As a golf fanatic I’ve found my niche in predicting winners to golf tournaments. As well as on this blog golfcentraldaily.com, I provide gol...
As a golf fanatic I’ve found my niche in predicting winners to golf tournaments. As well as on this blog golfcentraldaily.com, I provide golf betting tips to Golfbidder in the UK and the Irish Examiner newspaper. I’m top ranked on google for every European and PGA Tour golf event I preview and compile tips for. A lot of people ask me how do I pick winners 
and the answer is I do the same preparatory work pretty much every week and more often than not, it pays dividends. Literally!
In this “free guide to golf betting tips and how to make money” I’m going to show you how you can increase your success rate noticeably by following some of the techniques I use. Golf is an ideal sport for some fun betting, the starting field is limited, those playing at the weekend is limited even further. A “winner” in golf betting tips doesn’t necessarily have to be the guy getting the cardboard cheque from a Sheikh, if your man finishes fourth at 200/1 and you have him each way, taking away 50 times your stake is what I call a winner too!
So let’s down to business. I’m going to break up the article into parts. I hope you don’t mind but I absolutely hate reading long articles myself!
In Part One, I’m going to describe my preparatory work before compiling my golf betting tips for any tournament.
It’s a well known in any sphere of sports betting that the most accurate betting is done on events that have consistency. By that I mean a “home”. For example on the PGA Tour, The Players Championship is always played at the Stadium Course in Sawgrass. On the European Tour, the Omega European Masters is always played in Crans Sur Sierre in Switzerland. In the same way that players get to know certain courses, get to like those courses and thus play well on them, by researching this consistency prior to the event you can greatly increase your chances of whittling down those players that have a live chance of winning themselves, and thus you some money.
Pic: Choose wisely Indi
Of course there are always exceptions, like Tom Lewis winning the 2011 Portugal Masters on his first try. Not many predicted that based on consistency, he was a rookie, there was nothing to go on, except Tom’s phenomenal talent. I certainly didn’t tip him that week and hey, there’s no shame in that. Tipping is certainly not an exact science; you can simply use the resources available to you to build a picture and make an informed decision. Unless you have information from inside the ropes, the caddies, the practice rounds, the Pro Am, the range etc, it can be pretty difficult for the average punter looking at names on a page.
On Tom Lewis, I take great pride in flagging him up prior to the 2011 British Open at Royal St. Georges where several punters took my advice and backed him at 300/1 on Betfair, then laid him off for profit when his odds plummeted after he jointly lead with Thomas Bjorn after round one. (I promise I wont mention Betfair or Laying again!).
Pic: It didnt make money but flagging Tom was nice.
But back to my point about choosing your tournament wisely.
When a tournament moves venue or date slot it becomes much more difficult to filter those that could or should do well. My advice here is never to wager all the money in your online account on “new venue” events from your armchair based on form or some kind of a hunch. Golf rarely works like that. Factors such as “length”, “course set up”, “fairway width”, “rough height”, “greens type” etc etc could easily conspire to rule your guy out of the running straight away if you are not fully aware of them. I’ve seen people put their house on a golfer who has three straight top fives and is in the form of his life,
only to watch him crash and burn because one of the factors above conspired against him. Stick your tenner on an in form bomber playing on a 6,600 yard course with landing strips for fairways and lettuce for rough? Would you?
Pic: Bubba. Doesn’t win every week strangely enough!
Of course we all still produce tips for “new venue” tournaments but for these I use a different formula taking into account the course, form, tournament date and Genworth stats which I will speak about in another article. And in truth I would be nervous on betting on such events, at least until the cut comes on Friday evening.
Suffice to say again here in summary, choose your events wisely! Consistency is critical.
Relax! You don’t need to be an encyclopaedia of golfing knowledge to do this; you just need to know how to access one.
For the European Tour the way I do this is I open the European Tour homepage http://www.europeantour.com , click on tournaments and select the event you seek information on. Then click the “history” button at the top of the screen. There you will see all the stagings down through the years for that particular tournament. I always open the leaderboards for the previous five years, then cut and paste the top 15 finishers into a blank word document. I always select the players scores for the four rounds too; this is very important information to have.
Next open the leaderboard for the previous week’s event and again paste the top 15 into the word document. This is always a useful form indicator. I arrange all these results in two columns of just one A4 page. At the top I have “Last week” then next “2011 top 15” then “2010 top 15” and so on. The whole operation should take about 10 minutes and when you print your page, you will be amazed just how many of the same names jump out at you already!
You will be even more amazed that when you check the entry list, pretty much all of those names will be in the field. And why wouldn’t they? A player that plays well in Switzerland for instance every year and makes money is a dead cert to be back to that particular free ATM in the Alps the following year!
For the PGA Tour history page you can do exactly the same. To compile my history page for the PGA Tour I always google the event name and the words “yahoo leaderboard”. That brings up the leaderboard for the event on the yahoo golf site which is very similar to the European Tour’s info in that it shows the scores of each player for the four rounds.
Make sure to check out Doc’s Free Guide To Golf Betting Tips and How To Make Money (Part Two) which I will post next week and where I will tell you how to use your history page in conjunction with an another European and PGA Tour resource and let you in on an excellent online stats package to help you make your selections.
and the answer is I do the same preparatory work pretty much every week and more often than not, it pays dividends. Literally! In this “free guide to golf betting tips and how to make money” I’m going to show you how you can increase your success rate noticeably by following some of the techniques I use. Golf is an ideal sport for some fun betting, the starting field is limited, those playing at the weekend is limited even further. A “winner” in golf betting tips doesn’t necessarily have to be the guy getting the cardboard cheque from a Sheikh, if your man finishes fourth at 200/1 and you have him each way, taking away 50 times your stake is what I call a winner too!
So let’s down to business. I’m going to break up the article into parts. I hope you don’t mind but I absolutely hate reading long articles myself!
In Part One, I’m going to describe my preparatory work before compiling my golf betting tips for any tournament.
1. Choosing Your Event
It’s a well known in any sphere of sports betting that the most accurate betting is done on events that have consistency. By that I mean a “home”. For example on the PGA Tour, The Players Championship is always played at the Stadium Course in Sawgrass. On the European Tour, the Omega European Masters is always played in Crans Sur Sierre in Switzerland. In the same way that players get to know certain courses, get to like those courses and thus play well on them, by researching this consistency prior to the event you can greatly increase your chances of whittling down those players that have a live chance of winning themselves, and thus you some money. 
Pic: Choose wisely Indi Of course there are always exceptions, like Tom Lewis winning the 2011 Portugal Masters on his first try. Not many predicted that based on consistency, he was a rookie, there was nothing to go on, except Tom’s phenomenal talent. I certainly didn’t tip him that week and hey, there’s no shame in that. Tipping is certainly not an exact science; you can simply use the resources available to you to build a picture and make an informed decision. Unless you have information from inside the ropes, the caddies, the practice rounds, the Pro Am, the range etc, it can be pretty difficult for the average punter looking at names on a page.
On Tom Lewis, I take great pride in flagging him up prior to the 2011 British Open at Royal St. Georges where several punters took my advice and backed him at 300/1 on Betfair, then laid him off for profit when his odds plummeted after he jointly lead with Thomas Bjorn after round one. (I promise I wont mention Betfair or Laying again!).
Pic: It didnt make money but flagging Tom was nice. When a tournament moves venue or date slot it becomes much more difficult to filter those that could or should do well. My advice here is never to wager all the money in your online account on “new venue” events from your armchair based on form or some kind of a hunch. Golf rarely works like that. Factors such as “length”, “course set up”, “fairway width”, “rough height”, “greens type” etc etc could easily conspire to rule your guy out of the running straight away if you are not fully aware of them. I’ve seen people put their house on a golfer who has three straight top fives and is in the form of his life,
only to watch him crash and burn because one of the factors above conspired against him. Stick your tenner on an in form bomber playing on a 6,600 yard course with landing strips for fairways and lettuce for rough? Would you? Pic: Bubba. Doesn’t win every week strangely enough!
Of course we all still produce tips for “new venue” tournaments but for these I use a different formula taking into account the course, form, tournament date and Genworth stats which I will speak about in another article. And in truth I would be nervous on betting on such events, at least until the cut comes on Friday evening.
Suffice to say again here in summary, choose your events wisely! Consistency is critical.
2. Knowing Your History
Relax! You don’t need to be an encyclopaedia of golfing knowledge to do this; you just need to know how to access one.
Pic: 1493 was it?
For every tournament the first thing I do is to compile a past history report. For the European Tour the way I do this is I open the European Tour homepage http://www.europeantour.com , click on tournaments and select the event you seek information on. Then click the “history” button at the top of the screen. There you will see all the stagings down through the years for that particular tournament. I always open the leaderboards for the previous five years, then cut and paste the top 15 finishers into a blank word document. I always select the players scores for the four rounds too; this is very important information to have.
Next open the leaderboard for the previous week’s event and again paste the top 15 into the word document. This is always a useful form indicator. I arrange all these results in two columns of just one A4 page. At the top I have “Last week” then next “2011 top 15” then “2010 top 15” and so on. The whole operation should take about 10 minutes and when you print your page, you will be amazed just how many of the same names jump out at you already!
You will be even more amazed that when you check the entry list, pretty much all of those names will be in the field. And why wouldn’t they? A player that plays well in Switzerland for instance every year and makes money is a dead cert to be back to that particular free ATM in the Alps the following year!
For the PGA Tour history page you can do exactly the same. To compile my history page for the PGA Tour I always google the event name and the words “yahoo leaderboard”. That brings up the leaderboard for the event on the yahoo golf site which is very similar to the European Tour’s info in that it shows the scores of each player for the four rounds.
Make sure to check out Doc’s Free Guide To Golf Betting Tips and How To Make Money (Part Two) which I will post next week and where I will tell you how to use your history page in conjunction with an another European and PGA Tour resource and let you in on an excellent online stats package to help you make your selections.
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