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Telecom Italian Open - PREVIEW

Francesco and Edouardo Molinari will attempt to earn their place in the record books at the Telecom Italian Open this week by attempting to become only the third pair of brothers to win on the European Tour.

The Molinaris will join an illustrious list if they are successful with Ignacio and German Garrido and Severiano and Manuel Ballesteros the only brothers to have achieved the feat to date.

Francesco claimed his maiden Tour victory with a four-shot win at last year's Italian Open to become the first home player to win the event since Massimo Mannelli in 1980.

And Edouardo is aiming to follow in his footsteps and record a memorable family double at the Castello di Tolcinasco Golf Club - and in the process win the first tournament he has competed in as a professional.

Francesco can be backed at 30 to become the first player in 60 years to defend the Italian Open crown with his elder brother available at 85 to win.

Charl Schwartzel is the market leader at 14 to record back-to-back wins after his success in Spain last week with Welshman Bradley Dredge trading at four points longer to triumph and Raphael Jacquelin available at 22.

England's Nick Dougherty can be backed at 24 to claim his first win in two seasons, three points ahead of Anders Hansen, while the man who was narrowly beaten by Schwartzel last week, India's Jyoti Randhawa, available at 38 to win together with Martin Kaymer.

Castello di Tolcinasco's mixture of right-to-left doglegs and fast greens was very much to Francesco Molinari's liking last year as he posted a record-winning score of 23-under-par on the predominantly flat lay-out and low scoring looks likely again this week.

Francesco has already managed three top-10 finishes this season and, with the support of the home crowd behind him, the 24-year-old will fancy his chances of figuring in the finish again. He is trading at 8 to place in the first five on 7,283-yard course.

But it would be no surprise to his 26-year-old brother upstaging him in his first tournament as a professional with the form he has been showing this season.

Edouardo has enjoyed considerable success as an amateur this year with two victories carrying him to the top of the Challenge Tour standings and he has continued that form in the events he has played on the main tour in 2007.

He gave a demonstration of his talent in shooting seven-under for nine holes at this season's South Airways Open and looks good value at 9.6 to finish in the first five and 4.6 to place in the top ten.

Schwartzel's win in Spain last week moved him up 12 places to sixth in this season's Order of Merit table and the South African is wasting no time in stamping his mark on the game.

The 22-year-old has finished in the top five three times already this season and, with Ernie Els' former caddie Ricci Roberts carrying his bag, he has the ideal man guiding him in the right direction and is 3.85 to do so for a fourth time this week.

Dredge has made something of a name for himself in recent years for winning tournaments by large distances and, with the emphasis on making birdies and holing putts this week, conditions may be in his favour again.

The Welshman, who was joint sixth in 2006, is 4.8 to place in the first five while he could be worth following in the match betting against Schwartz - depending on how he starts this week.

Jacquelin is enjoying a tremendous year to date and his victory at the BMW Asian Open looks to have given him the confidence to step up and challenge for a place in Europe's top ten players.

He is a man to be respected this week with four top-10 finishes already in 2007 and is trading at 5.9 to place in the first five in Italy.

Hansen was tied with Jarmo Sandelin as Molinari's closest pursuer last year and could go well again, while Soren Kjeldsen, 44 to win and 8.8 to finish in the top five, was a stroke behind him in fourth and has started the season in consistent fashion.

Austrian Markus Brier, the victor at the Volvo China Open three weeks ago, looks attractively priced at 48 to win - two points shorter than Ryder Cup star, Paul McKinley - and Spain's Carlos Rodiles is another person in form after his third place in Madrid last week.

The 2006 Ryder Cup captain, Tom Lehman, will be in action this week and is trading at 70 to win and 5.6 to come in the top 10, while the likes of Tom Whitehouse and Oliver Fisher could go well at appealing odds of 110 and 140 to win and 15.5 and 21 to finish in the first five.