US Open Golf 2013

The 113th edition of the US Open Championship will be teeing off between June 13th and 16th at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. This will be the fifth time that the US Open has been hosted on the club’s East Course, the last time being in 1981 when David Graham took the title. So it will be time to look at the second Major of the year and the golf betting markets will be running hot, with activity not only coming in pre-tournament outright winner bets, but on other markets like Match Bets, Top European, Winning Nationality and Place Markets. These are generally the places where more value is found in than trying to pick winner out of a major field.

Naturally a lot of attention will all be on Tiger Woods as the world waits to see whether or not he can get another Major under his belt. Of course, he is a previous winner of the US Open, having won the event three times before. The last time that Woods was in the winner’s circle was back in 2008 at Torrey Pines in California, following up on his 2000 and 2002 victories in the Major. Woods has been in outstanding form on the PGA Tour in 2013 and will naturally tee off as favourite. Naturally, with the tournament moving home, it’s hard to nail down form. Woods carded only a share of 21 as last year’s US Open, but he has landed four top six finishes in the last six attempt at the tournament (including the 2008 win).

So there will be a lot of money going down on Tiger Woods for the 2013 US Open golf betting, especially after his share of fourth at the Masters this year as well. Having picked up four titles already this season, and being the FedExCup points leader, he is the big name with all of the form. America’s Webb Simpson took the title last year at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, finishing one over par. But two of the last three US Open titles have been won by non-American’s (Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy). In fact, six of the last nine editions of the US Open have been won by a non-American.

However, it will be the home talent which dominates a fair share of the favouritism for the forthcoming US Open. There are big momentum players like Brandt Snedeker, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Matt Kuchar and Billy Horschel who will have their fair share of backers going into the action. So it may be worth rolling with an American for the Winning Nationality market. There are some seriously strong options in there. But Australia's Jason day and Adam Scott are both worth watching at the Majors, time and again both showing up well. On the European front, the world is waiting for Rory McIlroy to get back into his world-beating stride in order to initiate the McIlroy v Woods rivalry everyone wants to see at the top of a Major leaderboard. Luke Donald, Lee Westwood, Justin Rose and the in form Graeme McDowell all represent superb value in the Top European market for 2013 US Open golf betting.

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