US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011
The US PGA Championships 2011 is the 93rd annual staging of the US PGA Championships (or, PGA Championships). The tournament begins on August 11, 2011 and concludes on August 14, 2011 at Atlanta Athletic Club, Johns Creek, Georgia.
Martin Kaymer is the defending champion after he claimed his first ever major championship at the 2010 US PGA Championship when he defeated Bubba Watson in a play-off.
US PGA Championship Winner Betting 2011
Flavour of the month Rory McIlroy is the US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011 favourite. He leads a group of Europeans at the head of the betting including Lee Westwood, Luke Donald and defending champion Martin Kaymer. The American challenge is led by the familiar duo of Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, although there is some concern regarding the participation of the latter who was forced to withdraw from the US Open Golf and the subsequent Open Championship due to injury.
There are also some interesting outsiders in the US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011. Young Australian Jason Day has finished second in both the Masters and the US Open this season and is priced at 33/1 with some bookmakers. Bubba Watson took Kaymer to a play-off in last year’s USPGA Championship and can be backed at 50/1 to go one better this year. Not forgetting about the clutch of American’s who are always there or there abouts in major championships on the other side of the Atlantic; Matt Kuchar, Dustin Johnson, Hunter Mahan, Nick Watney and Steve Stricker can all be backed at double-figure odds.
US PGA Championship 2011 Course
The 2011 US PGA Championship will be the third time that the Atlanta Athletic Club has staged the US PGA Championship. David Toms won the title of US PGA Champion back in 2001 with a score of 15 under par. Toms is a 50/1 outsider in the US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011 to repeat his triumph here.
Larry Nelson won the first of his three majors here in 1981 with a winning score of 7 under par. And the course was also the venue for the 1976 US Open that was won by Jerry Pate.
The Atlanta Athletic Club was founded in 1898 in John Creek, Georgia. The Highlands Course (which will be used for the US PGA) is a par 72 and measures 7,613 yards in length. It consists of three par 5s and four par 3s with a front nine of par 36 and back nine par 36.
US PGA Championship Betting Markets 2011
We’ve already talked about the US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011 winners market above. However, there are plenty of other outright betting markets for punters and bookmakers to do battle in.
Betting markets are available for which players will finish in the top five and top ten of the final standings, who will be leading at the end of the first, second and third day’s play. There are also US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011 markets on what the winning score will be and whether there will be a hole-in-one. In fact some bookmakers are now offering specials whereby if you back a player to win and he gets a hole-in-one then they will pay you out as a winner, regardless of what position he finishes in.
There is also the opportunity to bet on which player will win their respective three-ball or two-ball pairing. If you think Rory McIlroy will beat Tiger Woods, then you can also bet on that in one of the many head-to-head match bet markets.
The advent of in-play betting means that these many markets are now available throughout the four days of play, with the odds altering according to each player’s performance.