Sport is made for betting

I reckon every divorce lawyer in the US is getting excited at the moment. Yes, he's been a bad boy but I think a lot of it is down to him missing out on the prime of his social life because of his utter devotion to golf. When you haven't had a chance to 'sow the seeds', especially when you have everything going for you, that itch is always going to be there.... So worst case scenario, he loses half a billion dollars in a divorce settlement. Don't cry too much for him, he'd still have more money left than 99% of sportspeople combined....

Paddy Power decided to pay out on Tiger Woods winning the US PGA at the halfway stage. But nobody told Y.E.Yang about it. He played brilliantly under the pressure of playing in the last group with Tiger, and broke Woods' record of 14 majors won from leading/co-leading into the last round. The PR stunt is estimated to cost the Irish bookmaker over £1 million, but the worldwide publicity they'll get out of it will more than make up for it, just like when local bookmaker Fred Done paid out early on Man Utd winning the title back in the late 90s. He got so much PR out of it, his local business is now a massive bookmaking firm with shops throughout the UK.

Lots of great offers from bookmakers around for the ultimate test in golf, The Open Championship. Boylesports paying EIGHT places each-way at 1/4 the odds, Sportsbet Australia paying money back if your player misses the cut, and numerous more. The market is remarkable - on Betfair it's Tiger at 3.5, and next best is Lee Westwood at 30, with 10 players in all between 30 and 50. So essentially, it comes to one question - do you back Tiger or lay him? I've got to oppose him on this track. His form has been good since his return from injury but not invincible, and there's a quality chasing pack. My glory story of trading occurred in this evnt back in 2003 when I backed a handful of players at big prices on the first morning. One of them was Ben Curtis at 1000 for £5. Only expecting him to stay on the leaderboard for a few hours on day one, I traded out at 550, then some more at 210 and then finally at 1.7 on the final day for a lovely green book. This year, Tiger at 3.5 represe...