Golf Betting 2012

[bobby1]

Yes, he has almost the same selection process every week, and puts most of them up each way too so has a lot of stakes in play.

For example this week his main bet is Rory win at 4/1, with the ew stakes on the other players he tipped he will have staked 11 units. If Rory wins he will return 15 units.

[mondatoo]

Interesting post Bobby, you think McIlroy is a choker ? Suprised at that.

[ACE2M]

Interesting post Bobby, you think McIlroy is a choker ? Suprised at that.

he is a little bit, when things aren't going his way his swing changes, gets faster and less controlled. When he learns that he can't kill any course every day he'll be even more prolific.

[bobby1]

I wouldn't say choker as such but I don't think he wins as often as he should given how good a golfer he is and the great positions he gets in.The comparison with Kaymer really was that Rory has far more ability and plays more great shots but Kaymer gets it round in good scores even when he isn't quite on his game and has won far more tourneys than Rory.

When Rory is good He is awesome but when it's not quite there he doesn't rescue the round, He was all over the place for a while today, as Ace mentioned he was almost throwing the club at the ball at one stage.

[Karabiner]

Sky's "live" coverage from Pebble Beach is so delayed this evening it's even behind shot-tracker.

It must be lagging by several minutes, so woe-betide any in-running punters.

[bobby1]

Well, got plenty to sweat for the second Sunday in a row.

[T_Mar]

Well, got plenty to sweat for the second Sunday in a row.

gl bud

[bobby1]

****!! Not only did I do a chunk in, I am going to need an extra bit of Persil in the washing up too.

[Karabiner]

Charlie Wi just 4-putted the first for a double-bogey.

Game on!

[bobby1]

phew, at least got some wriggle room now

[Karabiner]

Obviously big Phil was just waiting for me not to bet on him to pounce...

[ChipRich]

sighhh, my 140/1 shot Ricky Barnes going to get 2nd by the looks of things. Should prob start backing em each way, Crane got 2nd last week and Barnes prob 2nd this week! 

good to see Phil winning tho i guess.

[The Camel]

Isn't 6/5 Europe for the Ryder Cup a ridiculously big price?

[bobby1]

Obviously big Phil was just waiting for me not to bet on him to pounce...

It is amazing how that happens with Phil isn't Ralph. He does seem to just put up winning performances when he looks to be struggling, I wonder if he needed the stimulation of playing with Tiger and having his wife present to focus him. His putting was ridic good too, was like watching him 15 years ago now he is using that lovely old flat stick again, that belly putter looked so wrong in his hands.

I am glad he got there tho, I did it in in the Euro but nicked half of it back there , so it was a losing weekend but could have been worse. I abs butchered that Euro event.

[bobby1]

Isn't 6/5 Europe for the Ryder Cup a ridiculously big price?

Europe will certainly have the best team, so I guess its down to locality and crowd factor really. Medinah is a really good course and usually good players win the big comps there so it all looks set to suit the Euro's.

The worry for me in betting so early is that the US might simply set the course up to suit their team. The longer and wider the fairways the better their chances but if they leave it as it normally is then for me the Euro's should be favs. The one thing that could alter that is the crowds at Medinah create a lot of noise when it is full, remember the shot Garcia hit from behind the tree there in the late 90's when he ended up running and jumping to see where his shot went, the crowd noise was amazing. That stretch of holes can be really intimidating and we saw what happened at Brookline how the teams can react to a really partisan crowd.

Even Tom Lehman, who is probably one of the calmest golfers to play the game was a disgrace in the heat of battle that day, I think it could be a really tough venue to be the 'away' team. Possibly the absolute opposite of having a load of well behaved fans trudging around a field in Wales in the rain.