The Bookies point of view…
32Red’s Sponsorship manager Jack Milner delivers a weekly verdict on each tournament.
The Players Championship is commonly known as golf’s fifth major, and arguably has the strongest line-up of any tournament in the calendar. The week-long event is one big party at TPC Sawgrass and has a ‘who’s who’ of previous winners, and has a serious lineage of former winners; including Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson, Jason Day and Rickie Fowler all succeeding in the past 10-15 years.
The cream invariably rises to the top and after last week’s success it’s hard not to fancy Francesco Molinari after his spectacular success last week at Bay Hill. The Champion Golfer of the Year was debuting his new Calloway clubs at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and is clearly enjoying the new equipment in the bag.
He looks a big price at 20/1 should he replicate that, whilst there are plenty of bigger prices with 32Red being standout top price those down the field. I could see the Danish pair of Thorbjorn Olesen and Lucas Bjerregard out-performing their respective odds of 200/1 and 225/1 but the stand-out at bigger prices is Matthew Fitzpatrick at 90/1, after an excellent second behind the Italian last week.
The Englishman is gradually warming to life on the PGA Tour and is surely a winner in waiting across the pond.
