clamour for cambo
October 2nd 2008 03:45
Before I review last week’s effort, I’m going to cut to the chase and get this week’s tips out of the way.
I’ll start in Europe at the fantastic Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The guy I’m looking to at odds of about 20-1 is Michael Campbell. He has been in phenomenal form over the past six weeks with a string of top-10s and I couldn’t help but hear a snippet from his caddie who advised that this would be the week to back Cambo.
The former US Open champ will be in his element if the wind gets up but he’s a fantastic links player no matter what.
The guys I’ve got to go with him are perennial links specialist
aul Lawrie who has been slowly battling into some respectable form and Ernie Els, who loves these conditions and whose solid US form should translate well across the Atlantic.
In the US, it’s hard to get a bead on the Turning Resort Tournament as the players have only seen the course once. But on revealed form at that venue coupled with current form, I like Bill Haas.
Haas is a genuine battler, he battles himself and struggles to have faith in his ability. But he is a good, reliable, honest player who deserves a win.
Regulars at Golfdelerium know that I’m big fan of Kevin Streelman and I’ll look to him again even though he hasn’t played for a few weeks. For a third pick, I guess you can’t go past Robert Allenby. He’s been playing well in better company than this and more receptive greens than those he encountered at the Tour Championship will help his almost desperate cause to turn his persistent good play into victory.
Now, a note on last week, where Campbell got home for third at Belfry for a top placing there behind the mercurial Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez Castano and the evergreen Lee Westwood, who blew the playoff against the Spaniard.
Across the ditch it was the other way around with Spaniard Sergio Garcia blowing the playoff against Camilo Villegas in a really dramatic finish to the Tour Championship.
Villegas, after so much promise, has finally delivered and he looks like he’s here to stay. He battled back amazingly from a double bogey and bogey couplet early in his round to rattle off a birdies like bullets from a machine gun.
His dynamic swing is impressive but moreso is how he can drill those putts when he gets his eye in. he hits so many fairways and greens that once he gets his eye in with the putter he can go on streaks of birdies.
The final word on him is that he’s way good enough to win a major. I think he’ll get one in the next two years.
I’ll start in Europe at the fantastic Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The guy I’m looking to at odds of about 20-1 is Michael Campbell. He has been in phenomenal form over the past six weeks with a string of top-10s and I couldn’t help but hear a snippet from his caddie who advised that this would be the week to back Cambo.
The former US Open champ will be in his element if the wind gets up but he’s a fantastic links player no matter what.
The guys I’ve got to go with him are perennial links specialist
aul Lawrie who has been slowly battling into some respectable form and Ernie Els, who loves these conditions and whose solid US form should translate well across the Atlantic.In the US, it’s hard to get a bead on the Turning Resort Tournament as the players have only seen the course once. But on revealed form at that venue coupled with current form, I like Bill Haas.
Haas is a genuine battler, he battles himself and struggles to have faith in his ability. But he is a good, reliable, honest player who deserves a win.
Regulars at Golfdelerium know that I’m big fan of Kevin Streelman and I’ll look to him again even though he hasn’t played for a few weeks. For a third pick, I guess you can’t go past Robert Allenby. He’s been playing well in better company than this and more receptive greens than those he encountered at the Tour Championship will help his almost desperate cause to turn his persistent good play into victory.
Now, a note on last week, where Campbell got home for third at Belfry for a top placing there behind the mercurial Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez Castano and the evergreen Lee Westwood, who blew the playoff against the Spaniard.
Across the ditch it was the other way around with Spaniard Sergio Garcia blowing the playoff against Camilo Villegas in a really dramatic finish to the Tour Championship.
Villegas, after so much promise, has finally delivered and he looks like he’s here to stay. He battled back amazingly from a double bogey and bogey couplet early in his round to rattle off a birdies like bullets from a machine gun.
His dynamic swing is impressive but moreso is how he can drill those putts when he gets his eye in. he hits so many fairways and greens that once he gets his eye in with the putter he can go on streaks of birdies.
The final word on him is that he’s way good enough to win a major. I think he’ll get one in the next two years.
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