KLM Open

The Dutch Course, Spijk, Netherlands September 14th thru 17th

last years winner Joost Luiten [-19] by three shots over Bernd Wiesberger

NO "name" players @ The Dutch Course this weekend. NO Fleetwood, Noren, Hatton or Pieters leaves it open for the "cats & dogs"

favorites are Joost Juiten and Bernd Wiesberger both @ 15-1 with Lee Westwood and Ryan Fox @ 22-1

IF you believe in "horses for courses" just give the tourney to "The Juice". WON on this The Dutch course last year and in 2013 @  Zandvoort, was 23rd in 2015 when Pieters won and 5th to winner Paul Casey in 2014 both @ Zandvoort

interesting Europen Tour web site picks. they usually do pretty well
Favourite: Joost Luiten
"Form Horse: Adrian Otaegui
"Wild Card": Eddie Pepperell
ref : https://www.europeantour.com/myeuropeantour/fantasy-golf/fantasy-three-watch-holland/. LIKE Luiten and Otaegui selections. "Fast Eddie" NOT so much. my long shot would be Mikko Ilonen @ 50-1 after his 5th last week @ Crans-Montana [-10] (final round 64) and Tied 8th @ European Open [-9] (final round 65) he seems to be "heating up"

I chanced these "to win" bets for the weekend (bet/return)

Joost Luiten 15-1 (20/320)
Ryan Fox 22-1 (22/506)
Julian Suri 28-1 (18/522)
Adrian Otaegui 40-1 (12/492)
Aaron Rai 50-1 (10/510)
Mikko Ilonen 50-1 (10/510)
Ashun Wu 80-1 (6/486)
Daniel Im 100-1 (5/505)
still "scheming" this weeks tourney match plays

chancing just five tourney match plays this week (bet/return)

Joost Luiten -110 over Brend Wiesberger (55/105)

as mentioned Luiten a two time winner here and beat Wiesberger by three shots last year. Tied 30th last week @ Crans-Montana to Wiesbergers CUT. was a CUT US PGA and  Porsche European Open BUT only one other CUT in 18 Euro Tour events this season. Wiesberger been making his cuts too BUT been very average recently since winning @ Shenzhen [-16] and Tied 4th @ China Open [-15] early season

Adrian Otaegui -110 over Aaron Rai (55/105)

Otaegui CUT last week by one shot BUT before that WON the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play where he made oodles of birdies and BLEW everyone else AWAY, Tied 5th European Open [-10] Tied 19th Scottish Open [-5] Tied 20th Irish Open [-12] and Tied 7th Open de France [-6]
young Challenge Tour player Rai CUT Czech Masters his last T-10th Made in Denmark [-11] T-39th Swedish Challenge [-4] WON Le Vaudreuil Golf [-18] T-4th Italian Challenge [-18] CUT US Open WON Andalucía Match Play WON Kenya Open [-17] T-7th Jorburg Open [-12]

Mikko Ilonen -110 over Eddie Pepperell (55/105)

as mentioned Ilonen 5th last week @ Crans-Montana [-10] (final round 64) and Tied 8th @ European Open [-9] (final round 65) and seems to have "found his game"
Pepperell tied 5th Czech Masters [-8] his last and Tied 28th @ Made in Denmark before that also Tied 23rd Open de France [-2] BUT CUT both European Open and BMW International

Fabrizio Zanotti +105 over Ross Fisher (50/102.50)

Zanotti Tied 3rd last week @ Crans-Montana [-11] and WON the Maybank [-19] earlier in the season with a final round 63 so he can shoot "wicked low" when he gets it going
Fisher CUT last week and CUT US PGA his last two. best recent finish Tied 7th Open de France [-6]

Ryan Fox -110 over Lee Westwood (55/105)

Fox T-9th European Masters [-8] last week T-24th Fiji [-4] T-54th US PGA [+6] CUT British Open T-4th Scottish Open [-8] T-4th Irish Open [-17] 6th Open de France [-7] has made 10 CUTS in a row
Westwood Tied 54th European Masters last week [even] a Tied 9th @ Czech Masters [-7] his best finish since Tied 8th in Abu Dhabi [-13] back in January

Spijk, Netherlands weather forecast https://www.accuweather.com/en/nl/spijk/248425/hourly-weather-forecast/248425?hour=13 rain overnight Wednesday and windy with thunderstorms Thursday. too bad the "English Water Spaniel" Lee Slattery isn't listed this week. Tom Lewis @ 50-1 also shot well in the "slop" 2nd round of Czech Master. ended tied 3rd @ Prague [-10] and T-20 last week @ Crans-Montana [-6]

Cheese LOU-ese!!! damn Luiten "blows up" the 1st round [+4] and Wiesberger tied for the tourney lead [-5]. both finished the round BUT as forecast they had a major "douche" in Spijk which is close to Holland's north coast and the course got drowned. play suspended for half my match players

some "cats & dogs" scratching and barking. both the ChiCom Ashun Wu @ 80-1 and Swede Joakim Lagergren @ 100-1 tied for 3rd @ [-4] after their first rounds. neither one has shown anything all season

weather forecast for Friday some overnight rain and occasional showers during the day. hopefully they can complete BOTH the 1st and 2nd rounds

Oh and btw, freeking Golf Channel once again with NO respect for the Euro Tour. NO coverage of the 1st round last night. scheduled to air from 9:00pm thru midnight pacific time Thursday. WHAT a JOKE!!! they had "girlie golf" re-runs and bullsh!t "info-mercials" on instead last night

well 2nd round suspended due to darkness after having to finish the 1st round in the morning. looks like I am probably "fukking fukked" this week. ONLY probable winner is Otaegui over Rai who is a CUT @ [+3] BUT Otaegui @ [even] thru #13 his 2nd so anything can still happen. BOTH Luiten AND Fox are BURIED vs Wiesberger and Westwood while Ilonen vs Pepperell and Zanotti vs Fisher "wicked tight". I will be lucky IF I don't get "skunked"

weather forecast for the weekend is occasional thundershowers BUT with lighter winds than the first two rounds

well they completed both the 2nd and 3rd rounds without any delays. I ended up 1-1 after the CUT with with Luiten [+1] cut LOSE to Wiesberger (he was buried anyhow) BUT Rai [+3] cut gives Otaegui the "walk over" WIN

NO way that Ryan Fox catches Lee Westwood [even] to [-11]. "Westy" with his BEST tourney in a LONG time just 3 behind the 3rd round leader "A Fat Barn Rat" who is also having a golfing "epiphany" this week

Fabrizio Zanotti two up on Ross Fisher [-6] to [-4] BUT Mikko Ilonen one down to Eddie Pepperell [-6] to [-7] going into the final. I need Fabrizio to hang on AND Mikko to shoot a final round "bomber" like he did last week @ Crans-Montana

well I ended up with a complete WRECK of a tourney BUT I threw $15 on a 4 match "contra" parlay of Wiesberger, Pepperell, Fisher & Westwood to pay $201.75 SO I "got my bait back"

Frenchman Romain Wattel the WINNER @ [-15] with the Canadian kid Austin Connelly his best Euro Tour finish 2nd @ [-14]. six players tied for 3rd @ [-13] including Pepperell & Westwood. the Thai "round mound" Aphibarnrat "crapped out"with a pair of 7's on the two par 5's his last four holes to finish [-12]. IF fat boy just PARS those he WINS the tourney

on to Portugal Masters next week. MOST top players usually pass on that one. the REAL fall tour action starts the week after that with the British Masters, Alfred Dunhill Links and THEN the Italian Open which is a Rolex Series "money" tourney this season along with the Turkish Open, Nedbank Challenge and DP World in November