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\"Golf\"Although it trails football and horse racing by some margin, golf is narrowly the third most popular betting sport in the UK.<\/p>\n

Its strong following is not only found in the birthplace of the game itself though, as betting activity comes from all over the globe.<\/p>\n

This is hardly surprising when you consider the huge audiences that major golf tournaments regularly attract.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this, provided you are based in a country where online gambling is legal, finding a website to place your golf bets is rarely a challenge.<\/p>\n

Some websites are better than others when it comes to golf of course, but generally speaking, it is something bookmakers cover well.<\/p>\n

How to Bet on Golf<\/h2>\n

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From a betting perspective, golf is unlike most other sports. Rather than having lots of fixtures where it\u2019s one person or team versus another, professional golf operates by having semi-regular, high-participation tournaments.<\/p>\n

Although golfers can be paired up (or made into threesomes), for a tournament they aren\u2019t directly competing against one another in the normal sense. Instead, everyone is competing against everyone else as they all seek the lowest score possible.<\/p>\n

Another way in which golf differs from most other sports is that choosing the winner of an event tends to be a much tougher ask. There are a lot of players involved in each tournament (usually over 100) and there is often not a great deal between many of them.<\/p>\n

This means that even the tournament favourite can have a double-digit price, or very close to it. While picking a tournament winner may be a little daunting though, this is far from the only way you can bet on golf.<\/p>\n

Main Bets on Golf<\/h2>\n

For what is a very simple game, in theory, golf comes with a surprisingly large number of different markets. You are likely to come across a huge selection for any major tournament, often broken down into two or three sections.<\/p>\n

We will cover the most popular options within each section here to give you an idea of what to expect.<\/p>\n

Tournament Markets<\/h3>\n

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To begin with, we will look at tournament markets, these being markets that relate to the entire event.<\/p>\n