One of the highlights of the DP World Tour, the Alfred Dunhill Links is a longstanding event that has attracted a sensational field including four winning European Ryder Cup players, a host of stars from the LIV Tour led by Cameron Smith and the cream of the crop from the DP World Tour.
Key Stats/Skill Set Required
- Birdies
- Par 4 Scoring
- Putting Average
- Strokes Gained: Putting
- Scrambling
- Strokes Gained: Around The Green
- GIR
The Alfred Dunhill Links is an annual tour of some of golf’s grandest courses – St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns – with players playing the three courses before finishing on the Old Course on Sunday. As it is a pro-am the setup will be easy so looking for those who can go low. A soft touch around the green is key.
Key Correlation Tournaments
- Open Championship
- Qatar Masters
- Scottish Open
- 2024 Irish Open
The four favourites in this all played in the winning Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black and based on the video footage they are all unlikely to be in the best nick this week. So looking lower down the board and Marco Penge rates beautifully. He finished 2nd at this year’s Scottish Open and 12th at Royal County Down in the Irish Open last year. Ranks 3rd in Par 4 Scoring, 7th in Birdies, 8th in GIR and 9th in Putting Average. He is flying with a win in Denmark mid-August that has been followed up with three Top 13 finishes from four starts.
Cornish fan favourite Harry Hall has played this event just once but finished T-15 and given his current form he will be right in the mix again. He has finished Top 25 in 12 of his last 14 starts. Ranks 3rd in Putting Average, 6th in Strokes Gained: Putting, 6th in Birdies ad 8th in Scrambling.
The Qatar Masters is one of the key correlation events and Haotong Li won that event this year and finished 16th the year prior so is well in the mix. Li also finished fourth in this year’s Open Championship and he has a great record in this event with four Top 23 finishes from five starts including two Top 7s.
There is nobody on the DP World Tour playing better than Frenchman Adrien Saddier. Saddier won the Italian Open in June and was right in the mix in the European Masters, Irish Open and BMW PGA Championship. Ranks 5th in Birdies, 10th in Putting Average and 15th in Par 4 Scoring.
Underrated South African youngster Jayden Schaper is a big price again this week. Ranks 12th in GIR, 12th in Strokes Gained: Around The Green and 14th in Par 4 Scoring. Finished 5th in Qatar this year. Comes off a ninth in the Open De France.
There are eight Asian players teeing it up this week but Haotong Li should be odds-on. He is one of the top selections and his love of links golf has him a clear top selection.