Steve Rawlings' Long Odds Golf Tips: Four to back at big prices in Korea and Bermuda

Four outsider picks from Steve at odds ranging from 139/1140.00 to 439/1440.00

As many as five of the first seven renewals of the Bermuda Championship have gone the way of a big outsider with the five long-shot winners' pre-event odds ranging from 150.0149/1 to 600.0599/1 on the Betfair Exchange so that's been a cracking event for long-shots.

I've got a couple of picks in that event, and I could very easily have had more, but I'll start with my two picks in the second edition Genesis Championship on the DP World Tour, which was won last year by pre-event 1000.0999/1 chance, Junghwan Lee.

Genesis Championship Bet 1 - Back Shaun Norris @ 180.0179/1

The prolific South African, Shaun Norris, is a bit of an Asian golf specialist.

He's won twice on the DP World Tour, and as recently as December 2024, and twice more on the Sunshine Tour but the majority of his victories have come on the Japan and Asian Tours.

He won the Mizuno Open in Japan as recently as the end of May but his penultimate victory came in Korea, in the Hana Bank Invitational in June last year.

He missed the cut in this event last year and he hasn't been at his best since finishing seventh in the Nexo Championship in August but as a vastly experienced globetrotter, he'll be better equipped than most of the DP World Tour players this week.

Generally an 80/181.00 shot on the High Street, I was more than happy to chance the 44-year-old at 100 ticks bigger on the Betfair Exchange.

Genesis Championship Bet 2 - Jeunghun Wang @ 240.0239/1

The defending champ, Junghwan Lee, is a tempting price at around 350/1351.00 on the Betfair Exchange but for my second bet I'm plumping for the 31-year-old Korean, Jeunghun Wang.

Wang was something of a sensation on the DP World Tour a decade ago, winning the Trophee Hassan II, the Mauritius Open and the Qatar Masters all within the space of nine months.

Wang's career stalled quite badly after that remarkable little run, due largely to missing around three years of competitive golf because of the Covid outbreak and his mandatory military service but he's shown significant signs of life of late, winning the KJ Choi Invitational by three strokes at the start of the month, a week after finishing third in the Taiwan Masters.

Since that victory in his homeland, he's put in a couple of disappointing efforts, but it would be no surprise to see him bounce back here.

He won his first two DP World Tour titles in the space of a month and in his only two previous appearances at this week's venue, in the Korea Open in 20013 and 2024, he finished third on both occasions.

Bermuda Championship Bet 1 - Back Lucas Glover @ 150.0149/1

As highlighted in the preview, being outside the top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings has been something of a plus in this this week's PGA Tour event - the Bermuda Championship.

With their playing privileges on the line, those outside the top 100 have raised their games significantly so both my picks need a strong week to gain enough points to retain their playing rights.

I've also been keeping an eye on the weather forecast all week as the draw is very often a big factor here and it had looked like we were set for a really blowy week up, with a high probability of a significant draw bias over the first two days.

That no longer seems to be the case now but the forecast for the weekend looks worse and for Sunday it looks horrendous with winds so strong that a suspension in play can't be ruled out.

With that in mind, I'm happy to chance a couple of experienced multiple winners that can both handle blustery conditions, starting with man in 108^th place in the FedEx Cup standings - Lucas Glover.

It's now 17 years since the 46-year-old won the US Open, the second of his six PGA Tour titles, but he won back-to-back events as recently as two years ago and this looks like a reasonable opportunity for him to add a seventh.

He hasn't shown much since finishing fifth in the ISCO Championship in July, a week after he finished third at the John Deere Classic, an event he won in 2021, and he has only ordinary course form figures reading 63-45-42, but this is definitely somewhere that suits his eye given he sat fifth with 18 to play on his last appearance two years ago.

He's shown on numerous occasions that he can handle windy conditions and he's just the type to be hanging around when the going gets tough on Sunday.

Bermuda Championship Bet 2 - Back Patton Kizzire @ 440.0439/1

Sitting at 164^th in the FedEx Cup standings, Patton Kizzire needs to improve on anything he's shown yet this year if he's to keep his card but there are plenty of reasons to think the 40-year-old can deliver the goods when needs must.

Kizzire won the third of his three PGA Tour titles easily by five strokes at the now defunct Procore Championship when a 300/1301.00 chance two years ago, after two missed cuts in-a-row, so he's shown he can find form from seemingly nowhere and his form isn't that bad here.

He's made the weekend on each of his last three starts and his first two PGA Tour victories, at the World Wide Technologies Championship in 2017 and the Sony Open in 2018, came at venues that correlate very nicely with this week's.

This only Kizzire's second visit to Port Royal and he only finished 37^th on debut three years ago but with rounds of 69, 66 and 66, he sat 18^th with 18 to play and he's another that will cope better with blustery conditions than most in the field.

As always, I'll be looking to trade any of the picks in-running if their odds hit single figure prices on the Betfair Exchange and I'll be taking plenty of profit should they trade at odds-on.