Nordea Open European PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds, Tips and Preview

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Very interesting field at the Nordea Masters at Bro Hof Slot Golf Club this week on the European PGA Tour. Betting is being led by American Dustin Johnson, as he continues to be a major force in the game. He put in a solid showing at the Open Championship at Royal St George’s last week, and was in contention heading into the final round. However, it was yet another near miss for Johnson in a Major as he could not carry through momentum to challenge leader and eventual winner Darren Clarke. Johnson keeps getting himself in great positions in the Majors, but just has not been able to finish it off. Still, credit is due to the game he plays, which does keep getting him into positive positions. So he will still be worth looking at for your European Golf betting this week as he goes off as 8/1 favourite at Bet365. He is carrying momentum and form into the tournament in Sweden and will look to get over the Major disappointment with a win here. Johnson finished T2 with Phil Mickelson at the 2011 Open Championship, and is playing very well, and going great with the putter. While others are off contesting the Canadian Open, or taking a rest after The Open, Johnson stands in a good position to be able to make a run at the title. He really is the strong force in the field, and that is why he will attract a great deal of Nordea Open golf betting interest. Very strong in his all round game, lovely to watch off the tee and so strong with the putter, on paper, Johnson is going to be hard to stop. The only question about him which you would stop and ponder, is whether or not the near miss in the Major again last week will have dented his confidence. He has been through that before though and bounced back. Look for another bounce back performance again from the American here in Sweden as well. Johnson finished T19th in his first attempt at the tournament last year.

Fellow American Bubba Watson
is also in the field, staying in Europe after The Open. Watson and Johnson are the two highest ranked players in the field here, so you would expect them to go well. Johnson is ranked 7th in the world, with Watson ranked 14th. This is the first time that Watson has attempted this tournament though, and will be interesting to watch how he goes. After a T30 place at the Open Championship on the weekend, Watson always has plenty of potential in his bag. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour and not only that, he takes a lot of chances off the tee, manipulating the ball through its flight to try and get himself into positions which others can’t. When it works, it is spectacular, and when it doesn’t then he can appear a little disjointed and wayward in his game. While a great player with a couple of PGA titles under his belt this year, he struggles to back up his driving with a solid enough all round game to get him out trouble, should he falter off the tee. Still, he is always pretty good value in golf betting, whatever tournament he enters, because he is a momentum player. Once he gets going in a tournament, he is like a train, and very hard to peg back. So in this somewhat limited field for your European golf betting this week at Bro Hof Slot Golf Club, Sweden, Bubba Watson does present a good option, and would be great to see him and Johnson battle it out at the top of the leader board. However, when you break it down, you would expect the higher level of consistency from Dustin Johnson to win that battle.

With the European PGA in Sweden this week
, we may as well look at the strong home nation players who are entering the tournament. Robert Karlsson will be looking for a big week in his game, and he is a former European Tour number one. Has not produced a great deal on the European Tour this year, failing to pick up a win. Johnson finished 94th at The Open last weekend, so will be hoping for much better. Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is also in the field, with his best finish this year a ninth at the BMW International, along with the Wales Open winner Alex Noren, who is the only Swede to have won on the 2011 European Tour so far this year. Last year’s winner Richard S Johnson is also back in the line up for the Nordea Open golf betting as he attempts to defend his title. Look out for the thrills and spills which the new 17th hole at Bro Hof will definitely present. This is an island green which the players need to find their way too, and it is always a spectacular sight, with a new wall having been added around the green as well. The Bro Hof Slot course is a long one, so you need to back a player with distance and stamina. That automatically pulls you back to the two main American challengers in the field, of Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson. The Swedish course fires over 7,603 yards, making it the longest on the European Tour.

Nordea Open European PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds

Dustin Johnson: 8/1 at Bet365
Robert Karlsson: 10/1 at William Hill
Bubba Watson: 18/1 at Boylesports
Henrik Stenson: 20/1 at SportingBet

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