Fantasy Golf Picks: Italian Open

Seven of Darren Clarke's Ryder Cup team are competing

(Image credit: Getty Images)

This week in Fantasy Golf its the 73rd Italian Open from Golf Club Milano, here are the men to have in your teams...

Fantasy Golf Picks: Italian Open

There's no PGA Tour this week, with the FedEx Cup taking a break before the finale at East Lake next Thursday.

That means that the Italian Open from Golf Club Milano takes centre stage.

Italian Open

The 18th at Golf Club Milano (Getty Images)

Seven members of Darren Clarke's European Ryder Cup team are in the field as Sweden's Rikard Karlberg defends after narrowly beating Martin Kaymer to the title last year.

Related: Ryder Cup 2016 - Team Europe

Last week, Dustin Johnson and Paul Casey were the two big winners at the BMW Championship where 50% extra points were on offer. For the full round up click here.

Fantasy golf Italian Open

Each week the GM Tipster posts his betting tips. He’s picked 13 winners this season and stands at over 750 points up.

Think you can pick better than him? Then prove it! Sign up to our FREE Fantasy Game and join the Take On The GM Tipster mini league.

League Name: Take On The GM Tipster League password: gmtipster2016

There are great prizes from Puma Cobra Golf to be won each and every week. This week’s prize is a Cobra F6 stand/cart bag and the prize for the month is a golf travel bag and duffle bag, perfect for a golf break.

Fantasy Golf picks for this week:

Italian Open

GB: Danny Willett - The Masters champ hasn't won since Augusta but threw in a final round 64 at Crans-Sur-Sierre two weeks ago. He is also the highest ranked player in the field.

Ireland: Paul Dunne - Dunne has had two top tens this season, including at the recent Made in Denmark, and a host of other top 16 finishes. He's a straight ball hitter which will suit the course in Milan too.

Scandinavia: Rikard Karlberg - The Swede is defending champion so he'll surely be motivated to play well. Nobody has successfully defended the tournament since Belgium's Flory Van Donck did so in 1947 but hopefully Karlberg can have a good week to at least become top scoring Scandinavian.

Rest of Europe: Martin Kaymer - Last year's runner-up could really do with a victory to boost his confidence, having had to rely on a wildcard pick for the Ryder Cup. He has been on good form this year but still hasn't won since the 2014 US Open.

Italian Open

Asia: Byeong-Hun An - The Korean came 3rd last week at the KLM Open and also finished T11th at the Olympics, expect him to earn you some points in Milan.

Australasia: Scott Hend - Will the Aussie win in Europe for the first time? He's certainly been threatening it. Hend has 9 Asian Tour wins including two co-sanctioned with the European Tour. He's coming off a T4th last week at the KLM and a 2nd at the European Masters to sit at 14th on the Race to Dubai.

Elliott Heath
News Editor

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV