Find Me a 100 Winner: In-form Reavie chanced at Vidanta

Steven Rawlings
26 April 2023
4:00 min read

Chez Reavie - fancied to contend again in Mexico

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The DP World Tour is in Korea and the PGA Tour stops off in Mexico. Our man has outsiders to trade at both events...

Find out Ste's 100/1 and 229/1 tips below
Read his Mexico Open preview here
Read his Korea Championship preview here

We haven't got too much history to plough through this week.

The DP World Tour features the inaugural edition of the Korea Championship and although it's been in existence since 1944, the Mexico Open at Vidanta is being staged on the PGA Tour for just the second time. I've picked out one in Korea and two in Mexico...

All in on Alexander

Father Time is finally catching up on the grandfather of German golf, Bernhard Langer. The 65-year-old has won just once on the Champions Tour this year and his appearances are becoming far more sporadic than they were just 12 months ago.

And although only 38, multiple-major winner, Martin Kaymer, has lost his way to such an extent that he's now merely a bit part player on the LIV Golf Tour, where he's yet to have top-ten finish, but German golfers have been thriving on the DP World Tour of late.

Max Kieffer (Czech Masters) and Yannik Paul (Mallorca Golf Open) both won on the DP World Tour for the first time in the second half of 2022 and in the last three months we've seen victories for the 42-year-old veteran, Marcel Siem, who won his fifth DP World Tour event at the Indian Open in February, and for 23-year-old, Nick Bachem, who secured his first win on Tour at the Jonsson Workwear Open last month in South Africa.

The next cab off the rank could very easily be Alexander Knappe, who looks more than ready to take the next step up having won four times on the Challenge Tour.

Matt Cooper makes a strong case for the in-form 34-year-old in his each-way piece, and I was very surprised to see him trade at as high as 120.0119/1 on Monday.

Alexander Knappe.jpg

He's shortened up a bit since but in a tricky event with so little to go on, he looks a very fair price still at 100.099/1.

2pt Alexander Knappe @ 100.099/1
Place order to lay 10u @ 10.09/1 & 10u @ 2.01/1

In-Form Reavie chanced at Vidanta

If the brand-new US Masters winner, defending champ, and world number one, Jon Rahm, plays to his best this week at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, the rest will be playing for second place only but I'm still happy to chance two big outsiders there, starting with the in-form three-time PGA Tour winner, Chez Reavie.

The 41-year-old went 11 years between wins number one and two, but he followed up his win in the Travelers Championship in 2019 with a comprehensive victory in the Barracuda Championship last summer and he's trending nicely towards a third victory in five years.

Reavie arrives in Mexico on the back of a sixth place finish in the Valero Texas Open and an impressive 11th at the RBC Heritage two weeks ago, after he'd sat 92nd after round one.

Reavie finished 13th in last year's inaugural edition at Vidanta Vallarta so he's shown an aptitude for the venue and in what is a weak looking renewal if we take out the defending champ, I couldn't understand why he's trading at more than 100 points higher on the exchange than he does anywhere on the High Street.

With three PGA Tour wins already to his name, as well as two playoff defeats, Reavie knows how to compete at this level and he's far too big at 230.0229/1.

Back 1 u Chez Reavie @ 230.0229/1
Place order to lay 10u @ 10.09/1 & 10u @ 2.01/1

Mexico marvel Martin can contend again

My third and final column pick is Mexico specialist, Martin Trainer, who's in search of his third win in the country on his third different Tour.

Trainer, who finished 11th here 12 months ago, clearly enjoys his trips down south as he won the final edition of the Mazatlán Open on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2016, as well as the Mexico Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2018.

Already a winner on the PGA Tour, having won the Puerto Rico Open in 2019 (an event that's also staged on a paspalum grass track), Trainer is not the forlorn hope is odds suggest.

Martin Trainer at the Zurich Classic 23.jpg

Playing alongside Chad Ramey in Louisiana last week, the 32-year-old finished 11th in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (sat tied seventh with a round to go) and prior to that he'd finished 22nd in the Corales Puntacana Championship so given he'd missed his last three cuts before finishing 11th 12 months ago, an argument could be made that he's in better shape this time around.

Trainer has missed two of his last five cuts but prior to that he'd finished inside the top-20 at the AT&T Pebble Beach, and I thought he was a fair price in the top-10 and top-20 finish markets with the Betfair Sportsbook at industry-best prices of 16/1 and 15/2.

Back 1 u Martin Trainer @ 300.0299/1
Place order to lay 10u @ 10.09/1 & 10u @ 2.01/1
Back 1u Martin Trainer @ 16/1 Top-10 Finish (Sportsbook)
Back 1u Martin Trainer @ 15/2 Top-20 Finish (Sportsbook)

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