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Odds look slim for Ian Poulter to retain his WGC Accenture Match Play Championship title

The WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship runs from 23rd – 27th February and comes from the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Marana, Arizona. The tournament is knockout event that features 64 players taken from the Official World Golf Rankings. The players are seeded according to their rankings and the prize money on offer this year is $8.5 million with the winner walking away with $1.4 million.

The tournament was won in 2010 by England’s Ian Poulter who will be defending his title in this years event but is quite far down the pecking ordere at odds of 28/1. Last years runner up was fellow Englishman Paul Casey who is sharing the honour of being the favourite to win this year with the former world number one golfer Tiger Woods and Martin Kaymer with all three golfers looking at odds of 14/1 to win the tournament.

All odds for this market are supplied by internet bookmakers Bet 365.

14/1 – Paul Casey14/1 – Martin Kaymer14/1 – Tiger Woods16/1 – Rory McIlroy18/1 – Phil Mickelson20/1 – Lee Westwood22/1 – Graeme McDowell25/1 – Geoff Ogilvy28/1 – Dustin Johnson28/1 – Luke Donald28/1 – Ian Poulter28/1 – Steve Stricker28/1 – Nick Watney33/1 – Ernie Els33/1 – Hunter Mahan40/1 – Retief Goosen40/1 – Jim Furyk

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Written by Haydon Eckles · Filed Under Bet365, Bookmakers, Golf, Majors, Sport 
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