Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Predictions: Phoenix

Congratulations to last week’s winners. Ian Poulter recorded his first PGA Tour win at the WGC-Accenture Match Play, and Cameron Beckman earned his third PGA win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

Now grab your favorite beverage and start writing your cheers (or jeers), because it’s time to hit #16–TPC Scottsdale #16 that is, the loudest hole in golf. The tournament this year has a new sponsor, Waste Management (who may have their hands full disposing of all those empty beverage containers), and a new name, the Waste Management Phoenix Open (known as the FBR Open last year), but the rowdy atmosphere is the same as ever.

I have two players to watch this week:

* J.B. Holmes. He’s won twice here. Enough said.

* J.P. Hayes. He has two top-10's in his last two starts. It will be interesting to see if he carries that momentum forward this week.

My Yahoo Fantasy Golf team this week is:
“Front 4": Ryan Moore, J.B. Holmes, Kevin Na, Matt Kuchar
“Bench team”: Kenny Perry, Brian Gay, David Toms, J.P. Hayes

Last week’s predictions didn’t go so well. My Match Play pick, Ross Fisher, got bounced in the first round, and my Mayakoba picks weren’t much better (Jerry Kelly finished 28th, and Nick Dougherty should’ve just skipped the week, as he missed the cut). With only one B-team player for the weekend, my Yahoo Fantasy Golf team slipped back to the 81st percentile, with a total of 1131 points.

Best of luck to all!

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