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While you have long been able to bet on golf over the Internet via a number of internationally-licensed online wagering sites and play contests for cash at daily fantasy sports sites, US-based brick and mortar casinos may start doing the same.
Prior to the US Supreme Court ruling in favor of legalized sports betting being permitted in all 50 states, Nevada was among a handful that had been exempt from prior prohibition.
Vegas casinos have never offered LIVE IN-PLAY BETTING on golf, that is until now.
From Golf.com:
A few months from now, being right about such things will really matter. But this is just a test, a trial run of a digital gaming service that de Knijff (pronounced Kn-AYF) plans to launch in the United States this fall. He calls it “SuperLive” betting, and as the name suggests, immediacy is key to its appeal. Instead of setting odds on, say, Bubba to win the Players, or to shoot a lower second-round score than Jordan Spieth, or to best Billy Horschel in the event, the system churns out probabilities on Bubba’s prospects, shot by shot. It does so simultaneously for multiple players in headline groups, whipping up a storm of mid-tournament gambling action.
De Knijff knows there is a market for this kind of wagering. It’s already big across the pond, where the London office of Metric Gaming, the company de Knijff founded in 2012, generates “SuperLive” golf lines in high-wattage tournaments for several major sports books throughout the year, at a rate of some 5,000 separate lines per event.
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