US PGA Championship 2010 Betting - Will Tiger Woods Keep it Up Again?

For the first time this century Tiger Woods will enter a major golf tournament not the betting favourite to win, reports bookmaker Paddy Power. Such has been the scale of Tiger's slump the world number one is at betting odds of 16/1 to win this week's USPGA, and on the drift from an initial 14/1.

Phil Mickelson is the man with the honours at odds of 12/1 with Irish pair Rory McIlroy and Padraig Harrington following Tiger at 17/1 and 20/1, respectively.

Woods will be lining up against defending champion YE Yang, the man who pipped him to the title last year despite Paddy Power paying out on Woods at the halfway stage when he sat on a four shot lead.

The move cost Paddy Power more than a million pounds although it is unlikely Tiger's present form will tempt the bookmaker to declare him an early winner this time out! Woods is 4/6 to beat Yang in their first round head-to-head on Thursday with Yang at odds of 6/4.

Tiger is at betting odds of 7/2 for a top five finish and just 2/1 to miss the cut. However in a move that speaks volumes for Woods' current form the bookmakers believe the American is much more likely to hit a round of 80 or worse at odds of 2/1 than he is to hit a 64 or lower on the par-72 Whistling Straits course which is an 8/1 shot. Continue..