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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:  26 Points

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  1.73 Points

Think you can pick better?  Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Zurich Classic.  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.

Congrats to Craig who was the only one to pick the winner (Jim Furyk) and with his 10 points moves into a tie for 3rd place on the BTE LB.  Craig, your first weekly win is worth a free 2010 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit.  Please contact me for sign up instructions. 

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Last Week:

I’m at a loss for words.  K.J. Choi started on fire out of the gate with a 64 and a 1st round lead only to close with three straight rounds over par and a T41 finish.  Seriously WTF?  Is there an injury we don’t know about?  Scott Verplank and Vaughn Taylor both missed the cut.  I now know why my traffic numbers are up from last year.  You’re not here to gage who to pick but who NOT to pick.  If this point drought continues I might have to try my luck at LPGA Fantasy Golf Picks.

On a side note it seems I’m always a week late and dollar short.  A week after collapsing in the year’s first Major, Jimmy racks his second win of the season and looks dominant once again.  I can’t help but wonder if it’s not him but me.  Are my picks cursed?  Did I swiftly bring about a first round 80 with a few strokes of my dusty keyboard?  Odds are unlikely, however I will be keeping a close eye on this “Planer Curse.”

This week:

The Tour makes it annual stop in New Orleans this week, (never thought I’d say this) home of the Super Bowl Champion Saints.  The TPC of Louisiana is a Pete Dye course that plays a little tougher then it’s predecessor since it became the host course in 2004.  It’s a tournament never short on drama, with the winner three of the last four years winning by a lone stroke.   So sit back, relax and enjoy the birdie fest, even if the field is a little blah.

(Stricker has withdrawn Wednesday afternoon.  Changing my pick to Steve Marino)

1. Steve Stricker

Speaking of the “Curse,”  the first time I picked Steve Stricker this season he went on to lose as a #1 seed in Match Play.  Now I know I wasn’t the only one to pick Strick that week but I’m just sayin.  That said there’s no one more worthy of my pick to break the jinx.  Three missed cuts aside, Steve has never finished worse then T26 here in eleven career starts with two Top 10s.  He also has not missed a cut this season so I’m confident (GULP) he’ll be playing the weekend.   Coming off a T30 at the Masters, Stricks should be ready to join the ranks of Ernie and Jimmy as the only two time winners thus far in 2010.

2.  Charles Howell III

Forgeting the missed cut at the Masters (where he always stuggles), Charles Howell III is playing some consistent golf in 2010.  Which bodes well for Zurich where Howell Three has never missed the cut.  With four Top 10s in seven career starts it’s hard to overlook him.  Better yet he’s finished T2 in this event his last two starts.  Last week he was tied for the lead going into the weekend before a 73-71 finale.  That shouldn’t be a problem this weekend with a R3 and R4 RSA of -4.00 or better since 2007 at TPC of Louisiana.  You better bring it.

3.  K.J. Choi

I’m a glutton for punishment.  Do I let K.J. Choi burn me again?  I like to think of it more as a chance at redemption.  That Choi is in the field this week tells me he’s not hurt (though I don’t know if that makes me feel any better).  If we pretend that rounds 2-4 never happened last week (thus canceling the Furyk jinx?) then Choi is one of the hottest golfers in the world, coming off a T4 at the year’s first major.  If not for the fact that Choi won this event in 2002 (though on a different course) I may have looked the other way.  The golf ball’s in your court K.J.  If you ever want to be picked again here the rest of the year you will deliver at least a Top 10 this weekend!

(Here’s to hoping that a few childish threats can break the “Planer Curse”)

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