Outrights:
Tiger Woods(+550) e.w.
Pat Perez(60/1) e.w.
Arron Oberholser((200/1) e.w.
Spencer Levin(35/1) e.w.
- - After a strong wager on Tiger at 9/1 e.w. in Abu Dhabi, how do I assess his chances this week?
(1) Tiger's ball striking while having fun playing with McIlroy was superb on Thursday and Saturday, and solid on Friday.
(2) On Sunday Tiger struggled to put the ball in play off the tee, BUT this time his misses clearly had a consistency that should be quite capable of being ironed out.
(3) What Tiger is excited to talk about is how good his putting has been, and IMO the rest of his short game has been following suit with glimpses of the magic possessed only by the game's elite. While I get nervous about how the golfing gods might treat someone who chatters away about their game rather than just letting their game do their talking, I don't think Tiger has been off base with anything he's been saying recently about his putter.
(4) When putting on the poa annua greens in Monterey in February, a confident stroke is usually a key to achieving success rather than negativity. And it is a pro-am circus, but you usually can't have everything.
(5) Tiger goes from an Abu Dhabi venue he had never seen to a haunt that has been known to bring out the absolute best among those who have talked about being inspired by the place.
(6) I don't know if I could rank anyone this side of Kyle Stanley as carrying more motivation at the moment than Tiger Woods.
- - There are angles there with Perez, Oberholser and Levin (and they have all recently been on my radar for one reason or another) that I'm taking over other possible dart tosses. I'll still be tossing another dart or three by Thursday (as usual and no surprise IMO, my full slate of 7-14 golfers for the events on two tours is likely to include play(s) I've been alerted to or influenced toward by suggestions I've come across from other cappers and analysts during my capping process).
GL
Tiger Woods(+550) e.w.
Pat Perez(60/1) e.w.
Arron Oberholser((200/1) e.w.
Spencer Levin(35/1) e.w.
- - After a strong wager on Tiger at 9/1 e.w. in Abu Dhabi, how do I assess his chances this week?
(1) Tiger's ball striking while having fun playing with McIlroy was superb on Thursday and Saturday, and solid on Friday.
(2) On Sunday Tiger struggled to put the ball in play off the tee, BUT this time his misses clearly had a consistency that should be quite capable of being ironed out.
(3) What Tiger is excited to talk about is how good his putting has been, and IMO the rest of his short game has been following suit with glimpses of the magic possessed only by the game's elite. While I get nervous about how the golfing gods might treat someone who chatters away about their game rather than just letting their game do their talking, I don't think Tiger has been off base with anything he's been saying recently about his putter.
(4) When putting on the poa annua greens in Monterey in February, a confident stroke is usually a key to achieving success rather than negativity. And it is a pro-am circus, but you usually can't have everything.
(5) Tiger goes from an Abu Dhabi venue he had never seen to a haunt that has been known to bring out the absolute best among those who have talked about being inspired by the place.
(6) I don't know if I could rank anyone this side of Kyle Stanley as carrying more motivation at the moment than Tiger Woods.
- - There are angles there with Perez, Oberholser and Levin (and they have all recently been on my radar for one reason or another) that I'm taking over other possible dart tosses. I'll still be tossing another dart or three by Thursday (as usual and no surprise IMO, my full slate of 7-14 golfers for the events on two tours is likely to include play(s) I've been alerted to or influenced toward by suggestions I've come across from other cappers and analysts during my capping process).
GL
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