Can Adam Scott win it?

In case you didn’t know who Adam Scott is, we don’t either. But he is the defending champion here and that’s why he is the favorite to win the Valero Texas Open.

Adam Scott nearly won the Masters last week and it is no surprise to see him the 7-1 favorite at SBG. He is 10th on the PGA Tour in driving and he leads the tour in birdies or better on par 5’s.

Right behind Adam Scott in golf odds this week is Geoff Ogilvy at 9-1. Ogilvy tied for fourth last week at the Masters. This will be his first time playing in this event. Another first-timer at the TPC in San Antonio will be Martin Laird. He has played well all betting season, is seventh on the PGA Tour in all-around and he has finished 10th or better in three straight starts. Laird is the only player in the field this week who is ranked in the Top 10 of the FedExCup standings. Laird is the third choice in the betting at 13-1.

Ryan Palmer is a Texas native and he finished in a tie for 9th last season in this event and played well in the final round shooting a 64. Palmer is listed at 18.5 to 1. Following Palmer on the odds board are JB Holmes, Bo Van Pelt and Marc Leishman who are each 21-1.

Longshots seem to be winning every week on the PGA Tour. Let’s see if we can find a few to consider this week. Fredrik Jacobson finished second in this event a year ago and he tied for fifth in 2009. He is 38-1 in the betting. Jimmy Walker is another longshot contender. He finished tied for third last year in this event and he is sixth on the PGA Tour this season in adjusted scoring average. He has gotten some early action this week and his betting odds have already dropped to 23.5 to 1 at SBG.

Also at 23.5 to 1 is Anthony Kim. We’ll throw one more longshot in…

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Whatever it is, I’m assuming Tiger Woods wouldn’t want any mistresses to come out anymore.

Tiger Woods make his 2011 debut in the 2011 Farmers Insurance Open this week at Torrey Pines. This tournament goes all the way back to 1927 and for the most part was known as the Buick Invitational.

How good has Tiger Woods been in this tournament? He won it six times and he has basically owned the Torrey Pines course at San Diego in his career. There are actually two courses at Torrey Pines, North and South and the players will play once each on each course on Thursday and Friday with the final two rounds held on the South Course.

Check out the odds for the Farmers Insurance Open at SBG Global.com

The South Course at Torrey Pines is where the 2008 U.S. Open was played and Tiger won that tournament as well. Woods is the favorite this week with odds of +230 at SBG. Phil Mickelson is the second choice in the wagering. He will be making his 21st consecutive appearance in the tournament. He’s won the event three times and has seven top-five finishes.

While much of the attention will be on Tiger and Phil, neither has won a tournament in a while and neither should be favored. Tiger has fallen to third in the World rankings having not won a tournament in more than a year while Phil has fallen to sixth and has not won since last year’s Masters.

The defending champ is Ben Crane who won by a shot last year…

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Man, we saw this one coming a mile away.

And so, after nine months of turmoil over his extramarital affairs, now begins the next chapter in the life and times of Tiger Woods. In a hearing that lasted no more than 10 minutes in a Florida judge’s chambers, Woods and his Swedish-born wife officially divorced Monday.

“We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,” Woods and Elin Nordegren said in a joint statement released by their lawyers. The divorce was granted shortly after 2 p.m. in Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Fla., about 375 miles from their Isleworth home outside Orlando, where Woods drove his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree on Thanksgiving night. That set off shocking revelations that sports’ biggest star had been cheating on his wife through multiple affairs. Woods’ life and golf game have been in disarray ever since.

He and Nordegren were married Oct. 5, 2004, in Barbados and have a 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and an 18-month-old son, Charlie. Terms of the divorce—such as how much it will cost Woods—were not disclosed. They said only that they will “share parenting” of their two children. Nordegren, who for years tried to stay in the background, was captured on video by celebrity websites eating lunch or picking up her daughter from school.

“We love Elin, and we are so proud of the grace and strength she has shown during this difficult time,” her father, Thomas Nordegren, a talk show host at national broadcaster Swedish Radio, told The Associated Press. “We know that she will come out of this even stronger and has a bright future in front of her.”

The divorce was finalized by Bay County Circuit Judge…

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Tiger Woods is clinging on to his No. 1 spot by the tips of his fingernails.

That’s right, Tiger Woods has been struggling lately, having made what would be politely described as a low key, while the less courteous would say has been downright awful, return to the game.

As everyone notices, Woods is still scratching around for form following revelations of problems in his personal life, and he looks a long way from the form required to win a Major this year. In his prime, Woods amassed 14 Major titles in an 11-year period.

A tied-fourth finish at the Masters suggested normal service would be resumed pretty quickly, but since then he has gone off the radar – or to be precise his ball has gone off the radar – so far wide of the fairway has he been hitting.

A missed cut following a 79 at the Quail Hollow was backed up by a withdrawal when out of contention, on account of a neck injury, at the Players Championship.

He returned to action with a top-20 finish at the Memorial Tournament, but still did not look in control of his game.

Woods has had a fortnight to work on ironing out the faults, but it will have been a solo effort given he dole out with the services of his…

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Golf’s second major, the U.S. Open odds begins on Thursday with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson the co-favorites at SBG Global.

That’s right, those two are the favorites coming to the 2010 U.S. Open golf tournament. Phil Mickelson won the first major of the season, the Masters, a couple of months ago and now he tries for the second one of the year.

The odds on the board may favor Phil Mickelson but history does not. Only six times in history has a player won the first two legs of golf’s Grand Slam. Craig Wood did it back in 1941, Ben Hogan in 1951 and 1953, Arnold Palmer in 1960, Jack Nicklaus in 1972 and Tiger Woods in 2002.

Mickelson has won four majors in his career but none in his home state of California. He loves Pebble Beach as he has won the Pro-Am tournament a few times. Mickelson could take over the number one ranking in the world if he is able to win this week.

Tiger Woods is still the number one player in the world even though he has not played well this year. The last time the U.S. Open betting was held at Pebble Beach was ten years ago and Woods won by an amazing 15 shots. He is not the same player he was ten years ago and although he is a co-favorite with Mickelson, that honor is based on his reputation, not his recent play.

The defending U.S. Open champion is Lucas Glover and…

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Looks like somebody still wants to milk sports’ biggest cash cow.

Having initially approached Tiger Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg (IMG), in January, then, as requested, again in March by fax, BodogBrand are now at a stage to resubmit a third offer that is unique in sponsorship terms as it includes a ‘no moral judgement clause’.

In case you didn’t know, both BodogBrand and Irish bookmaker Paddy Power submitted an offer to sponsor Tiger Woods earlier this year. However unlike BodogBrand, Paddy Power were turned down. We assume this is because the brand fit is wrong.

With divorce looming and other speculation growing, BodogBrand have now retailored their sponsorship offer and are now pleased to submit a first ever ‘no moral conditions’ offer whereby the $100,000,000 five-year deal will be honored without condition on the player’s moral conduct.

With divorce an increasingly likely outcome and speculation about a multitude of other ‘sins,’ BodogBrand feel they are the only ones who can extend a deal that will be totally unaffected by any non-golf related activity but in fact actively encourages endorsees, employees and customers alike to ‘Play Hard.’

BodogBrand is reportedly happy to sponsor and help…

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Heeere comes Tiger.

Considered as golf’s most famous and prestigious tournament, the 2010 Augusta Masters will be extra special this year because, obviously, everybody will be anxious to see the return of Tiger Woods since news of his adultery broke out last Thanksgiving.

The anticipation of the return of Tiger Woods could make this year’s Masters the most watched golf tournament in television history. Can Tiger reclaim his throne on top of the food chain? Can he recapture the greatness he once had before all the controversy? And most importantly, can Tiger win the 2010 Masters?

We have quite a few names to throw at you as far as who we think CAN win this year’s tournament in Augusta, starting off with probably the odds-on favorite to win it this year and surprisingly, he’s not Tiger Woods.

Ernie Els is the overwhelming favorite. The field is as wide open as it’s been in over a decade, but Els seems to have found his game again. He won twice in March with wins at the WGC-CA Championship and the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He clearly has momentum going for him and it’ll be interesting to see how much he fares in this tournament with Tiger Woods back.

We also have Anthony Kim. He was so close to becoming the next great American player. He held off Vaughn Taylor in a playoff to win the Shell Houston Open. Kim is a confident player, and he is one of the players who come into the majors playing well. Last year he set the record for 11 birdies in a round at the Masters. He has a great shot at the title this year.

Of course, we also have to throw Phil Mickelson in there. Mickelson has…

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In case you haven’t heard, Woods is trying to get his life back together now that he’s back together again with his wife.

That’s right, Elin Nordegren has agreed to return with Tiger Woods to their Isleworth home in Florida like they just woke up from a bad dream, an expensive one at that, pretending like nothing happened. This is probably Tiger’s first step towards rebuilding what was once a very clean image that will probably win him the presidency if he ever wanted to run for office.

Of course, Tiger Woods knows he has to come back at the top of his golf game first and he intends to spend the coming weeks practicing his swings while probably flirting with sponsors to get the endorsement deals he lost through this ordeal. Having his wife and family aboard is what the sponsors want anyway and now that Tiger has ‘em again on his side, all he can do now is hope guys like Gatorade and Gillette takes him back.

”The marriage is all smoke and mirrors, but Elin will help Tiger rebuild his image and gain new sponsorships because this is what his life is all about, she is doing this more for the kids and holding the family together then anything else,” a source said.

Woods, the source believes, will not come back to the world of golf until he can once again knock down 100-foot putts. Since he has been away from his daily routine, he will need to practice a lot more to return to where he was before news about his infidelity broke out.

”Tiger is a super jock, but it takes time to go back when you have been away from it. I am not sure he will be ready for either the Masters or even the U.S. Open. He will know when he is ready, and then he had better knock ‘em dead,” the source said.

As for his wife, sources say she is a major asset to his…

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Yep, after Howard Stern hinted that he’ll be hosting something like this on his radio show for weeks, guess what, HE ACTUALLY DID.

In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, Tiger Woods has been losing all kinds of endorsement deals lately after the public found out that the very clean and polite sports icon has been cheating on his wife all this time.

Unbelievable ain’t it? This was after Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, smashed their SUV into a fire hydrant on Thanksgiving, leading some to believe that there was some kind of marital spat between the two inside the vehicle that led to the unfortunate accident.

Rachel Uchitel was the first of Tiger Woods’ mistresses that the public learned about, probably because it was Uchitel who Nordegren initially accused Tiger of cheating with. Soon, every other one of Tiger’s mistresses came out, all probably longing to have the same media attention the other has been getting.

And boy, there sure were a lot of them.

And since all of them are grade A asses suitable for a sports icon like Tiger Woods, Howard Stern couldn’t help himself but go grab a piece of the phenomenon. So, he hosted a beauty pageant exclusively for all of Tiger’s lovely mistresses on the Howard Stern Show. Unfortunately, Rachel Uchitel couldn’t be on it after she agreed to some kind of deal with…

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The controversy surrounding Tiger Woods continues even though he has settled his problems with police officials.

How come? Get this, several other women are coming forward claiming they had affairs with Tiger Woods. One of those women is Jaimee Grubbs and she has come forward to US Weekly.

Another woman has voice mails from Tiger and is in talks with a national outlet to reveal her sexual affair with the golfing great. Several national media outlets are in contact with other women who say the have had sexual contact with Tiger while he married to Elin Nordegren.

It all adds up to the ”Tiger Woods cheating scandal” turning into an even bigger national story, despite his attempts to defuse various reports with a statement on his web site asking for privacy and attacking rumors.

A day before the crash, the National Enquirer published an exclusive story linking him to Rachel Uchitel, a party planner who has vehemently denied an affair with Tiger. Woods was injured around 2:25 a.m. Friday after crashing his SUV into a fire hydrant. The police closed the investigation Tuesday with a $164 fine and points against his driver’s license.

Due to injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week…

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