PADDY POWER US MASTERS BETTING TIPS

Tiger Woods remains the 2/1 favourite to secure another Green Jacket at the 2009 US Masters. Paddy Power has been shuffling things around all day as the action got underway at Augusta this morning. Padraig Harrington is now the 2nd favourite at 7/1 with Phil Mickelson dropping back to 11/1 ahead of 14/1 Geoff Ogilvy. As it currently stands, we've seen strong first day performances by Shingo Katayama, Chad Campbell, Tim Clark and Ross Fisher. Miguel Angel Jimenez is also in contention and I'm confident that he'll have a good tournament. We've got a whole slew of golfers tied for ninth spot at -2. Conditions look good at Augusta right now and you really couldn't have asked for better weather. I think this opens the tournament up a bit, but I'm still confident of a solid late charge by Tiger. At the time of this writing Rory McIlroy is still yet to tee off, but he has a lot of backers in the home nations and there are a lot of expectations on him. If he finishes in the top 10 it will be a very big deal. Paddy Power has a number of different promotions for the 2009 US Masters. They're doing live in-play match betting, in addition to paying out extra places on each-way bets on outright winner. One trend we've seen over the past few days is a number of bets coming in on UK and Irish golfers. In fact, it's gotten to the point where the bookmakers are hoping for a Tiger Woods victory to avoid any large payouts. I think they'll be in luck, but if conditions stay clear, I think this could be anyone's tournament.