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The most popular bet in golf is undoubtedly backing a player in the outright market, either to win or each way. Such a bet sees you select one player from the entire field meaning you have to rely on a good dose of luck for your bet to come in. Another common golf bet is a 72 hole match bet, which sees you back on one player\u2019s performance versus just one other player, this gives you a much better chance of success given there are only two players in it.<\/p>\n
The markets we are looking at here lie somewhere in between those two. As with those options, this is a bet on a single player over the course of the entire tournament but with this wager you are backing them to be the best out of a defined group of players. You will sometimes see this listed, certainly in the betting rules, as \u201cTournament Group Betting\u201d.<\/p>\n
There are many different \u201cTop X\u201d style bets with different bookies offering different options of groups. Some of the most common ones include:<\/p>\n
Note that not all bookies will offer all of these options, with groups such as top US, European and UK or British the ones you are most likely to see. On the other hand, you may well see other group options at some bookmakers. Betting sites are always trying to outdo one another when it comes to weirder and more wonderful bets and so you may well see the \u201cTop \u2026\u201d market offered on just about any identifiable demographic.<\/p>\n
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As with tournament match bets, you are simply selecting the player from that group who you think will perform best. As with many of the more unusual markets around, the rules in certain circumstances may vary slightly from one bookie to the next, so if you have any doubts just check with them by contacting their support team.<\/p>\n
However, in general the main thing to be aware of is that when you click on, for example \u201cTop Irish Player\u201d, all the players that bookie is including will be shown as available options. That means that if Rory McIlroy isn\u2019t there, this site probably isn\u2019t including Northern Irish players (they may have made a mistake of course, or Rory may have withdrawn).<\/p>\n
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The odds can vary a lot depending on how many players fall within the category of the market. On the PGA Tour, where in most tournaments a very high percentage of the field is American, the odds in Top American will not be all<\/em> that different from the main outright market. So the favourite might be a little shorter, perhaps 6\/1, with outsiders priced at triple-digit odds.<\/p>\n