Volvo World Matchplay and Crowne Plaza Invitational

Volvo World Matchplay and Crowne Plaza Invitational This week is a handicapper's delight with two Matchplay events, the PGA Tour and the Euro Tour, all with plenty of matchups to [I]Cink[/I] your teeth into. Our main focus is on the Volvo World Matchplay, with 5 of the top 7 players in the World Rankings participating including our main matchplay stalwart Luke Donald. The Sybase Matchplay Championship is for the Women, and I can tell you from first hand experience having caddied briefly on the LPGA and bet many LPGA events including head to head matchplay, that they cannot be trusted. There are many heavy priced favorites like Ai Miyazato -180 vs Hee Young Park, Britney Lincicome -170 vs Wendy Ward, and Lincicome was knocked out of the first round last year, also would not trust Michelle Wie -190 vs Beatriz Recari, where Recari was a giant killer LY getting to the quarter finals. The winner of this event last year was......yep you guessed it, Sun Young Yoo, cripes! If I happen to watch the coverage and pick up some solid handicapping info, perhaps we'll make a bet or two. Volvo World Matchplay........check early start times. Ian Poulter -130 vs Francesco Molinari Poulter as you know is a matchplay machine and will be chomping at the bit to avenge his first round loss this year in Tucson. His opponent Molinari after having his best year of his career last season has been ice cold, he missed the cut at the Masters, the Heritage and last week at the PLAYERS, sure this event is in Europe, Fina Cortesa, Spain and that may help but Poulter still hasn't missed a cut this year and will grind out the victory. Luke Donald, Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood are all first round matches I like, but the price at this point has been too inflated. There are already 2nd Round Group matchplay matchups scheduled but no prices, I'm sure will have a play or two and I'll try and get them out asap. Crowne Plaza Invitaional Sergio Garcia -110 vs Adam Scott Neither of these guys has played this event with any regularity, but Colonial is a short par 70 that measures just 7,054 yards and that should be to Sergio's advantage who is the better ball striker tee to green and he won this tournament back in 2001. Scott missed the cut last week on a similar tight, tee placement and shot demanding course the TPC of Sawgrass and where Sergio finished T12 and shot the best final round of the entire field a 65 on Sunday.

Poulter -125 at Greek.

Thanks Joel. I grabbed that -125 on Poulter. Unfortunately, it is gone now but I appreciated the heads up. I don't usually look at the Greek for golf matchups. Following has done very well the past month or more on the golf matchups. I did a bet a few more this week but they are also not really my own but rather were determined based from reading about the tournament and where I thought there might be value. I bet Zach Johnnson +120 against Kuchar. Kuchar has done well all year but Zach has done well the past few weeks and is the defending champion. I just thought there was some value there. I also went with Hunter Mahan over Kuchar at +104. I split the bets against Kuchar since he doesn't seem like a great guy to fade. I decided to ride Ben Crane a bit after that nice matchup the board won here. Need more expertise but I'm picking up that this week's course for the Colonial is one that Crane can do well on (Alf has touched on the similarity issue in his write up for the Garcia matchup). So I took Crane -101 against a pretty good Jason Day. I also played Brian Gay +110 against Bill Haas. Gay just seems like one of these guys I never see on TV when I happen to watch but on Monday if you read the Top 25 his name is there.

[B]0.75% plays[/B] 7003) Benjamin "hook em horns" Crane +100 over J. "home course" Day 7012) "Fat Pat" Perez -105 vs Bramm Sneds [B]1% plays[/B] 7006) Adam Scottie +120 over Jimmy Furyk 7023) Brandon "pot belly" de Jonge +105 over Johhny "just" Send'em maybe more later tonight, Good Luck

adding 7028) Pauly Goydos +115 over Trev Immelmen, 0.75% play 7036) Fat Pat Perez +119 over Kevin "sweet 16 in San Antone" Na, 0.75% play. Good Luck

Yes, sometimes a change is good for the soul. Just got the official word that Adam Scott fired his caddy Tony Navarro. I roomed with Tony in the mid 80's on the PGA Tour and learned plenty about the real game inside the ropes. There is not a finer caddy in the game today or IMO ever. He single handed put Greg Norman on the map and held Adam Scott together many times considering he cannot maintain a relationship with any woman, also that he is a nut case, a truly flake of a character and has a poor work ethic to boot. I just doubled my bet against Scott.

dump Scottie Thanks for info Alf. I am dumping Scott, and juicing out with Furyk. Good Luck

Alf, Thoughts about going against Scott round 1 ?

Weather and tee times dictate round one matchups....pass.

We get a hard fought push with Poulter who was behind the entire match.....this is a Group format early and each received 1 pt.