The Golf Insider is a sports betting tipster service from Matthew Walton that claims to offer users the best golf tips that will allegedly make substantial profits.
What does the product offer?
The Golf Insider is a tipster service by known betting personality Matthew Walton. Not surprisingly, the focus is on Golf with a focus on taking advantage of value. Obviously being a golf based service selections are not as frequent as something like football and certainly not horse racing but Matthew Walton says that The Golf Insider should still allow you to turn a regular profit.
Odds are massively varied going all the way up to 125/1 and according to one brave testimonial, an alleged 10,205/1 double. As with the odds, the bets that you will be placing are also varied and range from tournament winners to 3-balls to top 20 finishers. Staking ranges from £20 all the way up to £200 per bet and comes with a claimed strike rate of 32.35%.
How does the product work?
At the core of The Golf Insider is the insider part with Matthew Walton saying that selections come courtesy of an ex bookie who understands the golf market well. Essentially, he says, bookmakers often overlook golf betting with odds compilers not getting the time to really assess the sport and so pricing mistakes are made.
The Golf Insider takes full advantage of this as the “insider” that they employ dedicates all his time to analysing golf odds. He runs details through a specialist spreadsheet of his own design that shows the true odds. Where there is sufficient value, selections are sent out.
What is the initial investment?
The Golf Insider is advertised as coming with a 6 week “no money down” trial however when you go to pay the terms show that this is a two week trial after which the monthly subscription kicks in.
There is only a monthly subscription available which cost £47+VAT and doesn’t appear to come with any money back guarantee.
What is the rate of return?
According to Matthew Walton by following the tips that The Golf Insider sends out you can average £575.01 every week. This represents an ROI of around 55%.
Conclusion on The Golf Insider
What The Golf Insider is fundamentally based on (value odds) is a well known strategy when it comes to golf betting and this certainly isn’t the first tipster service I’ve seen based on it. Based on the marketing materials, The Golf Insider is a big hitting service however there is one thing that bothers me about it and this is the lack of proofing.
Whilst it is great talking about 125/1 and 80/1 winners, there have been almost 300 bets placed through The Golf Insider and it would have been nice to see evidence of these without the same 5 or 6 examples being spouted.
In fact, this is arguably the thing that puts me off most.
Would I recommend looking into The Golf Insider and taking advantage of your free two weeks? Possibly, however I am not certain I’d jump into a £50 plus monthly service without more evidence.
Have you used The Golf Insider?
Please share your views below.
This has been very disappointing. It started out so well that I thought I had at last found a service that lived up to its claims. The first month (April 2015) made 28 points profit on a 1 point each way stake. I even wrote to complement him on the service.
Sadly after that it has got steadily worse with a 34 point loss in May, 54 point loss in June and finally 57 points loss so far in July. I was prepared to try a little longer until I realised from my bank statement that I was being charged £44.40 every MONTH for the service, when I understood it was £37 for the first year. That is a further 9 points a month at £5 EW. I would have stopped earlier had I realised this. The total service loss is thus £760 in 4 months at £5 EW
I am mystified how the “insider” makes a living. The problem I think is two fold. Firstly he selects “value” bets i.e. those where he can get better odds than his system indicates. The problem with this is he needs to select winners, whatever their odds. There were only 2 winner in the 4 months – a 40/1 and a 9/1 – and 8 places at 1/4 odds, out of 135 selections. Why did he not select Willett or Day after their good showing in the Open and previously selecting both in other tournaments? It is no use selecting someone who plays their best and finishes 10th when they might have been expected to miss the cut at odds of 100/1. Secondly he needs one winner or at least two places each week to make a profit, or maybe one winner plus 3 or 4 places a month. The service shows no likelihood of this happening. The 3 ball tips just about break even so are no real help.
I emailed Matthew Walton both during the 4 months and when I stopped the service. His comment both times was this will win in the long term and cannot be judged over a short period. I think 4 months is a good trial period for any betting service.
“I am mystified how the “insider” makes a living.”
He makes a living selling subscriptions to people like us.
Quite simply for a so called service charging over 500 quid a year it’s results are pathetic! You would have similar, possibly even better results, just doing your own research on stats for free.
I agree 100%. I had dozens of losers and very few low priced wins.
Matthew’s service is all promises and no results.
i will be cancelling my subscription as i am a working man and cant afford any more losers
I was with this service since it started for over a year. It started off by winning massively the first 2 weeks I won with a 250/1 shot, an 80/1 shot and 125/1 shot. It was unreal, then over the coming months all the profits slowly flittered away, and by the time I left I was down significantly. Not sure how golf betting is sustainable to be honest. As Bill points out you always get the same response from Matthew ‘it will make money in the long run’, which keeps you going until you realise it actually won’t.
The worrying thing about it is that he still claimed he had an ROI of over 20%. This was not true in reality.i have records to prove it.
All other services start off very good then usually end up losing money. I would suggest keep away from all services and do not be reeled in by the excitement he tries to drum up when he starts up a new service!
Tried this service for 1 month under his money back guarantee and never got an outright win. Even the one each way place on the first week didn’t cover the weekly stake. Week four was the first time he managed a 1st round 3-ball winner, but of course this was nowhere near enough to cover the weekly stake, or the previous weeks’ 3-ball losers. With his recommended stakes of 10 pounds each way and 25 pounds per 3-ball, around 600 pounds loss over four weeks. Not worth paying someone for such a pathetic tipping service. Why would you pay someone 44.40 to lose you around 150 per week! I guess the question to ask yourself is, “If he could really come up with winners, why wouldn’t he just bet on them himself and make his money that way?” Clearly he can’t find the winners, and makes his money out of the people who pay him each month.
2018 results have been absolutely terrible. No winning months at all. Looking at his results for 2017, it seemed like an excellent service. Now perhaps those can’t be trusted either. I think choosing players at random and with no reference to their past performance would have delivered stronger results than this service. AVOID.