A smart move by the Australian PGA Championship organisers, because they moved up this years tournament to the week following the Presidents Cup, meaning that we have a great field of stars in attendance. It is a busy week for your golf betting, as we have the Golf World Cup, the South Africa Open as well as the Australian PGA Championship golf betting to look at! The more the merrier! Naturally there is a very strong crop of Australians in the field, including Greg Norman, who captained Team International to a loss against Team USA in the Presidents Cup. So how are we going to sort all the wheat from the chaff so to speak for your Australian PGA Championship golf betting.
Well, we are going to start with our favourite pick from the Australian crew and that is Geoff Ogilvy. Ogilvy has great form, basically stood out from the much higher profiled Aussies Adam Scott and Jason Day during the Presidents Cup and he also has a great track record at the Hyatt Regency Coolum to warrant backing him well. Ogilvy lost in a play off at last year’s Australian PGA Championship, and he got to that stage as defending champion after winning here the previous year. So he has fantastic track record here, and again because Scott and Day have made more headlines this year, Ogilvy is back in the betting a little bit, but well worth snapping up. There was nothing wrong really with Scott’s performance at Royal Melbourne last week in the Presidents Cup, but would just fancy Ogilvy over him at the moment. Still, Scott is the favourite with the bookmakers, so may be worth avoiding for matters of profit. There is a strong enough field here to suggest that you can go a bit deeper for longer odds in your golf betting.
Would also avoid Jason Day too. As great of a season he has had without winning a title, he looked very sub standard at the President Cup. Team International would have been looking to him as a home based player in Melbourne to carry the team, but he really didn’t show up. Team Captain Greg Norman rode him hard and Day just looked a bit beaten up and tired at the end of it. That will have been a big mental battle to bounce back from, so we are not going to look at him in too much depth this week. Talented and incredibly eager, but looks as if he needs a rest. Fellow Aussie Robert Allenby (who is a past winner of the event) is not expected to make much impact either because he isn’t in form and so we continue to cut the options down for Australian PGA Championship golf betting. Would look at Aussie John Senden though, who would have been a better pick for Team International. Senden was runner up at the Australian Open prior to the Presidents Cup, and looks a great fit for Coolum. He likes it there at the course and is in good enough shape to rise through the bunch of front running Aussies and take the crown here. Not riding as high in Australian PGA Championship golf betting as some of his compatriots, but a lot better value than most of them.
There is a good challenge as well likely to come from Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler, who should always be entertaining. On home soil though, as well as these could potentially do, along with the likes of YE Yang and Anthony Kim, would stick with an Australian connection. Who, out of the bunch?
Going into it, the best value is to be found on Ogilvy and Senden without a doubt.
Australian PGA Championship Golf Betting
Adam Scott: 7/1 at SkyBet (Place Market 13/8 at Paddy Power)
Geoff Ogilvy: 10/1 at Totesport (Place Market 7/4 at Stan James)
Jason Day: 10/1 at William Hill (Place Market 7/4 at Bet365)
Aaron Baddeley: 14/1 at SportingBet (Place Market 13/8 at SkyBet)
Ricky Fowler: 14/1 at Bet365 (Place Market 3/1 at Paddy Power)
John Senden: 14/1 at Victor Chandler (Place Market 3/1 at Paddy Power)
Nick O’Hern: 16/1 at SportingBet (Place Market 3/1 at Totesport)
Bubba Watson: 16/1 at SkyBet (Place Market 10/3 at SkyBet)
Greg Chalmers: 22/1 at Bet365 (Place Market 4/1 at SkyBet)
YE Yang: 29/1 at Unibet (Place Market 5/1 at Boylesports)
Robert Allenby: 30/1 at Victor Chandler (Place Market 11/2 at Paddy Power)
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