Find Me A 100 Winner: David Drysdale

Find Me A 100 Winner / Paul Krishnamurty / 30 June 2009 / Leave a Comment

Scotsman's 2009 form is up there with the best and three figure odds at the Open De France should be snapped up, says Paul Krishnamurty.

No tournament in world golf can boast as many recent big-priced winners as the French Open. Of the seven renewals since 2001, home favourite Jean-Francois Remesy's pair of titles in 2004 and 2005 were by far the easiest to pick, and even he was available at a mere [80.0]. Graeme Storm and John Bickerton were at least [150.0], while Pablo Larrazabal, Philip Golding and Malcolm Mackenzie are all amongst the biggest ever shocks on the European Tour, available at around [500.0]. Five were winning their first European Tour title.

A number of players in the [100.0] - [200.0] range took the eye, including the last non-outsider to win a French Open, Jose-Maria Olazabal. At [160.0], the Spanish legend isn't a no-hoper by any means but David Drysdale was ultimately preferred.

Quite simply, at [120.0], Drysdale is a crazy price given his 2009 form. Fourth place in Sunday's BMW International Open was far from his only decent result of late; it was in fact his fifth top-10 of the year. Earlier he'd gone close in third place at the Joburg Open, and gave Soren Kjeldsen a real run for his money when finishing second at the Open de Andalucia.

The rule at this level seems to be that if a player keeps giving himself opportunities of this nature, eventually they'll bag a tournament in their turn. And as we've seen so many times recently, Le Golf National is the perfect venue for those looking for their breakthrough title. Drysdale twice proved he has what it takes to win on the Challenge Tour earlier in his career. Now in his third season with full privileges on the main tour, the 34-year-old Scot's turn may have come at last.