Round 2 plays (2pts):
Austin Cook to beat Pat Perez -135 @ 5Dimes
Cook has made the most of his opportunities. He has Monday-qualified for four of his previous five PGA Tour starts and achieved finishes of 13th-11th-mc-22nd-6th. That 6th place finish at the Barbasol Championship put him straight into this event and he is already 17th after rd1. At this pace, he won't even need to go to the Web.com Tour Finals as he will have reached the top-125 on the FedEx Cup List via these opportunities siezed.
Camilo Villegas to beat Adam Svensson -120 @ 5Dimes
In two previous attempts, Svensson has made the cut in his national Open so this represents his best opportunity from 33rd place on the leaderboard. However, his form has been indifferent on the Web.com Tour and he ranked outside the top-100 in greens in regulation yesterday. He looks one to oppose in this form.
Johnson Wagner to beat Sean O'Hair -130 @ Pinnacle [also available @ 5Dimes, The Greek and Carib]
No such form worries with Wagner. He has finished 5th and 10th in the last two weeks and warrants his top-10 position after rd1 - he was 3rd in greens in regulation in yesterday. O'Hair, on the other hand, is five shots off the cut line after hitting only six greens in regulation yesterday. He may have won this event in 2011 at Shaughnessy GC, but he looks set to miss his fourth cut in five starts.
Scott Piercy to beat Brian Harman -138 @ Paddy Power
Harman played some flawless golf yesterday - he ranked 1st in driving distance, 1st in dirving accuracy and 3rd in greens in regulation, while finishing the day in 2nd place. But he record from such a lofty position on the leaderboard is not good - the last time that he opened with a 65 was the 2014 McGladrey Classic and he then dropped down the leaderboard in every subsequent round to finish 41st. He looks a player to oppose today, particularly with somone who won this event in 2012 and won last week on the PGA Tour.
Brooks Koepka to beat Scott Piercy -126 @ Pinnacle [also available @ 5Dimes, The Greek and Carib]
But I will still oppose Piercy with Koepka. Piercy should be able to take advantage of Harman's expected troubles today, but it is still difficult to follow up a Tour win the following week. Koepka, on the other hand, is winless over the past month, but he has been in extremely good form and that carried over to yesterday when he ranked 2nd in driving distance, 12th in driving accuracy and 1st in greens in regulation. He didn't score as well as Harman, but he played as well as him and he is expected to continue that form given his performances over the last month.