2007 US Open Golf Predictions
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For those of you who automatically pencil Tiger Woods in as your bet for every major, you struck out at this year’s Masters and you would have been coming up short at the U.S. Open since 2002. Woods is a two-time U.S. Open champ and the number one ranked golfer in the world so naturally he is the odds on favorite, but will he prevail at Oakmont? Find out as we weigh the field.
If you are a Phil Mickelson backer, you’ve had some success this year and grabbed a nice pot when he won The Players Championship. If you’ve backed him in U.S. Opens over the past eight years though, you’ve been living in misery. Phil has been the U.S. Open runner-up four times with second-place finishes in 1999, 2002, 2004, and 2006. Although Phil is still collecting some nice paychecks from those tournament, his backers were watching their hard earned money slip away. On the bright side, Mickelson has been great in 2007. He is the hands down number two ranked player in the world and really the only thing that could be negative could also be a positive for this year’s Open. He hasn’t played a full tournament since his Players Championship title a month ago due to a sore wrist. The oddsmakers don’t see this as much of a problem based on his listed odds. I was under the impression that Mickelson was just sandbagging to make sure he was good and healed up for the Open, but he is a golfer who likes to play in tournaments before majors so his withdrawal from the Stanford St. Jude Championship lets us know the severity of this injury.
Despite injury, I still expect a solid performance from Mickelson but not a championship performance because I think the wrist will keep him from being at his absolute best and that’s what it’s going to take to beat Tiger Woods this week. Woods has played eight tournaments in 2007. He has won three of those, tied for second in another and tied for ninth in one as well. After back-to-back tournaments out of the top 10 after winning the Wachovia Championship, we can expect a dominant performance at Oakmont.
With the way Furyk has faded, and with how poorly Singh played last week, we’ll look no further than world number one Tiger Woods to cash our tickets. You can place your bets on him at Bodog where he is listed at 14/5 odds.
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