Phil Mickelson Masters Absence Major Loss for US Sportsbooks

Phil Mickelson for the firstly clip since 1994 won’t follow at capital of Maine National Golf Club for the Masters.

Augusta National confirmed this week that the 51-year-old will non compete April 7-10 at the 2022 Masters. Mickelson won the putting green jacket in 2004, 2006, and 2010. He exited public living finally month amid a highly publicised dirt regarding his unfavorable judgment of the PGA Tour.

Lefty’s absence will follow mat up at US sportsbooks. Oddsmakers reported substantial Masters process on Mickelson, despite long betting odds that he would still tee up it up.

Mickelson played inwards three PGA Tour events inward 2022 before his public withdrawal. After a T30 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in ahead of time January, Mickelson missed the track at The American Express and Farmers Insurance Open. He was a combined 10 o'er par in those 2 tournaments.

Despite his lustreless play, Mickelson’s seemingly unending heroics at capital of Maine National prompted many sports bettors to lay downwardly activity on the three-time Masters champ.

Bets Voided

BetMGM told Casino.org this calendar week that Mickelson was responsible for 1.4% of both its tickets and overall money play for the 2022 Masters. Only 19 players present more liability for BetMGM among the intact field, which varies past year, but testament live rough 90 players, present or get hold of a few.

With Mickelson staying aside from capital of Maine National this year, all bets on him winning a quaternary viridity jacket next month are voided. That, of course, isn’t ideal for sportsbooks same BetMGM, which were gladly taking money on Mickelson winning golf’s for the first time major of the year. BetMGM had Mickelson at 125/1 — or implied odds of 0.79 percent — before his withdrawal.

It’s unclear whether Mickelson is suspended from the PGA Tour, as the system is tight-lipped on disciplinary matters. Augusta National is fifty-fifty more secretive with its inner workings. But the tournament reclassified Mickelson on its 2022 theater listing from “Invitees” to “Past Champions Not Playing.”

Mickelson, nor the Masters, made any prescribed commentary on his forthcoming absence.

Woods Unlikely, Too

In what’s a nearly worst-case scenario, the 2022 Masters will potential live without the biggest public figure inward the sportswoman for a endorsement serial year. Though Tiger Woods has non in time publicly confirmed that he will non vie in the Masters, all signs paint a picture he testament not.

Woods’ absence would live an even bigger blow to oddsmakers. BetMGM says Tiger is responsible for to a greater extent than 2.1% of its 2022 Edgar Lee Masters tickets and wagers. Woods, a five-time Edgar Lee Masters winner, remains recovering from severe injuries he sustained inward his SUV stroke in Feb of 2021 that nearly took his life.

Though the absences of Woods and Mickelson cannot follow overstated, thither will relieve follow plenty of lead powerfulness making the trek around capital of Maine National and Amen Corner. World No. 1 Jon Rahm is the betting favourite at 9/1. World No. 2 Collin Morikawa is next at 12/1.

BetMGM says Morikawa currently presents its biggest Masters liability. The two-time major hero (’20 PGA Championship, ’21 Open Championship) is on nearly 7% of BetMGM’s Edgar Lee Masters tickets.