The US Open wagering is obviously unique but this season it will be extra unique as the 2010 edition of the US Open Golf Championships will be hosted at Pebble Beach. This event and this golf course have a quite unique relationship, as any sports wagering fan who has ever gambled on US Open odds understands. Actually, there is no doubt that Pebble Beach would be its site of choice if the US Open wagering contest were to ever choose a permanent site rather than the traditional rotation between top courses.
The US Open wagering competition holds a special place in the minds and hearts of all golf wagering fans. It’s certainly the most tough of any of the Majors and in plenty of years the most tough layout of any tournament on the golf wagering calendar.
With its massive views of the rugged Pacific Coast line and its stunning signature holes, this year Pebble Beach will be as beautiful and amazing as ever.
But do not let what you see mislead you. This is still the toughest course layout of the year, and this is still the US Open wagering contest. Apart from being as tough as ever, Pebble Beach will play especially tough during the US Open wagering tournament as the tee boxes will be moved back, pin placements expanded and the players will have to cover 7,040 yards in 18 holes following the Arnold Palmer renovations.
When you combine the opportunity for wind gust to spray balls everywhere and that sort of distance with a links style course layout there is rather little room for error.
Clearly when you’re dealing with that sort of distance it favors the lengthy ball hitters and all but takes the European-style participants out of the golf wagering hunt.
It’s little shock that Tiger Woods is the US Open odds favorite at 6:1. And it is also no shocker that world #2 Phil Mickelson is second in the US Open odds at approximately 7:1. These two men are part of an elite group that is both lengthy enough off the tee and exact enough with their wedges to overcome the Pebble Beach course, as well as clearly being the top participants on the planet.
Nonetheless, the opportunity for disaster is so high that even a few awful shots might undo their US Open wagering title hopes and that leaves lots of room for a dark horse contender to arise in this year’s wagering.
The US Open this year will be hosted from June 17-20. It’s the first time to be played at the beautiful Pebble Beach Golf Links since 2000, however the fifth time that it will be hosted there. It’s also going to be the first year to test a new guideline on grooves. Grooves in clubs will need to have less volume plus more rounded edges in the new rules, in an effort to limit the amount of spin. The idea is to force the player to focus more on maintaining the ball in the fairway than driving it long. Whether or not this new guideline has any impact at all on the US Open remains to be seen.
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