Peter Thompson

Five times Open Golf Championship winner, Australian Peter Thompson holds the post war record as the only man to have defended the tournament twice. This is a potential target for current Champion Padraig Harrington this year, no doubt there will be many who opt for a British Open golf Free bet for him to do just that. This possibility will no doubt be a big talking point by the many observers at the Open Championship this year.

Thompson who was so brilliant at the Open was for some strange reason never able to carry his form into the three other Majors staged in the USA. He did managed a creditable 4th in the US Open in 1956 and was 5th in the US Masters a year later, but he never won a Major over the pond and he never once played the US PGA Championship.

Some have said unfairly that Thompson was only able to win without the top Americans in the field but proved them all wrong when winning the British Open for the 5th time in 1965 with all the world great's there including Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. It should also be noted that Peter won over 60 Professional tournaments worldwide

Tiger Woods of course returns to the British Open after missing out last year through injury. He has four British Open titles to his name and only needs one more to catch Thompson, whether it will be so remains to be seen; but there is no doubt that there will be many who will take up the Open Championship free bet offers on Tiger doing so. The Open 2009 odds certainly say he can do it and he will a big tip to equal Thompsons record.