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Karen Country Club will host this week's DP World Tour event - the Kenya Open - for only the third time since the tournament was elevated from the HotelPlanner Tour in 2019, but both the previous winners went off at a big price.

Guido Migliozzi won the 2019 edition having gone off at 150.0149/1 and the 2021 champ, Justin Harding, was a 60.059/1 chance, despite finishing tied second behind Migliozzi two years earlier.

Harding clearly loves it here as a week after he'd won this event in 2021, he led the once only staged Kenya Savannah Classic by three with a round to go before he ran out of steam on Sunday to finish 14^th but so infrequently and poorly is the 40-year-old playing that he's been matched at as high as 990.0989/1!

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Kenya Open bet #1 - David Micheluzzi @ 200.0199/1

David Micheluzzi qualified for the DP World Tour after winning the PGA Tour of Australasia in 2023 thanks to three victories in his homeland and he began life on the new Tour nicely.

He led the Singapore Classic with 18 holes to play in March 2024 (finished seventh) and he finished runner-up in the BMW International Open at the tree-lined Golfclub München Eichenried just outside Munich in July.

A fifth in the opening event of last season, the Australian PGA Championship in November 2024, and an eighth place finish in the Dubai Desert Classic in January 2025  suggested at a successful second season on Tour but the 29-year-old was disappointing after that, eventually needing to make the cut at the final full field event of the season - the Genesis Championship in Korea.

It's not unusual to see someone struggle in their second season but he hinted at a return to form last time out in Qatar and a better year could be on the cards.

Micheluzzi finished tied for ninth in the Qatar Masters two weeks ago, ranking seventh for Driving Accuracy, ninth for Scrambling and first for Putting Average.

That was his best finish since his eighth in Dubai last January and the combination of those encouraging stats last time out and his second-place finish in Germany, suggest he should take to this venue on debut.

Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1

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Kenya Open bet #2 - Joe Dean @ 260.0259/1

Sheffield's Joe Dean, who plays a lot of his golf at home at tree-lined Hillsborough Golf Club, first caught the eye when he finished second in this event at Muthaiga two years ago.

He followed that a month later with a fifth-place finish at another tree-lined track, Rinkven in Belgium, and he also finished second in the KLM Open, beaten in extra time by the 2019 Karen winner, Migliozzi, as well as third in the Open de Espana at yet another course framed by trees - Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.

So well did Dean perform in that first season on Tour that he made it all the way to the DP World Championship in Dubai but he struggled a bit last year, with a fifth in the Ras Al Khaimah Championship and a second place finish in the NEXO Championship his only top 10 finishes.

Dean has started 2026 with two missed cuts sandwiching a 34^th place in Bahrain so he can't be described as in form but this venue is ideal for him should I find a spark and he looks worth chancing at odds in excess of 200/1201.00.

Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1

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Kenya Open bet #3 - Justin Harding @ 460.0459/1

The aforementioned course specialist, Justin Harding, missed the cut at the Qatar Masters two weeks ago.

That's his only start since September last year when he finished 22^nd at the Open de France, so it's highly likely that he'll struggle here too but there are three reasons to think he's worth chancing modestly.

His course form is the obvious reason but in addition to that, the fact that he followed up a 79 on Thursday with a much improved 70 in round two in Qatar is mildly encouraging and I do like a significant birthday.

Harding turned 40 a day after he shot the 70 at Doha and that may have a positive effect. There are plenty of examples of players finding something extra following a big birthday so I've thrown a few pounds at the South African.

Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1

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Genesis Invitational bet - Brian Harman @ 320.0319/1

As highlighted in the preview, this week's PGA Tour event - the Genesis Invitational has seen it's fair share of long-shot winners over the years, but I struggled to find more than one selection.

I liked Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley and the former two-time winner, Adam Scott but all three are trading at just short of triple-figures so my only pick here is the 2023 Open Champion, Brian Harman.

As highlighted in the preview, major winners perform well at Riviera with US Masters victors playing particularly well.

Harman has never won at Augusta, but he did sit second at halfway (finished 12th) when a column selection back in 2021 and he has a bit of course form to boot too.

Harman finished third at Riviera on only his second visit in 2014.

Harman has been lightly raced after a largely successful 2025, which saw him make it all the way to East Lake where he finished 13^th at the Tour Championship, but he played nicely enough last week, finishing 19^th in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

His 2025 highlights included his fourth PGA Tour win, at the Texas Open in April, a third in the RBC Heritage and top 10 finishes in the Travelers Championship and the Open, so I was quite surprised to see him trade at as high as 400.0399/1. here.

He's shortened up a bit now but he's still a very fair price at more than 300/1301.00 given his pedigree and he's my sole selection Stateside.

Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1

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