The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011

The 2011 Open Championship will be played at Royal St George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent from 14-17 July 2011. This is the 140^th Open Championship and the defending champion will be South African Louis Oosthuizen after he lifted the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 2010.

The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011 is the biggest Golf Betting event of the year and the pre-tournament markets are led by recently crowned US Open champion Rory McIlroy. McIlroy has not played golf competitively since his triumph at Congressional but goes into The OPen as the hot favourite to make it back-to-back majors.

Who will lift the Claret Jug?

Tiger Woods was the heavy betting favourite in The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011 winners market earlier in the year, however, injuries saw him slip down the betting order before he was forced to finally withdraw from the event. Rory McIlroy has been drawing comparisons with Woods from all quarters since his US Open win and now assumes the role of heavy favourite in the betting, but establishing the same dominance that Woods has done in the past will be an even bigger task in today's golfing climate.

Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell, Paul Casey and Ian Poulter all feature prominently in The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011. Westwood registered another second place finish in a major at last year’s Open Championship, despite only returning from injury in the week before the tournament, while McIlroy is likely to be stronger for the experiences gained at last year’s Open as well as the 2011 US Masters.

Aside from McIlroy at the head of the market The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011 is a wide-open affair in which very few can be written off as no-hopers. Oosthuizen’s triumph at triple-figure odds in 2010 offering a prime example of this point.

Royal St George’s Golf Club

In 1894 Royal St George’s became the first club outside of Scotland to host The Open Championship.

The 2011 Open Championship is the 14^th time that Royal St George’s has hosted The Open Championship. Ben Curtis won his only Major Championship in 2003 when The Open was last hosted here and John Henry Taylor was the first ever winner back in 1894. The modern era has seen Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle and Bill Rogers all lift the Claret Jug at Sandwich.

The course is currently set at 7204 yards with two par 5 holes and four par 3s. The landscape offers many natural vantage points providing great views of the action for spectators.

The Open Championship Golf Betting Markets

The biggest of The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011 markets will be the winners market where punters can bet on which player will emerge triumphant at the end of four day’s play to lift the famous Claret Jug. This market will be turned in-play at the beginning of the event meaning that punters can bet on who they think will win The Open right up until the final put is sunk on the final green.

There are of course many other The Open Championship Golf Betting 2011 markets for punters to play on. Betting markets are available for who will lead after the opening round, what the winning score will be, what nationality the winner will be, whether there will be a hole-in-one and also who will win each three-ball and two-ball pairing over the course of the weekend.