Lucas Herbert 2/1
Joaquin Niemann 10/3
Ryggs Johnston 5/1
Wenyi Ding 6/1
Elvis Smylie 9/1
Marc Leishman 12/1
Oliver Lindell 14/1
Jasper Stubbs 25/1
Curtis Luck 28/1
Harrison Crowe 35/1
Lucas Nemecz 40/1
Daniel Hillier 100/1
Joel Girrbach 100/1
Adrien Saddier 200/1
Jordan Gumberg 200/1
Harry Higgs 250/1
Marco Penge 300/1
Minkyu Kim 400/1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat 600/1
Andrew Kelly 750/1
Daniel Gale 750/1
David Micheluzzi 750/1
Filippo Celli 750/1
Freddy Schott 750/1
Jack Buchanan 750/1
Matthew Millar 750/1
Matthew Southgate 750/1
Nicolai Von Dellingshausen 750/1
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 750/1
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The co-sanctioned European and Australasia Tours now moves to Melbourne and probably the largest contiguous belt of golfing land in metropolitan Melbourne. Only a single road separates Victoria Golf Club from Royal Melbourne and the public course at Sandringham.
Victoria Golf Club was originally design by Oscar Damman & Bill Meader in 1927 with input from none other than Dr Alister MacKenzie. There have been several redesigns since the most recent being undertaken by one of Australia’s top design firms, Ogilvy, Cocking, Clayton & Mead (OCCM).
The recent course enhancements have focused on the restoration of bunkers that had been grassed over and the regeneration of trees and a greens replacement project converting greens that had largely become poa annua grass, which were inconsistent and difficult to manage and ike many greens built back in that era when 7/8 on the stimpmeter were considered fast.
These have now been converted to a new variety of creeping bent grass. The 6th, 11th and 13th greens were so steeply contoured that they needed to be adjusted to allow for a number of pin placements and general playability with the newly laid bent grass.
Victoria GC starts with one of the most unique opening holes in championship golf. A par 4, weighing in at only 255 yards, and then finishes each nine with back-to-back par fives. The course has probably the best collection of par 3s. And look out for the par 4 10th which is a great little dogleg that plays up to an elevated green.
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My tips to Win:
As you can imagine a lot of the players I picked last week I will be sticking with this week and Cameron Smith 7/1 with UniBet is the first of those. As I stated last week Cam has had three runner-up finishes on the Liv Tour and he followed those up with another runner-up finish at the Australian PGA last weekend. Smith hasnt won his national Open title yet and will be looking to put that right this weekend
Someone who has won his national Open title is Cameron Davis 16/1 with UniBet who won this event back in 2017. And after firing all three rounds in the 60s at last weeks Australian PGA Championship he will arrive here this week in confident mood
Another Top 10 finish by Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 22/1 with Bet365 at last weekends Australian PGA Championship should see him arrive in Melbourne aiming for his first European Tour win. I feel once Rasmus has won his first title he will become a multiple winner very quickly
Each-way tips
I am also going to stick with David Micheluzzi 28/1 with UniBet and I am sure his Top 5 finish at the weekend over the Royal Queensland course is only going to enhance Davids belief that he will be lifting one of the major Australian titles very soon. He will have a lot of found memories of his opening round 63 here two years ago
A win, two runner-up and three Top 6 finishes from his last ten starts shows that Angel Ayora 35/1 with Bet365 golf game is in great shape coming into this week. Nine of those starts were on the European Challenge tour, with his last two being runner-up finishes one in the Rolex Grand Final. Angel has taken that form into his first full European Tour event last week with his six-place finish at the Australian PGA, and I expect him to be in the thick of it again come Sunday
Outside tip:
After a standout amateur career Jack Buchanan 200/1 with UniBet played seven events as an amateur on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australaisa and won his first professional event this year and followed that up two weeks laster with another win. I am sure Jack will have been disappointed with his final round 76 at the weekends Australian PGA, that see him plummet out of the Top 10 and down the leaderboard. If he is in the same position this week I dont think he will repeat those mistakes again
