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Matchup Picks - PGA Tour

Tipster: Stanley

Odds: Matchups

AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

FINAL RESULT: 1-2-0; -1.77pts

Kelly/Clarke LOST by 8
Couples/Parnevik WON by 5
Singh/Mickelson LOST by 23

Didn't fancy too many plays and just as well. All three selections missed the cut and that is very poor.

 

Matchup plays (1.5pts):

Jerry Kelly to beat Darren Clarke +110 @ Five Dimes
Clarke's home worries aside, he has finished behind Kelly in ten of their last eleven common PGA Tour events. Having played at Pebble Beach only once before - the 2000 U.S. Open when he finished behind Kelly - and never on the other courses, this is a tall ask to beat a pro-am veteran who has finished 11th and 8th in his last two events.

Fred Couples to beat Jesper Parnevik +100 @ Sportingbet and Sporting Odds
Couples is another pro-am veteran who seems to always makes the cut in these types of events and that is something that Parnevik does not do enough. With Couples having finished ahead of Parnevik in their two common events this year, I'll certainly take these odds.
(also available at Carib and GolfingGods)

Vijay Singh to beat Phil Mickelson -118 @ BetInternet
Everyone else makes Vijay a much stronger favourite and so do I. In the last six months, Mickelson has finished ahead of Singh only once and that was last week and while Mickelson won this event in 1998, he has finished behind Singh in each of the previous six years, plus the U.S. Open which was held at Pebble Beach in 2000. Throw in an emotional letdown from winning in front of his home crowd last week and Mickelson should struggle to end his losing run to the World No.1 at Pebble Beach.
(available widely)