I've had a brief discussion with @mrbojumbles about the US Open golf tournament next weekend and thought I'd throw the whole thing open to debate.
I'm looking at four elements:
1) driving accuracy, because the US Open always puts a premium on hitting fairways
2) three-putt avoidance, because US Open greens are often treacherous
3) Previous form at Congressional where the AT&T National was played 2007-2009
4) Current form.
I'd love to have a super computer that could overlay all these factors and pump out a winner, but I don't so I resorted to old fashioned paper and pencil.
In driving accuracy I pencilled in the following in-form suspects; Luke Donald, David Toms, Matt Kuchar, Graeme McDowell, Brandt Snedeker and for value added the 50th most accurate driver on the PGA Tour; Bill Haas.
In three-putt avoidance, the tour website gave me the names: Donald, Toms, Kuchar and Snedeker and for value the 54th person on three-putt avoidance, Bill Haas.
Then to another website golfobserver.com, where I looked at top-20 results at Congressional from 2007-2009. Here the following were recurring names: Furyk, Hunter Mahan, Steve Stricker, Tiger Woods, Anthony Kim, Brandt Snedeker, Lucas Glover, Vijay Singh, KJ Choi.
It seems Donald, Furyk, Mahan, Stricker, Kuchar and Toms should all be in the mix and I went into this exercise thinking KJ Choi was the man for the title ... but I've come away from this shake-down with one name resounding in my head: Brandt Snedeker.
He's got form at Congressional, he's super accurate off the tee and a great putter.
And for a long-shot I like Bill Haas, simply because he's got a US Open style game.
Snedeker's at $80 on the NZ TAB and Haas is at $60.
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