Genesis Championship Predictions:
It was a disappointing week as our 55-1 tip on Jorge Campillo failed to win on home soil at the Andalucia Masters and lost on the ninth playoff hole to Julien Guerrier, who earned his first DP World Tour victory at age 39 after turning professional 17 years ago.
This week’s Genesis Championship in South Korea is the final DP World Tour event before the final Race to Dubai events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Two South Koreans head up the odds board this week as Tom Kim (8-1) and Byeong Hun An (9-1) make the trip home to play this week.
Nicolai Højgaard (20-1) and a quartet of players at 25-1 — Guido Migliozzi, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Sebastian Söderberg and Yannik Paul — follow on the board.
Pablo Larrazábal (80-1) won the Korea Championship on this course last year and Sang-hyun Park (90-1) won the Genesis Championship here last year as well.
The Course
The Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea is located in Incheon, the third-largest city in South Korea.
The Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, a 7,470-yard par-72 layout, has been carved from reclaimed land close to the airport and is close enough to the sea for it to have a coastal feel to it without actually flanking the coast.
This course also hosted the 2015 Presidents Cup, which featured a narrow 15.5-14.5 victory for Team USA over the Internationals.
Bentgrass is also used tee to green here.
A hole-by-hole description of Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea is provided here.
Here is the official scorecard provided by the DP World Tour:
Selections
Nicolai Højgaard (20-1, DraftKings)
Højgaard is 78th in the Race to Dubai standings and is desperate to earn enough points this week to move inside the Top 70 at least to give himself the opportunity to defend his DP World Tour Championship title at Jumeirah Estates in three weeks.
He played primarily on the PGA Tour this season and it was a bit of a tough go despite finishing second at Torrey Pines.
The Dane comes in with two consecutive top-20 finishes, so he is starting to round back into form.
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (25-1, DraftKings)
He finished a disappointing 50th last week in Andalucia but did shoot Sunday’s low round of 65 and could carry over some momentum into this week.
The Dane ranked 10th in approach last week and has posted some recent good results, including fourth in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Guido Migliozzi (25-1, DraftKings)
Migliozzi, a winner for us earlier this year at the KLM Open in the Netherlands, is just three spots and 120 points outside of the top 10 on the DPWT that can earn PGA Tour cards and only two players in the 6-10 range (Sebastian Soderberg and Rikuya Hoshino) are in this field in Korea.
He shot 63 on this course last year.
Gavin Green (40-1, Caesars Sportsbook)
The man from Malaysia is ranked 74th in the Race to Dubai standings and needs a good finish this week to make the Abu Dhabi field in two weeks.
He finished 14th here last year.
Adrien Saddier (50-1, BetMGM)
Saddier, like fellow Frenchman Guerrier, has been seeking his first DP World Tour win for a long time as he turned professional in 2013.
He has two top-5s and three top-10s this season. Currently, he is the last man in the Top 70 to advance to the Race to Dubai events.
Richie Ramsay (70-1, Caesars Sportsbook)
Ramsay is 79th in the Race to Dubai standings and has been playing solid golf of late making six of eight cuts, and he was T-20 last week at the Andalucia Masters.
He also ranked second last week for Putting.
