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Sports betting doesn’t get much better than golf, and the reason we say that is because the fields of competitors are always so huge that the odds generally always offer significant value. Even world number ones and obvious favourites are likely to start at no less than 8/1. Also, because of the nature of the game, there are loads of different markets to exploit.

Outright Tournament Winner Betting

The most straightforward wager that there is, and ever will be. This simply means to put down a wager on the player that you believe will win the tournament. The odds that you can see at your chosen online bookmaker will give you an idea of a) your player’s likelihood of success and b) how much you can win if your golfer does indeed go on to win the tournament outright.

Round One Leader Betting

On each day of the tournament, all competing players must play a full round of golf, which involves 18 holes. On any of those days, you can bet on the player that will be sitting on the top of the leaderboard by the close of that day’s play. This particular bet references the first day of the French Open, but any day will do – as your pick finishes as that day’s leader, you’ll receive a winner’s payout.

Winning Nationality

A bet on the winning nationality allows you to bet on the tourney’s winner, but also leaves a little wriggle room for other nationals to help you make a winning payout. Of course, if there are a number of the same nationals playing in the tournament, the odds will shorten on that nation’s chances of success.

So, if you are backing a golfer from the UK and there are more UK-based players in the field than there are other nationalities, then the odds will be lower than, say, for an Irish national, because it is quite likely that Ireland will have fewer entrants.

This being a French event, there will be a strong chance of a local winner. You can also bet on the winner’s continent, but this often works better on the PGA, where even more players come from further afield.

Top Ten Finish Betting

There will be over 100 golfers teeing off on Thursday’s opening day, with this bet requiring you to nominate a golfer or golfers who you think will finish in the top 10. This bet can also work with top five and top 20 finishing players.

Note that this is not the same thing as an each-way bet. With the latter, you “insure” your outright bet a little bit by doubling – or halving – your stake in order to create two wagers for one bet. As a result,  you have backed a player to win, but also to place, i.e. finish among the top few places. The number of paid places will often depend on the bookie you bet with, as many different betting sites will, by way of promotion, offer varying amounts of places per tourney that they will pay out on.

Miss the Cut Betting

Because golf tournaments have such high fields of competitors, they use what is known as a cut to trim the field roughly in half at the tourney’s half-way point. Golf events typically last four days – Thursday through Sunday – which is why a cut is introduced after day two, the Friday.

The idea is that the cut will eliminate the stragglers from those doing well. Those that make the cut will continue to play in the competition over the weekend. This creates a fun betting opportunity where you can bet on a player to miss the cut. It stands to reason that the better the player, the more likely they are to make the cut – so if they miss it, which is actually pretty common, the higher the odds will be.

The reverse is true for making the cut at the French Open betting, another fantastic betting opportunity.

History of the Open de France

The Open de France has been part of the European Tour since the tour was launched in 1972. It also is the oldest national golf open in Europe outside of the UK and was inaugurated in 1906. The Open Championship, one of modern golf’s four majors, is the oldest in Europe, having been founded in 1860.

Golf had already been popularised in France by the British, who were living there from around halfway through the 19th century as evidenced by the founding of the le Pau Golf Club in 1856. Around the turn of the 20th century, the Golf de Paris directors, inspired by the Open Championship in the UK, decided to create a French equivalent. On the 30th of June and the 1st of July 1906, Pierre Deschamps, the Golf de Paris president, organised the Omnium Grand Championship on the grounds of La Boulie.

Today run by the Fédération Française de Golf (French Golf Federation), the Open de France is held at Le Golf National. Prior to 1991, the tournament had no fixed venue, and had been hosted by the French cities of Le Touquet, Dieppe, Deauville, Biarritz, Lyon, and Chantilly, among other venues. Since moving to Le Golf National, it has been held there every year except 1999 and 2001, when it was moved to Medoc and Lyon respectively.

From 2004 onwards, qualification routes, similar to those employed by the Open Championship and the US Masters, were introduced. In 2021, the tournament had its first ever host in Grégory Havret, who became the first in the illustrious history of the event.

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ThePuntersPage Final Say

One of the highlights of the European Tour, not to mention one of the oldest, the French Open golf tournament is held at Le Golf National every year, assembling the best golfers in Europe and many more from the US, the Americas, and Asia.

It also distributes points towards the Race To Dubai where, at the end of the season, the highest-ranked 110 players are rewarded for their performance by qualifying for the following season.

Le Golf National always plays a crucial role in determining who these players will be. As such, and in its own right, few stops along the way are as prestigious as the Open de France, where the golf action is only ever fierce.