US Open Golf Betting at Congressional

Frank Doyle has four winners so far this year – here are his picks for the second major of the year, the US Open at Congressional!

The Masters is the most magical major, because of the course at Augusta. The British Open the most storied, because of its history. But the US Open is the hardest to win.

No major tournament is greater proof that 90% of golf is played in the head than the US Open. The USGA make a point of choosing courses that are as challenging as they can make them, requiring an all round game that features length and accuracy off the tee, a magician’s touch around the green and a steady blade on it. It’s very hard to stroll to a US Open. Like women, US Opens must be won.

Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson are the ante-post favorites. Of those three, Donald is the best bet. He’s deservedly No 1 in the world and has youth on his side. Mickelson would be a winner whom nobody would begrudge, but he’s not in form and arthritis makes it harder for him to get around. Westwood is now in danger of joining Monty as the Best-Player-Never-to-win-a-Major.

Matt Kuchar is another man often mentioned in dispatches, and his record of fourteen cuts made out of fourteen starts is impressive. But not losing isn’t the same as winning which is why Matt Kuchar doesn’t make the cut for Sports Interaction’s

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Hunter Mahan (+2200). Hunter Mahan is fourth in top ten finishes this year, and fifth in greens in regulation. He’s also single round course record holder at the Blue Course at Congressional with a 62 in the AT&T National in 2009.

Dustin Johnson. (+2800). Dustin Johnson is due a major. He blew up at the US Open last year, leading on Saturday only to shoot 82 on Sunday, and suffered from that bizarre penalty at Whistling Straits in the PGA. He can boom it off the tee is in good form, with a fourth place finish at the Memorial before resting up for the Open.

Bubba Watson (+4000). Watson is Number 1 in greens in regulation and second in driving distance, and a two-time winner on tour already. That’s a US Open golf game.

Angel Cabrera. (+8000). What two-time major winner flies under the radar as low as the Argentinean? He’s long off the tee and his seventh place finish at the Masters shows Cabrera can still bring it for the big ones.

World Golf Rankings, June 13th, 2011