Online Golf Betting Guide

Golf betting is one of the biggest growth betting markets in sport today. This is due to the ever increasing TV coverage and the steady rise in the general popularity of the sport. Due to the global interest, golf is now played all the year round and in virtually every country in the world. Much of this interest has been created by one man, Tiger Woods, who has become the richest sportsman on the planet.

PGA Golf Tours

The main golfing tours are the USPGA, and the European PGA, but there is also smaller and less well covered tours in Asia and the Ladies PGA. The two major tours however are where you will find comprehensive betting markets and it is those that this site will concentrate on.

The USPGA tour is played from January until November each year, whereas the European tour is now virtually all year round.

Tournaments

There is a total of 59 betting tournaments on the USPGA and a further 51 European PGA tour events for punters to get their teeth into. Both tours include the Major Championships in their schedules. The USPGA has no exact culmination event to its tour, whereas the European Tour have introduced what they hope will become a world championship event in November each year known as the Omega Missions World Championships that is to be played in Dubai each year. The European tour will use the theme ‘The Race to Dubai’, which effectively replaces the Europea Order of Merit title. The prize money available will be in excess of $10 million and it is likely that it will attract several players from the USPGA tour to compete in Europe

Popular Betting Tournaments

The most popular PGA tour event for punters is the British Open that is played each year in July on a course rotation system, this year it is to be played at Turnberry on the West coast of Scotland. The other three Majors,The Masters is the first one of the year and is played in April at Augusta, which is followed by the US Open in June and the final Major of the year is the USPGA Championship, played in August. The biggest single betting golfing event however is by far away the Ryder Cup, played on a biennial basis between the USA and Europe

Bookmakers have created many methods for punters to bet on golf and this is another reason why it has become so popular. Probably the most popular are the outright win and each way markets but please see here for all golf betting information.

Free Golf Bets

Another major improvement in golf betting comes in the form of Golf Free bets that are now readily available from all leading bookmakers. Accounts are easy to open and the service is always first class. Please check out bookmakers to take a look at what is on offer.