If you go simply by the numbers, England’s Luke Donald has to be considered the best active golfer not to have won a major championship. After all, Donald enters this week’s Scottish Open on the European Tour as the...
By Alan Banks on Jul 09, 2011
Back in the first few months of the golf season, Rory McIlroy wasn’t the hot young “it” golfer internationally quite yet. No, that designation belonged to Germany’s Martin Kaymer, who won the PGA Championship last summer for his first...
By Alan Banks on Jul 09, 2011
Fans of PGA betting might be expecting another Steve Stricker show this week when the Tour hits TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois for the John Deere Classic. Stricker is the two-time defending champion at the John Deere Classic,...
By Alan Banks on Jul 06, 2011
If Tiger Woods is going to win his first major championship since the 2008 U.S. Open, it’s going to have to happen at the PGA Championship later this summer because Woods has withdrawn from next week’s British Open....
By Alan Banks on Jul 05, 2011
Golf betting online: The host course this week, Aronimink Golf Club, is a beast. The historic par-70 originally designed by Donald Ross in Newtown Square, Pa. can be stretched to 7,237 yards. In its debut as host of the...
By Alan Banks on Jul 01, 2011
Justin Rose is the defending champion at the AT&T National, but it’s Nick Watney who sits atop the golf betting odds heading into this week’s event at Aronimink Golf Club. Rose edged Ryan Moore by one stroke at this...
By Alan Banks on Jun 29, 2011
It’s starting to look more and more like Tiger Woods won’t be able to play in the British Open next month as Woods, who of course missed the U.S. Open, has already pulled out of his own tournament, the...
By Alan Banks on Jun 22, 2011
The golfers of the PGA Tour will be looking to shake off the beating they took at the hands of Rory McIlroy in the U.S. Open last week when they hit the links on Thursday at TPC...
By Alan Banks on Jun 22, 2011
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer BETHESDA, Md. – In one of those can’t-miss moments in sports, thousands of fans covered every inch of space on the hill behind the 10th green at Congressional. They spilled onto the clubhouse...
By Alan Banks on Jun 17, 2011
By Bodog Sportsbook: It’s almost hard for the casual golf fan to not root for Rory McIlroy this week at theU.S. Open, which begins Thursday at Congressional outside Washington, D.C. But rooting for and betting on are certainly two different things....
By Alan Banks on Jun 15, 2011