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6-2; -0.71pts Pre-tournament plays: BACK 1pt Joost Luiten 80 24th Nicolas Colsaerts 340 (and lay 1pt in-running @ 240) MATCHED 3rd Raphael Jacquelin 400 (and lay 1pt in-running @ 280) mc Luiten has a very good record at Wentworth - last year he was the first round leader, the year before he finished 11th and the year before that he finished 12th, having been 4th at the start of the final round; already a winner on Tour in September, he back be backed to be a contender this week While still a long way short of the form that saw him play in the 2012 Ryder Cup, Colsaerts has secured four top-5 finishes in the last year and has enough class to trade at lower odds during the week The same can be said for Jacquelin who was 5th at the start of Sunday's final round in Italy; it has been six years since he secured a top-5 finish here, but in his current form (he finished 13th in his start prior to last week's Rocco Forte Open), he is another who could trade much lower during the week LAY 20pts liability Branden Grace 34 9th Alexander Levy 60 51st Danny Willett 160 58th Victor Dubuisson 170 24th Jeunghun Wang 190 mc Grace has produced some good finishes on the PGA Tour recently, but it is difficult to fly back for one European Tour event and then return to the PGA Tour, so I would him price him a little higher than this Levy won on his last outing, the China Open four weeks ago, but this is a much stronger field and he has broken 70 only once previously around this course It seems a very long time since Willett won the Masters Tournament in April 2016, his form has slump, he has sacked his caddy and withdrew after the opening round of the Players Championship citing back issues as a result of swinging poorly In four events this year, Dubuisson has withdrawn twice and missed the cut once - that does not look like the profile of someone who will contend this week Wang won the Qatar Masters in February, but since that win, he has finished in the top-50 just once in eight starts, so I would price him at double these odds
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