Experts in Sports and Gambling
The Miami Dolphins spent a lot of money to improve their defense and, going into Thursday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team hasn’t seen any kind of return on their investment. The team is 0-2 to start the season, losing their opener to New England, and again last week […]
After the treacherous conditions (par wise) for PGA Tour golfers at the US Open last week, participants head to paradise this week. The Puntacana Resort & Club Championship will take place this week at Corales Golf Club in the Dominican Republic. The course is long, a Par 72 playing at […]
The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship is usually played opposite of a World Golf Championship event in March, so it’s used to not getting a quality field. Being the week after the US Open, however, has prevented any star players from showing up. Mackenzie Hughes completed the 2019-2020 season […]
With Bryson DeChambeau dominating the final round of the US Open, partly because of long drives, his victory came with an immediate debate. Was DeChambeau’s length off the tee an unfair advantage? Should gamblers now back bombers in every major championship? DeChambeau, who was fetching 28/1 odds to win before […]
We finally get our second major of the golf season with the US Open taking place at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York, this week. Opens tend to be tough, but Winged Foot amps up the difficulty, making par quite the challenge for even the world’s best golfers. For our […]
The US Open begins Thursday at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, and the odds have dropped again for favorite Dustin Johnson. The winner of the FedEx Cup saw his odds at DraftKings go from 9/1 10 days ago to 13/2 after winning the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour […]
An unidentified gambler is apparently a huge Phil Mickelson fan, making a $45,000 bet on Lefty to win the US Open. The wager was made Thursday at a William Hill facility in Las Vegas and, if Mickelson is victorious, would net the ticket holder $3.375 million. Nick Bogdanovich, William Hill […]
The PGA Tour Champions picks up after a two-week break with the Sanford International at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Friday. The tournament will be unique in that it will be the first PGA Tour event with fans in the galleries. Having crowds, even if they’re […]
The 2020-21 PGA Tour season officially begins this week at the Safeway Open held at Silverado Resort and Spa North in Napa, California. The course plays at 7,203 yards, making it one of the shortest par 72s on the tour. Most of the game’s biggest names will sit out this […]
Women’s golf doesn’t get a lot of attention from either gamblers or sportsbooks, and I might have found a hidden gem in Austin Ernst at this week’s ANA Inspiration. That’s why with this week’s One Bet, $100, I’m employing a split bet on the American golfer. I am going to […]
Most of the golfers who are playing in this week’s Safeway Open had a nice little break, since all but Joel Dahmen, Brandon Steele, and Kevin Streelman didn’t make the BMW Championship two weeks ago. Those three failed to advance to last week’s Tour Championship, so everyone entered in the […]
The LPGA is hosting its second major championship of the season with the ANA Inspiration, which begins Thursday at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. The defending champion is Jin Young Ko, but the major winner won’t be in the Southern California desert to defend her title. Ko […]
For the first time since golf returned from postponing its season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be fans in attendance at a PGA Tour event. It won’t be on the main stage of professional golf, however. Golf fans will be in allowed at the PGA Tour Champions event. […]
The premise of this column is to take $100 and make one bet, but for the Tour Championship, I’m mixing things up and trying something new. Desperate times call for drastic measures. That’s why with this week’s One Bet, $100, I’m making four $25 bets on who I think will […]
The Tour Championship provides two betting options for gamblers this week in the PGA Tour’s season-ending event. The FedEx Cup Playoffs uses a points system throughout the year, and the leader is awarded a large advantage going into the Tour Championship. Dustin Johnson comes into the tournament, which begins Friday […]
The remaining two PGA Tour Asian tournaments learned their fates on Tuesday, with the Zozo Championship coming to California, and the HSBC Champions being canceled. Those two events, along with the CJ Cup, made up an early part of the 2020-2021 schedule. Ty Votaw, PGA Tour executive vice president of […]
Dustin Johnson nearly won again last week, and now he’ll try to top the leaderboard again at the Tour Championship. We have precious few selections this week, with just the top 30 players in the field at East Lake Golf Club, a par 70 playing at 7,385 yards. Johnson will […]
With the odds on Tour Championship favorites Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm so low as to provide negligible returns, prop bets might be a better option for gamblers looking to wager on the season-ending event. There are several Tour Championship prop bets at this week’s event at East Lake Golf […]
It was another disappointing finish in the FedEx Cup Playoffs for Tiger Woods, as the golfer will miss the Tour Championship for the second consecutive year. Woods needed to finish in the top 5 to move onto East Lake for next week’s Tour Championship. He was listed before the tournament […]
There wasn’t much suspense to it, but Phil Mickelson provided plenty of flair in his first victory on the PGA Tour Champions, Wednesday. Mickelson made his debut on the senior circuit and won the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National wire-to-wire, finishing four shots better than Tim Petrovic. Mickelson becomes […]
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