Woods at biggest price in Betfair's history
Betting tips 
/ Joe Dyer / 13 August 2010 / Leave a comment Bet Now View Market
An appalling showing at last week's WGC Bridgestone Invitational - a tournament he'd won seven times - finally convinced punters that they should take Woods on.
Tiger's turmoil on and off the course has sent his price to win the US PGA Championship into uncharted waters.
Tiger Woods can be backed at his biggest ever price on Betfair to win a major for Thursday's US PGA Championship.
The world no.1 is available to back at [17.5] after suffering an unprecedented year of turmoil on and off the course.
Before June's US Open Tiger had never traded in double figures for a major on Betfair but went off at [10.5] for the Pebble Beach tournament. Despite shooting a marvellous third day 66, he couldn't overhaul the leaders and finished fourth. He then traded at [8.2] for The Open at St Andrews - a course almost tailor made for his talents - but limped home in 23rd place overall.
An appalling showing at last week's WGC Bridgestone Invitational - a tournament he'd won seven times - finally convinced punters that they should take Woods on and he can now be backed at almost three times his lowest price of [6.2] for the Whistling Straits showdown.
Only one man stands ahead of Woods in the betting, however, and that is old rival Phil Mickelson. But with the reigning Masters champ trading at [15.0] this looks likely to be the most wide open betting in a major for some time.
The previously impregnable Woods starts his campaign alongside Vijay Singh and YE Yang in Thursday's threeball. He trades at [2.5] to finish the first day above that duo on the leaderboard. Alternatively, Woods can be layed at [1.44] to miss the cut.
