Wendy Ward is overpriced at 125-1 Hills, she only just missed the cut last weekend and finished 7th and 3rd the 2 tournaments before, she has played well here in the past (forget last years m/c as the event was played on a different course) with 2 top 10's
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Preview & plays:
The biggest event of the year attracts the best quality field so far, though it is next week's Nabisco Championship, the first major of the LPGA season, that many of players will have on their mind. With Webb securing her first win of the season in Australia and Annika Sorenstam dominant in her three starts so far, it bodes well for a major shootout this week and next.
The event returns to Moon Valley after a one-year absence as it underwent a substantial renovation programme. So last year's performances can be discounted a little as can performances in the Australian events of the last two weeks because of the travel factor which would count against Webb, Robbins, Gustafsson and Davies in particular. Instead the three picks this week are Lorie Kane, Janice Moodie and Rosie Jones.
Kane has an excellent record on this course. In her three starts at Moon Valley he has improved from 11th to 4th and to 2nd. She missed the cut last year, but that was at the Legacy Golf Resort. She has already won on the Tour this year - the Takefuji Classic last month - and had a top-10 finish last week, so she is more than capable of challenging Sorenstam and Webb this week.
The other picks are more likely to take advantage of Surrey's five places on their each-way odds than win outright. Moodie has only played at Moon Valley once, but she finished 3rd on that occasion. Her current form has been solid form in that it has netted her a run of top-30 finishes but no top-10s, yet a return to this course that rewards her excellent iron-play may just put an end to that. It is also a happy return to Moon Valley for Rosie Jones. She has only missed one staging of this event at Moon Valley (12 starts) and has secured six top-10 finishes in that time. The closest she came to winning the event was in 1998 when she lost a three-hole playoff to Liselotte Neumann. She is more selective in the events that she enters and she opened her 2001 campaign with a rusty 36th place finish last week, but this is part of a warm-up programme for the Nabisco where she will be hoping to at least repeat her 2nd place in one of last year's LPGA majors, the du Maurier Classic. She will play better this week and the accurate game needed this week.
Outright plays:
Lorie Kane to win 16/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Janice Moodie to win 50/1 e.w. @ Surrey ?
Rosie Jones to win 50/1 @ Surrey
72-hole play:
Dottie Pepper to beat Laura Davies -105 @ Sportfanatik [2 units]
Pepper has a solid record on this course and returned to action last week with a fine 2nd place finish. Davies on the other has been in Australia for the past two weeks and even announced that she was considering retirement because she was so frustrated with her long game. She may have dominated this event in the mid-90s, but she is in no state to repeat that this week
The biggest event of the year attracts the best quality field so far, though it is next week's Nabisco Championship, the first major of the LPGA season, that many of players will have on their mind. With Webb securing her first win of the season in Australia and Annika Sorenstam dominant in her three starts so far, it bodes well for a major shootout this week and next.
The event returns to Moon Valley after a one-year absence as it underwent a substantial renovation programme. So last year's performances can be discounted a little as can performances in the Australian events of the last two weeks because of the travel factor which would count against Webb, Robbins, Gustafsson and Davies in particular. Instead the three picks this week are Lorie Kane, Janice Moodie and Rosie Jones.
Kane has an excellent record on this course. In her three starts at Moon Valley he has improved from 11th to 4th and to 2nd. She missed the cut last year, but that was at the Legacy Golf Resort. She has already won on the Tour this year - the Takefuji Classic last month - and had a top-10 finish last week, so she is more than capable of challenging Sorenstam and Webb this week.
The other picks are more likely to take advantage of Surrey's five places on their each-way odds than win outright. Moodie has only played at Moon Valley once, but she finished 3rd on that occasion. Her current form has been solid form in that it has netted her a run of top-30 finishes but no top-10s, yet a return to this course that rewards her excellent iron-play may just put an end to that. It is also a happy return to Moon Valley for Rosie Jones. She has only missed one staging of this event at Moon Valley (12 starts) and has secured six top-10 finishes in that time. The closest she came to winning the event was in 1998 when she lost a three-hole playoff to Liselotte Neumann. She is more selective in the events that she enters and she opened her 2001 campaign with a rusty 36th place finish last week, but this is part of a warm-up programme for the Nabisco where she will be hoping to at least repeat her 2nd place in one of last year's LPGA majors, the du Maurier Classic. She will play better this week and the accurate game needed this week.
Outright plays:
Lorie Kane to win 16/1 e.w. @ Surrey
Janice Moodie to win 50/1 e.w. @ Surrey ?
Rosie Jones to win 50/1 @ Surrey
72-hole play:
Dottie Pepper to beat Laura Davies -105 @ Sportfanatik [2 units]
Pepper has a solid record on this course and returned to action last week with a fine 2nd place finish. Davies on the other has been in Australia for the past two weeks and even announced that she was considering retirement because she was so frustrated with her long game. She may have dominated this event in the mid-90s, but she is in no state to repeat that this week
Mid-point update:
A record-breaking day as Annika Sorenstam shoots the first-ever 59 on the LPGA Tour! Closer to home though, the single matchup of the week is an easy winner at the cut. Davies didn't make it to the weekend and it was a win for Pepper by nine shots.
While Sorenstam's 13-shot lead at the halfway stage looks insurmountable, Kane lies in 10th place and Jones just two shots back in 20th place, so there is at least hope of a place finish. Moodie missed the cut.
A record-breaking day as Annika Sorenstam shoots the first-ever 59 on the LPGA Tour! Closer to home though, the single matchup of the week is an easy winner at the cut. Davies didn't make it to the weekend and it was a win for Pepper by nine shots.
While Sorenstam's 13-shot lead at the halfway stage looks insurmountable, Kane lies in 10th place and Jones just two shots back in 20th place, so there is at least hope of a place finish. Moodie missed the cut.
Final update: 1-0-0 and +2.00 units
The only matchup of the week had been decided at the cut when Davies missed the cut, but Pepper would finish 3rd and would have been very difficult to beat by any player. Hopefully, there will be a few more matchups on offer for the Nabisco Championship next week.
Update on outright plays: 0-3 and -3.00 units
Frustrating blank as both Jones and Kane finished just one shot out of a place finish! Both finished in 7th position. Moodie missed the cut to complete another disappointing week on the LPGA Tour.
LPGA Tour ytd:
Matchups/props: 1-0; +2.00 units
Outright plays: 1-16; -14.50 units
The only matchup of the week had been decided at the cut when Davies missed the cut, but Pepper would finish 3rd and would have been very difficult to beat by any player. Hopefully, there will be a few more matchups on offer for the Nabisco Championship next week.
Update on outright plays: 0-3 and -3.00 units
Frustrating blank as both Jones and Kane finished just one shot out of a place finish! Both finished in 7th position. Moodie missed the cut to complete another disappointing week on the LPGA Tour.
LPGA Tour ytd:
Matchups/props: 1-0; +2.00 units
Outright plays: 1-16; -14.50 units
