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Matchup Picks - Champions Tour

Tipster: Stanley

Bank of America Championship (2pts unless stated):

Craig Stadler to beat Bruce Fleisher -145 @ Five Dimes
No disputing Fleisher's fine record around this course, but he is not playing particularly well at the moment. He has no top-10 finishes in his last five starts and that includes a missed cut in the Senior PGA Championship. After his shame of being caught drink-driving a top-20 finish in his next event was a decent performance from Stadler and he should do better this week. He heads the outright markets by a wide margin and now that this event does not immediately follow the Senior British Open (which Stadler played in last year, but Fleisher missed), he should post a much stronger showing in this event.
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Bruce Summerhays to beat John Jacobs -111 @ SIA [6pts]
Summerhays has finished ahead of Jacobs in each of their last seven common events and comes into the event off a top-10 finish; Jacobs' best finish in the last two months has been 33rd. With Summerhays also edging the course form, this looks straightforward with Jacobs struggling with his game.

Wayne Levi to beat Sam Torrance -135 @ Five Dimes
With Levi ranked 5th in All-Round Ranking and 10th in Scoring Average on Tour - Torrance ranks 44th and 48th respectively - this should also be straightforward and is shown by their 2004 h2h record: Levi leads Torrance 8-2-0. Torrance is also making his debut on this course, while Levi was 5th two years ago.

Doug Tewell to beat Jay Sigel -110 @ SkyBet
Sigel's run of form seems to have come to an end. He had three top-10 finishes in May, but has finished outside the top-25 in his next three starts. In fact, those were the only times that Tewell failed to finish ahead of Sigel in their last nine common events. With Tewell also having finished ahead of Sigel on all three occasions that ha has played in this event, he deserves to be the favourite in this match.

 

Final update: 2-2-0; -5.36pts

Stadler/Fleisher WON by 12
Summerhays/Jacobs LOST by 3
Levi/Torrance LOST by 1
Tewell/Sigel WON by 3

Really fancied the triple-play and would have thought that it was a certain winner if Summerhays finished in the top-10. He did, but it was still not enough. Very surprised.