The 149th Open Championship
Best Outright Picks, Outsiders to Consider, Course Preview + Much more …
THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
The Open Championship is back, following the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The world's finest golfers will compete in the final major tournament of an unprecedented six majors in the 2020-21 season at Royal St. George's Golf Club in England. The most unpredictable of all major championships, this is 4 days of sport you will not want to miss. Darren Clarke lifted the trophy 🏆 last time we were here at Royal St George’s, who will be successful this week. I’m going to bring you that later. Yet to have major winner in 2021, this will be our final chance. Lots of other great winners over 2021 so far, so I am approaching this week confident we will find the right answers for you the readers.
Course & Tournament Info
Date: July 15-17, 2021
Location: Sandwich, Kent, Eng
Course: Royal St. George’s Golf Club
Par: 70 / 7,211 yards
Purse: 11.5M
Defending Champ: Shane Lowry
Skill Sets Required
SG around the green - key stat for open winners you have to scramble well
GIR - winner of the open always excel in this area putting less stress on their short game over the 4 days
SG approach - ties in with GIR importance, hitting it close helps this week.
Recent current form in general across the bag
Form in Windy conditions
Coastal Course Form
🐴 🐎 for Courses
Here is a list of the top 25 and bottom 25 players at this Open Championship over the past 10 years.
A great 👍 snap shot for those looking to make their own picks
Some names off old jumping out here , Fowler , Stenson, Scott & Garcia
3 🥇🥈🥉big priced outsiders to consider
In this section, I’m going to provide insights on three players over 50/1 I feel have a genuine chance of winning this week, great to include in your DraftKings teams, and if looking for a speculative outsider as an outright pick then look no further.
1 🥇 - Alex Noren 8 places
9 events 6 cuts made and 2 Top 10’s in this event
Top 20 player on SG around the Green
Top 20 player on SG scrambling
Top 20 player on SG Sand saves
Loves windy conditions see graphs below gains more strokes on the field when windy than when calm or no wind at all - pray 🙏 for wind
2 🥈 Ian Poulter 75/1 8 places
Top 10 in the Scottish Open Prep event
3 tops 10’s 2 Top 5’s at previous Opens
His best chance of winning that elusive major is this event
Gaining strokes on the field over last 5 & 10 events Putting
Gaining strokes vs the field over last 10 events around the green
3 🥉 Ryan Palmer 150/1 - 8 places
Top 20 finish in the Scottish Open prep event
5 events 4 cuts made his best % of all major championships
Top 30 last time here in 2011
Good wind player see graph below 👇
4 Bonus Selection - Charley Hoffman 150/1 12 places
17th 2018
20th 2017
Strong Wind 💨 Player
2nd Stokes Gained approach last 50 rounds
8th T2G last 50 rounds
Top 30 putting over the past 50 rounds
The Top 25 Wind 💨 Players on PGA TOUR !
All data from events wins above average winds above 15mph
👀 to make your own picks this week, this snap shot might point you in the right direction. The top 25 💨 players on the PGA Tour.
💷💶💵 Outright Picks 💵💶💷
I have 5 outright selections this week. . To get a glimpse of all 5 you will have to tune into the YouTube video link below. It’s only 10 minutes long and will provide solid reasoning behind each of this week’s picks sorry for it being slightly longer than usual. Tune in 📺⬇️🙏👇🎦
To tempt you in here an insight into the detail I go in to for each and every pick.
All the talk is about Rham going back to back in Majors, well how about back to back Open Championships in the form of Shane Lowery - he will form part of my portfolio this week, and here is a glimpse as to why;
He gains nearly 1.5 strokes per round on the field when the wind blows
Major Champ already
Play Difficult tracks better than his peers
loads more tune into the video to find out more
YouTube Golf Betting Insights 👇 Outright Picks 👇
A bit of promotional call to actions leading up to this weeks selections. If you want the selections only, skip to the last minute where I recap all 5 of this week’s picks. Don’t forget to hit that 👍 button on the YouTube video all your support is need so please do hit the like and leave a comment or 2.
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