ROMAIN LANGASQUE 25/1 BOYLE 8PL
RYAN FOX 50/1 PP 7PL
HAOTONG LI 55/1 CORAL 7PL
ANDREA PAVAN 100/1 BOYLE 8PL
ALL BETS £5EW
JASON DAY 20/1 WH 8 PLACES
LANTO GRIFFIN 50/1 WH 8 PLACES
LUCAS GLOVER 66/1 WH 8 PLACES
RUSSELL KNOX 70/1 WH 8 PLACES
K STREELMAN 35/1 WH 8 PLACES
TAYLOR MOORE 100/1 WH 8 PLACES
Ras Al Khaimah
The Ras Al Khaimah Championship is a professional golf tournament due to be held at Al Hamra Golf Club, in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The presenting sponsor is Phoenix Capital.
Al Hamra Golf Club’s Par 72 Championship course lends itself perfectly to all levels of golfers, providing the fledgling novice or the most accomplished of players with an enjoyable and interesting golfing challenge.
This eighteen-hole golf course, designed by Peter Harradine, meanders around four inter-connected open water lagoons merging seamlessly with the water of the Arabian Gulf. As many traditional courses do, the front nine measuring 3,578 yards makes its way out and away from the Clubhouse, whilst the back nine measuring 3,747 yards returns home around the lagoon to the Clubhouse. The result is a stunning Par 72 Championship Golf course measuring 7,325 yards at full length designed with five varying tee options on each hole.
Originally planned to be built on the salt flats bordering the water edge, some five million cubic meters of sand combined with expert shaping have come together to create gentle elevation changes as the terrain moves around the lagoons rising and falling from plus one to plus eight meters.
Peter Harradine
The designing of golf courses runs deep in the Harradine family tree, dating back to the 1920 when Peter’s step grandfather designed and built his first course. Don Harradine, Peter’s father, designed and built his first course in 1929 a career that would span 60 years before his retirement in the late 1980s.
Golf was obviously going to play a huge part in Peter’s early years, receiving his first set of clubs at the age of six, and experiencing his first taste of course construction around the same time when he was drafted by his father to help out on projects during school holidays.
Between 1965-66, Peter travelled to the U.S., where he studied landscaping and golf course design and construction, before returning to Europe to design and build many courses with his father and other prominent European architects.
In 1976, a visit to the United Arab Emirates to investigate the possibilities of constructing a golf course led to the establishment of a Middle East office, which has grown from strength to strength. Harradine Golf has designed and built five courses in the Emirates, alone, with many more in the region. Together, with courses in Europe, Asia and Africa, Harradine has amassed an impressive portfolio of over 160 projects.
AT & T Pebble Beach
Monterey Peninsula CC
Course Par Value: 71 • Course Yardage: 6958
Monterey Peninsula Country Club originally opened in July 1926, with the Dunes Course, a vision of Pebble Beach founder, Samuel F. B. Morse. The club properties account for roughly four hundred acres of land in the central region of the Monterey Peninsula. The Shores Course was designed by Bob E. Baldock and Jack Nevillein 1959 after the members purchased the club from Del Monte Properties.
In 2003, more than 40 years later, the members decided to hire Mike Strantz to redesign a layout on par with the stunning land it was first sowed. “I wanted to shape the course to sweep with the natural terrain-the rocks, the trees and grasses, the ocean,” Strantz said. “I dreamed that the course would appear to dance among the cypress trees on this coastline forever.” Strantz designed 12 new holes and remodeled the other six to add more than 500 yards to the par-72 layout. Strantz was diagnosed with tongue cancer at the start of this final project of his life, but it is obvious that he poured everything he had left into it. He died in 2005.
The Shores Course was part of the Crosby golf tournament hosted by Bing Crosby, currently the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, from 1965, 1966 and 1977. 2010 is a rebirth for the Shores Course as it has Poppy Hills Golf Course in the rotation of courses to be played by PGA TOUR pros and Hollywood celebrities.
Spyglass Hill GC
Course Par Value: 72 • Course Yardage: 6858
Spyglass Hill Golf Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., as a part of the master plan for the Pebble Beach ocean front. S.F.B. Morse, founder of Pebble Beach Company, and chairman of the board of Del Monte Properties, envisioned a string of golf courses around Del Monte Forest’s shoreline. Morse commissioned Jones to design a course between Cypress point and Pebble Beach.
Spyglass Hill is an annual co-host to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, formerly known as the Crosby. Spyglass Hill co-hosted the 1999 United States Amateur during medal play rounds, and hosts many other world-class professional and amateur events each year as well.
No History
Past Results
2021 Daniel Berger 270 −18 2 strokes
2020 Nick Taylor 268 −19 4 strokes
2019 Phil Mickelson 268 −19 3 strokes
2018 Ted Potter Jr. 270 −17 3 strokes
2017 Jordan Spieth 268 −19 4 strokes
2016 Vaughn Taylor 270 −17 1 stroke
2015 Brandt Snedeker 265 −22 3 strokes
2014 Jimmy Walker 276 −11 1 stroke
2013 Brandt Snedeker 267 −19 2 strokes
OUR PICKS
ROMAIN LANGASQUE 28/1
This guy is playing some of his best golf in quite some time and feel it is time to add him into our betting slips this week.
He is due to put in four solid rounds we followed his play at the HSBC where he started slowly opening with rounds of 72 and 73 but bounced back well on the Saturday with a 67 then a 71 Sunday to close out in a tie for 12TH.
Last week again building a nice few rounds having three under par with a 72 Saturday where he holed nothing all day so he could have been challenging for the lead.
I feel he is primed to win again soon and feel this will be one of his best chances of 2022.
RYAN FOX
Foxy the son of the All Black fly – half Grant Fox-has been looking good out there so far this year, just the odd random blow out hole here and there has cost him higher finishes so far. Winner of the ISPS Handa in 2019 beating Adrian Otaegui.
As you know we have many connections on various tours and the Challenge tour is close to our hearts as you see now week in week out on the leader boards it’s full of Challenge tour players that have broken through to win now on the European Tour and Ryan is no exception twice a winner on the Challenge Tour.
I feel he is ready to go low very low this week and with his distance it will also be a great advantage here as well. If the putter goes hot we will be looking at no worse than a top ten finish here.
HAOTONG LI 66/1
He has been impressing us lately and feel a great time to play him this week.
Ticking a lot of boxes to suit the course here, these are just a few facts the team noted whilst doing some homework on him:
- Strokes gained off the tee – YES
- Strokes gained Tee to Green – Big Yes
- Strokes gained putting – Yes
- Driving Accuracy – Yes
We were in his group at the Alfred Dunhill back in October and that opening round 64 was something else. One thing we have liked about the past year has been his driving stats have improved well and with so many different teeing options here this week you will need to be able to adapt to this and the big stick will be his advantage.
Others on the radar
ANDREA PAVAN 125/1
JASON DAY 20/1
I feel this is a great time to play Jason we followed a lot of his golf last week at the Farmers. He managed a top ten here last year so expect more of the same again.
You have to go back four years since his last win at the Wells Fargo back in 2018. Back then during his wins he was ranked as a world top ten player he has now dropped to 83RD. I think he has a good run at winning another major this year and can see him climbing back up the world table.
Not much else to say apart from he is a horses for courses fit around here and should be going low.
LANTO GRIFFIN 50/1
We tipped Lanto to win the Houston Open back in 2019 and he did not let us down that week winning it well at 60/1.
We caught up with him and his caddie at the American Express a couple of weeks back, he looked good that week shooting four great rounds in the sixties to end up in a tie for third place. Where of course we gave you the winner that week in Hudson Swafford.
This format and type of golf suits his game and that has been proven by his past results here, his first time he went missed cut but then followed that with a top ten in 2020. He is the type of player who learns to plot his was around tracks and feel he could go low here again so watch this space.
LUCAS GLOVER 66/1
Coming in hot this week is Lucas, after a disappointing finish to 2021 he has kicked off 2022 with three straight cuts made with a great top five at the Sony.
He is another player that seems to be finding that grove again the older he gets with him picking up that win last year at the John Deere he could be picking up PGA tour win number five very soon.
Another plus for me is again his records around here are pretty good reading and he had a great chance to win this back in 2019.
Accuracy off the tee is a must here and he ranks fourth on the PGA Tour with a 72.55% and also holds a 77.14% greens in regulation so sets up plenty of birdies per round. The putter lets him down and he is nearly a shot down strokes gained per round which has cost him winning more. But with a new putting coach and some interesting drill we have seen on the practice green he looks a different player so expect a lot more putts held by him this week.
