Small guide to Golf betting
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Betting on tournament winners is the most popular form of betting
among golf odds at betting companies as this is the simplest
variant. You simply choose the participant you think will be the
final winner. The players are ranked and the odds are set
accordingly. But golf can be a rather strange sport in that the
biggest favorite is far from always winning and it can be tricky
to score correctly. Especially in the bigger tournaments. But
with a little luck, you can land a good profit and it is also
possible to spread your efforts. You can, for example, distribute
X number of kronor as a percentage where you put the largest
share on the player you think is the big favorite, and lower
shares on some outsiders.
It is also possible, as in other sports, to place bets instead.
Where the contestants only need to finish among the best and not
necessarily win. Here, the odds are always lower compared to what
they are on the same player to take home the entire competition,
but the chance of a winning bet increases drastically.
Similarly, betting companies have developed golf odds they call
2-ball or 3-ball. Here, they have simply selected two and three
players, respectively, where you must choose which of these will
go around for the best of the day. It will be a kind of duel, and
the two and three selected do not even have to go on the track at
the same time. One of them can start far ahead and the other far
behind, but the excitement is no less for that. If one of the
players has already completed his 18 holes, the second or third
may have just started hitting the sixth hole, and it can be
really exciting to follow. It adds a whole new dimension in a
way, without any of the players you follow even having to place
themselves on the podium in the end.
For odds closer to those you see in football and matches, there
is a richer range than you might first think, but also more
overall when it comes to scoring winners has variation. In some
cases, it is possible to bet on what nationality the winner of
the tournament will have. In other words, you do not have to be
so specific and choose a single name, it is enough to dot the
country the player comes from. That an American will win the US
Open, or a Scot will win the British Open.
Live Golf betting
As with most sports today, you can play before a competition or
on a player before he goes out on the court, and you can make
bets in the middle of an ongoing game. If, for example, you have
played 3-ball and the first player is out on hole 10 while the
others are behind on other holes, then it is possible to bet on
which of the three will succeed, say course 15, on the least
number of strokes. If you know your golf and maybe even the
course, it is very possible that a specific hole makes it
especially for many players. And it is precisely this hole that
it is believed that one of the three players will succeed best
with. This increases the entertainment even more and creates new
elements, compared to only playing on winners in a tournament and
then having to wait until it is finished playing after several
days.