A victory this week earns you a Masters invite if you don’t already have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rickie Fowler is looking to play his way into Augusta, needing a win this weekend at the Valero Texas Open to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The good folks at Betsperts Golf<\/a> want you to win if Rickie does!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sign up for a month-long subscription today, and if Rickie Fowler wins the Valero Texas Open and earns his way into The Masters, you will get your money back!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are always discussions surrounding motivation this week, particularly near the top of the board for those who’ve already secured their Masters invite. Personally, I think that’s a lot of hot air. If a golfer wanted to use this week solely as a way to work on a few things before playing Augusta, they’d just go and do it at Augusta. They wouldn’t come to San Antonio and compete. They’d go play practice rounds. Walk the course and chip. Spend hours on the practice green. There are other reasons to bypass those golfers this week, like injury concerns and their betting odds, but motivation isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The variable at TPC San Antonio’s Oaks Course, like most Texas courses, is the wind. The early forecast calls for steady winds throughout, with no distinct advantage to the AM\/PM waves on Thursday and Friday, but check back as we approach Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more course details, check out Ron’s<\/a> course preview<\/a>. It’s the best in the business, bar none. Here’s an important tidbit about TPC San Antonio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n TPC San Antonio is a very unique course off the tee. While many of the driveable holes have narrow tree-lined fairways, others are much wider. The average Driving Accuracy here is only 56% compared with the Tour average of 61%. The data shows that general accuracy off the tee does not matter as much because the rough is among the least penal on the entire Tour. In fact, the average margin between hitting a green-in-regulation from the rough compared to the fairway is 9% easier than the Tour average. Even more amazing is that the Birdie or Better percentage over the last five years when hitting the second shot from the rough is higher than from the fairway!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n All the seeming variety and randomness off the tee is a definite reason TPC San Antonio is one of the top “second-shot” courses, as it is the eighth toughest layout to gain strokes on approach. Not only are the greens heavily guarded by difficult and deep bunkers, but many are also elevated above the fairway and do not provide bailout areas for errant shots. Players will also need to loft approach shots onto the proper quadrants of the greens due to the many undulations in order to get the ball to funnel as close to the pin as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My goal with this piece is to touch on the golfers I’m targeting this week. There are millions of ways to bet on this beautiful game, so I’ll share my opinion on the best way to bet on each golfer in my player pool at this week’s event. When pricing out finishing position bets (T5, T10, T20s, etc.), I’ll often lean towards BetMGM<\/a> even if there’s a better number elsewhere because of MGM’s advantageous dead-heat rules. So know the rules of the books that you’re betting on! <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/RickieMasters.jpg\")
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