Our stats gurus have scoured the form book and selected these five players you might want to consider for your Fantasy Race to Dubai team this week in the Lyoness Open Powered by Greenfinity at European Tour Destination Diamond Country Club.
Bernd Wiesberger
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Too obvious not to be the very first name on your team sheet this week. Austria’s own, World Number 37, former winner and all-round darling of Diamond Country Club Bernd Wiesberger will undoubtedly be a favourite this week – and rightfully so. Wiesberger hails from nearby Vienna and has in the last four years here finished runner-up in 2014, 14th in 2013, first in 2012 and fifth the year prior. An epitome of consistency, the 29 year old has already amassed more than €1m in prize money this year and is flying high at fifth in The Race to Dubai currently. He narrowly missed out on another European Tour title in his last start with a runner-up finish in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Royal County Down– his fifth top six finish in just nine events this season. Form horse.
Rafa Cabrera-Bello
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When Rafa Cabrera-Bello reaches the end of his career, it’s pretty much nailed on that he will look back on the fourth and final round of the 2009 Lyoness Open as one of the finest days of golf in his professional life. That halcyon Sunday, Rafa fired a sublime 60 to claim his maiden European Tour title – and in some style. The athletic Spaniard has shown some decent form of late with a tied fourth place in Ireland followed by a tied 13th last week in Sweden and his solid all-round game could fare well at Diamond Country Club - a diverse test of golf where accuracy is at a premium. Cabrera-Bello is long-ish off the tee and has ranked inside the top 20 on Tour in Greens in Regulation in each of the last three years.
Nicolas Colsaerts
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This week's course - on the back of a monstrous layout last week in Sweden - presents another brutish test at 7,417 yards. Length, however, has never been a problem for the prodigious hitting of Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts. Consistently one of the longest hitters on Tour, having averaged well in excess of 300 yards in each of the last five years, 'The Dude' finished seventh last week to claim his first top ten of season so could well be edging closer to top form and a potential shy at that long-awaited third European Tour title.
Daniel Im
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Fresh from winning his maiden title last week at the Challenge Tour’s Swiss Challenge presented by Association Suisse de Golf, with his girlfriend on the bag no less, American Daniel Im returns this week to The European Tour and the site of his best previous performance on the circuit. Thanks to a stunning course record 64 on the final day, the Californian came up seventh at Diamond Country Club 12 months ago to secure his only top ten finish en route to a 138th place finish in The 2015 Race to Dubai in his first season on the top table of European golf. After his heroics next door in Switzerland two days ago, Im will be hoping his red-hot form continues in Austria this week.
Lee Slattery
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Englishman Lee Slattery was the unfortunate man to miss out on retaining his European Tour card by just a single place in The 2014 Race to Dubai, but the 36 year old Southport native is dead set on bouncing straight back via the limited starts he does get this year. Slattery could be one to look out for this week in Austria, having picked up his second top ten finish of the season last week with a tied seventh place in Sweden. Also, with fourth and ninth place finishes here in the last two years, he clearly enjoys playing the precise game required for success at Diamond Country Club.
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