IT may lack the history of the Ryder Cup, and you can be sure the results matter less to the combatants, but the 2011 Presidents Cup, scheduled to be held in Australia later this year, offers an interesting aside for golf betting on some of the big guns of the PGA Tour.

While the Ryder Cup is golf at its most tribal, combative, aggressive and passionate, the Presidents Cup is a much more genteel version of the competition which fits nicely into the schedule every two years,

In 2011, the United States PGA Championship will be held at the Atlanta Athletic club in Georgia and the tournament known as Glory's Last Shot will again give the game’s stars, as well as its outsiders, a chance to take their place in the history books.

The final major of the golfing season was won in 2010 by the mighty German Martin Kaymer who has risen to the top of the world standings in 2011 with an astonishing set of results.

2011 U.S. Open Championship
Congressional Country Club
Bethesda, Maryland
June 13 – 19, 2011

US Open betting has suddenly become even more interesting for the UK internet predictor given Europe's rise in golf’s world order. America had it all its own way for many years, but as Graeme McDowell showed with his win in 2010, golf betting has changed forever following Tiger Woods' fall from grace.
Irrespective of results in 2011, a US Open bet on a golfer from the United States emerging triumphant may be a long shot best backed by one of the free bets on offer from online bookmakers.

THE Masters betting used to be about who would finish second to Tiger Woods.

Online bookmakers used to have a field day, handing out any number of free bets on anyone brave enough to enter golf betting markets.

Events in 2010 changed all that and ahead of the first major of 2011, there is no sign yet Woods is about to return the winner’s circle.

For the first time in the longest time, Woods is not defending any of the major crowns in 2011 which highlights how dramatic his fall from grace has been.