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Good US Open bets
HERE’S a few good U.S. Open bets any
bookmaker would have laid.
Martin Kaymer will set a course record
65 in the first and second rounds and take
a six-shot lead into the weekend.
Kaymer will make only one bogey in
the first 36 holes and win the tournament
by eight shots.
Kaymer will complete a “Parental
Double”; victory at the Players
Championship (in June on Mother’s Day)
will parlay into a US Open victory (Father’s
Day in the US). He will become the first
player to win on both Mother’s Day and
Father’s Day since Tom Kite in 1992.
The odds would have been generous. A
few more:
Hunter Mahan and Jamie Donaldson
will be penalised two shots for hitting each
other’s ball during the second round. They
will both miss the cut, with Mahan missing
by one shot.
Jeff Maggert, who twice finished third
in the US Open, will score a 10 on the par5 fifth hole.
Australian amateur Oliver Goss will be
two shots ahead of Adam Scott and Jason
Day after round one.
US Masters champion Bubba Watson
and Lee Westwood will miss the cut.
On the other side of the coin, the greens
were predictably brutal. Charl Schwartzel
missed a three-metre putt at the 12th
and watched in disbelief as his ball rolled
more than 10 metres past the hole and
off the green. Phil Mickelson, too, couldn’t
keep the ball on the green—while simply
attempting to mark it! He had to move it
two metres to the right, no nearer the hole,
to find “grip” on the slick putting surface.
Groundhog day for Fox in Tahiti
R
yan Fox has successfully defended
his Tahiti Open title with a dramatic
one-shot victory over fellow New
Zealander Kieran Muir. Fox fired a final
round three-under-par 69 to finish the
championship at 20-under-par (268).
The big hitting Kiwi began the day with a
three-shot lead but was quickly back with
the chasing group mid-way through the front
nine after three early bogies.
Muir started well with four early birdies and
went on to finish with two birdies on 17 and
18 to post a seven-under-par 65 and take
outright second.
Australian Edward Stedman carded the low
round of the week with a final round of nineunder-par 63 to finish in solo third and the
best placed Australian behind Kiwis Fox and
Muir.
Fox battled back from his disappointing
start, recording two birdies on his back nine
and avoided a bogey on his final 13 holes.
It came down to a 35-ft putt on the 72nd
green which Fox needed to two-putt for par
to claim victory.
“I knew it was pretty close coming up the
last but knew that a par would win it and
that is just what I managed to do” said the
27-year-old Fox.
“I played well all week and absolutely love
coming to Tahiti.
“It is one of the best events we play all year
and I am thrilled to win this event again” he
added.
Local professional Vaita Guillaume carded
a superb seven-under 65 on the final day to
move into the top-15 and highlight the local
golfing talent in Tahiti.
This year’s event marks the 30th
Anniversary of the championship and
past champions include Brett Ogle (Aus)
and Steve Alker (NZ). Fox adds his name
to a select list as a multiple winner of the
Tahiti Open and reaffirms him as one of the
best young prospects to come out of New
Zealand in many years along with runner-up
Muir.
The Tahiti Open is part of the Australian
Choice Hotels PGA Pro-Am Circuit with
players competing for a share in one of the
richest prize-purses on the circuit. •
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