The United States will send a team full of rookies into Louisville, Kentucky for this year\u2019s Ryder Cup. The Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville is the setting for one of the most important tournaments in all of golf. But before online golf betting fans start jumping up and down in their collective cleats, they need to remember that the U.S. squad hasn\u2019t brought home the Ryder Cup trophy in nine years. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s right. Online sportsbook betting fans haven\u2019t won a wager on the U.S. team in the Ryder Cup in almost a decade. That\u2019s not a good sign for online betting fans looking to make some money while throwing some dollars behind the good ole United States of America.<\/p>\n
The Europeans on the other hand have been outstanding in that nine year span. Almost all of their good fortune and the reason that they are the online wagering favorites in this year\u2019s Ryder Cup is because the American\u2019s will be without their best player, Tiger Woods, and the Europeans will have their best player teeing off in Sergio Garcia.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at each team\u2019s advantages and disadvantages in this year\u2019s Ryder Cup. Then, I will go ahead and pick a winner in the online BetUS Sportsbook.<\/p>\n
Match-days: 9\/19\/2008 \u2013 9\/21\/2008<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The Europeans<\/strong><\/p>\n They are led by Sergio Garcia who has just been brilliant in the Ryder Cup. Garcia hasn\u2019t been able to close things out on the PGA Tour but in the Ryder Cup he has been an online golf betting dynamo. He\u2019s the reason that the Euros are on a winning streak in the Ryder Cup. Garcia has never lost a foursome match in the Cup, he\u2019s 8 and 0, and in 2004 he went 4-0-1. In 2006 he went 4-1-0 in his straight-up match-ups. The guy is a fantastic online betting option no matter who he plays against.<\/p>\n The Europeans have six players in the top 20 in the World Golf Rankings and another 6 players in the top sixty. They also have an experience edge over the Americans. Garcia, Lee Westwood, and Padraig Harrington (even thought Harrington has never won a Ryder Cup match-up) all have experience in Ryder Cup competition. They are also all playing very well right now.<\/p>\n That of course is why the online betting odds on the Europeans currently stand at \u2013 135. What the Americans lack in experience they might make up in grit. First, the bad news.<\/p>\n Without Tiger Woods the Americans could be in deep trouble in this tournament. The online golf betting odds on the Americans make them the underdog at + 105, but the question isn\u2019t whether or not the Americans should be online wagering underdogs it\u2019s whether or not they should be bigger online betting underdogs than + 105.<\/p>\n <\/a> They start four players that are relatively unknown to golf betting fans. Steve Stricker, Boo Weekley, Hunter Mahan and J.B. Holmes are not household names. Online wagering fans must also note that Anthony Kim and Ben Curtis, two somewhat known golfers, will be playing in their first Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n Then, there\u2019s Phil Mickelson who doesn\u2019t have the leadership quality that Tiger Woods\u2019 has. Phil will also need to play better than he has during this year\u2019s FedEx Cup. He\u2019s been getting blasted out there lately.<\/p>\n With all of these things going against the United States\u2019 team, I wonder why they aren\u2019t a much bigger underdog in the BetUS online sportsbook to win this tournament.<\/p>\n Maybe, they aren\u2019t that big of an underdog as an overall team because of this piece of good news. The Americans also have six players in the top 20 and six players in the top 60. They also have combined for 12 victories on the PGA Tour as to 8 for the Europeans. Finally, the Americans have won six majors overall while the Europeans have won only three (Padraig Harringon won all three).<\/p>\n That\u2019s enough for BetUS online sportsbook fans to back the Americans at + 105, right? I really, really want to bet the Americans but the Europeans are just too strong. Yes, the stats say that the Americans have a chance, but I don\u2019t think they do. The Europeans have the two best players in the world right now in Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington. Plus the Europeans play with pride in this tournament. The Americans? Our sense of individualism doesn\u2019t allow us to go toe to toe with the Euros.<\/p>\n I have to go against the home team in this one. My online golf betting dollars will be on the Europeans.<\/p>\n They are the online wagering pick at \u2013 135 to continue their Ryder Cup winning streak.<\/p>\n The 2008 Ryder Cup gets underway this week, and before we make our picks let us preface this article with one comment. “The U.S. squad hasn\u2019t brought home the Ryder Cup trophy in nine years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1659,142,226,399,2090,424,66495,2083,2092,632,2086,2085,911,1741,1570,961,2088,1097,1098,1124,1186,2087,2089,2084,1661,1311,2091,1365],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga-golf","tag-2008-ryder-cup","tag-bet","tag-bookmaker","tag-espn","tag-europeans","tag-fedex-cup","tag-gambling","tag-golf-live-tv","tag-lee-westwood","tag-lines","tag-louisville","tag-match-ups","tag-odds","tag-online-golf-betting","tag-online-wagering","tag-padraig-harrington","tag-pick-a-winner","tag-ryder-cup","tag-ryder-cup-betting","tag-sergio-garcia","tag-spread","tag-us-squad","tag-underdogs","tag-united-states-team","tag-valhalla-gc","tag-wagering","tag-winning-streak","tag-world-golf-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105868,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/105868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Americans<\/p>\n
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