2010 Quail Hollow Championship Preview
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
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: 26 Points
2010 Fantasy Golf Picks Weekly Average: 1.63 Points
Think you can pick better? Leave a comment with your 3 picks for the 2010 Quail Hollow 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.
In a week with unfamiliar names in the Top 10, Craig gets his second weekly win of the year and was the ONLY one with points. His pick of Stuart Appleby (6th) was good for 1 point and moves him into sole possesion of 3rd place on the BTE LB. Craig’s new nickname is simply “Clutch.”
| Rank | Name | Weeks | Weekly Win | Win (x10) | 2nd (x5) | 3rd (x3) | T10 (x1) | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | E. McClung | 34 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 106 |
| 2 | Brad | 32 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 96 |
| 3 | C. Giles | 26 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 82 |
| 4 | C. Cameron | 29 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 80 |
| 5 | E. Planer | 37 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 66 |
| 6 | E. Hamilton | 22 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 13 | 59 |
| 7 | J. Book | 31 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 56 |
| 8 | J. Littlefield | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 8 | 23 | |
| 9 | Shane | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 20 | |
| 10 | Dr Peerless | 6 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 14 | |
| 11 | Bryan | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | |
| 11 | T. Whitehead | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | |
| 13 | R. Slaughter | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| 14 | C. Garner | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Dutch | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Last Week:
Much to my dismay, idle threats made to professional golfers on a Fantasy Golf blog do not get results. Both K.J. Choi and Charles Howell III got off to great starts but faded on the weekend, with only one round in the 60s between them after Thursday. As a testemant to my continuing jinx, initial pick Steve Stricker withdrew before the tournament started and replacement pick Steve Marino missed the cut by a mile (77-75). As a man of my word I will stand by my statements from last week. I will not be picking K.J. Choi for my blog picks the rest of the year. For the jinx sake, if K.J. goes on to win a major this season I will be expecting a hand written thank you note.
This week:
If you’re not excited about this week’s Quail Hollow Championship then you’re not a golf fan. An amazing field will be teeing it off in the NC including World #1, Mr. Tiger Woods. Six of the World Top 10 and twelve of the World Top 20 will be competing at the Quail Hollow Club. With four par 5’s you can bet their will be plenty of scoring opportunities, though the course plays closer to Augusta then to PGA West. I haven’t been this excited for a tournament since……..well since a few weeks back at the aforementioned Masters.
But this time around you can bet the house that Tiger will lose the rust. With that said I’m not f’n around this week. I’m coming out of the booth and going all big dogs.
1. Tiger Woods
The media frenzy may not be as much a factor as first thought. Either way I fully expect Tiger to dominate this week in an event that he won back in 2007 and where he has three Top 10s in four starts (the other being a T11 finish in 2005). Averaging a win on the PGA Tour every 2.4 starts in the FedEx Cup era, he’s due for his first win in 2010. With all the distractions at Augusta (and a shotty putter) he still managed a T4 finish. I have to think all the kinks have been worked out and Tiger is ready to be Tiger again. And that’s not easy for me to say as a Phil guy.
2. Phil Mickelson
This is a great opportunity for Phil Mickelson to close the gap even further in the World rankings. With Tiger in the field it’s also another chance for a Tiger/Phil final Sunday pairing. Phil has played this event every year going back to 2004 so he knows the course. He also does very well, never missing a cut with four Top 10s in six starts. Can he continue his torrid scoring from a few weeks back? Odds are good he won’t have back to back eagles but don’t be suprised if he gets back to back wins should Tiger’s putter whoas remain.
3. Anthony Kim
Anthony Kim just might be who we thought they were, er……..who we thought he could be, the next best young American golfer. In a short schedule thus far Kim has a Win, 2nd and 3rd place finish (that’s 6 bonus points for you Rotoffers counting at home) in his last four starts. Better yet, his 3rd place finish at Augusta was the first time he finished better then Tiger Woods in a PGA Tour event. After a sluggish start he is starting to get back the swagger that we saw in his sophmore campaign. I don’t think he can win this week in such a top heavy field but I expect a Top 10.
