Golf majors 2027: dates, TV and each-way terms
Golf is the sport where the bookmaker's terms matter more than the odds, and it is also the sport where the rights picture is thinnest. Both facts are on this page, in that order.
Season dates
- Starts
- 2027-04
- Ends
- 2027-07
Date precision: mixed — see note
Masters April 2027, PGA Championship May 2027, U.S. Open June 2027, The Open July 2027 at St Andrews (venue confirmed via the NBC Sports citation on the opened page). None of the four 2027 date ranges were published on the pages opened.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Who holds the rights, country by country
- Ireland — eir Sporteir Sportall four roundsen.wikipedia.org
- United States — CBSCBSweekend roundsen.wikipedia.org
- United States — ESPNESPN / ESPN+early roundsen.wikipedia.org
There is no event list for this competition yet. The season dates and the rights map above hold for the season.
Highest-rated bookmakers on this site
No bookmaker here is listed for golf. These are our highest-rated books generally — check the market exists in their sportsbook, and that they accept players from your country, before you deposit.
Four weeks that decide the year
The 2027 majors run in their usual order: Augusta in April, the PGA Championship in May, the U.S. Open in June and The Open in July, the last of those at St Andrews. The block above carries months and a venue rather than exact 2027 dates. Between them these four weeks account for most of the year's golf betting turnover, which is why the terms below repay reading once, properly.
A rights map with many holes
In the United States the Masters is split: CBS carries the weekend rounds and ESPN the early ones, across television and streaming. For Ireland the row above names a domestic carrier for all four rounds; confirm it with the broadcaster before relying on it.
This page names no current rights holder for Britain or Finland, and none for the other three majors in the United States. A broadcaster's own listing is the reliable check before major week.
The terms that decide golf bets
Nowhere else in betting does the small print swing the return this much:
- Each-way places vary wildly. One book pays five places at a fifth of the odds, another eight at a fifth, another six at a quarter. On a 150-strong field that is a bigger difference than any price improvement on the same golfer.
- Dead heats cut returns. Ties for the last paying place are settled by dividing the stake by the number tied. It is not a mistake by the operator; it is the rule, and it surprises people every year.
- Non-runner rules differ. Withdrawal after the first tee shot usually means a losing bet, before it usually means a void — but check, because "usually" is doing work in that sentence.
- Extra places are real value, when they are real. A promotion adding two places to an outright is one of the few operator offers that genuinely improves the expected return, provided the odds have not been shortened to pay for it.
Timing and what we list
Three of the four majors are played in the United States, so the decisive back nine falls between roughly 21:00 and midnight in Helsinki and an hour or two earlier in Dublin — late, but watchable. The Open, played in Britain or Ireland, is the one that suits a European afternoon.
No operator record on this site names golf coverage, so the list above is empty and this page stays out of the index until three do. Use the betting-site list to see the roster, run the terms through the each-way calculator before you back an outsider, and read the betting guide for staking across a four-day event.
18+ and the arithmetic of a 150-man field
18+, or the legal age where you live. An outright golf market can carry a margin far above thirty percent once every price in the field is added up — the highest built-in edge of any sport on this site. Each-way terms are how you claw part of that back; a bigger opinion is not. Keep stakes small, and the support services listed here close by.
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