Same venue once again at the Harbour Town Golf Links. A short, tricky course where driving accuarcay is a must: Furyk, Gay, Weekley twice, Baddeley, Lonard, Cink, Leonard and Mr Harbour Town Davis Love III.
Luke Donald is the favorite but upon further review his Driving stats are very poor this season. He ranks 75th in accuaracy and watching his play the last few months he has been missing a lot of fairways and doing this at Hilton Head can result in trees, water and waste bunkers. Throwing him out.
I am taking one of the top 10 favorites and as Furyk and Kuchar are likely contenders their price at 16's is just too short. Instead I will side with Graeme McDowell at 28/1. He has not played here since 2006 but he is a different player at this moment. Graeme won a US Open at Pepple beach where accuracy was need as well as great ball striking for the small pebble beach greens. The greens at Harbor Town aren't much bigger. So I will take the Major Champion as my headline selection.
My next selection comes from that 2nd tier with odds 40-80. Two popped up: Fredrik Jacobson at 50/1 and Ian Poulter at 46/1. Fredrik is coming off of a t5 last week and has had some good starts at Hilton Head while Poulter hasn't played here for awhile and had mixed results. To me this course will suit a tradtional player such as Poulter. And Freddies short game is so good that if he finds some trouble he can make up for it on and around the greens.
The dark horses. Stephen Ames at 110/1 is an accuracy player and is getting his game back after two injury plagued seasons. He had a 3rd in Puerto Rico last months and boast tow top 10's at Hilton Head along with a t14 last year.
My last horse will be Mr. Carl Pettersson 170/1. Carl is from North Carolina so he's got that going for him. He also has a third and eight place finish here in the past. His game cooled off since contending at Kapalua but he's been working on some things and I know he loves this course.
Best of Luck
Recap
McDowell 28/1
Poulter 46/1
Jacobson 50/1
Ames 110/1
Pettersson 170/1
Luke Donald is the favorite but upon further review his Driving stats are very poor this season. He ranks 75th in accuaracy and watching his play the last few months he has been missing a lot of fairways and doing this at Hilton Head can result in trees, water and waste bunkers. Throwing him out.
I am taking one of the top 10 favorites and as Furyk and Kuchar are likely contenders their price at 16's is just too short. Instead I will side with Graeme McDowell at 28/1. He has not played here since 2006 but he is a different player at this moment. Graeme won a US Open at Pepple beach where accuracy was need as well as great ball striking for the small pebble beach greens. The greens at Harbor Town aren't much bigger. So I will take the Major Champion as my headline selection.
My next selection comes from that 2nd tier with odds 40-80. Two popped up: Fredrik Jacobson at 50/1 and Ian Poulter at 46/1. Fredrik is coming off of a t5 last week and has had some good starts at Hilton Head while Poulter hasn't played here for awhile and had mixed results. To me this course will suit a tradtional player such as Poulter. And Freddies short game is so good that if he finds some trouble he can make up for it on and around the greens.
The dark horses. Stephen Ames at 110/1 is an accuracy player and is getting his game back after two injury plagued seasons. He had a 3rd in Puerto Rico last months and boast tow top 10's at Hilton Head along with a t14 last year.
My last horse will be Mr. Carl Pettersson 170/1. Carl is from North Carolina so he's got that going for him. He also has a third and eight place finish here in the past. His game cooled off since contending at Kapalua but he's been working on some things and I know he loves this course.
Best of Luck
Recap
McDowell 28/1
Poulter 46/1
Jacobson 50/1
Ames 110/1
Pettersson 170/1
