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2018 Sky Sports British Masters Preview

We were around half-a-round of seeing something rather extraordinary on Sunday.

Tyrell Hatton, going for a ‘three-peat’ in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, was cruising along and four shots clear of the leaderboard ahead of the business end of the tournament.

But whether the weight of history – he’s have been joining a club featuring Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo as European Tour hat-trick heroes – or the howling gale got to him is anybody’s guess, as Hatton played the back nine in +4 to allow Lucas Bjerregaard to sneak a win through the back door.

The Tour stays on UK soil this week for the revamped British Masters, an event which had disappeared off the face off the earth until 2015, when broadcaster Sky Sports took over sponsorship rights and injected some pizazz into proceedings.

They have introduced hosts for each edition, and following in the footsteps of Ian Poulter, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood in 2018 will be Justin Rose, who will lead the way at Walton Heath in Surrey.

The world number one will be looking to improve on the hosts’ run of form which reads 15-MC-33, although he will be up against a tough field which features the likes of Ryder Cup teammates Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari and Thorbjorn Olesen, as well as Matt Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry and last week’s winner Bjerregaard.

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The action will unfold on the Old Course at Walton Heath; a layout once described by Jack Nicklaus as ‘wonderfully pure’. It looks like your typically British heathland course, although it is surprisingly exposed with minimal tree coverage.

The Old Course will play at around 7,400 yards for its Par 72, and with the rough said to be deep, tangly and best avoided, it might be worth siding with the plotters over the bombers.

The UK tens be peppered with winds and rain at this time of year, and that will lead to some soft conditions. That said, the greens are quick and offer a number of approach options including bump-and-run; it should be a Links-ish style test given its exposure.

Indeed, that theme is enhanced by results taken from the US Open sectional qualifying tournament, which Walton Heath hosts each year on its Old and New Courses. Take a look at the list of qualifiers in 2018: Matt Southgate, Richie Ramsay, Andrew Johnston, Thorbjorn Olesen, Matt Wallace, Tom Lewis, Ryan Fox and Scott Gregory. All are comfortable on the Links, and it seems to be a comparison worthy of further inspection.

We should be in for a cracking week then, so who makes our draft for the British Masters?

This Week’s Sky Sports British Masters Fantasy Picks & Predictions

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