The Players Championship. TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This tournament is known as the 5th Major and is very popular with the players as the course is a good test of golf. The rough is long, making driving accuracy important and giving no advantage to the long hitters. In fact, at no time in the last six years taking the field as a whole, have long hitters been favoured. As it is a difficult course it goes to form, making it a good event for match betting. It's easy to see that the shorter hitters do well here when you find that Fred Funk won this in 2005. Good value match bet with Boylesports Evens Choi v Kim 8 units lost 8 units KJ Choi is in excellent form at the moment. Although he hasn't played for three weeks on the PGA Tour, that's because he has been in his native country of South Korea where he won the SK Telecom Open. He managed an amazing seventeen top 25s last year with two tournament wins. Anthony Kim has just won his first tournament and as he is only 23 he may find it difficult to keep his concentration this week. He has only played the course once when he missed the cut last year. Choi has a 10-4 head to head advantage over Kim in the last 12 months. Good value match bet with Paddy Power 9/10 Garcia v Kim 7 units won 6.3 units Sergio Garcia is under-rated at the moment but has been playing good steady golf. Over the last 5 years at Sawgrass he has been steadily improving 0,53,32,14,2 . Good value match bet with CentreBet dead heat rules 1.85 Mahan v Immelman 7 units Non Runner - no bet Hunter Mahan has played well this season and had twelve top 25s last year .Immelman has not played well before or after the Masters and has only managed two missed cuts at Sawgrass in the last five years. Mahan enjoys a 11-6 advantage in head to heads. Good value match bet with SportingBet 10/11 Ames v Romero 7 units won 6.36 units This course favours the shorter hitters like Stephen Ames who won this event in 2006. Andres Romero is relatively new to the PGA Tour having played only three times in 2007. He is a long hitter which is no advantage on this course which he has not played before.
Value match bet
with BetInternet tie no bet
1.85
Goggin v JB Holmes 5
units 5/6 with TheGreek
lost 5 units
Matthew Goggin has
been very consistent in his last four tournaments
0,-,50,20,-,17,19,17 and finished 12th at Sawgrass
last year. JB Holmes is a very long driver which
is no help on this course. In 2007 he made only 12
of 24 cuts and trails Goggin 9-6 in head to heads
over the last twelve months.
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