The PLAYERS

Should I put those in some combination tricasts Heinz?

Jason Day E/W @ 50/1 top six. Nice price.

Colt Knost. Big price.

In a field this classy lots of players will look over the odds. Picking the right ones is, as ever, the challenge.

I got on Walker, Sabbatini, Davis Love and McNeill in the 400s as well as Immelman at 650s. Only small stakes, but it will keep me interested.

http://tourreport.pgatour.com/2012/05/06/westwood-sawgrass-suits-game/

Suit you sir !!!

With you on Kaymer TMM. Still 66 with Stan James. Can't see that lasting.

Westwood main bet and on Chris Stroud as well TMM

No one's seen the obvious so far... Rickie to follow up....ok price will be factored in but confidence for yer man will be sky high....I'm in old pal....

Plenty of 50's the books

Last years shot tracker here if anybody is interested in viewing...still has all scorecards up......


http://www.pgatour.com/shottracker/current/pb_main.html/#/

Tiger at 25 cant remember him starting so big

Other bets for me so far. 

Traded Tiger 17.5/25
Traded Rickie 27/48
Traded Cink 290/480

Jason Day 50/1 E/W
Martin Kaymer 66/1 E/W and 65 on here
Brian Gay 420
Bryce Molder 400
Ken Duke 440
Colt Knost 635

Hahahaha thought i was the only crazy one on Herron at 1000 also getting on Stricker and Justin but main bet Furyk

Bill Haas @ 150 is ridiculously high.......so,he missed the cut last week....a birdie or three will see that price tumble !!

Taken some Laird and Yang at 270s seems good to me. Yang missed the cut here last year shooting something like 68 and 76 so he can play the course.

tiger @ 26 will do for me .

Hunter Mahan 30/1

What more is there to say about Hunter? He is in career best form with 2 Wins to his name already this season with victory in the WGC Match Play and Shell Houston Open. From 9 starts he has made all 9 cuts with 7 Top 25 finishes and 3 Top 10′s.

He played well at the Masters finishing for a T12th and early in the season he had a T6th Farmers Insurance and T15th AT&T Pebble Beach.

Looking at his past results at Sawgrass he hasnt set the world on fire however he has made the cut in his last 4 appearances and this season he is playing at a different level altogether.

Stats wise he is primed to play well as he is 8th in Driving Accuracy, %th in Greens in regualtion, 5th in Ball Striking and 18th in Scoring average. It is also interesting to note that from all the players in the past 5 years who have played here, he is ranked 10th in scoring average at 71.46.

It would not be a suprise to see him claim his 3rd victory for 2012 this week.



Ben Crane 60/1

There are 4 members of the ‘Golf Boys’ who are a youtube sensation with their song “Oh Oh Oh Oh” which was done for charity. The four members are Ben Crane, Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan and Rickie Fowler.

Three of them have won on tour this year already.

Watson in the Masters, Mahan in the WGC and Houston Open and Fowler won his maiden career victory last week at Quall Hallow. It is now time for the 4th member to stand up and claim his moment in the spot light!

Ben has had 12 starts on tour this season and made 9 cuts. He is playing good consistant golf with 5 Top 25′s and 3 Top 10′s already to his name. His 2 Top 10′s were T8th Humana Championship, T9th Hyundai Tournament of Champions and 2nd Phoenix Open.

All that sets up for a good showing this week. Looking at his course form you know he loves playing here.

Last year he was T45th, in 2010 he was T4th, 2008 was T5th and 2007 was T6th.  That’s pretty good course form in any ones book! Stats wise he is 57th in Driving Accuracy, 57th in Greens in Regulation, 10th in Strokes gained putting, 13th in Birdies and 7th in Par 5 Performnce. He is also ranked 2nd for stroke average in the last 5 years at Sawgrass at 70.81.

Perhaps the ‘Golf Boys’ will be singing a group victory song in the bar if Ben is successful this week.



Zach Johnson 60/1

With a World Golf Ranking of 32 and 7 PGA Tour victories to his name, Zach certainly knows how to win.

His golf this season is very consistant and he has not missed a cut to date.

From 11 events played he has 5 Top 25′s and 2 Top 10′s. Highlights have been T8th Humana Challenge, T17th Northern Trust, T17th WGC Cadillac Championship, T11th Arnold Palmer Invitational and 2nd RBC Heritage.

He has had 8 visits to Sawgrass and recorded 4 finishes in the Top 25. Last year he was T12th. And from his last 12 rounds here he has been under Par on 8 of them.

Zach consistantly ranks high for Driving Accuracy on the tour and this year is the same. He his 10th in Driving Accuracy, 9th in Scrambling, 16th in Scoring average, 25th in Strokes gained from Putting and 2nd in Par 5 Performance.

All this makes for a player who should go very close to victory.

haha thanks for that ski-wiz. not anymore though...he's out to 500. has he an injury or something? i know he hasn't won anything but for someone who has consistently been there or thereabouts this year it's a big price that will surely trade in play

I must admit Martin Kaymer was not on my original list of players to back at Sawgrass this week but I was simply drawn to his price. When on song Kaymer is one of the best young players in the World and when you look at the price is Rory six times more likely to win? Kaymer finally made a cut at Augusta which would have pleased him - the course really doesn't suit and is a Major and WGC Champion. Maybe he is such a big price becase of his course form but he has improved with every start 56/34/19 and at the odds available I think he is worth a play 0.3 ew 66/1 (6 places)
Sean O'Hair was definitely high up on my list as he has been a model of consitency since his win in July. His form at Sawgrass is probably better than it at first looks - last year he was 19th when way out of form - he had missed his previous five cuts coming in. Back in 2007 he stood on the 17th tee on Sunday two back of Mickelson and knowing anything could happen - sadly it all went wrong for him and he took a quadruple bogey seven and dropped to 11th. I think he is a better player now than back then with his swing changes now firmly embedded and that has led to the consistency in his game. At 100/1 (6 places) he really should give us a good run for our money - 0.4 ew
In the last two weeks we have seen two tour "virgins" winning on courses where they respectively led the two year course form averages. This week the Players Championship throws up another candidate who replicates those statistics in the form of Chris Stroud. Whilst I don't think he is anywhere near as good as Fowler or Dufner we are getting him at 125/1. He has plenty of top five and top ten finishes to his name and appears to play the same courses well year in year out and has been 10th and 12th here. He admits his season never normally gets started til now as he doesn't play well on the West Coast and looks forward to the warmer temperatures at this time of year. He describes Sawgrass as similar to the Woodlands course he grew up on and it simply suits his eye. I must admit to hoping for a bigger price so have been tempered slightly on the size of bet - 0.25 ew (6 places)