Tiger Woods Vs. Phil Mickelson, sports betting for The Match in Vegas

The passion of golf for the game will enter the new era of Thanksgiving week with "The Match". The battle of Tiger Woods against Phil Mickelson is an event designed for television and a betting game.

It takes place in Las Vegas and brings together two notorious players with deep pockets and will encourage the kind of bets in the game you hear about during PGA Tour practice tours, but never during the actual game, at least not on TV. There will be real-time probabilities before the shots, incorporating the course mapping data and player ShotLink data. This should have the same effect as watching professional poker, where you can see all the cards kept from the players at the table. It is a gaming event dressed in golf wrapping paper outside.

The game has been part of the game for as long as it exists. In Europe, you can go to the local bookmaker, place some bets and go down the street to watch the British Open or any other minor tournament. It's ubiquitous and recognized as part of the game and life. Like other sports in the United States, golf is just beginning to publicly recognize and become more comfortable with the place the game occupies in its sensitive world.

The PGA Tour is one of the sports leagues that vehemently supported the legalization of sports betting across the country last year. This is not for a progressive or benevolent reason. They see an opportunity to make money in this business with all that juicy data from ShotLink that they can sell and get licensed. And just this week, in a press release, they announced a distribution partner for this scoring data on "the international regulated markets of betting and sports games".

Golf is therefore entering a new era of play, at least on the PGA Tour, and this match between Tiger and Phil seems like a good starting point. Jeff Sherman of Golf Odds and Westgate SuperBook in Vegas have announced that the chances of such a match will be very low. When the match was announced and it became official, Tiger started as a -135 favorite in most places, with Phil hovering around the +110 outsider.

As one could expect, the public money went to the tiger side. This is always going on the tiger side, that there are 155 other players or only one. He is the most supported golfer of all time and is responsible for the explosion of interest in golf odds over the past 20 years. To limit this exposure, the books must always drop Tiger's rating because the money is hurrying for the fivefold winner. Phil's incomplete play and Tiger's late-season win probably added money to Tiger's success. But things have not spoiled for The Match, where it's a pure face-to-face game. Tiger is now at -200 after opening around -135. It was -220 at the beginning of November.

As you can imagine, there is also a pile of bets on the match. Are these accessories real? Are there places where you can actually make these bets? Who knows! People like to talk and bet with each other. The accessories range from who will win and which hole to the number of eagles made according to the number of lay-outs in the color of Phil Mickelson's shirt. The tweet above from Sherman also refers to a cross-country sports accessory and, as it will be Thanksgiving week-end, many players mingle with football and college basketball.

The fact is that this is another gambling party in Vegas with one side of golf and this might look more like the future of the game than you realize. Here are the accessories on which I had the pleasure to marinate for a second (and that could be fun to animate an endless family reunion on the weekend of holidays, via BetDSI):

Will Tiger Woods register an FIR on Hole # 1?

Will Phil Mickelson register an FIR on Hole # 1?

Will Tiger Woods register a GIR on hole # 1?

Will Phil Mickelson record a GIR on Hole # 1?

When will the match be closed by the winner?

• Hole # 13 or earlier (+5,000)
• Hole n ° 14 (+2500)
• Hole # 15 (+1000)
• Hole n ° 16 (+500)
• Hole n ° 17 (+300)
• Hole n ° 18 (-150)
• Playoff (250)

Will hole 18 be played?

Will the game go in series?

The longest ride on hole # 4 (must be an FIR to qualify)

• Phil Mickelson -105
• Tiger Woods -135

Closer to the pin on hole # 5 (must be a GIR to qualify)

• Phil Mickelson +100
• Tiger Woods -130

Will one or the other player drive the green on hole # 11?

Which player will have the most birdies?

• Phil Mickelson -120
• Tiger Woods -110

Will there be an eagle?

Will there be a hole in one?

Will Phil Mickelson register an official putt?

Will Tiger Woods register an official three-round?

How many hole concessions will be made?

How many times will Tiger Woods make a bet on the press?

How many times will Phil Mickelson make a press bet?

How many layovers will be made by Tiger and Phil?

Amount of the biggest side bet

• More than $ 50,000
• Less than $ 50,000

Will Tiger or Phil talk about other sports?

Will Tiger or Phil say "LeBron"?

Will Tiger or Phil say "prop bet"?

Total curse words by Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson

Total time Tiger Woods turns his club

Will Tiger Woods wear a red shirt?

Phil Mickelson's Shirt Color

• Black +100
• White +350
• Blue +500
• Green +500
• Red +800
• Field (any other color) +1500

Will Donald Trump be present?