Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Mercedes-Benz Championship

Tomorrow starts the first tournament of 2009 for the US PGA Tour. The event is in Hawaii, where 33 players will be at the select-field event, the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Rank Player CLi
1 S Vijay Singh 2.90
2 S Zach Johnson 8.05
3 S Davis Love III 8.05
4 S Ernie Els 8.55
5 S J.B. Holmes 8.90
6 S Stewart Cink 9.50
7 S Kenny Perry 9.75
8 S Justin Leonard 10.00
9 S Trevor Immelman 10.65
10 S Boo Weekley 11.40
11 S Adam Scott 13.95
12 S K.J. Choi 14.25
13 S Geoff Ogilvy 14.45
14 S Will MacKenzie 14.55
15 S Ryan Palmer 14.70

Below are my 5 picks for the Mercedes-Benz Championship:

Rank Player CLi
1 S Vijay Singh 2.90
2 S Ernie Els 8.55
3 S J.B. Holmes 8.90
4 S Stewart Cink 9.50
5 S K.J. Choi 14.25

I am not sure if the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) will post his picks for this tournament or not. We will have to wait and see. However, at the time of this posting, he had not posted them on pgatour.com.

Posted by at 6:15 PM

7 comments:

  1. glad to see ur back
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  2. Thx, it is nice to be back. I didn't mean to go AWOL towards the later part of last season. I ended up getting swamped with things, mainly from my reading and writing in the doctorate program. Very time consuming, more so than I imagined.

    If you are up for it, make sure to post your picks.
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  3. I like Holmes, Immelman, Love III, Singh, Turnesa.

    Thanks bud!
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  4. I agree with anonymous. Your picks and the CLi were most helpful last year.

    I also dug around for Shedloski's picks, but it seems that Helen Ross is now doing the Tour Insider, with no picks.

    http://www.pgatour.com/2009/tournaments/r016/01/07/insider_mercedesbenz/index.html

    It also looks like pgatour.com and yahoo have developed a partnership and are using the Fantasy insider to make picks based on the yahoo format.

    http://www.pgatour.com/2009/tournaments/r016/01/06/tfi_mercedes/index.html
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  5. Hmmmm.....ok, so Ross takes over the Tour Insider with no picks and Shedloski has not posted an article to the pgatour.com site since mid-December. Let's wait a week to see what Shedloski (and Ross) do next week for the Sony Open. Then based upon what they do, I will look for another "Tour Insider" to compete against.

    Yep, saw that Yahoo! Sports and pgatour.com are now hooked up. I think that is because of the relationship with Turner Sports. Turner Sports runs pgatour.com and now has a strong alliance with Yahoo! Sports. I guess Turner didn't want to continue with other fantasy golf provider from previous years.
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  6. So, JB Holmes sucked. Dissapointing.
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  7. Yes, JB didn't perform that well at Kapalua, which was surprising. He is scheduled to play this week in the Sony. Let's see if he bounces back in a strong fashion at the Sony.
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