Golf Betting

Golf is priced week in, week out, and the four majors — the Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship — are the weeks when Nigerian books open the widest market lists. This page covers how those markets are priced, which each-way and dead-heat terms decide what a placed bet pays, and which licensed sites price the tour at all.

Top Golf Betting Websites Nigeria

How to Bet on Golf

Most bettors in Nigeria are familiar with NFL picks and NBA wagers but something that is really gaining steam in the betting world is PGA betting. PGA predictions rely mainly on odds wagering – you pick a golfer you like and if he or she wins your payout is 2-1, 12-1, 25-1, etc.

Golf picks odds are calculated based on a number of factors such as past history at the course, recent tournament trends, and arguably most important is how the public views that play. Don’t expect great odds on public favorite Tiger Woods in a big-name tournament such as the U.S. Open or the Masters. At the same time if a popular golfer like Woods is down there at 20-1 it’s usually for good reason and a win a long shot because it would cost books so much money.

Golf Betting Online

With its increased popularity in the sports betting world, Golf betting online is readily available with the majority of online sportsbooks for all of the PGA tour tournaments, throughout the season. Golf betting online is a great way to add some extra excitement to the big tournaments and one of the best things about golf betting is the number of ways in which you can get involved.

The length of a golf tournament allows for ample opportunities to invest in a wager, and with it, there is a long list of bets you can place from the outright winner to Top-10 or Top-25 finishes or three-ball wagers, and even in-play betting after each round, the possibilities with golf betting online seem endless.

Types of Golf Bets

The best thing about golf bets is the variation available to bettors for each tournament. A varied approach to your golf wagering is a good way to add excitement to the tour but also means there is something for everyone, be it a longshot, a prop bet, or a solid favorite bet to bet on. Here are the golf bets books price most often, with what each one settles on.

Win Bets

The most commonly wagered golf bet on any given tournament in unsurprisingly the win markets. The win golf bets are just that, a golfer to win the tournament or in certain instances, you can bet on them to win a round.

Each Way Bets

With the large field sizes and the fact a tournament is played across four days, a fair number of longshots win or come close to winning on the tour. Even on the biggest stages, with the likes of Charl Schwartzel and Angel Cabrera winning the Masters Tournament at odds of +10000 and +12500 respectively. Some sportsbooks will offer up to 8 or 10 places in the biggest golf tournaments, and even hitting a place with a longshot can see you hit a nice payday.

To Finish Top-5, 10 or 20

Picking the winner of a golf tournament is tricky, to pick the one in a hundred who plays best over four days, can feel at times like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Wagering on markets such as a Top-5, Top-10, or Top-20 finish allows for that extra wiggle room, that room for slight error. While the odds won’t be as big as the win markets, these offer a great chance of finding a winning wager

Score Over Unders

Bets on a player to win is far from the only type of golf wager available on any tournament. PGA picks can also be made on individual golfers and whether they will shoot ‘over’ or ‘under’ a certain score for that round.

Prop Bets

Prop bets are a great alternative to win markets, as you aren’t necessarily wagering on the outcome of the tournament itself. The most common types of golf prop bets include a hole in one to be made in the tournament or players to make the cut, right through to the wacky, such as Will the winner cry on the 18th green of the Masters, or who will the masters champion hug first. Of course, these are less skill-driven wagers, but they’re fun and have become increasingly popular amongst bettors. 

Head-to-head odds

Head to head odds are also widely available where you can wager on a matchup between two players. This allows for a great way to use expert knowledge of the courses, player form, conditions, pin positions, and much more to figure out who will be better suited in any given tournament.

How a PGA field is priced

A golf tournament is priced as a field of 100-plus players, so the same golfer can sit at 40-1 with one book and 55-1 with another. That gap is the margin, and on outright markets it is wider than on a two-way football price. Reading it is the whole job: the favourite's price tells you how much of the field the book has written off, and the each-way terms tell you how many places it will actually pay.

What moves a price during tournament week

Prices move on the things the book can see: the tee-time draw, the weather window each half of the field gets, and withdrawals after a practice round. A book that shortens a player before round one is usually reacting to the draw, not to form, and the each-way terms are often cut at the same time. Both changes are published on the operator's own market page, which is where to check them.

Golf Betting Strategies

One of the biggest allures of PGA betting is that a win by a high underdog player can be like a lottery ticket. A 300-1 outsider winning the Masters can provide a life-changing return on investment. Just know that wins like that are extremely rare though.

The best strategy for PGA predictions is to try and find a golfer who has shot well either recently or at the specific course. That doesn’t always mean winning, but the top 10 finishes where the golfer may just be a tweak or two away can be a sign of future success.

Many wagerers find more success with PGA betting on the weekend rather than the start of the tournament. You will have had a couple of days to see how a player likes the course and the field will have dwindled as well – but so will the odds.

Golf Odds – Golf Odds This Week

As with the golf markets, golf odds are varied, and shopping the odds is vital to achieving long term success with your golf wagers. With such large field sizes in most golf tournaments, the odds can vary greatly across sportsbooks in win markets and prop bets alike. This is the one market where price shopping pays for itself, because the spread between books on a single outright price is measured in whole points, not fractions. 

Golf Predictions – Golf Predictions This Week

Beyond the outright winner, the same tournament is priced in markets that behave very differently: a top-10 finish, a head-to-head between two players, a nationality market, or a player to miss the cut. Each has its own margin and its own dead-heat rule, and on top-10 markets the dead-heat clause is where a winning slip most often pays less than the price suggested.

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