Golf Betting 2012

[bobby1]

I just saw this on CBS


10 year old girl qualifies for the US Women's Amateur championship


There is no doubt golf is getting younger, despite the fact that a 40-something won The one and only Open for the second straight year, but a 10-year-old making waves in a big golf event? That's absolutely insane.

Don't tell that to Latanna Stone. The Valrico, Fla., product shot 70 to win medalist honors in her U.S. Women's Amateur qualifier, becoming the youngest player ever to qualify for the USGA event.

And Stone is 10. She's 10 years old. Ten.

That means she's in fifth grade, at an age when most kids are wondering which band instrument to play or what acne medication to try out, not which flight to take to the Country Club in Cleveland for a major golf tournament.

Stone's accomplishment means she is two years younger than the pervious youngest Women's Amateur qualifier, but it isn't like she's some slouch. The great Beth Ann Baldry did a profile on her when Stone was 9 (!), finding out stuff like that she has 100 career wins in junior tournaments under her belt, and that she really believes she can be No. 1 in the world someday.

The best part of the Baldry profile from last January? This quote, from Jan Bowers of Lincoln, Ill. "She's really refined for a 9-year-old." I'm fairly certain nobody ever said that about 9-year-old me.

If you want to learn more about the 10-year-old phenom, you don't have to go far. She has a Twitter account (@latannastone) and and her own official website, which even has a "fan community."

Needless to say, I think the people around her thinks she's pretty darn good.

[Karabiner]

Obviously KidPoker has hijacked Bobby1's account, British Open indeed!

[bobby1]

lol, I just cut n pasted it but I am very disappointed I let that get thru.

[Alverton]

the British Open

 

[bobby1]

the British Open

 

fmp

please forgive me, for I had sinned.

[Alverton]

The one and only Open

 

[Karabiner]

I was too polite to mention the Freudianeque "pervious". 

[MajorMajor]

European tour. I'm on Oleson, Carlsson and Sullivan EW.

[Karabiner]

A small EW interest on JM Lara for me @ 66/1 in the lioness thingy.

[Karabiner]

Thank you Fred for only letting me have £8 EW @ 66/1.

Lara currently +7 through twelve holes

[MajorMajor]

European tour. I'm on Oleson, Carlsson and Sullivan EW.

Hold!!

[bobby1]

European tour. I'm on Oleson, Carlsson and Sullivan EW.

Hold!!

good luck major

[bobby1]

WGC Bridgestone Invitational

Weather forecast

V nice for the first two days, will be hot.

A few thunderstorms in the forecast for the weekend but no wind to speak of until Sunday when the forecast is for 10-15 mph which isn't much to worry about. Should be a good scoring week. The course is very dry and especially the greens so getting it down the fairway and having a shorter iron shot you can hit high and land soft might be important.


With the same course being used every year it is clear what type of player is suited to playing here and its big hitters with course form  that make plenty of birdies. Tiger might have to hit more drivers than he has at any of the courses he has won on this year just so he isn't giving away a big advantage on some holes. It's the bang opposite of the Open really. He is taking 16% out of a 105% book on BF on a course that a lot of holes shape the opposite way to his new stock shot so on balance I think it is a week to bet a few , maybe even each way if that's what you prefer as its a restricted invitational field with about 25% of the runners having very little chance. His record here pre crashed car/club round head gate is brill, since then it isn't so good so even tho he could win I have to half lay him in relation to others at the price at the very minimum.

I'm laying as many of the bottom 1/4 as I can too as it would be some performance for them to win and many have got in by pretty tenuous means. Players like Danny Willett and Lee Slattery must have spent the week rubbing dollar bills into their tiddies and laughing like Dr Evil.

I Digress

I like Bubba Watson this week as it's a course that suits his shape on the front nine and tho there are a few holes on  the back that don't he still has ok form here. He leads the stats for driving distance and leads the stats for greens in reg, that looks like a nice combo when you combine it with the level his game has risen to this year.

Dustin Johnson

Playing nicely, has ok form here and most of his wins come when the winning score is plenty under par.

Ditto Hunter Mahan who is also a previous winner here.

Louis Oosthuizen

Seems to play better in the bigger events now and another that has a high finish here recently and is playing nicely.

The problem with having a pretty narrow field on a well used course that seems to favour a particular style of player is they are all pretty well tipped up this week but that's how it goes.

I'm going to lay plenty of runners pre game this week as lots have iffy course form/playing poorly/shouldn't really be in the field at the mo and the ones in behind Tiger all have big reasons they might have poor weeks, Scott mental approach after that near miss, Westy in the process of moving his family home to Florida and reported a niggling injury at The Open after falling over on course a few weeks ago.

The tricky one could be McIlroy as the shape of a lot of holes is perfect for him, I saw Graeme McDowell interviewed on the morning drive show on the Golf channel last week and he basically admitted that Rory is doing all the travelling in his relationship, his game is suffering and he is basically in love and missing his partner a lot. The impressive thing is it sounded like Rory had just accepted that is what young guys that fall for girls have to put up with and that if he has to have a few down months professionally then so be it.


Renoe Taho Open.

Totally ridic event with a modified stableford scoring system that means the guy that takes the least shots probably won't win. I couldn't believe the tissue price Harrington was put in at but he is much bigger on BF.

If you par every hole in a round you will be on zero points. If you make 2 eagles, 8 bogeys and 8 pars you will have 2 points even tho you shot 4 over par. I think will just leave it alone.

good luck guys.

[Karabiner]

On Bubba @ 32, and Frankie Molinari @ 60.

GL

[tikay]

Think this may be my debut "I am on xxx this week" Post in this splendid thread, but I may as well come to your party!

I have blindly followed bobby, & got £20 on each of these four, all win only....

Bubba @ 30/1

Dustin Johnson @ 30/1

Mahan @ 25/1

Oosty @ 47/1

The first three with da bookies, & Oosty with Betfair.