Paul Casey favourite to win the inaugural Volvo Golf Championship in Bahrain
January 25, 2011 · Print This Article
The Volvo Golf Championships starts on 27th January 2011 and runs to the 30th of January, it is hosted from The Royal Golf Club in Bahrain. The course was designed by Colin Montgomerie and is a 7,243-yard, 72 par course. This tournament will mark the events inaugural event and is a Tournament of Champions which will see European Tour winners competing together with the leading amateurs on one day of the tournament. For the 2011 event their will 126 players made up from past and current European Tour winners.
Paul Casey has emerged as the bookies favourite to win the tournament at quite good odds of 8/1, even though his last major European win was the BMW PGA Championship in 2009. Also in the mix is Irish golfer Padraig Hamilton at odds of 12/1 who will be hoping for some good fortune following his disqualification from the 2011 Abu Dhabi Golf Championship. Hamilton was removed from event after a television viewer noticed that he brushed the back of his ball as he replaced it in front of his marker and failed to mark it on his scoresheet as a 2 point penalty, slow motion replays showed the ball moved around 5mm.
Padraig Harrington ballgate incident
The moment that cost Hamilton his spot in the 2011 Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
2011 Volvo Golf Championship
All odds for the top 11 players in this market come from bookers Ladbrokes and are subject to change.
- 8/1- Paul Casey
- 10/1 – Robert Karlsson
- 12/1 – Francesco Molinari
- 12/1 – Ian Poulter
- 12/1 – Padraig Harrington
- 20/1 – Alvaro Quiros
- 20/1 – Miguel Angel Jimenez
- 25/1 – Matteo Manassero
- 33/1 – Edoardo Molinari
- 33/1 – Peter Hanson
- 33/1 – Sergio Garcia
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Cash back offer
There is a cash back offer availale to this game which comes from the bookies Betfred. If you back a player to win the tournament that finishes in second place to Paul Casey then they will refund all of the losing single bets that have been made on the outright market.
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