{"id":149,"date":"2006-08-22T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-08-22T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T04:44:34","slug":"bowmans-pays-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/bowmans-pays-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowmans Pays Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0');\"  href=\"http:\/\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0\" target=\"_new\">Bowmans Sportsbook<\/a> were left counting the cost of their generous Tiger Woods USPGA offer after the world No1 claimed his 12th major title on Sunday.  The intrepid sportsbook vowed to refund all losing golf stakes if Woods won the tournament and will now hand back a total of $250,000 in refunded bets to customers who wagered on the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u009dWe took the view that Woods might struggle with his driver but that really wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case after he ran away with it by five clear shots,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the firms odds guru Scott Kaminsky. <\/p>\n<p>Much of the talk before the tournament was of how tough the high rough would play at Medinah but that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prove to be the case. Kaminsky added: \u00e2\u20ac\u009dI read they removed 300 trees at Medinah since the last time they played in 1999, maybe they should have left them there!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This was the 12th time out of 12 that Woods has converted a 54-hole lead at a major into victory. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe writing was on the wall by Saturday night,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d groaned Kaminsky. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0');\"  href=\"http:\/\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0\" target=\"_new\">Bowmans <\/a>will pay up with a smile on our faces because we firmly believe in giving our customers a sporting chance and this was a spectacular example of that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with Tiger on the prowl Bowmans make his USA side -120 to claim the forthcoming Ryder Cup in Ireland with a (+0.5 start). <\/p>\n<p>Ian Woosnam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Europeans are trading at (+100) for Ryder glory.<\/p>\n<p>Play the Ryder Cup at <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0');\"  href=\"http:\/\/sports1.bowmans.com\/affiliate\/cthru\/?lid=24&#038;tx=1&#038;bv=0\" target=\"_new\">Bowmans International<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowmans face $250k pay out following Tiger romp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}