2023 Masters: Historic odds hand huge boost to Tiger Woods, who could roar to victory and a 16th major championship

TIGER WOODS has been given a huge boost in his chances of winning this weekend’s Masters at Augusta from looking at historic odds of the tournament.

Betfair have calculated that the since the 2012 Masters, the average odds of the winner has been 40/1, and this year the bookies have Woods winning at Augusta priced at… 40/1.

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Woods won his 15th major title and his first in 11 years back in 2019 when upsetting the odds to win a fifth green jacket following his surprised victory at Augusta.

The American went into the tournament with 20/1 odds, with the odds doubled this time around coming into the first major of the year.

Joaquin Niemann, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrrell Hatton are the other names priced at 40/1 to win at Augusta this weekend.

Danny Willett caused the biggest upset to the odds back in 2016 when he became just the second Englishman to win the Masters, and started the week with odds of 80/1.

Two years later Patrick Reed won with pre-tournament odds of 70/1, as did Hideki Matsuyama just a couple of years ago.

Over the last year 11 tournaments, Dustin Johnson’s win in 2020 came with the shortest odds at 9/1.

Scottie Scheffler won his first and so far only major championship at Augusta last year, starting with odds of 18/1 – and goes into this weekend’s edition as the joint favourite at 11/2.

The defending champions is joined by Rory McIlroy as joint favourite, with last year’s runner up still yet to win at Augusta which would complete a career grand slam for the Northern Irishman.

Jon Rahm has the next shortest odds at 7/1 as the Spaniard looks to win his second career major following his victory in the US Open two years ago.

2015 champion Jordan Spieth has been given odds of 12/1, with Patrick Cantlay at 14/1 and current Open champion Cameron Smith at 16/1.

Betfair spokesperson Sam Rosbottom said: “The first golf major of the year is upon us and history is on the side of Tiger Woods at Augusta this week.

“We’ve been looking into the Betfair archive, and the average odds of the Masters winner since 2012 is 40/1, which is exactly the odds that punters can back the five-time champion.

“Rory McIlroy came so close to a career Grand Slam when coming second in last year’s event and it could be a memorable Masters for him this year as he goes into the tournament as the 11/2 joint-favourite along with 2022 winner Scottie Scheffler, to finally win the elusive green jacket.

“It’s been a rocky year for golf, with many high profile stars breaking away from the PGA tour and all eyes will be on the 18 LIV Golf players who are set to compete in this year’s US Masters.

“Reigning Open champion Cameron Smith is the most fancied LIV Golfer to win the Masters at 16/1, while 2020 winner Dustin Johnson is 20/1.”

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