Fantasy Golf Picks

I’m giving myself points for picking winners.  Hopefully my picks can help you win your fantasy golf league this season.  My goal is to get to 111 points for the season, or the equivlant of picking a Top 3 finisher or better each week, based on the point scale below:

Winner = 10 points

2nd Place = 5 points

3rd Place = 3 points

Top 10 = 1 point

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Total:  57 Points

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  1.72 Points

Think you can pick better?  Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Deutsche Bank Championship.  If you Beat The Expert in any week you will win a FREE 2010 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit (a $9.99 value) with one possible Grand Prize winner at the end of the FedEx Cup season.  See here for official BTE rules.

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Sorry for the short and sweet version this week but my schedule has been more then hectic lately.

1.  Dustin Johnson

2.  Camilo Villegas

3.  Adam Scott

Fantasy Golf Picks

I’m giving myself points for picking winners.  Hopefully my picks can help you win your fantasy golf league this season.  My goal is to get to 111 points for the season, or the equivlant of picking a Top 3 finisher or better each week, based on the point scale below:

Winner = 10 points

2nd Place = 5 points

3rd Place = 3 points

Top 10 = 1 point

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Total:  57 Points

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  1.72 Points

Think you can pick better?  Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Barclays.  If you Beat The Expert in any week you will win a FREE 2010 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit (a $9.99 value) with one possible Grand Prize winner at the end of the FedEx Cup season.  See here for official BTE rules.

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Last Week:

Oh what could have been.  Until rather average rounds of 67 on Sunday for both Lucas Glover and Brandt Snedeker it was looking like I’d be making a huge jump up the BTE LB.  But as it turns out both finished outside the Top 3 but still in the Top 10 and good enough for 2 Points for me.  Jerry Kelly shot in the 60s all four rounds but never lower then 66 (par 70) to finish T34.   Hard to complain though in a week when no one else managed to score points.  Oh what could have been. 

Speaking of what could have been, how about what was?  Arjun Atwal wins his first career PGA Tour tournament.  Not bad for a PGA journeyman and Monday Qualifier with only seven career Top 10s since 1996.  That is what makes golf such a great game.  Did anyone have Atwal even making the cut last week?

This week:

It’s playoff time!  And there’s never been a more wide open race for the FedEx Cup.  The Top 125 on the FedEx Cup Points list compete for a chance to ultimately get into the final 30 at East Lake at the end of the month, with the winner taking home a cool $10 million prize. Of course the FedEx Cup points are a little more complicated then that but that’s the jist.  Jist win baby!

1.  Phil Mickelson

Just when everyone writes off Phil Mickelson’s season he tends to play well.  Phil has had a rather lousy summer by Phil standards but don’t think that’s he done just yet.  Not only a shot at the #1 World ranking is on the line in these playoffs but also his first FedEx Cup title.  Phil has not been terrible in this event, if not a little average.  He only has one Top 10 in seven starts but has never missed the cut.  His T12 finish in his last start at the PGA Championship is a good sign that the roller coaster may be heading upwards.

2.  Kevin Streelman

Kevin Streelman is close.  Although he has missed cuts in three of his last four events he finally put together four solid rounds last week for a T18 finish.  In his previous two events he shot lights out…..for one of two rounds.  Streelman finished T4 here in 2008, the last time the event was played at Ridgewood Country Club.  I expect a Top 10 at least from Kev this week.

3.  Justin Leonard

The streaky Justin Leonard got his first Top 10 of the season last week, shooting four straight rounds in the low to mid 60s, enroute to  a 3rd place finish at The Wyndham Championship.  Up until now it’s been a subpar season for Leonard but all that could change over the next four weeks.  Sitting 70th in the FedEx Cup standings, Justin can make a big move with another Top 10 this week.  He has two Top 10s here in seven career starts including a T7 in 2008.  Let’s see that good play continue.

Fantasy Golf Picks

I’m giving myself points for picking winners.  Hopefully my picks can help you win your fantasy golf league this season.  My goal is to get to 111 points for the season, or the equivlant of picking a Top 3 finisher or better each week, based on the point scale below:

Winner = 10 points

2nd Place = 5 points

3rd Place = 3 points

Top 10 = 1 point

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Total:  55 Points

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  1.72 Points

Think you can pick better?  Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Wyndham Championship.  If you Beat The Expert in any week you will win a FREE 2010 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit (a $9.99 value) with one possible Grand Prize winner at the end of the FedEx Cup season.  See here for official BTE rules.

Mad Props to Cal for being one of a very few (in the world) to pick Martin Kaymer to win the PGA Championship.  Cal’s money pick shoots him into 4th on the BTE LB, a little bit closer to the #1 spot.  Very impressive.

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Last Week:

At one point early in round 3 all five of my picks were in the Top 25, with three in the Top 5.  But that’s why they play 72 holes.  In the end I’m happy to get 3 points for Rory McIlroy’s T3 finish and just one shot out of a playoff.  Ernie Els and Jim Furyk both disappeared on Sunday while sleepers J.B Holmes and Vijay Singh played very well in spurts finishing T24 and T39 respectively.  Winning the BTE contest is not gonna happen for me this year but my goal now is to finish in the Top 3.  It won’t be easy as everyone’s picks have been solid week in and week out.

It was unfortunate that bunkergate is how we’ll remember this PGA Championship, but honestly if not for bunkergate we probably wouldn’t remember this one at all.  With all due respect to Martin Kaymer who is at the top of his game at the right time, Dustin Johnson’s blunder will never be forgotten, even more so had he just gone on to win.  Probably not the immortality that DJ was looking for but a good controversey none the less.  I can’t wait for the 30 minute special on bunkergate when the PGA returns to Whistling Straits in another 5 years.  Maybe by then the course will change the $%^# rule.

This week:

This week we put the majors for 2010 behind us and set our sites on the Playoffs.  With only one golfer in the Top 20 World Rankings in the field this week, it wont be the star fest we’ve been used to the last few weeks.   The Wyndham Championship has a long history going back to 1938 and is one of the older tournaments on tour.  Expect lots of birdies and maybe even a run at a third 59 on tour this year as the average winning score the last three years  has been -19.

1.  Lucas Glover

It’s no suprise that Lucas Glover has struggled a bit this year, one year removed from his best year on tour.  He has only two Top 10s in nineteen starts this season.  On the positive side he has only missed five cuts which shows he’s at least been consistent.  And though one of those missed cuts came just last week, Glover is a stud at this event.  Since 2005 he has finished no worse then T24 with one Top 10.  One of only a handful of major winners in the field this week, look for Glover to make some noise.

2.  Jerry Kelly

Like Glover, Jerry Kelly has a great track record at the Wyndham.  He has three Top 10s here in his last four starts with only two missed cuts in twelve career starts.  Kelly got his first Top 10 of 2010 just two weeks ago so the stars are aligned for him to play well this week.  Top 10 or bust.

3.  Brandt Snedeker

Brandt Snedeker tends to play his best golf in August and September.  Already a winner at this event in 2007, Sneds is showing signs of golf life again with three Top 20 finishes in his last five starts including a T8 at the U.S. Open.  Snedeker is a tricky golfer fantasy wise as he has yet to find the consistency that others from the class of 2007 have found.  If he can put together another good run through the end of September he just may sneak into the Top 25 Fantasy Rankings once again.