The WELLS FARGO Championship

7500 yards may be too long a track for Colt but good luck

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Managed to get the 40s on Bill Haas early on, which leapt out to me. He's been playing well lately at courses, which he has a bad record at such as Bay hill & Hilton Head but hasn't put four rounds together, so coming back to a course that suits him, is a home game for him & he has played well on in the past, he looks very good to me this week.

In addition I've taken Glover, Stanley, Booo & Points.  The first 3 all have the obvious big hitting, ball striking credentials which seems to be rewarded on this course, along, with good current form & in Glover's case great course form. Points obviously was in the mix here last year & is also riding a wave at the moment. With all 4 available between 50-100-1 they all seem fairly priced to me.

Finally I've had a small dabble on SY Noh & Kokrak. In Noh's case I'm hoping that the form book from this event in past years of high quality 'young guns' coming of age here can repeat itself and at 200-1 e/w for top 6 on a course he played well at last year I'm hoping he can ignite his season.

Whilst a win for Kokrak would be a massive ask he has shown enough over the past year that he has the quality to get in the mix and as a Charlotte resident he might just be inspired to a 'Merrick' type week on a course which should again suit his big hitting.

Good luck all

I've backed a handful for this (Cabrera, Walker, Stadler and Rollins) but particularly interested in Russell Henley at 100/1 or better. Ticks a lot of boxes for this course (driving distance, average putting distance) and already has eight Top-25 finishes in just 13 career events played.

Garcia 30 Guthrie 100 Villegas 220 Sabatini 220

I have also put £7 on Colt Knost. His driving accuracy is pretty good at 30th and he is 6th in GIR putting over 35 ft, then
32nd in putts between 25-30 ft

Apply this to Rob Bolton's analysis of the course:
Fairways are among the hardest to hit among all courses on the PGA TOUR -- Quail Hollow ranked third-lowest in driving accuracy (47.59 percent) for the third straight year in 2012 -- and the proximity-to-the-hole measurement is always among the longest. After four consecutive years as No. 1 on TOUR, it ranked third in 2012 at exactly 40 feet.

I think the time of the season has come come where Rory McIlroy is the man to back....large!! I was always of the opinion that there was too much pressure being put on him to get it right for the masters. From the moment he missed the cut in Abu Dhabi, the vultures were out. 'Will he get used to the new clubs for the masters....will he find his form for the masters....will he still be no. 1 for the masters....will he play more tournaments to get it right for the masters??' The masters is over, he is not still number 1, time to move on. And where better to set his season back on track, than where he got his debut pga win? A venue where he also finished runner up last year. He wasnt bad at Augusta, just this years problem of consistency caught him out on Saturday. Nowhere near that pressure this weekend, i expect we will see a different Rory McIlroy. Took the tens e.w at Ladbrokes yesterday, but 9s e.w still looks a cracking bet.
Will have a couple of smaller than normal investments on a few others, basically because i really think Rory deserves the bulk of the stake money this wk. Going with, Garrigus, Pod and Blixt for those wagers, having thought long and hard about including Phil, whose course form is very solid. Might still add him

If you have a decent bank, a lay of Phil at 19ish looks the part for me.

Are you kidding ????

Do you seriously think that Phil Mickleson is just marking time until he's fifty ?

That's an eight year wait.

He's still one of the most gifted golfers on the planet.

I've read some garbage on here, but that takes the biscuit.

The Wells Fargo Championship is now in its tenth year so we have plenty of
evicence to draw from and one thing is clear - with the exception of Joey
Sindelar winners have been top quality golfer who have had success or go
onto success in Major Championships - in particular the US Open. This makes
a lot of sense because it is a tough test of golf despite the winning score
averaging around -13. The last few years has also seen the domination of the
younger pro's - Fowler was 23, Rory 21, O'Hair 26 and Kim 22. I have
therefore gone for a Major player and a young pro who will probably go onto
great things.
It is time to play up some of the Angel Cabrera Masters winnings on the
likeable Argentinian. It is a well documented fact he still hasn't won a
normal PGA tour event but just has the US Open and Masters victories to his
name. This is just the sort of course where he could break that duck and
indeed he was 3rd here in 2010. The week after the Masters he flew home and
played in a big event in his home country scorching through the field on the
final day with a 64 and eagling the last to win. Since then he has had a
week off to recharge the batteries but as I said at the Masters he has been
playing well all season. To my mind he is being totally under rated this
week so will press things up - 1 pt ew 55/1
My only other bet is 24 year old Russell Henley who plays the course for the
first time in tournament conditions but has a close link to Quail Hollow.
After turning pro for the 2012 Web.com season where he had won as an amateur
this week in 2011 his game deserted him. He then paired up with a new coach
who is head pro at Quail Hollow and together with Webb Simpson they played
the course time and time again ironing out his problems. Once the problems
were solved he went on a run that saw him finish 1st, 3rd, 1st and 6th in
the last four starts of 2012, gain his tour card and then win the opening
event of the season in Hawaii. That first win on the lower tour came in
North Carolina on a not disimilar course and he bounced back to form last
time when 6th in South Carolina. He even made the cuts on both his starts in
US Opens when a top amateur. He ticks an awful lot of boxes this week and is
worth a decent bet 0.5 ew 100/1

Luke Guthrie had a few poor tournaments after he was probably knocked for six after a nervy final round when having every chance of winning the Honda. Returned to form last weekend here's hoping this is his week.

ww 3 points lower than lefty - strange

Poulter out

Just looked myself about Poulter as i'd backed him but can't find a reason.

Added De Jonge at 95s and Jones at 170s. Should be a price fall on the market leaders with DJ and Poulter out no?

thats not left field....thats the field over in the next city

Phil & Pod will do me this week. GL.

kaymer, Laird Blixt and Immelman all great value in my book

After getting a bit lucky by winning on Kle Stanley to finish top 5 at the Zurich, I am diverging in to other markets this week.
First Round leader:
Jason Bohn  @ 250
Jeff Maggert @ 310
Eric Meierdierks @ 400
Brad Fritsch @ 200   
Colt Knost @ 310   
Jin Park @ 400   

Top 5:
Brad Fritsch @ 60
Justin Bolli @ 100

Outright:
Jin Park    1000
Lee Williams    1000
Justin Bolli    1000
Colt Knost    1000
Jeff Maggert    870
Greg Owen    715.8
Eric Meierdierks 1000
David Lingmerth    1000
Fabian Gomez    660.5
Doug LaBelle II    660.3

I'm a little surprised at ken duke not getting mentioned much...just spent an hour going through the pga stats and he seems like a potential contender to me for this course. certainly at overpriced at 170/180?
my team:
duke
woodland
stenson
stanley
walker
kokrak
garrigus
steele
cabrera
laird
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