The Open Championship is an annual golf
tournament, the oldest of the four major golf tournaments in professional golf,
and the only major one that takes place outside the US. This year’s edition of
the British Open is set to begin on July 18.
It’s been 68 years since the British Open was
held at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland, and the challenging
track should put 156 top-ranked players to test. World #1 Brooks Koepka has won
four major championships since the start of the 2017 season, including a win at
the PGA Championship. Accordingly, he is the top favorite to win the tournament
at 8.00 (888Sport), while the course record-holder Rory Mcllroy is trailing at
9.00. Last year’s winner Francesco Molinari is listed at 21.00, and the
three-time British Open champion Tiger Woods is capped at 13.00.
Brooks Koepka has finished in the top 2 in five of the last six Majors. The only exception was the 2018 British Open when he finished tied for 39th.
The Open Championship is the final PGA major
of the year and will feature an extremely talented field that includes former
champions like Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Hendrik Stenson, Zach
Johnson, and Darren Clarke.
There will be plenty of action during the
tournament, as well as a lot of opportunities for you to bet and make some
serious cash. If you’re having trouble finding a reputable golf betting site
and golf betting odds, visiting ttps://www.onlinesportbetting.ca/golf-predictions-betting-odds/
might give you the answers you were looking for.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at our
expert tips and predictions for the 2019 British Open Championship.
The PGA Championship is here and the top brass in the golfing world are all set to go at it and make history. In the past years, Tiger Woods used to dominate the PGA Championship tournaments. However, a wave of new faces of young golfers has risen to take that spot. In this year’s PGA championship in Quail Hollow things are set to be different as anyone among the top 10 best ranked golfers can win it.
Jordan Spieth
He is currently ranked at the number 1 in the PGA tour, and number 2 best golfer in the world. His statistics have been great this year and he is favored to win the PGA championship. Having come second in 2015 PGA tournament, he might come on top. Since this is the PGA championship which is different from any other tournament in golf, Spieth is the favorite to take the day on this.
Rickie Fowler
He has been doing great at the PGA tour in the last could of years. He has beaten the best in big tournaments like Rory McIlroy. As a professional golfer, Fowler is among the 12 who have averaged at least 71 in scoring for the past 5 years. His PGA tour ranking is among the top five. Read the rest of this entry →
Dustin Johnson will look to bounce back from his PGA ending at the upcoming Ryder Cup.
With golf’s most high-profile event, the Ryder Cup, rapidly approaching and his top player (and world number one) Tiger Woods drastically out of form, the last thing the US team captain Corey Pavin needed was to see one of his stars make a schoolboy error… yet that is exactly what Dustin Johnson did in the recent PGA Championship.
With his high-profile mistake creating yet more negativity for the US team, those who like to place a Ryder Cup Bet may be forgiven for ignoring placing bets on whether the Europeans can regain the trophy and instead turn towards looking at the margin of victory that they will regain the famous trophy by.
In spite of this, Pavin believes that Johnson will recover his spirits in time for the confident European fans to eat their words, suggesting that with so many key players needing captain’s picks to make the European side, the Americans can pull off an unlikely victory. Read the rest of this entry →
At the time of this shot, no one foresaw the controversy that would follow.
With every shot viewed by millions across the world, there is no place for professional golfers to hide when things go wrong during major golf championships. It is a lesson than Dustin Johnson learned for the first time at the U.S. Open in June and then painfully revisited during the 2010 PGA Championship.
For the first three rounds of the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the 26-year-old from Columbia, South Carolina looked like the greatest player in the world. Having twice won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Johnson acted as if a victory in the Open was inevitable. He entered the final round six under par and with a three stroke lead.
However, in front of a worldwide audience, he imploded with an ugly 82 to finish tied for eighth place.
For many golfers, such a disappointing finish in a major championship could have been the catalyst to a free-fall.
However, that didn’t prove to be the case for Johnson. Just weeks later, he finished tied for 14th at the British Open.
Then, in the final major of the year, Johnson stayed in contention throughout the first three days and entered the final round playing in the final group. Read the rest of this entry →
The Sports Then and Now Vintage Athlete of the Month is a former major league baseball player who came into the game as a teenager and stayed until he was in his 40s. In between, Rusty Staub put up a solid career that was primarily spent on expansion or rebuilding teams.
Originally signed by the Colt .45s at age 17, he made his major league debut as a 19-year old rookie and became only the second player in the modern era to play in more than 150 games as a teenager.
Though he hit only .224 splitting time between first base and rightfield, Staub did start building a foundation that would turn him into an All-Star by 1967 when he finished fifth in the league with a .333 batting average.
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