Following quick on the heels of last weeks WGC event at Firestone, the USPGA Championship takes this place at Hazeltine in Minnesota. Tiger Woods has been installed as favourite unsurprisingly after adding to his amazing record at the Bridgestone last week and he’ll be keen to get at least one major on the board this season here.

Woods is a 6/4 shot with totesport, who are incidentally going 6 places for this tournament this week. We tipped Woods up last week and he didn’t disappoint and has some course form going close here back in 2002 when it was last played on this course. He’ll obviously take all the beating again here.

We put up Phil Mickelson as well last week and he played pretty solid golf all things considered. His odds once again bely his talent and any amount of under practice shouldn’t excuse the very chunky looking 18/1 available with totesport. Mickelson went very close at Bethpage in the US Open with very little golf under his belt and I expect him to do the same here, but at almost double the odds you’d usually get on Lefty if he was playing regularly.

Value is very much the theme of my selections this week as with Tiger heading the betting and it being a big field, there’s plenty of value to snap up with totesport.

Sergio Garcia finished second to Padraig Harrington in last years USPGA and despite question marks over his putting, he comes here striking the ball as well as ever. Of course the putting worries shouldn’t be ignored but Garcia is a massive 40/1 here and that looks like some cracking value. If it’s just a case of his putting clicking back in to gear then Garcia will be a force to be reckoned with.

Robert Allenby would be an unfashionable pick but he’s a real ’steady Eddie’ who could snatch some of that each-way six places on offer at totesport. The Australian has been playing some good golf and was one of the tournament low scorers here back in 2002 when he shot a 66. At 66/1 he’s worth an each-way squeak to celebrate today’s Australia Day.

Another player with course form and worth an each-way bet is Englishman Luke Donald, an 80/1 shot with totesport. Donald won a College event here back in 1999 and has been playing some good consistent golf, including a Sunday afternoon charge up the leader board at the British Open last month netting him a top ten finish. Donald has the best putting stats on the US Tour and is definitely worth a shout to finish in the top six here.

Finally, in honour of the likes of Angel Cabrera, Luke Glover and Stewart Cink, the three major winners so far in 2009, I’ve picked out three contenders at equally big odds to round of this year on the major circuit. Graeme McDowell (175/1), Stuart Appleby (200/1) and KJ Choi (200/1) are all bang out of form at the moment, hence prices that are at least double what you’d have got about this time last year. maybe one of these could spring a surprise here.

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There’s only one golf tournament worth writing about this week and it’s the third WGC event of the year, the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone. The worlds best golfers come together for the first time since the Open Championship in Turnberry and they’ll all have one eye on next weeks final major of the season at the US PGA.

We’d usually start this blog off with how Tiger Woods is a very short priced favourite and that you might be best advised to look elsewhere for some value. However the 6/4 about his chances with totesport at a course where he simply has a formidable record he’d be our main pick to take the spoils.

Tiger has won here six times and in two separate three year runs. He didn’t compete last year due to injury but in 2007 he pummeled the field beating Justin Rose into second place a huge eight shots adrift. On two of the other occasions in the last 10 years he didn’t win it he finished tied second and fourth in 2004 and 2003 and although he didn’t need his A-game to win the Buick last week he could well get back to back victories here.

Further down the betting there’s a few picks with good course and recent form that might be worth an each-way bet.

Lee Westwood has had some time off since his Open disappointment and the Englishman comes here a 20/1 shot with totesport after coming close finishing second here last year. Stewart Cink is a winner on this course and should be full of confidence and rest after his win in Scotland three weeks ago, he’s a 33/1 shot.

Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen are also near the top of the betting but there’s doubts over their claims. Mickelson hasn’t played much competition golf, but in fairness he performed brilliantly at the US Open in similar circumstances. He finished fourth here last year and on best form would be a very big looking 16/1 with totesport.

Goosen on the other hand has seemed to forgotten how to get over the finish line. Four top six finishes in succession but he’s had a chance to win each of these tournaments and his putting has let him down at crucial moments. He’s a 25/1 shot here with totesport and finished fourth here last year.

Finally, Davis Love looks a cracking bet at 50/1. Love has a brilliant record at Bridgestone and six top ten finishes on the trot before missing the tournament last year cannot be ignored. A decent show at the Open to boot and Davis can reward each-way backers.

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