GTGraham Tessier
Senior golf writer
Graham writes the golf betting guides, the odds explainers and the tournament previews. He has followed the PGA Tour week by week for more than a decade and plays most weekends on public courses around the Greater Toronto Area.
His guides start from the question a new bettor actually has, which is rarely "who will win" and usually "what does this market mean". That is why the site explains markets in the order they are worth learning, and why the odds page turns every price back into a chance before it says anything else. His previews look at the course first and the names second, because in golf the ground a tournament is played on moves prices more than reputation does.
Away from the markets he writes the practice tutorial, the equipment guide and the course atlas. The idea behind all three is the same: someone who understands why a 7 iron is the wrong club into a firm, downwind green reads a golf betting market better than someone who has memorised the world ranking.
- Golf betting markets and each-way terms
- Course fit and tournament previews
- Club choice and the practice tutorial
Nadia Ferreira
Fact-checker
Nadia checks every page against the source it relies on: operator terms, the published ranking data, tournament records and the Ontario rules for advertising gambling. She also keeps the responsible gambling page current.
Before a page goes live she reads it against its sources line by line. A place fraction is checked against the operator's own terms, a ranking figure against the published ranking, a historical date against the record, and every sentence about the law against the current Ontario rules for advertising gambling. Anything that cannot be traced to a source is taken out rather than softened.
She also looks after the responsible gambling page, the part of the site that has to be correct above everything else. The phone numbers and services listed there are checked on a schedule, not only when someone points out a problem.
- Operator terms and Ontario registration
- Ranking data and tournament records
- Responsible gambling resources
How a page gets from draft to published
- A question comes first. Every page answers one thing a reader is trying to work out, whether that is how each-way terms work or which club to take from 140 yards.
- The draft is written from sources. Operator terms, ranking data, tournament records and the Ontario rules are gathered before a sentence is written.
- The fact-check is separate. The person who checks a page did not write it, which is the only way a check catches what the writer assumed.
- Corrections go back to the whole page. When a reader reports a mistake, the fix is made and the page is checked again from the top, not only at the point of complaint.
What a tournament week looks like
Most of the work on a golf page happens before the first tee time. Early in the week the writer reads the course: its length, how firm the greens are likely to play, which holes decide the scoring and what the forecast says about wind for each round. Only after that does the field list come into it, because a player's record on similar courses says more than his place in the world ranking.
The fact-checker then works through everything the page states as a figure. Each-way terms are compared with what the operators publish for that event, not with last week's terms, since golf is the sport where place terms change most from one tournament to the next. Dates, prize funds and past winners are checked against the tour's own records.
Neither of them writes a prediction for a specific bet, and neither makes a claim about a sportsbook that cannot be read on that sportsbook's own site. If the terms change during the week, the page is updated and checked again from the top.
What they will not write
No page on the site promises a profit, treats a loss as something to recover with the next bet, or presents golf betting as a way to earn money. Guides written for new bettors say the same things about limits and time-outs as the responsible gambling page does, and every figure about odds is shown with the chance it stands for, so the reader can see what they are actually paying for.
The criteria behind the sportsbook comparison are on the editorial standards page, and the addresses for corrections and other questions are on the contact page. If you want to start with the guides themselves, how to bet on golf and golf odds explained are the two most people read first.
