A golf each way calculator earns its keep on Sunday evening, when your player finishes tied for the last place and you want to know what you’ve actually won. Say you had £5 each way at 40/1, eight places at 1/5 odds, and your player finishes T7 with three others. That’s four players sharing the last two places, so only half your place stake is paid at the place odds of 8/1. You get £22.50 back on a £10 bet instead of £45. The calculator above is free and works through dead heats for you.
How the golf each way calculator works
An each-way bet is two bets of the same size: one to win, one to place. The place part pays a fraction of the win odds, usually 1/5 in golf, across however many places the bookmaker is paying that week.
Place odds = 1 + (odds − 1) × terms Dead-heat share = places left ÷ players tied Place return = stake × share × place odds
“Places left” is the number of paid places from the start of the tie down to the last paid place. A T7 with eight places paid has two places left, 7th and 8th.
Why dead heats matter so much in golf
Ties for the last paid spot happen in most tournaments. With 150 players and scores bunched on the final day, five or six players finishing level on 8th is common. Bookmakers who offer extra places (8, 10, even 12 for majors) make it less likely you miss out entirely, but dead-heat rules still apply to whatever places are left.
The win part is different: a playoff decides the winner, so there’s no dead heat for first in normal events. If the event ends in a tie with no playoff, the win part gets dead-heat treatment too, and the dead heat calculator handles that. For racing each-way bets, use the each way calculator, and for matched betting on extra places, the extra place calculator.
Playing rather than betting this weekend? Score your round with the Stableford calculator, and check your shots with the course handicap calculator.
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