Spieth’s 2016 meltdown the perfect Exchange story

Few sports activities can match golf for in-play betting drama. And, when the stress is on, the Betfair Exchange is the place to get caught in to the in-play motion.

The 2016 Masters presents the perfect instance.

Going into the closing day of the 2016 Masters, reigning champion Jordan Spieth held a one-shot lead and was the clear favorite with Betfair Exchange prospects, who made the ice-cool younger American 2.68/5 to win.

In the course of the subsequent 4 hours he would go from close to sure winner to no-hoper.

Spieth had dominated the 2015 Masters, setting numerous data as he took his first inexperienced jacket, and he was fancied to repeat, going off at 12.011/1 to win consecutive Masters. And his backers regarded to have performed the proper factor, as he was having a fantastic event in 2016.

He started Sunday as the most evident winner and began so easily {that a} second Green Jacket regarded nearly assured.

From the sixth gap Spieth fired 4 birdies in a row and by the time he walked off the ninth inexperienced he held a five-shot lead.

Bettors on the Betfair Exchange had been impressed. Our odds transfer with each shot as our prospects react to the motion, backing and laying bets on the Exchange. As Spieth walked off the ninth inexperienced Exchange punters made him a heavy odds-on favorite at simply 1.091/11 to win. At these odds a £10 guess would yield a 90p return.

Solid, unspectacular golf would see him residence now.

But that’s simpler stated than performed at Augusta.

In simply three holes that giant lead was misplaced as Spieth suffered one in all the most painful meltdowns we have ever seen at Augusta.

A bogey at 10 was adopted by one other at 11.

And then got here the twelfth. It could also be the shortest gap on the course however do not confuse an absence of size with easiness.

Spieth fired his tee shot into the water, then did it once more, then discovered sand. It all added as much as a quadruple bogey and his lead was gone.

All of a sudden, Britain’s Danny Willet held the lead and had flipped from 48.047/1 outsider to 1.618/13 favorite. His lead gone, Spieth was out to double determine odds.

Willet would go on to win by three pictures from Spieth in an unimaginable turnaround.

It simply goes to point out that nothing is assured at The Masters and the drama is as a lot on the Exchange as it’s on the fairways and greens of Augusta.