Nessa's our special guest tipster

Oh. I won't lie to you. Kenny Perry's going to win the money this weekend. Field's hopeless, see. And all the so called experts are tipping people who can't win. What's more of a worry, I'll be honest with you is that they are all tipping the same people who can't win (and here goes the kiss of death) like Senden, Merrick, Hamilton and Howell Mark 3.

Take my advice, in any race where you can get 18/1 the favourite, it's worth a look. Load up on Kenny Perry to get back to winning ways. Alun's back next week...look you, isn't it.

Tidy.

Would have, could have etc...

She should have won, would have if a) the race had been another 100 meters or b) if the jockey wasn't a halfwit. Damn.

The Verizon classic isn't really that much of a classic. If Brian Gay does hold on to win (he probably won't) then it'll be a reflection of the field as much as anything. Given that someone has shot 65 every day (and over a dozen did yesterday) you'd think that the tournament will be won with a score around 13 under. Gay's been flawless to here with just one bad hole in the first 54 but with just one tour win in the last five years, I'm not interested in taking the odds on him adding another trophy to the proverbial.

Davis Love is still there and knowing the course backwards could still represent the best value at 20/1. Luke Donald is probably itching a win and on pure form, one of the stars of Augusta looks nicely poised a few behind the leader. Then again, it is Todd Hamilton...

The forgotten horse?

Form over the distance. Trainer in form. Light weight. Won a big race a fortnight ago in the heavy (and boy did it rain in Sydney this week).

I reckon NEROLI is nailed on for the Doncaster at each way prices. Make up an exotic with Hot Danish if you like, but don't miss this one.

It must be (Davis) Love, Love Love.

Harbour Town. Famous for being one of the original computer game courses with an 18th hole that wrecked many a card and the place that Davis "loves". (That's enough Davis Love puns I think)

He's a prolific winner here and others who have course form are Justin Leonard and Stewart Cink. You can be forgiven if you're thinking we've ended up in some kind of Dr Who meets the PGA time travel thing, especially when the PGA Tour experts unanimously pick another old man, Jim Furyk as this weeks winner!

It's hard to know what to make of the Masters but I'm saying Furyk did it tough and I reckon it'll be tougher for him to give a monkeys about the Verizon classic. Same applies to Cink and Els for mine. Amongst the most extraordinary tips on the web this week are some well respected experts tipping Rory McIlroy and Robert Allenby. They'll be tipping old Scotty next...

I'm taking two against the field at silly odds until the cut when I'll wade in properly. It's still hilarious that anyone's called Boo Weekly and like many at Emap I wonder whether he has a wife called Sue. (Sue weekly...geddit?).

Whatever, he's won here twice and defends the title this week. A more likely prospect who had a nice trip to Augusta is Aaron Baddeley. Devilishly good on the greens and last years unlucky runner up, he may well rise up to the top come Sunday. As it were.

Good luck to anyone who has any money left after Augusta...

Back to single figures?

I've been toiling with a double digit handicap for too long. From the age of 15 when Rupert Speechley cut me six shots from 14 to 8 for "general play", I was a single figure man well into my thirties with a lifetime handicap low of 6.1. Mind you, that was when I was working on a golf magazine and playing twice a week plus practice, but that's not important.

After a lifetime already of playing the game, I'm going to collect and publish all the very best tips and advice I can muster, both from the interweb and the deep recesses of my brain to crack the secret of single figures. Inspired by the waistlines on offer down the stretch at Augusta (kenny Perry's 49 didn't you know) it's time for a serious crack at it.

We're on the way back, back, (back!) to what the locals call "A Grade". Join me on my journey!

Best laid plans...

How many selections do you need before you come to Angel Cabrera? Some lucky soul got 330/1 on betfair during the week and you could have grabbed 12/1 last night. I didn't and as far as I can find from a trawl through the blogosphere, neither did anybody else...

Good luck to him and anyone who had a few bob on him or Katayama for the place. Guess Perry will take the easy option and stay home for the Open again after meeting his demons today. Don't think the R&A will lose too much sleep.

We'll be back, back (back!) next week and following a few conversations on Twitter (I can't bring myself to call them tweets), will be adding a bit more golf commentary to the blog based on a magazine idea I had many years ago called Fore! Look out for that and a new website called The Golf Writers both coming up soon.

They'd be in production by now if Kenny had won...