Golf tips, free bets and latest odds for the 2024 Olympic golf in Paris
IF you believe the bookies, only Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm stand between the Americans and a clean sweep of the medals in this week’s Olympic golf tournament.
World No 1 and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is a hot favourite to take gold, at a best priced 4-1, with defending Olympic champion Xander Schauffele - a two-time Major winner this year - clear second best at 6-1.
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McIlroy, an 8-1 shot and Rahm are next best in the market, with the Spaniard available at 10-1, a point lower than Collin Morikawa, the man the Yanks hope will join Scheffler and Schauffele on the podium.
But come on, this is the Olympics, and everyone loves to see an underdog do well. And it certainly happened in Tokyo, where the men who claimed silver and bronze behind Schauffele were Rory Sabbatini and CT Pan.
Pan actually beat the likes of McIlroy, Morikawa Hideki Matsuyama and three other players in a mass play-off for the bronze medal.
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Golf tips
The name that leaps out lower down the market is that of Guido Migliozzi, at a mouth-watering 80-1.
The Italian was an impressive winner of the French Open over the Olympic course in 2022, and local knowledge is likely to be invaluable at such a tricky course as LE Golf National.
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