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My bets

Laying

Woods - a very short price for the US open - he may win but will trade bigger at some stage
Mickelson - his wife has cancer and will have other things on his mind.
Els - not the player he was and the greens will find him out
Harrington -  I know he raises his game for the majors, but with several missed cuts this year this is a big ask
Garcia - Out of form since his girlfriend dumped him, and then there is his putting

Backing

Jim Furyk - Straight hitter and in form
Zach Johnson - see above

good luck whomever takes your fancy

Hugely fancied Furyk this week, in form and plays the US well, however it is playing monstrously long, there has been a ton of rain and it is set to continue, Furyk has very little chance imo, and has been very negative on his chances on US TV.

I'm going to plump for Casey, long hitter, also in form, hopefully a bit of British weather will do him no harm, and he's due one possibly. Andres Romero as a big outside punt.

I can't see Tiger losing, but i agree with you better value at some other stage within tourney.

Furyk, and Ogilvy being the close to him.

And some value e/w - KJ Choi, (always consistent 110/1) JB Homles (hits it a mile 200/1)

Tiger looks absolutely nailed-on for this (he won here last time -3 and second was +2) but I cannot take the 2/1.

As is my usual modus operandum I've sorted out a few value outsiders which may raise a few eyebrows  :o

Thomas Levet @ 360 (he's had a great season and is a wonderful putter).

Andres Romero @ 340 (he's been very unpredictable this year but is hugely long and putts like an angel).

Raphael Jaquelin @ 860 ( huge price for a decent player and couldn't resist an apple to win £17k)

Ian Poulter @ 110 (  ;kev;)

Angel Cabrera @ 90 ( I think he just is able to raise his game for the majors these days and he's done me a couple of favours).

Brian Gay @ 85 ( he played wonderfully well last week and may just still be in the zone).

Good Luck !

[ ] GL Poults

McIlroy may do ok here, big ask, but he's a fairly big hitter so could be ok, may take 75.0 and hope to trade off later on

I got my main pick Poulter at 90/1 and, as I had £4 on my SkyBet account, I threw £2 on Casey at 25/1 and £2 on KJ Choi at 125/1.

My wife picked her faves, Harrington at 50/1 and Villegas at 60/1.

WillHill offering the best odds on 26 of the top 30 players so dep'd there yesterday. Bonkers odds on Cabrera so I stuck a couple of quid on him EW too.

It's a monster course and I think it'll be damage limitation again (typical US Open). I think it's gonna be about who's best at hitting 5 woods / rescue clubs / long irons into par4s.

A Kim @ 120
L Donald @ 140
B Van Pelt @ 810

nick watney

Zac Johnson @ 80

Ben Curtis @ 130

Lumped on Tiger

Cmon Neil we're waiting for your  tips

Price ?

Think i got a shade under 2's not sure though got someone to put it on for me.

if your backing woods you may as well back ogilvy for top aussie at 13/10, pinching money.

No more golf today.....sigh

Bloody rain

£660 on Woods at a little worse than 11/4. I expect him to win., i've inly had two bets. my only other bet is Furyk (small)

for what its worth, i backed tiger. gonna have a touch e/w on harrington. he's out of form but loves the big one's

[ ] Good shout

The draw could have a huge bearing on this.

A lot of those playing this afternoon will play as many as 36 holes in good conditions as they are the late/early starters whereas most of those who started early yesterday will be playing/completing their second rounds tomorrow in weather that the forecasters say will be wet and horrible again.

In this kind of situation wouldn't it make sense to send out the early starters first again for their 2nd round, given surely the whole point of this system is to so everyone get a morning and afternoon start. Whereas now we have people with two morning starts and other playing 36 holes in a day.

It just doesn't work that way, the draw has been made and after that if there is a delay the order of play is unaffected, well kind of if you see what I mean. If you have an late/early draw you still go off early for the second round whenever it happens to start.

Got bets on Villegas at 60's and Gay at 80's.

was going to put a lump on tiger  (could,nt see past him even at that price) but thought i,d hold off for 1st round and maybe get a better price, but wtf the bookies must have lost a fortune on him,at the time of posting this he,s 10 shots behing the leader weir and 2nd fav at 11/2 (best price) weir 5/1.

the weather has entirely screwed my bets, everyone i needed to do well went out in the rain and vice versa. Apart from tiger as my roundly mocked 'tiger not to win a major in 2009' bet has a good chance of surviving.

Tiger can't really blame the weather for where he is, he shot 4 over for 5 holes in the best of the conditions yesterday. I can't see him pulling this back. I will be lumping on him to win our Open though.

Hasn't Westwood done well?

-2 from the wrong side of the draw

they reckon the weather/luck of the draw accounts for a five shot swing depending which half you are in

v tricky punting conditions

Westwood has done pretty good the last few majors.  Only just missed out on this event last year.   Hoping he wins a big one before he retires.

+1. I would love to see him have a good run here.

Me too

Lucas Glover  :dontask:

I wonder if anybody had him