HSBC Open

[JimmyTime]

Outright

Poulter 28 to 1- Poulter has been playing great golf recenlty and wouldv'e won the Quinn Direct but Westwood played a superb final round. Poulter got married the following week and MC'd at Dunhill Championship. Finished 8th last week. All this leads me to believe he will be in the top five this week. Finished 19th here in 2006 even shooting 73's on the weekend.

Immelman 35 to 1- I have a good feeling with this one. Imms seems to be recovered from that virus where he lost so much weight and distance in his golf game. He has gained most of the weight back and played well at the Presidents Cup. Last month he aslo finished t6 at the Alfred Dunhill tourney. Also a little exta info- Ames won the '05 Western Open and Immelman won the following year. Ames won last week so maybe Imms will get it done this week...

Stenson 40 to 1- No rhyme or reason here I'm just ignoring his play last week and basing this on his play at the HSBC matchplay. He has struggled the past few months so maybe he can start the new season off with a win.

 

[abc]

Hey dude,
Here everyone just puts their play in the same thread.. makes it cleaner. Good luck :SIB

 

[abc]

Pos Name Country R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Score
1 Yong-eun Yang KOR 66 72 67 69 274 -14
2 Tiger Woods USA 72 64 73 67 276 -12
T3 Michael Campbell NZ 66 70 77 64 277 -11
T3 Retief Goosen SA 68 67 69 73 277 -11
5 Marc Warren SCO 66 71 70 71 278 -10
T6 Padraig Harrington IRE 67 70 73 70 280 -8
T6 Robert Karlsson SWE 73 68 69 70 280 -8
T6 Paul Casey ENG 73 68 68 71 280 -8
T9 Jim Furyk USA 73 66 74 68 281 -7
T9 KJ Choi KOR 68 72 71 70 281 -7
T9 Johan Edfors SWE 68 74 69 70 281 -7
T9 Francesco Molilnari ITA 72 68 69 72 281 -7
T9 Jyoti Randhawa IND 65 69 72 75 281 -7
T14 Colin Montgomerie SCO 69 70 76 67 282 -6
T14 John Bickerton ENG 68 71 71 72 282 -6
T14 Luke Donald ENG 70 69 71 72 282 -6
17 Jeev Milkha Singh IND 70 69 71 73 283 -5
T18 Shiv Kapur IND 71 67 74 72 284 -4
T18 Henrik Stenson SWE 76 64 70 74 284 -4
T20 Charl Schwartzel SA 72 72 71 70 285 -3
T20 Nick O'Hern AUS 72 69 71 73 285 -3
T20 Bradley Dredge WAL 71 70 70 74 285 -3
T23 Camilo Villegas COL 71 71 75 69 286 -2
T23 Kevin Stadler USA 74 70 71 71 286 -2
T23 Anton Haig SA 71 71 72 72 286 -2
T26 Chris DiMarco USA 70 74 73 70 287 -1
T26 Gaurav Ghei IND 72 70 71 74 287 -1
28 Anthony Wall ENG 73 67 78 70 288 Par
T29 Alan McLean SCO 71 68 78 72 289 +1
T29 Chinarat Phadungsil THA 72 69 74 74 289 +1
T31 Mark Pilkington WAL 74 70 75 71 290 +2
T31 Ian Poulter ENG 72 74 72 72 290 +2
T33 Markus Brier AUT 71 75 72 73 291 +3
T33 Thaworn Wiratchant THA 75 67 71 78 291 +3
T35 Chawalit Plaphol THA 67 70 82 73 292 +4
T35 Craig Parry AUS 77 69 75 71 292 +4
37 Scott Strange AUS 70 76 74 73 293 +5
38 Cesar Monasterio ARG 74 68 80 72 294 +6
T39 Peter O'Malley AUS 69 79 73 74 295 +7
T39 Jean Van De Velde FRA 74 71 77 73 295 +7
T39 Gregory Bourdy FRA 73 68 76 78 295 +7
T43 Niclas Fasth SWE 76 70 74 76 296 +8
T43 Alejandro Canizares SPN 68 75 78 75 296 +8
T43 Chris Rodgers ENG 74 76 73 73 296 +8
T43 Warren Abery SA 74 66 76 80 296 +8
T47 Tadahiro Takayama JPN 72 67 81 77 297 +9
T47 Darren Fichardt SA 71 69 80 77 297 +9
T47 David Howell ENG 73 72 76 76 297 +9
T47 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano SPN 78 71 77 71 297 +9
T51 Zhang Lian-Wei CHN 72 76 73 77 298 +10
T51 Wang Ter-chang TPE 71 75 76 76 198 +10
T51 Stephen Dodd WAL 72 73 79 74 298 +10
T54 Paul Sheehan AUS 77 72 77 73 299 +11
T54 Liang Wen-chong CHN 78 75 74 72 299 +11
T54 Lin Wen-Tang TPE 76 75 77 71 299 +11
T54 Kane Webber AUS 77 73 79 70 299 +11
58 Thomas Bjorn DEN 75 76 74 75 300 +12
T59 Hendrik Buhrmann SA 75 73 77 76 301 +13
T59 Adam Bland AUS 74 77 78 72 301 +13
61 Jong Yul Suk KOR 76 75 76 75 302 +14
T62 Gui Ming Liao CHN 75 74 76 78 303 +15
T62 Louis Oosthuizen SA 71 75 83 74 303 +15
T62 Paul Broadhurst ENG 76 77 78 72 303 +15
65 Prom Meesawat THA 75 75 80 74 304 +16
T66 Li Chao CHN 75 78 75 79 307 +19
T66 Mardan Mamat SIN 74 80 78 75 307 +19
68 Qi Zeng Fa CHN 77 77 74 81 309 +21
69 Steven Bowditch AUS 72 71 79 89 311 +23
70 Huang Ming Ji CHN 78 78 80 76 312 +24
T71 Hu Mu (am) CHN 83 73 77 80 313 +25
T71 Yuan Hao CHN 80 74 84 75 313 +25
73 Wu Wei-Huang CHN 76 78 83 79 316 +28
74 Bradford Vaughan SA 85 73 82 77 317 +29

Love these 4 round no cut events.. the guys who come in struggling really have long weeks.

 

[lostinamerica]

Outrights:

With regard to posting golf plays, I intentionally "shut it down" in September when football season meant no time for any due diligence on my golf capping. FWIW, this week I'll risk a few of my precariously held units of profit for 2007 on what are likely to be my final cracks at it for 2007 . . .

Ian Poulter(28/1) e.w.
- - The end of 2006 saw an impressive quota of players with season long "stories" indeed find their place all the way into the winner's enclosure - Justin Leonard, Mike Weir, Nick Dougherty, Steve Webster and Justin Rose, and going back a little further to Steve Stricker, Ross Fisher and Andres Romero. Ian Poulter is one of the leading protaganists exhibiting some sound and fury during his 2007 campaign that came up high and dry. Now comes one of those oddly classified events that offers opportunities to simultaneously put the matter of winning to rest early for 2008 and still feel like getting the job jone in 2007, hoist a trophy right on the heels of his close friend Justin Rose just before partnering him in the World Cup this month and right there in China, and make a cracking start in pursuit of Ryder Cup points before another assault on the dual points lists while again operating out of Florida. Sheshan in Shanghai is pretty clearly a track not as ideal as Valderama for rewarding putting the ball in play, and the grind in brutal conditions from last week and then the travel is certainly not ideal preparation, but his credentials suggest it would be no surprise, either.

Jyoti Randhawa(45/1) e.w.
- - 9th at Valderama with only one double bogey confirms to me his game is in rare form. We all see things differently and track players on our radars differently, but for me few players come to mind during 2007 as more dedicated in striving for a breakthrough win to validate their place (the rub being that same anxiety and emotion holds the seeds for blocking "our" joint road to the promised land), and now he gets an ideal field of 89 coming to his corner of the world, so to speak, and he has a cracking chance to get involved from the start in a nice pairing IMO with Nick Dougherty.

John Senden(50/1) e.w.
- - http://www.theage.com.au/news/golf/a-striking-game-putt-theres-a-problem-133/2007/10/27/1192941402157.html
- - Substantiated angles give Senden my 3rd slot, ahead of speculative possibilities on angles for Henrik Stenson (the course and fall season should suit, and a "rematch" from the recent battle with Ernie Els at Wentworth could contribute, and he's freaking overdue to rebound big time), Ross Fisher, Nick Dougherty (serving notice of designs to dominate would seem a bit soon and a bit much), or Trevor Immelman (but, here's my "story" from 2007, and it's a good one . . .).

FWIW: I believe there are 89 players in the field this year, and I read somewhere that there will be a cut to the low 65 and ties, but I'm not at all sure on that.

Cheers!

Packers Rule! :00hour

GL

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Aside: Henrik Stenson seems an even more interesting character than I realized after reading some of his interview transcripts; later I'll post a few excerpts:
http://www.asapsports.com/showcat.php?id=4&event=yes

Edit to add excerpts:

 

[Cantona7]

on Randhawa at 45s and cant look past VJ at 12s. Took a bit of Hills 20/1 on KJ as well.

I'm mainly basing my picks on initials in this tournament. :mj07:

 

[abc]

Solid board.. of course the dude i faded last week goes low this week. Els seems to be in some kind of funk right now..