Cheers! :toast:
Collin Morikawa has now risen to No. 5 in the World Golf Rankings without winning anything in the wake generated by an event with 40,000+ fans, so I guess he still has that left to prove, but it looks like for now I won?t have any good reasons to be betting against him doing so.
The 30/1 available on Morikawa when I made my P.G.A. wagers seemed almost too short to justify a wager, but it seems like he had a ton of backing "in the industry" at a similar price. Congratulations to All on Board! While I love what Morikawa has shown with his game, the crux of my play really came down to agreeing with the analysis of Stanley at tour-tips that for whatever reason(s), many of the players that have been strong since the restart have been consistently worth backing (and something similar but less defined has applied for avoiding those that just haven?t seemed to find their footing). On that basis, I looked at just the winners since the restart, and decided the two players I had to have at the P.G.A., regardless of price, were Rahm and Morikawa.
I barely had a profitable P.G.A. week despite having the winner, because of terrible results in the matchups, and nothing in Europe. But what absolutely thrills me is picking another winner in a Major championship, extending nearly two decades of personal excellence in those events over any other defining parameter. I love my Morikawa wins, my Lowry wins, my Woods wins, etc. in the Majors (when I often have 30+ hours over just four or five days invested in watching the live coverage, and the post-round analysis, and the pre-event hype, they really count at least double in my satisfaction quotient
), and love having had no shortage of strong contenders, and am certainly hoping for two more decades with more of the same. . . And to conclude, having a winner with Sam Horsfield(33/1) the week before a major was really against the grain of my usual form of being sad to piss poor the week before a major, and now we venture to a week after a major for which my two decades of form is definitely above average and profitable, and I?ve gone accordingly heavy with my plays.
GL
