I bit of a change of tack this week, with an outsider golf tip, instead of our usual horse racing offerings.
The World Cup of Golf gets underway at
the Kingston Heath Golf Club, in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday
and, although the Wales pairing of Bradley Dredge and Stuart
Manley is hardly the most fashionable, odds of 125/1 in a field of 28
are just too tempting to resist. Key to Welsh success could be the
Kingston Heath, one of Melbourne’s sandbelt courses, which should
suit both players, and the vagaries of the inconsistent and cool
Melbourne spring, which are likely to keep temperatures in the high
teens at best.
Dredge, ranked 89 in the world,
demonstrated his liking for “firm and fast” conditions when
finishing tied for eleventh in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
last month. Dredge won the World Cup of Golf alongside Stephen Dodd
in Portugal in 2005, when the final round was abandoned, so is no
stranger to coming in ‘under the radar’ in the 72-hole stroke
play event. Manley, ranked 873, arrives in Australia having secured
his European Tour card at the Final Qualifying Stage at the PGA
Catalunya Resort, under difficult conditions, and should not be
underestimated in an event in which he finished tied eighth, under
extraordinary circumstances, at Royal Melbourne Golf Club three years
ago.
Selection: Wales (125/1
with 32Red or 888Sport)
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