SAS Championship

The Seniors are the last to resume competitive golf after last week's postponements and they do so in a new event and on a course that has not been used on the Senior Tour before this week. The Meadows course at Prestonwood was the setting for the Buy.com Carolina Classic from 1994 to 1997, so some information is available about the course. It is a very flat course with tight fairways and fast, undulating greens. It does not appear to be too great a test for the Seniors and in three years time the event will move to the Hale Irwin-designed TPC at Wakefield Plantation.

There is a strong field assembled this week, but this has not been a season in which any of the big names have dominated the Tour. With the current political situation and the disruption to last week's event and travel plans, the headline players are definitely ones to avoid at the available odds. As with the LPGA Tour event which is also an inaugural event being played on a new course, the outright plays are primarily value plays. Surrey Sports must be applauded for now offering 5 places on each-way bets for this week's event, but as with the LPGA event, it is Stan James who have the value odds. For all three plays, Stan James' odds are double those of Surrey Sports!

The outright plays are Dana Quigley, Gary McCord and Tom Jenkins. All are in great form at the moment. For Quigley he has been on top of his game for some time. In his last 19 events, he has finished in the top-15 in all four occasions and has finished 3rd and 7th in the last two events. The genuine 'iron man' of the Tour, he will be eager to get back on the course and carry on where he left off.

Because of his television commitments, McCord has a much lighter schedule than Quigley, but has played no less competitively when on the course. He has finished in the top-10 in each of his last three events and Surrey's odds on him are a much better reflection of his abilities. The same is also true for Jenkins who was a 100/1 selection when he lost in a playoff to Jim Thorpe for the Kroger Senior Classic. That makes two runners-up spots in his last four events and is a definite value play at the odds on offer.

Outright plays:

Dana Quigley to win 40/1 e.w. @ Stan James [5 places option]

Gary McCord to win 50/1 e.w. @ Stan James [5 places option]

Tom Jenkins to win 66/1 e.w. @ Stan James [5 places option]

Final update: 1-2 and +2.50 units

Another profitable week with the Seniors   McCord needed the birdie the last for a chance of taking the title. He bogeyed it instead, but it still meant a decent return for finishing 2nd. Quigley looked like he could also make the top-5 after a strong front-nine today, but he stalled thereafter and finished 10th, two shots out of a place finish. The only disappointment on a good event was Jenkins who never figured and finished 38th.