U.S. Open golf
That was a really interesting first day at the U.S. Open golf at Chambers Bay in Washington.
There were lots of complaints by commentators, golfers and traders about the state of the course. It certainly was “challenging”. I figured that a brand-new course may be difficult to trade and that’s exactly what happened. I’ve made a bit of a Horlicks of it and I think I’ll almost certainly face a loss on this tournament. It seems I never really do fantastically well at the U.S. Open. I may have to tone down my aggression next year.
Thankfully with Royal Ascot on this week, any losses will be easily absorbed. I can put this down to a ‘lesson’, ‘an opportunity to learn’. I imagine with some of the rounds that the players had, they will be doing the same. It was nice to see Colin Montgomery strolling around major again. Though his age is almost certainly going to work against him. I don’t have a view on who the winner will be, I was relying upon an outsider coming into contention. But for the first time that I can remember, virtually none have.
I’ll watch the rest of the tournament and see if I can glean any information from it. But while doing that, I’ll be attempting to minimise the loss and lick my wounds. I hope you’re having better luck than I am at this tournament.
Here are some of the stats from the first days play, returns to £10 level stakes:-
Positive movers
Jordan Spieth – 10.5 to 7 : £5.00
Dustin Johnson – 23 to 6.8 : £23.82
Henrik Stenson – 30 to 8 : £27.50
Jason Day – 46 to 16 : £18.75
Patrick Reed – 55 to 15.5 : £25.48
Matt Kuchar – 90 to 28 : £22.14
Francesco Molinari – 110 to 55 : £10.00
Branden Grace – 110 to 70 : £5.71
Jason Dufner – 140 to 55 : £15.45
Shane Lowry – 130 to 80 : £6.25
Tony Finau – 170 to 100 : £7.00
Ben Martin – 280 to 50 : £46.00
Angel Cabrera – 330 to 260 : £2.69
Geoff Ogilvy – 360 to 150 : £14.00
Marc Warren – 310 to 110 : £18.18
Miguel Angel Jimenez – 370 to 230 : £6.09
Kevin Chappell – 260 to 160 : £6.25
Joost Luiten – 320 to 65 : £39.23
Brian Harman – 670 to 360 : £8.61
Thongchai Jaidee – 650 to 550 : £1.82
Daniel Summerhays – 1000 to 660 : £5.15
Colin Montgomerie – 790 to 220 : £25.91
Oliver Schniederjans – 1000 to 600 : £6.67
Charlie Beljan – 1000 to 470 : £11.28
Andres Romero – 1000 to 600 : £6.67
Cody Gribble – 1000 to 500 : £10.00
Brian Campbell – 1000 to 550 : £8.18
(Main) Negative movers : –
Rory McIlroy – 9 to 27 : -£6.67
Phil Mickelson – 19.5 to 22 : -£1.14
Justin Rose – 17.5 to 42 : -£5.83
Rickie Fowler – 26 to 1000 : -£9.74
Hideki Matsuyama – 34 to 60 : -£4.33
Bubba Watson – 46 to 85 : -£4.59
Jim Furyk – 50 to 170 : -£7.06
Jimmy Walker – 50 to 180 : -£7.22
Adam Scott – 46 to 60 : -£2.33
Sergio Garcia – 50 to 80 : -£3.75
Brandt Snedeker – 50 to 55 : -£0.91
Billy Horschel – 55 to 160 : -£6.56
Brooks Koepka – 60 to 400 : -£8.50
Martin Kaymer – 90 to 250 : -£6.40
Paul Casey – 90 to 170 : -£4.71
Ryan Moore – 80 to 510 : -£8.43
Keegan Bradley – 85 to 410 : -£7.93
Tiger Woods – 95 to 1000 : -£9.05
Ian Poulter – 100 to 230 : -£5.65
I know the feeling Mr Woods!
Category: Golf
