I tipped you 2 from 4 in the National, now heres the Masters winners. (General Tipster)

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Product:	General Tipster
Date:	10/04/02 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: I got it right last time, So here is more

Disadvantages: Weather day one, Tornadoes?, No Euro winner

If you have any pin money left from your once a year bet and you got a kick out of The National then how about a nibble on the US Masters golf. Ok its not so frenetic and exhilarating as Aintree, but it has extensive coverage on BBC this weekend and its nice seeing your pick climbing the leaderboard.
Because Tiger is always hot favorite you can get excellent value on E/W bets, some exaggerated to encourage people not to way in on the worlds best player.

I have a good record tipping here and got second and third in The National this week and two of the four major golf winners last year in Duval and Goosen. The good thing about the Masters is that only good golfers do well here with little chance of fluke winners like at the USPGA and The Open Championship here.
There are perhaps only ten golfers in the world who can win round Augusta when the weather is mean and even the great players like Woods and previous winners can go dolally on A-Men corner.

For me theres only one winner in Tiger Woods.Last year was a rest up for the great man, as he had no records to break. But he will be really up for it in Georgia knowing that all four majors in the same year would move him into the stratosphere in the records department he so craves.
He hits it long, very long, which if accurate is a bloody good advantage to have round these tight manicured fairways.
Hes won here before with a record 15 under and loves the challenge of the ultimate course. He has also never finished out of the top ten in the last five years. Hes a juicy 3-1 with Eurobet online and you wont get that anywhere on the highstreet.

The value is with good players that have got give away prices because Tiger is going to be champing at the bit for this. David Duval at 16-1 is one of those players and perhaps is the only man that really worries Tiger as far as the majors go. He has the iron nerve to go for his shots and doesn?t wait for Tiger to come back to him.
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goes for the line and we saw how brave he is with that bunker shot that snared his chances in the 2000 Open Championship .At twenty to one you just cant turn down an each way bet for a quid as he will be right up there.

Again the last four Masters saw Duval looking very comfortable like in his Sunday chair at the top of the board waiting to pounce on anyone who goes for what he deems is his trophy. The breakthrough major win at The Open has made him a very serious contender for the Green Jacket.
Phill Mickleson could also feature heavily and is the best player on the American circuit who has not yet won a major.
Although left handed, he can control the ball beautifully and is the best putter on the greens. His weakness is that hes not as brave as some and will wait for dangerous players to err and move down the board to try and win. He just doesn?t have the balls to go for the line like Duval and doesn?t have Tigers immense presence and reputation to scare off challengers. But 14-1 may hint how highly hes rated at third favourite to finally break through.
He finished a shot behind in the 2001 USPGA.A shot back in the US Open in 1999.Three back here last year. He really wants to win it, but has he the bottle. You are crazy not to take 14s each way as he will be right in there to prove them wrong.

Ernie Els is a proven major winner and is primed for this challenge. Again a big hitter and very accurate with the irons so will be nagging away with precise golf never far away. If hes up there on the last day his 14-1 price is very sexy.
A real outsider going for the place only would be Jim Furyick that just loves good finishes after scraping the cut. Many times has put in a 63 on one of the last two rounds. At 80-1 e/w for the place down to forth he will keep you in the race until the last day.

Davis Love is another guy that always has chance in the big ones. Three of the last four Majors he has lead on the last day and is anoth
er proven major winner. His archilles heel is one poor round from three that drags him down the board at the wrong time.
But at 66-1, which is the highest price I have seen him for ages, im definitely going to have 50 p each way.
Some other ones to watch from down the current field of betting are Tom Lehman at 80-1 who is as the best putter on the US tour. He did great here last year and has finished top ten two of the last three.
Mike Weir who is the second best left hander in the world and most certainly the top Canadian player is at useful 66-1.He hasn?t won any big tournaments yet but is one of those players in waiting.

Mark Brooks who isnt in the groove yet always makes the match cuts and hes offered an incredible 225-1 with bluesquare.com. He has shot up the leaderboards on the last day of three of the four majors last season. Memorably losing a play off in the USPGA to Goosen.
One more to watch is the super young talent of Robert Durrant with his movie star looks and name. Confidence like that often breeds success, and at 225-1 it would certainly be a sensation for you if he top foured.

TIGER WOODS 3-1fav.
PHIL MICKLESON 14-1 E/W.
DAVID DUVAL 16-1.

Best non-American bet.
ERNIE ELS 12-1
RETIF GOOSEN 20-1

Outsider
DAVIS LOVE 66-1
MARK BROOKS 225-1.

I love this TV treat with all the co0lor of the spring flowers and last day excitement watching your guys climb the board or our local guys do well. The trials of A-Men corner in holes 8-12 as players hopes die just as quick as they rose.
Twenty-five years ago, black players werent allowed to enter here and it was only until recent that it started taking black members.
In the seventies the black caddies had separate locker rooms to the white ones and it took Tigers Lutherkingesque win to start bringing down those race barriers.

A for the British and European hopes, well Montgomery looks like one of those good pla
yers capable of a major win never to do so. Hes a public school baby and throws the toys out of the pram when the tables not layed perfect. It takes adversity and courage to win, not spoilt egos and conceit.
A more courageous story is the collapse of the great British hope recently of Lee Westwood who finished 33 rd in the European order of merit in his defense of winning it in 2000.
The brave guy has been hiding the terrible heartache that his wife has has breast cancer all year and it obviously messed up his head and game .She is going to recover and that could fire him up for a very big year on the course.
Could we see a big showing at Augusta like bereaved Dennis Taylor did at the very famous snooker final. Many a sportsman has been driven by that adversity I was talking about and I bet you can get 500-1!.

The big two Spaniards in Garcia and Olazabal should make the cut but I don?t think the young one is quite mature enough for the inevitable breakthrough just yet. I don?t see much from Olly either and would say a cut struggle here.
What about poor old Woosie, one thing is for sure that he will be counting the clubs like the shots religiously this time.

The saddest story of all is Mr Ballesteros whos taking out a machette as his extra club.1000-1 with William Hill.No respect at all!. This year letters have been sent to previous champions of later years that their performance just aint exceptable anymore.
The old Spanish master was lucky enough not to receive one of these highly shaming envelopes,but cant be far off the way he is playing these days.
This year for the first time those players have been named. One such 94-year-old didnt even get to the second tee last year.
Last year the field had nine guys on the links over sixty so it was no surprise that this old boy in the days of fast play is everything were given the boot. But they don?t have the record for the worst round in the last twenty years. Ian Baker F
inch has that onerous honor ok hacking an incredible 107!.

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