The Open Championship at St. Andrews

[Stanley]

They took their time realising the weak line, Singh had jumped to -180 this morning!

Round 2 play (2pts):

Luke Donald to beat Y.E. Yang -123 @ Extrabet
Quite a contrast in their rounds today: Yang had no bogeys and five birdies in his 67, missing just one green in regulation, while Donald had just one birdie and two bogeys in his 73. It wasn't that Donald played poorly - he missed just four greens in regulation all day despite playing in the windier afternoon conditions, he simply didn't have a good day on the greens - he ranked 147th of 156 in putting average. But I don't expect this to be replicated tomorrow. Yang has been in poor form, missing his last three cuts, and has missed the cut each time that he has played in this event, including 2005 at this venue, as well as in the one occasion that he played in the Dunhill Links Championship. So today was clearly an exception to the rule. For Donald, he has a good record in links golf with finishes of 3rd, 23rd and 7th in the Dunhill Links Championship hosted at this venue, was 3rd after the opening round at this venue in 2005 and was 5th last year in this event at Turnberry. Plus, he has been in great form recently with his record since The Masters reading: 3rd, 26th, 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 47th, 11th; and he does have a very good 'bounceback' record: over the past 12 months, he has started the 2nd round outside the cut line just four times and on those occasions his 2nd round scores have been 69, 65 (he bounced back so well that he would hold the 3rd round lead in this event, the 2009 Dunhill Links Championship), 68 and 65 (he would finish 3rd in this event, the Celtic Manor Wales Open).

[unofficial rd2 system plays: Donald tb Hanson -120; Harrington tb Ishikawa -145; Perry tb Wilson -130; Watney tb Wilson -110; Woods tb McIlroy -165; O'Hair tb Fisher -105; Ikeda tb Ishikawa +125; Overton tb Oosthuizen +120; Immelman tb Daly -111; Fernandez-Castano tb McGowan +100]

 

[Another Steve]

2nd RoundMatch Ups
S STRICKER -150 (S STRICKER vrs S GARCIA)
JB HOLMES -145 (T JAIDEE vrs JB HOLMES)
H MAHAN -130 (T BJORN vrs H MAHAN)
R MOORE -115 (R MOORE vrs C SCHWARTZEL)
D DUVAL +180 (D DUVAL vrs T IMMELMAN)

 

[sports student]

3rd round at betjamaica:

Donald +115 over Yang

Stanley I am going with you especially since you can see what kind of deal there is on Donald here.

3rd round at 5 dimes:

Goosen -110 over Mickelson

Goos sure looks a lot more steady

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

Second Round
Kaymer over ZJohnson -145

 

[sharky17]

ROUND 2

WATNEY (-109) over ALLENBY

 

[lostinamerica]

In-running:

John Daly(33/1)(1/4 for 1-2-3-4) e.w.
Paul Casey(22/1)(1/4 for 1-2-3-4) e.w.

GL

 

[LA Burns]

Jason Dufner

Jason Dufner

what a pussy - they need to dis-invite him from all future Open Championships

 

[joz]

Don't think its the actual putter Tiger....... :0002 :0002 Bring out the belly putter for rd3 :0074

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

Third Round
Kaymer over Karlsson -130
Immelman over Daly -125

:shrug:

 

[sports student]

3rd round :

Garcia -125 over Daly Betjamaica
Casey -160 over Oost "
Singh -125 over Yang "
Immelman -130 over Daly 5 Dimes
Jimenez-110 over P Hanson "

 

[Stanley]

Round 3 play (4pts):

Y.E. Yang to beat Ryo Ishikawa +109 @ Pinnacle [also available @ FiveDimes and Extrabet]
With the winds back to a more normal speed today, I'll back Yang in this situation and at these odds. He didn't play too poorly yesterday, he just wasn't generally hitting his iron shots as close to the hole as Donald and he came unstuck at the 11th hole when he four-putted after seeing his first two putts return to his feet as he failed to manage the slope just before the hole (a common feature in yesterday's play). Otherwise, he has been solid, missing only five greens in regulation all week, ranking 4th in that category. Plus, he will be well-rested and has not had his swing disrupted by playing in the afternoon group, as Ishikawa did. Ishikawa coped extremely well in the afternoon conditions, but it was a mentally draining effort and he finished his round in near-darkness. And, for all his feats on the Japan Tour last year (four wins) and his 58 this year that enabled him to record his sole victory from well off the pace, he has not been playing particularly well on the Japan Tour this year (mc, 52, 15th, 52nd since that 58) and he has always failed to convert promising positions outside Japan. He has played in 13 strokeplay events outside Asia, missing the cut seven times and with a best finish of 32nd in the 2010 Northern Trust Open when he was 4th after the 2nd round, but failed to break par thereafter; his next best finish is 33rd in the U.S. Open, but he had been 2nd after the 2nd round and then shot 75-80; and then last week he was 5th after an opening 67, but then shot 77-72-79 to finish 56th. He is only 18 years old and has a huge media circus around him and that may well be the reasons why he has struggled in the latter rounds when outside Japan. After yesterday's gruelling round, he should find it difficult to convert this particular chance.

[unofficial rd3 system play: Singh tb Johnson D +108]

 

[lostinamerica]

Saturday:

Glover(-125) over Khan
Daly(-137) over Siem

GL

 

[sharky17]

TO WIN THE BRITISH OPEN

TIGER WOODS (+526)

 

[sharky17]

[ROUND 4[/B]

MICKELSON (-121) over McDOWELL

BARNES (-108) over HOLMES

 

[Another Steve]

Round 4 Match Ups

R FOWLER -125 (R ISHIKAWA vrs R FOWLER)
L DONALD -125 (C SCHWARTZEL vrs L DONALD)
R MCILROY +105 (R MCILROY vrs T WOODS)
R ROCK +105 (S LOWERY vrs R ROCK)
R BARNES -115 (R BARNES vrs JB HOLMES)


May add later...Dad is coming over for Breakfast atThe Open.....

 

[Stanley]

Round 4 play (4pts):

Martin Kaymer to beat Paul Casey +108 @ Pinnacle [also available @ FiveDimes, SkyBet, Stan James, The Greek and Carib]
Casey and Oosthuizen clearly stood out as the players of the day; no-one else looked as though they might hold the lead at the end of the day with Casey hitting every green in regulation today. However, Casey failed to record a single birdie on the back nine and so he fell to four shots back of Oosthuizen. By contrast, Kaymer is third, but seven shots behind the South African. However, tomorrow will be a very different day - it is the final round of a Major championship. In that respect, I expect Casey to struggle tomorrow. Not only does he have the weight of home expectation upon him, but he has tended not to do very well when in final round contention for a Major anyway. He has started the final round of a Major in the top-10 on three previous occasions: in the 2004 Masters, he shot 75 to drop from 4th to 6th; in the 2007 U.S. Open he shot 76 to drop from 3rd to 10th; and in the 2008 Masters he shot 79 to drop from 4th to 11th. These final round Major failings are in marked contrast to Kaymer: - he has started the final round in a Major in the top-10 on two occasions: in the 2009 PGA Championship he shot 73 to rise from 8th to 6th; and in the 2010 U.S. Open he shot 72 to rise from 10th to 8th. At a more general level, Kaymer averages a full shot lower in final round scoring average in 2010 and in their 11 common events over the last 12 months, Casey has yet to shoot the lower final round.

[unofficial rd4 system plays: Garrido tb Jeong -109; Oosthuizen tb Canizares +125; Stenson tb Casey +101; Oosthuizen tb Casey +240; Kuchar tb Ishikawa +105; Kuchar tb Fowler -115; Kuchar tb Quiros -105; Singh tb Yang -118; Allenby tb Scott -111; Rock tb Jeong -120]

 

[sports student]

4th round at 5dimes:

McDowell +120 over Mickelson
Montgomerie -105 over Aiken
Goosen -115 over O'Hair

4th at Betjamaica:
Fowler -125 over Ishikawa
Donald -115 over Schwartzel
Jimenez -115 over P hanson
Fisher -120 over Villegas
Khan +105 over Daly
Kaymar -145 over Oosthuizen

4th at SIA (ties lose)
Lehman +105 over Andersson Hed
Glover +220 over Woods

have lots I like so cut down on amounts, mainly rooting for Casey or Kaymer to win my big odds bets at 65- or 45-1. GL

 

[lostinamerica]

Sunday:

Kaymer(-133) over Stenson

GL

 

[sharky17]

SUNDAY

STENSON (+123) over WESTWOOD

 

[DerrickTulips]

Tiger -165 over Phil.

Interesting that TIger has a new nike putter in the bag, first new putter in over a decade.

I still think he will be relevant this week.

In the groove: Tiger Woods will be using the Nike Method putter on the slower greens of St Andrews at the Open
Tiger Woods has been with his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter for 11 years, but now the two are splitting up. The pair may just need some time apart or the move may become more permanent. Woods is putting a Nike Method into his bag for the Open at St Andrews this week.
The 'Method' putter was used by Stewart Cink during last year's Open victory and by Lucas Glover when he won the US Open. The holy grail of putting is "pure roll".

When most putts are struck the ball will leave the ground for 15 inches and then start to hop. Each month enhanced groove technology is developed to try to minimise that effect.
Woods has always putted brilliantly on the fast greens of Augusta with his Scotty Cameron, but has decided that he needs to change for the slower greens of St Andrews where he has to give the ball a bit more of a hit. So Scotty is out and Nike is in.
What Tiger says
"I've always struggled on slower greens (but in my practice rounds here) I haven't had to make that much of an adjustment because the ball is coming off a little bit quicker.
"This putter ... with the new groove technology ... rolls the ball better.
"[The change is] something (caddie) Stevie (Williams) and I have been talking about over the years - what can I do on slower greens?.
"I've always putted well on faster greens ... and can't wait to get to the fastest greens that we play on tour. But this week has been a little bit different.
"Some of my best putting rounds were when the greens were running at 14 or something like that on the stimpmeter [th device used to measure the speed of greens]. These greens aren't up to speed.
"Today one of the guys was out there doing a stimpmeter and it was under 10. I've always experimented with other putters throughout the years but I've never put one in play until now.
"You're going to have some real long putts here no matter how you hit it and you just have to get down in two. So many times you can three putt.
"The two years I've played well here I've lag putted beautifully and I've also hit the ball in the right spots."

Cmon Eldrick, we need this. :0corn