FREE GOLF BETTING TIPS

Rory McIlroy
TaylorMade

Matthew Fitzpatrick
Titleist

Tommy Fleetwood
Asian Tour

Dean Burmester
James Kennedy

Nicolai Hojgaard
@NicolaiHojgaardGolf

This was the first Greg Norman designed track in Dubai along with sister course Fire at the Jumeirah Golf Estates which the Golf in Dubai Championship was played on last week. The Earth course is a very open layout with generous fairways and large sloping greens, so position is all-important.

Talk about bringing coals to Newcastle, or Sand to Dubai, which is exactly what has happened here. The bleached white sand in the fairway waste areas and bunkers was imported from North Carolina. There really isn’t too much rough to worry about, but the players will have tricky recovery shots off the red wood chips if they do manage to miss these wide fairways.

The most challenging hole is the final hole, with its rock-lined stream meandering up the middle of its 620-yard fairway. The hole gently climbs to the huge and undulating green, a fitting crescendo to this 7706 yards track.

Jumeirah Golf Estates have overseeded the tees, fairways and rough on the Earth course with ryegrass, offering greater contrast and definition to the brilliant white bunkers and barkmulched landscape areas. The course will prove to be a tougher test this year for the players than in 2009 and 2010, with more of a premium being placed on finding the fairways with tee shots.




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My tips to Win:

No surprise the bookies have installed Rory McIlroy 6/1 – UniBet – as the favourite this week after his win at The CJ Cup, which followed on from his win at the Wells Fargo back in May and a couple of Top 5 finishes on the PGA Tour. Rory has won this event twice and has a runner-up and four other Top 5 finishes and he will certainly be the man to beat this week.

This weeks defending champion is Matt Fitzpatrick 16/1 – with UniBet – who also comes into this week on the back of a win at the Andalucia Masters played over a tough Valderrama track. Matt has won twice here and had a Top 5 finish in his first ever start over the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates and he will certainly be in the thick of it again come Sunday.

I am going to stick with Tommy Fleetwood 20/1 – with UniBet – this week after his rollercoaster showing over the Fire Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates for the Dubai Championship where he finished in the Top 15, but won’t have been happy with his final round 70. But you could see that his game is close to being back to its best and being back on the Earth course where he has had a runner-up finish and two Top 10s, I feel he will be in one of the final pairings come Sunday

Each-way tips:

After getting off to a good start at the Dubai Championship South African Dean Burmester 50/1 – with UniBet – slowly drifted out of contention and while he was under par for all four rounds that was never going to be enough over the Fire Course. Dean has a solid record at the World Tour Championship having played in the event three times he had two Top 5s in his first two starts here and last year had a Top 15 after getting off to a bad start. Dean comes into this week in good form after winning his second European Tour title earlier in the year and will fancy his chances this week.

A runner-up at the Portugal Masters should see Nicolai Hojgaard 70/1 – with UniBet – come into this week in confident mood, especially after picking up his first European Tour title back in September at the Italian Open. This will be the first time that Nicolai has teed it up here, but the combination of his current form and these odds I think he is definitely worth a small wager this week.



As always good luck