Things are looking up with a round to go, despite Xander Schauffele's catastrophic start to round three and the fact that while Woodland was in the Masters staking plan and Rose was the headline bet in the PGA, truly neither were on my radar here.

They're looking up (and these things are relative) thanks to Chez Reavie, a 9/1 top-20 bet who currently sits in third place. Of course, given that he was a 250/1 chance there's an element of the bittersweet here but to be frank chances are that he stutters a little and finishes around 10th place anyway. Providing he doesn't win and does finish inside the 20, no complaints.

Viktor Hovland, meanwhile, was one of two winning two-ball selections yesterday, and in playing well enough to account for Webb Simpson he kept slim top continental European hopes alive. They're slim because the lead here is jointly held by Jon Rahm and Henrik Stenson four shots away, but Hovland currently fills the final place and at 28/1 that's just fine.

Should he sneak into the frame there, Reavie hang tough and Schauffele even climb into the top eight, it will have been a profitable week in an event which just has not played out how I had expected, let alone how I had hoped.

Onto today's best bets and for all that I can see Woodland going through with it, he doesn't look a bet at 2/1. Oosthuizen is somewhat tempting - he leads the field in birdies and could well make a significant early move - but we'll stick to the two-ball coupon where Sergio Garcia looks a value play against Jordan Spieth.

Much of this is built on the final-round scoring averages for 2019, which have Spieth ranked 203rd of 209 players and Garcia firmly inside the top 40. Of course, Spieth's struggles have come during a period of rebuilding after one of the worst stretches of his career, and he's only going to climb as his long-game becomes more trustworthy.

However, he's not there yet and having hit under 50 per cent of greens in regulation over the course of rounds two and three, he's having to fight for everything - all while on the end of some stick from the galleries.

Garcia struggled a little from tee-to-green early in the third round, but he came home with eight pars and a birdie and that may have set him up nicely for the sort of solid final round which has been beyond Spieth for most of the season.

At 6/4 generally and 17/10 in places, he's the best outsider, with Tommy Fleetwood the pick of the more fancied runners ahead of his two-ball with Aaron Wise.

Opposing Wise paid off yesterday and it's a little difficult to understand why we'd be able to take the same price with a different yet very similar opponent now.

Fleetwood hasn't had the week he wanted but last year's final round at Shinnecock demonstrated yet again that he's not one for throwing in the towel. He'll have eyes on the round of the day to sneak inside the top 20 and build some momentum for the summer months.

Wise was very poor throughout the third round, making an eight at the ninth and a double-bogey at the 15th in a round of 78. He's gone from having a decent chance to having no chance and it will be hard for him to recover.

Posted at 0800 BST on 16/06/19.