Tiger Woods Is Already The Masters Favorite!
Its hard to fathom that just last August, Tiger Woods’ odds to win (I’m thinking more like play) The Masters was 100/1. Yet, Tigers’ fans are always ready to back their man–even though he hasn’t won a major since June 2008.
he is by far our largest Masters liability and is still receiving support at 20/1 .. I agree, his true odds should be higher, but you will never find true odds involving Tiger as much support as he receives .. we have to control our liabilities to some degree
— Jeff Sherman (@golfodds) January 17, 2018
I did predict that Tiger’s odds would be in single digits by Masters week.
Officially a believer again. Saturdays used to be where Tiger ran out of gas (73.5 average 2015) but he looks like Tiger of old-especially the short game. Promise he’ll have single-digit odds for Augusta.
— Rick Arnett (@ArnettRick) March 10, 2018
The latest odds making Woods the Masters favorite surprised even me. The favorite. And its in single-digit territory.
2018 Masters updated
T Woods 8/1
D Johnson 9/1
J Thomas 9/1
J Spieth 12/1
J Day 14/1
J Rahm 14/1
R McIlroy 16/1
J Rose 16/1
P Mickelson 16/1
R Fowler 18/1
B Watson 25/1
P Casey 25/1
S Garcia 30/1
H Matsuyama 30/1
T Fleetwood 30/1
M Leishman 40/1
A Noren 50/1
P Reed 50/1— Jeff Sherman (@golfodds) March 15, 2018
Jordan Spieth’s props were downgraded from 10/1 to 12/1. I say take Phil Mickelson at 16/1 before the odds drop. Quickly.
There’s this from Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch on a somewhat startling admission from Graeme McDowell.
“It doesn’t say much for the world of golf. We were all saying how healthy things were when he was gone, and now he’s back beating us all up again. Maybe we’re not as good as we thought we were,” McDowell says, laughing. “It’s pretty impressive. And it’s good for us all.”
