Day 1 Open Championship acca
Paddy Power is paying out on the Top 10 places in the win & each-way markets before Thursday’s tee off.
JT Poston
Jordan Spieth
Min Woo Lee
Ewen Ferguson
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All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
With less than 24hrs until the 151st Open Championship gets underway at Royal Liverpool it’s time to take a look at some of the opening day three balls to see where the value lies.
With the first group heading out at 6.35am and the final trio not teeing off until after 4pm there is certainly no shortage of options when trying to pick out the best bets of the day.
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I will start off by siding with JT Poston in his group teeing off at 8.03 AM. Poston is up against former Open Champion Stewart Cink and fellow American Trey Mullinax with the latter looking very much a player to oppose. Mullinax made his Open debut last year straight after winning the Barbasol Championship and the wide open spaces of St Andrews allowed him to ride that momentum to a good week.
This year though Mullinax heads to Hoylake on the back of six straight missed cuts and it is hard to envisage the big hitter who ranks 190th in Driving Accuracy on the PGA Tour turning things around here.
That leaves us with a match up between Poston and Cink. As a former Open Champion Cink certainly has to be respected, however although he is settling in to a nice groove on the Champions Tour time appears to have caught up with him with regards to the PGA Tour as he has missed eight of his last 11 cuts on that circuit, finishing no better than 34th in that stretch.
Poston who’s accurate tee to green game should be rewarded here, appears to be running in to some strong form notching back to back sixth place finishes the most recent of, which came in Scotland last week. In what should be a straight match then between him and Cink I’ll take ‘the other JT’ to come out on top.
Teeing off at 9.03 AM we have Jordan Spieth alongside Matt Fitzpatrick and Jason Day and it is the 2017 Open Champion who I will put my faith.
Spieth’s Open record speaks for itself with four further top ten finishes in the past seven years along with the win to his name.
Fitzpatrick conversely has struggled in his home Open with a best of 20th in seven previous starts. Add this to the fact that he has already talked this week about his game not being where he would want it to be and that the Open is the Major that he feels suits him the least and it would seem he is not expecting too much.
Day who has regressed since his win at the Byron Nelson, also has a surprisingly poor record in this event, with only one stand out finish at St Andrews to his name.
Granted Spieth missed the cut in Scotland after a few weeks off but I expect him to have shaken the rust off now after that break and this looks there for the taking for him.
Next up in the group teeing off at 12.42 PM I’ll side with the strong favourite Min Woo Lee.
On paper it must be said Hoylake doesn’t look the perfect fit for Lee hence I am wary of him producing the really big week that some expect. There is no doubting though that he is a class above his rivals here and having finished sixth at the Players, 18th at the PGA Championship and fifth at the US Open he has shown he can be a threat in the biggest of events.
Up against him here we have a struggling Christiaan Bezuidenhout who has only broken 70 twice in three Open starts and young amateur Harrison Crowe who failed to make an impact at the recent Amateur Championship played at Hillside and who you would think is out of his depth here.
At his best Bezuidenhout would undoubtedly be a threat but with three missed cuts in his past five starts to add to his poor Open record Lee may well not have to do much to win this.
Finally I’ll wrap things up by nailing my colours to the mast once more with Ewen Ferguson in the 14.26PM three ball.
Those who have read my outright preview will know that I have made my case for a strong week for the young Scot who won the amateur boys Championship here in 2013 and arrives in great form.
Alongside Ferguson is Spaniard Adri Arnaus and talented Japanese youngster Keita Nakajima.
With Arnaus having missed the cut on his only previous Open start to date and not having posted a top 60 finish since March Nakajima looks the threat.
Yet to make the cut in any of the three Majors he has teed it up in to date though including the Open last year, Nakajima is clearly still finding his feet on the International stage and I would expect Ferguson’s far greater links experience to be key here.
Day 1 Open Championship acca
Paddy Power is paying out on the Top 10 places in the win & each-way markets before Thursday’s tee off.
JT Poston
Jordan Spieth
Min Woo Lee
Ewen Ferguson
An accumulator with these selections pays at approximately 23/1 with Paddy Power. CLICK HERE TO ADD TO YOUR BETSLIP.
All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
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