Well, we’re headed into my favorite time of year. It’s early September and right around the corner will be cooler temperatures, the changing of the leaves and of course…football will be in full swing. Now I have said before that when football season starts, my golf season comes to an end. But that’s not exactly true.
Fall is also my favorite time of year for golf, mainly for the first two reasons mentioned above – golf is much more fun to play when you are comfortable, and depending upon where you’re playing, the changing leaves make it a more aesthetically pleasing experience as well.
However, if I play golf on a Sunday, I want to be home on my sofa by 1:00. Besides just watching football, one of my favorite things about the sport is betting on it. Whether it’s straight up betting, playing fantasy football or getting into a knock-out pool, putting a little money on the game makes everything more interesting.
As a matter of fact, it’s not just football. I’d be willing to put money on anything. However, I’ve never really done much along the lines of betting on golf, except of course for betting out on the course. But maybe it’s time I change that. The problem for me is, I just don’t really know how to easily bet on golf.
Sure, I could go on a site such as Betfair and get the odds for each tournament. But then what? Do I go to a guy at work and tell him I’ll give him 7-to-5 on Rory? People just don’t bet like that. Maybe we just do it like we did some horse racing – all of the names go in a hat and you pull one.
Maybe you only put a certain number of names in there and one of them is “The field.” Or maybe we do like we did World Cup Soccer where we just picked a country ourselves and went with it. I suppose there are plenty of options and ways to go, but choosing one is going to be the hard part.
However, the easy part is knowing that I need to get in on the action and bring some people along with me. After all, if the money helps get people more interested in the game, then I may actually be doing the game a service, right?
Swing ’til you’re happy!
