Golf - Golf betting

We have all done it, betting amongst friends on the outcome of a golfround. This is why golf is a favoruite bettting sport world over. There are a mutlitude of gof tournaments the largest beeing US PGA tour, US Masters and the US Open and offcourse the classic British Open. Most bookmakers provide betting on the outcome of torunaments and also many head to head games.

PGA tour Proffesional Golfers Association

The PGA Tour consists of 48 tournaments in 44 weeks begining with the Mercedes Championships with the winners of previous years tournaments. The golfers play on average 20 and 30 tournaments in the season. Location of the tournaments are uslally starting out in Hawaii in January then moving to California and Arizona for a couple of months and after that relocates to Florida. The PGA Tour spends its main part of the summers in the Northeast and the Midwest to in the fall move to the warmth of the south.

US open

The US Open Championship is a annual golf tournament in June operated by the US Golf Association. The tournaments 156 places are by open to all men, proffesionals and amateurs with 1,4 or below in HCP points via qualifications or by beeing fully exempted (for example the top 50 world ranked players).

US masters

This is the first major US golfing event each year held at Agusta National Golf Club in agusta, Georgia. The winner not only gets rewarded with a large money sum but also the very much respected green jacket.

British Open

The britis hopen also (originally) called The Open Champinship is the oldest major tournament started in 1860. It is hosted by different prestigeuos clubs in the United Kingdom and in 2005 it is the legenadary Old Course in St andrews that hosts the torunament. The tournament is furthermore also always played on a links course. This is one of the largest betting events in golf in the UK.