of numerous golf events to both limit competition with other sports and bring forward the end of the season.
Masters golf odds are available all-year round and because it’s always hosted at the same venue of Augusta National in Georgia, it can be easier to make successful bets, including which player will win and as a result wear the Green Jacket.
For example, Augusta debutants tends to be worth swerving in favour of players with plenty of experience at the course, while classier golfers positioned towards the top of the official golf world rankings often live up to their lofty status.
With the venues of the other majors changing year on year, it may be tougher to follow golf betting systems for these tournaments.
The golf betting tips to pay attention to
Current form is an obvious starting point when assessing the latest golf odds. It makes little sense to back any player who is on a miserable run of four consecutive missed cuts to win a tournament, given the transformation in form such an upturn in fortunes will take.
However, these out-of-form players will often be priced up accordingly and would provide a much greater payday should they produce an unexpected result.
Whereas, favourites are usually around 7/1 in the golf betting, the odds on unfancied players could be in the ballpark of 500/1 or even 1,000/1.
Course form can prove a lucrative trend to follow, as certain players often perform well under particular conditions.
The bombers off the tee have a clear advantage on longer courses, where the shorter hitters may struggle to reach par-five greens in two shots or require long irons to reach a par-four green in regulation, increasing the risk of their shots being inaccurate.
Alternatively, other courses may place a greater emphasis on keeping the ball in play – with long-rough marshalling, narrow fairways acting as punishment for poor accuracy. Such courses may favour a different type of player.
Therefore, it may pay to look at individual statistics surrounding each player and work out whether they will suit the next course being visited. Statistics ranging from driving distance to iron accuracy are readily available.
Meanwhile, all players of all abilities tend to enjoy hot and cold streaks with their putters. A good free golf betting tip is to focus on those currently holing more putts than they are missing.
As the saying goes, players drive for show but putt for dough.
Typical golf betting markets
It’s fairly obvious to point out that the most common golf betting odds for any event is the tournament winner market, where the task is to bet on the player who will register the fewest number of shots over the four days of play.
For the bigger tournaments, the total number of markets could come close to 50, these include whether a player will finish in the Top 5, Top 10 or even Top 20 on the final leaderboard.
If you want to bet on players further adrift from the top of the leaderboard, an option is whether they will make the cut or not.
Only a certain number of tournament starters play in all four rounds, with those languishing in the lower echelons of the leaderboard cut at the halfway point. In this golf market, you’re betting on whether a specific player makes the cut or misses the cut.
Other player markets relate to their nationalities. Among these are Top European, Top Irishman, Top Scandinavian, Top American, Top South African, Top Australian and even Top Korean.
Alongside the player markets are golf odds relating to the tournament in general. These may include golf betting on whether a hole in one will occur, how many strokes the tournament winner will win by or whether a play-off will be needed to separate multiple winners.
How does each-way betting work in golf?
Each-way betting is available in most sports, including golf.
When placing a bet on the tournament winner, there’s the option of betting simply to win the event or backing them each-way, which costs double the original stake.
An each-way bet typically pays out should the player backed end up finishing in top five places. However, if they finish second, third, fourth or fifth, the payout will be at 1/4 of the original odds.
So an each-way bet on Tiger Woods’ odds of 20/1 winning a golf tournament would cost £10 – £5 on him winning and the other £5 on him ‘placing’.
Should Woods finish fourth, the £5 win portion of the bet is a loser, but the £5 place portion wins. So this £5 is paid out at 5/1 (1/4 of the original odds), giving a profit of £25, alongside the initial £5 back.
On occasion, the each-way terms are boosted to be more lucrative, meaning rather than paying up to five places, the sixth of seventh finisher could also be a successful each-way golf bet.
Ryder Cup odds and other golf events
Alongside the regular men’s and women’s golf tournaments, special events feature on the golf calendar far less frequently.
Chief among them is the Ryder Cup, which is a team event that pits Europe against the USA every two years.
The teams compete over three days in disciplines called foursomes, fourballs and singles.
Any Ryder Cup golf betting opportunities will relate to not only all of these match formats, but also which team will secure bragging rights for the following two years, the size of the winning margin and the correct overall score.
There’s also a female equivalent called the Solheim Cup, which is played in alternating years with the Ryder Cup and follows the same formats of play.
What is 3-ball golf betting?
In all golf tournaments, players complete their opening two rounds in groups of three, usually around eight minutes apart from another three ball.
Three-ball golf betting relates to which of the three players in a particular group will shoot the lowest score over a specific round.
Golf #YourOdds
#YourOdds are available across numerous sports with William Hill, with golf being a member of this group.
Those wanting to bet on golf have the power to request their own #YourOdds and these can take on many guises.
It could be anything from Rory McIlroy winning three of the four majors in a single calendar year, to Jordan Spieth ending the year as world number one, to Tiger Woods winning three or more additional majors during his career.