The Players Championship 2023

[redcgull]

Something to take our minds off the racing next week, its the Players Championships starts on Thursday with a a few golfers i think might have a good chance of getting me some money back for next weeks racing...!!

Viktor Hovland @ 22/1
Shane Lowry @ 33/1
Si Woo Kim @ 40/1
Adam Hadwin @ 80/1
Doug Ghim @ 175/1

All £2.50 ew, PadPow paying out on top 10

Viktor Hovland has finished in the top 20 the past 2 seasons, and is very solid around this course...
Shane Lowry is another who likes this course, another who has top 20 finishes within the last 2x years...
Si Woo Kim threw in a -7 under final round last year to finish T2 and has the game for this course...
Adam Hadwin came T9 last year, and scores massive on the par 5's to which he has 4x of them round this course...
Doug Ghim has been in the top 5 after 54 holes on both of his last two visits to Sawgrass so if he can just put together a couple of good rounds with that form, well you never know...

Good luck to all who are going to be having a play this weekend...

 

[Chaninbar]

Hi Red have you watched any of the Full Swing doco series on Netflix? I’ve watched the first 3. Made decent viewing though my main takeaway was a reinforcement of the view that in the main LIV is a lovely pension tour for washed up tour pros.

 

[redcgull]

Now then Chan... Yes i have watched it, binged it over a couple of nights and really enjoyed it. I am a with you in regards to it looking like a retirement funded, golfing holiday that is very well paid but has absolutely with no pressure or competition within it what so ever. I just wanted the players concerned with the break away to confess straight up its only about the money, and the money only, even though these lads are already well off...

And they make it out that they have been there done that so need a new challenge, or simply that they don't really think that they have either another Major win in them or that they won't break their duck and actually win one so have run off to cry somewhere else...!!

I think Rory comes out of it well, as do a few others, but this new rivalry will rumble on for many a while now wont it...

Plus, they have announced another series is to be done, so we shall see if this 'war or words' between the two associations will continue...

 

[SaveTheHumans]

Full Swing was a decent watch, I agree. Tony Finau episode really surprised me and my respect for him definitely went up a notch or two after it. Really nice guy from very humble beginnings who has not lost sight of what is important in his life.

Onto the golf betting and I still carry my bitterness over the pricing of tournaments these days and the ransom to which the bookies hold on the punters. Should be almost 20/1 the field most events barring when one or two players are "trending" to that W.

Justin Thomas is bound to have a good week here I think. Backed at 20/1

Jason Day 25/1 - showing some of his old promise, would be dangerous if finding consistency over 4 days. Can he?

Justin Suh 160/1 - shaping Well recently and he is one that meets the criteria of winner waiting to happen.

8 places each way 365.

Thanks for the thread Red and good luck to all your bets lads, hopefully one of us will land on it. Masters not far away now

 

[stick]

Just the one pre tournament bet for me this time round
Matt Fitzpatrick at 35/1 eight places

 

[redcgull]

Justin Thomas is bound to have a good week here I think. Backed at 20/1

Jason Day 25/1 - showing some of his old promise, would be dangerous if finding consistency over 4 days. Can he?

Justin Suh 160/1 - shaping Well recently and he is one that meets the criteria of winner waiting to happen.

8 places each way 365.

Thanks for the thread Red and good luck to all your bets lads, hopefully one of us will land on it. Masters not far away now

Great start with Suh there STH...

 

[SaveTheHumans]

Great start with Suh there STH...

Stagnant round from him today but I'm still reasonably pleased. He's in at -3 and conditions are to worsen over the next number of hours so he will be there with a good chance of placing going into the weekend and that's all I was kind of expecting.

 

[tward07]

Thought the documentary was brilliant and good to see a behind the scenes in a sport we wouldn’t generally see the likes. Finau and Theegala stood out for me.

onto that I backed 3 pre tournament. Day at 28/1, Hatton at 50/1 and Theegala at 100/1. All should be making the cut so have some nice weekend viewing.

 

[SaveTheHumans]

Full Swing was a decent watch, I agree. Tony Finau episode really surprised me and my respect for him definitely went up a notch or two after it. Really nice guy from very humble beginnings who has not lost sight of what is important in his life.

Onto the golf betting and I still carry my bitterness over the pricing of tournaments these days and the ransom to which the bookies hold on the punters. Should be almost 20/1 the field most events barring when one or two players are "trending" to that W.

Justin Thomas is bound to have a good week here I think. Backed at 20/1

Jason Day 25/1 - showing some of his old promise, would be dangerous if finding consistency over 4 days. Can he?

Justin Suh 160/1 - shaping Well recently and he is one that meets the criteria of winner waiting to happen.

8 places each way 365.

Thanks for the thread Red and good luck to all your bets lads, hopefully one of us will land on it. Masters not far away now

Suh manages to place at 160/1. Due to all the ties though I come up just short of covering my 3 bets over the 4 days which is a shame but that us the way its done.

Scheffler got into contention and then just shot off like Usain Bolt racing a bunch of kids giving nobody a chance of really catching him. He isn't flashy and doesn't have that big personality but he has turned into a money making machine in the world of golf. That takes his winnings since the start of the 20's into the over 30 million mark I believe.