Expert Picks: Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

The Tips returns this week with more expert insight to help you choose your Fantasy team ahead of events on both the DP World Tour and the PGA TOUR.

How it works: Every week a panel of industry-leading golf tipsters and special guests provide their expert tips for the week ahead.

Whether it’s making picks to update your Fantasy Team or keep your eye on the betting markets, our experts provide their insights into the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and Sanderson Farms on the PGA Tour through our podcast - The Tips.

Joining regular host Ollie Silverton this week are Sky Sports Commentator Kit Alexander and golf writers Dave Tindall and Niall Lyonss, who outline their picks and reasons for both tournaments on this weeks podcast, which you can find here: https://linktr.ee/dpworldtour.

If you have not done so already, you can sign up to play the official 2023 DP World Tour Fantasy game and submit your six-man team before round one gets under way on Thursday: https://fantasy.dpworldtour.com/

The 2023 season-long winner will win a trip to the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next year, enjoy a lesson with a DP World Tour professional and a round of golf on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. For more information on this amazing prize and others, read here

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Straight from the Ryder Cup to the home of golf, the DP World Tour returns to Scotland for the iconic Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, hosted on three different venues: On the Old Course in St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.

As ever, the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship incorporates two separate competitions - an individual professional tournament for the world's leading golfers and the Team Championship in which the professionals are paired with amateur golfers. The format lends itself to forging a strong sense of camaraderie between the professionals and amateurs in the field. The setting for the tournament is steeped in history, with play held in rotation over the first three days at the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. The final round is then played over the Old Course, which staged The 150th Open Championship last year. The cut is made after three rounds, with the 60 leading professionals and ties playing in the final round, along with the 20 lowest scoring pro-am teams, regardless of the professional’s individual score.

Along with family ties for players like Matt Fitzpatrick, who is playing with his mum and Billy Horschel, who is playing with his wife, a whole host of celebrities from the world of sport and TV. Also making their way from Rome to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is actress Kathryn Newton and former footballer Gareth Bale, who competed in the All-Star match. Other stars include Stuart Broad, Ronan Keating, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Murray, Rud Gullit, Mathew Goode, Huey Lewis, Andy Garcia and A.P. McCoy.

But who will perform well this week?

Outlined below are our headline picks from tipsters Dave Tindall and Niall Lyons. Listen to the podcast to hear who else they think will perform well this week, including Billy Horschel and Thorbjørn Olesen.

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Jordan Smith

DT: Ten of the last 11 winners here had ranked inside the top 10 for greens in regulation. Number one in those standings is Jordan Smith. I like him as a bet this week. He's got a bit of atonement for me. He was fifth here in 2019, made the cut at St. Andrews in 2022 and he's got some good form as well. He was 12th at the Scottish Open, played really well in the US Open and he's just continued that really. And then he got really close in France a few weeks ago where he was runner up. So I think someone who just peppers the greens all the time, that's got a really good chance here.

And with that fifth under his belt, I think he's got a good chance to win it.

Callum Shinkwin

I think he's actually playing really good golf and a return to links is just coming about the perfect time. He obviously won, he's won at Celtic Manor and his ball striking has been great lately. Last time out in France it was great again, obviously he was in the top 10 at Wentworth, played absolutely unbelievable stuff tee to green, and the same again in France. He's been exceptional with his long game lately and now I think his return to links has come at a perfect time. Second to Fox here last year obviously, and in 2017 he was beaten in a playoff by Rafa Cabrera Bello at Dundonald.