I can’t say that I was beginning to despair, because due to cricket coaching commitments on Sunday I was unaware of how my golf bets were doing at the time they were doing it, if you see what I mean? But I did at one point see that Ritchie Ramsey had gone into the outright lead with just one hole to play in the DP World Tour event. Ramsey was one I got from the Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker as opposed to being a golfer who had been tipped, and was decent value so I had a nice amount on at a price of 80.0. He finished one shot behind in 3rd, after double-bogeying the last hole!
On to the LIV event and thanks to Weekly Golf Value I was on Marc Leishman at 90.0. He finished 2nd, one shot behind the winner. This is where betting golf win only is so frustrating and why to follow such a strategy, you need the patience of a saint.
I’d more or less given up on the day and had mentally written off the golf, but then Sepp Straka at 65.0 shot a 62 on his final round to win. Now, I wasn’t watching, but I have seen that he too, a la Ramsey, double-bogeyed the last hole. For the sake of my heart, it was perhaps fortuitous that I wasn’t watching! Unlike Ramsey however, this mishap at the final hole of the competition wasn’t fatal, and Straka ultimately won by two strokes.
I felt a little for PGA Profit who had put up Straka in last week’s tournament, and including in the write-up this:
Quite possibly one of the streakiest players on the PGA Tour, but he’s always had the ability to make birdies in bunches.
PGA didn’t put Straka up this week, but when you see that Straka birdied nine, and eagled one of the first 14 holes of his round yesterday, you have to admit that’s not a bad read from PGA!
Pleasingly, Straka was a bet I found by using the BB Tracker, and I did so because as I stated last week, I wanted to start looking to cover more of the field in terms of win probability. Ramsey was a consequence of this too, and that so nearly paid off. It won’t be like this every week of course, but it’s very encouraging when tweaking your approach slightly, when things work out so well early doors.
Figures on Wednesday.
