State Farm Classic

FINAL RESULT: 2-1-0; +3.00pts

Kim/Hart WON by 11
Kerr/Pettersen WON by 10
Park/Pettersen LOST by 7

Managed to offset some poor outright plays with the matchups again on this Tour. The two winning selections dominated this event, so good to win something with them this week.

72-hole plays (1.5pts unless stated):

Christina Kim to beat Marcy Hart -114 @ Expekt
Siding with the player who has a 8-3-1 h2h lead in 2004. Both has shown good form recently with top-10 finishes last week, but Hart has a best finish of 60th in three attempts around The Rail course. Admittedly, Kim did miss the cut last year but it was her debut on the course and she was in poor form at the time. It is much more serious to repeatedly struggle on this course, so Kim should extend her head-to-head lead this week.

Cristie Kerr to beat Suzann Pettersen -111 @ Stan James [3pts]
Kerr may have missed the cut in her last two events, but it was because of some poor putting rather than a weak overall game. She hit 67% of greens in both the Wachovia LPGA Championship and the Wendy's Championship for Children and a cold putter is much easier to turn around than swing faults, particularly for a player who has won twice this year already. Top-25 finishes in each of her last five visits also suggest that Kerr should be back on the leaderboards this week and if so, she is a different class of player to Pettersen.

Gloria Park to beat Suzann Pettersen +115 @ Five Dimes
Just don't see why Park is such a large underdog. In their last eleven common starts, she holds a 8-2-1 h2h lead over the Norwegian - and 3-0-1 in their last four meetings - and finished 26 places ahead of her last year. The consistent Park hasn't finished outside the top-40 in any of her last 15 starts; in Pettersen's last 15 starts, she has missed the cut on six occasions.