British Open Betting Odds Change With Tiger Woods Missing Cut

Tiger Woods has missed only one major golf tournament cut for as long as he has been a professional. On Friday, this year's British Open became the second. Woods being knocked out of the tournament will severely change the betting odds for the weekend at Turnberry.

Other sports do not even have an equivalent of what happened these past two days. Woods was such an overwhelming betting favorite, that people were afraid to gamble on him because the odds were too over the top.

In football, it would be like the pre-season betting favorite to win the Super Bowl did not even make the playoffs. In college basketball, the equivalent would be a top seeded team in the NCAA tournament losing to the number sixteen seed.

Now it has happened, however, and Woods will be watching the rest of the tournament from the gallery, if he even stays to see the tournament's conclusion. Even more amazing then Woods being out, is who is leading after two rounds.

Tom Watson, who won this tournament five times, most recently in 1983 at this very Turnberry golf course, is tied for the lead at -5. No player over fifty has ever won the British Open. Watson is fifty-nine.

The tournament had a similar story developing last year at this time. Instead of Watson, it was Greg Norman who was making the news with his early tournament performance. Norman went all the way to Sunday with a hot at the championship, but then fell apart.

Watson has a bigger advantage this year. he is being chased by some players that are in the same age bracket as himself, including Mark Calcavecchia. Of course, the player he is tied for the lead with, Steve Marino, is just barely in his twenties.

Play will resume on Saturday, and there will be no Tiger. Another legend, Watson, will be chasing history, while gamblers chase lost bets placed on the best golfer in the game.

July 17, 2009
Posted By Vincent Tapoglia III
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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