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Las Vegas, Nevada (June 17, 2012)--Showing that nothing is ever certain in golf, the coronation of the new Tiger Woods appears to have been postponed ... again. Tiger fired a 75 in the 3rd round and is well off the leaders, Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk. Those are two of the steadiest players in all of golf so it appears a golf miracle will need to happen for Tiger to lift major trophy fifteen. Furyk (9/4)and McDowell (5/2) are basically co-favorites (we'll let the math majors argue about the difference).--By Brian Hurlburt, odds by Jeff Sherman.
Tiger told the media following the round that he still believes he has a chance, despite being five shots back. "I'm definitely still in the ball game," said Woods. "I'm only five back and that's certainly doable on this golf course for sure."
Jeff Sherman, the founder of Las Vegas' GolfOdds.com, believed that Lee Westwood had the best power numbers heading into the Open. He has battled back and stands at +2. He is 6/1 to win.
"I think every time you get your self in contention you learn something new," said Westwood. "I've been in contention a lot in different kinds of positions, leading, coming from behind; and in this tournament and other tournaments, the Masters, I finished third, so I was in contention there. So, yeah, I pick little bits out of all of those, but the main thing is just to go out there and believe that I'm good enough. I must be, I keep getting myself in contention often enough. ... I think I've probably been this contention in Major Championships more than anybody else over the last three or four years. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow and hopefully going to go out and have some fun and see what happens." Quotes ASAPSports.com.
ODDS TO WIN (updated after 3rd round)
JIM FURYK 9/4
GRAEME McDOWELL 5/2
LEE WESTWOOD 6/1
TIGER WOODS 12/1
FREDRIK JACOBSON 12/1
ERNIE ELS 15/1
NICOLAS COLSAERTS 20/1
JASON DUFNER 25/1
WEBB SIMPSON 25/1
BLAKE ADAMS 40/1
JOHN SENDEN 50/1
MATT KUCHAR 50/1
MARTIN KAYMER 50/1
KEVIN CHAPPELL 80/1
RETIEF GOOSEN 80/1
JOHN PETERSON 100/1
BEAU HOSSLER 100/1
JUSTIN ROSE 100/1
SERGIO GARCIA 100/1
FIELD (all others) 15/1 |
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