Outright plays (total stake per play: 1pt)
Hee-Won Han to win 20/1 e.w. @ Centrebet
One common feature about the Nine Bridges Classic in South Korea was that a home player has won the event every year despite a strong contingent of American LPGA players competing on the Asian leg of the Tour. So with the Tour now adding an event in Thailand to this leg, there appears little reason to deviate from South East Asian players for these two weeks at least. Han does not share the advantage of having time in the region before this event, having played in the Samsung World Championship in California last week, but that is simply a testamount of how good a player she is relative to this field. In terms of the World Rankings, only Cristie Kerr and Mi Hyun Kim rank above her. She is in decent form and typically plays well at the end of the year, winning September in 2004 and October last year and this price is simply too big to ignore. She is a best-price of 16/1 elsewhere.
Jee Young Lee to win 33/1 e.w. @ William Hill
Lee is the 5th best player in this field, according to the World Rankings, but she has had the advantage of returning to South Korea over the past month. She earned her LPGA Tour Card as a result of being a wire-to-wire winner of the Nine Bridges Classic last year and has more than justified her place on this Tour with three top-5 finishes in her last four LPGA Tour starts. But there is more ... she has played in one Korean LPGA Tour event since those LPGA Tour events and she won. With very good recent form on the LPGA Tour and a proven winning record in South East Asia, she should be much lower than 33/1.
Nontaya Srisawang to win 200/1 e.w. @ Tote
Much more speculative here, but these events do throw up winners that have been unheard of outside the region. In the case of Srisawang, that won't be for long. She only graduated from high school this year, but beat several LPGA Tour players to win the 2005 Thailand Ladies Masters and also won the China Women's Open, both times as an amateur. And then two weeks ago she was the medallist in Sectional Qualifying for the LPGA Tour in Venice, Florida. She will now play in the Final Qualifying Tournament next month in order to gain her 2007 LPGA Tour Card, but her performances as an amateur indicate that she may have a reasonable chance of earning her Tour Card this week instead.
Hee-Won Han to win 20/1 e.w. @ Centrebet
One common feature about the Nine Bridges Classic in South Korea was that a home player has won the event every year despite a strong contingent of American LPGA players competing on the Asian leg of the Tour. So with the Tour now adding an event in Thailand to this leg, there appears little reason to deviate from South East Asian players for these two weeks at least. Han does not share the advantage of having time in the region before this event, having played in the Samsung World Championship in California last week, but that is simply a testamount of how good a player she is relative to this field. In terms of the World Rankings, only Cristie Kerr and Mi Hyun Kim rank above her. She is in decent form and typically plays well at the end of the year, winning September in 2004 and October last year and this price is simply too big to ignore. She is a best-price of 16/1 elsewhere.
Jee Young Lee to win 33/1 e.w. @ William Hill
Lee is the 5th best player in this field, according to the World Rankings, but she has had the advantage of returning to South Korea over the past month. She earned her LPGA Tour Card as a result of being a wire-to-wire winner of the Nine Bridges Classic last year and has more than justified her place on this Tour with three top-5 finishes in her last four LPGA Tour starts. But there is more ... she has played in one Korean LPGA Tour event since those LPGA Tour events and she won. With very good recent form on the LPGA Tour and a proven winning record in South East Asia, she should be much lower than 33/1.
Nontaya Srisawang to win 200/1 e.w. @ Tote
Much more speculative here, but these events do throw up winners that have been unheard of outside the region. In the case of Srisawang, that won't be for long. She only graduated from high school this year, but beat several LPGA Tour players to win the 2005 Thailand Ladies Masters and also won the China Women's Open, both times as an amateur. And then two weeks ago she was the medallist in Sectional Qualifying for the LPGA Tour in Venice, Florida. She will now play in the Final Qualifying Tournament next month in order to gain her 2007 LPGA Tour Card, but her performances as an amateur indicate that she may have a reasonable chance of earning her Tour Card this week instead.
