Around the world, golf is one of the most popular summer sports to bet on. At most gambling websites on the internet, there is plenty of action offered for PGA, EPGA and LPGA golf tournaments. Huge cash payouts for the four Majors (Masters, US Open, British Open, and PGA Championship) and end-of-season #1 player in the world can also be found along with tons of prop bets at Bet365.

For serious handicappers, the trick is to find value and the best prices. Since it’s tough to pick tournament winners, gaming sites have come up with several other ways to bet on golf – bets that are easier to win.

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How to Bet on PGA, EPGA & EPGA

For casual bettors, one of the fun things about betting on golf is that there are a lot of betting options. Whether you want to bet on a particular golfer to win an entire tournament or to win a match-up bet against another player, these and other types of bets can be found at most bookmakers. There are benefits and negatives for every type of golf wager, so here’s some information that will hopefully help you to become more profitable. First, lets start with the basic betting options.

Types of Golf Bets

As mentioned above, several types of golf bets can be made. Some are more difficult to win than others, and some offer much better value than others as well.

Wagering on Tournament Winners

Most beginning handicappers like to wager on tournament winners. While this can turn a small wager into a huge profit, these are tough bets to win. Betting on 1-2 players per week can quickly drain a bankroll unless you’re lucky enough to hit.

A lot of people wager on 2-3 golfers per tournament so they have multiple horses in the race. Since tournament favorites generally have odds in the 8/1 to 12/1 range, and other top players are in the 15/1 to 33/1 range, bettors can bet on 3 – 4 players and still make a nice profit.

Matchups

The type of wager that I enjoy the most is the match-up bet between 2 golfers. Quite a few sportsbooks will offer match-up bets with 2 golfers in them for every round of the tournament. You simply need to pick the golfer that you think will shoot the better round and place your wager. Some sportsbooks will also have match-up bets with 3-5 golfers in them and they offer better payouts, but the odds of winning are obviously worse.

Propositions, a.k.a “Props”

A few sportsbooks also offer exotic golf bets, but don’t expect to find these types of bets everywhere. You may be able to find wagers such as whether or not a golfer will make the cut or finish in the top 3-5. Betting on a golfer to win a tournament outright isn’t the easiest task, so if you can find a sportsbook you like that allows you to bet on golfers to finish in 3rd-5th then you’ll have a much higher win rate. I prefer Bet365.com for bets like this. They offer a lot of different types of golf bets, and they’re the best sportsbook on the internet for international bettors. If you already have an account at Bet365 and want to try a fantasy golf betting site, give DraftKings a try as well. They’re another favorite of ours, and a great alternative to your standard sportsbook.

How to Read the Odds

Before placing a bet, the first thing that everyone needs to learn is how to read golf lines (betting odds). If you can’t read the odds then you’re not going to know how much to bet or how much you can potentially win. Below is an example of a match-up bet, but the odds will be displayed the same for every type of golf betting option. These are listed in American odds format. At each sportsbook you’ll also have the option to view odds in decimal or fractional formats.

· Tiger Woods –130 vs. Phil Mickelson +120

In the above example Tiger Woods is favored against Mickelson and you’d need to pay juice when betting on him. A $130 wager on Woods would net you $100 profit whereas a $100 wager on Mickelson would earn you $120.

• Nov. 9, 2020
• By Matt Blunt
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Masters Odds, Picks & Predictions

The Major tournament that was supposed to be the first of 2020 is actually the last one of the year, as golf fans have already seen two first-time Major winners get crowned in this unique year.

Collin Morikawa won the PGA Championship back in August for his 1st Major title, and Bryson DeChambeau joined him in that regard when he won the U.S. Open back in September.

The two of them are both in the select field for this Masters tournament being played in November and Morikawa is part of a group I want no part of this week which is something I'll get to in just a minute.

Elimination Time - 95 to 84

The Masters is always one of the most popular tournaments from a golf betting perspective each year because bettors can go into it knowing there is a big chunk of the field they can basically ignore right off the bat. That group begins with the past champions who are long removed from their regular playing days on Tour, and this year we've got close to 10 golfers that are part of that distinct group.

Bernhard Langer
Fred Couples
Mike Weir
Vijay Singh
Trevor Immelman
Angel Cabrera
Jose Maria Olazabal
Larry Mize
Sandy Lyle

That's nine names you can already cross off from serious consideration in this scheduled 95-man field, leaving 84 names left.

Be weary of First-Timers

After that, when you consider that the last Debutant to win the Masters was Fuzzy Zoeller back in 1979, avoiding the 26-first timers (including the amateurs) in this year's field shrinks that list even further. I won't go through every first-timer in the field this week as you can find the full list here, but it does include some big names to be aware of.

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Morikawa is the one with the best odds in that group, but other young golfers that have burst onto the scene like Matthew Wolff, Scottie Scheffler, Abraham Ancer, SungJae Im, Cameron Champ, Sebastian Munoz, Max Homa, and JT Poston fit that list as well.

More importantly though, a field that's slated to start with 95 entries can now have 35 names stricken from serious consideration from a historical perspective, but including some of the better names on that list like Morikawa, Wolff, or Scheffler is somewhat understandable for bettors who do choose to go that route. I am not one of those though, as it's the other 60 names I'm looking at this week.

Ignore 2019?

Finally, only two of the past nine Masters winners had a Top-10 finish in this tournament the year prior, as Jordan Spieth won in 2015 after finishing runner-up the year prior, and Adam Scott's win in 2013 came after an 8th in 2012.

This is not a be all, end all for me in terms of eliminating possible plays, but when the top of this year's odds board is littered with guys who had a Top 10 at Augusta last year, talking yourself into laying some of those steeper prices on some of those names better come with plenty of other support.

Masters 2019 - Top 10 Results

1) Tiger Woods
2) Dustin Johnson
2) Brooks Koepka
2) Xander Schauffele
5) Jason Day
5) Tony Finau
5) Francesco Molinari
5) Webb Simpson
9) Patrick Cantlay
9) Rickie Fowler
9) Jon Rahm

Oddly enough, in that same nine-year span at Augusta, five of the other seven winners we've had finished somewhere in the 30's the year prior to winning. Tiger's win last year – after finishing 32nd in 2018 – was the third time in the last four years that it's connected as well.

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Not really a need to go too in-depth on the course specifics as Augusta National is known well everywhere.

It's a course where you've got to make your hay on the Par 5's, find a hot putter for all four days, make sure your approach game is dialed in from the outset, and scramble to make those critical pars when they pop up during a round. A lot to ask for I know, but it's still a great test of pure ball striking, even if it generally favors guys who know how to control and trust a draw (for righties).

It's why left-handers have had plenty of success over the years here as it favors their fade and hitting a fade is always going to be easier to control.

• Date: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020 to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020
• Venue: Augusta National Golf Club
• Location: Augusta, Georgia
• Par-Yardage: 72, 7,475 yards
• TV: ESPN, CBS
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Masters
Betting Odds

As is the case with all Major fields, this year's Masters is loaded with the best of the best at the top, but it's Bryson DeChambeau (+800) leading the way.

• Bryson Dechambeau: +800
• Dustin Johnson: +900
• Jon Rahm: +1000
• Rory McIlroy: +1300
• Justin Thomas: +1400
• Xander Schauffele: +1500
• Brooks Koepka: +1800
• (Odds Subject to Change)

Others priced below the +2000 threshold include Jon Rahm (+900), Dustin Johnson (+1000), Rory McIlroy (+1200), Justin Thomas (+1200), Xander Schauffele (+1400), and Brooks Koepka (+1600). It's hard to poke holes in the games of any of those guys, especially in the specific cases of Johnson and Koepka after they played very well in Houston this past week.

McIlroy is looking forward to the first of his two chances in the next six months at collecting the Career Grand Slam – he only needs a Masters win – and last year's 21st place finish here was the first time since the 2013 Masters that he finished outside of the Top 10.

I've already noted how that may actually benefit McIlroy this week, but I'm sure limited/no galleries are a plus as well. McIlroy is fully aware of what's at stake here and probably would prefer not to feel all that extra pressure in the air or continually hear about it from boozed up patrons.

McIlroy is the one name in that list I am very interested in adding to my card via live betting should he look like he'll have a chance, but the official plays begin a bit further down the board for me.

Remember, with how talented and small this field is, chances are it's bunched up until the end, so waiting until the weekend to zero in on guys is never a horrible option either (as is the case every week on the PGA Tour).

But let's get right to the selections:

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Top Picks and Predictions

Contender to Back
Masters

Webb Simpson +2800

Webb Simpson did have a Top 10 finish here last year (5th) which is a negative in regards to the history I outlined earlier, but he's one of the most consistent guys from Tee-to-Green out on Tour right now.

The knock of a lack of length is only relative to some of the bombers the Tour has right now, as Simpson is plenty long, and more importantly plenty accurate. He's been one of the best second shot golfers in the world for the past few seasons, and he's also figured out his putting stroke as well.

In three starts, beginning with the US Open back in September, Simpson's always gained strokes on the field on the greens, and his scrambling and SG: Total numbers have been very good as well. Oddly enough, he's hit a bit of a snag with his approach shots, and yet his worst finish in any of those three starts was T-17.

Length is always great to have at Augusta, but if you aren't controlling your golf ball at the same time, the expected results just won't be there. Having complete control of his golf ball is never really a serious concern when holding a ticket on Simpson.

At this price, a play on Simpson is much more attractive to me from a pre-tournament standpoint than the only other two guys ahead of him in the odds I've seriously considered putting in this “favorite” spot – McIlroy and Justin Thomas at +1200 respectively – as having a pre-tournament ticket on Simpson tends to work out more often than in terms or potential hedging opportunities with him always in contention. With four Top 30 finishes in his last five starts at Augusta, expecting Simpson to be in contention isn't a stretch.

Mid-Range Value
Masters

Jason Day +3300
Hideki Matsuyama +3500

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Couldn't decide between these two names for the next range of players, so I'm including both of them here.

Jason Day is a guy that looked great in Houston until a rough start on Sunday derailed his chances of winning, and that poor start on Sunday may force some who were on him there to back off this week. I prefer to look at the totality of the week for Day, as he was great for 60+ holes this past week, and having strong form coming into the Masters can never be really viewed as a negative.

Day is coming off a Top 10 finish here a year ago which could make this an uphill climb from that earlier historical perspective, but it's also been seven straight years for Day with no finish worse than 28th at Augusta, a run that includes three Top 10's.

Day checked all off the boxes you want to see in terms of current form in all the Strokes Gained categories before that final round in Houston, and for a guy that had been seemingly searching for something in his game, even though the week ended in disappointment, Day's got to be feeling quite good about where his overall game currently sits entering the Masters.

Having that feeling of being in the final group on Sunday was something Day hadn't experienced in awhile, and I think rekindling those memories and feelings is only going to be a positive for him going forward.

Hideki Matsuyama wasn't the complete opposite of Day in Houston, just on Sunday, as he found his game clicking everywhere and nearly came from well far back to get into a playoff for the event. It was great to see him in the positives in every Strokes Gained category for the week, and having finished 32 at the 2019 Masters, he does fall into that recent sweet spot of previous winners finishing in the 30's the year before.

No Japanese golfer has ever won one of the four Majors in golf, but it's long been assumed that Matsuyama has been the guy who's got the best chance to end that run, and at a course he knows, and had four straight Top 20 finishes at prior to last season, I've got no problem adding him to the portfolio this week.

Long Shot Pick
Masters

Kevin Kisner +10000

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Kevin Kisner will be far off the radar for most this week, but if you ever wanted to back a guy mainly on the idea of playing a consistent, controlled draw, he's as good a candidate as any.

His best finish at Augusta in the past four years has been just 21st, but with his most recent six starts on Tour this year consisting of finishes of 14th, 45th, MC, 22nd, 25th, and 4th, I don't think a couple of weeks off to prep to try and win his first career Major would have cooled him off.

But it was his approach game in his last start at the ZOZO Championship that really got me excited about his chances at Augusta, as he gamed 1.66 strokes on the field in the approach game that week, one where it was a loaded field with no cut.

Considering the size of this field already, and the 30+ guys I've already eliminated on tough historical grounds (debutantes and older past champions), the Masters has to feel similar to those no-cut events for a lot of these guys.

Kisner has played giant killer before when he rolled through the WGC Match Play in 2019, and he's threatened at least one Major in each of the last three seasons as he tries to get over that hump.

I think he's got a much better chance to win this thing then at least a handful of guys ahead of them in the odds (Spieth, Mickelson quickly come to mind) and I can't help myself at this price to at least have a nibble on him.

Masters Betting Results 2015-2019 (Odds)

• 2019 - Tiger Woods (14/1)
• 2018 - Patrick Reed (50/1)
• 2017 - Sergio Garcia (30/1)
• 2016 - Danny Willett (50/1)
• 2015 - Jordan Spieth (8/1)

How to Bet on Golf

Golf betting has gained much more exposure and interest in the past few years, and with plenty of plus-money prices littered throughout the various forms of golf wagers, the chance for bigger scores is part of the reason behind that increased popularity.

Sportsbooks ensure that there are no shortage of wagering options on golf tournaments every week, and it isn't all about picking the winner. Grabbing the outright winner of a golf tournament is the best way to get that 'big score' but it's also the hardest wager to cash. After all, a typical professional golf tournament has a field of 140+ different players to consider.

Understanding Golf Odds and Bets

Most golf odds are listed in the fractional format – 10/1 on Dustin Johnson for example – and in that particular case you would multiply the amount bet by that first number to project your winnings. So a $100 bet on DJ to win that particular event would win you $1000.

If you are more comfortable with the American version of odds listings that you typically see across the other major North American sports – ie +1000 – these numbers are easily convertible. Online and app based books may already have that option built in, but the easiest way to do it yourself is to add two zeros to the first number in the fraction. So a 10/1 price on DJ converts to +1000 in that format.