Sunday, September 23, 2012

Cinderella Story...

Brian Marchant moved up from seventh to win the PGA Challenge Championship! Tom Roberts jumped from 10th place to finish second. Both picked Brandt Snedecker and the remainder of the field didn't have three horses to make up the difference. Don Adams holds on for third place.

Another great year and the trophy will be etched with a new name and be ready for presentation at our October 28 golf outing. We have eight signed up now, please let me know if you'd like to join us. Last year we had a great time. 


Brian Marchant - $2,035,200 - $580
Tom Roberts - $1,890,080 - $212
Don Adams - $1,451,560 - $428
Patrick King - $1,347,848 - $35
John Reilly - $1,306,840 - $48
Jennifer King - $931,840 - $458
Greg Adams - $905,846 - $139
John Barnes - $883,753 - $167
Nick Eber - $844,826 - $8
Mike Jones - $739,100 - $8

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Holy Rory!

Wow, I didn't see any of it but I was surprised he won again. I guess we shouldn't be, this guy is in charge. I don't recall us going into the final event without at least one person over $1M. Usually there is a clear cut leader and everyone has to get inventive with their three picks. In this case you probably just need to get the winner (hoping the three at the top don't pick him) and two other top 10's to steal this thing. You have two weeks to figure out your strategy.

MORE ON RORY...
After quick review of what these two playoff wins mean to Rory and his chances of winning $10M in the finale w/o doing much work. Well you'd be surprised to find out, he may finish 2nd or 3rd and still NOT win it. Kind of nuts, but I think it does make it a bit more exciting. The PGA tries to equate it to other playoffs but I'm pretty sure most "teams" that enter the fourth event (err game) having won 2 of the first 3 would at least get a game 5. In golf where these guys are beating fields of 100+ twice in a row, I think he should almost have this wrapped before teeing. Oh well, it's better than when Vijay just had to finish the tourney to win the first one.

In case you want to learn more click here - http://www.pgatour.com/2008/fedexcup/11/25/2009changes.questions/index.html

Don Adams - $830,600
Patrick King - $726,888
John Reilly - $725,080
Greg Adams - $353,526
John Barnes - $340,553
Nick Eber - $296,826
Brian Marchant - $219,200
Jennifer King - $90,880
Mike Jones - $79,580
Tom Roberts - $34,880

Monday, September 3, 2012

Deutsche Bank Championship

Enjoyable golf viewing today save for the part when NBC tried to make Charley Hoffman's back nine 47 into the most important round of golf since the 1947 U.S. Open. I haven't heard NBC hype up something that lame since well, this week's Notre Dame / Purdue game.

On to this week's picks. There is good news and bad news. There are no more cuts this year, BUT that also means Don will be adding to his leading money total so to catch up you're going to have to make a really solid pick. Patrick made the best pick of the week (Snedecker) moving him into second and Don also had a solid pick in Adam Scott. Three more people found out that Bubba is not committed to golf right now.

Everybody is definitely still in this with four total picks remaining.

Don Adams - $722,000
Patrick King - $448,888
John Barnes - $321,300
Brian Marchant - $145,600
Greg Adams - $75,526
Mike Jones - $56,700
John Reilly - $21,080
Nick Eber - $18,826
Jennifer King - $17,280
Tom Roberts - $17,280