Outrights:
Fred Couples(50/1)(1/4 for 1-6) e.w. @ GG
- - I believe Fred's favorite courses are Augusta and St. Andrews, with Riviera and Muirfield Village on the short list behind those, all hosting events that mean something extra in his mind, and stoking his professed self-belief that he can still compete on those courses . . . For almost no other reasons, Couples @ 100/1 (with 1-6 @ GG) was my top play at St. Andrews last year when he finished 3rd; my top play @ 80/1 at Riviera (with 1-6 @ GG) this year when he finished 6th; and after going back and forth, back and forth, the final play @ 100/1 at Augusta that I inexplicably opted for leaving off my "full units" play sheet at Augusta, when he finished 3rd . . . Nothing inexplicable this week.
http://www.golfdigest.com/newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20060519verdi.html
Aside: My favorite golf quote of the year to date:
"I don't think Phil was worried about me beating him." ~ Fred Couples
Charles Howell(80/1)(1/4 for 1-6) e.w. @ GG
- - I like it not being just one thing, and I like getting 6 places . . . Not a course that demands making your score with wedges and short irons that are dialed in on the flags . . . A member with Nicklaus of the Royal Bank of Scotland Team, plenty of flavor that drops sufficient hints of his last place (?) finish at Augusta, which was classily accepted as (optimistically) a stepping stone out of his purgatory . . . A work in progress means growing pains, but tracking well into this event . . . His good friend Tiger Woods is MIA to all but those in his inner circle, which FWIW brings to mind comments from CHIII that he knows from his playing and working with Tiger exactly how high the bar is set when it comes to improving his short game.
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Fred Couples(50/1)(1/4 for 1-6) e.w. @ GG
- - I believe Fred's favorite courses are Augusta and St. Andrews, with Riviera and Muirfield Village on the short list behind those, all hosting events that mean something extra in his mind, and stoking his professed self-belief that he can still compete on those courses . . . For almost no other reasons, Couples @ 100/1 (with 1-6 @ GG) was my top play at St. Andrews last year when he finished 3rd; my top play @ 80/1 at Riviera (with 1-6 @ GG) this year when he finished 6th; and after going back and forth, back and forth, the final play @ 100/1 at Augusta that I inexplicably opted for leaving off my "full units" play sheet at Augusta, when he finished 3rd . . . Nothing inexplicable this week.
http://www.golfdigest.com/newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20060519verdi.html
Aside: My favorite golf quote of the year to date:
"I don't think Phil was worried about me beating him." ~ Fred Couples
Charles Howell(80/1)(1/4 for 1-6) e.w. @ GG
- - I like it not being just one thing, and I like getting 6 places . . . Not a course that demands making your score with wedges and short irons that are dialed in on the flags . . . A member with Nicklaus of the Royal Bank of Scotland Team, plenty of flavor that drops sufficient hints of his last place (?) finish at Augusta, which was classily accepted as (optimistically) a stepping stone out of his purgatory . . . A work in progress means growing pains, but tracking well into this event . . . His good friend Tiger Woods is MIA to all but those in his inner circle, which FWIW brings to mind comments from CHIII that he knows from his playing and working with Tiger exactly how high the bar is set when it comes to improving his short game.
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GL