The Wyndham Championship founded in 1938 is a golf tournament held annually in Greensboro, North Carolina. In fact, some may remember this golf tournament as the Greater Greensboro Open. The 2009 Wyndham Championship is familiar to me from a wagering viewpoint with the Canadian Open, as it’s after a Major Championship, so the field is not as loaded with your usual heavy favorites and Top 50 players in the world, but from a betting perspective, it’s where you can make some money, because of the unknown winner who will probably emerge.
The Offshore Sportsbooks and Las Vegas Sportsbook have released their golfing odds for the upcoming event and let’s review where one can find a needle in the haystack.
If you follow the Sportsbooks lines, you would swear this is a 2 horse race between Garcia and Glover. However, if you look back at the Canadian Open, Dufner and Calcavecchia were sticking around the top of the Leaderboard and let’s hope they can rekindle that spark this weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Sergio Garcia is currently listed at +1415 to win the 2009 Wyndham Championship this weekend, which means if you wager $100 on Sergio Garcia and he wins the golf tournament, you will net a $1415 dollar profit.
Aggregate 259 Carl Pettersson (2008)
To-par -23 Jesper Parnevik (1999)
Here are the past winners since 1996.
The Open Championship, otherwise known as the “British Open” will be played in the United Kingdom at Turnberry Golf Course located in South Ayrshire, Scotland is a golf-centered resort on the Atlantic Coast of Scotland. The Open Championship was established in 1860 and this years purse is £4,200,000 euros which is approximately $8.3 million US dollars.
Turnberry is a par 70 golf course and is 7,204 yards in length. The tournament record is -19 set by Tiger Woods in 2000 and the aggregate record after 4 rounds is 267, set by the Shark, Greg Norman in 1993.
The British Sportsbooks have already given the Open Champion trophy otherwise known as the “Claret Jug” to Tiger Woods, as bookmakers have made him a 2 to 1 odds on favorite to win. The next competitor in line to win the Claret Jug is Sergio Garcia at 20 to 1, while Rory McIlroy (20 to 1) Ian Poulter (28 to 1) and Paul Casey (28 to 1) round out the odds.
Here’s the odds on the 138th Open Championship. Bet on your favorite golfer to win the British Open at Bookmaker Sportsbook.