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Originally Posted by WWBDD View Post


I would think you'd get fairly high odds against in Vegas.

Tiger 8 to 1, Rory 6.5 to 1, Kaymer 6 to 1, and the rest of the field is 6 to 1.  Those are favored players this week from a Vegas viewpoint.  And trust me, I know from experience that these guys do their research.   They obviously know tiger has been working his ass off.

And those odds are to win the tournament not to finish in top 5.  Soooo?.......

It's pretty cool that you got to play that course though!




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Pairings are out --- Tiger will play the first two rounds with Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy. Another group will be Westwood, Kaymer, and Sergio. I'm guessing that spectators will be able to get some very good views of the rest of the field.

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  jhwmusic said:
Originally Posted by jhwmusic

Originally Posted by WWBDD

I would think you'd get fairly high odds against in Vegas.

Tiger 8 to 1, Rory 6.5 to 1, Kaymer 6 to 1, and the rest of the field is 6 to 1.  Those are favored players this week from a Vegas viewpoint.  And trust me, I know from experience that these guys do their research.   They obviously know tiger has been working his ass off.

And those odds are to win the tournament not to finish in top 5.  Soooo?.......

It's pretty cool that you got to play that course though!


Yes but... bookies odds are a function of where the money has been placed not who the bookies think will win. Back in the the day when Tiger was dominating everything the odds on offer were much lower than the statistical odds of him winning the tournament purely because all the money was going on Tiger and the bookies didn't want to catch a cold with him winning.

Even the initial odds given are a mixture of who the bookies think will win and where they think the money will go.

The classic example is England in a soccer World Cup, we always start second favorite with UK bookmakers behind Brazil. We're sh!t, we're not going to win, but there are thousands of mug punters lumping on and giving bookies easy money, but the bookies cut the odds in case the unthinkable happens.


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i get what you are saying and I know that it is somewhat based on how people are betting but they also don't create odds that will cause them to lose their ass! If they made the odds for Tiger 100 to 1, there would be people betting their life savings. ha ha. And if people didn't think Tiger had a chance to win, they wouldn't be betting on him, right?
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I believe I heard on TGC that Tiger has seen this course at least once before.  They were talking about how the last time he played it, he didn't have a cut shot so on one hole which had a right to left wind, he didn't success w/ the draw.  During this yr's practice round, Tiger made note of that and hit a cut down the middle of the fariway ...

I did note that TGC is hyping the 4am EST start on Thursday, but the Tiger/Rory/Luke pairing will go off at 10:40pm EST Wednesday so they'll be done.

  brocks said:
Originally Posted by brocks

Among others, McIlRoy, Donald, McDowell, Kaymer, Westwood, Schwartzel, Clarke, Harrington, Garcia, Day, Choi. Oh, and Woods.

AFAIK, Tiger's never seen the course before, and some of the above play it every year, so he's got his work cut out. But if he could pull off a win against this field, there would be no doubt that he's back.



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** I was mistaken, Tiger hasn't played this one before.

Originally Posted by topspin4hand

I believe I heard on TGC that Tiger has seen this course at least once before.  They were talking about how the last time he played it, he didn't have a cut shot so on one hole which had a right to left wind, he didn't success w/ the draw.  During this yr's practice round, Tiger made note of that and hit a cut down the middle of the fariway ...

I did note that TGC is hyping the 4am EST start on Thursday, but the Tiger/Rory/Luke pairing will go off at 10:40pm EST Wednesday so they'll be done.




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Originally Posted by topspin4hand

** I was mistaken, Tiger hasn't played this one before.


No, but he's won the Dubai Desert Classic a couple of times. I was in attendance the year Rory won.

I've never played that course (the Majlis course), but I did play the Faldo course also at Emirates golf club.

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  brocks said:
Originally Posted by brocks

Pairings are out --- Tiger will play the first two rounds with Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy. Another group will be Westwood, Kaymer, and Sergio.

I'm guessing that spectators will be able to get some very good views of the rest of the field.



That is a sick pairing.  Get your DVR's cleared up of your wife's useless Bravo shows... You're going to need extra space to record that baby in HD!!!  :D

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  brocks said:
Pairings are out --- Tiger will play the first two rounds with Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy. Another group will be Westwood, Kaymer, and Sergio. I'm guessing that spectators will be able to get some very good views of the rest of the field.

I guess there's no point in watching the rest of the season, you can't really get two better pairings than that. Should be a good one.

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I did note that TGC is hyping the 4am EST start on Thursday, but the Tiger/Rory/Luke pairing will go off at 10:40pm EST Wednesday so they'll be done.

I made a call. They've agreed to move the Wednesday night coverage up to 10:00 EST. You're welcome.


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lol ... someone just told me.  TGC just found some additional advertising revenue for these time slots.  And yet some of their analysts took digs at players making money grabs.

  brocks said:
Originally Posted by brocks

I made a call. They've agreed to move the Wednesday night coverage up to 10:00 EST. You're welcome.




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  colin007 said:
for reals?  its on tonight at 10??

For reals. Pre-game at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific, and live coverage starts 10:30/7:30 on TGC. Tiger's group tees off at 10:40, so you'll see his whole round.

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8PM Mountain time then?

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it starts at 3.30am here in England so im guessing it'll be on at 10.30 for you lot

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  brocks said:
Originally Posted by brocks

For reals. Pre-game at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific, and live coverage starts 10:30/7:30 on TGC. Tiger's group tees off at 10:40, so you'll see his whole round.


That is awesome!  Can't wait.

I love these foreign events simply because it's a weird/surreal experience to watch live golf late night/early early morning.  That's why I love watching the British Open here on the West Coast.

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  bplewis24 said:
Originally Posted by bplewis24

That is awesome!  Can't wait.

I love these foreign events simply because it's a weird/surreal experience to watch live golf late night/early early morning.  That's why I love watching the British Open here on the West Coast.

Brandon


+1  I'll be dragging at work tomorrow but it will be worth it.  I'm making a pot of coffee right now (cause I'm old and can't stay up past 10:30 otherwise, lol).


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That a boy!!   I only got a few hours of sleep last night, but it isn't going to stop me from watching.  I could DVR it but that's no fun...plus the golf news emails I get every day always ruin it for me.  I'm throwing a pot of coffee myself.

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+1  I'll be dragging at work tomorrow but it will be worth it.  I'm making a pot of coffee right now (cause I'm old and can't stay up past 10:30 otherwise, lol).


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