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Should Tiger be the odds on favorite to win the Masters?

Allan Renz, Golf Academy Director of Schools

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The odds makers have installed Tiger Woods as the odds on favorite to win the Masters with 5-1 odds. He is followed up by Phil Mickelson at 9-1 and Ernie Els at 12-1. Is this realistic? Tiger has not won the Masters since 2005 and 15 of his last 16 rounds at Augusta have been 70 and above. In all those years, Tiger had played his normal warm up schedule up to the Masters. This year, he has only been hitting balls in the last several weeks, with his last competitive golf played early last November in Australia. Top it off with the enormous mental pressure that he will be facing this week, I don't think him being the favorite is realistic at all. Granted, he is Tiger, but I think there is going to be too much to overcome. What do you think?

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