Matchup Picks - Champions Tour |
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FINAL RESULT: 2-1; +1.78pts
Roberts/Haas WON by 3
Levi/Lietzke LOST by 5
Crenshaw/Oakley WON by 10 Small profit on the matchups to offset some of the
losses on the outrights, though should have covered them with Lietzke only
finishing in mid-table. Further matchup play (2pts):
Ben Crenshaw to beat Pete Oakley -133 @ Five Dimes This one should be finished early on Sunday. They played in 17 common events last year and Oakley finished ahead of Crenshaw only four times. And even though Oakley did play in this event last year and so has course experience, the only players that he beat were Gary Player and Arnold Palmer. Ben Crenshaw may not have been as competitive on this Tour as first expected, but he is still in a different league to Oakley.
Matchup plays (2pts):
Loren Roberts to beat Jay Haas -120 @ Centrebet Siding with the player who finished 41 places ahead of his counterpart in the Sony Open last week. Roberts tends to play very well in Hawaii, whereas Haas has tended to avoid it and only played last week because his son was playing. That points to Roberts being better suited to this event over and above his greater consistency on this Tour. (also available at Expekt and BetFred)
Wayne Levi to beat Bruce Lietzke -111 @ Expekt Lietzke certainly had the better of this matchup towards the end of last season, winning their last five matches, but it is a different matter in early season. Levi prevailed in their first nine common events last year and that included two top-5 finishes in the first two events of the year. But it should be straightforward to oppose Lietzke at the moment anyway. He was never a player to practise at the height of summer so can be counted upon to be the most rusty player on view this week and it has shown in his finishes in this limited field event: 38th and 26th in the last two years. |