It's not quite a Players Championship standard field but there is enough quality at the Crowne Plaza Invitational to get Dan Geraghty interested and he has a trio to follow in this week's PGA Tour action
Ben Crane [27.0] was a popular pick at last week's Players Championship after playing so well at Sawgrass in recent years. As a result, his price was very short in such a high class field and I overlooked him. In the end a disappointing second round 76 put paid to Crane's chances but he played well enough in his other three rounds for that to be forgiven.
This week Crane's price is even shorter. However, the field is much weaker and Crane's form here in recent years looks every bit as good as it does at TPC Sawgrass. Our slow-moving, follicly challenged friend has been in the top five in three of his last four Colonial visits and looks a better betting proposition this week.
Last week's headline selection Jason Day [21.0] played great once again (finished tied for 6th) and will surely be feeling very confident coming to a course 15 minutes from his house, where he finished fourth in 2009. Day is a member at Colonial and has said he feels as comfortable here as anywhere on tour, I'm not sure I'd have anyone in the field ahead of him in the betting (when I wrote this he was trading at [27.0] in the Betfair market), so he's a no brainer selection once more.
You'll have to take my word for it but I very nearly included David Toms [40.0] last week at a big price but his form at past Players just wasn't good enough for me to justify it. I felt for him as he lost the playoff but he will win this year, I'm sure of it, and it might well be this week at a tournament where his form reads a lot better than it did last week (three top 5s to his name at Colonial).
Continued: Golf Betting
Ben Crane [27.0] was a popular pick at last week's Players Championship after playing so well at Sawgrass in recent years. As a result, his price was very short in such a high class field and I overlooked him. In the end a disappointing second round 76 put paid to Crane's chances but he played well enough in his other three rounds for that to be forgiven.
This week Crane's price is even shorter. However, the field is much weaker and Crane's form here in recent years looks every bit as good as it does at TPC Sawgrass. Our slow-moving, follicly challenged friend has been in the top five in three of his last four Colonial visits and looks a better betting proposition this week.
Last week's headline selection Jason Day [21.0] played great once again (finished tied for 6th) and will surely be feeling very confident coming to a course 15 minutes from his house, where he finished fourth in 2009. Day is a member at Colonial and has said he feels as comfortable here as anywhere on tour, I'm not sure I'd have anyone in the field ahead of him in the betting (when I wrote this he was trading at [27.0] in the Betfair market), so he's a no brainer selection once more.
You'll have to take my word for it but I very nearly included David Toms [40.0] last week at a big price but his form at past Players just wasn't good enough for me to justify it. I felt for him as he lost the playoff but he will win this year, I'm sure of it, and it might well be this week at a tournament where his form reads a lot better than it did last week (three top 5s to his name at Colonial).
Continued: Golf Betting
