Find Me A 100 Winner / Paul Krishnamurty / 26 August 2008 /

Wind and rain? This Scotsman loves bad weather so three-figure price is a tempter for Paul Krishnamurty as his attempt to find a winner at [100.0] or more continue.

There's no doubt in my mind about which of this week's two events is more likely to produce a shock winner. Whereas four of the five previous Deutsche Bank Championship winners were amongst the favourites, exactly the reverse trend applies to the Johnnie Walker Championship. Since 2002, Soren Kjeldsen, Miles Tunnicliff, Emanuelle Canonica and Marc Warren all started at massive odds when winning at Gleneagles.

I'm hoping that Stephen Gallacher can thrive with home advantage. The Scotsman has made the top-10 three times previously at Gleneagles, and generally tends to go well in Scotland. His career highlight came when winning the Dunhill Links at St Andrews and only last month he finished sixth at Loch Lomond. That effort, plus eighth the previous week, provide the necessary confirmation that despite the big odds of [130.0], Gallacher has produced some good form recently.

As those three previous Gleneagles top-10s show, Gallacher has the skills to cope with this tough course. In previous events here, the three most important statistics were driving distance, greens in regulation and scrambling. Unsurprisingly for an outsider, he's not outstanding in any area but does rate in the top-45 in each discipline over the last three months. Very few rank better using an aggregate across the three stats over the same period.

Of equal importance around this very exposed course is being able to cope with windy conditions. Bad weather generally seems to bring out the best in Gallacher, which goes someway to explaining that good record in Scotland.

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