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Good luck with these tonight Fader - certainly been a difficult tournament to predict so far. Hopefully Gurney’s finishing isn’t so hot tonight and Cullen can get one step closer to the outright win.

Gutting - Kist was looking so good for most of the day.

Hopefully Zonneveld gets a bit more luck today, I reckon he’s due a big run at one of these events. In fact I like all four that you’ve put up at big odds - and have added Rusty-Jake Rodriguez (300/1) and George Killington (500/1) into my selections for this afternoon.

Good luck today @Fader I opened a Star Sports account the other week, specifically because they always seem to offer 4 places on the Players Championship events. They also offer an interesting market on each player to win ANY Players Championship event this year.

2.30 Juniper Berries 3.05 Farhh To Shy 3.40 Random Harvest 4.20 Classic Causeway 5.00 Chasing Aphrodite 5.35 St Vincent’s Garden 6.10 Ganesha

2.30 Berkshire Shadow 3.05 Bobsleigh 3.40 Bradsell 4.20 Mostabshir 5.00 Tritonic 5.35 Poker Face 6.10 Point King

Yeah, France look a decent price in what looks like a straight shoot-out with Northern Ireland. I was wondering whether to back a couple group outsiders, with the format being first to 4 legs in the group matches we could see a couple of shocks. The two that stood out to me were Denmark and Lithuania, both at around 10/1 in a 3-horse race.

Brooks Koepka 10800 Viktor Hovland 10000 Xander Schauffele 9600 Min Woo Lee 7000 Sam Bennett 6500 Aldrich Potgieter 6100 Good luck all

I’m not usually a big fan of the World Cup, but I think the format changes (particularly doubles matches only) will be good for the tournament, and I’m looking forward to this renewal. Going on current form it’s easy to see why Wales are the strong favourites, Price and Clayton are good friends and both in pretty decent form, but they seem short enough in the betting. The price for the Netherlands to win has been pushed out in the last 24 hours due to van Gerwen’s withdrawal, and I’m happy to leave them alone, I think I read somewhere that van Duijvenbode is carrying a bit of an injury and he didn’t impress in the recent Players Championship events. That leaves England and Scotland as the main contenders. Gary Anderson has been in fine form recently, including a win on the floor this week, but at the same events Wright was pretty awful. It would be typical for Snakebite to turn up for this event, but I’m going to just side with England. Michael Smith and Rob Cross reached the final of this event in 2020 and both come into this with recent wins under their belts. Smith won on the ProTour on Monday and Cross won his first ever Euro Tour event just three weeks ago. Their price has been trimmed in a bit recently, but at 100/30 I’m hoping Bully Boy and Voltage can win it for England, for the first time since 2016. Those are the four favourites, after that the prices jump up to around 20/1 for the likes of Germany, Australia and Belgium; and it’s the German team that make most appeal. On their day Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler are a match for anyone, and it’s only six months ago that Clemens reached the semi-final of the World Championship. The other thing in their favour is home advantage, I think this could be the year the German pair make their presence felt on the World Cup stage. Of those at bigger prices I think the Canadian pairing of Jeff Smith and Matt Campbell could go well. They find themselves in a very winnable group alongside India and Hungary and will expect to make the last 16 quite comfortably. Smith had a fine US Darts Masters a couple of weeks ago, whilst I always feel that Campbell plays better than his results suggest. For my final outsider I was going to plump for either the Philippines or the Czech Republic, unfortunately they’ve been drawn together in the same group, but given you can get the Asian pair at 500/1, I’ve decided to stick a few pennies on them. Christian Perez does hold a PDC tour card after winning it at Q-School earlier in the year, but the first time we’ve seem him on the main circuit was earlier this week when he reached the quarter-finals of the floor event on Monday, included in that run was a win over Rob Cross. His partner is Lourence Ilagan who currently tops the Asian Tour money list this year and is always a player I enjoy watching. 3pts England @ 100/30 (Bet365) 1pt e/w Germany @ 20/1 (General) 0.5 pts e/w Canada @ 80/1 (General) 0.5 pts e/w Philippines @ 500/1 (Coral / Ladbrokes) (@Fader Just realised that we’ve gone with very similar selections - let’s hope we’re both celebrating come Sunday night)

Koepka (10100) Schauffele (9900) Homa (8700) Henley (7300) SW Kim (7100) Hoge (6900)

Chester 15:15 Max Vega e/w 10/1 Bet365

Chester 14:40 Cite D’or e/w 14/1 Bet365

Fakenham 16:20 D’Jango e/w 10/1 Bet365

Newmarket 14:25 Crystallium e/w 14/1 Bet365

Salisbury 15:50 Seahrena e/w 18/1 Bet365

Ascot 15:15 Trueshan 1/1 Hills

Nottingham 16:10 Sunset Shiraz 10/1 Bet365

1.45 Calico 2.25 Henry’s Friend 3.00 Crambo 3.35 Monmiral 4.15 Kapga De Lily 5.15 Coko Beach 6.20 Taras Halls

1.45 Thomas Darby 2.20 Jungle Jack 2.55 Strong Leader 3.30 Minella Drama 4.05 Gin On Lime 4.40 Howlingmadmurdock 5.15 Ukantango

1.45 Visionarian 2.20 Jipcot 2.55 Conflated 3.30 Epatante 4.05 Not That Fuisse 4.40 The Last Day 5.15 Casa No Mento

Thanks for organising Fader - I’ll go with … Rory McIlroy (10600) Jordan Spieth (9700) Tony Finau (8900) Tommy Fleetwood (7700) Ryan Fox (6700) Mackenzie Hughes (6300)