CHAD CAN CLAIM VIKING VICTORY

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After seeing the pretty weak line-up, I was expecting to see disappointingly low quotes of 14/1 about Chad Campbell in this week's Viking Classic.
After all, he won the last time he teed it up here in 2007 and his two previous visits to the Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Mississippi saw him finish fourth and second.
Add in his recent play-off loss in Vegas and the Texan brings current form to the table too.
So the 20/1 about him this week has definitely got my attention.
After recent rain, tournament director Randy Watkins reckons the winning score this year will be "closer to 13 (under), where Chad won it" so Campbell should be right in his comfort zone.
And although he had a great record anyway, perhaps it's no coincidence that his win here came in the first year after the greens were changed from Bentgrass to Campbell's favoured Bermuda.
He wasn't here to defend last year so he's 1 for 1 on the new Annandale greens and there's absolutely no reason why he won't be right in the thick of contention again.
Ninth in greens in regulation in 2009, his irons are really dialled in at the moment and he's 28-under-par for his last eight rounds in the last two weeks.
All roads point to Campbell. Snap up that 20/1.
The young guns have certainly been shining in recent weeks and it's often the case that they come good in batches so after Ricky Fowler and Jamie Lovemark last week it could be the turn of 24-year-old Webb Simpson here.
Simpson began his rookie season by shooting a 66 in the Sony Open back in January and after a ninth place there he added a fifth in the Bob Hope Classic.
He lost his way a little but he's coming on strong again as the season ends and, after a top 10 at The Barclays, he's added a seventh at Turning Stone and was tied 13th in Arizona last week
An excellent putter, he's also improved his iron play in recent events (he hit 75% of his greens at Turning Stone and 72.2% in Arizona).
Simpson's strong finishes this year mean he doesn't have to worry about his card for next year and that seems to be having a positive effect.
"Yeah, there's no pressure. All this is great. You know, I want to win so I'm still hungry, but it's just nice to play a few tournaments with not much to worry about," he said recently.
Interestingly he was also on the same 2007 Walker Cup team as Fowler and Lovemark so will surely have watched their big performances last week and decided he wants a bigger piece of the pie too.
If inspired by his teammates he could be a serious runner here and I'll take the 66/1.
A lot of those on my shortlist this week are hopeless prices so I'm going to have to take a bit of a flyer on my other two picks.
However, if you just take the bare stats then the 125/1 about a three-time runner-up in 2009 has to be cracking value.
The man in question is Brett Quigley, who lost a play-off in the Puerto Rico Open, lost another in the following week's Transitions Championship and then suffered the same fate in July's John Deere Classic.
Perhaps deflated by getting so close to a first US Tour win without actually crossing the line, Quigley lost his way a bit but last week he closed 68-64 to finish tied 29th in the Frys.com Open.
"I want to win. That's the bottom line. It's something that's driving me," said Quigley after his third runners-up finish of the season. He likes playing in these lower tier events, he likes Bermuda greens and he's racked up four top 25s in his last six visits to this course, including a fifth.
The 125/1 could prove a great price.
Finally, I'll have a pop at Ryan Palmer, also a 125/1 chance.
Now most punters will be waiting until the Tour heads back to Florida before backing last year's Ginn sur Mer Classic winner but this could just be one of those occasions when a player shows up strongly before he's "supposed to".
What makes me think that? Well, he was fifth at the Reno-Tahoe Open just four starts ago on another Jack Nicklaus-designed course, Montreux.
And here at Annandale he was runner-up in 2004.
Palmer hasn't played great here for the last two years despite the change to the Bermuda greens he likes but maybe its slightly later date in the calendar will help him.
The last two Viking Classics finished in September whereas Palmer saves his best for late October/early November - the exact dates of this week's event.
Okay, I'm being sightly anal here but Palmer knows how to win and, as with Quigley, the 125/1 is a price to entice.

[ducu67]

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[kompressaur]

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