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With DA Points becoming the fifth straight triple-figure outsider to win in the States on Sunday, most golf punters have endured a tough beginning to 2011. At odds of 90.0, and that in a field restricted to 30 players, Kapalua champion Jonathan Byrd is the shortest priced winner on the PGA Tour schedule so far. There is no need to panic, however, such is the nature of this wide-open sport. In direct contrast to the PGA Tour, the European equivalent produced three consecutive winning favourites in January, at decent enough prices to compensate for bad runs at other times. I'm a great believer in the law of averages when it comes to matters like this, and was not surprised to see that Race to Dubai sequence of favourites end with a shock winner in Qatar. One of the big names is going to...