Cyprus Open Odds and Picks

The European Tour heads to Cyprus for a couple of weeks with this week’s event the Cyprus Open at the Aphrodite Hills Resort in Paphos. This will be the first time that the European Tour has hosted an event in Cyprus and the players will be playing a relatively short course that measures just under 6,900 yards. Andy Sullivan is getting a lot of respect from the oddsmakers, as he is listed at odds of 12-1 while everyone else has odds of 22-1 or higher. Let’s look at the Cyprus Open odds and picks.

Course: Aphrodite Hills Resort, Paphos, Cyprus

This is a par 71 course that measures 6,828 yards. Driver won’t be a major factor this week, so shorter hitters will be able to compete. The course has Bermuda fairways and water is a factor on just two holes.

TV Coverage: Golf Channel

Cyprus Open Odds

Andy Sullivan 12-1

Joost Luiten 22-1

Thomas Detry 22-1

Laurie Canter 25-1

Marcus Kinhult 25-1

Matthias Schwab 25-1

Sam Horsfield 28-1

Robert MacIntyre 30-1

Matthew Jordan 32-1

Gavin Green 35-1

Jordan Smith 35-1

Wilco Nienaber 35-1

Haotong Li 35-1

Matthew Southgate 35-1

Sami Valimaki 35-1

Antoine Rozner 40-1

Paul Waring 40-1

Nicolas Colsaerts 40-1

Benjamin Hebert 40-1

Garrick Higgo 40-1

Sean Crocker 45-1

Marcus Armitage 45-1

Joakim Lagergren 45-1

Romain Langasque 45-1

Connor Syme 50-1

Wil Besseling 50-1

Ross Fisher 50-1

Masahiro Kawamura 55-1

Sebastian Heisele 55-1

David Horsey 60-1

Jorge Campillo 60-1

Richie Ramsay 60-1

Alexander Bjork 60-1

Calum Hill 60-1

Thorbjorn Olesen 60-1

Johannes Veerman 65-1

Pablo Larrazabal 65-1

Richard Bland 65-1

Adrian Meronk 65-1

Mikko Korhonen 65-1

Chris Paisley 70-1

Grant Forrest 70-1

Jamie Donaldson 70-1

Ben Stow 70-1

Jonathan Caldwell 75-1

Adrien Saddier 80-1

Sebastian Soderberg 80-1

Matthieu Pavon 80-1

Jason Scrivener 80-1

Kalle Samooja 80-1

Shubankar Sharma 80-1

All other players are listed at odds of 100-1 or more or they are part of the field.

Favorite

Andy Sullivan 12-1

You should know by now I don’t take favorites and I am not backing Sullivan, but I can at least understand why oddsmakers have him as the top choice. He is the highest ranked golfer in the field at No. 69 in the world and he did break a long five-year winless drought by winning in August at Hanbury Manor. He tied for third in his most recent event at Wentworth. He leads the European Tour in scrambling so if the wind picks up he could be in the mix this weekend, but again, I am not taking him at these odds.

Value Plays

Joost Luiten 22-1

There are not that many players in the field who know how to win but one of them is Luiten who has started to play better. He has three straight top 20 finishes including a 10^th place finish in Italy. I think there is some value in taking Luiten at odds of more than 20-1.

Marcus Kinhult 25-1

You have to like the way that Kinhult is playing right now with two straight top 10 finishes. He won his first European Tour title last season and Kinhult has done well on coastal courses in the past. I give him a good chance to be in contention this week.

Laurie Canter 25-1

I was on Canter last week and he just couldn’t close for his first European Tour win. I am coming right back with him this week. At first I was hesitant to back players who just missed the previous week, but recently I have discovered that many times those players bounce back and win fairly soon. I will take a shot with Canter to do that this week.

Sam Horsfield 28-1

Not much has gone right for Horsfield since winning in August, but this field is weak and there is no denying his talent. Cyprus is a good place for Horsfield to get his game back in order and I’ll look at taking him the next two weeks.

Pablo Larrazabal 65-1

As I said with Luiten, there are not that many players who know how to win in this field, but one of them is Larrazabal. He has won five times on the European Tour and he played better in the BMW with a couple of really good rounds.

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