{"id":1279,"date":"2025-01-04T17:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:11:36","slug":"golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Bettors Risk Big Wagers for Small Returns, as PGA Tour Season Tees Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Inhaltsverzeichnis<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off\/#Big_Bets_Small_Return\" title=\"Big Bets, Small Return\u00a0\">Big Bets, Small Return\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off\/#Traditional_Golf_Odds_Outlook\" title=\"Traditional Golf Odds Outlook\">Traditional Golf Odds Outlook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 2025 PGA Tour season formally teed off yesterday in Kapalua with The Sentry, a $20M purse for a field consisting only of winners last year and those who qualified for the season-ending Tour Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340306\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-340306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-858x572.jpg\" alt=\"golf bettors odds sportsbooks PGA Tour\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-858x572.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-430x287.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-302x200.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-238x158.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280-194x128.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1735910642280.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Will Zalatoris putts during the first round of The Sentry PGA Tour golf tournament on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, in Kapalua, Hawaii. A bettor risked $9,900 on Zalatoris not winning, though he stands in second after firing an opening round 65. (Image: <em>PGA Tour<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new year marks a new trend in how many golf bettors \u2014 especially those with big pockets \u2014 gamble on the sport. Since legal sports betting expanded after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law in May 2018, golf has been a high-performing sport for oddsmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since most PGA Tour stops typically include 132, 144, or 156 players \u2014 this week being an exception with only 59 contestants \u2014 bettors picking a pre-tournament player to win outright is a rather daunting task. While many golf bettors place small wagers, say $1 to $10 on a tournament outright, those losses have added up for sportsbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even when a golf bettor does overcome the long odds, their payouts usually aren\u2019t life-changing or worthy of media coverage. For instance, a $10 pre-tournament bet this week on Justin Thomas at 10\/1 odds would net just $100. Even on a longshot like Max Greyserman, who has never won on Tour, a $10 bet at 40\/1 would net only $400.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Big_Bets_Small_Return\"><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Big Bets, Small Return<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some golf bettors have seemingly had enough of making small bets in slim hopes of marginal returns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/golfweeks-top-50-casino-golf-course-list-dominated-by-tribes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golf fans<\/a> with a stomach for risking much money are doing the opposite in hopes of better improving their odds of beating the book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Along with offering golf outright odds, top 10, top 25, and made cuts, certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/draftkings-accidentally-emails-bettors-about-golf-bets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sportsbooks<\/a> and wagering exchanges offer bets on whether a player will miss the weekend, shoot a high score, and not win the tournament. The latter has become a popular bet, but with long odds, bettors must risk large amounts to make a worthy return.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For this week in Hawaii, <i>Sporttrade\u2019s <\/i>\u201cWhale Tracker,\u201d which monitors bets over $3K, reports a slew of costly wagers were made before Thursday\u2019s first round on players <i>not <\/i>to win. They include a $9,325 bet on Collin Morikawa to net $568, $9,500 on Patrick Cantlay to net $490, and $9,791 on Nick Dunlap to net $106.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Morikawa is T4 after a first-round score of 66. The Cantlay and Dunlap bets look good after first rounds of +1 and +3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A scarier bet after 18 holes of play is a $9,900 wager on Will Zalatoris not winning that would net just $98. Zalatoris is tied for second after an opening round of 65.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Traditional_Golf_Odds_Outlook\"><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Traditional Golf Odds Outlook<\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">World No. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/the-open-championship-odds-favor-world-no-1-scottie-scheffler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> injured his hand while prepping Christmas dinner and will be outside the ropes for \u201cthree to four weeks.\u201d He expects to be \u201c100%\u201d upon his return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Following one of the most historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-sports-bettor-claims-william-hill-screwed-him-out-of-40k-pga-bet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> seasons where the 28-year-old won seven times, including the Masters, Players Championship, Memorial, and Tour Championship, Scheffler is the betting favorite for all four majors this year. FanDuel has Scottie at +410 for the Masters, +490 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pga-championship-first-major-score-sports-betting-partnership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Championship<\/a>, +410 for the U.S. Open, and +430 for The Open Championship.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McIlroy is next in all four majors ranging between +850 to +1000 in each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golf Bettors Risk Big Wagers for Small Returns, as PGA Tour Season Tees Off<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 PGA Tour season formally teed off yesterday in Kapalua with The Sentry, a $20M purse for a field consisting only of winners last year and those who qualified for the season-ending Tour Championship. Will Zalatoris putts during the first round of The Sentry PGA Tour golf tournament on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, in <a href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/golf-bettors-risk-big-wagers-for-small-returns-as-pga-tour-season-tees-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}