When looking for the odds on Team USA or Team Europe to win the Ryder Cup, one is actually looking for ‘outright winner’ odds. OddsJet compares Ryder Cup winner odds from several reputable online sportsbook companies. This allows OddsJet to display the best odds so bettors may maximize their potential returns when looking to predict who will win the Ryder Cup.

Ryder Cup Futures and Ante Post markets explained

Ryder Cup outright betting is that tournament’s primary future betting market. Future markets or Ante Post markets are those that involve a wager that is contingent on the full tournament result. This means the wager can be made well in advance of when the event takes place, hence the term futures betting market. This differs from betting that surrounds a particular round or matchup that is dependent upon knowledge of the pairings, which are set during the week of the Ryder Cup itself.

Examples of Ryder Cup outright winner odds expressed in American, Decimal and Fractional formats

For American odds, given how many golfers will be in the field, even the golfers that are relatively heavy favorites will have odds that are above even-money. This means that all the odds will come as positive figures, which express how much potential profit one could realise from a wager of $100. For example, when you see odds of +120 on the USA to win the Ryder Cup outright, you would need to stake $100 in order to receive a profit of $120, yielding a total return of $220. Note that this use of $100 as an expression of odds pricing is just that, for purposes of expression. It is neither a limit nor a requirement of how much you may wager.

With Decimal odds format, the odds express the full potential amount that will be returned on your wager including the stake amount. For this, simply multiply the Decimal odds by the stake. For example, if Team Europe is listed at 2.10 to win outright, a $100 bet would return a total of $210 including your stake, so the potential profit would be $110.

For Fractional format, the odds express the amount of potential profit that will be returned on a wager. For example, with a wager of $100 and odds of 6/5 on Team USA to win outright (said six-to-five), one could see a profit of $120 (6 divided by 5, multiplied by $100) plus the stake amount for a total potential return of $220.