Betting Experts

[shanker]

I see Golf Monthly has a ''betting expert'', (Mr. Paul Krishnamurty). He must be loaded. I wish I could become a betting expert, too. Then I could give up work and play golf all the time. Mr. Krishnamurty would, of course, have known that Cabrera was going to win at Oakmont but he didn't tell any of us.

 

[Trueblue]

I once won £55 on Justin Rose and ever since i have felt that the golf market is an easy one to master...but it hasn't quite proved that way! Just lost a heap of cash on the US Open - keep getting near but i know that is lame as near doesn't win you any cash! Any tips for events coming up? (am a mug and want to win back my losses)

 

[MikeD]

Stick with Justin Rose. He's won me money at the Masters and the US Open! Just don't bet on him to win!

 

[John_Findlay]

I agree, Mike. Justin is a good top ten or each way bet at the moment. He's on a good streak...and when you find a golfer who's on a good streak, stick with him. They have 3-4 weeks of good results in a row.

I was having decent returns on Andres Romero and Charl Schwartzel last year while they were consistently around the top ten and then got fed up with Schwartzel cracking up in the last round and stopped betting on him. What did he do? Won the flippin' Spanish Open at odds of about 80-1.

Jerry Kelly is another guy who has been doing the same lately. Anyone noticed?

 

[birdieman]

Winter 2006 I backed Chad Campbell on PGA Tour and Chris di Marco in Dubai on same weekend and they both won - couldn't believe it and won about £300 off £20 stake = very dangerous, you think you can do it again but of course you cant.
Betting is a mugs game, you'll never beat the bookies long term but fun when you do pick a winner. Golf has too many good players all of a similar ability, any one of which can win on their day. Only safe bet is Tiger each way, but the odds are so poor it's hardly worthhile.