Golf gambling fans now have the Augusta Masters in mind

Even though television and the internet have combined to make most professional sports available to sports gambling fans all year round, there are still seasonal elements as to which sports are most popular at any one time among sports gambling enthusiasts. At this time of year football, horse racing and rugby tend to dominate the sports gambling market, but spring is round the corner and that means what many golf fans in Ireland consider to be the beginning of the golf gambling year. The first golf major of 2014 starts at Augusta on the 10^th April, and golf gambling fans are already looking at who is in form and who has the game to claim the green jacket this year. The fact that gambling on golf has become so popular among sports gambling fans in Ireland is of course the outstanding success of many Irish players over recent years, and golf certainly appears to be yet another sport where the Irish appear to punch above our weight in terms of population. Pre-tournament gambling on golf is of course extremely difficult, but if you really fancy a particular player the odds can be very attractive indeed. Paddy Power for instance have two recent former winners of the Masters, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott at odds of 14/1 in the betting for this year’s tournament. Most golf pundits would say that neither of these two players are likely to be too far out of contention come the final round. Irish golf gambling enthusiasts will also be pleased to see that Rory McIlroy appears to have put a terrible 2013 by his standards behind him and both Ladbrokes and Paddy Power have him as favourite for this year’s Masters, followed of course by Tiger Woods, although there appear to be some doubts over his fitness.