Masters 2015: Early Betting Odds from Vegas for Entire Field

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Published: April 6, 2015

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Welcome to perhaps the busiest month on the sports calendar. The national championship in college basketball, the beginning of the NBA playoffs and the first round of the NFL draft are all confined within April's 30 days.

Oh yeah, and there's a pretty huge golf tournament too. The world's best are all preparing to head to Augusta, Georgia, over the next few days for the Masters Tournament, golf's first major on the calendar and arguably its most prestigious. Green jackets have become synonymous with on-course excellence over the event's eight decades of existence, with very few all-time greats not having a moment in the Augusta sun.

Bubba Watson enters this week looking to become the first player in more than a decade to win back-to-back Masters titles. Looking to knock him off will be a field chock-full of greats from past and present. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods.)

With that in mind, let's take a look at the entire field and assess their chances of winning before Thursday's opening tee. (Note: All odds are via Odds Shark.)

 



The Favorites

Rory McIlroy (11-2)
Jordan Spieth (8-1)
Bubba Watson (10-1)

No surprises here. McIlroy and Spieth have established themselves as the two best golfers in the world, rankings be damned. (Spieth is No. 4 and had a chance to move up to No. 2 at the Houston Open, so we're not far off here.)

Watson is the world's third-ranked player and has won two of the last three Masters tournaments. When speaking of the logistical reasons behind the trio being pegged as favorites, there is a pretty clear through line.

Speaking on past performance alone, McIlroy is actually the least likely of the three to come away with a green jacket. He has never finished better than a tie for eighth, which is his only top-10 finish in six appearances. To put it another way, McIlroy is historically jus...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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