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This week’s instalment on the European Tour takes in Hong Kong with the UBS Hong Kong Open. After narrowly missing out in the World cup last week we’ll take last years winner, Ian Poulter, as the main bet for the week.

After shooting a 60 here last year, Poults obviously likes ‘the course. I like the way it’s not very long and you have to think your way around it, playing positional stuff. The greens are small and pretty true, and if you get the putter going you can shoot some good scores. It's just a nice blend.  It's old school.’

He would be a much shorter price if it wasn’t for McIlroy in the field and at 14/1; he has to be one for the shortlist.

Next up: Marcus Fraser. Two top 10 finishes in his last 4 starts on the European tour along with a second place in the recent Australian PGA (which saw him lose in the play off to Greg Chalmers) reads well. Add that to his two Top 10 rounds around this course makes him a solid e/w bet this week.

Finally we have the Thailand Typhoon Thongchai Jaidee. His form has been quite erratic this season but with three sub 70 rounds in the Johor Open along with 3 Top 10 and 7 top 20’s in this tournament (when played as the Omega Hong Kong Open) makes him worth a little dabble e/w.

We also have the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa and there is only one man I shall be focusing on and that man is Lee Westwood. He won at a canter last year and with many question marks about his rivals, including Luke Donald (poor course form, new born child, death of his father) makes Lee the stand out bet.

Normally they have a ‘who will finish last?’ bet and if the bookies mark this up then Darren Clarke is the man to take home the wooden spoon.

Over in America we have the Chevron World Challenge and again there’s only one man I can have in this and that’s Tiger Woods.

He really should have won this last year and he will make amends this time round.

Chasing him round the course will be Paul Casey. He seems to like the event and his recent form (1/7/wd/14/T4) makes him a nice e/w bet at 20/1.