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Thursday 17th July
With Tiger Woods out of the British Open, we
have seen an interesting spread of bets coming through, with punters
having a rare opportunity to bet on a Major where the great man is
missing.
Sergio Garcia will go into round one as
clear cut favourite at 12.00. The likeable Garcia has been unlucky at the
last two British Opens, and comes into this week in good form having won
the Players Championship a few weeks ago, but he is one player who has
continuously struggled to put it all together.
Garcia is easily our worst result, with
most of the support coming from European punters, and that has been led up
by a bet of $2000 each way at 13.00. The weather conditions at Royal
Birkdale are tipped to be extremely windy during the first two days, and
that would be one of the reasons why a lot of outsiders have been backed,
and another reason why several of the American players have been hard to
sell.
Justin Rose (41.00), Graeme McDowell
(41.00), Stephen Ames (81.00) are in a host of players that have been
backed to win big amounts, while punters have taken a particular dislike
to most of the better American players including Phil Mickelson who has
eased from 13.00 out to 19.00. There is a strong Australian contingent in
this year's event, and Geoff Ogilvy has been the best backed of the
Aussies at 26.00. Like most of the field, the popular Ogilvy can see there
is a good opportunity to write your name in the history books with Tiger
missing, and has spent several weeks in England acclimatising to the
conditions around Royal Birkdale. Robert Allenby (41.00) is the other
Aussie that our punters have put their faith in as he is adept in any
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