2009 Tour Championship Preview
| by Erik Planer | ||||
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| September 22nd, 2009 | 
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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.
Winner = 10 points
2nd Place = 5 points
3rd Place = 3 points
Top 10 = 1 point
2009 Fantasy Golf Picks Total: 103 Points
2009 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average: 2.86 Points
Last week:
(Well actually two weeks ago) I got 5 more points to my total on Furyk’s 2nd place finish. Both Mick and Strick played terrible for most of the tournament and especially on Sunday, with a 76 and 77 respectively. Now sitting at 103 points for the season I basically need to pick the winner this week to reach my season long goal of 111 (a 2nd and 3rd will also do). I’m feeling confident.
This week:
<YAWN>The playoffs heat up this week as five golfers have a shot to win the FedEx cup. Tiger, Stricker, Furyk, ZJ and Slocum all could be crowned Fed Ex Cup champion with Top 3 finishes, depending how the field fairs. And while it will be enteraining to see these five dual it out at East Lake, it’s hard to think that the PGA has their playoffs right. A true playoff would give the winner of the Tour Championship the FedEx Cup. As it stands now there are twenty five other golfers that could win this Sunday and not be the playoff champion. Let’s just call the FedEx Cup what it really is, a reason for Tiger to play in September.
How would I change the format if I were commish? Make it more urgent, more sudden death. One Hundred Twenty Five man field, and four weeks of golf craziness. You miss the cut, you go home. All cuts would come after four rounds. 125 down to 100, 100 down to 75, 75 down to 30 and the winner of the Tour Championship is the FedEx Cup champion. That would be must see golf T.V and would be no different then any other major sports league. Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey, the regular season means nothing once the playoffs start. You can go 82-0 in the NBA regular season and if you lose in the first round of the playoffs you go home. Why should a golf playoff be any different?</YAWN>
Michael Arkush also has some great suggestions for spicing up the FedEx Cup.
1. Tiger Woods
As much as it pains me to say it, this might just be another laugher like we had at the BMW. Tiger has one win (2007) and five Top 10s in six starts at East Lake, including three 2nd place finishes. Don’t think he’s come this far just to putt away the FedEx Cup. Winning the Cup won’t erase his major drought but it will make him $10 million richer. And no one needs the money more then Tiger. Seriously though, Tiger will win just so no one else can.
2. Retief Goosen
Goosen, #15 in FedEx Cup points, can’t win the whole thing but don’t expect that to put a damper on his play. Goose, like Tiger, has a great track record as East Lake, try one win (2004) and four Top 10s in four starts. Already with one Top 10 in these playoffs (Duetsche Bank) expect the Top 10 trend to continue for Retief on a couse that he knows well.
3. Jerry Kelly
2009 will go down as one of the best PGA Tour seasons for Jerry Kelly. A win, four Top 10s and only one missed cut since the end of May, Kelly also has good history here. Albeit only two career starts here, he has finshed 3rd and 4th. He was just outside the Top 10 in Boston before a T49 finish two weeks ago. This is definately a sleeper pick as there are others with more on the line this week, but that just might work in Mr. Kelly’s favor.
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