BMW PGA Championship
The BMW PGA Championship gets underway at Wentworth today, and with almost 150 players chasing the coveted title it won’t be easy for sports betting fans to pick the outright winner right from the start. To give you some idea of just how open the competition is, over at Paddy Power sportsbook the first five in the Outright Betting market (before the first ball was struck) were available at odds of between 10/1 and 18/1, with Lee Westwood just shading 10/1 favouritism from Rory Mcilroy and Ernie Els, who were both offered at odds of 12/1.
With the betting being so open, many golf betting fans will want to leave the Outright Betting market alone in the early stages. Those who do get involved will probably want to bet on more than one golfer and adjust their stakes on each according to the odds available so that an overall profit can be achieved regardless of which one wins. As for those who prefer to leave Outright Betting alone until a little later in the competition, there are several other markets for golf bettors to take a look at which should – theoretically at least – make it a little easier to pick a winner or two. Some of the most interesting markets at Paddy Power sportsbook are as follows:
Top European/Scandinavian/Scottish/Spanish Player
These four markets require you to predict which player will perform best in the BMW PGA Championship out of all the players that have been allocated to the same group. The odds available about players in each of these markets reflect the number of players in contention in the group as well as the perceived chances of those players. It should be noted that the Top European Player market does not include players from Great Britain or Ireland.
Place Only
Instead of betting on a player to win the BMW PGA Championship tournament outright, you can bet on a player to get a place only. If your selected player finishes in first, second, third, fourth or fifth place then your bet will win. Another advantage of this market is that it makes it possible (though not necessarily easy) to bet on several players (up to five, in fact) and make a profit from all of them if they all get a place.
Top Ten Finish
Yet another way to increase your chances of picking a winner is by betting in the Top Ten Finish market. This offers odds about each player finishing in the top ten of the BMW PGA Championship, so it should be even easier to have a profitable bet in this market than in the Place Only market mentioned a moment ago.
These are just three of the BMW PGA Championship golf betting markets available in addition to the Outright Betting market, but there are more than two dozen others that you can take a look at by visiting the Paddy Power sportsbook. Enjoy the golfing action and good luck in picking yourself a few winners!
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