The most successful golf tournaments for betting
Summary
If you’re a huge golf fan and are looking to start backing your favourite players via sports betting with sites like Caesars Casino & Sportsbook, it helps to do a little investigation into which are the best golf tournaments to bet on. Don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Today, we’re running through the most successful golf tournaments from a betting perspective…
The PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is one of the best series to bet on. Held predominantly in the USA, but with the occasional jaunt to South America and Asia, this competition sees the USAs best players come up against the cream of the crop from across the globe. This is a tournament that all the top talent congregates to for two important reasons. One – the significant prize money, and two, because this is where they can seize the highest world ranking points. As you can see, there’s all to play for in the PGA Tour, and that makes for an exciting tournament for everyone involved.
The PGA tour action culminates in the coveted Fed-Ex Cup – a four-event extravaganza. The first hosts the top 125 players from each year’s US Money winners list. The second sees the playing field cut to 100, and the third sees it cut to 70. The final event is the Tour Championship, when 30 players compete to take home the Fed-Ex Cup. The winner of this trophy automatically becomes the highest-earner of that year’s PGA Season.
The European Tour
The other primary event for golf fans to bet on is the European Tour, which is played across Europe, Southern Africa and Asia. This is a truly international event, with fixtures played in a series of exciting and exotic destinations. For example, back in 2016 the 45 events of the European Tour were played across an incredible 26 countries!
The finale of the European Tour is The Race to Dubai, which sees the top 60 players from the season come together to compete in three events. Unlike the PGA tour, no players are cut at this stage, so even if they perform badly in one event, they still have two more chances to redeem themselves.
The Majors
Once the PGA and European Tours are done and dusted and the winners have been crowned, up come The Majors, where the real magic happens. The Majors, include the Masters – an event held at Augusta in the USA, which is a great opportunity for sports betting as there is a huge quantity of historical course data for you to examine in order to inform your decisions about who to back. Next up is theUS Open– historically the toughest competition of the four. The Open Championship (or British Open as it’s sometimes known), is always played in the UK and is thought to be the most prestigious – in any case, it’s the one that all the players want to win, which ensures competition is fierce! The final major is the USPGA Championship.
As you can see, exciting golf fixtures occur across the year, offering golf fans plenty of opportunities to get in on the action, while admiring the skill of the best players in the world.
Tom Irwin
Tom is a lifetime golfer, now over 30 years playing the game. 2023 marks 10 years in golf publishing and he is still holding down a + handicap at Alwoodley in Leeds. He has played over 600 golf courses, and has been a member of at least four including his first love Louth, in Lincolnshire. Tom likes unbranded clothing, natural fibres, and pencil bags. Seacroft in Lincolnshire is where it starts and ends.