A very frustrating week last week on all sides, counts and whatever else was thrown at a golf punter. Firstly The Corales Puntacana Championship staged in the Dominican Republic was a disaster to trust the scoreboard, a trait that occurs all too often when the tour and other tours head to "lesser golfing nations" where they rely on volunteers as always to help the day to day course management of the spectators and the hole by hole scoring. Unfortunately for this blog, we were the victims of day-1 scoring being recorded inaccurately. In Ballymena, the blogs punt on Calum Hill had a bit of a run only for some further frustration to show. The Scotsman had only one bad hole on Thursday and one bad hole on Friday but both proved costly with an 8 on the 10th hole in the opening round and a 7 on his closing hole Friday which was obviously played in the dark to avoid early tee time on Saturday. It proved costly to the player and added to my frustration for the week when a par would have left him within 3 of the lead. He is forgiven though and I'm willing to chance him this week at The Renaissance Course where he finished 26th last year. Galgorm Castle played surprisingly tougher than expected last week, due mainly to long wet rough but I don't expect the course itself to play as tough this week although the links-type course will be exposed to some autumnal weather including wind! Hill can be backed @ 90/1 - 8 places
I'll complete my lineup in Scotland with Renato Paratore @ 70/1 - 8 places and Erik Van Rooyen @ 25/1 - 8 places
Over on the PGA Tour, I have sided with Doc Redman @28/1 - 8places, Denny McCarthy @ 66/1 - 8 places , as well as Mark Hubbard @ 100/1 - 8 places and a minimal amount on Patton Kizzire@ 150/1 - 8 places
Selections
Scottish Open
0.75 pts e/w Renato Paratore @ 70/1 - 8 places
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