Seven of the world top-10 tee it up at ‘Jack’s Place’ this week, and whilst the field is missing top-of-the-shop Scottie Scheffler and recent PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, there’s enough there with the last three three champions and runner-up slots all represented.

Whilst Matt Vincenzi works out which of the classier players is the best value in the outright market at Muirfield, here are the best of the rest.

Jordan Spieth Top-5/Top-10 +550/+200

It’s been a strange return to form for the three time major winner after a horrendous 2020.

Previous to that, the 28-year-old relied on his short game and putting ability, but these days he seems to have improved his iron play so much that those previously outstanding figures have fallen away.

In whatever fashion he is doing it, the fact remains that in his last 34 starts from 2021 to date, Spieth has two wins, four runner-up finishes, two bronze medals and five further top-10s.

Nominating Augusta as having a similarity with the track this week, Spieth’s missed-cut at The Masters this year was a shock but I’m happy to judge him on his overall record of one win, two seconds (one which should have been a victory) and a pair of thirds. Equally, his form since that effort has been admirable with a win at the Heritage, at which he beat two-time Memorial champion Patrick Cantlay in a play-off, a second place behind an inspired KH Lee at Craig Ranch, and last week’s closing seventh at Colonial..

The last five leaderboards here have seen a prevalence of high-level tee-to-green stats, with the top two ranked players in each of the last three years, finishing in the top three on the final leaderboard.

In his last five completed starts, the former world number one has ranked first for that vital stat in Texas and at Harbour Town, second at the Byron Nelson and seventh last week. Even when 34th at the PGA Championship, he ranked 12th for that crucial asset.

Similarly, the par-fives are the scoreable holes around here and Spieth lies in the top-five for the longer holes over the last eight weeks.

The bizarre routines he has adopted seem to work, so let’s row along with him this week on a course where his average finish over the last three years is just shy of 13th.

Davis Riley Top-10/Top-20 +500/+200

Mito Perreira Top-10/Top-20 +470/+170

Whilst previous winners David Lingmerth and William McGirt were not the class of their rivals, they’d had a previous run-out or two around Muirfield before their shock victories.

That would seem the only doubt for both Riley and Perreira, both of whom can land both bets here this week before going off at far shorter prices in years to come.

With Will Zalatoris yet to get over the line at this level, maybe his close friend and college companion, Davis Riley, will usurp him to that first victory.

Having turned pro in 2019, two wins on the KFT allowed him to gain his card post-lockdown and whilst it took a while to get going, recent efforts have seen him rise from 395th in March to 94th today.

A third round 62 paved the way to a play-off loss to defending champion Sam Burns at the Valspar before his last four efforts have seen three top-10 finishes in Mexico, at the Byron Nelson and lately the Charles Schwab.

In between, a tied-13th at Southern Hills showed he can mix it on long, tough courses and there seems no reason he can’t do it all over again this week, his length (25th for par-5s over eight weeks) and ball-striking (9th over the same period) surely enough to see another potential first-time winner.

Chilean Perreira should be a winner on tour by now and but for a wayward tee-shot on the 72nd at Southern Hills, would already be down in golf history.

It was a cruel blow for the best player at the PGA Championship, and little was expected just seven days later. However, the 27-year-old was hugely impressive in coming from a slow start to finish inside the top seven last week, his sixth top-10 finish of a short 26-event PGA career.

Like Riley, the three-time KFT winner is in a rich vein of form with the withdrawal from the Zurich Classic his only blemish on a six-event run that sees a worst finish of 27th.

Both players have already proven they can play the toughest of the courses on tour, they have excellent iron-play stats, and both are ranking highly in greens-in-regulation.