Golf Betting Guide 2024

This type of golf bet is as simple as the name—Bet on the outright winner of the golf match.

Betting on the outright winner is the simplest way to take part in golf betting games online. All you need to do in order to receive a payout is to predict who’s going to take the event. As you’d expect, online sportsbooks are well aware of the fact that not every player has the same chances of claiming the championship trophy. Consequently, each player is assigned different golf betting odds, which reflect their skill level/current rankings and give you some idea of what the potential returns on your investment might be.

Bet on the winner of match-ups throughout the entire event, and win if your golfer has the lowest score in his pairing.

Two and three-ball bets are more manageable than going for the outright winner, as you need to guess who will win individual matchups throughout each round of the event. In order for the bet to be successful, your golfer is required to have the lowest score in his pairing or group in a single round.

However, most sportsbooks will require the golfers to complete three holes or more for the relevant wagers to stand. Two and three ball betting is often picked over betting the outright winner by bettors who like to minimize the variance and risk. Making the right prediction with this type of bet is considerably easier, but the payouts are significantly smaller than outright tournament betting.

Top three golf betting games are very similar to putting your money on the outright winner. However, in this case, you are wagering whether the golfer will manage to place in the first three of a tournament or not. As you’d expect, the golf betting odds offered on bets of this kind are somewhat lower. As a result, you should always compare the prices between the two in order to get the best odds and return on your investment.

Parlay your bets – Place multiple bets on golf, on a single ticket.

Parlay wagers are no different from the combination bets offered in football or basketball. Basically, a parlay allows you to put multiple bets on a single ticket. However, there is a catch here, as all selection has to be covered in order for your parlay to payout. Consequently, if one of your predictions on a four-selection parlay is wrong, and the remaining three are right, you still won’t receive anything. The more selections you include, the higher the potential return on your real money sports betting investment will be.

Betting on golf futures requires you to predict the outcome of a specific event well in advance, rather than individual weekend bets. This means that the odds offered on wagers of this kind tend to be very high. For example, most sportsbooks allow you to bet on who will win the Ryder Cup or who will place on top of the PGA Tour Money List, well before the events begin.

In the end, the specifics vary according to the sportsbook so you should keep that in mind when making your deposit if you’re interested in making this kind of long-term commitment. It also pays to check out the safest online sportsbooks, so you can trust your money isn’t going anywhere.

Bet on different factors of the golf match, besides the final score. Think of these bets as something you can have a bit more fun with, things like if players will wear a certain colour or use a specific type of club.

Bet on players from specific regions or countries in the odds to win the match.

A nationality bet is a wager on a player from a specific country or region to win the tournament outright, or that a certain player will finish first from their country or region.

For example, you could bet on Louis Oosthuizen being the top South African player in the Masters. If he beats all other South African players, your bet would cash. You could also bet on how many players from the United States finish in the top 10. These types of bets vary between sportsbooks.

For those new to professional golf tournaments, they are made up of four rounds of 18 holes. Most tournaments have four rounds, usually played over four days (Thursday – Sunday, barring inclement weather). This allows for 72 holes of play.

In a first-round leader bet, you are placing a bet on the person that will have the lowest score of all the players after 18 holes of play. This is usually quite a hard bet to cash, and as such, you’ll get some great golf betting odds. The drawback is tournaments usually start off with about 150 players and an unknown player can simply catch fire tear it up the first day.

A versus the field bet will come along once a tournament has started and a player is breaking away from the pack. The bet here is whether anyone can catch the leader, so you’re betting on anyone else other than the leader to go all the way

Sportsbooks often hold this bet until the morning of the final round and it is also a popular and frequent choice for live betting when the tournament gets down to its final holes.

• 2022 Masters Champion: Scottie Scheffler (-10)
• Location: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia

The Masters remains the most elite and exclusive, invite-only major of the golf season. The tournament is played annually on arguably the most iconic course in all of golf, the beautiful landscape of Augusta National Golf Club and will return April 3-9, 2023. In 2021, Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese player to win a major championship with a one-shot victory over Will Zalatoris. In 2022, Scottie Scheffler won the first major of his professional career at 10-under par.

• 2022 PGA Champion: Justin Thomas (-5, playoff)
• 2023 Location: Oak Hill – East Course – Rochester, New York

Organized by the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, the PGA Championship is played at a different venue each year. The tournament used to close out the majors and was played in August, but since 2019, the event has been held in May. Of course, the PGA Championship went back to August in 2020 as it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, it was played at Kiawah Island and was won by Phil Mickelson, who at 50 years old, became the oldest man to win a major championship. Justin Thomas defeated Will Zalatoris in a three-hole playoff in 2022. The tournament will return to Oak Hill Country Club in 2023, the 105th edition of the PGA Championship.

• 2022 US Open Champion: Matt Fitzpatrick (-6)
• 2023 Location: Los Angeles Country Club (North Course), Los Angeles, California.

Matt Fitzpatrick’s first PGA Tour win came at the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in in Brookline, Massachusetts. He will look to defend his title in 2023 at Los Angeles C.C. North Course. This is the first time a PGA major tournament will be held at this course.

• 2022 Champion Golfer: Cameron Smith (-20)
• 2023 Location: Royal Liverpool Golf Course

Despite being the oldest golf tournament in the world, The Open remains one of the most prestigious. Named because it is (at least, in theory) ‘open’ to all, the championship is the final major tournament of the year and is always played at one of the coastal links golf courses in the United Kingdom. The Open was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia’s Cameron Smith rallied to shoot a fourth round 64 and win the 2022 British Open at 20-under par.