Fiji International

starts on Wednesday @ 11:35am pacific time BUT Golf Channel coverage starting at 1:00am Thursday

favorites are Ryan Fox @ 10-1 with Scott Hend, Andrew Dodt and Vijay Singh (???) @ 15-1. the "live dogs" look to be Austin Connelly @ 30-1 and Siddikur Rahman @ 40-1 with a small "sprinkle" on the Thai kid Phachara Khongwatmai @ 80-1

I only played two tourney match plays. Andrew Dodt even over Vijay Singh and Siddikur Rahman -110 over Jarryd Felton

Dodt playing well recently. tied 4th [-8] @ the Scottish Open tied 20th Irish Open [-12] T-65th Nordia Masters [+5] and tied 6th @ BMW PGA [-7] where he was the one shot 3rd round leader. also T-3rd Hong Kong [-11]  and 2nd Australian PGA [-17] early season. was a CUT Open de France, China Open & Dubai Desert Classic

Singh T-66th PGA [+10] T-14th Canadian [-14]  T-16th Players [-1] was MDF FedEx St Jude and CUT Greenbrier, Travelers, Memorial, Wells Fargo, RBC Heritage, Masters, API, Valspar, Genisis, Pebble Beach, RSM Classic and Shriners Las Vegas. that makes him "Me Missed Cut" 12 of his last 17 tourneys

Rahman just T-3rd Porsche European Open [-11] his last Euro Tour event

Jarryd Felton has played 4 Euro Tour events in the last two years with 3 CUT including @ Fiji last season

stayed away form Ryan Fox -135 vs Scott Hend +115. BOTH been playing pretty well lately and just "too close to call"

well that damn Bangladesh guy "Noodles" Rahman must have been a "one hit wonder" with that 3rd at the Porsche European Open. shoots [+5] the 1st round vs Aussie Jarryd Felton [-1] with the projected CUT @ [+2]

Dodt and Singh both @ [-1]. young Canadian Austin Connelly, who played so well at the British Open, shot [-3] three behind the leader Daniel Pearce from New Zealand [-6] who is #542 in the OWGR

well that took care of "Noodles" [even] 2nd round for tourney [+5] CUT vs Felton

Doht [-1] for tourney [-2] and Singh [even] for [-1] still close half way thru their 2nd round

looking like an "All ANZAC" tourney so far with the top 13 of the 15 [-4] or lower either Aussie's or Kiwi's

obviously WHEN they get a tourney invitation. I am sure that have "run out" their tour exemptions

Hokey Smoke 2nd round!!!

my "good Canadian BOY" Austin Connelly completely BLOWS UP the last six holes Friday with FOUR bogies and TWO doubles to go from and "in range" tourney [-3] to a [+3] CUT. watched some of the tourney and the WIND was absolutely HOWLING. was classic "links golf"" on the island

2nd round leader the Aussie Scott Hend @ [-7] with three others. he was 2nd favorite after Ryan Fox pre-tourney. speaking of Fox, he "squeekes" the cut @ [+2]. VERY surprised at his poor showing after his performance @ both the Irish and Scottish Opens also on links courses

still sweating Andrew Dodt [-1] for tourney [-2] over Vijay Singh [even] for [-1] tourney match play. I was hoping for a Singh CUT pre-tourney

WHEW!!! lucked out with a SPLIT in my tourney match plays. Rahman a freeking CUT to lose BUT Dodt held on to beat Singh [-2] to [-1]

next week back to Europe for the Made in Denmark @ Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort in Farso, Denmark. last years winner Thomas "Salt" Pieters