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.

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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, 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:  7 Points

2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average:  2.33 Points

Think you can pick better?  Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Farmers Insurance Open.  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 including Grand Prize information.

Congrats to Eric McClung who not only picked the winner in Bill Haas (10 points) but also got 5 points for his 2nd place pick in Bubba Watson!  That’s an unbelievable start and you jump to the top of the BTE Leaderboard!  Keep those picks coming. You win a FREE 2010 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit!  Please contact me for details on how to claim your prize.

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Last Week:

Is Tim Clark ever going to get the job done?  He held a brief lead late in the final round but settles for a 2nd place finish.  As much as I would have loved the 10 points, I will take the 5 points for his runner up finish.  Charlie Howell flirted with the Top 10 before a 71 on SilverRock in round 4.  The best Justin Rose could muster was a 67 all week and missed the cut.  Still it was a productive week for me and I’ll take my current #3 standing on the BTE Leaderboard.

This week:

The site of this year’s Buick Invitational, er Century Club of San Diego Open………….I mean Farmers Insurance Open will be played on one of the best courses on the West Coast and the site of the 2008 U.S. Open, Torrey Pines.  (Remember back when Tiger Woods was a family man?)  With Tiger’s return even more in doubt the golf world continues on.  We look to you #2. 

(Keep in mind there are two courses in play for the first two rounds, with the North course typically playing easier then the South course) 

1. Phil Mickelson

The stars could align in 2010 for Lefty if he can get a win this week.  Playing in his first PGA Tour event of the season, Mickelson is no doubt the favorite.  Mickelson has three wins in this event, although the last time was way back in 2001.  Over the last six years he has followed up a poor showing with a Top 10 (T55 2005, T8 2006, T51 2007, T6 2008).  That said he finished T42 in 2009.  In nineteen career starts he has nine Top 10s with just three missed cuts.  If Philly Mick has the putter working it could be a run away win.  But rust could be an issue as he has not played since November at the WGC-HSBC Champions on the European Tour (which he won by the way).  Golf needs you now Phil, no pressure.

 2. Bubba Watson

Watson was awesome last week, finishing T2 with five straight rounds in the 60s (including a 62 in round 2!).  That he is always at the top of the league in driving distance will bode well this week on the long courses of Torrey Pines.   In four career starts here he has two Top 10s with no missed cuts.  I suspect Bubba will be able to maintain his current good play and anything less then a Top 10 will be disappointing.

3. Brandt Snedeker

Sneds has limited experience at the Farmers, but did finish 3rd here as a rookie in 2007.  In his first start of 2010 and somewhat under the radar last week, Brandt managed a T10 finish at the Bob Hope and shot 65 and 66 back to back in rounds 3 and 4.  Typically a slow starter, another Top 10 at Torrey Pines would be huge and could establish Snedy as yet another young American golfer on the rise.  Currently 101 in the World Rankings look for him to be in the Top 50 by years end.  Top 10 or bust.