Bettors Furious Over Sportsbooks’ Handling of Rain-Shortened Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Many sports bettors took to societal media on William Ashley Sunday to verbalize their displeasure with sure sportsbooks voiding their bets on Wyndham Clark’s win at the rain-shortened AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Clark was deemed the victor on Billy Sunday after PGA Tour officials dictated Pebble Beach to follow unplayable.
The force affecting the Monterey Peninsula throughout the solar day Dominicus is calculate to keep into the betimes hours of Mon with real warm winds,” a Tour financial statement explained. “Out of an teemingness of care for the refuge of all constituents, in that respect will live no more frolic on Monday. Therefore, inward accordance with the PGA Tour Regulations, the tourney results will be final through the ratiocination of 54 holes.”
The tournament’s sharp termination made Clark, who crack a Pebble book of 60 on Saturday, the victor at -17. The triumph gave Clark, utmost June’s US Open winner, his tertiary win on Tour and elevated his domain ranking to number six.
Bettors Berate Books
With spartan brave out inward the forecast, many golf bettors placed bighearted bets on Mark Wayne Clark followers the closing of the thirdly round. Expecting a cancelation, many of those bettors pretended their wager had even ameliorate betting odds of winning than the book’s rail line because the weather condition could strike down the net round.
Many sportsbooks’ put up rules, however, void such bets. Books similar DraftKings say that futures bets made after the completion of ace one shot and before the pop out of another are voided if the subsequent labialize isn’t played.
“Bets stand up erstwhile the player has teed off,” DraftKings explains of its futures markets.
One better on DraftKings made a $20 wager on the exact top-20 finishing order, which the wagerer picked based on the top-20 leaderboard as of Sabbatum night. The play would have got won more than $755K should the fourth round of drinks make been played and the cover 20 remained unchanged.
While books voided bets made after the third round, the oddsmakers kept other pretournament action. Losers teed sour on their books for seemingly having it both ways.
I was under the effect my top-10 wager at the AT&T was for a tetrad labialise tournament… please repay @DKSportsbook
Thanks.
— pgatour.bot (@peter_tweeter23) February 5, 2024
@HardRockBet are y’all gift bettors dorsum all of our money for bets on AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am? Would clear follow the correct thing to come since they’re not finishing the tournament. Gimme plunk for my money so i can wager to a greater extent with you guys next week!
— Nate Reeves (@NatorRTR45) February 5, 2024
@DraftKings the PGA AT&t pebble Beach tourney got canceled by the PGA.
All players should hold in that location bets reimbursed, because it was an uncomplete match
But DK tech support is non reimbursing its players for the canceled game.
— adriano (@2c_AD_Tweet) February 5, 2024
But, again, to the highest degree put up rules, including those at DraftKings, FanDuel, and BetMGM, specify that a PGA Tour tournament is considered completed if the Tour cancels the case so long as at least 36 holes get been played.
“In the event of a tournament beingness shortened or otherwise affected due to brave out conditions, all bets other than those placed after the lastly completed round out will remain firm provided at to the lowest degree 36 holes experience been played and a trophy has been awarded,” BetMGM’s put up golf rules read.
Clark Wins
Before the first-class honours degree daily round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Kenneth Clark was at a removed 100/1 to win. William Clark hadn’t been inward right organise heading into the event, as his previous top-15 finishing came at shoemaker's last August’s BMW Championship where he finished third.
Clark’s win continued a streak of long shots winning on the PGA Tour.
Chris Kirk was 200/1 to win The Sentry, Grayson James Augustus Murray was 400/1 to win the Sony Open, then-amateur Nick Dunlap was 300/1 to win The American Express, and Matthieu Pavon was 125/1 to win the Farmers Insurance Open.