The biggest week of the golfing year... It is the biggest week of the golfing year with The Open returning to Royal Portrush for the first time since 1951. Thanks to everybody who entered the Open Sweepstake. Click here to see if you've drawn the 8-1 favourite Rory McIlroy or the 2500-1 outsider Isidro Benitez – good luck to you all. I think that it is going to be a more experienced player again to win, last year Molinari was the ninth player aged 35 or over to win The Open in the last 12 years. Another interesting fact is only three winners in the last 15 years have been outside the top 10 after the first day, and 13 of the last 19 winners were inside the top 5 after 36 holes. All that information says don’t back anybody until Friday night and they need to be at least 35 years old! That said, I’m sticking my neck out and think it’s going be Ian Poulter 66-1. He qualifies on the experience and age, let’s see how he starts. |