Round 3 play (2pts):
Scott Verplank to beat Rickie Fowler +100 @ Bet365
Backing the in-form player on a course that suits. Fowler finished 2nd last time out, but he is a player who blows hot and cold - he had missed the cut in two of his previous three starts - and whereas he shot 65 yesterday, he admitted in his post-round interview that he was struggling off the tee (86th in driving distance; 99th in driving accuracy so far this week). Keeping the ball on the fairway around this short course is all-important this week and it was only a hot putter and a holed shot from the fairway on the 2nd hole that saw him make the cut. Each of his previous three rounds at River Highlands (he missed the cut last year) have been over-par. By contrast, Verplank has played here four times in the last decade and finished 17th, 4th, 21st and 9th - he is the 'fairways and greens' player most suited to this course - and with finishes of 13th, 5th, 5th and 47th (in last week's U.S. Open) in his last four starts, he is certainly playing well enough to secure a fifth straight top-25 finish here.
[unofficial rd3 system plays: Toms tb Curtis +102; Sutherland tb Pavin +105; Atwal tb Wetterich -105; Elkington tb Chalmers +100; Watson tb Curtis +100; Lyle tb Ogilvie -105; Mayfair tb Chalmers +125; Verplank tb Perry +100]
Scott Verplank to beat Rickie Fowler +100 @ Bet365
Backing the in-form player on a course that suits. Fowler finished 2nd last time out, but he is a player who blows hot and cold - he had missed the cut in two of his previous three starts - and whereas he shot 65 yesterday, he admitted in his post-round interview that he was struggling off the tee (86th in driving distance; 99th in driving accuracy so far this week). Keeping the ball on the fairway around this short course is all-important this week and it was only a hot putter and a holed shot from the fairway on the 2nd hole that saw him make the cut. Each of his previous three rounds at River Highlands (he missed the cut last year) have been over-par. By contrast, Verplank has played here four times in the last decade and finished 17th, 4th, 21st and 9th - he is the 'fairways and greens' player most suited to this course - and with finishes of 13th, 5th, 5th and 47th (in last week's U.S. Open) in his last four starts, he is certainly playing well enough to secure a fifth straight top-25 finish here.
[unofficial rd3 system plays: Toms tb Curtis +102; Sutherland tb Pavin +105; Atwal tb Wetterich -105; Elkington tb Chalmers +100; Watson tb Curtis +100; Lyle tb Ogilvie -105; Mayfair tb Chalmers +125; Verplank tb Perry +100]
