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U.S. Open Predictions: Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson? |
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Written by Dave Price
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
 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 Tiger is the favorite at 2 to 1 odds at Sportsbook.com, but will he prevail at Oakmont? Let's take a look.
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. Mickelson has been the U.S. Open runner-up four times with second-place finishes in 1999, 2002, 2004, and 2006.
Although he still collected 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 a 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 Sportsbook.com don’t seem to see this as much of a problem based on his listed odds of 9 to 2. 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 that there is something to this injury.
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Despite injury, I still expect a solid performance from Mickelson but probably 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 since 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.
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Sportsbook.com has posted golf betting odds to win the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont:
Tiger Woods 2-1
Phil Mickelson 9-2
Jim Furyk 15-1
Retief Goosen 25-1
Ernie Els 15-1
Vijay Singh 15-1
Geoff Ogilvy 25-1
Adam Scott 20-1
Luke Donald 30-1
Sergio Garcia 30-1
Henrik Stenson 40-1
Padraig Harrington 30-1
Trevor Immelman 50-1
Paul Casey 75-1
Charles Howell III 75-1
Justin Rose 50-1
David Toms 60-1
Stewart Cink 40-1
Zach Johnson 40-1
Robert Allenby 60-1
Mike Weir 75-1
Davis Love III 75-1
Chris DiMarco 60-1
Tim Clark 75-1
Arron Oberholser 75-1
Colin Montgomerie 100-1
Stuart Appleby 75-1
Chad Campbell 100-1
Stephen Ames 100-1
KJ Choi 60-1
Aaron Baddeley 60-1
Steve Stricker 75-1
David Howell 150-1
Jose Maria Olazabal 60-1
Nick OHern 125-1
Lucas Glover 125-1
Darren Clarke 150-1
Angel Cabrera 100-1
Ian Poulter 125-1
Scott Verplank 75-1
Rory Sabbatini 30-1
Lee Westwood 125-1
Michael Campbell 150-1
Rod Pampling 100-1
Thomas Bjorn 100-1
Brett Wetterich 125-1
Fred Couples 200-1
Carl Pettersson 150-1
Ben Curtis 75-1
Field (Any Other Golfers) 4-1
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 June 2007 )
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