Find Me a 100 Winner: St. Georges perfect for Poston

Steven Rawlings
08 June 2022
4 min read

J.T Poston in action at the recent Wells Fargo Championship

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Tight, tree-lined tests greet the players on both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour this week and our man's here with an outside selection in each event...

"J.T Poston, who won the Wyndham Championship in 2019, and who has form figures at Harbour Town reading 6-8-MC-3, looks a great fit."

As highlighted in the preview, the tournament favourite, Alex Noren, looks a fair price to win the Scandinavian Mixed but I'm happy to take a chance on the 31-year-old Dutchman, Daan Huizing...

In-form Daan a dandy bet in Sweden

Having began the final round of last week's Porsche European Open trailing by four in a tie for seventh place, Huizing started nicely and he was matched at a low of 6.05/1 when he made the turn tied for the lead.

Huizing would have traded at a little shorter if he hadn't been denied a birdie three at the tenth when his attempt horseshoed around the hole but that was as good as it got for the Dutchman.

How much of a bearing the 360° putt at ten had on his next hole we'll never know but his chance was gone after a poor drive at the par five 11th was followed by a hack into the water and a triple-bogey eight went down on the card.

Having ranked first for Greens In Regulation and eight for Strokes Gained Tee to Green in Germany, Huizing will contend again here if he maintains that form and having only married his wife, Daniëlle, in April, their new partnership on the course is already paying dividends. Last week was only the third time the newly-weds had combined on the course since they tied the knot.

The course looks perfect for his game, he's clearly in a happy place and he's already won an event of this nature.

In addition to his three Challenge Tour victories, Huizing also won the Jordan Mixed Open in 2019 - an event made up of 40 players from the Challenge Tour, the European Tour and the Ladies European Tour.

2 pts Daan Huizing @ 140.0139/1
Place order to lay 10u @ 10.09/1 & 10u @ 2.01/1

St. Georges perfect for Poston

As highlighted in the preview, the Canadian Open is returning to St. Georges in Toronto for the first time in 12 years so we don't have much to go on.

What we do know is that St. Georges is a wonderful tree-lined track and that form at a couple of correlating courses came to the fore 12 years ago.

The winner in 2010, Carl Petterrsson, won the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield two years before he won around St. Georges and two years later he won The Heritage at Harbour Town and the placed golfers boosted those correlations too.

Luke Donald, who finished third at St. Georges was the runner-up at Sedgefield in 2016 and he's finished second at Harbour Town five times and both Tim Clark and Matt Kuchar, who finished tied for fourth here have form at Sedgefield and Harbour Town.

Kuchar was only 29th on his sole appearance in the Wyndham in August last year but he has a first, second and third to his name at Harbour Town and Clark has finished sixth and second at Sedgefield and seventh at Harbour Town.

With that in mind, J.T Poston, who won the Wyndham Championship in 2019, and who has form figures at Harbour Town reading 6-8-MC-3, looks a great fit.

Poston has missed a few cuts since his third place at Harbour Town in April but he's also finished inside the top-ten at the Wells Fargo Championship and his 37th last week in the Memorial Tournament was a decent enough effort given he opened the event with a 78 in round one.

Others I considered included Wyndham winner, Jim Herman, and Martin Trainer, who both looked too big at 1000.0, and I came close to including the recent Texas Open winner J.J Spaun.

This track looks like a good fit for Spaun but he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Challenge a fortnight ago due to a bad back and he's been well supported already so I'll just stick with Poston.

2 pt J.T Poston @ 170.0169/1
Place order to lay 10u @ 10.09/1 & 10u @ 2.01/1

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