Steve Palmer's free predictions and golf betting tips for the Qatar Masters
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When to bet on the Qatar Masters
By 3.10am on Thursday
Where can I watch the Qatar Masters
Live on Sky Sports Main Event and Golf from 9am on Thursday
Steve Palmer's Qatar Masters predictions
Laurie Canter
5pts each-way 12-1 Betfair, Power
Sam Bairstow
2pts each-way 45-1 bet365
Matthew Jordan
2pts each-way 45-1 Coral, Ladbrokes

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This is the fifth and final week of the DP World Tour's stay in the Middle East – a period which started with the Team Cup in Abu Dhabi and concludes with the Qatar Masters in Doha – and some players have clearly run out of gas. Thorbjorn Olesen, who has been prominent in the DPWT betting all season, missed the cut by six shots in Bahrain last week and has not entered the Qatar finale.
Patrick Reed has headed off to Saudi Arabia for the first event of the LIV season, leaving a pair of Englishmen dominating the betting. Jordan Smith has been the man for early money, chalked as short as 14-1. He injured a shoulder prior to the Bahrain Championship and opened with a 75. Smith's final three rounds were more encouraging, but this rare winner is unconvincing in contention and can be left alone at the short odds.
Steve Palmer's top tip
Laurie Canter 12-1
Back-to-back DPWT titles seems an entirely feasible scenario for Laurie Canter, who won in Bahrain last week despite holing hardly anything on the greens.
Canter's putts per greens in regulation statistics highlighted how he dominated the tournament with his ball-striking. He was the 62nd best putter in round one, 79th in round two, 17th in round three and 55th on Sunday. Despite letting countless birdie chances slip away, he carded four rounds in the 60s, claiming a second DPWT trophy.
A birdie at the first playoff hole in Bahrain highlighted the ball-striking class of Canter, who was the most impressive tee-to-green performer on his way to third place in the Dubai Desert Classic in his preceding start. Prior to that, the Bath man played a leading role in Great Britain and Ireland's Team Cup success.
Canter has been working with a new putting coach in David Howell. If they take his putting to a new level, Canter has immense potential. He is up to 51st in the world rankings and must be sensing the opportunity of a Masters debut.
Canter sensibly skipped the Ras Al Khaimah Championship, taking a breather before Bahrain, so he has plenty left in the tank for Qatar. If he is in the top 50 of the world rankings in the first week of April, he will book a ticket to Augusta, so there is every incentive to perform in Doha. He finished 12th in the 2022 Qatar Masters on his last visit and has a rock-solid record in the Middle East.
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Sam Bairstow 45-1
Going 13 under par for his final 54 holes in Ras Al Khaimah meant Sam Bairstow finished 16th, then he played some great golf in Bahrain, carding two eagles and 16 birdies on his way to 32nd place, closing with a 68.
Bahrain was another encouraging desert performance from Bairstow, who was the most accurate driver in the field in round two and round four. He carried an ice-cold putter for three rounds, but started rolling his rock nicely on Sunday. If his wand stays warm for Qatar, expect him to contend.
The left-hander finished 13th on his Doha debut last year as a DPWT rookie. He won on the Challenge Tour in 2023, became a DPWT leaderboard regular last year, and should get off the mark soon.
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Matthew Jordan 45-1
Complete a team of Englishmen with Matthew Jordan, who ended last year with second place in the Nedbank Challenge, before starting 2025 with two and a half points on a successful GB&I Team Cup side.
Jordan followed up with 27th place in the Dubai Desert Classic, before missed cuts in Ras and Bahrain. Mental fatigue may have been a reason for the Ras failure – the Team Cup was a big deal for him and three weeks on the spin was challenging – while one crazy hole undid a lot of good work in Bahrain. He carded an eight at the par-three second hole in round two. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Jordan shot a bogey-free first-round 68 in Bahrain, so he knows his A-game is not far from the surface, despite that second-hole disaster last Friday. A windswept Doha seems an ideal place to get back on track. The Wirral lad has always been exceptional in a breeze, underlined by him finishing tenth in the last two Opens.
Jordan was joint-leader going into the final round of the 2022 Qatar Masters, finishing fifth, and the 29-year-old seems a likely contender again. He won on the Challenge Tour in 2019.
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Course guide for the Qatar Masters
- Course Doha Golf Club, Doha, Qatar
- Prize money $2.5m ($425,000 to the winner)
- Length 7,508 yards
- Par 72 – four par-fives, ten par-fours, four par-threes
- Field 144 The cut Top 65 and ties qualify for round three
- Highest-ranked players in field (world ranking in brackets) Laurie Canter (51), Jordan Smith (94), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (107), John Parry (111), Jorge Campillo (113)
- Course records - 72 holes 268 Paul Lawrie (1999), Adam Scott (2008); 18 holes 61 Adam Scott (2008)
- Course winners taking part Darren Fichardt, Alvaro Quiros, Chris Wood, Eddie Pepperell, Justin Harding, Ewen Ferguson
- When to bet By 3.10am on Thursday
- When to watch Live on Sky Sports Main Event and Golf from 9am on Thursday
- Time difference Qatar is three hours ahead of the UK and Ireland
- Last week – Bahrain Championship 1 L Canter (20-1), T2 P Larrazabal (200-1), D Brown (100-1), T4 I Cantero (66-1), M Couvra (275-1), D Puig (16-1), R Ramsay (150-1)
- Course type Desert
- Course overview Doha has been the traditional home of the Qatar Masters, staging the inaugural edition in 1998, then every year until 2020 – when Education City Golf Club took over for two years. Doha resumed hosting duties in 2022 for a windy event which produced the worst winning total in the tournament's history (seven under par). The Qatar Masters was played in either January, February or March every year, so the 2023 late October gathering was unusual. The weather is crucial at Doha, an exposed track which can be bullied by big-hitters under calm skies, but becomes much more testing in a breeze
- Story of last year Rikuya Hoshino edged Ugo Coussaud for a maiden DPWT title
- Weather forecast Sunny and warm, with moderate breezes, throughout
- Type of player suited to the challenge Accuracy and control is required when the wind is blowing at Doha, but this is a long track where power is also a useful asset
- Key attribute Accuracy
Steve Palmer's Qatar Masters key stat
Four of the last six Doha winners were making their course debut
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