Golf: Woods well fancied for Players Championship

Tiger Woods is red-hot favourite to win back-to-back titles at The Players Championship.

After securing his first victory of the season in the Bay Hill Invitational, the world number one is 9/4 with bookies bluesq.com to clinch the honours at Sawgrass.

The man Woods pipped to the title in Florida, left-hander Phil Mickleson is 16/1 and Ernie Els is quoted at odds of 20/1.

VJ Singh, winner of last season's Masters title, is also rated a 20/1 shot.

Blue Square are also offering punters odds of 33/1 on British hopefuls Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood, 66/1 on Padraig Harrington, 80/1 Darren Clarke and 150/1 on Nick Faldo.