Quicken Loans National

[Bamford]

A very weak tournament when compared to the Open de France at Le Golf National this week. Where Paris has the likes of Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood and Alex Noren topping a high-class field, Washington DC and the Quicken Loans National has Rickie Fowler, tournament-host Tiger Woods and Marc Leishman backed up by the likes of Francesco Molinari, Kyle Stanley and J.B. Holmes in the betting. It's not great!  TPC Potomac is a tough course, where a single-digit winning score is likely to win. We may see two tournaments this week in one as a soft course yields birdies across Thursday/Friday before roasting temperatures turn the course into something a lot more fiery. TPC Potomac has the definite look of Wentworth about it, so you can see Francesco Molinari flourishing, but I can't take him at the price available. With Kyle Stanley a winner last year, look for a ball-striker who can keep bogeys off the card with pateince and a decent-level scrambling game.

I'm in on Byeong-Hun An (40/1), Joaquin Niemann (50/1), Si Woo Kim (50/1), Andrew Putnam (66/1) and James Hahn (125/1).