ABU DHABI HSBC GOLF BETTING ODDS - Rory McIlroy is 5/2 fav with PaddyPower Online Golf Prices

U.S. Open Golf Champion and World Golf #3 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, who co-leads after the 1st round, is favourite with online bookmakers, PaddyPower, to win the 2012 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship at Abu Dhabi Golf Club, UAE.

The Irish golfer, who has been 5th, 4th and 2nd in his previous three outings at this golf championship, is currently priced at 5/2 to win this year's title.

Second favourite at 7/1 is former World Golf Ranking #1 Tiger Woods, who opened up with -2, 70, to be very much in contention at the end of first day's play.

Co-leader Robert Karlsson of Sweden is priced at 10/1, alongside U.S. Masters Golf Champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa.

A full list of PaddyPower Golf Betting Odds is detailed below, which are subject to fluctuation.

The leaders are not out around mid-day. The 3-ball of former world golf #1 Tiiger Woods, current world golf #1 Luke Donald and US Open Champion Rory McIlroy are scheduled to tee-off at 12:05.

A full list of tee-off times and pairings for round two can be found here.

There is a total purse of 2.7 million dollars. To access the golf prizemoney breakdown, please click here.

We shall be providing full coverage of this event to include blogs, news, betting odds, purse, prizemoney, tv times, draws, pairings, tee times, scores, video footage, results &c. on a round by round basis. To access this wealth of information, please click here.

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The Ed., The Golfblogger Network

2012 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship Betting Odds (0530 hrs, Friday 27 Jan):-

Mcilroy, Rory

5/2

Kaymer, Martin

50/1

Lara, Jose Manuel

100/1

Woods, Tiger

7/1

Mcdowell, Graeme

50/1

Hanson, Peter

100/1

Karlsson, Robert

10/1

Edfors, Johan

50/1

Hoey, Michael

100/1

Schwartzel, Charl

10/1

Jimenez, Miguel Angel

66/1

Fernandez-Castano, Gonzalo

100/1

Donald, Luke

12/1

Maybin, Gareth

66/1

Lowry, Shane

125/1

Garcia, Sergio

12/1

Lawrie, Paul

66/1

Gonnet, Jean-Baptiste

125/1

Colsaerts, Nicolas

25/1

Gonzalez, Ricardo

66/1

Elson, Jamie

125/1

Harrington, Padraig

25/1

Day, Jason

80/1

Noren, Alexander

125/1

Choi, KJ

40/1

Wall, Anthony

80/1

Canizares, Alejandro

125/1

Rock, Robert

40/1

Kruger, Jbe

80/1

Wen-Chong, Liang

125/1

Olesen, Thorbjorn

40/1

Luiten, Joost

80/1

Fisher, Oliver

150/1

Westwood, Lee

50/1

Drysdale, David

80/1

Clarke, Darren

150/1

Hansen, Anders

50/1

Bjorn, Thomas

80/1

Aiken, Thomas

150/1

Ramsay, Richie

50/1

Molinari, Francesco

100/1

Montgomerie, Colin

150/1

Finch, Richard

50/1

Jacquelin, Raphael

100/1

Johnson, Richard S

200/1

Coetzee, George

50/1

Fraser, Marcus

100/1

+ Each Way Terms 1/4 places 1,2,3,4