Singapore Classic 2024 - Laguna Golf Resort, Singapore

 We're up to 229 selections and counting after Xander Schauffele whimpered out at Sawgrass on Sunday last ! Think the potential Masters winner shortlist will be quite small in 3 weeks as there does not appear to be too many "fighters" on the PGA Tour at present who want to win a gold tournament. 

We move onto The Valspar Championship at Copperhead this week where the "snake pit" will sort out the winners from the also-rans whilst the DP Tour returns to Laguna Golf Resort in Singapore.

It may be a decent field in fairness but I'm again struggling to find real value, mostly due to my own tissue perhaps being way out of kilter but as alluded to a few weeks ago, the approach now is to back win on the exchange and take TOP-10/TOP-20s and see can we get some coin back into the bankroll.

Player	My Shortlist	BET365 Odds	Best Odds	Best Exchange	My Odds
Shane Lowry	Current Form	10	10	10.3	13
Matthieu Pavon	Current Form	15	15	18.1	15
Rasmus Hojgaard	Multi	15	15	19.1	19
Tom McKibbin	Multi	19	21	23	23
Jordan Smith	Strategy	26	26	33	26
Thriston Lawrence	Strategy	23	26	31	23
Zander Lombard	Multi	31	31	41	29
Richard Mansell	Course	34	34	39	36
Ewen Ferguson	Current Form	31	34	45	31
Alejandro Del Rey	Course	34	41	39	51
Alex Fitzpatrick	Current Form	56	51	78	46
Paul Waring	Course	56	51	78	56
Frederic Lacroix	Current Form	61	61	74	51
Grant Forrest	Course	71	67	118	81
Jesper Svensson	Current Form	67	67	83	81
Ugo Coussaud	Current Form	71	81	98	67
Daniel Hillier	Fancy	81	81	127	67
Johannes Veerman	Current Form	101	101	176	91
Aaron Cockerill	Current Form	81	91	157	101
Guido Migliozzi	Current Form	101	111	176	81
Ockie Strydom	Course	126	126	196	67
Gavin Green	Current Form	111	101	176	81
Haotong Li	Current Form	91	126	176	101
Max McGreevy	Current Form	151	176	225	111

My 24-man shortlist

From the shortlist, there are players I just know don't have it to challenge come Sunday but they continue to be there or thereabouts and it's the bet that they can turn in some TOP-10s that keep me interested. The shortlist will need to have 20-30 players going forward if looking at the TOP-10/TOP-20 markets anyway. Tom McKibbin may prove to be a winner at some point but I don't see value at all in his price here when compared to market leaders Lowry, Casey, Pavon and indeed Rasmus Hogaard. However, Shane Lowry is yet to show his worth when a short priced favourite but he is in great form just 3 weeks out from Augusta and he's hard to ignore totally but at the price presents no opportunity here. Ugo Coussaud joined The Birdie Club non moving day list recently but I'm willing to give him one more go here. It really is beyond a joke now to see my selections nearly every week go from inside 2 or 3 shots off the lead after 36 holes to....no hope come Saturday evening....Coussaud owes me now! Not that Max McGreevy does however but he's a very interesting runner here. Max has plenty of experience overseas having spent a season on the PGA China Tour before earning his Korn Ferry Tour card and subsequently winning (then losing) his PGA Tour card. Not so sure Laguna will suit him off the tee but I have to play him anyway where he could surprise.

I was keen to reduce the numbers in y staking plans going forward but thought there was merit in taking Richard Mansell on @ 30/1 - 7 places as well as Frederic Lacroix @ 60/1 & Daniel Hillier @ 80/1 .

Missing out are Hojgaard,Migliozzi, Li & Ferguson who were seriously considered.

Selections

0.5 pts WIN U. Coussaud @ 110.00   / 1.5 pts TOP-10 @ 10.50

0.5 pts WIN M. McGreevy @ 300.00 / 1.5 pts TOP-10 @ 18.00

0.5 pts WIN R. Mansell @ 38.00        / 1.5 pts TOP-10 @   4.80 

0.5 pts WIN F. Lacroix @ 60.00         / 1.5 pts TOP-10 @   6.80

0.5 pts WIN D. Hillier @ 130.00        / 1.5 pts TOP-10 @  10.00