Racing Post US Women's Open predictions and free golf betting tips

Free golf tips, best bets and analysis for the US Women's Open at The Olympic Course, San Francisco, which starts on Thursday.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Golf, 10pm Thursday

Tournament starts 4.28pm BST

Best bet

Danielle Kang
1pt each-way 18-1 general

So Yeon Ru
1pt each-way 16-1 general

Patty Tavatanakit
1pt each-way 28-1 bet365

Tournament preview

It may be June but the elite of women's golf may have to navigate through fog and cloudy conditions to successfully tackle the Olympic Club in San Francisco at this week's US Women's Open.

The Lake Course has hosted the men's version of the Major five times - Webb Simpson was the last winner there in 2012 - and the 156 competitors will have to concentrate on staying on the tight undulating fairways.

The players will have to cope with plenty of elevation on the par 71, 6,457-yard track and while two-time winner and seven-time Major champion Inbee Park leads a strong South Korean contingent at the head of the market, plenty are fancied with the number chalked up shorter than 20-1 in double figures.

An accurate hitter looks likely to triumph on the claustrophobic course and Danielle Kang and So Yeon Ryu both fit the mould.

Kang has solid stats and reached the quarter-finals of the Bank of Hope Match Play last week, so her game is in decent shape.

The San Francisco native has claimed five top-ten finishes in her last 122 tournaments and won the PGA Championship i 2017, so she knows what its like to be in the winners' circle.

The world number six's best performance in the US Open was fourth three years ago at Shoal Creek, Alabama and she could improve on that.

So-Yeon Ru is ranked 37th in accuracy on the LPGA and boosts strong greens-in-regulation and putting stats too, so it is unwise to dismiss the 2011 champion.

In the last five weeks she has finished third at the Honda Thailand, sixth at the World Championship and fifth at the Hugel-Air Premia La Open, so could be coming to the boil at the right time for a test on a track which should suit her skillset.

Slightly further down the list is Thailand's Patty Tavatanakit, who won the first Major of the season, the ANA Inspiration, nine weeks ago.

Since then the world number ten has finished third in both the World Championship and in Thailand, while she reached the quarter-finals of the Match Play, so she is bubbling nicely for another bold bid.

Match play winner Ally Ewing is one to keep an eye on too but it would take a leap of faith to back her after she played 105 holes in searing temperatures in the Nevada desert last week.

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