Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose. Another excellent knock around the South Course (67) in round three last year confirms that he has everything required to go close and seventh place in the Sony Open last time out was a lovely way to begin what may well be a breakthrough year. At the front of the betting, Xander Schauffele makes some appeal as another former champion who has really taken to this Coore and Crenshaw design. No television pictures here in the UK, no shot-by-shot updates, no worthwhile data, a high probability of leaderboard errors, and a field which probably doesn't feature the next Tony Finau or Viktor Hovland. pic.twitter.com/h4cpO2vm4N. McGirt has two top-30s in five PGA Tour starts this season and it's not long since he was eighth behind Xander Schauffele at the Travelers, so with a good record here to his name he's one for the shortlist. "Yeah, touch wood, I feel good," he said. This is our best chance of an upset in February and I'll happily throw some darts in that direction. Woodland finished 39th here last year on the back of a missed cut at the AmEx but went on to record five top-10s in his next 22 starts, so he's been very close. MJ Daffue's performance in the Honda certainly caught the eye but he's occasionally horrendous on the greens and the two I prefer are HARRY HIGGS and HARRISON ENDYCOTT. Players used to talk about what qualifying for this means and by qualifying, I mean winning. CLICK HERE FOR OUR /20 SIGN-UP OFFER Amata Spring Country Club makes its DP World Tour hosting debut at a curious time, as it's a venue which could feasibly end up in some sort of wordy litigation document being used by LIV Golf against the DPWT in their ongoing legal battle. Thu. The potential for Lashley to do something like that had been there for a long time and while he's yet to back it up, Pebble Beach looks a good place to do so based not just on his US Open effort but on fifth place in 2021 and 28th in 2022. By Michael Vlismas Bela-Bela, Limpopo - JJ Senekal held on to his place at the top of the SDC Open leaderboard as he weathered a cold putter, intermittent rain and a few surges from his fellow professionals to place him two shots clear of the field going into Sunday's final round at Zebula Golf Estate and Spa. Many will consider an each-way double with Rory McIlroy something of a bet to nothing this week, but 20/1 about two golfers winning is never likely to appeal and I'll be taking both of them on. Theegala wouldn't be among the very longest hitters around but he's well above average and, given his propensity for a wild one from time to time, it's to his benefit that everyone will have to play from the rough for a good deal of the week. Webben coley landed a winner last week and now looks to end the season on a high with four selections for the dp world tour championship. All told he's played the event nine times, making six cuts, and bagging seventh place a couple of years ago. He defied a slow start to finish 18th behind Cam Smith back home in the Australian PGA and was again in the mix early in the AmEx, so we've seen lots of encouragement from a young player who struck at Korn Ferry Tour level last May. Hadley of course went on to win in Puerto Rico to give us a very strong correlating form line. Otherwise, taking care of the fifth, ninth and 15th holes in particular is a must these are three easy par-fives, with the 18th playing the longest of four and strong drivers do generally fare best, though it should be said that Smith, not typically one of those, led the field in strokes-gained off the tee last year. Lee was down the field on his first look at Kapalua but that's not uncommon, and neither is a big jolt of improvement for the look around. Johnson's victory here in 2018 was one of his finest, bettered perhaps only by his 11-shot romp in a FedEx Cup Playoffs event a couple of years later. If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline / GamCare on 0808 8020 133. Returning to Pebble Beach is a definite positive and it's worth knowing that he was in seemingly dire form before each of his top-10s in the event, as he was prior to his runner-up finish at Congaree in 2021, where he should've won. This big, modern, exclusive golf course used to host the Thailand Golf Championship, and looking back now it gave us some big form clues in terms of who would sign up with Greg and Mo: Lee Westwood, Charl Schwartzel and Sergio Garcia combined to win it four times in five years, with Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer and Henrik Stenson among those running them close. Each to their own but there might be four or five things in the entire world that interest me less than the Welshman's wrist position at the top. His tally for 2022 passed 500 points thanks to a golden summer including winners ranging from 25/1 to . Tony Finau is the biggest threat but priced accordingly and the one I wanted to be on was Max Homa, but with his price contracting all the time I've narrowly come down on the side of JASON DAY. Notably, his remodelled swing is producing significantly improved results in terms of his approach play, which has powered his good golf since last summer, and his putting is now catching up. Ultimately this is a collection of the world's best players taking part in a rust-shedding shootout, so we have to enter it with our eyes open. MacIntyre's burst of form in Cyprus came after a lacklustre spell and his win in Italy followed a disappointing effort at Wentworth, so after a chastening weekend off I expect him to be on it on Thursday. Theegala won the Junior World Championship here in 2004, 2006 and 2008 (yes, these are form lines from when he was a small child) and was inside the top three in 2009, 2012 and 2015, experiences which surely helped in some small way as he contended here on his Farmers debut, sitting sixth at halfway after rounds of 67 and 68. Certainly, wild shots risk being punished by tall fescue grass and these greens . Wu led the field in strokes-gained approach there, gaining over 2.75 per round at the host course, and we again saw him strike his irons well at the Honda. So (I feel) really, really close.". Saturday night lights with @JordanSpieth pic.twitter.com/rHClUJ1oGf. He also made very few mistakes, dropping shots on just four of his 36 holes, and my strong suspicion is that we can write off a frustrating couple of days on his return and expect a good deal better over the coming fortnight. He has a really good record in Puerto Rico and led through 54 holes when last playing here, which came not long after he'd threatened the top 10 in the RSM. Spieth was never at the races in the Hero Challenge, which so often provides a good guide to this event, having carded an eight and two sixes in his opening round to languish towards the back of the field. Breezy conditions kept a lid on scoring at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, both last year and back in 2012, but the course was pretty firm in November and the leader was on 13-under through 54 holes before a level-par finish. After a near-miss at 175/1 on Sunday, Ben Coley returns to preview the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. "Feeling really comfortable, but you can never let your guard down, it's a big course. Nobody here is to be feared: Nate Lashley is the right favourite but far from an infallible one, and the likes of Cameron Percy and Scott Piercy are firmly in the veteran category now. His putting improvement for a move away from poa annua resulted in his first solo top-10 at this level and he produced fireworks on similar greens in the AmEx, where a third-round 61 propelled him 50 spots up the leaderboard before a quiet Sunday. Tied at the top. The PGA Tour splits in two this week with most of the world's top players competing at . Sky Bet account details for access to. Yes there have been signs of promise either side of a successful Q-School run, and I do believe that a long-awaited return home will do wonders for him given what he said in that emotional Korn Ferry Tour interview in the autumn, while it's also important to note that he has stacks of good course form and spends a lot of his time practising at Amata Springs. Day returns to Torrey Pines on the back of five top-25s in his last six starts, the only blip along the way a poor first round at the RSM Classic. If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline / GamCare on 0808 8020 133. With 32nd and 21st in Mexico and the RSM Classic to end last year, latterly leading at halfway, Higgs has played a lot of very good golf without quite doing it for a full week, and that was also the case when last competing at this kind of level and finishing 11th in the Barracuda. Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org and gamblingtherapy.org. Spot the dotted line from that, to Kapalua, to Sawgrass, to St Andrews, and to the other side. In the AmEx last time he shot 68-64 over his final two rounds, before that he'd missed the cut narrowly on his Sony Open return, and he'd made seven cuts in a row before Christmas to again suggest that his game is in a good place granted favourable conditions. Andrew Putnam at 28/1 (General 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), 1pt e.w. There aren't many in here with his scope and while Stevens is certainly one of them, Wu has finished ahead of him in their last two tournaments and for now probably deserves to be the shorter of the two in the betting. Single-figure prices reveal much about this field, as do odds of 16/1 about Maverick McNealy, so I'll make ANDREW PUTNAM the confident headline selection as he bids for redemption following a poor finish last year. He's ended every round at the course comfortably inside the top 10 and those Augusta parallels are underlined by two top-10s in the Masters, too. It's not much, but it is enough to suggest that turning out so quickly might be the thing that catches him out after a tighter-than-expected tussle in the AmEx. With plenty of experience in Thailand and none of the quirks of Laguna National to deal with, this looks the right time to chance one of the form players of the second half of 2022 at generous prices. Perhaps even more so, I'll miss seeing players like Joaquin Niemann and Matthew Wolff find out how good they really can be by testing their games against the best players in the sport, who overwhelmingly remain on the PGA Tour. Remember, he's chosen to come to Asia rather than seek an invite for the Genesis Invitational, in which he played so well last year, and with Ryder Cup points so precious he can't afford to be off the pace again. As far as Rahm goes, he seldom plays the week after a win and when he did that here in 2018, he faded from halfway favouritism to by far his worst finishing position yet in La Jolla. Never are things as straightforward as fag-paper analysis like that can suggest, and it's worth saying that there are only one or two shorter hitters priced at less than 100/1 anyway, but those with an extra 10 yards have got ideal conditions to put that to use and Pendrith is one such player, among the longest around in fact. We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Another good pointer is River Highlands, where Spieth once edged out subsequent Pebble Beach winner Daniel Berger and where Hadley sprang into life with fifth place last summer, so the idea that this event could and should bring out the best in him has plenty of substance to it. While he can be wild at times, the one I'm most excited about here is CHESSON HADLEY, who would fit the bill were he to go on and bag his second PGA Tour title. It's a home away from home; the place where he's most at ease. Now, their refusal to play ball means Westwood was due to give evidence in court last week. That he could contend on his way to third place as recently as last year, when he'd gone almost than six months without a top-20 finish, tells you everything you need to know about how well suited he is to this particular challenge and it's worth saying that this year's field is a good deal weaker. Erik van Rooyen is probably the class act, but he's still on the long road to recovery. The Punter's In-Play Blog: Paul in pole position Golf Tips: Best bets for Honda Classic and Hero Indian Open The Honda Classic First-Round Leader Tips: Go with Gordon More Golf The Punter Golf Bets DP World Tour PGA Tour Golf Form Guide US Masters The Open US Open US PGA Championship Ryder Cup MoreRugby Featured Rugby Exclusive selections from golf tipster Ben . For me that tips them over the point of being "unknowns" ha. Impressive at the Presidents Cup in September, it's been an excellent couple of seasons for Lee, winner of back-to-back renewals of the Byron Nelson Championship. Only in the final round of the Farmers has he really struggled this year and, crucially, his driving has improved a heck of a lot. Lashley was a bit of a letdown in the AmEx, never really threatening to get involved, but before that he'd done everything well for seventh place in the Sony Open and on that form he'd be a big player. Given that his sole Korn Ferry Tour win came under low-scoring conditions in an event also won by former Puerto Rico champion Martin Trainer plus last year's runner-up, Max McGreevy, and that he was in the mix by the sea in Bermuda, there are also reasons to believe this course really should suit. . One way or another, it does look like those bigger hitters will be at an advantage, which makes Piercy more appealing than Lashley and Percy, though none of the trio is seriously considered at their respective odds. That's just enough of a worry on balance and with just two firms offering 66/1, he looks short enough for all his potential is clear. Taylor Pendrith at 80/1 (General 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), 1pt e.w. What those tournaments also told us was that when classy players drop in grade they often dominate, but that's not been the case over the past fortnight as the favourites have fluffed their lines. When doing so he won at River Highlands, a course which as mentioned correlates well with this, and there seems every chance that he gives backers a real run for their money at a nice each-way price. Experience does tend to be important and it's 15 years since a debutant won the title, with multiple champions fairly common. Victor Perez to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at 50/1It's YET ANOTHER big winner for @BenColeyGolf! McKibbin scored in bursts throughout the event in Singapore only to run out of gas on what was his first professional start in this part of the world, something I can easily forgive as he gets used to the sort of conditions which will again be a big factor in Thailand. Kristian Krogh Johannessen is another young player to have on the radar but I'll complete the staking plan with GAVIN GREEN. Another big-hitter who firmly ranks among the best putters on the PGA Tour, his game is similar to that of Day when he was dominating here, and McNealy himself has finished 15th, 29th and 30th from four appearances to date, including when producing one of the best weekends in the field back in 2020. Tom, Jason, and Brad are back for more PGA Tour bets this week. Tom Jacobs and Matt Vincenzi break down the Honda Classic on DraftKings, as they look for the players who will relish the move from California to Florida. It's one of the tougher ones out here I've got to imagine. SOLUTION: Having consistent marketing going out to your prospective and ideal clients every week without you having to invest hours of time every week to make it happen. Anything 250/1 and bigger is worth a dart and that's very much the way I'd suggest playing things before we get a little more serious in the coming weeks. Course form figures of 2-1-3-9-21 admittedly look a little regressive, but when ninth he putted horribly, and last year he was still getting to grips with fatherhood having played awfully at the Hero a few weeks earlier. That's in contrast to last year, when he just couldn't keep up with the relentless pace having been off for an additional month, and he should be sharper this time. Trevor Cone and Brandon Matthews are among the longest drivers around and therefore deserve a mention along with other sluggers like Augusto Nunez and Scott Harrington, while I did consider shorter duo Chris Stroud and Fabian Gomez, both of whom boast strong records here. That power saw him feature in the 2020 US Open at Winged Foot before narrowly missing the cut here a year later, but he showed what he can do at Torrey Pines when 16th here last year, playing better than that finishing position on the South Course (12th) but leaving a couple out there on the easier North Course. Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org and gamblingtherapy.org. He's at a career-best world ranking and is playing well most weeks. For the most part that's down to the sheer length of the South Course, but it's also because its fairways are hard to hit at just about any distance. It's hard to escape the fact he's been significantly cut following the AmEx, but where this former world number one is concerned I'm happy with the revised prices so he's a bet at 25/1. While the weather is nice, get out and walk around Downtown Willow Glen! I feel like I'm doing the right things. Both came at TPC Craig Ranch and while it's a different challenge to this one in many ways, the width of the fairways and emphasis on low scoring are two strong similarities. At 62nd in the world, he's improved almost a hundred places from this time last year and this tournament looks an ideal place to complete his return to the top 50. That's not something the Tournament of Champions has struggled with, and with Rory McIlroy extending his Christmas break, I doubt the field looks much different to how it would've before the, erm, elevation. Jason Day at 25/1 (General 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), 1.5pts e.w. Shop the best selection of sports equipment, gear, accessories and more including hockey, hunting, bicycles, skating, snowboarding, fishing, hunting and more. Our golf expert Ben Coley has a range of selections including outright tips for this week's Challenge . Brandon Wu at 175/1 (Sky Bet 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), 1pt e.w. . Thursday 2nd March Puerto Rico Open. 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