Betting tips: Who wins the Deutsche Bank?

The winner: Rickie Fowler

If there is a player with the temperament to quickly recover from blowing a big PGA Tour win then it is Rickie Fowler.

It looked like he was going to trade blows down the stretch with Patrick Reed until a huge wobble – bogey at 15, double at 16 and bogey at 18 – dropped him into a tie for 7^th

Maybe I am a glass half full kind of guy but I saw lots to be positive about in Fowler’s play ahead of his defence of the Deutsche Bank at TPC Boston this week.

This a guy who has been in a funk for most of the campaign, with three missed cuts in a row coming at the Players, Memorial and US Open.

When the disappointment fades, and it will quickly, Fowler should be thrilled to have been in contention again.

We know he likes this track, having chased down Henrik Stenson to win here last year.

With prices of 30/1 out there, I’m going to stick my neck out and say he could be finding his game just in time to nail his spot in the USA Ryder Cup team.

Stenson’s withdrawal from The Barclays through injury is an obvious concern but the Swede plans to play in Boston before taking two weeks off to rest for the Ryder Cup.

If he figures, his record in the Deutsche Bank – 2^nd last year to Fowler, T26th in 2014 and the victor 12 months earlier, means he really should be in your staking plan at 18/1.

The each-way back: Adam Scott

Is there a player in the game with a better swing?

If Adam Scott is showing any kind of form, I always want him on my side and, at a best priced 25/1, I think we’ve found a spot here for the Australian.

Really hot early season, with back-to-back wins in the Honda Classic and WGC-Cadillac, it’s wrong to say Scott has gone off the boil – but he hasn’t been featuring at the top end of leaderboards.

Until, that is, The Barclays when a dodgy spell at the start of his 4^th round and just after the turn killed his chances and saw him finish tied for 4^th.

I think punters can take a lot from his showing at Bethpage. The long game looked largely spot on and, after a top 20 at the PGA Championship, he could be about to fire once again.

The dark horse: Billy Horschel

The only reason Davis Love III’s Ryder Cup dozen isn’t already signed and sealed is because of what Billy Horschel did two years ago.

Tying for second at the Deutsche Bank in 2014, Horschel went on to win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup – and we had the farce of the hottest player on the PGA Tour not at Gleneagles because of the selection deadlines.

That won’t happen this time and Horschel travels to TPC Boston knowing he’s going to have to do something special once again if he is going to feature at Hazeltine.

With a best of tied 4^th at the Texas Open this season, it’s been a disappointing campaign but there have been signs in the last couple of weeks that Horschel may finally be springing into life.

He followed up a tied-5^th showing at the Wyndham Championship with another top 20 at The Barclays on the fiendishly difficult Bethpage Black.

So I am prepared to take a chance and have a small punt on Horschel at a best priced 66/1 to give us a run for our money.

Brooks Koepka already knows he is going to Hazeltine. He could celebrate, and so could we at 45/1, at the Deutsche Bank.

His tied 70^th at Bethpage should not overlook four top 10s in his last five starts before that. Look at top 20 and top 10 markets at the least for the American.