Golf Betting 2012

[Karabiner]

Yeah but its 2012 so i dont lose, and its post 2000 so Flushy doesnt lose. If we choose to bet him, its over

I'd forgotten that I wasn't dealing with mere mortals here.

It's late you'll have to forgive me and I also have a couple of vested if slightly forlorn interests in MatteoM and BobbyK.

[Royal Flush]

Tiiiiiiger

[Junior Senior]

That 20 foot par putt was the turning point right there! Rock to crumble from here

[Junior Senior]

That 20 foot par putt was the turning point right there! Rock to crumble from here

Lol maybe not!

[bobby1]

Well I couldn't have made a bigger pigs ear of that if I had tried. Had a really nice book going there and then got stuck into Rock at around evens and kept it even when he drifted out later on.

bah Robert Rock and bah me!

[ChipRich]

omg, Stanley. sickest blow

3 clear going into the last, triple bogeys! In water, then misses an easy putt.

[Karabiner]

omg, Stanley. sickest blow

3 clear going into the last, triple bogeys! In water, then misses an easy putt.

I thought he was really unlucky there pitching well past the pin and spinning back into the drink.

c£70K matched on BF @ 1.01

[LeKnave]

got on Brandt @ 1.98

[LeKnave]

got on Brandt @ 1.98

ha shit

[Karabiner]

In fact there's about £500k matched @ 1.05 and less, I bet those boys a crapping themselves right now.

[ChipRich]

boooom.

Feel sorry for Stanley though

[bobby1]

what on earth was that?

was like watching me play!!

[Junior Senior]

just watched it this morning...horrible!

[bobby1]

I just watched it again as it was all a bit of a blur when I woke up this morning. One thing it just reiterates for me is the American style of play led to his demise on that last hole. There is no way a top Euro player hits that shot to the green, it would have been a knock down low shot that eliminated the amount of spin, the US way is all yard measurements and one dimensional shot making, which is why he hits a high looper with lots of spin on it.Coz that is all he hits on almost every hole.


Was great to watch tho, in a kind of hands over your eyes and peeking thru the gaps kind of way.

[bobby1]

The weather for the Euro event in Qatar is very very windy, will make playing difficult all week with 23-35 mph winds forecast for the first two days and 20-25 mph for the weekend.

What makes it worse is that the course is on top of a hill and usually susceptible to the Shamal winds anyway which tends to kick up the sand, mainly in the afternoons. It looks like the Thursday afternoon will be the windiest but there isn't a lot in it. Might be worth swerving it and playing in running or keeping good wind players or low ball flight players on your side.

Garcia, Mcdowell, Bjorn, Lawrie Tom Lewis, Gallagher, Goosen, Lowry, Ramsey, Warren , Maybin all in decent recent form and can play in these conditions.

Players like Kaymer and Jason Day that hit very high flights will prolly be at a disadvantage, Hunter Mahan wont know what's hit him coming from the perfectly manicured US pitch and putt events to 35mph and sand storms and if he is missing greens in the wind his woeful short game (at this level) wont rescue him. Manassero managed to get beaten in a Challenge tour event in Scotland  last season when the winds got up over the weekend too.

It looks a right mess so I am staying clear until I have seen how it is playing.



I got it slightly wrong last week, that the next three events on the US tour were on poa anna. This week we are on on Bermuda greens again, it was poa anna last week and then back on poa anna the next two weeks. If you saw the coverage last week you can really tell the difference in putting on poa anna spehly in the afternoons.

Bermuda needs warm weather to grow, Greens characterized mainly by very strong grain, and borrows and speeds always change massively from up or down grain. From TV perspective, when greens look shiny that is down grain when a darker colour against the grain. The first few events this season were on Bermuda greens too.

This track really suits players that bomb it off the tee, there is always a massive crowd there too, around 1/2 a million paying spectators last year so adapting to the crowd is also a factor, prolly suits players that have good Pro am records too as it can get a but tiresome when  every shot is greeted with a ' in the hole'. The famous par 3 16th is the noisiest hole in the world come the weekend with players cheered onto the tee and then booed off it again if they mess it up.

Bob Hope event(the Humana as it is now called) and the Renoe Taho Open might be ok indicators as they are similar desert courses.

The course has a very easy run of holes at the end of it, so its a place to make a lot of birdies. 13th and 15th are par 5 's, 17th a driveable par 4 with a little bit of water off the green to make it risk/reward. The weather forecast is for medium high winds, stronger in the afternoons with Sunday having a pretty strong wind all day. Will probably see a few 370 + yard drives on some of the down wind holes too.

One thing that can be an advantage with the pretty partisan crowds that turn up is locality. Loads of tour players reside in Scottsdale,

Scottsdale residents are, Aaron Baddeley, Geoff Ogilvy,, Pat Perez, Tim Herron, Martin Laird,Scott Piercy,Billy Mayfair, Jeff Quinney, Chez Reavie, Kevin Streelman and Bubba Watson.

Players that went to college at Arizona State are

Phil Mickelson,.Purdy.

 Mayfair, Reavie, Streelman and Perez also went to college in Scottsdale as well as living there now so they will get a little extra encouragement from the crowds.

There is one player I really am against this week and If I can find him in match bet or spread bet I might post it up later.

good luck us.









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