Tiger's Absence Will Allow Ames And Westy To Clean Up
Golf´s "fifth Major" gets underway this week as the world´s best duke it out for Players Championship at Sawgrass.
Tiger Woods misses the event as he recuperates from knee ligament surgery but the great man hasn´t experienced a great strike rate on the tricky Pete Dye designed layout with only one win here in 2001.
This is very much a course for thinkers. And with that in mind the Beat golf team has been pouring through the form book in the hope of landing this year´s winner. Neat and tidy 2006 Players Champion Stephen Ames is available at tasty odds and is well worth investment. Ames usually saves his best performances for courses with Bermuda grass greens and his record in Florida (where most putting surfaces are Bermuda) backs that up.
His win two seasons ago proves he loves this course and he´s been a model of consistency this season with just one missed cut from nine outings. Stand by for a bold challenge from the man with the biggest gnashers on tour.
England´s Lee Westwood is another player who can give punters a run at big odds. Westy produced a cracking effort at Augusta to finish 11th on his last US outing and is one of the few British players to have winning pedigree Stateside. His best recent effort at Sawgrass was 22nd in 2005 but the Worksop man is really starting to look the part in 2008.
We make him a certainty for Nick Faldo´s Ryder Cup side and his superb tee-to-green game is ideal for a course that demands accuracy. Keep an eye out for the fabled par three 17th hole that features an island green. When the wind blows the hole can reduce grown men to tears and anyone who plays it to par over four days has a great chance of bagging the richest first prize in golf.
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