2012 PGA Championship Betting Odds

2012 PGA Championship

August 8-14, 2012
Atlanta Athletic Club
Highlands Course
Atlanta, GA
Par: 70 in 2012
Format: Match play 1916–1957
Stroke play 1958–present
Current Champion: Keegan Bradley

The PGA “Major” of the season in beautiful Georgia. Since the PGA Championship is the last of the four major tournaments, the event features the most popular and talented players in the world.

The last time a major was played at Whistling Straits, also on the Straits Course, was the 2004 PGA Championship, which was won by Vijay Singh in the 86th PGA Championship, and this will mark the second PGA Championship to be held at Whistling Straits.

The PGA Championship is a must bet for any golf betting fan. The biggest names in golf are competing for a winning purse of $1.3 million and the coveted Wanamaker Trophy.

Winning the PGA Championship earns the golfer lifetime-qualifying status for the tournament. The winner will also receive invitations to the 3 remaining major tournaments for the following 5 years. The winner will not have to qualify to make the PGA Tour for 5 years and will receive 5 years worth of invitations to The Players Championship.

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In other words, the winner virtually secures his future on the Tour for another half a decade or more, which means there are quite a few guys on Sunday gunning for the Wanamaker Trophy and all that it secures.

The PGA Championship will feature all of the great players that you would see in the other major championships of the PGA tour. You can probably count on the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Vijay Singh among other to be slugging it out on the greens.

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Future & Past PGA Championship Venues

2011 PGA Championship Winner

Keegan Bradley wins his maiden major at 2011 US PGA Championship, after beating Jason Dufner in play-off. Bradley responded to his treble with birdies at the 16th and 17th, the latter from 40 feet, erasing in a febrile finale a deficit that looked insurmountable. And so for the second successive year, the US PGA went to a play-off.

2010 PGA Championship Winner

Germany’s Martin Kaymer captured the 2010 PGA Championship, beating Bubba Watson in a 3-hole playoff at Whistling Straits. He became the second German to win a major next to Bernhard Langer. It was the toughest game both for Kaymer and Bubba Watson as they meet in the playoff after Dustin Johnson got a 2-stroke penalty assessed on the final hole. At the end, Kaymer won with a bogey at the 18th after an approach of Watson that is found to hazardous.

2009 PGA Champion

Yang did what had never been done, when he came from behind to snatch the 91st PGA Championship from the heretofore invincible Tiger Woods in a tense, thrilling finish at Hazeltine National. It was a jaw-dropping finale, thanks to Yang's scintillating hybrid shot to 10 feet on the 72nd green for the clinching birdie to win the final major of the PGA golf season.

2008 Champion

The 90th US PGA Championship was a historical event which saw the first European in 78 years to win the illustrious golf tournament. Padraig Harrington of Ireland won the event by two shots, defeating Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis on the way.

2007 Defending Champion: Tiger Woods

When Tiger Woods heads into the final round of a major tournament with the lead, the outcome is always the same. Tiger wins. In the 2007 PGA Championship, Woods dominated from start to finish, capturing his second-straight Wanamaker Trophy and winning his 13th major title overall.

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PGA Golfers History and Facts

Their are many theories on how and were golf began, one is that Roman emperors apparently played a relaxing game called paganica, using a bent stick to drive a soft, feather-stuffed ball. Another suggestion is that a game played in Holland on the ice and frozen canals called Het Kolven is where golf started. The games clubs were called kolb, or kolf. Many believe the game was brought across the North Sea by the Dutch traders to Scotland, were they evolved kolf into the early forms of golf.

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Betting on Golf

Betting on golf is at its most exciting during one of the four majors: The Masters, U.S. Open and PGA. in the U.S., and the British Open. With the exception of The Masters which is always played at Augusta, Georgia, the venue for these events rotates among a group of leading courses.

Betting on golf has increased dramatically in popularity over recent years. Two different types of bets are offered; the first is betting on the winner of the event with odds, generally ranging from about 7/1 to 70/1, being offered on all players. These odds are then adjusted after each round of play. Secondly, there are match-ups in which two or more players are hypothetically matched against each other, either on a round-by-round basis or over the entire course of the tournament. More PGA Tournament Betting Online

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Online PGA golf gambling odds provides odds on all the major professional golf tournaments. For most of the year, there is at least one golf tournament happening each week. The events that attract the most interest from golf enthusiast include the Masters, the US Open and the British Open.