Louisiana Open

[bettingmad]

Where did this one come from? Not on the last schedule I saved.
It's a real crowd puller.... Stan James have lowly P Goydos 16/1 favourite... must be worth a perusal.. gotta be a bit of value lurking somewhere.

Oh it's a buy.com.... James must be desperate for those doubles!

 

[Ian]

You beat me to it Bettingmad - just doing my research at present - Bet365 have prices as well I am on a roll - Tewell was my first winner after 15 2nd places - I cannot lose!!!

 

[bettingmad]

God if you backed Tewell that must have been one hell of a performance.... I'm glad he didn't know you had, he would have been thinking 2nd... his clubs would have felt like lead weights on that final hole...nerves of steel jellified

 

[Ian]

Cannot resist betting in an event where Goydos is favourite - there has to be some value somewhere!
Joel Kribel catches my eye - a promising young player whose season was cut short last year by a back injury and is now playing on a medical exemption - he seems to be fit again and finished 12th and 5th in the 2 co-sanctioned events in Aus, he played the course last year and finished 20th, he hits the ball over 290 - which he will need as the course will be playing long and wet - (6 1/2 inches of rain on Monday).
If he can hold his nerve in the final round - which appears to be a bit fragile - then the 50/1 at Bet365 seems worthy of a bet

 

[bettingmad]

Ian,
After the 3rd round Heinen leads by 2... I didn't place a bet as I couldn't find a full field on the night we first posted and the odds on offer did not cover many players (particularly S James only went down to 40/1).... I just knew someone local would do well.. annoyingly Heinen is from Louisiana and has managed a 2nd in the Compaq (also Louisiana).... even more annoyingly is that although he was not in S James betting he was last man at 50/1 with bet365.... but I got bored of the research at 40/1....
no pain no gain!!

2nd man Raulerson did his uni at Lousiana!!

 

[Anders]

Winner from nowhere near Louisiana

Stevie Alker, who lives 5 mins from where I am typing this now

Ya can't keep a good keen Kiwi man down

 

[bettingmad]

Another happy ending.... was kicking myself for missing Heinen... the New Zealander was obviously too solid for him... taking a double bogey on the first play-off hole and still winning!