Consider last year. Do all the analysis, study all the form, talk to players, caddies, coaches, the bloke driving the courtesy vans, and Brendan Steele wins at 100-1.

But that was then, this is now, as a wise man once said. And there are, of course, some usual suspects.

Talor Gooch won the first one on 19-under after back-to-back 62s. Steele finished 18-under after three rounds last year.

But who, this time, can average 66 for three days in a row? There's a host of them. You could as well ask Artificial Intelligence.

So, let’s do that! Everyone’s getting their information from the Internet these days, the term "mainstream media" is used like a sledge, and no-one cares if anything's factually true anyway, long as it sounds good, that'll do.

Brendan Steele was popular with bookmakers last year. He's a 100-1 shot again this time. PHOTO: Getty Images.

So! Were you to type: “Who will be the big chances at LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange” into one of those AI chat-bots, servers around the world will instantly come back with:

“Cameron Smith is an Australian with a strong following in Adelaide, and his skillset around the greens is often praised, especially in conditions that require strategic play.”

Which isn’t actually too shabby. So, let’s run off that. Nice one, computers.

Smith had a dud Australian Open, the last of four 72-hole tournaments in five weeks that he contested on a goodwill tour of - with apologies to Nudgee - the bush. But, still, head and heart, you like him for Adelaide.

For one, he’d be a cracking story. For two, he does, genuinely, have the short game to roll the rock and bite wedges into The Grange’s A1 or A4 bentgrass greens, depending on the nine holes of The Grange GC composite.

Smith remains world class. He’s a proud man. And he once described LIV Adelaide as “the greatest event of his career” – and this after winning the 150th Open Championship at the Old Course at St Andrews.

But you know what he means.

Marc Leishman's consistency has seen bookmakers list him as a 20-1 shot to take out LIV Adelaide. PHOTO: Getty Images.

Marc Leishman, too, wants to win the individual title, and his third-placings in the Australian Open and PGA Championship indicate that there is still desire in Leishman, for all his happy-hippy proclamations. He still wants to win things. He still very much can.

And yet, there cometh Jon Rahm, and there cometh Joaquin Niemann, and there cometh the in-form Tyrell Hatton.

And there cometh, like so many spores of star-spangled malaria, the Americans. And those guys, as the old PGA Tour advertisement went, are good.

Rahm won the season-long LIV Golf league individual title, and enjoyed champagne and fireworks after wins in LIV Chicago and LIV UK, held at JCB Golf & Country Club in Staffordshire in the centre-bull of Great Britain. You’d have to like big Rahmbo to be up there and thereabouts. Rahm is a mighty golfer.

Niemann, meanwhile, is more consistent that Greenwich Mean Time. He just seems to be … always good. Because he always has been. He was the world’s best amateur for two years (2017 and 2018) and before he signed with LIV had won nine times on tours around the world. He won two LIV individual titles in 2024 – Mayakoba and Jeddah – and is captain of the Torque team that won four times. He’s still only 26. He is a smoking gun.

Joaquin Niemann: More consistent than Greenwich Mean Time, will go out in shotgun start at 8-1. PHOTO: Getty Images.

Americans? You’ll get plenty from Gooch, Brooks Koepka, Cameron Tringale. We can forget Patrick Reed because he’s an odd bird with a sketchy past. But the mad bastard can play.

Dustin Johnson? Big lug appears to be dialling in his rounds. He's 66-1 for a reason.

Koepka is 20-1. There's value there.

But my tip, after all that gibber-jabber, is the Special One. The hybrid, part-bison, part-mad-scientist, Bryson DeChambeau. Because he is extraordinary.

Competed like thunder in three of the four major championships of 2024. Year before that he won two LIV events – Chicago and Greenbrier. And last year he won the U.S Open at Pinehurst No.2, and there is some chance you saw his magnificent 42-metre sand save from the front-bunker on 18 whilst under the pump.

Whatever happens, Bryson is box office. You have to watch. You want a tip? He's $10. There is still time.

Prefer others: 4 Aces man Harold Varner III is a 125-1 shot to win the individual event at LIV Adelaide. Which sounds about right. PHOTO: Getty Images.

Smokies? There are several.

While it’s “only” a 54-man field, that still means it’s like a Melbourne Cup, albeit one run like a Golden Slipper, hammers and tongs. You could pluck names and make cases for several players, including Louis Oosthuizen, last-start winner Adrian Meronk, and, defending champion, what’s his name? Brendan Steele.

Asian Tour-watchers will tell you Peter Uihlein has long been in rich vein of form. Abe Ancer won LIV Hong Kong last year.

Pick a random Stinger, you’ll get 25-1.

I’ve always had a thing for Harold Varner III, who won LIV DC in 2023. Though like a modern-day KJ Choi at the majors, his form since has been better for Sportsbet than me.

So, gamble – or better yet don’t – responsibly.