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Bet BMW PGA Championship Online: Luke Donald has made the famous West Course his own of late and arrives at Wentworth Club with a historic three-peat in his sights at the BMW PGA Championship. Only Colin Montgomerie has achieved such a feat, the eight-time European Number One winning the European Tour’s flagship event in 1998, 1999 and 2000, but now Donald has an opportunity to follow suit after successfully defending the title 12 months ago.  Continue...

Bet Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Online: Colonial Country Club, 7,204 yards, par 70, will once again host the 2013 Crowne Plaza Invitational. Colonial’s combination of tight fairways and doglegs has been acclaimed since its 1936 opening and still today is one of the toughest stops on the PGA Tour. Colonial is designed for flat out ball-strikers; players that hit the fairways and greens are the ones to keep your eyes on this week.  Continue...

Bet HP Byron Nelson Championship Online: TPC Four Seasons Resort will host the 2013 HP ByronNelson Championship for the 28th year in a row. The course measures 7,166 yards and plays to a par of70. The venue underwent a major overhaul in 2007 by D.A. Weibring and Steve Wolfard. The new layouthas large, undulating greens, encouraging players to use slopes to work their shots closer to the pin – butwith runoffs and closely mown areas just off the putting surface that will penalize poor shots. If the windblows at all the players are in for a real challenge.  Continue...

Bet The PLAYERS Championship Online: The 40th edition of The PLAYERS Championship begins this week and it always boasts the deepest field of any non-major. World No. 1 Tiger Woods and defending champion Matt Kuchar head the list of a world class field this week. Overall, the field features each of the top 30 in this week’s world rankings and 38 of the top 40. Woods, with three wins in 2013, tries again to solve a course that may have given him the most fits among those he regularly plays. He owns just one top-10 finish since his lone PLAYERS win in 2001, with injury forcing him to withdraw twice in the past three editions.  Continue...

Bet Wells Fargo Championship Golf Online: Quail Hollow Club will host the 2013 Wells Fargo Championship for the 11th straight year and a strong field is ready to compete this week in Charlotte. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy, the 2010 winner, and U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, a Quail Hollow resident, headline a lineup that features 10 of the top 25 in this week’s world rankings. Other notables include Phil M  Continue...

Bet Zurich Classic Online: TPC Louisiana will host the 2013 Zurich Classic for the 8th consecutive year. The course is located in the suburbs just west of New Orleans, the 2004 Pete Dye design measures 7,425 yards and plays to a par of 72. The layout winds through some 250 acres of Louisiana wetlands along the Mississippi River delta. The course features more than 100 bunkers, plus several large waste bunkers along the first six holes of the back nine.  Continue...

Bet RBC Heritage Golf Online: Harbour Town Golf Links, 7,101 yards, par 71 will once again host the 2013 RBC Heritage. Although it is one of the shortest layouts on the PGA TOUR schedule it remains a timeless test. Narrow fairways and small greens combine to create a strategic challenge, requiring well-positioned shots to create birdie opportunities. Despite Harbour Town’s definitive lack of length, only 26 men in the event's 44-year history have managed to break 70 in all four rounds.  Continue...

Bet 2013 Masters Online: April is here and the first major of the year has arrived. This could be my favorite week of the year as far as sports goes; Monday night the finals of the NCAA Basketball Tournament and three days later the start of The Masters. It doesn’t get any better than that.  Continue...

Bet Valero Texas Open Online: The Valero Texas Open has a new date and serves as the warm-up act to the Masters for the first time, thanks to a calendar quirk that puts an extra weekend into the pre-Masters schedule. The final invitation to Augusta National awaits the winner of this week’s Valero Texas Open.  Continue...

Bet Shell Houston Open Online: Current world No. 2 Rory McIlroy returns to Redstone for the first time since 2010 and headlines the field this week at the 2013 Shell Houston Open. Joining him is defending champion Hunter Mahan in a field that features 11 of the top 25 in this week’s world rankings. Reigning FedExCup champion Brandt Snedeker also added Houston to his schedule, playing back-to-back in his return from a rib injury.  Continue...

Bet Arnold Palmer Invitational Online: The Florida Swing comes to a conclusion this week when The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard gets underway. Bay Hill Club & Lodge, 7,419 yards, par 72, will again host the event and the 1961 Dick Wilson design has held strong over the years. Palmer has tinkered with the design a lot over the years, but appears satisfied with a makeover now set to host its fourth edition.  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead) will once again host the Tampa Bay Championship. Measuring 7,340 yards, the par 71 offers tree-lined fairways and rolling terrain which is unusual for a Florida course. The 1972 Larry Packard design is far different visual opposed to the flatter layouts around the rest of the Florida Swing. Double doglegs a wait on two par-5s, putting a premium on positioning to reach the green in two. The final three holes have been dubbed the “Snake Pit,” with two bruising par-4s sandwiched around the 215-yard 17th.  Continue...

Bet WGC Cadillac Championship: TPC Blue Monster at Trump Doral hosts the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship for the seventh time this week and it's served as site of the limited-field, no-cut competition since the start of the FedExCup in 2007. The course hasn’t changed much over the years but it sets up like a shootout with most intriguing holes at its conclusion.  Continue...

Bet WGC Accenture Match Play Championship: The first World Golf Championships event of the 2013 season returns to The Golf Club at Dove Mountain this week when all of the world’s elite golfers tee it up in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. The 32 First Round matches begin Wednesday with Hunter Mahan (No. 25) looking to defend his title and retain the Walter Hagen Cup. Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Luke Donald and Louis Oosthuizen, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, respectively, in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), are the No. 1 seeds in their respective brackets.  Continue...

Bet Northern Trust Open Online: Infamous Riviera CC will host the Northern Trust Open for the 51st consecutive year and the field is the strongest and deepest of 2013 on the PGA Tour.

World No. 3 Luke Donald, No. 7 Adam Scott and British Open champion Ernie Els get their PGA TOUR seasons underway, as the international wing comes to U.S. shores to prepare for next week’s World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play.  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: The 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am will once again be played on three different courses. Pebble Beach Golf Links is a par 72. Yet, at 6,816 yards, it's the shortest course on the PGA TOUR. The absence of distance tee to green hasn't prevented long hitters from emerging victorious but length can be ruled out as a necessary means to contend.  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open: The PGA Tour heads to Arizona this week for the 2013 Waste Management Phoenix Open. Seven of the top 25 players in the world are on hand for what promises to be an exciting event. TPC Scottsdale will once again host the tournament and over the years has enjoyed its fair share of memorable moments; you may recall Tiger Woods' one-hop, raise-the-roof ace at the 16th hole in 1997 or the loose impediment otherwise known as a boulder that spectators shifted for Woods on the 13th hole two years later.  Continue...

Bet Farmers Insurance Open: Since 1968, both courses at Torrey Pines -- the North and the South, both par 72s -- have co-hosted this tournament. Each of the 156 in the field will play the North Course once before the 36-hole cut of low 70 and ties. Once that falls, only the South will be used for the final two rounds. Taking it as low as possible on the North is a prerequisite. Snedeker shot 64 in the sec  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: Last year the competition was reduced to 72 holes for the first time in history and only three courses were employed, also an event-low; and the amateur component was refined, including a professionals-only finale. Tournament officials thought that by changing the tournament to four days that it would attract a stronger field, but it doesn’t look like it helped that much with onl  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: The first full field event on the PGA Tour gets underway this week in Honolulu, Hawaii. Defending champion Johnson Wagner, U.S. Open winner Webb Simpson and Keegan Bradley are among 19 participants at Kapalua who are scheduled to play both ends of the Hawaiian double which will add spice to the tournament.  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: It all is on the line this week in Orlando and different goals remain for the 128 in the field this week. For some, cracking the top 70 on the money list is the target as it would secure exemptions into the 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance. In addition, the top 80 are exempt into the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. But for any in the field of 128 stressing over finishing inside the top 125 on the money list, if he fails to convert, he won't be able to blame it on the absence of birdie opportunities on either track.  Continue...

Bet CIMB Classic: A limited field that will include Tiger Woods will tee it up this week in Lumpur, Malaysia. The field of 48 at The MINES Resort will want to hit the ground running on Thursday if they want to be in contention over the weekend. In its first two years as host, the par-71 layout has yielded actual scoring averages of 68.606 and 69.031. In comparison to courses that host official PGA TOUR events, it would rank among the most vulnerable. In 2010, it would have been the easiest par 71 of the year. Last year, it would have checked in as third-easiest. In other words take it low this week. Because there is no cut and the field is small, aggressive play is rewarded.  Continue...

Bet PGA Grand Slam of Golf: Masters Champion Bubba Watson, U.S. Open Champion Webb Simpson, three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, and defending Champion Keegan Bradley form the elite foursome that will compete Oct. 22-24, at Bermuda's Port Royal Golf Course in the 30th PGA Grand Slam of Golf. It will be the rookie appearance for Watson and Simpson, while 2011 PGA Champion Bradley returns to Port Royal Golf Course where he won last year's PGA Grand Slam of Golf title.  Continue...

Bet PGA Tour Golf Online: This week the PGA Tour heads to Sea Island, Georgia for this year's McGladrey Classic. The infamous Seaside Course awaits the players and the venue is an old school type layout and doesn’t give any advantage to the long hitters.  Continue...

Bet Frys.com Open: The year is coming to an end with only three tournaments left on the 2012 schedule. This week the tour heads back to California for the Frys.com Open where players will be fighting to finish in the top 125 to retain their playing rights for 2013.  Continue...