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Four longshots chanced across two events at between 129/1130.00 and 799/1800.00
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The first event of the 2025 DP World Tour season - the co-sanctioned Australian PGA championship - tends to go to a well-fancied Australian so I didn't expect to have any longshot selections in the event, but one player has drifted to such an extent that I couldn't leave him out...
Big hitting South African, Robin Williams, is generally a 50/151.00 chance on the High Street and given his recent form, that looks about right, so I was more than happy to back him at far more than twice that price.
The 23-year-old has current form figures across the Challenge Tour, DP World Tour and Sunshine Tours reading 12-6-4-65-1-16 with the two big highlights being a top-four finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and his successful defence of the Fortress Invitational in his homeland a month ago, where he beat the experienced Daniel van Tonder by three strokes.
Back Robin Williams (2Us)
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
As highlighted in the preview, the RSM Classic has been a decent event for longshots over the years so I've got three there, starting with the shortest priced of the trio, K.H Lee.
Sitting at 101 in the FedEx Cup standings, the 33-year-old Korean, K.H Lee, has no concerns about losing his card so he can play with freedom and there are reasons to think he'll play well here too.
Since finishing down the field at the ZOZO Championship in Japan, Lee has missed both of his last two cuts, at the World Wide Technology and the Bermuda Championship last week, but his fifth place finish at the Shriners Children's Open as recently as last month and his fifth place here in 2019, suggest he could go well this week.
Lee finished seventh at the Cognizant Classic (formerly the Honda Classic) in 2019 and he was fourth there this year too and that event correlates very nicely with this one.
If the putter warms up, Lee enjoys a low scoring event, as his back-to-back wins in the Byron Nelson demonstrated in 2021 and '22.
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
This year's Mexico Open winner, Jake Knapp, is an intriguing entrant given his victory there ensures his playing privileges for the next two years and that we haven't seen him since the St Jude Championship way back in August.
I can only assume the 30-year-old Californian fancies his chances in the event and given he was alongside Lee in a tie for fourth at the Cognizant Classic in March, that makes sense.
This is Knapp's first appearance at Sea Island but the link with the Cognizant is a strong one and there's every reason to think he'll fare well if he's well prepared.
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
China's Carl Yuan is in a precarious position at 134 in the Standings but there are reasons to think he can safe himself in the last event of the Fall Series.
Yuan has missed five of his last seen cuts, but he finished 11th in the Black Desert Championship last month and he shot 64 in round three last week before finishing 29th in Bermuda.
His event form figures, reading MC-39-68, can't be described as brilliant but his best result of the year to date was his fourth placed finish in the Sony Open back in January and that's another tournament that correlates very nicely with this one.
He's clearly a highly speculative punt but his price reflects that.
Place order to lay 8 Us @ 10.09/1 and 12 Us @ 2.01/1
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