Fantasy Golf Results – Hyundai Tournament

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My first week of fantasy golf and I did not fair well.  My picks finished miserably out of a field of 28 they placed: 12th (Kevin Na 12 under par), 16th (Keegan Bradley with 11 under par, 18th (Bubba Watson at 8 under par) and 25th (Brendan Steele over par by three strokes).

The winner was Steve Stricker with a score of 23 under par — he had a great tournament. I like Stricker very much but he had been dealing with a neck issue at the end of 2011 and so I did not think he would be healthy for the Hyundai.  Turns out he had a cortisone shot during the holidays and he feels great.  Would I have picked him to win knowing he had the shot? Who knows but I do know all the press on his bad neck made me ignore him as a pick. Can you really recover that quickly?  Maybe but some of the golf chatter online is wondering how bad he was hurt.  All I know is that when I had a cortisone shot in my elbow it was amazing how much better it felt weeks later.  Give him the benefit of the doubt that he was really hurt and all the therapy and cortisone did the trick.

As for my performance, not to worry I have many more weeks to improve my results.

Fantasy Golf 2012 Starts Today

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This year, for the first time, I have entered a Fantasy Golf League online.  It seems appropriate that this be my first post.  Why?  Well, because it is winter in New England and so I don’t have any “on course” antics to share.  So, I am going to share my golf expectations for how well I will do in the Fantasy Golf League.

My expectation is optimistic – if you are a numbers person, a 7 out of 10 that I will do reasonably well (or will be in the top 10 in the leader board and will win one week sometime this season). Now, I have never participated in a fantasy league. I’m sure those that I am competing against for the weekly, sectional,and year-end grand prize have all kinds of statistics and knowledge they use to pick their predictions; but I will start with just my gut (basically players I know and like to watch or maybe throw in a golfer just because I feel like it)

The first tournament is the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and my guys are:

(1)  Bubba Watson – because he is a lefty, and Phil is not playing. Plus he just had a round of 58 on his home course so I take that as a good sign that he will play well this week.

(2)  Keegan Bradley – because he is from New England and his aunt is Pat Bradley, one of the LPGA’s finest (in her day, won 31 tournaments and is in the Golf Hall of Fame).

(3)  Kevin Na – because he won Justin Timberlake’s tournament last year and I actually like the fact that Justin supports golf as a sport.  Timberlake is the owner of  Mirimichi, an eco-friendly golf course and Callaway Golf just named Timberlake as creative director (and I’m a Callaway fan.) I guess Callaway is hoping he will “bring sexy back” to golf and young fans to Callaway.

(4)  Brendan Steele — to be honest I don’t really know anything about Brendan but I had to pick someone from the list in “group 4” and I recall seeing him play. This is my “what the heck” pick.

Now, you may look at my picks and think to yourself that my optimism is crazy but this is only the first tournament and the field is only 28 players (so many of my favorite players are not in the running because this tournament is for golfers that won a tournament in 2011.)

I have many, many tournaments to improve my predictions.  Check out the next post to find out the results.