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09/09/2010 - Hilversum, Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts birdied his last three holes on Thursday en route to an eight-under 62 and the first- round lead of the KLM Open.
Kenneth Ferrie and Shiv Kapur both posted rounds of six-under 64 and are tied for second place at Hilversumsche Golf Club.
Ross Fisher, who will make his Ryder Cup debut next month, Richie Ramsay, Nick Dougherty, Raphael Jacquelin, Tano Goya, Joost Luiten and Jose-Felipe Lima are knotted in fourth place at five-under 65.
This week marked Martin Kaymer's return to competitive golf after his major breakthrough at the PGA Championship in August. The German shot a three-under 67 on Thursday, but he trails Colsaerts by five after one round.
Colsaerts leads the European Tour in driving distance, but he only recorded two birdies on his front nine. With no par fives on the opening side, Colsaerts birdied Nos. 2 and 7, but caught fire after the turn.
Colsaerts birdied the par-four 11th to get to three-under par. Despite his prodigious length, he only managed a par at the first par five, the 484-yard 12th.
It was after that par where Colsaerts vaulted up the leaderboard.
At the 185-yard, par-three 13th, Colsaerts knocked his tee ball to four feet. He holed the birdie effort and made it two in a row with a seven-footer at the 14th.
After a par at the 15th, Colsaerts birdied the 16th and 17th holes to move to seven-under par. He was in the lead of the championship and padded the cushion with a two-putt birdie from 25 feet at the par-five closing hole.
"It's like a home tournament for me and I grew up playing very similar courses in Belgium so I feel very comfortable here in this course with the trees everywhere and a very traditional layout," said Colsaerts. "There have been some changes here and they have done them very well. I love these courses because I am so used to the layouts."
Colsaerts is back on the European Tour after missing the last three seasons. He won twice last year on the Challenge Tour to get his 2010 status on the European Tour, a place Colsaerts feels he belongs.
"This is my first year back on tour for three years," said Colsaerts. "And it has been very good for me to be able to come back out and feel comfortable straight away and start to get some good results.
"I am realizing again that I can compete at the highest level. I am still not happy with the level of my chipping and putting but I am always working on that."
NOTES: Former British Open champion Todd Hamilton headlines a group tied for 11th place at four-under 66...Defending champion Simon Dyson rattled off 18 pars for his round of 70...Francesco Molinari, the only player in the field on the European Ryder Cup team besides Kaymer and Fisher, had a two-under 68 on Thursday.
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Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting lines.
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