Portugal Masters betting tips and preview
At a shorter price, Benjamin Hebert (66/1, 5 places) looks a really solid each-way bet.
The Frenchman is by no means prodigious off the tee – instead he brings an all-round game which can be evidenced by his incredibly consistent results this season.
Hebert has missed just one cut in his last 10 starts, and three cuts all season.
He produced his best result last week in the Netherlands since he lost out in the final at the Belgian Knockout in May.
The 31-year-old is a six-time winner on the Challenge Tour, so he’s clearly capable of finishing tournaments off when playing under pressure. The next step is surely getting that first win at European Tour level.
Perhaps it’ll come here in Portugal on a golf course that he’s gone low on a handful of times in his last two attempts.
The most eye-catching performance was certainly his last effort when he opened with a mediocre 70 before posting rounds of 66-66-64 to surge up the leaderboard and backdoor a top-10 finish.
Finally, Steve Webster (250/1, 8 places) has had a really forgettable year, but he’s returning to the site of his last European Tour win and he showed glimpses last week that a return to form is just around the corner.
He entered the KLM Open last week off the back of five straight missed cuts, but managed to make the weekend, leading the field in driving accuracy and hitting the eighth most greens in regulation on his way to a 46th place finish – a performance that was more impressive than perhaps the bare result suggested.
The Englishman’s 25-under total back in 2007 around this golf course still remains the tournament record. Maybe his memories of that week will spur him on to another good finish.
At 43-years-old he certainly still has it in him, as shown by his third place at the Shot Clock Masters just three months ago.
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