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

Leaderboard

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.

Last Week:  Another bad week for me and currently in a two week slump with no points.  I realized after round 1 that I had the wrong pairings and courses for my golfers which threw everything out of whack.  Mickelson struggled early (74 in R1) and his rebound over the weekend was too little too late, finishing T49  (I wouldn’t be suprised to see him bounce back this week at Torrey Pines but don’t want to pick him two weeks in a row).  Haas never got off the ground and just barely made the cut, ending at -8 and T65.  Kevin Na who finished T30 was my best pick but no where near the Top 10. 

It was a great finish for TV as there were several golfers in contention down to the final holes.  In the end Mark Wilson got the job done and is the winningest PGA Tour golfer in the last twelve months, with 3 wins.

This Week:  It’s another week with multiple coures, but this time only two.  Each golfer will play their first two rounds on the North and South courses at Torrey Pines.  Historically the North course plays a shot to two shots easier than the South, though not as drastic a difference in scoring we saw last week. Pick your golfers accordingly. 

As of Wdnesday afternoon pairings and starting course information is not available.  I will provide a link here once available.  If anyone has located pairings for the first two rounds please post a link in the comments section.  Thanks.

Bubba Watson

Defending champ, Watson will make his second start of the year in San Diego.  The last three years Watson has two Top 10s here, including a win last season.  He did miss the cut in 2010.  Bubba is coming off a mediocre start at Kapalua where he finished T18, though without two back to back double bogies in round one could have been in contention on Sunday.   Bubba is fast becoming (if not already) one of the top American golfers, ranked #21 in the World, and should win at least one tournament in 2012.  This might be his best chance in a relatively weaker field minus the top Euros.  Bring it on home Bubba!

Hunter Mahan

Mahan makes his first start of the season at Torrey Pines and is about as safe a pick as you can make this week.  In 2011 he only missed three cuts in twenty five starts, with nine Top 10s.  One of those Top 10s was at the Farmers where he finished T6.  He could come out a little rusty but I fully suspect nothing less than a Top 10.  This is a no brainer and a lot safer than picking Phil for the second week in a row.

Ben Crane

Beaverton’s Ben Crane won this event two years ago, but that’s just gravy.  The real reason for this pick is Crane’s stellar play last week.  If not for a ho-hum final round 71, Crane would have won last week.  He stared hot with a 65 and 63, yet even with his final round still garnered a T8.  So the fact that’s he playing good golf mixed with the win here is straight money.  Another Top 10 this week would be three in three events.  Not bad for a boy from Beaverton. 

Speaking of boys, totally an accidental segway, but I just realized my picks are almost the entire Golf Boys lineup.  Oh Oh Oh!

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.