US Open Golf Betting 2009
Betting Fans Might Be Persuaded That The 2009 US Open Might Not Necessarily Favour Big Hitters
The 2009 #US Open Golf Championship# gets under way on the Black Course at the Bethpage Golf and Country Club in up state New York as of Thursday June 18th through to Sunday 21st. Officially classed as the second of the four major golf tournaments, the US Open is a prime time sporting event that captures the interest and imagination of more than just golf fans. The online betting community sees the event as an ideal opportunity to follow their golf betting instincts and get behind the player they see as the one most likely to lift the silverware on the Sunday evening.
Of course, the most enterprising way to put your money where your mouth is, is to utilise the Free Bets offers, the sort which are flagged up by all leading online bookmakers any time of the year, yet specifically in the lead up to any major sporting event likey to capture the betting public's imagaination. And penchant for an add excitement guaranteed flutter. So, and to the tournament itself. If there’s ever a given in world golf then it’s the one that states the US Open will never be an easy ride for anyone. Not even the planet’s best golfers. (so take note free bets fans, as it's undoubtedly a toughie to call)
Bethpage Black Course Puts Fear Of Golfing Gods Into Current Crop Of World's Best Tour Players
The merest mention of the US Open instils much fear and trepidation in those whose attributes are keenly measured by the virtues of their short game, yet even the biggest #Golf# hitters will shudder at the prospect of attempting tame this years beast of a US Open course.
The Bethpage Black got the tour nod back in 2002, and immediately raised a few concerns amongst those whose games lacked a certain something in the length department. Although despite this, the guardians of the games’ shortcomings centred around the course not offering a stern enough test in light of the tournaments history for challenging the very best players of their generation.
The first previously public golf course to be added to the major rosta in modern history, the Long Island course has the capacity to turn the hairs of many a world class golfer decidedly grey overnight. And speaking of ageing, the pro golfer must be at their physical peak simply to negotiate the 7,460 yard course on foot, besides the tricky business of playing championship winning golf shots.
Tiger Woods Amongst Favourites To Land 2009 US Open Title This June
Acclaimed to be one of the most arduous walks in golf, the narrow fairways and wild rough which typifies the Bethpage course might render some of the field to jibbering wrecks should they manage to finish the four rounds with their wits still about them. Only Tiger Woods has managed to finish a tournament under par around this course – and its inaugral 2002 hosting of the US Open - that tests golfing endurance to the limits.
Last visited in 2002 – when appallingly damp conditions made for anything but a 'walk in the park' for competitors, the course has had a further 200 yards added to its total length since. Just in case complacency was creeping into any golfers game ahead of the tournament.
Referring to the one and only time the US Open has been played out at Bethpage, and the final scoring told its own tale of emotional upset and golfing carnage, with big game expert Phil Mickelson finishing three shots behind Woods. Elsewhere US Open specialist Jeff Maggert, along with big-hitting Sergio Garcia, only got to within seven shots of eventual winner Tiger. So you can imagine what those further down the world golf pecking order are thinking going into the tournament on June 18th.
Players Must Look To Torrey Pines Expereince To Give Hope To Those Who Are Not Big-Hitters
Still, there's a modicum of hope for those whose games arent exactly tailored for the length of tee to green shots that Bethpage seemingly demands. Take for instance Rocco Mediate who forced a play-off with Tiger at the equally daunting Torrey Pines South course, the setting for the 2008 US Open. Admitedly an expert around the green, Mediate played within his own game to conquer that awesome course and take him to within a whisker of victory.
According to the pundits, the 2002 division of men from the boys around Bethpage had a lot more to do with the inclement conditions the players were faced with as opposed to the snarling layout. The theory being that soft ground has to be countered with air shots of a greater trajectory to compensate once the sting is taken from the ball on landing. Therefore if its dry this year the counter arguement is that driving accuracy will come more into play than just brute force slogging. Especially with the rough appearing as it does to be completely unforgiving to the errant drive, with the safety shot being the only option to recover, albeit at the loss of aggregrate shots.
So if we were to determine the perfect fit golfer to take on the challenge of Bethpage in June, then the blueprint would illustrate a fairly long hitting, yet pinpoint placing driver of the golf ball, whose in their physical and mental prime. A DNA that befits the likes of perhaps Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson. The later a man who singlehandedly made a mockery of some of the current game's greats at the recent Players Championships. Just a pointer, but you never know.
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