Scott denied Masters glory
US Masters 
/ Mathew Thompson / 12 April 2011 / Leave a comment Bet Now
With Scott down to a price of $1.48, Schwartzel was the only player given any chance of bridging the two-shot gap at odds of $
Australia's Adam Scott was backed at the near certainty price of $1.48 to win the U.S Masters before being denied by an extraordinary sequence of birdies from South Africa's Charl Schwartzel.
On a thrilling final day's play, a total of eight individual players were matched at single-figure odds on Betfair, including Tiger Woods who firmed to a low price of $2.48 when he shared the lead at -10.
Scott produced a scintillating final round of five-under, 65, featuring three birdies on the back nine that propelled the Queenslander to a two-shot lead after 16 holes and within reach of the first Australian Masters victory.
With Scott down to a price of $1.48, Schwartzel was the only player given any chance of bridging the two-shot gap at odds of $5. No-one could have anticipated that Schwartzel would birdie the final four holes to win his first major by two-strokes.
While Scott and Schwartzel looked to be in a two-man war for Masters supremacy, the youngest of the six Australian's in the field had other ideas.
Twenty-three-year-old Jason Day had slipped three-shots behind with just three holes remaining and subsequently drifted to $110 on Betfair to manufacture an unlikely win. However, his birdie-birdie finish saw him shoot up the leader board to -12, level with Scott and one stroke behind Schwartzel.
Day firmed to $9 to win as parochial Australian punters hoped for a case of the yips to suddenly overtake the South African. Another Australian, Geoff Ogilvy, blew to the maximum price on Betfair of $1000 to win when he bogeyed two of his first four holes on the last day, but firmed dramatically to just $5.50 after five-successive between the 12th and 16th.
Third-round leader Rory McIllroy capitulated after trading at as low as $1.68 when he led by two-shots on the final day.
This was the most dramatic final day since Greg Norman butchered his five-stroke lead in the 1996 Masters. Adam Scott and Jason Day played spectacular golf but couldn't break the Aussie hoodoo on the famed Augusta fairways. The flurry of activity on Betfair matched the frantic jostling on-course, with punters trading close to $38 million in the U.S Masters winner market alone.
