Dead heat golf calculator
This dead heat golf calculator shows what a golf bet pays when players tie for the last paying places. Tournaments end in ties for fifth, ties for tenth, seven-way ties for twentieth. When your player shares a place, only part of your stake is settled.
Stake counted = stake × (places left ÷ players tied)
The counted part wins at full odds. The rest of the stake is lost.Dead heat golf calculator: enter your bet
Enter your stake and odds, how many players tied, and how many paying places were left for them to share. You get the return and the profit.
What is a dead heat in golf betting?
A dead heat is the betting term for a tie. In golf it happens when more players tie for a position than there are paying places left, for example three players tied for fifth in a top-five market. Under dead heat rules your stake is reduced in proportion, and the reduced stake is paid at the full odds.
How to use the dead heat golf calculator
- Enter your stake.
- Choose the odds format and enter the odds.
- Enter how many players tied.
- Enter how many paying places were left for them to share.
- Read the return, the profit and what you would have won without the tie.
Dead heat golf formula
Stake counted = stake × (places left ÷ players tied)
Dead heat return = stake counted × decimal odds
The counted part of the stake wins at full odds. The rest of the stake is lost.
Dead heat golf example
You back a player for a top-five finish at 4/1 with a 10 stake, and he finishes in a three-way tie for fifth. One place is left for three players, so a third of your stake counts: 3.33 at 4/1 returns 16.67, a profit of 6.67 where a clear fifth would have made 40.
Dead heat rules for top 5, top 10 and top 20 bets
Count how many players finished clear above the tie and subtract from the number of places paid. In a top-10 market with eight players ahead of a five-way tie for ninth, two places are left for five players, so two-fifths of the stake counts.
Dead heat golf calculator FAQs
How is a dead heat calculated in golf?
Divide the places left by the number of players tied, multiply your stake by that fraction, and settle the result at the full odds. The dead heat golf calculator above does it for any odds format.
Does dead heat apply to outright winner bets?
Not for the win itself, because a play-off produces one winner. It does apply to the place part of an each-way bet, and to top-5, top-10, top-20 and first-round leader markets.
Do all bookmakers use dead heat rules?
Nearly all apply them to finishing-position markets. Some settle by dividing the odds instead of the stake, and a few offer markets where ties are paid in full, so check the rules of the bet.
How do I convert odds to decimal?
For fractional odds, divide the first number by the second and add one, so 4/1 becomes 5.0. For American odds, +400 is 400 ÷ 100 + 1, which is 5.0, and −150 is 100 ÷ 150 + 1, which is 1.67.