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The Joburg Open kicks off on Thursday with South African Charl Schwartzel seeking a hat-trick of wins in at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club. According to the Charl Schwartzel wiki he has won three times on his home soil and all of those during the month of January, which would make him a solid favourite for this weeks event. The 4.50 with Victor Chandler, Boylesports and Ladbrokes is currently the best available. Of the bigger prices on offer the 26.00…

Well we knew our Golf wikis were going to help us all in our efforts to beat the bookmaker, but a 40/1 winner already is more than we could have wished for. Well done to OLBG member Gecko for posting information on Spaniard Alvaro Quiros that we hope pushed some of you into taking the very generous odds that were on offer for him to win the Dubai Golf World Championship. For anybody that is unaware of how our wikis work let me explain. On Valuechecker we cover most sports and…

Rory McIlroy's victory in last month's US Open was absolutely breathtaking and make no mistake they'll be plenty more majors to come, but his current odds of around 9.00 to land the 2011 British Open represents poor value in my opinion and below I'll attempt to explain why. Looking at the last ten winners of the British Open, their age when winning the tournament ranged from 26 to 38 years old. As most of you will know links golf is completely different to the…

Rory McIlroy shot a second round 66 to go with his opening round of 65 and in doing so managed to open up a huge lead over his rivals when play was suspended due to bad weather at around 9 o'clock on Friday evening. The 22-year-old from Northern Ireland looked like he was playing a totally different course to the rest of the field and if it wasn't for a double-bogey at his final hole the gap would have been even bigger. When play was stopped because of heavy rain…

It was confirmed in the early hours of Saturday 7th May that Seve Ballesteros, the five times major champion had passed away after battling a brain tumour for the past two and a half years. He was diagnosed in October 2008 but had deteriorated significantly in recent days. There is some poignancy in that The Spanish Open is currently taking place in Barcelona. This was the last competition Ballesteros won at a professional golfer. Seve arrived on the scene in 1974 turning…

Tiger Woods rediscovered his old magic at Augusta National last night and after shooting a second round 66 now heads the bookmakers lists at a best priced 4.00 with Bet 365, Ladbrokes and Coral. As previously highlighted on Valuechecker Tiger Woods has a record second to none in the Masters and has looked on good terms with himself from the moment he drove up Magnolia Lane earlier in the week. The former world number one has now moved to within three strokes of the lead,…

With less than a fortnight to go until the 2011 US Masters kicks off punters are starting to look for value in the outright market and it's the European's that seem to be attracting most of the money. After his win in the Arnold Palmer Invitational last night it was probably no surprise to see Scotsman Martin Laird shorten up this morning with Boylesports, Stan James and Coral bookmakers now offering a top price of 67.00 for the twenty-eight year old to land a quick…

Just when Martin Kaymer thought things couldn't get any better the news arrives that either a win or a second place finish at the Andalucia Valderrama Masters on Sunday will propel him to the number one spot in World Golf, overtaking none other than Tiger Woods. In what has proved a nightmare year for Tiger, how ironic it would be if he finally lost his number one spot on Halloween. Quoted at a best priced 13/2 with Stan James to win this week, the young German has not…

It's not often you can get odds of 11/2 for Tiger Woods in a twelve-runner field, but that's what Stan James are offering for the World No.1 to register the most points for team USA in the Ryder Cup this week. Admittedly Tiger doesn't boast the best record in this event over previous years, but that was usually at the end of a long-hard season where he'd been mopping up event after event and would have came into this contest with one eye on a deserved winter…

The only slight surprise to come from Corey Pavin’s wildcard picks was the inclusion of young Ricky Fowler who joins the more obvious choices of Tiger Woods, Zach Johnson and Stewart Cink to do battle with Europe at Celtic Manor next month. Fowler, at just 21 years of age, will be playing in the Ryder Cup just one year after representing his country in the Walker Cup and despite three second places has yet to win an event on the US tour. Tiger Woods improved form over…