The Crowne Plaza Invitational

Haven't even started yet......focusing on the BMW PGA at the moment.

gone for

kevin streelman win
henrick stenson win
john huh win

bryce molder ew

good luck

anyone backing zach johnson he is 3pts bigger on fixed odds 19s

ive had a samll double on him with luke donald aswell

When looking at the long history of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial the one thing that hits you is the number of repeat winners - recently Zach Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Kenny Perry had all won it twice and a bit further back Nick Price and Corey Pavin repeated the feat. Apart from Zach the other four had also all managed to finish runner-up at least once whilst David Toms and Tim Herron had both won and finished second. In my eyes that's pretty conclusive evidence that course form is needed and at a very high level. As to what sort of player it suits then it's pretty easy to say the shorter more accurate player is best suited (Phil excepted) and they tend to be older but I wouldn't discount a player due to age as it does just so happen that most shorter accurate hitters are veterans these days!
At the prices just two players appeal to me - firstly John Huh who certainly couldn't be called old but is one of the most accurate players on tour. He hasn't had the best season so far but was 11th on his first visit to Augusta and then was 8th last week in the Byron Nelson where he was the most accurate player all week. If he can carry on that form this week on a course where he led the accuracy and all round stats last year on his way to finishing 5th then he has a great chance of adding another victory to his CV 0.5 ew 50/1
David Toms has a great record in this event - earlier this century he managed to finish 4th, 8th, 2nd and 3rd but it took him until 2011 to finally win one when he opened up with a pair of 62's. His top five finishes since then have come at Sea Island, and the Majors at Olympic and Atlanta - all courses that suit his game. He can no longer compete at the wide open resort courses but on weeks like this he comes into his own and with his top five strike rate here has to be a play - 0.25 ew 90/1

I guess one of the tipsters has tipped up Streelman - 26 on here wow

Do people really take note of the so called pro tipsters?...there are better tipsters in here sometimes......i was surprised to get him at 32s...hes hot at the moment

s palmer tipped him up

Added John Peterson 0.1 ew 200/1

Yeah he is in good form, but at 26 a lay for me. I agree golfnut there are some very good insights on here.

Hot or not I'm surprised Streely is shorter than Furyk, The Doof, Kuchar and Rickie this week!

Hoping Guthrie returns to form in a state where he won on the 2nd tour
Have also backed Cabrera.

im loathe to back favourites in tournaments like this but after last week, schwartzel must go close

tee to green he was awesome and had it not been for a mis-firing putter he would have hosed up

think he is well worth a strong play at the current odds

Another course that suits the short and straight.

Last chance for Ben Kohles @ 67 (Top 5.)

And no respect for David Lingmerth @ 170 (Winner.) after his 2nd at the Players.

Gl all.

Best bet for me this week Jason Kokrak 300. One of the longest hitters in the field but suprisingly most of his good showings in Pga Tour events have been on courses that have suited the shorter hitters.Kokrac will surely have his day in the sun soon and i will be hoping its this week.

I agree Merlin7, Kokrak will have his day. But aren't there so many courses more suited to his game than this? I'm sceptical of his chances here. I have taken a dull option in Tim Clark & a left-field approach in Chez Reavie.

Mr Furyk once again for me

A back to lay meng? I'm not sure he has it mentally any more to finish the job.

i know what you mean, i do it each way so i leave it at that, quite confident of a good saying for a top 5 atleast tho.

*showing

Mahan, Leish and English again for me. Good luck all.

Brad Fritsch is still in the market and he withdrew yesterday.

Summerhays in a good spot Heinz. I have backed him a fw times myself, but skipped him this tournament. Good luck.

My picks are:
Casey Wittenberg £998.00
Ben Kohles £6,238.00
Justin Bolli £1,896.00
Bobby Gates £1,698.00
Johnson Wagner £2,247.40
Colt Knost £4,995.00
John Peterson     £1,495.00
Steve LeBrun £2,877.00
Luke List £1,398.00
Lee Williams £1,798.00

Cracking lay price on Teater with the whole weekend to go and the afternoon players yet to even start 2nd rd!

they must be thinking hes gonna shoot -5 on his back 9 too

Has there ever been a worse putter than Boo.

Would have 20 wins in the bag if he could putt like Westwood.

lol hans

i read somewhere that he said he likes flat greens ....

Just knocked in a 40 footer for par on the last.  Shame he's not as deadly from 5.

Needs flat greens, no bunkers and a few more brain cells.

Since my cash landed he's collapsed from -7 for the day.

F**k me. Just seen that.

Should have got on the hillbilly's case earlier.

Flesch moving up the leaderboard - haven't seen him for ages - was he off injured?

Suspended.

Any news on how long the delay will be?

Should be going again 8-30 UK

Are we back in play?

Yeah

2nd golf bet of the week. First was backing Shane Lowry to win his first 3 ball. He obliged at about 11/8. Just now, i have taken a bigger chance and laid Ryan Palmer @ 4.8 to €300. Need this win. So, hopefully.

Looks a good lay to me. Joke price IMO.

Thanks ccm. Have traded a bit up until now and standings as follows,

Ryan Palmer + €418.52

MattKucher  + €37.40

The Field   + €63.52

Very happy with that bit of work.

is brandt jobe listed?

When our time are they due to start rd 3?

Will it be a 2 tee start?

Cheers.

Good tourny this one - Great to see Spieth going well again. That Teater lay may well be the value lay of the season for me, even though it's only May.

Back to back bogeys by kuch opening this up nicely

if only furyk was putting like yesterday!

Goooooooooo Robben.....

Some amazing confidence being put in players with no PGA wins. First Teater and now Delaet. Some incredibly low prices on the two of them before Sunday even arrives. Is this because of the spate of first time winners since last year?

Good for trading though.....A runaway favourite would be boring.

Yeah of course that would be boring if you weren't on them lol Just can't get my head around how low they have gone considering the stage of the event. Oh, and well done on Bayern

The course not that hard....only 1 big name player and that's Kuchar....the rest of the 'big' name players are in UK.

Think I cursed Spieth

Spieth just an immature little hacker

Pretty harsh. Great prospect imo