{"id":5228,"date":"2009-08-10T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/2009-pga-championship-odds-tiger-woods-is-32\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:43:00","slug":"2009-pga-championship-odds-tiger-woods-is-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/2009-pga-championship-odds-tiger-woods-is-32\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 PGA Championship Odds: Tiger Woods is 3\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles\">MLB free picks<\/a> is the most immediate concern of sports bettors, betting on golf odds is second only to <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> betting as the fastest growing form of sports wagering. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As long as Tiger Woods is entered, the only question about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoresoddspicks.com\/\">Vegas betting odds<\/a> of a golf tournament is how much would is the favorite by. The betting line for the 2009 <span class=SpellE>USPGA<\/span> Championship sees Woods at 3\/2. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>After winning the Bridgestone Invitational by five shots, Woods has now won 22 of his last 40 starts going back to the 2006 British Open. &#8220;That&#8217;s the equivalent of a baseball player hitting .500\u2014not .400 mind you\u2014but .500 for an entire season,&#8221; say <span class=SpellE>KJR<\/span> in <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>&#8216;s morning host Mitch Levy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Overall, it&#8217;s the 70<sup>th<\/sup> Tour event victory by Woods. Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington <span class=GramE>are<\/span> a distant second\u2014and distant is an understatement\u2014at 20\/1 each. Lee Westwood is 28\/1 followed by a cluster at 33\/1: Hunter Mahan, <span class=SpellE>Retief<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Goosen<\/span>, Steve <span class=SpellE>Stricker<\/span>, and Sergio Garcia. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>&#8220;Woods is one of the mentally toughest athletes in history and all the stars are aligned for a victory here,&#8221; says Brian <span class=SpellE>Kayma<\/span> master of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/\">scores and odds<\/a> website Lines-Maker.com. He adds, &#8220;Woods is in a nice groove winning the Buick Open and at Firestone Country Club in successive weeks. Plus after the disaster at <span class=SpellE>Turnberry<\/span>, he will be on a personal mission,&#8221; concludes <span class=SpellE>Kayma<\/span>. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Woods miraculously missed the cut at the British Open at <span class=SpellE>Turnberry<\/span> in the last golf major. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>For more information: <\/span><\/font><\/b>Get the live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=111\">odds for the <span class=SpellE>PGA<\/span> Championship<\/a> at <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>&#8216;s <span class=SpellE>Hazeltine<\/span> National, updated after each round. 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As long as Tiger Woods is entered, the only question about the Vegas betting odds of a golf tournament is how much would is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/2009-pga-championship-odds-tiger-woods-is-32\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2009 PGA Championship Odds: Tiger Woods is 3\/2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}