Results for tag: Nick Watney
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Aug 10, 2011 at 02:43:01 PM
[b]Our man outlines the factors that he thinks will determine the winner of the year's final major and given all the evidence, he fancies Watney might just Nick it...[/b]
"Glory's Last Shot" is the strapline for the year's final major and after a poor performance at both the US Masters and US Open and only a modest profit at the Open Championship; it feels a bit like that for yours truly.
The host course this week is the Highlands Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia - a venue last used ten years ago when David Toms beat [b]Phil Mickelson[/b] by a solitary stroke, kicking off a run of three almost impossible to predict results.
Toms had been a triple-figure price and he was followed in by the even more implausible pair of Rich Beem in '02 and Shaun Micheel in '03 but...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 2, 2010 at 05:57:27 PM
Given that there are four of them, and nobody rates them equal to the majors, the World Golf Championship 'tag' for events such as this has always struck me as slightly inappropriate. Sure, this is a big event with a high-class field, but does the winner really deserve to be labelled a 'world champion'? This year's renewal of the HSBC-sponsored leg in [b]Shanghai[/b] does, however, take on extra significance due to a unique scenario in the rankings, which could see any one of four players emerge as world number one on Sunday.
Doubtless, that battle between [b]Lee Westwood, Tiger Woods, Martin Kaymer and Phil Mickelson[/b] will dominate the week's narrative, but punters might do well to assess each of these four market leaders on their most recent form, rather than the long-term performance...