Find Me a 100 Winner: Three long-shots chanced at between 99/1 and 489/1

Given the first two in the market at last week's inaugural Cadillac Championship, Scottie Scheffler and Cam Young, filled the first two places, with the latter coming out on top, I was right to swerve the event in favour of two picks in the DP World Tour event in Turkey, where it was a case of close but no cigar.

My 140.0139/1 pick, Daius Van Driel, finished tied for fourth, but he came from off the pace on Sunday and the shortest he traded at was 25.024/1. My 160.0159/1 pick, Guido Migliozzi, finished tied for second.

The Italian just couldn't get enough putts to drop over the weekend, and he ended up losing out by a couple of strokes, but he was right in the thick of it over the last two days and he was matched at a low of 5.04/1.

On to this week, and it's a busy one with two events on the PGA Tour and one on the DP World Tour. I've picked out one outsider in each event, and I'll start with the main attraction - the Truist Championship - where I've backed Justin Rose at 100.099/1

Truist Championship bet - Justin Rose @ 100.099/1

It wasn't surprising to see Justin Rose finish down the field at last week's Cadillac Championship, given it was his first start since his latest near miss at Augusta.

The veteran Englishman hit a low of 2.427/5 when he led by two at the turn on Sunday in the US Masters before back-to-back bogeys at 11 and 12 and a three-putt par at the par five 13^th derailed his charge.

It was a disappointing finish just 12 months after he'd been beaten by Rory McIlroy in a playoff and that was his second lost at Augusta in extra-time after he'd also been beaten by Sergio Garcia in 2017.

A disappointing finish like that takes time to process, no matter how experienced a player is, so last week's poor performance wasn't unexpected. He did at least finish the week nicely with a bogey-free four-under par 68 on Sunday.

As a course winner at next week's US PGA Championship venue, Aronimink, Rose is quite well fancied to win his second major, currently trading at 50.049/1 on the Betfair Exchange, but he's a nice price to peak to early here at Quail Hollow, a course that he's also played well previously.

Rose missed the cut in the US PGA Championship here 12 months, as he did when it was the venue for that major in 2017, but in his last five starts at Quail hollow in this event, when the set-up isn't quite as severe, he's put up course numbers reading 28-5-3-3-52.

Already a victor on the PGA Tour this season, having comfortably won the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in February, Rose has been overlooked a bit here. I'm happy to play him at a triple-figure price.

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

Catalunya Championship bet - Adri Arnaus @ 430.0429/1

This week's DP World Tour event - the Catalunya Championship - is described as a brand-new event on the DP World Tour website but an event with the same name replaced the cancelled China Open back in 2021 and it was won by Spain's Adri Arnaus after a lengthy playoff around the Stadium Course at the PGA Catalunya Resort.

That remains the gifted 31-year-old's sole success on the DP World Tour, although he's been beaten in playoffs at the MyGolfLife Open in South Africa and at the Open de Espana in 2021. And he's finished second in his homeland on two other occasions too.

Arnaus finished second on the Alps Tour in Spain way back in 2017 and was second to Christiaan Bezuidenhout in the Andalucía Masters at Valderrama.

Arnaus hasn't shown much of late, but the Spanish have a great record in Spain, and he clearly loves playing at home, so in an event with little to go on at a venue not used on the DP World Tour since 2015, he's a sporting long-shot at a huge price.

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

Myrtle Beach Classic bet - Harry Higgs @ 490.0489/1

I really wanted to back Garrick Higgo in the PGA Tour's opposite field event - the Myrtle Beach Classic - but the South African has always telegraphed his victories and he's just too badly out of form to side with. Instead, I'm playing one of last year's beaten playoff protagonists, Harry Higgs, at a silly price.

The 34-year-old is yet to win on the PGA Tour but last year's second place was his third runners-up finish and he's a three-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour.

He also finished fourth in the 2021 US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. A course not too dissimilar to this week's venue, the Dunes Golf and Beach Club and also in South Carolina.

Higgs isn't in great form, but he finished second 12 months ago after a run of three straight missed cuts and he'll be very happy to have got in as an alternate following the withdrawal of William Mouw.

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

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