US Masters Golf Betting 2011
The 2011 US Masters is the 75th Masters Tournament and will, as ever, be the first golf major of the season. Staged at the Augusta National Golf Club this year’s event will be played over the course of the second weekend in April from Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th.
A lot has changed in golf since this event last year when Tiger Woods went into the tournament as the clear and short priced favourite. Now the American has slipped down the rankings and the Europeans have taken a stranglehold on the list of the world’s top golfers.
Woods is still the US Masters Golf Betting 2011 favourite but he is not without company at the top of the betting markets. Defending champion Phil Mickelson is second favourite closely followed by world number one and two Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood.
US Masters Winner Betting 2011
Phil Mickelson began last year’s tournament as the US Masters Golf Betting second-favourite and came through to win the Green Jacket for the fourth time in his career, beating Westwood to the accolade by three shots. Again, he starts this year’s event as the US Masters Golf Betting 2011 second-favourite at odds of around 7/1.
Tiger Woods began last year’s tournament as the favourite and will do so again this year, but the 14-time major winner has looked a shadow of his former self since returning to golf 12 months ago and punters are less likely to be interested in backing him for a fifth Green Jacket this time around.
Despite the Europeans cluttering the top end of the world’s order of merit it is now over a decade since a player from the continent won the US Masters. European Ryder Cup captain Jos Maria Olazabal the last to win the Green Jacket back in 1999.
Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell and Luke Donald have all occupied places in the world’s top five this season and along with the likes of Rory McIlroy, Paul Casey and Ian Poulter provide the biggest chance of a European being crowned US Masters champion for many a year.
US Masters Betting Markets 2011
Although the most popular of US Masters Golf Betting 2011 markets will, of course, be the winners market there will also be many other betting markets for punters to wager on.
US Masters Golf Betting 2011 markets will be available from the three-ball pairing that begins the opening day’s play to the two-ball pairing that are the last group to come down the 18th fairway on Sunday evening.
There are also Golf Betting markets available on whether players will finish in the top five and top ten, what the winning margin will be, whether the US Masters 2011 will go into a play-off and may other peripheral markets. Plus specials betting on how Woods, Westwood, Kaymer, Mickelson and many other top players will fair, whether they will make the cut and what their finishing score and position will be.