Career Builder Challenge

Not sure how many of you saw the playoff (I didn't) but it appears there was another exciting finish at the Career Builder. I did see Dufner's rocky par on 17 that helped him get to the playoff -- LUCKY break!

Big Joe Eber and Russ Tigue both picked Dufner and split the $60 winning pot. We'll start over at $20 this week at Torrey. Perhaps just as impressive as the Dufner pick both Cale Harbin and John Doyle picked David Lingmerth.

Updated standings (note where it says NA that is someone who is tied with the place above). Another week or two and the handy spreadsheet will fix itself.

Russ Tigue - $1,809,604 Bill Horton - $1,447,800 Ryan Zuckerman - $1,390,297 Mike Blair - $1,314,400 Joe Eber - $1,114,000 Kyle Rubeling - $841,501 #N/A - #N/A Eric Simmonds - $776,715 Gray Kitchens - $763,897 Cale Harbin - $744,173 PLAYOFF CUT LINE     John Doyle - $735,840 Travis Brown - $717,667 #N/A - #N/A Drew Dunigan - $621,004 Matt Saler - $388,004 Allen Freedman - $302,934 Justin Marksamer - $293,337 #N/A - #N/A Hunter Hughey - $268,538 Jamie Pimentel - $253,897 Cabo-Wabo - $236,718 Drew Johns - $236,715 Jennifer Garrity - $232,400 Jason Swanson - $229,734 John Barnes - $223,900 Chad Crawford - $215,001 #N/A - #N/A #N/A - #N/A John Reilly - $206,742 Rob Randall - $206,057 Sean Scoopmire - $176,837 Tom Roberts - $176,742 Chris Edwards - $174,870 Scott Stein - $168,871 Sue Hubbard - $162,052 Chris Hood - $150,215 Nick Eber - $148,000 Brian Remsberg - $147,604 Tom Sullivan - $137,397 Stefen Lovelace - $91,267 Mark Eber - $78,333 Nick Kursman - $61,500 #N/A - #N/A

Sony Update

Mike, Bill and Ryan are off to a good start with the same picks in Patrick Reed at Hyundai and Brandt Snedecker at the Sony. On the other end we had a record 11 players knocked out of the cuts made streak with either NP or MCs.

Perhaps most importantly, yesterday we were able to capture a photo of the 2015 champion Joe Eber. The photo to the right was taken at SLOW's in Detroit, possibly the classiest place we've captured the winner's photo in tourney history.

Reminder: League dues must be paid before your pick will be accepted this week. Below is your paid / entry fee status. You owe the total stated.

Mike Blair	-	$1,314,400	-	Paid
Bill Horton	-	$1,314,400	-	Paid
Ryan Zuckerman	-	$1,314,400	-	Paid
Kyle Rubeling	-	$   765,604	-	Paid
BJ Sweeney	-	$   765,604	-	Paid
Russ Tigue	-	$   765,604	-	Paid
Travis Brown	-	$   704,733	-	Paid
Richard Rapkin	-	$   704,733	-	Paid
Eric Simmonds	-	$   700,818	-	Paid
Gray Kitchens	-	$   688,000	-	Paid
Drew Dunigan	-	$   458,604	-	$100
Allen Freedman	-	$   290,000	-	paid
Hunter Hughey	-	$   255,604	-	Paid
Matt Saler	-	$   225,604	-	Paid
Justin Marksamer	-	$   217,440	-	Paid
Matt Mead	-	$   217,440	-	$100
Jason Swanson	-	$   216,800	-	$  80
John Reilly	-	$   206,742	-	Paid
Jamie Pimentel	-	$   178,000	-	$  77
Rob Randall	-	$   178,000	-	Paid
Tom Roberts	-	$   176,742	-	Paid
Chris Edwards	-	$   160,818	-	Paid
Drew Johns	-	$   160,818	-	Paid
Scott Stein	-	$   155,937	-	Paid
Nick Eber	-	$   148,000	-	Paid
Sue Hubbard	-	$   148,000	-	Paid
Brian Remsberg	-	$   147,604	-	Paid
Chad Crawford	-	$   139,104	-	Paid
Jeff Henry	-	$   139,104	-	Paid
Stefan Manford	-	$   139,104	-	Paid
Cale Harbin	-	$   117,773	-	Paid
John Doyle	-	$   109,440	-	Paid
Sean Scoopmire	-	$   100,940	-	$  85
Mark Eber	-	$     78,333	-	Paid
Stefen Lovelace	-	$     78,333	-	Paid
Cabo-Wabo	-	$     74,318	-	Paid
Chris Hood	-	$     74,318	-	Paid
Joe Eber	-	$     70,000	-	Paid
Jennifer Garrity	-	$     70,000	-	$  89
John Barnes	-	$     61,500	-	Paid
Nick Kursman	-	$     61,500	-	$100
Tom Sullivan	-	$     61,500	-	$  80

Final Playoff Results

Live by the Spieth, die by the Spieth. Allen rode Jordan to a win at the Masters but didn't go with him at the TOUR Championship and it cost him the first season sweep in PGA TOUR Challenge history. Joe Eber came from behind with solid picks of Spieth, Stenson and Fowler to capture his first playoff championship. Joe wins $500 and will have his name etched in history on the perpetual trophy next to his little (huh?) brother Mark!

Richard Rapkin ($200) moved into second by also picking Spieth (maybe you guys have heard of him), Fowler and McIlroy. Freedman ($150) dropped to third due largely to surprisingly poor play from Day, Rory and Rickie. The final playoff standings and earnings are below, enjoy the off-season, we'll start back up with the tourney in Maui whatever it will be called next year.
 

Joe Eber	-	$2,822,325	-	$544
Richard Rapkin	-	$1,910,040	-	$241
Allen Freedman	-	$1,676,812	-	$688
Jim Fisher	-	$1,545,342	-	$159
Jeff Henry	-	$1,468,775	-	$57
Bill Horton	-	$1,128,600	-	$40
Chris Edwards	-	$1,099,376	-	$20
Don Adams	-	$970,608	-	$281
BJ Sweeney	-	$930,600	-	$27
Scott Stein	-	$773,987	-	$37

Day Delivers at PGA

Seven people picked Jason Day and he delivered. Six of you made it into the playoffs and he vaulted Allen Freedman from sixth to first place, he finishes as the regular season champion. Interestingly there were no players picked who missed a cut, likely the first time in a major.

Below are the final regular season results as well as earnings.

Allen Freedman	-	$13,842,059	-	$538
Don Adams	-	$13,220,885	-	$281
Jim Fisher	-	$12,877,628	-	$159
Joe Eber	-	$12,550,090	-	$44
Richard Rapkin	-	$12,347,732	-	$41
Bill Horton	-	$12,197,575	-	$40
BJ Sweeney	-	$12,191,400	-	$27
Jeff Henry	-	$11,976,988	-	$57
Chris Edwards	-	$11,816,544	-	$20
Scott Stein	-	$11,544,042	-	$37
PLAYOFF CUT LINE			-
Sean Scoopmire	-	$10,329,155	-	$15
Mike Blair	-	$10,276,865	-	$25
Sue Hubbard	-	$10,156,060	-	$30
Chad Crawford	-	$9,791,578	-	$20
John Doyle	-	$9,563,450	-	$31
Tom Sullivan	-	$9,290,564	-	$20
Ryan Zuckerman	-	$8,835,200	-	$11
John Barnes	-	$8,636,890	-	$22
Nick Eber	-	$8,600,911	-	$0
Matt Saler	-	$8,552,376	-	$30
Mark Wilson	-	$8,441,510	-	$12
Jennifer Garrity	-	$8,428,321	-	$11
Jamie Pimentel	-	$8,252,447	-	$23
Brian Jones	-	$7,667,263	-	$5
Michael Fitz-Patrick	-	$7,602,971	-	$11
Rob Randall	-	$7,379,612	-	$14
Russ Tigue	-	$6,582,711	-	$15
Gray Kitchens	-	$5,874,437	-	$3
Kyle Rubeling	-	$5,827,769	-	$0
Hunter Hughey	-	$5,679,522	-	$12
Mark Eber	-	$5,598,699	-	$0
Jason Swanson	-	$5,322,020	-	$20
Tom Roberts	-	$5,292,922	-	$30
Cale Harbin	-	$5,106,484	-	$232
Stefen Lovelace	-	$5,038,753	-	$0
Chris Hood	-	$5,026,811	-	$2
Brian Remsberg	-	$4,581,802	-	$0
Justin Marksamer	-	$4,404,864	-	$0
Stefan Manford	-	$4,065,283	-	$5
Mike Hubbard	-	$3,946,084	-	$2
John Reilly	-	$3,266,021	-	$0
Steve Smith	-	$1,237,430	-	$0
Travis Brown	-	$960,227	-	$0

PGA Picks

Greetings from Wisconsin. Land of the neighbors staying up watching pre-season football then playing in the streets at halftime. Yep, kind of like Pleasantville.

Jim Fisher	-	$   12,581,628	-	Rory McIlroy
Richard Rapkin	-	$   12,235,618	-	Rickie Fowler
Jeff Henry	-	$   11,864,874	-	Rickie Fowler
Chris Edwards	-	$   11,520,544	-	Rory McIlroy
Sean Scoopmire	-	$   10,284,155	-	Danny Willett
Allen Freedman	-	$   10,242,059	-	Jason Day
Don Adams	-	$    9,620,885	-	Jason Day
Mike Blair	-	$    9,541,865	-	Brooks Koepka
Tom Sullivan	-	$    9,095,232	-	Bubba Watson
Joe Eber	-	$    8,950,090	-	Jason Day
John Doyle	-	$    8,828,450	-	Brooks Koepka
Ryan Zuckerman	-	$    8,723,086	-	Louis Oosthuizen
Bill Horton	-	$    8,597,575	-	Jason Day
BJ Sweeney	-	$    8,591,400	-	Jason Day
John Barnes	-	$    8,340,890	-	Rory McIlroy
Jennifer Garrity	-	$    8,279,121	-	Henrik Stenson
Jamie Pimentel	-	$    8,140,333	-	Louis Oosthuizen
Scott Stein	-	$    7,944,042	-	Jason Day
Matt Saler	-	$    7,817,376	-	Brooks Koepka
Brian Jones	-	$    7,555,149	-	Louis Oosthuizen
Michael Fitz-Patrick	-	$    7,232,171	-	Martin Kaymer
Mark Wilson	-	$    7,081,510	-	Brandon Grace
Rob Randall	-	$    6,793,612	-	Dustin Johnson
Sue Hubbard	-	$    6,556,060	-	Jason Day
Nick Eber	-	$    6,440,911	-	Jordan Spieth
Russ Tigue	-	$    6,433,511	-	Henrik Stenson
Chad Crawford	-	$    6,191,578	-	Jason Day
Gray Kitchens	-	$    5,679,105	-	Bubba Watson
Hunter Hughey	-	$    5,634,522	-	Sergio Garcia
Mark Eber	-	$    5,346,699	-	Phil Mickelson
Kyle Rubeling	-	$    5,241,769	-	Dustin Johnson
Jason Swanson	-	$    5,209,906	-	Louis Oosthuizen
Tom Roberts	-	$    4,996,922	-	Rory McIlroy
Cale Harbin	-	$    4,994,370	-	Louis Oosthuizen
Chris Hood	-	$    4,966,811	-	Danny Lee
Stefen Lovelace	-	$    4,552,753	-	Robert Streb
Brian Remsberg	-	$    4,211,002	-	Martin Kaymer
Stefan Manford	-	$    3,986,883	-	Jason Bohn
Justin Marksamer	-	$    3,804,864	-	Kevin Chappel
Mike Hubbard	-	$    3,650,084	-	Rory McIlroy
John Reilly	-	$    3,153,907	-	Rickie Fowler
Steve Smith	-	$    1,237,430	-	NP
Travis Brown	-	$       960,227	-	NP