Playing The US PGA Odds: Hole-In-One market

US PGA Championship / Steven Rawlings / 11 August 2009 /

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The par 3 4th at Hazeltine – the hole most likely to yield an ace this week.

"If I manage to get [1.74] or better that there wont be an ace, then I may well play, with a view to laying some of the bet back on the weekend, if the nerves waiver."

Steve isn't so sure whether playing this 'fun' market is fun after all...

Trying to gauge whether someone will make an ace on a course last used seven years ago may well prove to be an exercise in futility but it's a fun market and my stakes won't be too high, so I'll have a go.

Having looked at the course guide, the most likely hole to yield a hole in one is the first of the par threes, the 4th. In the 1991 US Open at Hazeltine, both Fuzzy Zoeller and John Inman made aces, and that's not the same bloke who played Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served by the way...

The other par three holes look much tougher though and my instinct is to plump for 'No', but I must warn you I backed 'Yes' at both the US Masters and US Open this year and was wrong on both occasions, and while I didn't play the market at the British Open, I would have gone for 'No' and Thomas Levet managed one on the final day!

If I manage to get [1.74] or better that there wont be an ace, then I may well play, with a view to laying some of the bet back on the weekend, if the nerves waiver. I'd be happy that the price would be fair but I just know I'd then spend my time watching the coverage dreading the moment that the producers inevitably cut to an out of contention player standing on a par three tee. And then it will just be a case of holding my breath and waiting to see whether it goes in or misses by the narrowest of margins! Is that fun? I'm not too sure...

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