The 37th Ryder Cup gets underway next week and we will be carrying a huge range of bets. It is one of those classic confrotnations between Europe and America, this year at the Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky, with the United States looking to record their first tournament victory over Europe since 1999.

But you can have an early tester with a bet on anyone to score a hole in one - 7/2 says, 4/25 says no. What do you think?

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Lee Westwood in the bunker at Oakland Hills during practice. Westwood is 24/. There are good odds on many well known names for this week’s US PGA Golf Open. Ian Poulter who almost snatched the British Open is 39/1 and sdpare a thought for Jose Maria Olazabal who is an insulting 149/1.  The course is notoriously difficult and nicknamed the Monster, so rather like with links anything could happen. And with the old boys like Greg Norman and Vijay Singh showing the up and comers a thing or two, maybe this is a bet that experience wins.

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The tee pins in South Korea’s elegant Se Ri Pa’s hairstyle tell another story of the Evian golf masters at the weekend, held at the home town of the water itself. The increasing prominence of Asian women players rising through the ranks to compete at the highest level. Michelle Wee may have caught the cameras attention but behind her is a posse of talented new generation swingers prowling the greens. Above is Ai Miyazato of japan letting rip with a huge driver. In the pink is Candie Kung of Taiwan. The striped t shirt is Momoko Ueda.This is Angela Park of South Korea weilding a massive head on her driver. Victory may have ultimately goen to Sweden’s Helen Alfredsson, but the smart money says it is just a matter of time before one of these girls starts picking up the winnings and the endorsements nad sponsorship that could follow.

British Open Golf. The second shot on the 17th on the last day was the defining moment. Padraig Harrington swung a flat iron whacked the ball Dambuster’s style so it skidded over the jaws of the bunkers and curled round under the flag to within two paces of the hole. He had not need to do it. It was a par five. He was two shots ahead and could have played safe for par. But it was the most audacious noble sporting shot of the summer, brave, heroic and compelling. Harrington emerged out of the swirling eye of the storms that had battered Royal Birkdale for four days and in the relative sunshine, a half smile on his lips played that sweetest of shots whweile everyone else was blown of course in the rough, in the bunkers. The brave, brave great white shark himself, Storming Norman, Greg Norman dropped 30 yards behind Harrington and in the bunker, a sad admission of tiredness, of age, of the elements, of concession that for Harrington the eagle had landed and with it a second successive British Open title. He had been 15/1 before the start, but on the course he never really looked like relinquishing his hold on the old claret jug unless Norman’s successive acts of genius might have snatched it from him. Just behind them Ian Poulter’s last day touch almost made him briodesmaid and he had been 65/1 at the beginning and even long odds on the Bristol amateur Chris Woods, all of which bodes well for the Ryder Cup to be held at Valhalla, Louisville Kentucky in September.

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