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3pts e.w. Brandon Stone to win the DiData Pro-Am at 20/1 (Sky Bet 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6)

2pt e.w. Shaun Norris to win the DiData Pro-Am at 28/1 (bet365 1/4 1,2,3,4,5)

1pt e.w. Casey Jarvis to win the DiData Pro-Am at 80/1 (Unibet 1/4 1,2,3,4,5)

1pt e.w. Lucas Bjerregaard to win the DiData Pro-Am at 100/1 (bet365 1/4 1,2,3,4,5)

2pts Kiradech Aphibarnrat to win his three-ball at 6/4 (Sky Bet, William Hill)

1pt Taichi Kho to win his three-ball at 14/5 (BoyleSports)

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We'll begin this week's Members Extra with a word or two on the Dimension Data Pro-Am as the Challenge Tour continues in South Africa.

This is a particularly big tournament for the locals and since the Challenge Tour began co-sanctioning it, we've had Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Wilco Nienaber win the first two renewals before Dean Burmester somehow got beaten by a shot last year.

The best home players should remain the focus and there are very strong cases for Nienaber, Oliver Bekker and Darren Fichardt, but BRANDON STONE is the genuinely class act here and deserves to be favourite.

Stone had been struggling for a while, particularly with his irons, but throughout a fallow period he remained a top-notch driver who has always been capable of popping up out of nowhere. At last, however, he comes here having strung successive results together.

The talented 29-year-old ended last year with 11th place in Mauritius where he hit the ball really well, and I was struck with his positivity in Cape Town last week where he was up close to the lead all week before finishing in a share of seventh.

His record here isn't as strong but that helps hold up the price and he was at least sixth in 2016. More recently, he missed the cut only narrowly on his penultimate visit and this time returns with a point to prove as he chases a second win from these Challenge Tour events, having played in only six of them so far.

Next on the list is SHAUN NORRIS, who less than a year ago won a DP World Tour title on home soil and is a massive runner.

Norris was in contention for the Dubai Desert Classic a fortnight ago and made the weekend thanks to a quality ball-striking display at Al Hamra, so he's been playing well at a considerably higher level. He has everything in his favour back home and down in grade.

Like Stone, he has placed in this event despite a hit-and-miss overall record at Fancourt, and it's also of note that he's played two Challenge Tour events outside of South Africa in the last 15 years and was bang in the mix in both before fading late on.

This is just the second of these co-sanctioned events he's played in and he should expect to contend at this level having generally been in good nick lately. At 20/1 and upwards he's a rock-solid option who has done plenty of winning worldwide.

I've the utmost respect for Renato Paratore who will pay his way at this level, and I like OJ Farrell as a player who could even develop into a potential Road to Mallorca threat in the months ahead, but it's the South African youngsters who appeal more this time.

Christiaan Burke qualified on Monday and has been put in at around the 100/1 mark but the one to be on is CASEY JARVIS, who progressed throughout the week in Cape Town for a respectable top-30 finish.

Before Christmas we saw him in the mix on the DP World Tour twice, firstly when ninth in the Joburg Open and then when fifth at halfway before a poor weekend in Mauritius, and this all came after he was runner-up to George Coetzee in the South African PGA Championship.

A winner on the Big Easy Tour during an amateur career which saw him reach the top 50 in the world, Jarvis already has what it takes to beat a field like this and he has some winning experience at Fancourt from his junior days, which can't hurt.

The general rule with these events is that it'll be either an established or potentially top-class local or a European raider and while there are exceptions, chances are it holds true.

For that reason I'll also risk just a small, speculative bet on LUCAS BJERREGAARD, one of the most talented players in the field (he was playing the WGC Match Play in 2019) and a runner-up here in 2014.

That's his only appearance at the course to date but he's played well in several DP World Tour events in South Africa, most famously when falling from the lead to 49th at Leopard Creek, and the nature of Fancourt really ought to suit a Portugal Masters and Dunhill Links winner.

We all know he's dropped a long way down the rankings, hence why he's here, but 34th in Portugal two starts ago was fine and he'd shown up well behind Jon Rahm when 23rd in Spain, as he had when 20th in France, while third place in the Wales Open came six months ago this week.

It's worth noting that Bjerregaard was a general 66/1 chance for the Open de Espana and around 80/1 in Portugal. He's played once since, missing the cut on the number in another event which was far better than this one and for which he was again 80/1, yet now we can have similar and even three-figure prices in significantly lesser company.

Yes, Portugal is where he won his first title and had been second in 2021, but the best predictors of success are ability both of the player and those who make up the field. There's no way he's less likely to win this title than the events he was playing when we last saw him and he simply has to be backed at three-figure prices which are, to be frank, a bit of an insult.

Andrea Pavan's top-10 finish last week demonstrated what we all know: that, just as they say in boxing, there are levels in golf. Don't be at all surprised to see players like Bjerregaard and one or two others find improvement for the realisation that they find themselves operating at the wrong one and need to do something about it.

Singapore Classic

There are unknowns aplenty ahead of the Singapore Open so the best advice is to read carefully, but for a small-stakes bet on day one I do like the look of TAICHI KHO to win his three-ball (0110 GMT).

This youngster was close to top-class as an amateur at Notre Dame and almost qualified for the Masters when he lost a play-off to top-ranked Keita Nakajima at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

He played in five tour events while still an amateur last year and did well in four of them, leading the Indonesia Open after round one, producing plenty of good golf for 25th place in an International Series event before that, and doing the same to climb from 104th to 38th in another of them in Korea.

We've seen signs already that he gets the ball out there a long way so his professional debut might well come at an ideal course, given that this one is dubbed 'The Beast', features four par-fives, and will play soft and receptive after rain in recent weeks.

Given that he's got plenty of experience in Asia, the Hong Kong youngster might just surprise a few and his three-ball may not take much winning regardless.

Andrew Johnston's career has been beset by injuries and other off-course issues and having admitted to struggling with post-lockdown life on the DP World Tour, he was out for the whole of 2022 with another fitness problem.

It was a fine effort to finish 38th in Dubai on his return but he withdrew from the Ras al Khaimah Championship last week, citing a recurrence of the hand problem he'd been dealing with, which means there's a massive red flag next to his name here.

Despite that, Johnston is favourite over Joakim Lagergren, the erratic Swede who has started the year with back-to-back missed cuts.

Lagergren's second-round 67 in Dubai was a step in the right direction and he has form at the courses I looked at for this tournament, so he's definitely an outsider to respect just as he's always a player to consider for the first-round lead at big prices.

However, so capable is he of throwing in an absolute shocker that taking him on when a shortish price in three-balls makes equal sense and I'm not sure you could pick two better partners for a bet on Kho here.

That bet might not be available to everyone given that most bookmakers tend to shy away from the low-key groups on the DP World Tour, but KIRADECH APHIBARNRAT is a selection you can back across the board (0435).

The popular Thai started to produce some of his best golf in years towards the end of 2022, finishing 12th in Italy and eighth in Spain before a couple of high finishes on the Asian Tour to round things off nicely.

Last week he returned with a very solid share of 28th in a Saudi International dominated by current or former PGA Tour players, so he's primed to go well on his first start in Singapore since 2014.

Aphibarnrat has plenty of fast starts in this country to his name and he won the Malaysian Open courtesy of another, so I'm hopeful he could be among those battling it out for the early lead by the time those of us in Europe wake up and refresh our apps.

He's grouped with Eddie Pepperell, whose struggles off the tee continue and along with a badly misfiring putter have resulted in three missed cuts to start the year, while Calum Hill has understandably been up and down as he works his way back to full fitness.

Hill is the danger but 6/4 about the favourite is well worth taking.

Phoenix Open

Ordinarily I'd be keen to have a pop at the first-round lead in Phoenix, but such is the strength of this week's field that enthusiasm in that market wanes. Besides, the draw is yet to be made at the time of writing.

There were two other options I explored, firstly the top South African betting where Garrick Higgo's improvement combined with his 21st place here last year have probably forced him into an artificially short price.

On balance, Christiaan Bezuidenhout's form is a heck of a lot stronger and he holds a commanding head-to-head lead (23-10) which reads 8-3 if we measure from the beginning of 2022. The pair tied in the AmEx last time out but while Higgo has played well in two subsequent starts, it strikes me as a little early to be pricing them as equals.

With Dylan Frittelli out of sorts and Erik van Rooyen's AmEx performance no guarantee of anything here, there's a case for Bezuidenhout at 2/1. Ultimately though I wonder if this might not quite be his course and that's enough of a doubt to end the speculation there.

The top Englishman market is dominated by players who struggled last time out. Of the trio, Tommy Fleetwood would be preferred to Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton, but 12/1 Matt Wallace appeals somewhat in a six-runner field.

Wallace has caught the eye with top-20 finishes in his two DP World Tour starts this year and his desert form crosses the Atlantic, with 14th and 28th in two Shriners starts and third place at TPC San Antonio both nice enough pointers.

Approach play is key at Scottsdale and his had been excellent prior to Dubai so while he was poor here last year, there are reasons to expect improvement. The trouble is, while there are doubts surrounding the big three in the betting it's still overwhelmingly likely that at least one of them proves too good for Wallace, so again I'm happy to stick rather than twist.

Posted at 2015 GMT on 07/02/23

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