It was a bad week for the layers as well-backed players won on both the DP World and the PGA Tours.
Having won two of the last three renewals, Jon Rahm began the week as a very warm 3.55/2 favourite to win the Open de España, and after a fast start on Thursday morning, he was matched at odds-on after just nine holes.
The opening round ended with Rahm sitting tied for fourth and just one off the lead. But having been trading at around even money before round two, he lost his way a bit on Friday afternoon and his price drifted all the way out to 6.411/2 following back-to-back bogeys at 10 and 11.
He soon got back on track though. Birdies at 12, 13 and 14 followed the pair of dropped shots and after another birdie at 16, he looked highly likely to close to within a stroke of the lead at halfway when he hit his approach to four feet at the last. He unexpectedly missed the putt and headed into the weekend trailing by two and trading at 2.767/4.
Rahm moved through the gears nicely on Saturday to take up the running and he headed into Sunday's fourth and final round a stroke in front of Min Woo Lee and three clear of the rest, trading at 1.75/7.
Rahm needed to hole a par save from 16 feet at the first following a poor approach from the fairway but that set the tone and he never looked back.
A tap in birdie at the second was followed by three birdies in four from the sixth as he rolled in lengthy putt after lengthy putt and although Lee clung to his coattails admirably (matched at a low of 3.1511/5), the result was never in doubt after this superb approach shot on the par five 14th.
Rahm's 62 on Sunday was the lowest round of the week and he's now won as many Open de España titles as Spanish legend, Seve Ballesteros. The victory moves him up to fifth in the Official World rankings.
Over at the Shriners Children's Open, the pre-event 8.415/2 favourite, Patrick Cantlay, and Korean phenom, Tom Kim, went into the final round tied on -19 with a gap of three back to the remainder.
Cantlay birdied the first and was matched at a low of 1.738/11 but he bogeyed the next and that was the only time he would hold a clear advantage.
Kim assumed control with birdies at four and eight and he momentarily held a three-stroke lead when he birdied the ninth before Cantlay matched his birdie from just inside 10 feet.
Although nobody else ever really looked like winning, it was still a riveting watch. Cantlay birdied 11 and 12 to move back alongside Kim and he again went odds-on but the 20-year-old Korean is as fearless as he is brilliant, and he kicked on again with back-to-back birdies at 13 and 14 to restore his two-shot lead.
Kim was matched at just 1.251/4 with four to play but Cantlay wasn't finished with just yet and birdies at 15 and 16 saw the pair again tied with just two to play.
They matched pars at the tricky 17th before the tournament came to a crashing conclusion on the 72nd hole when, despite ranking number one for Stroked Gained Off the Tee for the week, Cantlay hit an awful drive on the 18th.
A failed attempt to hack it back out to the fairway was followed by a drop for an unplayable ball, a visit to the water with his fourth shot, another drop, an average approach, and a 35-foot putt for a triple-bogey seven! And that was the longest putt he holed all week.
Given how hard Kim and Cantlay had battled all day long it was a flat way for the tournament to finish but having backed the winner before the off at 28.027/1, and having started to feel myself nod off, I wasn't complaining. A protracted playoff wasn't something I was looking forward to.
Kim is the real deal. This is his second PGA Tour win in four starts and he's the first man since Tiger Woods to win twice on the PGA Tour before the age of 21.
He wasn't just the only man to go bogey-free all week, he was also the only player not to drop a shot over the first two days and we won't be seeing odds of around 30.029/1 about him again for some time.
The DP World Tour remains in Spain for the Andalucía Masters, and the PGA Tour is off to Japan for the ZOZO Championship. I'll be back later today or tomorrow with the previews.
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