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Who fancies whom this week and why ?

I like the look of what appears to me like a resurgent Ernie Els and have availed myself of the 40/1 Laddies are offering.

Im had a couple of interest bets: -

Harrington @ 30/1
Goose @ 40/1
Sabbatini @ 100/1

hi Ralph,

Just doing some work on this now and there seems to be a bit of a lop sided draw this year with 2 of the groups looking to be a little easier to fathom(on papaer at least) than the other two.

My first impressions were the super gunner has a decent draw with some plasyers in pretty poor form around him.

Have u got a link to the draw please?

www.pgatour.com

It's on there half way down the right hand side

There you go mate, one thing to note is Kuchar pulled out of this weeks US event after 2 rounds, I don't think it was anything serious but if he pulled out I am not sure if his replacement slips into his draw or if the draw is re done. I guess it would be a logistical nightmare to redraw so I am ten on any replacement will take his draw.


2) Steve Stricker v (66) Ross McGowan
(34) Ryo Ishikawa v (35) Michael Sim
(18) Robert Karlsson v (51) Rory Sabbatini
(19) Ross Fisher v (50) Thongchai Jaidee
(10) Padraig Harrington v (59) Jeev Milkha Singh
(27) Anthony Kim v (42) Matt Kuchar
(11) Ian Poulter v (58) Justin Leonard
(27) Angel Cabrera v (43) Adam Scott

(6) Martin Kaymer v (63) Chad Campbell
(31) Vijay Singh v (38) Tim Clark
(15) Sergio Garcia v (54) David Toms
(22) Lucas Glover v (47) Anders Hansen
(7) Rory McIlroy v (62) Kevin Na
(30) Miguel Angel Jimenez v (39) Oliver Wilson
(14) Robert Allenby v (55) Peter Hanson
(23) Luke Donald v (46) Graeme McDowell

(4) Lee Westwood v (65) Chris Wood
(33) Nick Watney v (36) Yuta Ikeda
(17) Ernie Els v (52) Ryan Moore
(20) Retief Goosen v (49) Soren Hansen
(9) Henrik Stenson v (60) Ben Crane
(28) YE Yang v (41) Soren Kjeldsen
(12) Geoff Ogilvy v (57) Alex Noren
(25) Camilo Villegas v (44) Dustin Johnson

(5) Jim Furyk v (64) Scott Verplank
(32) Hunter Mahan v (37) Charl Schwartzel
(16) Sean O'Hair v (53) Simon Dyson
(21) Stewart Cink v (48) Edoardo Molinari
(8) Paul Casey v (61) Stephen Ames
(29) Alvaro Quiros v (40) Mike Weir
(13)Kenny Perry v (56) Brian Gay
(24) Zach Johnson v (45) Francesco Molinari

The "Snead" looks like the weakest quarter to me but I don't really fancy any of them much Phil.

Thats what I thought too, the top and bottom brackets look the easier.

One other thing I just remembered, Ovilgy's wife gave birth to their 3rd baby last week so there has to be a chance he is not as sharp as he could be or his mind might be elsewhere, the good thing for him is he lives very close to this event so might be able to spend his down time at home but with a new addition that might not help his rest time all that much.

Know nothing about this as I've not watched golf for months!

So for an interest I'm going to follow Blatchy boy with this one:

Harrington @ 30/1
Goose @ 40/1

I'll probably get lesser odds tho, as I'm not the odds hunter that blatchy is

I might pick one more, bobby pick one for me?

Its a bit of a reach Dave but Stewart Cink has had all kinds of trouble driving the ball recently, this course is a little easier for iffy drivers as it is quite open, he ran 2nd to Tiger in this a couple of years ago(on a different course) and I like his draw, so at around 40 on BF I think he could give you a decent run but its wide open so its deffo a small stakes bet.

Ok, Goosen out as TBH I don't really like the guy lol:

Harrington @ 32.0
Els @ 38.0
McIlroy @ 18.0
and thanks to bobby....Cink @ 40.0

Just £5 on each, £20 total stake.

Bring on 2pm Wed!!!

gl m8

Can i just have Karabiners, Bobby1s, Camels and Flushys and [ ] ScottishDaves top tip plz so i can lose 4 ponies.

Ok got 4 bets on atm:

Rory £100@17.5:

obv one of the fav's but he is playing good golf and i think this is one of those events where being young and inexperienced plays into your hands, lag it up kid! Good thing with his draw is except his first round match he might be playing just Europeans till he gets mad deep which will be a good advantage for him.

Stenson £50@34.0:

Not the easiest side of the draw but i feel this reflects the price, excellent past form in this event.

Karlson £50@44.0

Very tough side of the draw imo, is defiantly 'back' though excellent showing 2 weeks ago on the European tour, plz run gooooood.

Villegas £25@85.0

Gotta have a mad LAG in the coup, ridic draw will have to face Johnson, Ogilvy then Stenson (hopefully) could all go horribly wrong when Johnson out driving him tilts him to death.

Now my gem, Ishikawa £25@220.0

Fantastic talent from this youngster, i can't see him fearing anyone, don't see him doubting himself, could easily take to the format extremely well. In short 220 is a ridic price imo. Only tilting thing is he has to play the very exciting prospect of Sim in the first round (what a match that is going to be) then probs Stricker in round 2! Then hopefully Karlson in round 3.

Happy punting.

flushy, have you always enjoyed watching golf or did you start enjoying it more after you started playing?

Yeah started getting into it like mad after i started playing, its so much more entertaining when you can appreciate the ridic skill you are watching imo

I doubt i have missed 10 mins of sky's golf coverage this year.

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

someone actually rates my tips over everyone elses!!!

Ive been scratching my head all week on this.

So many players very evenly matched, anyone of the top 20 in the betting could win this and it
would make sense after the event.

For this reason Ive ignored the top players and will just have a punt on some of the generously priced outsiders.

£20 on each of these guys

Brian Gay @ 180
Rory Sabatini @ 130
Soren Hansen @ 170
Luke Donald @ 60
Charles Schwartzel @ 80


I hope to be a bit more active in the daily match bets and will post mine here.

I've been matched now so can reveal that I'm on Harrington @ 34, and Francesco Molinari @ 160.

I'm already on Els @ 42 and have one more big priced player still to get matched.

As Chris says above, it's really wide open as eighteen hole match-play is a sprint for these guys.

Small wagers for interest.....

Harrington
Ishikawa
F. molinari
McIlroy

Just 5quid wins on the lot

That's me all fully matched up on my 4 Horses.

This is my book:

McIlroy   =   £70
Harrington   =   £140
Els   =   £170
Cink   =   £180

The Field   =   -£20  

Kept my bets v small, just for railing purposes, not planning to trade any point.

Padraig Harrington      32      £14.00      £434.00

Henrik Stenson    34    £13.00    £429.00

Camilo Villegas    80    £9.00    £711.00

Ryo Ishikawa    200    £7.00    £1,393.00

Francesco Molinari    150    £7.00    £1,043.00

seemed to have shorter prices than a lot of you guys, your so shrewd.

Ryo will get us paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid

Ross fisher@33s ew for me. Like his draw and he's quite good at this format. Think if he was a bigger 'name' he'd be nearer 25s, thus value imo.

Wtf he is in the hardest part of the draw!

reckon we have 16 horses running out of a field of 64.

surely one of us can scooooooooop

glgl

Small bets on Poulter and Cink for me.

gl all

pfffft, get your own player!

;o)

Those of you not on Isikawa will be devd come sunday

down to 180 on bf, be fave by midnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cabrera
Els
Kim
Harrington

Small stakes for the viewing as i always find this tough to work out. GL everyone.

Ryo will make you paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

My 4th and final pick is Ollie Wilson now matched @ 120 on BF.

Nah piece of pi**. Once he's dealt with jaidee and karlsson/sab he just has to beat some bloke bok tipped up here, easy game. :)

As not a particularly big golf fan, can someone explain to me why Sergio is available at 50's?

Ich and els for small stakes.

Will prob have a bit on fisher to.

Garcia is a bit toss.

Form is starting to pick up slightly but generally not playing as well as he can. 

Hasnt won for yonks.

Putting is shockingly bad.

Chipping is average.

My Match picks for today

Alvaro Quiros to beat Mike Weir @ 1.75
Poulter to beat J Leonard @ 1.63
Robert Allenby to beat Peter Hanson @ 1.71

Good luck

ive gone for harrington@ 32 stenson @ 38 garcia @ 50 (price is big and as some old duffer used to say to me form is transitory but class is permenent and sergio has class) and kjeldsen@ 220 cos he putts so good, now all i need to do is find a stream online somewhere, justin tv one time! 

As well as fisher i've gone small ew on y. e. yang@125s, seems a player for the big occasion, also done a win bet on dustin johnson@40s due to his good form right now.

in todays matches i have gone for Leonard, Ames and E Molinari

McIllroy off to a bad start 3 down after 5 holes

GTFO 4 down after 6

I just backed him, denzil @ 60s after the 6th hole.

FYP

Also Blatch, in terms of crossing Flushys selections out, Stenson coneded pre match.

I duno if he gets his money back or not, i guess so.

Didnt see that.

Ummmm he will get money back if a replacement comes in?  If his oppo gets a walkover then its like burning money; a fave past time of Flushy's

SSN just said Stenson played 1 hole. gg

This make me so happy

+1

2 down through 8... Paiiiiiiiiii me Blatchly.

Where you getting updates from?

I put a bit on Ishikawa and Molinari like everyone else.

Also nearly backed Z. Johnson and Villegas but decided reading about them on wikipedia and having pretty big odds wasn't enough to stick some down on em.

http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/r470/index.html

Still want paiiiiiiiiiiiiing?

Got it down to 1 down thru 10 now 2 down thru 12

Tiger Woods gets dropped by Accenture, he has just announced he is to hold a press conference 2morrow, on the 2nd day of the Accenture match play. Blown their coverage out of the water for sure.

1 down thru 15, cmon rory.

Brian Gay @ 170
Luke Donald @ 60
Adam Scott @ 120
Retief Goosen @ 46

AS Thru 16 sigh

Nothing like a good bit of after timing ;)

go onnnnnnnn rory

Loooooooooong way to go.............

MBN to have two of your picks into the 2nd round already though

3  :)

All Square into the last with Mcilroy

Wiiii Mcilroy, paiiii me Blatchly.

Ishiwaka is 2 up thru 4 too, wiii

Long way to go yet sunshine

WHERES YOUR 60'S NOW, WHERES YOUR 60'S NOW! ;)

gg Harrington

ahahaha how do you feel now kid?

Ishikawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

ermmmm pretty silly

fml.

had half my bets unmatched but fell asleep and missed taking a worse price just b4 the off.

got £50 matched on harrington (gg) and ernie (weee) and £20 matched on molinari (gg) but failed to get matched on wilson and ishikawa so will be antirailing those like mad.

LET GO THE BIG EASY.

ffs COME ON ISHIKAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ishikawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Powaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What an incred bunker shot, 169 yards out to a gimmie, incred scenes!

Ha incred approach on the 18th.

Everyone who is on, we are getting paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.

Those not on, Ishikawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Powaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Pretty special shot, i like how he was leaning after he hit it as if he pushed it, well he did by about a foot i suppose!

What a crazy day, wouldnt show myself up by yee haa ing at my dble that came from a combined 6 shots behind to win in extra holes ;o)

Ogilvy won 7 and 5 and only shot level par for the 13 holes he played, Cink shot 4 under par and needed to come from 4 behind after 9. Matchplay is a crazy game.

Some nice possies for some tho, gl 2morrow guys.

Flushy, that Ishi can play a bit can't he, what price do you reckon he would be if he was British and had curly hair?

Ha yeah he is incred been watching him loads lately, guy is just fearless.

Yeah if he was a top European he would be 50's max, thankyou to the bookies.

Having said that he didnt shoot a great round today but he proved he can pull out some special stuff when the pressure is on, nice easy match tomorrow as well thanks to Stricker gg'ing himself.

Still got 4/5 alive, the failure being a fcking withdrawl!

good work that mate, gl fro 2morrow

Weir to beat Casey @ 2.46, get on get paid.

Ryo Ishikawaaaaaaaaaaaaaa @1.73 looks like stealing money but obv if you already on no point.

On Weir, and on Goosen to beat Els. OGOGGOGOG

is the 2nd round today or tommorow?

I didn't know Monty was playing in this event?

Nice tip on Weir Demps. Thx mate.

Todays backs: -

Weir
Swchartzel
Els
Villegas

OLLIE OLLIE OLLIE :)

ISHIKAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

1UP going down the last right? I'm on too following the mention on here.

Most of my selections got gg'd in the 1st round but I have Ishi and Villegas left. Villegas has very winnable tie against Crane next round after beating Ogilvy today.

ISHIKAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!

FML

Only 1 horse left, and it's the only horse that I didn't even pick myself!

Cheers Bobby!

Cink Cink Cink Go Go Go!!!!

 :)

Go Go Go the 220 and 85, get me paiiiiiiid

i got ryo left at 180's ship it plz ryo

My two are still going Cink and Poulter and Ive added Ben Crane at 34 too. Not sure Villegas beating Ogilvy when he cant beat par in two rounds is all that impressive and Crane might be a little fresher having had the first day off.


ps some awesome positions for some but Woodsey, take a bow son. ;o)

fyp

Then there was one  >:(

Really enjoying this even though the coverage is really bad.
So many key shots just not getting shown, the producer should be shot.

Luke Donald and Paul Casey are playing the best golf for me at the moment but that means nothing in this format.

Wish I had got on the Ishikawaaaaaaaaaaaa band wagon, but happy with my 3 horses Ive got left in.

bet of the day Luke Donald to beat Oliver Wilson at 1.71

I'm on Donald and have laid Poulter today.

 :tikay:

One match bet for me today, Gay @ 2.86 to beat Casey.

And mega-funking Ollie, Ollie, Ollie  ;cheerleader;

Why is Nick Watney favourite to beat Goosen?

Goosen been playing pretty poor.

3 bets for me today:
Donald to beat Wilson
Casey to beat Gay
Watney to beat Goosen

Villegas 4 under yesterday

Ryo getting his arse felt by Jaidee - 4 down thru 9.

Ishikawa looks like a goner - 4 down after 9

Does anyone know how Ryo Ishikawa is doing?

He sure is

Ogilvy wasnt tho.

I see Bobby, a bit of ambiguity in your post, sorry.

Villegas all square, he's my last chance now!

I'm guessing your saying that since he has bogeyed basically every hole and thus is handing Jaidee the victory. Still an ass-whooping regardless.

lol you can't call it an asswhooping when he has shot over par and won...

Ollie, Ollie, Ollie  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Come on Villegas, get me paiiiiid

I've laid £100 back on Ollie to save most of my stakes here, an Ollie win would still be worth £2k mind.

Now if Ai Miyazato could just do the biz in Thailand the weekend could turn out quite sweetly...

gl Ralph.

Go the Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose

gogogo screw blatch/goose

My only one left too GL us :)up

Well you can, my football team plays terrible every week but some weeks we win 5-0/6-0 so still a whooping cos of the scoreline. Innit.

gogogogo Villegas

GG Blatch, gtfo

Your gone Blatch, your gone.

come on Camilo!!!!!!!!

Goooo Camilo Parker-Bowles  ;cheerleader;

ffs

1 time casey

I'm not really certain what it is but I just don't like Casey, talented he undoubtedly is but his constant smirk tilts me.

It's cost me a nice few quid this week too :(

You can in match play.  With an opponent in trouble each hole, nothing wrong in playing bogey golf and locking it up.  No point in trying to shoot a course record.

Wiiiii, Come on Ian.

Yeah that would be true if Ishikawa hadn't out driven him on every hole

COME ON CAMILO!!!

incred sweat!!!

COME ON SON!

im officially giving up on sergio how in gods name does he lose 7&6 to ian feckin poulter i mean i beat the monosylabic spiky haired arsenal supporting garishly clothed t****r once, a long time ago mind you dusted him 5&3 as i recall there were some factors involved ldo.

oh my that was amazing shot by Villegas

One hell of a bunker shot but credit for Casey getting up n down

DUDE LOOKS LIKE VILLEGAS!

Casey can gtfo

unreal. Was 1.06. so tilted.

Overnight sweats FTW

What a shocking putt

I think i might kill myself.

Pretty sure Brent would sink that putt.

 ;whistle;

What a final round Karabiner!!

What price was she?  You kept this one quiet ;D

I bet on two ladies in the tourney Micko, Had £100 @ 9/1 on JYS and £25 @ 30/1 on Miyazato.

Incredible final round, even more so considering she was +1 through 2 holes before shooting -10 for the remaining 16 holes including chipping in at the last from 30 feet ftw !

I was as surprised as anyone when I checked the result this morning.

MBSFN , well done , nice coup

Lovely touch i must watch out for these two this year again.

Screw you Paul Casey.

Bloody 2ft putt to win yesterday Villegas, 2 fuckin feet!

It was 2ft 9in in fairness

Had to get on garcia in this 3rd place thingy at evens, i'd assume camillo will be pretty drained and gutted here, whereas garcia never had much of a chance of finalling yesterday, may play more naturally. Not gone in massive but feel it's def worth a punt.

Yeah that was a good idea to bet on serg, gg any profit made on poulter.

Ive only just seen this result Ralph, what a comeback that was.

A nice win for the Super Gunner in the Accenture too makes it a nice weekend for you Arsenal fans

PAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ME SKYBET

Cheers Phil.

I'm sure that Colchester Kev would like to personally congratulate Ian Poulter when he sees this result too, seeing as how he has always been a great believer in his undoubted golfing ability ;)

Even Kev had to be impressed by that performance ;o)


Its funny in a roundabout way, since Monty became Ryder Cup captain Poulter has been a different player coz he and Monty hate each other with a passion and Poulter knows he will not get a ryder cup pick from Monty. He seems to have made qualifying for the team his main aim this year, so Monty prob turned him into  a better player.

Story behind the hatred?

I think it developed into a hatred of each other when Poulter came on tour and was pretty disrespectful to a lot of the older pro's. Monty tried to bring him down a peg or too but it just inflammed the sirtuation, Poulter basically told him he was a **** and past it.

When Poulter didnt come back to Europe to play the last qualifying event of the last Ryder Cup, the rumour was that Falso had already told him he was in the team and not to worry, Monty being Monty still beilived he might get a pick and made loads of noise about captain shouldnt show pref treatment to some players and he Poulter should show more respect to the team by trying to qualify himself instead of knowing he had a pick.

The rumour is that Poulte rang Monty and gave him an earful, soon after they were sat at ajoining tables in a restaurant and more angry words were exchanged again.

So if there is any reason for Monty not to pick him he wont, just as Faldo would have hated to have to pick Monty if he had been in decent form ast time, the good thing for Poulter he seems to have been motivated to make sure he gets in the team and take the options for Monty not to pick him away fro Monty.

He won in Asia at the end of last year and ran 2nd to Kaymer a few weeks ago before todays win and seems to really have his head  on again because of it.