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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.

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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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:  70 Points

2009 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  2.50 Points

Last week: 

There’s nothing like waking up at the wee hours of the morning to watch live golf……………………..except if you live on the west coast.  Note to TNT:  we on the west coast don’t like three hour tape delays.  I had to watch your coverage from the discomfort of my computer chair.  Ok, now that my little gripe is off my chest………………what an Open!  Even with Tiger missing the cut the TV ratings were up 15% from last year thanks to an amazing run by 59 year old Tom Watson.

No doubt most will remember Watson’s bogey on 18 to eventually lose the Open, but lets not forget Cink’s birdie putt on 18 some thirty minutes earlier.  Now that Cink has his first major win I will go on record and say he will have at least three by the end of his career, much like Mickelson and Paddy, who gathered three each in short spans after winning their first.  Congrats Stew!  BTW, Cink can be found on Twitter @stewartcink for all you Twitterers and you can follow us @RotoffGolf.

All in all it was a good tournament for picks as well.  I got 3 points for Westwood’s 3rd place and 1 point for Els’ Top 10.  Sergio made the cut and had a few stretches of solid play but was no where near winning.  My total now sits at 70 points with nine weeks left in the FedEx Cup season.  My goal is still in reach, but I’m gonna need some winners down the stretch.

This week: 

A suprisingly decent field this week in Oaksville, ON for the Canadian Open.  Three of the Top 20 golfers in the world are in attendance and not suprisingly I’m going with a few in my picks.  There will be a lot of birdies this week as the average winning score at -15.67, though it’s been played on different courses. 

There’s no need to get up early this week, without further ado, the winning picks: 

1. Camilo Villegas

In four starts, Camilo has two Top 10s in this event.  Villegas started off hot last weekend in Scotland, opening with a four under 66.  If not for a birdieless (is that even a word?) round on Saturday he would have been in Sunday contention.  Still a T13 finish is nothing to scoff at.  Spidey hasn’t missed a cut since March and this is a tournament he could very well win. 

 2. Sean O’Hair

If you look past his WD at the Memorial, Sean also has not missed a cut since March.  Already with six Top 10s this year (and over $3 million in earnings), O’Hair didn’t fair well last weekend shooting 75 and 74 to finish T65.  Luckily for him (and for us) O’Hair has two 3rd place finishes at the Canadian Open in three years.  He game still needs some fine tuning but I would be shocked if Sean doesn’t bring it this week.  I see another Top 10 in his future.

3. Jerry Kelly

Last week, Kelly got his first Top 10 since winning his first PGA Tour tournament in April.  Though it was a weaker field at the U.S. Bank Championship, a 3rd place finish is still a 3rd place finish.  In looking over Kelly’s career he seems to play better in these smaller tournaments.  Coming off four straight rounds in the 60s, including a 65 last Sunday, Kelly has some momentum and should be in contention again this Sunday.