Summary: Bets 5, Wins 2, Losses 3. Profit 1.75 Pts Things went our way in R5 to make a small profit on this tour but it will take a few good weeks to recover the European results. Looking forward to the challenge.

Pre Round One Trades

Buy Phil Mickelson FP at 17 with Spreadex for 0.5 Pts M/U 6, Loss 5.5 Pts
Buying Mickelson at the Hope in the 5 years he has played would result in 5 losses, averaging around 9 pts lost per bet, so why buy him this week. Basically, with all the advantages buying brings, increased M/U's for ties, automatic 50 M/Us for DQ's or WD's and you really have to wonder if anyone (bar Woods) should be as low as 17 in a 130 odd man field in their first serious golf for 3 months, which of course hasn't affected him in the past. There are enough question marks to suggest 17 is worth trading at. His average position is a full 7 points higher on this tour and he misses more than 1 in 8 cuts so with an acceptance that this bet is odds on to lose, it has a far greater upside than down. Looking at the quote from Sporting Index though doesn't suggest there is any advantage trading there for the bigger financial carrot dangled.

Pre Round Two Trades

Buy Ben Crane at 27 with IG Sport for 0.5 Pts. M/U 32, Profit 2.5 Pts

Buy Pat Perez at 16 with IG Sport for 0.5 Pts M/U 50, Profit 17 Pts

Crane played La Quinta yesterday and the leader, Perez, played PGA west. The course averages showed that playing the host course was half a stroke harder than La Quinta and a full stroke harder than PGA West. When you put this into the mix and study the leaderboard, Crane and Perez are arguably both 3 points too low at the quotes offered. Perez obviously has a good cushion from R1 but he still has 72 holes to play from here on in.