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Following Captain Nick Faldo’s choices for wildcard picks, quotes went up as to the likelihood that Paul Casey will score the most points for the UK Team in the Ryder Cup Tournament; he currently sits at 10/1 odds. The firm also has him at 25/1 chances he’ll win the 5 matches he’s eligible to play in during the September 19-21 competition at Valhalla. Faldo’s other wild card pick, Ian Poulter, has Sky Bet offering 16/1 chances for him to be at the lead for Europe’s top scorer. The favourite in the category- Sergio Garcia- has 9/2 odds to earn the most points for the Europeans. His motivation stands to support the quote as well- as he’ll undoubtedly want to add to his outstanding record of 14-4-2 at Valhalla for stroke play finishes. If successful, the acquisition of the Ryder Cup will be for the 4^th consecutive time for the European team. Sky Bet has them at 20/1 odds that’ll break their record by scoring 19 or more points; they’re 4/6 favourite for the tournament. The outright market has altered a bit with Faldo’s choice to ignore both Darren Clarke and Colin Montgomerie- ending with a general 5/6 for Europe. Sky bet’s quote for the United States is at 7/5 odds to win, with a draw possibility at 12/1 odds.

Colin Montgomerie and Ian Poulter are the choices that Blue Square is hoping make the most likelies to be given a chance for the Ryder Cup, captain’s choice. The two British players make up joint first favourites at 7/4 odds for a hard-to-decipher market. There will be two decisions at hand for punters trying to decide between the pair, the first being which will be more likely to not qualify automatically and then, who would hold greater sway with captain Nick Faldo. Faldo would be more likely to pick out the likes of Sergio Garcia as one of his captain’s picks for the Cup in September (dates 19th -21st) but punters who choose to back the Spaniard would be tough out of luck if he were to make the team outright, not an unlikely event. For now, Garcia is not on the team at all, so Blue Square are keeping him at 3/1 odds as a wildcard for the market. The Cup demands that Faldo’s team for Kentucky be made up of those players who stand in the top five position on the World’s Points list, and then the next top five players on the European Points list who are not already named on Worlds. The team as it stands now is listed as:
        Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington, Henrik Stenson, Robert Karlsson, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Graeme McDowell, Soren Hansen, Oliver Wilson, Martin Kaymer, Justin Rose.
Right now Poulter shows as seventh on the World’s Points list and Montgomerie is at place marker 32. On the European list, they are in spots 12th and 15th respectively. Garcia, contrarily, is in sixth place for the World’s Points list. The rates are as follows for players who will make the captain’s choice for Ryder Cup, according to Blue Square:
        C Montgomerie & I Poulter at 7/4 odds, S Garcia at 3/1 odds, J Rose & P Casey at 7/2 odds, M Kaymer & R Fisher at 4/1 odds, S Hansen & O Wilson at 6/1 odds, L Donald at 7/1 odds, D Clarke at 12/1 odds, S Kjeldsen at 14/1 odds, N Fasth & N Doherty at 20/1 odds, C Pettersson, S Dyson, B Dredge & JM Olazabal at 33/1 odds, F Jacobsen, D Howell, T Levet & P McGinley at 40/1 odds, and S Khan and R McIlroy bottoming it out with 50/1 odds. The market will be chosen by those picked by Nick Faldo for the Ryder Cup. Any individual player not chosen will be instead seen as loser for the terms of this bet.
 

According to William Hill, most of the money that is being bet on the US PGA Championship this week is backing Lee Westwood, of Great Britain. With Tiger Woods being absent from the Championship, the betting for the event has been at a low, and many of the bets that are coming in are gravitating towards the runner up for last week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. A spokesperson for William Hill, clarified: “The PGA is always the quietest of the four Majors but with the notable exception of Lee Westwood, this year has been particularly slow.” For the Oakland Hills meeting this weekend, 35-year old Lee Westwood is currently one of the fourth joint favourites to win. Those interested in getting in on the tournament bets can find 25/1 odds at Sportingbet; or you can bet the same price at Stan James for Sergio Garcia. The Favourite is Phil Mickelson, with 11/1 odds at VC Bet, being trailed by Padraig Harrington with Bet 365 offering 20/1 odds for a win. Vijay Singh is coming in as third favourite, with odds at 22/1 at VC Bet. For those punters who prefer match bets, Westwood is at 6/4 odds to win against Geoff Ogilvy and Zach Johnson, at VC Bet. Sportingbet is offering 5/2 chances that Ogilvy will do better than Johnson and Westwood, and Stan James has Johnson winning the matchup at 15/8 odds.

Coming into the Final Round of Inteco’s Russian Open leaves England’s Jamie Moul with no better than 4/1 odds with Sky Bet. As this is only his second European Tour event, the former world amateur Number1 did very well at the Le Meridien Moscow Country Club, scoring three birdies on the last three holes, and scoring the lowest score of the day- a 64. The 23 year old just turned professional after playing the Walker Cup last September, earned himself 5 birdies on the front nine, and was looking to lead through the competition, save only for Sweden’s Mikael Lundberg- who dropped his third shot into a par-5, earning himself an eagle. Lundberg won the contest in 2005, scoring 17 under par with a 68, followed closely (only one point off) by competitor Moul, then England’s Benn Barham and South African Michiel Bothma with 14 under par both. Currently, Lundberg is at the lead of a rich market with 11/10 odds, for both Stan James and Coral. Barham has 12/1 odds with Sky Bet, and Bothma is on offer at 20’s.

As the Canadian Open creeps closer, Eric Axley and Chez Reavie are open competitors for the favourite. Despite the close calls, Reavie made clear his strengths when he rose into first place with a 7-under par score 64 points in the second round, getting his overall score to 13-under and a two point lead over Axley. Eric Axley had one hole left to play when the game was called for the day. Sky Bet can’t call a favourite- and so have each of them priced at 4/1 to Win. The next in the running is Mike Weir, who is 12/1 odds to win, and was tied to win after the first round but who remained at even par for the 16 holes in his second round, and ended up 6-under overall after his double bogey at the ninth hole.

The Russian Open in Moscow will see whether Swedish team Jarmo Sandelin or Mikael Lundberg will end up on top. The two share the half-way lead after they’ve tied with scores of 64 each in round two, 13-under par. Both now share 5/1 odds to win the tournament according to Bet 365, while Robert Rock of England is only down one point, at 12-under par and is third favourite with 13/2 odds. Jan-Are Larsen has raised to 10/1 odds in fourth place, at 11-under par.

Ladbrokes has made a report to find a correlation between Tiger Woods’ absence from the game, and the effects on sports betting firms. The Sports and Politics PR has said that when Woods isn’t playing golf tournaments, it typically means good news for sports betting companies. According to a rep for the Sports and Politics PR at Ladbrokes, Robin Hutchinson, the sports betting companies do not typically have great or unexpected losses when Tiger is not playing. Mr. Hutchinson also went on to comment on the difference in patriotic bets when it comes to the game of golf: there are not nearly as many bets for loyalty as there are in football, for example. He went on to clarify, “You don't get the same sort of patriotic punt on golf, apart from the Ryder Cup obviously, that you do in other sports.” Tiger Woods’ announcement that he will refrain from playing any more tournaments until after he has completed further surgery on his injured knee. He will miss both the Ryder Cup and the Open Championship, as well as more PGA Tour tournaments.
 

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