What Are Six Shooter Golf Bets?

Six Shooter Golf Bets are one of a number of different grouping bets you can find at bet365 Sport throughout the golf season.

These bets are a way to make betting on golf far more interesting than simply relying on the tournament finishing result for an outcome to your bet. With these types of bets, you can put different golfers from different groups, often with vastly different scores in the tournament, against each other for the purposes of a bet.

Every year, golf tournaments generate a huge amount of betting revenue and there is no doubt that outright betting, such as who will win a tournament, as well as futures market bets, such as those on who will win the next four golfing Majors, the Masters, the USPGA Championship, the US Open and the British Open, are all hugely popular.

And with the sites special Bet365 Live Golf Tracker allowing you to keep bang up to date with the top tournaments on the PGA and European tour every week, there is so much more to your golf betting than simply backing a golfer to win an event.

So in this article, we are not only going to examine what 6 Shooter Golf Bets are, but we are also going to look in a bit more detail at some similar group-based golf bets you can find both before and during the tournament.

Six Shooter Golf Bets Explained

With a Six-Shooter Golf Bet, or indeed any other form of Group Betting market that you can find on golf, what happens is that the bookmaker will pick a group of players, in the case of a six-shooter bet, it will number six, that will effectively compete against each other.

The duration of the bet can be anywhere from 18-holes (these bets tend to be available once the tournament is underway) right the way through to the entire 72-hole tournament.

With these group bets, you are essentially trying to back the player from the group selected that will score the lowest in the stated time frame, so that may be over one round in the tournament, or it may be over all four.

The scores of other players outside of the group do not matter, it is simply how the golfers in the group compare that will decide the outcome of the bet.

Six Shooter Golf Bets are often used when a tournament is in progress, especially on the later rounds of a tournament. This allows the bookmakers to group together golfers that have been playing at a similar level of ability in the tournament, and thus the odds that they can offer on the grouping is more balanced.

Other forms of Group Betting can also be made though, before a tournament begins you will often find Group Betting available for select groups of four or five players with bet365, with the lowest scoring player over the 72-holes of the tournament being deemed the winner.

Six Shooter and other Group Betting markets for golf are popular because they are a much less volatile option for punters than trying to back the winner in a typical golf tournament. A tournament usually has over 150 players competing, and it is generally rare that the favourite wins the event. As such, picking a winner for a tournament, or even finding a player to finish in the top five, can be very difficult.

Group Bets like the 6-Shooter bets offer a way to narrow the field down to the golfers highlighted in the bet and thus it gives punters a much greater chance of landing a win on this bet, even if their chosen golfer doesn’t actually win the tournament as all they need to do is beat the other golfers listed in their grouping.

If you like this form of betting, then another bet you should be aware of is the Match Up bet.

What Are Match Up Bets?

Bet365 golf also offers Match Up Bets.

Match Up Bets are similar to Group Bets, but they only comprise of two golfers who will compete against each other over a stated duration, in many cases, this will be the 72-holes of the tournament.

With these bets, you are simply betting on which golfer will get the best score in the tournament over the stated number.

The bookmaker will select two golfers that it feels are similar in ability and likely to shoot relatively similar scores. This means that the odds on both golfers for this bet are usually just below or around the even money mark.

However, there is also a third option available for punters in the draw bet, although this does not happen very often. However, the odds on a draw are generally much higher (often around 16/1, which can make it an appealing bet).

The Benefits Of Group Betting For Golf Punters

The main benefit of group betting for golf punters is that when you place a bet on this market, you are disregarding the vast majority of the field from your reckoning. Unlike a bet on who will win the tournament, or even an each way bet on who will finish in the top five, you do not have to take into account every golfer that starts the event.

Group bets focus your attention on the number of players in that group and it is then your ability to judge who will be the best out of that group which is put to the test, or you can always just leave things to chance if you prefer!

Essentially, it is a difference between picking a winner from around 156 possible winners in an event, compared to picking a winner out of just six of those competing. The former is a much more favourable bet in terms of the chances of success for a punter. This makes a golf six shooter bet a potentially more profitable option in the longer term than an outright winner bet, for example. 

One thing to look out for is that the types of Group bet and which golfers are put together in groups can change as a tournament progresses and you can have separate group bets for day one, day two , day three and day four of a tournament once it is in progress.

This allied to a wide variety of other bet365 golf bets available does mean that you are well served when it comes to golf bets on bet365 Sport.

And best of all, tracking them is very easy thanks to the site’s Bet365 Live Golf Tracker.

So if you enjoy golf betting, then do check out what different group bets and match-up bets are available at bet365 each week, especially as we head towards the Florida swing and the first huge tournament of the new season, The Players Championship in March.

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