Raise your hand if you think either Sergio Garcia or Padraig Harrington has a shadow of a chance of beating Tiger Woods at the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry, Scotland.
Okay…now put your money where your mouse is. All two of you.
Since Woods won his AT&T Challenge by one stroke over a “hard charging” Hunter Mahan, Las Vegas has changed the odds that he’ll win his 15th career Major. Tiger’s gone from a 9-to-4 favorite to the 2-to-1 pick.
Garcia, who continues to suffer similar putting woes to Vijay Singh’s, is considered a 20-1 pick according to golfodds.com. So is the bucktoothed prodigy, Rory McIlroy. The two-time reigning British Open champ Harrington has 30-to-1 odds against him.
In total, only nine players in the (7-to-2) field weigh in at less than 40-to-1.
The Ailsa course has recently been lengthened by 247 yards, but the fairway driving options are no less harrowing than they were during the previous Opens held there. The globe-trotting Woods, reportedly, has never set foot on the premises.
With all that (and much more to come) in mind, is anyone willing to bet against Tiger?
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