By Josh Powell | Betting news It hasn’t been a great weekend for Paddy. His mum’s horse Sole Power got turned over in the Temple Stakes, the Sky plus box failed to record the last Britain’s Got Talent auditions and this morning he found the milk had gone off. Not to mention two punters took […]
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PGA Championship: 6 golfers you’re backing for Wentworth glory
Sean Goff | PGA Championship The European Tour gets a much-needed boost as the world’s top golfers abandon the US Tour en masse for the PGA Championship at Wentworth. Sergio Garcia’s joke that used ’Tiger Woods’ and ‘fried chicken’ in the same sentence has backfired and the Spaniard was forced to apologise early doors. One man […]
12 players who put money back in your pocket at Sawgrass
Golf | Lining your pockets Tiger Woods settled another score at Sawgrass at the weekend putting gobby Sergio Garcia in his place. Spaniard Garcia’s 76 left him outside the top five and, from being in contention to win £1.2 million, he collected under £200,000. But golf punters shut up Paddy Paddy too as 12 players […]
Lawrence Donegan exclusive: The Sawgrass plodders who can leave Tiger legless
By Lawrence Donegan | The Players Championship At this stage in the proceedings it has been fairly well established that Tiger Woods isn’t a monk but, still, it came as the something of a surprise to click on the well-known American celebrity gossip website USmagazine.com (I read it so you don’t have to) and find a report […]
The Players Championship: 6 golfers you’re backing for the 5th Major
Golf’s fifth ‘Major’ tees off at Sawgrass on Thusday and now that Sir Alex Ferguson has decided to put his feet up Paddy Power will make the task of picking the winner that bit easier for him by paying 1/4 the odds the first 6 places. It’s the best line-up since the Masters and a […]
[update] Tiger Woods gets two-shot penalty but no DQ
3pm Update. According to the BBC, Tiger Woods has a two-shot penalty and will not be disqualified. This is based on a recent rule update from the USPGA. One rule for Tiger… We’ve seen some unbelievable shots already at Augusta National in the U.S. Masters… mainly of Dustin Johnson’s girlfriend, Paulina Gretzky. But trust Tiger Woods […]
US Masters Betting: Back Rose to bloom early
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Picking the winner of a Major can be tough. It’s very tough based on the evidence of the history section of my betting account. Finding a player who is going to perform consistently well over the four days of potentially changeable conditions isn’t easy. The ‘Leader after Round […]
U.S. Masters Betting: The good, the bad and the patchy Augusta form
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer There’s something incredibly unique about Augusta National. No, not the lingering whiff of sexism, racial segregation and elitism – that’s still sadly too common around the golf clubs of the world – it’s the fact that it’s the only course that permanently hosts a Major. While the Open, […]
Lawrence Donegan: My 6 value bets to tame the Tiger
Lawrence Donegan | U.S. Masters 2013 Tiger Woods is Paddy Power’s 9-2 favourite to win the Masters, a startling piece of odds-making which suggests (a) the rest might think twice about showing up on Thursday and (b) there is some unbelievable value lurking down the field for those punters prepared to take a closer look […]
Lawrence Donegan exclusive Masters tips: Ian Poulter can lead the Brat Pack against America’s Golf Boys
It’s been billed as America’s Golf Boys v Europe’s Brat Pack. The bible-bashing Yanks of Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan, Rickie Fowler and Ben Crane against the brash European elite of Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Sergio Garcia. Lawrence Donegan tees up the action and narrows down the field to see who’ll be top dog come […]
Crazy golf: 10 reasons why you should love the U.S. Masters
1. Incredible shots like this one from Louis Oosthuizen in 2012 2. And this one from Bubba Watson to win the Masters last year 3. There are loads of mind-blowing stats like this There have been 23 holes in one at the US Masters, with 65 per cent of them coming on the 16th hole Phil […]
Amen Corner: 13 things you need to know about Augusta’s 3 most famous holes
Amen Corner | U.S. Masters 2013 It’s steeped in history so don’t go looking for giggles here. How the players fare at Amen Corner could decide the Masters. All the final-day contenders will want to get through 11 and 12 with their score intact before letting loose on the par 5 13th. But you miss […]
Lawrence Donegan exclusive: My 10 Commandments of the U.S. Masters
By Lawrence Donegan | U.S. Masters 2013 Augusta, Georgia, birthplace of the Reverend James Brown – the Godfather of Soul – and home of the holiest tournament in American golf. If you’re a player or a spectator heading to the deep South this week for the first major of the golfing season- or even just […]
U.S. Masters tips: 6 golfers that have been backed off the boards
By Josh Powell | U.S. Masters 2013 The US Masters is the first golf Major of the year and Paddy Power is pulling out all of the stops by paying 1/4 the odds on the first six. The favourite Tiger Woods has rediscovered his best form after becoming ‘Facebook official’ with skier Lindsey Vonn while world number […]
[video] Is that a tree iron? Sergio Garcia sends crowd ape with golf shot from a tree
All eyes were on Tiger Woods but Sergio Garcia is still the coolest swinger in town. On Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational he climbed 15 feet into an oak tree and played a one-handed shot back out to the fairway. Garcia still double-bogeyed on the hole and withdrew during the rain delay. Still, hat-tip […]
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