Matchup Picks - PGA Tour

Woody Austin to beat Kirk Triplett -111 @ Pinnacle

Triplett hasn't had a great time of it since winning the Tucson in February. In fact in his last six h2h's with Austin he has lost every

time. Austin's recent form is encouraging with a 32nd place finish at the US Open followed by a 5th at the Buick. Somehow he

managed to miss the cut last week after hitting an opening 69, primarily down to taking 36 putts in round 2. The h2h's are in

Austin's favour, he is in decent form and Triplett game isn't at it's best so -111 looks a decent price.

* -110 available at Stan James with the tie odds present

Ryuji Imada to beat Jeff Maggert -110 @ BetFred

Although Maggert has the better h2h record against Imada the current state of each players game dictates that we have an interest

here. Imada has shown good consistency lately and currently has an average FP of 38.8 and only 5 missed cuts from 19 starts this

season. Maggert's average FP for this season is over 3 places worse off and has missed the cut in almost 50% of his starts. In fact

he has missed six of his last eight starts. Those stats make this price appealing.

Can't see the logic in Senden being such an outsider here. Although Jobe started off the season well his form has deteriorated badly

recently and his recent form reads mc/mc/65/04/66/mc/50. Senden, thanks to his accurate iron play, is a very consistent player

with his recent form reading 21/15/22/mc/45/09/18/34/65. On the h2h front Senden leads 7-3 this season and Jobe has only won

one of the last seven matchups with Senden.

Richard S Johnson to beat John Rollins -110 @ Pinnacle

Rollins form has been dreadful of late. In his last nine starts he has missed the cut seven times, making the cut twice with poor finishes

of 62nd and 42nd. His driving accuracy is down, his GIR stats are down and his scrambling stats too. And when those two last stats

are deteriorating it makes it hard to recover your form easily. Johnson's form is hardly great as he has missed his last 2 cuts, but given

that prior to that he had made five consecutive cuts he should be favourite here.

Jose Coceres to beat Tag Ridings -106 @ FiveDimes

Coceres lost his card last season and has to rely on exemptions this year. But he's doing a grand job at trying to get it back. In his four

completed starts on the tour this season he has had finishes of 09/mc/51/11. In fact at the Booz Allen he could easily have taken the title

if it wasn't for a sloppy round 3 total of 78. Ridings has not had a great season with nine missed cuts from 18 starts. He is probably

favourite here because of his 15th place finish last time out but Ridings is the sort of player who can easily throw in a missed cut after a

decent finish, something he has shown a prevelance for doing previously. I envisage a strong showing from Coceres this week and he

should have the confidence and ability to see off Ridings.

Tipster: Neil