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Betting on Golf Betting on Golf is a new blog featured on Gambling911.com which takes a look at all the upcoming golf events including the US and British Opens among others. Geoff Ogilvy Continues With Strong Lead: Monday Finish Required
The CA Championship
is headed for a
Monday finish, the
result of a long
weather delay. Tiger Woods Wife Wins World Golf Championships CA Championship, NCAA Basketball Tournament
Surely with March Madness getting underway on Thursday, College Basketball would have headlined every other sporting event. The World Golf Championships CA Championship also teed off Thursday. But it wasn't College Basketball or Golf that won out among Internet searches, it was none other than Tiger Woods Wife. "For years now, whenever a major golf event that features Tiger Woods takes place, inevitably there will be thousands upon thousands of Internet searches for his beautiful wife, Elin Nordegren," explains Christopher Costigan, Publisher of Gambling911.com. One of many pages on the site mentioning Ms. Nordegren, received over 10,000 unique visits in just a 12 hour period.
Elin and her twin
sister Josefin had
been working as
nannies for Swedish
golfer Jesper
Parnevik when he
introduced her to
Woods during the
2001 British Open.
In November 2003,
Tiger and Elin
attended the
Presidents Cup
tournament in South
Africa and became
officially engaged
when Tiger proposed
at the luxury
Shamwari Game
Reserve. On October
5, 2004, Tiger and
Elin were married by
the 19th hole of an
exclusive golf
resort in Barbados.
The ceremony
reportedly cost over
$1.5 million.
Privacy was achieved
by buying out the
island's sole
helicopter charter
company and by
booking the entire
hotel - 200 rooms
ranging in price
from $700 to $8,000
per night. Controversy erupted last year when an Irish magazine published nude photos claiming to be of Mrs. Woods, when in fact they were photos of an Elin lookalike, Kim Hiott.
The Dubliner issued
an apology for the
story, saying that
they had printed the
photos as a "satire
of tabloid
publishing."
Geoff Ogilvy Promising Big Payout for Gamblers
Posted Mar 20th 2008
9:48 pm by Alistair
Prescott Australia's Geoff Ogilvy and Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez shared the lead on 65 with American Stewart Cink on 66 after the first day of the 2008 World Golf Championships CA Championship. Ogilvy, as we pointed out yesterday, was listed with 11 to 1 odds to win the Championship at Find betting odds here
Ogilvy, who had a
bogey-free round,
birdied the first
four odd-numbered
holes and added
another at the
eighth to stand
five-under at the
turn, then added
another at the 12th
and conquered the
18th for a final
birdie. Australian bookmakers, including Sportingbet, which does maintain a strong presence in that country, stood to get hurt bad by bets placed on Ogilvy. The good news for Aussie bookies: There were still three days to go and plenty of time for Geoff Ogilvy to fall back; Tiger is right there breathing down everyone else's back; and a lot of the betting down under went on Adam Scott, who was actually the Australian favorite with 10 to 1 odds. Ogilvy, if he were to win, would pay out $1100 for every $100 bet early on. Last summer, Irish bookies got hammered when their native son Padraig Harrington, won the British Open with pay out odds that cost the books over $6000 for every $100 wagered. Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy Both Favored to Win 2008 WGC CA Championships Among Australians
Posted Mar 19th 2008
5:32 pm by Alistair
Prescott Tiger Woods may be the big favorite to win this year's WGC CA Championships but who said Tiger Woods had to be entered into the equation. For some, betting on Adam Scott or Goeff Ogilvy offers an excellent opportunity since Sportingbet is allowing bets on which non-American player will win the 2008 WGC CA Championship. Find betting odds here Adam Scott pays out US$1000 for every US$100 bet. Geoff Ogilvy pays out US$1100 for every US$100 bet. They are the third and fourth world favorites, respectively. South Africa's Ernie Els comes in as the 7 to 1 favorite along with Indo-Fijian golf superstar Vijay Singh. To date Adam Scott is one of only three golfers born in the 1980s who have made the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings, the others being Sergio García and Justin Rose, and thus has one of the most promising careers in men's golf. On January 7, 2007, he reached a career high ranking of third with a second place finish at the Mercedes-Benz Championship. Scott has higher aspirations beyond that of just being the best golfer outside of Tiger Woods. He wants to beat him.
"It's a great time
to be playing," Adam
Scott said. "It's
awfully hard to beat
him, but he doesn't
play every week. I
know he's winning
all the time, but he
doesn't win every
week, either."
Ogilvy turned
professional in May
1998 and he won a
European Tour card
at that year's
Qualifying school.
He played on the
European Tour in
1999 and 2000,
finishing 65th in
his first season and
improving to 48th in
his second. He
joined the U.S.
based PGA Tour in
2001, and finished
in the top 100 in
each of his first
five seasons. His
first professional
tournament win came
in 2005 at the PGA
Tour's Chrysler
Classic of Tucson.
In February 2006 he
beat Davis Love III
in the final of the
2006 WGC-Accenture
Match Play
Championship. "Betting without Tiger Woods in the equation is a great thing," commented Gambling911.com Sports reporter, Don Shapiro. "It's always assumed he is going to win, but that assumption does not always pay out since Woods wagering usually requires a much bigger risk initially. With this year's WGC CA Championships, A US$600 bet would be required to win US$500. Some gamblers would argue that's a steal but Woods is never a 'lock' either and last year demonstrated how golfers with much longer odds like Padraig Harrington and Angel Cabrera ended up paying thousands of dollars on a $100 bet." In the case of Cabrera, it was well over $6000 at one point and Harrington proved to be the costliest bet of last year at Paddy Power as first reported by Gambling911.com and only recently confirmed by Ireland's largest betting firm. There are 78 players at this World Golf Championship. Betting on this event can be found here
WGC CA Championships Betting Odds (Non USA Players)
 The WGC CA Championships betting odds were posted for those gamblers living outside the United States by Sportingbet WGC CA Championships was taking place Mar 20th - 23rd. The outright winner odds included Tiger Woods paying out US$5 for every US$6 bet. From there onward all the payouts were pretty hefty including the next big favorite to win, Phil Mickelson, paying US$1400 for every US$100 bet at Sportingbet Then you also had the opportunity to bet on who would win without Tiger Woods in the equation. The payout odds were still good for Mickelson. A US$100 bet would pay US$900!.
Other WGC CA
Championships
betting odds
opportunities
included:
World Golf Championships Betting Odds - 2008
 When
it comes to the
World Golf
Championship betting
odds, Tiger Woods is
a favorite by a
mile, or 1500
points. The
odds makers have
made Tiger a -130
favorite compared to
his next closes
competitor, Phil
Mickelson with +1300
odds. A bet on
Woods would require
a $130 down to win
$100 (and you would
only get the $130
back if Tiger were
to win). A bet
on Phil Mickelson
would pay $1300 for
every $100 bet.
BetOnline.com was also offering World Golf Championship betting odds on who the top American winner would be without Tiger Woods. Here, Michelson suddenly only pays out only $250 for every $100 bet. Henrik Stenson was a much tighter +400 favorite to win among the European players while Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy were duking it out amongst the Australians.
ODDS TO WIN THE WGC
- CA CHAMPIONSHIP
3/20/2008 9:00:00 AM
(WGC CA
CHAMPIONSHIP)
TOP EUROPEAN PLAYER
3/20/2008 9:00:00 AM
(WGC CA
CHAMPIONSHIP) TOP AUSTRALASIAN PLAYER 3/20/2008
9:00:00 AM (WGC CA
CHAMPIONSHIP)
Odds to Win the 2008 European Tour Order of Merit
 The odds to win the 2008 European Order of Merit have been posted by BetOnline.com The European Tour's money list is known as the "Order of Merit". It is calculated in euro, although around half of the events have prize funds which are fixed in other currencies, mainly British Pounds or U.S. Dollars. In these instances the amounts are converted into euro at the exchange rate for the week that the tournament is played. Erne Els and Padraig Harrington are both favored with +800 odds for a payout potential of $800 for every $100 bet.
ODDS TO WIN THE 2008
EUROPEAN ORDER OF
MERIT 3/20/2008
2:00:00 AM (2008
EUROPEAN ORDER OF
MERIT):
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Posted Mar
23rd
2008 6:50 pm by
Gambling911.com News
Wire
Posted Mar
20th
2008 11:35 pm by
Tyrone Black
"It's truly amazing.
We really don't know
who is more popular,
Tiger Woods or his
wife."