Sami Valimaki heads into the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club with +60000 odds after missing the cut at the Genesis Scottish Open, his most recent event. Below we break down his form in recent events to help you make your best bets on Valimaki before he tees off in Troon, Scotland.
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Sami Valimaki to win the 2024 Open Championship +60000
Sami Valimaki: Recent Form
- Valimaki has made the cut and finished in the top 20 on the leaderboard once over his last three appearances.
- He has qualified for the weekend in one of his past three appearances.
- Valimaki has finished with a score lower than the tournament average in one of his past three events.
- He finished with a score of -20 in his only made cut over his last three events.
Valimaki: Recent Rounds
- Valimaki has finished below par four times and carded four rounds with a better-than-average score over his last eight rounds played.
- He has carded one of the five best scores in two of his last eight rounds.
- Valimaki has carded a score within three shots of the day’s best in two of his last eight rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day three times.
Valimaki: Last Outing
- Valimaki shot worse on par 3s than the field his last time out, recording a birdie or better on two of the 10 par-3 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open (the other participants averaged 2.7).
- On the 10 par-3 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, Valimaki had more bogeys or worse (three) than the field average (1.8).
- Valimaki did not card a birdie or better on any of the 20 par-4 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open. The field average was 4.9.
- At that last competition, Valimaki’s par-4 performance (on 20 par-4 holes) included a bogey or worse three times (better than the field’s average of 5.4).
- Valimaki ended the Genesis Scottish Open with a birdie or better on five of the six par-5 holes, out-pacing the tournament average of 4.3.
- Even though the field at the Genesis Scottish Open averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the six par-5 holes, Valimaki finished without one.
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