Tiger And Ding Junhui Sound Alarm Bells For Bookies

William Hill are fearing six figure payouts to individual punters who have taken out long term bets on the success of Tiger Woods and snooker prodigy Ding Junhui.

A Scottish client of William Hill will win £109,000 if Tiger can equal Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 Majors before the end of 2010 after backing him at 10/1 to do so and a Chinese customer, You Sen Huang from Beijing, will also collect £100,000 if his countryman, teenager Ding Junhui, who beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in a major final at the weekend, can lift the World Title on or before January 1, 2010 after taking odds of 500/1 that a Chinese-born player would win the World Championship by then.

He is currently an 8/1 chance to win it in 2007.

"After the parents of England goalkeeper Chris Kirkland landed £10,000 payout from their long-range bet on him to win a cap, we scoured our records for similar possible future big winners and along with these two, also noticed that we hold a bet for Andy Murray at 200/1 to win Wimbledon which will pay £16,000 should he do so." said William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.

"It could well be that patient punting is the way forward for prescient punters."