Golf Betting Sites: Top Sportsbooks for PGA Betting

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 online golf betting. 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 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 is 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 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 in golf betting 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 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 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.

• Date: 8th April – 11th April 2021
• 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. Just 96 players are set to take part this year, with returning champion Dustin Johnson (+800) being the favorite to win back-to-back Green Jackets.

Other favorites include 2020 U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau (+1100), Justin Thomas (+1100) and Rory McIlroy (+1400), who has won the three other major championships, but never The Masters.  Sportsbooks also think Jon Rahm (+1200), and Jordan Spieth (+1200) have a good chance.

• Date: 20th May – 23rd May 2021
• Location:  Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah, South Carolina

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.

America’s own, Dustin Johnson (+900), is the favorite to win, followed by Jon Rahm (+1200), Brooks Koepka (+1200), Justin Thomas (+1200) and 2010 & 2012 champion Rory McIlroy (+1200).

• Date: 17th June – 20th June 2021
• Location: Torrey Pines South Course, San Diego, California

156 players will compete in the 2021 U.S. Open for their share of the $12,500,000 prize fund – the largest of all the majors.

Dustin Johnson (+900) – who won the U.S. Open in 2016 – is the favorite to win this year. Bovada also gives Spain’s Jon Rahm (+1000) and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (+1200) a good chance at clinching the top spot. McIlroy won the championship in 2011 with an 8-stroke margin.

• Date: 15th July – 18th July 2021
• Location: Royal St George’s Golf Club, Kent, England

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 majors 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.

Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy are the favorites in 2021, with odds of +900 and +1000, respectively. It would be McIlroy’s second Open win – in 2014, he played 17 strokes under par to be crowned the Champion Golfer.