{"id":44,"date":"2006-08-15T23:45:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/tiger-woods-installed-as-the-favorite-to-win-his-3rd-pga-championship\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:52:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:52:27","slug":"tiger-woods-installed-as-the-favorite-to-win-his-3rd-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/tiger-woods-installed-as-the-favorite-to-win-his-3rd-pga-championship-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Installed As the Favorite to Win his 3rd PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After winning his 11th major championship at the British Open and 50th career title at the Buick Open, Tiger Woods is back on top of his game. This arrives just two months after missing the cut at a major for the first time in his thriving golf career at the U.S. Open Championship. With Tiger Woods coming into Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major championship at Medinah Country Club on a hot streak, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinnaclesports.com\/?refer=xmaddux2\" title=\"Pinnacle\">Pinnacle Sportsbook<\/a> has installed Tiger as an overwhelming 9\/4 favorite to capture his third PGA Tour Championship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Last years winner Phil Mickelson, is listed as the second favorite at 10\/1, even though \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lefty\u00e2\u20ac? still hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recovered from his colossal cave in at the U.S. Open. Other notables and contenders listed with their current golf odds are as follows.<\/p>\n<p>Odds To Win 2006 PGA Championship<br \/>\nTiger Woods 9\/4<br \/>\nPhil Mickelson 10\/1<br \/>\nErnie Els 14\/1<br \/>\nJim Furyk 16\/1<br \/>\nVijay Singh 16\/1<br \/>\nRetief Goosen 25\/1<br \/>\nSergio Garcia 28\/1<br \/>\nAdam Scott 30\/1<br \/>\nLuke Donald 35\/1<br \/>\nPadraig Harrington 45\/1<br \/>\nChris DiMarco 50\/1<br \/>\nGeoff Ogilvy 50\/1<br \/>\nMike Weir 60\/1<br \/>\nDavid Toms 60\/1<br \/>\nStuart Cink 60\/1<br \/>\nStuart Appleby 65\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After winning his 11th major championship at the British Open and 50th career title at the Buick Open, Tiger Woods is back on top of his game. This arrives just two months after missing the cut at a major for the first time in his thriving golf career at the U.S. Open Championship. With Tiger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-handicapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}