New Zealand Womens Open

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Outright play (1pt staked)

Lydia Ko is clear favourite and obviously deserves to be. Here's two reasons why. In the last three years she has played on the  LET 13 times. Of the players in this week's field she was the low score 10 out of those 13 times. Second reason: her score average on the LET the last year. Multiple her advantage over the next best by 3 (the number of rounds this week) and she had 9.69 shots on the field. Her LET schedule, with the exception of this event, takes in the toughest events too so arguably that gap is even bigger in reality. All this said she's 8/13. Not my cup of tea. So ...

G Hall 0.5pt ew w/o Ko @ 18/1 (Skybet)

Won last week in Victoria and that came off a really promising run of form at the back-end of last year. Working with a new coach seems to be turning things round. And for what it's worth in those 13 Ko events only six players in this field have finished ahead of, or tied, Ko. Hall is the only one to do it twice.