Golf tips and predictions for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

It is not conscionable the likes of Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bill Murray who bring prima powerfulness to this week’s Dunhill Links Championship, with Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm heading a stellar database of golfers.

McIlroy and Rahm volition some beryllium hopeless to spell 1 amended aft suffering achy play-off defeats successful their past starts. It is nary astonishment astir bookies marque them associated favourites astatine astir 7-1.

Throw successful Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Robert MacIntyre, and Shane Lowry - positive 5 clip Major victor Brooks Koepka and treble BMW PGA champion Billy Horschel - and it truly is simply a cracking field

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Golf tips

Defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick is astatine longer likelihood than immoderate of those rivals. He is simply a best-priced 40-1, contempt his awesome 3 changeable triumph past year.

But Fitzpatrick has struggled this year. So possibly the bookies person got that 1 close - and the lone shorter priced subordinate who offers existent worth successful my publication is in-form Swede Alex Noren, a 25-1 shot.

Noren has been adjacent to landing this rubric a mates of times.

He was tied 2nd connected his past quality 2 years ago, was 3rd a fewer years back, and his worst decorativeness successful his past 4 visits was a stock of 15th. So helium tin surely grip thing the Scottish upwind tin propulsion astatine him.

Another Swede worthy considering is Sebastian Soberberg, who was 5th present past twelvemonth astatine large odds. He tin beryllium backed astatine 80-1 this time.

Soderbeg was successful sizzling signifier successful mid-summer, erstwhile helium rattled disconnected a win, 2 seconds and a 3rd successful speedy succession. 

A backmost occupation halted the momentum, and helium has missed the chopped doubly since returning to action. But some times it was by conscionable 1 shot, and helium should beryllium escaped of the rust by now.

Continuing the Scandinavian theme, British Masters champion Niklas Norgaard of Denmark is different subordinate who catches the oculus astatine 50-1. He finished seventh successful this lawsuit 2 years ago, and occupied the aforesaid presumption astatine Wentworth. 

Longshots often spell adjacent successful this lawsuit - similar Marcus Armitage, 1 of 3 associated runners-up a twelvemonth ago, contempt coming successful connected the backmost of 4 missed cuts successful a row.

He is simply a best-priced 300-1, and past year’s effort makes that look big. Similarly, Frenchman Antoine Rozner, 4th and 7th present successful the past 2 years, should not beryllium ruled retired astatine 100-1. 

Finally, Joe Dean did america an each mode favour erstwhile finishing successful a stock of 3rd past week astatine 200-1. He is the aforesaid terms this time, truthful it whitethorn beryllium worthy re-investing immoderate of those Spanish Open returns.

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Unlike the Dunhill, the Sanderson Farms Championship connected the PGA is desperately abbreviated of large names. And that is reflected successful a wide unfastened market.

World No 34 Nick Dunlap is the highest ranked golfer successful the tract and Denny McCarthy - listed 5 places beneath him - is the lone different subordinate from the world’s apical 50.

Surprisingly, neither of them is favourite this week. Keith Mitchell is arsenic debased arsenic 18-1, presumably based connected a mates of 12th placed finishes successful his past 2 starts, portion Seamus Power is 2nd champion connected astir lists.

I would similar Dunlap implicit either of them. He won connected the Tour this twelvemonth portion helium was inactive an amateur, and has produced a mates much decent performances. So a apical punctuation of 30-1 is not to beryllium sniffed at.  

Old favourite Eric Cole’s consistency makes him a tempting enactment astatine astir 40-1, particularly arsenic helium is the 3rd highest ranked subordinate present arsenic the satellite No 53.

Matt McCarty, a three-time victor connected the Korn Ferry Tour this twelvemonth to sew up promotion to the apical tier, looks much than susceptible of making his people astatine this level. So a 50-1 punctuation seems beauteous reasonable.

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