Golf bettors know that there have been some rather precocious players on the pro tours in recent years, and the latest of those is the phenomenal youngster from Florida, Alexis Thompson, who made enough of a splash in the U.S. Women’s Open to lead one to believe that she might break through to the high point in list time. As the P&G NW Arkansas Championship gets set to originate on Friday at Pinnacle Country Club in Fayetteville, she is one of the golf betting favorites to win the tournament, at +1500. Jiyai Shin, the defending stand up for in this tournament, is the favorite to win at +500.
LPGA Tour
P&G NW Arkansas Championship
September 10-12
Zenith Nation Club
Fayetteville, AR
Golf Betting Odds – To Win
Jiyai Shin +500
Ai Miyazato +700
Cristie Kerr +800
Na Yeon Choi +800
Suzann Pettersen +900
In-Kyung Kim +1200
Michelle Wie +1200
At a bargain price a fuss Hee Kim +1300
Stacy Lewis +1500
ALEXIS THOMPSON +1500
Unknown on the LPGA Tour really likes Alexis Thompson. Okay, I’m just making that up, but realistically, if a 15-year-old kid was showing YOU up, would you be too crazy surrounding it?
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Thompson, who went undefeated at the latest Curtis Cup contention against Great Britain and Ireland earlier this year, just began her pro mtier in June, and she is already making waves. Do you think Michelle Wie was precocious? Well, Thompson qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open at the age of TWELVE (we spelled it out and capitalized it so you’d know it wasn’t a typo). No, she didn’t reveal the cut, but hey, don’t be hoggish. This year, she had a top 25 finish at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, one of the majors, and then scored a tenth-place end at the U.S. Women’s Open, after making the cut for the second in good time. Then, the 15-year-old came tied for alternative at the Evian Masters, just a stroke behind Jiyai Shin, the golf betting favorite to win in Arkansas at +500.
She had already won over $300,000 after three professional tournaments, and less than twenty golfers this season had won more than that. Yes, she’s pelf already, signing big endorsement deals the faulty she announced her decision to go pro, so scads prodigies before her. Will she make good on all this promise? Well, she may have started to already, and perhaps she will capture a major before Wie, who was playing against pros at the age of 13, making a cut at the 2003 Nabisco (finishing ninth), has played in men’s tournaments as well, and allowing she’s had six top-notch ten finishes, has not yet won a principal. Wie is listed at +1200 to win this NW Arkansas Championship in the golf betting odds.
There are very few people who don’t see greatness coming very soon for the Coral Springs, FL provincial. She went into the Navistar LPGA Classic last year and held a share of the second-round lead, and could accept become the youngest winner on tour – by a whole four years.