Tiger Woods is the $10 favourite with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au to take out this year’s British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
Woods heads the market from a the best of Britain and Ireland, including Lee Westwood at $17 and Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald and Padraig Harrington at $19 each.
“Tiger hasn’t finished in the top 10 at the Open since last winning in 2006, but he’s won three US PGA events this year and goes in as the man to beat,” sportsbet.com.au’s Haydn Lane said.
Adam Scott is $36 to win the tournament, and is favoured at $2.75 to be the leading Australian at the Open, ahead of Geoff Ogilvy and John Senden at $6.50 each.
Sportsbet.com.au has refunded all bets on Jason Day after the World Number 21 decided to withdraw from the tournament following the birth of his first child, Dash.
Sportsbet.com.au are paying six places for each way bets at ¼ odds.
Markets courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
2012 British Open
$10 Tiger Woods
$17 Lee Westwood
$19 Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington
$29 Justin Rose
$34 Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell
$36 Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott
$41 Ian Poulter, Ernie Els, Hunter Mahan, Rickie Fowler, Jason Dufner, Francesco Molinari
$46 Louis Oosthuizen
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$126 John Senden, Geoff Ogilvy
$176 Aaron Baddeley, Marc Leishman
$201 Robert Allenby
Others quoted
Top Australian
$2.75 Adam Scott
$6.50 Geoff Ogilvy, John Senden
$9.00 Aaron Baddeley
$11 Robert Allenby
$12 Marc Leishman, Marcus Fraser
$13 Greg Chalmers
$26 Brendan Jones
$29 Brad Kennedy
$41 Nicholas Cullen
$51 Aaron Townsend, Ashley Hall
Big Guns vs The Field
$1.35 The Field
$3.03 Big Guns (Rose, Westwood, Donald, Harrington, McIlroy, Woods)