Golf Betting – Big Fairways Will Suit Big Easy

The mere fact that Phil Mickelson is back on a golf course speaks volume about the character of the world’s best left-hander. Wife Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer last month and Mickelson immediately suspended his participation on the US PGA Tour to be by her side. Amy faces major surgery next month followed by a lengthy programme of treatment but she’s insisting that her husband try to carry on as normal in the interim, which is why Mickelson did his best to get rid of any ring-rustiness in last week’s St Jude Classic and why he’ll be lining up in this week’s US Open at Bethpage. The two-time winner freely admits that his putting still isn’t finely tuned, so it’s something of a surprise that he’s the one punters have been getting stuck into over the last 24 hours. A market drifter last week Mickelson, who turns 39 this week, is now as low as 10-1 in places but still be backed at 16-1 with Skybet to be what would surely be one of the most popular winners of a major since, well since Tiger Woods won last year’s US Open despite being in chronic pain with a knee injury. Woods, of course, is the man to beat on a course that always plays long but extrabet and betfair‘s 2-1 is the biggest quote you are going to get about the defending champion which, as always with Tiger, will either be outstanding value or a criminally short price. Geoff Ogilvy is third choice in the betting at a general 20-1 but I’m of the opinion that Ernie Els is just too big at a general 50-1 for someone with his class. The ‘Big Easy’ looked in good order on his last outing in the Memorial, hitting the fairways and the greens and, though failing to make the most of his birdie chances, that will have given him confidence he can be among the leaders on Long Island. Els goes out with compatriot Retief Goosen (a general 40-1) and Mickelson in the first two rounds and if that doesn’t inspire him, nothing will!