Tenerife Ladies Open

FINAL RESULT: 0-2; -2.00pts

Brewerton 22nd
Blomqvist 18th

Both were on the fringes of contention for a top-4 place all week without ever really looking like achieving it.

Outright plays (total stake per play: 1pt)

Becky Brewerton to win 25/1 e.w. @ SkyBet
Last week's players competed in a hilly course in oppressive humidity and 39 degrees Celsius conditions, so they are best avoided this week! Well, that's the theory, but the best value odds are on two players who only played two rounds in Thailand and so should have recovered much better than those who showed better form last week. Fatigue will be a factor as wind is normally a feature in Tenerife and the long-range weather forecast is for quite strong winds over the weekend. Wind- and Tenerife-specialists should come to the fore this week. And there are none moreso than Brewerton who has finished 2nd in the last two Tenerife Ladies Opens; the first as an amateur when she held the lead after the 2nd and 3rd rounds and was denied by a single shot when Elisabeth Esterl birdied the last two holes to win, and the 2nd in her rookie season last year. She was also very unlucky in the Wales WPGA Championship of Europe in 2003 when Shani Waugh holed a 74-foot putt on the last hole to deny her the first Tour victory by an amateur since 1984. This season she has shown good form in South Africa and Australia and refreshed and back in familiar climates, she should have a very good chance of securing that elusive victory this week. Having finished 3rd and 10th in the other two Spanish events last year, it really should be only a matter of time before she wins in this region.

Minea Blomqvist to win 33/1 e.w. @ SkyBet
Blomqvist did win in her rookie year last year when she was a wire-to-wire winner in Hungary and it enabled her to finish as leading rookie on the Tour last year by finishing in 7th place in the Money List, one place above Brewerton. Like her Welsh counterpart, she comes into this event with good form in South Africa and Australia and only two rounds played in Thailand. And like Brewerton, she has a good record in Tenerife. She was the leader after the 1st and 2nd rounds last year and though she slipped back with a 3rd round 77 in the high winds of Saturday, she still finished 4th. Just as good a prospect as Brewerton, they could easily be battling for the top-spot on the Order of Merit this year.