Golf: DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC

[BillyHills]

Re: Golf: DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC Some great value around with Tiger being here, but very competative. The side markets also offer some value and i'll be choosing a couple from each of the GB/Irish and European ones. Top GB/Irish My two against the field are David Howell at 11/1 and Graeme Storm at 40/1. Howell makes his debut this year, only playing premium tournaments this season due to his back injury, a good decision because he always doe well in the big ones, probrably been using the smaller events to tweak his game so we know he'll be spot on here. A class act on his day should be therabouts in this market. Graeme Storm has started the season very well, has promised so much in the past without really delivering, maybe this year he will break through, big price considering some of the others who are bang out of form. Top European After Marcel Siem pulled out last week, its interesting to see him here so i must follow him at 40/1, convinced this guy will finally be more consistant and follow in Langer's footsteps, Johan Edfors was a revelation last season and continues to improve, a sluggish start this season but showed signs of a return last week and 20/1 is big enough to tempt me in this week ahead of Karlsson who came close to being backed. D.Howell 11/1 Top GB/Ire (1/4 1234) Betfred G.Storm 40/1 Top GB/Ire (1/4 1234) PaddyPower M.Siem 40/1 Top European (1/5 1234) Paddy Power J.Edfors 20/1 Top European (1/5 1234) PaddyPower

[Beejayville]

Re: Golf: DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC

	Played	Top 10	%	Average Position
Tiger Woods	3	3	100	2.7
Ernie Els	9	9	100	3.1
Greg Norman	5	4	80	23.4
Paul Mcginley	13	6	46	22.5
Colin Montgomerie	15	6	40	31.9
Nick Dougherty	5	2	40	36.2
Thongchai Jaidee	6	2	33	27.2
Lee Westwood	12	4	33	39.2
Miguel Angel Jimenez	14	4	29	45.6
Alastair Forsyth	7	2	29	55.0
Thomas Bjorn	11	3	27	42.7
David Howell	11	3	27	51.4
Peter Lawrie	4	1	25	37.8
Mikko Ilonen	4	1	25	54.8
Marcel Siem	4	1	25	67.8
Peter O'malley	4	1	25	68.0
Richard Green	10	2	20	39.0
Michael Campbell	5	1	20	46.2
Gregory Havret	5	1	20	54.0
Robert-Jan Derksen	5	1	20	62.2
Stephen Dodd	5	1	20	67.0
Jyoti Randhawa	6	1	17	30.3
Stephen Gallacher	6	1	17	41.5
Simon Dyson	6	1	17	49.5
Mark O'Meara	6	1	17	54.0
Henrik Stenson	6	1	17	57.5
Bradley Dredge	7	1	14	21.0
Darren Clarke	14	2	14	43.6
Robert Karlsson	14	2	14	58.4
Emanuele Canonica	7	1	14	71.7
Joakim Haeggman	15	2	13	49.7
Barry Lane	16	2	13	58.6
David Lynn	8	1	13	59.5
Soren Kjeldsen	8	1	13	62.8
Jeev Milkha Singh	8	1	13	79.3
Niclas Fasth	9	1	11	57.8
Anthony Wall	9	1	11	71.2
Ignacio Garrido	12	1	8	61.1
Phillip Price	14	1	7	39.6
Paul Lawrie	15	1	7	66.7
Paul Casey	2	0
Sergio Garcia	1	0
Damien Mcgrane	3	0
Soren Hansen	1	0
Mark Foster	5	0
Phillip Archer	2	0
Marcus Fraser	3	0
Gary Orr	11	0
Steve Webster	11	0
John Bickerton	10	0
Jarmo Sandelin	10	0
Paul Broadhurst	15	0
Johan Edfors	2	0
Raphael Jacquelin	9	0
Ricardo Gonzalez	8	0
David Park	7	0
Gary Emerson	7	0
Charl Schwartzel	3	0
Louis Oosthuizen	3	0
Richard Sterne	4	0
Ian Garbutt	10	0
Richard Bland	4	0
Christopher Hanell	5	0
Alessandro Tadini	2	0
Mattias Eliasson	2	0
Steven O'hara	2	0
Simon Khan	4	0
Andrew Coltart	13	0
Lee Slattery	1	0
Maarten Lafeber	7	0
Andrew Mclardy	2	0
Peter Hanson	4	0
James Kingston	5	0
Andrew Marshall	5	0
Christian Cevaer	7	0
Francesco Molinari	2	0
Oliver Wilson	2	0
Jean-Francois Remesy	7	0
Miles Tunnicliff	8	0
Simon Wakefield	4	0
Joakim Backstrom	2	0
Garry Houston	2	0
Peter Hedblom	9	0
Peter Gustafsson	2	0
Brett Rumford	4	0
Graeme Storm	3	0
Gary Murphy	5	0
Kenneth Ferrie	4	0
Markus Brier	7	0
Scott Drummond	3	0
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano	2	0
Jose-Filipe Lima	2	0
Mardan Mamat	2	0
Graeme Mcdowell	2	0
Benn Barham	1	0
Rory Mcilroy	1	0
Jean Francois Lucquin	3	0
Hennie Otto	2	0

Tiger Woods and Ernie Els have super records at the Dubai and both have a 100% strike rate for finishing in the Top 10 when they do play this event. Ernie is a multiple winner of this event while Tiger won in 2006. Mark O'Meara was the 2004 winner and is in the filed too.