FINAL RESULT: 0-3; -6.00pts

McNulty 21st
Purtzer 17th
Smyth 13th

All three had good last rounds, but the interest in this market had long since waned. With the weather forecast at the start of the week, this was certainly not expected to be such a low-scoring event.

Outright plays (total stake per play: 2pts)

Mark McNulty to win 12/1 e.w. @ Stan James, BetInternet, Victor Chandler, William Hill and BetFred
McNulty is certainly a fast starter on this Tour - he opened his 2004 campaign with a win in the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am and he finished 5th in this event last year - and is capable of maintaining the pace - he won the Byron Nelson Trophy for the lowest scoring average on Tour last year. A multiple-winner in each of his two seasons on Tour, helped considerably by having the lowest final round scoring average on Tour, and it is that ability to win that earns him the nod over Tom Watson who has never won in Hawaii.

Tom Purtzer to win 33/1 e.w. @ BetInternet
Backed as a wire-to-wire winner in the 3M Championship last August, he also ended the season strongly with finishes of 2nd and 7th in the last two events and continued in the same form thereafter: he won the Australian PGA Seniors Championship when he went to Australia to visit his daughter, who was an exchange student at Sydney University. So with good form even in the off-season and finishes of 5th and 9th on this course in two attempts, he looks decent value at 33s.

Des Smyth to win 40/1 e.w. @ Expekt
And so does Smyth at 40/1. Here is a player who started the 2005 season with only conditional status on the Champions Tour, but won twice in his first three months. To add to his impressive 2005 season, he lost out on the Senior British Open only in a playoff to Tom Watson and finished the year with a wire-to-wire victory in the European Seniors Tour Championship. He is certainly a player who can beat anyone in this field and though he does not have any course form, the Irishman should be very adept to playing in the Trade Winds that will feature so strongly this week.