2014 Open Championship Betting | Must Know Player Statistics From GolfPredictor

GolfPredictor are the king of golf stats and every week produce wickedly accurate tournament predictions based a whole plethora of mathematical equations I couldn't even begin to decipher.

I asked Aidan in GolfPredictor to provide some useful stats heading into The Open Championship that could help punters settle on who to back at Hoylake.  We looked only at the last eight Opens, to make it fair and representative to today's field.


Best Average Finishing Position

The first column to look at is the Rounds completed on the far right.  Woods, Scott, Stricker, Sergio and Stenson are the standout solid performers.
Adam Scott and Sergio Garcia have made most cuts and played the most rounds which is significant.

Of the newbies Keegan Bradley has played twice, made the cut twice and finished on average 24.5th and Hideki Matsuyama, winner at Memorial already this year was a big hit on his debut last year.

Most Top 10 Finishes


With bookies always having a "to finish in the top 10" option, here's a really useful table that shows just who are the usual suspects in this category.
Again it's Els, Woods, Scott, Garcia and Stenson occupying the top five positions.
Noteworth too is the "all or nothing" results from Ian Poulter.  From the last eight Opens, he has missed three cuts and finished in the top-10 three times.  Interesting!


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Lowest Stroke Average


This is the stat that always tells a tale.  It's a real indicator at an event like the Masters which is always staged on the same course, but arguably even more so at The Open which has a whole rota of different courses.  Simply put, it tells you who scores best on average at The Open.
Tiger Woods didn't play the Opens of 2008 and 2011 and missed one cut at Turnberry in 2009 but finished 0.78 strokes on average better than next best Ernie Els.  What a mind blowing stat!
The top 5 are Woods, Els, Scott, Oosthuizen and Garcia.



So who's your money on?
I've already posted my top five long shots glory shots and will post my 2014 Open Championship Tips next week.


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