Irish bookies got hammered with Rory winning

[dave nz]

If Jason Day had won, Aussie bookies would have been feeling the hurt.....so many homer bettors

This story is better though :

RORY MCILROY’S FATHER, Gerry, reportedly made a £100 pound wager that his son will win the British Open before he turns 25.
It doesn’t seem like much, until you realize that he placed the bet before his son became a star on the world golf scene.
The odds? 500-to-1.
The Belfast Telegraph claims another gambler, also from Rory’s home town of Hollywood, Northern Ireland, had a similar 500-to-1 bet on Rory to win any major by age 25.
He beat that challenge by three years this weekend and the punter took in a cool £25,000 pounds. Even if he doesn’t win the The Open this year, his dad has a couple more chances to cash in.
If either of them tried to make that bet today, the best odds they could hope for are about 6/1. As CNBC’s Darren Rovell reported yesterday, McIlroy’s dominant US Open win has forced Bookmakers to slash all the odds on him from here on out. It will be years before anyone gets double digits odds on McIlroy again.
Rovell also says that Bookmakers across Ireland got crushed by McIlroy’s victory.

[phillyjimmy]

i like it when a mic takes $ from any book

[bigbuck]

Originally Posted by dave nz

If Jason Day had won, Aussie bookies would have been feeling the hurt.....so many homer bettors

This story is better though :

RORY MCILROY’S FATHER, Gerry, reportedly made a £100 pound wager that his son will win the British Open before he turns 25.
It doesn’t seem like much, until you realize that he placed the bet before his son became a star on the world golf scene.
The odds? 500-to-1.
The Belfast Telegraph claims another gambler, also from Rory’s home town of Hollywood, Northern Ireland, had a similar 500-to-1 bet on Rory to win any major by age 25.
He beat that challenge by three years this weekend and the punter took in a cool £25,000 pounds. Even if he doesn’t win the The Open this year, his dad has a couple more chances to cash in.
If either of them tried to make that bet today, the best odds they could hope for are about 6/1. As CNBC’s Darren Rovell reported yesterday, McIlroy’s dominant US Open win has forced Bookmakers to slash all the odds on him from here on out. It will be years before anyone gets double digits odds on McIlroy again.
Rovell also says that Bookmakers across Ireland got crushed by McIlroy’s victory.

But they have been making money off win bets on him since 2008. Only his third one. one in feb. 2009 and one in may 2010 and last weekend

[dave nz]

Originally Posted by bigbuck

But they have been making money off win bets on him since 2008. Only his third one. one in feb. 2009 and one in may 2010 and last weekend

Yeah agree....but his popularity has boomed recently