Tiger Woods Withdrawal to Reduce Masters Betting Handle by 20%
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Tiger Woods’s absence from the Masters Tournament will be felt from Augusta, Georgia, to Las Vegas, where some sports books are projecting a 20 percent decline in the total amount wagered on golf’s first major championship of the year.
Woods, the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer and the winner of 14 major titles, withdrew from the tournament yesterday following surgery to repair a pinched nerve in his back.