Asian Open

[phar.lap]

72 hole matchups

Sterne -120 to beat Storm

Mclardy -110 to beat Fernadez-Castano

Both At Sportingbet

 

[ridle]

R1 Lead:
Mu Hu 300/1 Totesport
Huang M-J 400/1 Betfred both 1/4 1-5
Surprised to see Huang in his home country again at such massive odds for R1 lead-after all he shared it last week...

Huang MJ 1000@Betfair
Huang MJ 1-10 50/1@Bet365

Liaw 1000@Betfair
Liaw 1-10 50/1@Skybet

1/4 1-5:
Both 250/1 Sportingbet
Knutzon 200/1 Coral
Lin KC 200/1 Gen.
Mamat 250/1 Skybet
Mu Hu 750/1 Bluesq
Pilkadiris 125/1 Betdirect
Steel 150/1 Sportingbet
Wang TC 200/1 Gen.

 

[lostinamerica]

The final stop in the Far East and then a needed 6-8 hours returns to my golf capping time budget for the duration . . . Will look to add a few comments before the off . . .

Outrights:

Gregory Havret(100/1) e.w.

Colin Montgomerie(22/1) e.w.

Prayad Marksaeng(66/1) e.w.

David Griffiths(100/1) e.w.

GL

 

[lostinamerica]

ODDS and ENDS: I've been scoping Havret, Tunnicliff, Fernandez-Castano and Marksaeng on my radar and weighing chances for plays - especially Havret and his zones that are far superior to his overall crap . . . I remember that last year Fernandez-Castano was all over the planet but was sheer genius in extricating himself; it probably distorts my overall recollection of the elbow room for straying this week, but I know there's nothing truly punishing . . . I've been holding out, more or less, for here and Italy on Havret, and I will be surprised if two months from now I have to say I was dead wrong and Havret wasn't hinting at anything I thought fit with his recent best . . . I'm a sucker for themes as a season unfolds (especially during the first half, after which they tend to be more muted), and this year, with the exception of the taxing 1-2-3 week swing through Florida, I'm being surprised by some of the names that have shown an ability to build on their best performances for consecutive weeks - Jeff Quinney comes immediately to mind - rather than falling off the map immediately after superior and out of character efforts - Rocco Mediate being more of what I consider the norm. And youth being pretty well served is also another arguable - and somewhat correlated - theme. With the Tour staying put in Shanghai this week, I thought this spot a fair opportunity to continue some of that, and at first I was drawn to Scott Hend, but I think Griffiths and Marksaeng have shown me more to build a case around . . . In the final analysis, I can't see past Goosen/Els/Casey occupying a couple of the money spots, so I won't get too heavily involved, but Montgomerie - at a generous price - has to be rounding into some sort of a threat about now.

I threw that together, and I hope half of it makes some sense and more than half comes close to accurately expressing my thinking.

GL