Open de France 2017 Golf Betting Odds & Preview

Take seven places each way coverage

Golf Betting

The French Open is a major pull for golf punters this week as it is one of the most prestigious golf titles on the continent. Le Golf National will actually be hosting the Ryder Cup next year (so European players will want to impress for wildcard places) and it is a great, testing course with plenty of sand and water scattered around. There is a top field out for the tournament as well and accuracy around the tight course is going to be the order of the day. Heading up the market is Jon Rahm at 12/1 with Paddy Power.

This is one of those courses on the European Tour where you can fit a good course specialist for the event. Holding strong pedigree going into this year’s edition is Francesco Molinari, Martin Kaymer and reigning champion Thongchai Jaidee. Of those for your betting this week, Molinari and Kaymer are trading pretty well and will have appeal to punters.

Italian Molinari has three runners up finishes at the French Open in his career and he has been in some decent form in the last few months on the European Tour. Kaymer is a former French Open Champion and has landed enough top ten finishes at the course in his career to warrant a flutter in this one. But he perhaps isn’t carrying the strongest of form at the moment, which could send punters skipping over them all.

Bernd Wiesberger has the double bonus of holding both current form and a solid track record at the French Open. He is really mixing it up with a great price of 18/1 heading into the event, the same quote as Alex Noren. Then you have Tommy Fleetwood who is carrying some very good form at the moment although he has failed to make the cut in each of his four previous appearances at Le Golf National.

French Open Golf 2017 Outright Winner Odds

John Rahm 12/1, Francesco Molinari 14/1, Bernd Wiesberger 18/1, Alex Noren 18/1, Tommy Fleetwood 20/1, Thomas Pieters 25/1, Martin Kaymer 25/1, Shane Leroy 28/1, Matthew Fitzpatrick 30/1, Tyrrell Hatton 33/1, Joost Luiten 35/1, Ian Poulter 35/1, Lee Westwood 35/1, bar 40/1

So there is a really competitive field out and Joost Luiten, who has made the cut in five of six his previous appearances at the tournament, carries one of the more consistent tournament records into the competition. He has been running in a positive mood and with the course, a challenge for everyone, the consistency that Luiten is carrying makes him a big each-way punt for this week, so too Thomas Pieters. He had a top twenty at Wentworth recently and he makes a return to the course where he made his European Tour debut. He made a top twenty here last year and has the talent to contend.

This is going to be about who can find the fairways the most consistently and accuracy with the long game is crucial for the French Open challenge. It should be a supremely competitive tournament and online betting site Paddy Power are offering seven places on the Open de France betting. This offer applies to bets placed on the tournament outright before the start only and it means that Paddy Power will pay out 1/4 odds to seven places. Register an account with Paddy Power and enjoy £30 worth of free bets as well embolus and also get in on their VIPP Club which rewards with a free £10 bet each week!