Golf Betting Blog: Rose Rules the Roost

This week's golf betting blog by serial bloggers DownThe18th

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Golf Betting Blog: Rose Rules the Roost

Blimey, isn’t everything just heating up at the moment?! We can’t remember the last time so many ‘top’ players were ruling the roost on a regular basis.

Justin Rose throwing his fist pump into the air at the Zurich Classic on Sunday felt like a gentle reminder to the golfing world that he is not going to let Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy take control just yet.

At 10/1 pre-tournament, he was obviously one of the favourites, but it still takes a brave gambler to punt on such low odds (probably on the nose as well!), so kudos to those of you that did.

Not everything went the Englishman’s way though. With a horrendous storm disrupting the whole of Saturday, it was a jam-packed leaderboard going into a 2-round final day.

So many punters would have been on the edge of their seats with many outsiders in the hunt for some returns.

Chesson Hadley (100/1) fluctuated in and out of a place, whilst Blayne Barber (200/1) backers will have been left incredible frustrated after the young American only managed a 70 on Sunday afternoon.

The big move was made by Jim Herman (250/1) who started his last round early and shot up 10 places to grab a tie for fourth. Golf Monthly also added to their ridiculous lead with Cameron Tringale at 45/1, but in some ways could feel aggrieved it wasn’t more.

For us, our main challenger was Daniel Berger at 66/1, who came so close to grabbing a place. He only managed par at the par 5 18th which would have been the difference… When your luck is out, it really is out.

Over in Europe, well China to be exact, it was a native lad that stole the show. Ashun Wu (200/1) became the first Chinese winner on home soil hanging on by a single stroke.

Even more impressive due to the fact three of his closest challengers could definitely be considered amongst the pre-tournament favourites. David Howell at 40/1, Emiliano Grillo at 25/1 and Alexander Levy at 16s.

Both us and Golf Monthly were left disappointed after our main bet Peter Uihlein shot a horrendous 76 on Saturday to drop out of contention… As we said, luck isn’t on our side at the moment.

We can prove that by the current standings:

Golf Monthly

European Tour £-63.75

PGA Tour £58.75

Total £-5

DownThe18th

European Tour £-48.70

PGA Tour £-79.38

Total £-128.08

Golf Monthly leads by £123.08

 

Thomas Patrick Clarke
Sports Digital Editor


Tom Clarke joined Golf Monthly as a sub editor in 2009 being promoted to content editor in 2012 and then senior content editor in 2014, before becoming Sports Digital Editor for the Sport Vertical within Future in 2022. Tom currently looks after all the digital products that Golf Monthly produce including Strategy and Content Planning for the website and social media - Tom also assists the Cycling, Football, Rugby and Marine titles at Future. Tom plays off 16 and lists Augusta National (name drop), Old Head and Le Touessrok as the favourite courses he has played. Tom is an avid viewer of all golf content with a particularly in depth knowledge of the pro tour.