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Totalbet and ukbetting are offering a unique in-running betting service on The Open Championships this week.

Following on from the success of similar services for the US Masters and the US Open, customers of both firms will be able to bet live through online betting consolse on events at Royal St. George's.

Betting will be available from the start of Thursday's first round, right through until the action finishes each day.

With constantly changing markets, their exciting new betting medium allows punters to bet on all kinds of different outcomes including whether a player will birdie, par or bogey his next hole and what total score he will shoot in his round.