Golf Betting
From the monthly archives: February 2012
Rory McIlroy’s ascension to golf’s throne will have to wait. America’s Hunter Mahan saw to that with a 2 and 1 victory in the final of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship on Feb. 26.
After current world No. 1 Luke Donald lost to Ernie Els in the opening round of the 64-man […]
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Bill Haas seems to have a flair for the dramatic finish. His 45-foot birdie putt in a playoff punctuated an epic finale at the Northern Trust Open, sending Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley to defeat.
Haas, who won the 2011 Tour Championship thanks to an amazing shot from a greenside pond, drained the Northern […]
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South Africa’s Jbe Kruger broke through for his first European Tour win, claiming a two-shot victory at the Avantha Masters in New Delhi, India.
With many of the tour’s top players taking the week off or playing in the U.S., Kruger entered as one of the top picks on 25/1 odds. The 25-year-old proved […]
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A couple of familiar patterns held form Sunday at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Tiger Woods continues to struggle when contending in the final round, and Phil Mickelson still has Tiger’s number in head-to-head matchups.
Playing alongside Woods, Mickelson routed his one-time nemesis – and the rest of the field – with a […]
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Rafael Cabrera-Bello upstaged Lee Westwood to win the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, closing with a 68 to beat Westwood and Stephen Gallacher by a stroke.
The victory was Cabrera-Bello’s second overall and first since 2009. And Westwood wasn’t the only star he knocked off en route to the title. Rory McIlroy entered as a […]
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Scotland’s Paul Lawrie won the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters for a second time Sunday, firing a 65 to outpace Australia’s Jason Day and Sweden’s Peter Hanson by four shots.
Lawrie previously won in Qatar in 1999, the same year he claimed the Claret Jug as Open Champion. His latest victory was an emotional one, […]
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Some golfers shake off heartbreak better than others. Kyle Stanley proved his resiliency with a shocking, come-from-behind win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open just one week after a last-hole collapse cost him dearly in San Diego.
Stanley began Sunday’s final round eight shots off the pace set by Spencer Levin, who was six […]
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