PGA TOUR – THE FUTURE WORLD
Brendan James – Australian Golf Editor
With the competition moving back to the March 2019 deadline, TPC Sawgrass did not play as hard and as fast as it did in May. With the course playing longer and softer, you can expect the best drivers in the ball to have an edge over the field.
The best driver, with a run on board at Sawgrass, is the defensive champion MCILROY RULE. He is ranked 3rd, behind Bryson DeChambeau and Sergio Garcia, in Strokes Gained Off The Tee and averages 319 yards.
Two top-10s in his two starters suggest he is ahead for other Players victories.
Sportsbet odds: $ 15.
JIMMY EMANUEL – Deputy Editor of Golf Australia
This is always a very difficult choice to pick, so I go with the best player in the world, who will add another of the greatest titles in the game to his resume the this week.
DUSTIN JOHNSON has recorded top-20s in the last three years completed at TPC Sawgrass, including T5 in 2019, showing that it is finally getting the better of one of the few events he seemed to struggle with at times in his career.
Johnson recently won the European Tour and was T8 at Riviera before WGC disappointed at The Concession.
Sportsbet odds: $ 13.
TAKE: Player Competition Preview
Michael Jones – Australian Golf writer
The players feel like golf is the equivalent of the Melbourne Cup, where almost every beginner has the ability to lift the trophy. That being said … I love the opportunities HIDEKI MATSUYAMA which was the same as last year’s course record before the tree was cut down due to the pandemic.
The Japanese superstar is late for another victory and will arrive in hard form. Here’s hoping his putter is behaving himself.
Sportsbet odds: $ 34.
Rod Morri – Golf Australia magazine journalist and podcast guest The Thing About Golf
Probably the toughest competition in the game to try to pick competitors. The course has thrown up winners of completely different styles of play over the years with everyone from Fred Funk to Tiger Woods lifting the trophy, and often with the winner on hand. previously struggling on the course.
This all means the last thing JORDAN SPIETH’s time to catch another maj… oops… the fifth most important event in the game. On paper his album is awesome at Sawgrass (with the exception of T4 for the first time in 2013) but with its form a few weeks ago this would be a great week to put it all together. together for 72 holes.
Sportsbet odds: $ 26.
TURAS EURO – MASTERS QATAR
Brendan James – Australian Golf Editor
Belgium THOMAS DETRY coming off some good WGC play at The Concession where he finished T28 against the best players on the planet.
The range isn’t as strong this week and he will have fond memories of his T17 last year when he paired a pair of under-66s with two rounds of 72.
He could have been in the conversation on Sunday afternoon and feels he has endless business in Qatar.
Sportsbet odds: $ 19.
JIMMY EMANUEL – Deputy Editor of Golf Australia
This isn’t the strongest area of the year, but that doesn’t mean the players who tie it up aren’t here to win. MAVERICK ANTCLIFF making its first European Tour of the year this week after two tough performances in Victoria and is certainly one of those eyeing the cup.
Antcliff will be more comfortable on the European Tour this year and is a proven winner all over the world, and after losing the cut here on last year’s number he will be much better off. -this week.
Sportsbet odds: $ 101.
TAKE: Qatar Masters Preview
Michael Jones – Australian Golf writer
PIETERS THOMAS one of the biggest names in the field this week and should find out it’s coming Sunday.
The Belgian football player decided 21st here last year and will be as eager as ever to quench his unquenchable thirst, which stretches back to August, 2019.
Sportsbet odds: $ 11.
Rod Morri – Golf Australia magazine journalist and podcast guest The Thing About Golf
The light range is on high-profile names although it is not short of good players. However, the 2018 winner EDDIE PEPPERELL stands out in this company despite this being only its third competition in 2021 and missing the cut in the previous two.
Pepperell’s results card suggests that a player who is more of a form when it comes to performance and being back on course with winning memories could be just the spark for a third European Tour title.
Sportsbet odds: $ 81.
AUSTRALASIA PGA TOUR – QLD OPENING
Brendan James – Australian Golf Editor
Queenslander will make a better football show at Bonnie Doon’s Players League event SHAE WOOLS-COBB influential about his chances for the tree, which is played on his home run at Pelican Waters.
The famous putter has found something with his game from tee-to-green that was more apparent with his 64th opening in Sydney.
He went on to bank his biggest check since turning pro after finishing T3, and hopes to improve that product on the Sun Coast in front of friends and family. .
Sportsbet odds: $ 61.
JIMMY EMANUEL – Deputy Editor of Golf Australia
BRYDEN MACPHERSON has returned to play at home regularly for the first time in several years in 2021 and so far the results have been excellent.
Macpherson was at T16 last week at Bonnie Doon, where reports of his impressive ball hitting were circulated. That result was the fifth top-20 just this year, including a win at Moonah Links, and it’s reasonable to expect the success to continue this week.
Sportsbet odds: $ 15.
TAKE: Queensland’s open preview
Michael Jones – Australian Golf writer
Hard to pass a new pro-minted ELVIS SMYLIE here after sharing a third place at Bonnie Doon last week during his first professional tour.
The Queenslander on the left is one of the most promising prospects in Australian golf and it would not surprise anyone to see him claim his first professional win at his home state Open.
Sportsbet odds: $ 15.
Rod Morri – Golf Australia magazine journalist and podcast guest The Thing About Golf
Wollongong has been going quietly under the radar in the last few weeks TRAVIS SMYTH with a T8 finish at Bonnie Doon and a T4 at the Vic PGA last month.
A confirmed winner of the local tour (he won NT PGA as an amateur in 2017) he lost a playoff for the NSW Open in 2019 and watched the 2020 breakout season before COVID.
Smyth has all the tools needed to compete at the highest level and it would be hard to imagine not amassing many home runs in the house of his career and for no reason anyone who can’t start this week.
Sportsbet odds: $ 17.
2021 RESULTS
So far the so-called experts have come together FOUR winners in 2021, by 31 of their bricks record top-10 finishes that week and the best result of $ 61 for Max Homa to win the Genesis Invitational (thrown by Rod Morri).
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