2025 World Darts Championships

The bets:

£1.50 ew Gary Anderson @ 10/1

£1 ew Wessel Nijman @ 28/1

50p ew Josh Rock

Placed by: P

What happened:

Nijman went out in the second round to a fired up Joe Cullen. An injured Gary Anderson bowed out at the same stage to Jeffrey De Graaf.

Rock lost 4-2 to Chris Dobey in round three.

2024 Players Championships Darts Finals

The bets:

Before the first round - Josh Rock 75p e/w at 28/1

Before the second round - Danny Noppert 75p @ 40/1

Placed by: P

What happened: 

Rock went out in the second round, thrashed 6-0 by Jermaine Wattimena, Noppert was on the end of a 10-3 beating by Luke Littler in the third round.

2024 Grand Slam of Darts

The Bet: £1 e/w Rob Cross at 22/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

Cross finished second in his group (behind Martin Lukeman). 

The former world champ took out in-form Rochie Edhouse in the second round but it was an inspired Lukeman who took out Cross 16-11 in the quarters.

2024 Open Championship

The bets:

To win - 

Rory McIlroy £5 @ 17/2

Each way bets - 

£2.50 ew 1/5 odds, top ten

Bryson DeChambeau @ 14/1 (free bet)

Collin Morikawa @ 14/1

Tommy Fleetwood @ 20/1

Patrick Cantlay @ 45/1

Sahith Theegala @45/1

£1 ew 1/5 odds, top ten

Victor Perez @ 170/1

Sami Valimaki @ 350/1

50p ew 1/5 odds, top ten 

Will Zalatoris @ 100/1 (free bet)

50p ew 1/4 odds, top five

MW Lee @ 55/1

What happened?:

A combination of many of our players getting the worst of the Scottish weather and, let's face it, not playing well enough meant that only Cantlay (-1) and Morikawa (+1) survived the cut.

Cantlay fell back to three over (tied for 25th) on Saturday, Morikawa was one shot better, tied for 15th.

Neither of our players could get involved on the final day. Morikawa's level par final round saw him two shots behind tenth place and eleven behind the winner. Cantlay shot a last day 73 to finish at +5.

2024 World Matchplay Darts

The bet: £2 Michael Smith @17/2

Placed by: P

What happened?

(The bet was placed after the first round where Smith looked impressive in a win over Gary Anderson, and Michael van Gerwen took out joint favourite Luke Littler.)

Smith was beaten in the semi-final by eventual runner-up Michael van Gerwen.

2024 US Open Golf

The bets:

£2 e/w, 10 places

Collin Morikawa @12/1

Viktor Hovland @14/1

Tommy Fleetwood @28/1

Tyrell Hatton @45/1

£1 e/w, 10 places

Nick Dunlap @175/1

£1 e/w, 8 places

Sahith Theegala @60/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

We drew a blank.

Morikawa was closest at Tied 14th

Fleetwood was a shot back at T-16th

Hatton was well placed but shot a last round 77 to finish T-26th alongside Theegala

Hovland and Dunlap both missed the cut by a shot. Upwards and onwards.

Euro 2024

The bets:

£5 France @17/4

£1 Bruno Fernandes player of the tournament @40/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

France knocked out Portugal on penalties in the quarters so that was Fernandes' chances gone.

Then Spain beat France in the semis so that was the end of that.

(And Spain beat England in the Final for the record.)

2024 US PGA Golf

The bets:

1/5 Odds, 8 places, £1.50 e/w

Xander Schauffele 16/1

1/5 odds, 10 places, £1.50 e/w

Max Homa 25/1

Joaquim Niemann 28/1

Tommy Fleetwood 33/1

An Byeong-hun 50/1

Sam Burns 60/1

1/5 odds, 10 places, £1 e/w

Akshay Bhatia 100/1

What happened:

Lets pick this up after round two...

Schauffele followed up his record-breaking opening round with a 68 to leave him on -12 and one shot clear of the field.

Homa and An are on -4, Niemann and Fleetwood -1, 

Bhatia +1 and Burns +3 missed the cut.

Round three

After a second straight 68 Schauffele is in a share of the lead on 15 under with Collin Morikawa. Eight players are within three shots of the lead.

The rest of our selections have work to do to make the frame. Homa (-6), Fleetwood, An and Niemann (all -3) all need something special on the final day to get involved.

The final round

A winner! Schauffele holed a nervy six-footer on the last to finish on -21 and win by one shot from Bryson DeChambeau with brief leader Viktor Hovland a further three strokes back.

Our other selections finished as follows:

T26 Fleetwood (-9)

T35 Homa (-8)

T39 Niemann (-7)

T43 An (-6)

£31.80 to the pot.

2024 World Snooker Championship

The bets: 

Mark Selby £2.50 ew @ 17/2

Mark Allen £1 @ 8/1

What happened:

Selby was knocked out in the first round, Allen in the quarters. Let's move on.

2024 Masters

The bets:

1/5 odds top 7

£1 e/w Sepp Straka @ 200/1

1/5 odds top 8

£1 e/w Bryson DeChambeau @ 33/1

£1.50 e/w Hideki Matsuyama @ 16/1

£1.50 e/w Will Zalatoris @ 33/1

£1.50 e/w Tommy Fleetwood @ 40/1

1/5 odds top 10

£1.50 e/w Joaquin Niemann @ 20/1

£1.50 e/w Dustin Johnson @ 33/1

What happened?

Let's pick it up after round two with DeChambeau in the joint lead on six under.

Fleetwood is tied for eighth on one under, Straka a shot further back, with Zalatoris on +3, Niemann on +4 and Matsuyama just scraping in on the cut line of +6. Johnson (+13) is heading home.

DeChambeau fell back on the Saturday. Now at three under he's four shots behind leader Scottie Scheffler. Tommy Fleetwood is our next best at one under, equal ninth.

Further back we have Straka at +2, Zalatoris and Niemann at +3 while Matsuyama is +5.

In the final round World number one and pre-tournament favourite Scottie Scheffler showed his class to ease to -11 and a four shot win. On to our selections...

Fleetwood played an excellent final round to finish tied third at -4 to give us £13.50

DeChambeau struggled and ended -2 but that was still good enough for T-6 and £7.60

Zalatoris finished level but tied ninth didn't give us a return

Straka was T-16 at +2

Niemann (+4) was T-22

Matsuyama (+7) was T-38

£21.10 for the pot.

2024 Players Championship

The bets: All £1.50 e/w, fifth odds top eight

Max Homa 25/1

Hideki Matsuyama 28/1

Sam Burns 33/1

Min Woo Lee 45/1

Brian Harman 55/1

Erik van Rooyen 100/1

What happened:

Two rounds in and with Wyndham Clark at 14 under our best-placed fancies were Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama, seven and eight strokes off the lead respectively.

Lee, Burns and Homa at -1 only just made the cut, van Rooyen fell short by two shots.

After the third round Harman was sat in third on 15 under, two shots off the lead. Matsuyama was five further back but only one stroke off the place money. Burns at 8 under wasn't completely out of it but Lee at Even and Homa +1 could probably be written off.

After the last round:

Homa was tied 64th an Level par

Lee was two shots ahead, tied 54th

Burns finished tied 45th (-4)

Matsuyama finished on 15 under, five shots behind, tied for sixth place (£9.90)

Harman finished second on 19 under, just a shot behind Scottie Scheffler. (£18)

A small profit!

2024 UK Open Darts

The bets: All £1 e/w quarter odds last four

Cameron Menzies @ 190/1
Jim Williams @ 150/1

Richard Veenstra @ 250/1

Placed by: P

What happened?:

Williams was hugely disappointing an a third round defeat to Leonard Gates.

Menzies and Veenstra both exited a round later.

2024 Golf Majors

The bet:

Scottie Scheffler to win the Masters 

Rory McIlroy to win the US PGA Championship 

Dustin Johnson to win the US Open 

Xander Schauffele to win the Open 

10p e/w Lucky 15

(five places for ew purposes)

Scheffler won the Masters

Schauffele won the Open

That combined for a very healthy £30.10 in the pot.