Italian Open

Golf Club Milano October 12th thru 15th

favorites are John Rahm @ 13-2. Sergio Garcia, Francesco Molinari and Tyrrell Hatton all @ 15-1 with Matthew Fitzpatrick, Alex Noren and Tommy Fleetwood @ 20-1. my Irish boy Paul "Young Gun" Dunne is @ 30-1. I played his "to win" along with these "recent winners" and some "cats & dogs" all enough "to win" around $500

Lucas Bjerregard 60-1 (Portugal Masters)
Julien Suri 80-1 (Made In Denmark)
Romain Wattel 80-1 (KLM Open)
Jordan L Smith 100-1 (European Open)
Haydn Porteous 100-1 (Czech Masters)
Nicky Colsaerts 100-1 (T-3rd BMW PGA)
Gregory Bourdy 100-1 (T-4th Alfred Dunhill Links)
Andy "Beef" Johnston 100-1 (just because it's "The Beef")
Mikko Ilonen 100-1 (T-5th European Masters. T-8th European Open
Jeunghun Wang 100-1 (making his cuts lately and was HOT early season. WON Qatar Masters)
Graeme Storm  80-1 (T-4th British Masters. T-3rd Portugal Masters. WON SA Open)
Ryan Fox 80-1 (T-9th European Masters. T-4th Scottish Open. T-4th Irish Open. 6th Open de France)
Fabrizio Zanotti  80-1 (T-3rd European Masters. WON Maybank)
Austin Connelly 125-1 (2nd KLM Open)

just two tourney match plays so far (bet/return)

Paul Dunne +140 over Matthew Fitzpatrick (40/96)
Lucas Bjerreegaard even over Luke Donald (50/100)

the MOLE (defending champion Francesco Molinari) is out of his HOLE. opening [-7] tied for 1st with four others including Eddie Pepperell, Alex Bjork (both one tourney too late for me), Donaldson and "A Fat Barn Rat"

my Irish boy Paul "Young Gun" Dunne an opening [-4] he was also so [-4] 1st round @ Close House GC in the British Masters. I have four other "to win" picks "lurking" @ [-3]

BOTH my match plays "wicked close" with Dunne [-4] one up on Fitzpatrick [-3] BUT Bjerreegaard [-1] one down to Donald [-2]

looks like the CUT should be @ [-1] tomorrow

WOW!!! a LOT of golfers shooting "wicked low" scores and the 2nd round CUT came in @ [-4]. unfortunately my "Great Dane" Bjerreegaard was one that did NOT make it to the weekend

AND Paul Dunne with a rather "flat" 2nd round just one ahead of Fitzpatrick going to Saturday

co-leaders are Aussie Marcus Fraser and Englishman Matt Wallace @ [-13] with "A Fat Barn Rat" two back. "The Mole" and Sergio "lurking" @ [-10] and [-9]

co-leaders are Aussie Marcus Fraser and Englishman Matt Wallace @ [-13] with "A Fat Barn Rat" two back. "The Mole" and Sergio "lurking" @ [-10] and [-9]

did I NOT mention Tyrrell Hatton ??? shoots a bogie free [-6] with 5 birdies on the back side and one of them on #18 for the [-21] WIN. that is B2B victories for Hatton after last week @ the Alfred Dunhill Links. he was 15-1 this week along with Sergio Garcia and "The Mole"

Ross Fisher [-8] and "A Fat Barn Rat" [-6] finish tied for 2nd @ tourney [-20] my boy Paul "Young Gun" Dunne really could NOT get it going the last two rounds and lost to "The Matthew Mouse" Fitzpatrick [-13] to [-15]

on to the Andalucia Valderrama Masters @ Real Club Valderrama in Sotogrande, Spain along the Mediterranean coast close to Gibraltar next week. Jon Rahm (tied for 15th @ [-15]) and Sergio Garcia (tied for 30th [-12]) this week already listed as playing that tourney in their home country

did I NOT mention Tyrrell Hatton ??? shoots a bogie free [-6] with 5 birdies on the back side and one of them on #18 for the [-21] WIN

WOW!!! did NOT realize it until I watched DVR of the tourney late Sunday BUT Ty's birdie on #18 was actually a "walk off WIN" as BOTH "The Fish" AND "A Fat Barn Rat" were already IN @ [-20]. btw 2nd in a row WIN for Hatton BUT also 2nd in a row 2nd for "The Fish" who is definitely "heating up" down the stretch of Race to Dubai