Sports Trading Club amazing golf savant reveals her prediction to win St Jude Classic

CANARY WHARF, U.K. - June 8, 2013 - PRLog -- (London 6 June 2013) There has been worldwide interest in the Sports Trading Club (www.sportstradingclub.com) golf savant who last month  selected Billy Horschel to record his first PGA Tour victory in the Zurich Classic despite him being a 36-1 outsider.

This weekend we can reveal that she has chosen Harris English, an American in only his second season on the US PGA Tour, at 66-1 to win the St Jude Classic in Memphis, Tennessee.

The 6-foot-3 English was still an amateur when he won on the Web.com Tour at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational in July 2011, and he moved to the PGA Tour in 2012 and finished 79th on the money list. This year, he already has three top 10s, including his best finish yet with a tie for sixth at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans.

“Harris English is my choice this weekend, I've been impressed with English since his debut on tour last year,” she said.

“He's a solid and consistent player.  He is a rare breed where he has excelled since turning pro, yet hasn't grabbed the attention of the media somehow. Going under the radar may be why he plays so well though.  He has made 12 of 16 cuts with 3 top 10's.  I wouldn't doubt that he may breakout with a win either this week or sometime very soon and grab the attention he deserves”.

Her selection last month  of Billy Horschel reinforces the belief that the Sports Trading Club now has an incredible inside advantage with trading on golf, a sport which sees multi-million dollars sums wagered weekly.

The 26 year old Horschel in his fourth PGA tour season was considered a Tour grinder.  He had hit seemingly every stumbling block a player of his talent can hit.

He even had to go through qualifying school a third time just to be on Tour this year.  He  was ranked 23rd on tour in both ball striking and strokes gained putting.

However  Horschel tied a course record at the TPC Louisiana with an 8-under 64 in the final round of the Zurich Classic, which was good enough to win by one stroke over D.A. Points.

On the eve of the tournament  the Sports Trading Club told its members that it was trading on the selections of its golf savant, and that she had chosen Billy Horschel to win.

Her debut for the Sports Trading Club was all the more impressive as she  not only picked the winner of the tournament as a stand-out, but was right in six out of seven tournament match up bets, where she picked one player to beat another over the four days.

The Sports Trading Club created The Insight Project, a world first with the study of savants and sports trading.

It is led by their scientific director Dr. Allan Snyder, FRS who, for some 20 years, has conducted ground breaking research on savants at both the Australian National University and the University of Sydney.

“We have embraced the extraordinary skills of savants to give ourselves a unique advantage,” said Dr Snyder.

“Certain savants unmask patterns that others can't see and are bewilderingly quick at performing calculations and recalling enormous amounts of data, “ he said.

Dr. Snyder, himself a living genius and brilliant learned scholar, believes that certain savants have a distinct  advantage in sports trading, which gives the Sports Trading Club a diagnostic edge that no one else can achieve.

Dr Snyder would say little about the identity of the Savant except that she lives in the USA and four years ago she had never even watched a game of golf.

A small subset of autistics, known as savants, can perform super specialised mental feats.

Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities and abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal.

Perhaps the most famous savant was Dustin Hoffman's character in ''Rain Man,'' who could count hundreds of matchsticks at a glance.

But the truth has often been even stranger: one celebrated savant in turn-of-the-century Vienna could calculate the day of the week for every date since the birth of Christ.

Other savants can speak dozens of languages without formally studying any of them or can reproduce music at the piano after only a single hearing.”

The Sports Trading Club,  which  operates as a private investors group in England, recently allowed the general public to become associate members  in Australia.

It reported a 305% profit for the first quarter of 2013 sending a clear message to investors that trading on sports and prediction markets is an emerging industry to rival traditional financial markets.

In December last year it announced a multi-million pound partnership in Australia and followed  Britain’s largest bookmaker, William Hill, into the booming Aussie sports market.

“Our move to Australia has proven to be astute. A person who invested $50,000 on January 1 of this year has seen that grow to$202,532 in  three months,” Mr Robin said.

“It is high reward for low risk, as at no time did we invest more than one per cent of the fund into any one trade,” he said.

STC recently expanded into South Africa and South Korea is now looking toward expanding throughout Europe and Asia.

STC is currently in negotiations with a joint venture partner for the Macau market.