Golf Tips: Best bets for Alfred Dunhill Championship and Grant Thornton Invitational

• Steve Rawlings previews and will provide weekend in-play blog

• Dave Tindall's recommends each-way tips for Grant Thornton

• Check out Steve's outsiders to back at 100/1 and bigger 

• Andy Swales brings course info and form players

Alfred Dunhill Championship tips and predictions

The Punter's Preview: Von Tonder backed at 25/1 and 74/1

Steve Rawlings: Dean Burmester, who has won twice on the LIV circuit since moving to the rebel tour two years ago, finished runner-up to Rhys Enoch in the 54-hole Kit Kat Group Pro Am in 2021. But he probably should have won given he opened up with a seven-under-par 65 to tie the lead and signed off with a 66. Burmester was beaten by two strokes and that's how many over par his second round 74 was.

The 36-year-old has already won 11 Sunshine Tour events and he won the third and fourth of his four DP World Tour events almost exactly two years ago, just before he made the lucrative move to LIV. He missed the cut at the South African PGA Championship two weeks ago but that was just one week after he'd finished third in the Saudi International, after being tied for the lead with 18 to play.

After a couple of weeks off in his homeland, I suspect he'll find the form that saw him contend on the Asian Tour three weeks ago and I thought he was fairly priced at around 25/1.

First Round Leader Tips: Zander can enjoy home comforts

Dave Tindall:  After his win by a ludicrous 14-shot margin at DP World Tour Q-School last month, I can't leave Zander Lombard out of the staking plan. The South African shot 37-under, with nearest challengers Connor McKinney, Shubhankar Sharma and Aaron Cockerill back on 23-under.

Lombard was out of the gates fast with a 64 to lie second after 18 holes of the six-round event and seven starts ago he was a first-round leader at the Sunshine Tour's Vodacom Origins Devonvale in September.

Not surprisingly after that massively impressive but gruelling six days in Spain, he missed the cut at the Vodacom Origins Final on his return home. But a week later, when he'd taken stock, Zombard finished seventh in the South African PGA Championship, improving his position each day.

He's a former runner-up at Royal Johannesburg (East) so there's plenty to like at 55/156.00.

Find Me a 100 Winner: Backing Fichardt makes sense at 200/1 

Steve Rawlings: Since turning 50 in May, Darren Fichardt has been dividing his time between the DP World Tour and the European Legends Tour, and he's been competitive on both circuits.

His top five finish at the DP World Tour's Flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, has to be considered his best performance of the year but he has two runners-up finishes and a first on the senior circuit and he's been bang in-form very recently, winning the Legends Championship in Cambodia two weeks ago before finishing second at the Mauritius Legends event last week.

It's now eight years since Fichardt won on the DP World Tour but it was in the Joburg Open at this venue so with both course and current form to boast, he makes for a very straightforward selection at 200.0 given he's no bigger that 125/1 on the High Street.

Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.0 and 12 Us @ 2.0

Alfred Dunhill Championship 2025: Form stats

Form Pick:

Bezuidenhout finished fourth at last week's Nedbank Challenge in Sun City - his eighth top 12 finish at a tournament in Africa over the past half-decade - and he is the favourite on the Betfair Sportsbook for this week's event. Of the players in this week's field, he sits fifth for points accumulated in the last six months. 

Grant Thornton Invitational tips and predictions

Dave Tindall's Preview:  Clark & Thompson the headline pick

Dave Tindall:  My headline tip is the duo of Wyndham Clark and Lexi Thompson, both major winners of course.

Clark admitted his 2025 was one to forget but said this at last week's Hero Wold Challenge when asked how the offseason had been treating him.

"Honestly, really good. Coming off a really poor year and I've worked really hard. The nice thing is kind of like the last two, three weeks I've started to see some improvement, so I'm excited about that."

He finished tied eighth in the 20-man Hero field, ranking 7th for SG: Putting and holing more feet of putts made than anyone.

Two seasons ago in Florida he had finishes of 5-2-2 across the Valspar, Arnold Palmer and Players Championship so Clark has had some good times in the Sunshine State. Another little plus is a third place in the Zurich Classic pairs event alongside Beau Hossler in 2023.

Thompson is a Florida native with a win at Tiburon, the regular host of the Tour Championship. In fact, from 2017 to 2021 her finishes in that event were 2-1-6-5-8. A couple of weeks ago she finished 19th in this year's edition, showing her prowess on the Bermuda greens by ranking 8th for SG: Putting. 

She's played this event twice, finishing sixth in 2023 and 14th last year (both with Rickie Fowler), but note that Thompson finished runner-up at the Dow Championship back in late June. The significance of that? It's the pairs event on the LPGA Tour and she was also eighth in 2024.

Add in a winning record across her six Solheim Cup appearances and Thompson should be a strong partner. Back them at 14/115.00 with each-way terms of 1/5 Odds, 4 Places.

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