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Behind the Bets: How to bet on Augusta

By Chad Millman
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The driving force behind betting and booking golf is no different than anything else in the game: There is Tiger Woods, and then there is everyone else. Oddsmakers go out of their way to put up lines and props and matchups that tempt the public to bet on Tiger. Not that anyone needs all that much incentive. "He gets it going," says oddsmaker Jeff Sherman, the golf expert at the Hilton in Vegas. "Handle goes down when he's not playing." Sherman, who is so committed to golf linemaking he has a ...

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