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CHiP is CHamP
Published: September 10, 2026, 7:41pm by Jim GreenwellCongratulations to CHiP and their 3rd Carl Cup championship. CHiP has now won in 2009, 2017 and 2026 (every 9 years). So... 2035 may already be decided.
Hopefully we will have a new site and definitely a new look with the new PGA schedue. More to come.
Calling it now. 2027: Drivers beat Loopers in Championship game.
→ Week 22: The Open Championship
Published: by Jim GreenwellOr... as we like to call it, the British Open. I've stood on the hallowed ground at St. Andrews and I love this tournament. (I know - they are playing it elsewhere).
All the playoff spots are taken. There is a mathematical way that Eagles or Hookers make it over Snowmen, but it isn't worth going over - but it is possible.
The North championship is up for grabs, however. Loopers need to win and Masters lose. If that happens, Loopers get the division title, if not, the Masters.
The number 1 overall seed is up for grabs too. CHiP gets it with a win or Masters' loss. If Masters win and CHiP loses, the Masters get it. So... Masters could be #1 seed or #3 seed.
As for other seeding, it isn't likely to change much otherwise. Loopers if they don't get #1 could drop to #4. Drivers would be #3 or #4, Tee-It-Up #5 and Snowmen #6. There are scenarios that change this, but this is most likely.
And of course, that leaves us with Eagles, Wedges, Hookers and Hol-E-1 in the Toilet Bowl tourney.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 59-41
I'm pretty sure this my best year ever of predictions.
I'm going for 5-0 this week.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges have been pissed since week one when they outscored 8 teams by 30 strokes. But didn't out score the team they were playing. They'll take this week off and be ready for the Toilet Bowl. Tee-It-Up cruises to victory.
Masters v Snowmen: Scheffler is only player to make cut for Snowmen making the weekend interesting (mathematically), but Masters role to a division title.
Eagles v Loopers: I love that the Eagles came alive this year and won a bunch of games. The Loopers are stinging from last week's loss. Can they recover? I say they do. Loopers in a match closer than you would think.
CHiP v Drivers: The potential for this one was huge, but now it's an exhibition. I hear there are plans for CHiP fans to taunt Hatton and McIlroy all weekend. Drivers win this one only because CHiP has a champagn hangover...
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: I'm surprised these guys remembered to set a line-up. A preview for the toilet bowl championshp? Ha. Morikawa plays well can carries Hookers. He won't be on that team next year.
→ Week 21: The Scottish Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell...
3 teams have clinched the playoffs: Loopers, Masters, CHiP. Yes, Drivers could miss, but I'll cover that.
North Division Winner:
Loopers hold tie breaker, just need to stay even with Masters. Masters need to win both and Loopers lose one.
Snowmen cannot win the divions.
South Division Winner:
CHiP wins division with one win or one Drivers loss. If CHiP loses two and Drivers win two, Drivers get it. (CHiP and Drivers player each other in week 22).
The others (there are always other routes, but these are the easiest):
Drivers clinch playoffs with one win or one loss by Hookers. (For Drivers to miss: Drivers, Snowmen, Tee-It-Up have to lose twice. Hookers win twice).
Snowmen: One win or one loss by Hookers or Eagles.
Eagles: Two wins and finish in front of either Tee-It-Up or Snowmen (two losses).
Tee-It-Up: Beat Hooker in week 21.
Hookers: Two wins, one loss by Eagles.
Last week was brutal as I was only 1-4 after two great weeks in a row. Time to get it back together.
LW: 1-4; YTD: 55-40
Wedges v Loopers: Wedges have had a tough year, but they try to play the role of spoiler this weekend as they defeat the Loopers by 10 strokes as Adam Scott has a great weekend.
Eagles v Master: Eagles have won 6 in a row and have a realistic shot at playoffs. They will have to earn it though with the Masters this week and the Loopers next week. Masters see a golden opportunity to take over first place. The flex and take out Eagles by 25 strokes.
CHiP v Snowmen: CHiP wants to lock up division and avoid a week 22 showdown. Snowmen want to lock up a spot before facing Masters in week 22. This one is going to be brutal. I say showdowns for everyone in week 22. Snowmen in a close one as John Rahm has a huge weekend.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: A huge game for these two. Tee-It-Up is in with a win. Hookers need it to stay alive. Look, this TIU team is just better. Victor will lead the way and Tee-It-Up gets a. playoff spot.
Hol-E-1 v Drivers: Drivers are foaming at the mouth. No way they lose this one. It is reported they have plans to heckle the CHiP team as they take on the Snowmen. Week 22 should be fun...
→ Week 20 and the changes...
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe big news in the golf world is the upcoming changes to the PGATour schedule. The details aren't clear to me, but I knew it was coming. It appears the big changes aren't coming until 2028.
I knew this was coming and as a result, I've already started on a new website that will be mobile friendly and more flexible. I've already built in the ability to be flexible on scheduling, rosters sizes, line-ups and so on. You can follow along as I develop at "http://34.59.89.25/index.php" - you have to enter that exactly. It is not secure - don't let your browser change ti to "https". You can use your current password. It is a long way from finished, but you can see what is happening.
On to this week.
LW: 5-0; YTD: 54-36
Easily my best prediction year (I think). As of today, the Eagles, Hookers, Wedges, and Hol-E-1 would miss the playoffs. But, no one is more than 2 games out and with 3 weeks to go - everyone has a chance.
Eagles v Wedges: The playoffs start for the Wedges this week. With a loss, there is still a mathematical chance, but would be really tough. Meanwhile, the Eagles have won 5 in a row and are only one game out of the playoffs. But here is where it goes sideways. Clark misses the cut and Wedges win.
Loopers v Snowmen. The battle for the North title has been a good one. And this week, the Snowmen take their shot at glory. I've been picking the Loopers as the team to beat and I can't change it now. Loopers by one stroke.
Masters v Drivers: Two 11 win teams with hopes of winning the division. Drivers lose and a division win is gone. Masters need to keep pace with Snowmen and Loopers. This is gonna be another good one. Drivers flex and win by 2 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Remember those 4 teams I mentioned that are currently out of the playoffs? Well, they are all Hol-E-1 fans this weekend. And they get their wish. Tee-It-Up falls and creates a free-for-all in the last two weeks for the last playoff spot.
CHiP v Hookers: Well... is there any sympathy for the Hookers? Yeah, I didn't think so. CHiP wins and doesn't feel bad doing it.
→ US Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellHoly CRAP!!!!
I worked for 10 hours on our new website yesterday and completely forgot to set a line-up.
By the way, if you want to follow progress on new site you can - it will take months to build, but I'm working on it. For now you access it via "http://34.59.89.25". I'm working currently on authentication and securing the site - what a pain in the rear.
Okay - I haven't looked - here are my predictions:
LW: 3-2; YTD: 49-36
Wedges v Snowmen: Wedges and Snowmen are coming off losses and are rolling out their best. Cameron Young wins the US Open and leads the Snowmen to victory.
Loopers v Masters: Loopers are pissed about having the second best score and losing last week ("fantasied"). Masters are up on the Loopers and Loopers need this bad. This week the Loopers and Masters will be the two best scores of the week. Who will win? This time the Loopers take it.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: Eagles have won 4 in a row and this week they make it 5 against Hol-E-1 and firmly enter the playoff hunt. The Eagles are soaring...
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: CHiP have a chance to clinch the division this week. They need to win and have Drivers lose. Will it happen? (Nah, see next prediction). But... CHiP takes care of their business and hammer Tee-It-Up.
Drivers v Hookers: Drivers win by about 250 strokes. Sorry everyone.
Wedges v Snowmen
→ Week 18 and News
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - does anyone really care about the Canadian Open? I'll be doing wall to wall soccer starting tomorrow for about 2 months.
The important part: starting in the next week, I'll be making a lot of changes to our site. None of it will go into production until next year, but I'm going to build in flexibility for things like rosters, schedule, starters, reserves, scoring and so on. I'll also try to make it more secure and mobile friendly. I also have a request to allow pics on message board. If you can think of anything else, let me know. We need to be ready for whatever they throw at us with regard to the schedule next year.
On to the predictions...
LW: 4-1; YTD: 46-34 (I'm getting better at this)
GOW -> CHiP v Masters: Things in the North are tight and the Masters need a win to keep pace and remain out front. CHiP is cruising to a division title, but want the Masters to know they are in for a fight. Watch this. David Lipsky. Yep, you heard me right. He carries the day for a CHiP win.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: Loopers are trying to get clear of Snowmen and Masters and face a plucky Tee-It-Up team. At the moment, TIU is the last team in the playoffs and don't want to slip back. (there are 4 other teams cheering on the Loopers at this point). I just like the depth for TIU and they squeak by the Loopers.
Eagles v Drivers: Eagles have one 3 in a row and they make it 4 against the Drivers.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: I'm gonna let you in on a secret. The Snowmen will have all 5 players miss the cut this week. Hol-E-1 has two make it. Hol-E-1 wins.
Wedges v Hookers: Both teams are 7-10. They are both 1 game out of the playoffs. Win and the path is easier. Lose, well, its a long way to go in 4 weeks. Critical. Crucial. Pivotal. Morikawa does nothing again and this time Lowry makes noise and doesn't choke. Wedges with a big win.
→ Week 17
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst - apologies for not setting a line-up and not having a prediction article out. I won't bore you with excuses, because, well, they are excuses. I'll say this. I'm glad I'm retired again.'
I write this from a little island in the northern Lake Huron region.
Two weeks ago: 4-1; YTD: 41-32
Wedges v Masters: Wedges have officially reached must win territory (as has two other teams). I really like Masters in this, but I'm going with a hunch that Wedges break 4 game losing streak and Lowry forces his way into the line-up on Friday.
Eagles v Snowmen: Eagles win streak ends this week. Snowmen contineu to impress.
Hookers v Loopers: Loopers will feel good when he sees the Hookers pitiful line-up as Morikawa skips another big tournament. (Anyone want him?). Hookers need a win too, but they can't possibly win this one.
Tee-It-Up v Drivers: A great match-up, but I have to go with Drivers' depth in this one.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Hol-E-1 is another "i better win soon" team and they are taking on CHiP who keeps sailing along. Is this another one of those weeks where Hol-E-1 wins one when you don't expect it? Nope. CHiP wins.
→ Week 15: Byron Nelson
Published: by Jim GreenwellHow did a tournament named after Nelson fall from grace like this? Will it happen at the Memorial when Jack leaves us? Arnold's tournament is holding up, but heck.
Well, we only have a few weeks left and rich are getting richer. This is a big week and I'm glad to announce I had a 5-0 week last week - they just seemed easy. We have some important matches this week. Let's see how they will go.
LW: 5-0; YTD: 38-32
GOW: CHiP v Drivers. CHiP can distance themselves when a big win. Drivers can stake claim to a run at the division crown with a win. If CHiP can get a 3 game lead, the division could be belong to them this year. Here is how this one is going to go. CHiP's temporary player Grillo does something unexpected and hands CHiP the win. The Drivers are left shaking their head...
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Uh, who are these guys? Haha. Hol-E-1 is up and down and they always see to surprise me. So I'm gong with a hunch surprise this week. Hol-E-1 with a big win.
Eagles v Loopers: Uh. Loopers ownership will tell the commissioner a dozen times on Sunday that this tournament has to be removed from the rotation as the Eagles win this one easily.
Masters v Snowmen: This too is a huge match. Masters have climbed to the top and the Snowmen refuse to go away. Scheffler is playing in this one but wiht some temp player to go along side. Hmm, just have to go with Scottie. Snowmen win.
Wedges v Hookers: Currently these two teams are the first two out of the playoffs. A loss for either team is a killer for moving forward and potential tie-breakers. A must win for both squads. Neither team has anyone playing. Jaeger finished top 10 and gives Hookers a win.
Tournament winner: Scheffler
Team skin: Eagles
→ Week 14: The PGA
Published: by Jim GreenwellAnother major...
Here are this week's predictions. I know it's Thursday... I haven't looked at a single score as of yet - busy day.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 33-32
GOW: Wedges v Loopers - a must win for the Wedges against the Loopers who are built to shine on weeks like this. Loopers have 3 top 10s and cruise to victory.
Eagles v Masters: Masters feeling good after chopping down the Loopers and taking sole possession of first place. They don't lose it this week as they pound the Eagles.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: I picked the Snowmen to lose last week because they didn't have Scheffler and they won. I suppose now that they have Scheffler I should pick them, yes? Okay. I will. Snowmen.
Tee-It-Up v Drivers: Drivers climb into second place with a huge 1 stroke win over Tee-It-Up when Driver's Gotterup birdies 18 to beat Tee-It-Up's Hojgaard by one stroke and win the championship.
CHiP v Hookers: Hookers are done. Toilet Bowl bound. CHiP in a laugher.
→ Week 13: The Truist
Published: by Jim GreenwellI'll tell you what is "feels" true-ist...
Every time I pick Hol-E-1 to get crushed he wins. Ugh.
Random notes:
CHiP finally lost last week, the Hookers look dead in the water, and the Eagles got their 3rd win of the season. Foot Wedges continue to dominate all the metrics, but are still middle of the pack in the standings. Loopers lost, but I still think they are the team to beat (don't roll your eyes at me CHiP...). Tee-It-Up has suddenly lost 3 in a row and is wondering where the next win will come from. Drivers are gaining thanks to all the losing happening around them. Snowmen will become VERY dangerous when Scottie starts to win again. Masters? Never sleep on the Masters. Never.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 30-30
GOW: Loopers v Masters. One of these teams has to lose and the Wedges and Snowmen are playing each other right behind them. Two epic big matches in the North division. Look, I've been picking the Loopers all year, but that doesn't mean they will win every match. I actually like the Masters in this one, but I'm still long term Loopers.
Wedges v Snowmen: This one is huge. If the Wedges win they'll have the tie break against the Snowmen the rest of the season. If Snowmen win, it will come down to their 3rd meetings. Both need this one badly. In a tough division and tied with 3 other teams in the South the tie breaks aren't good. I'm going with Wedges as Scheffler takes a week off.
Eagles v Drivers: Eagles 1 game winning streak comes to an end as Drivers win as Rory finishes top 3 and Gotterup in top 10.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: Michael Kim has a surprise top 10 and Harry Hall impresses. JJ Spaun flounders and Tee loses 4th in a row.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hol-E-1 wins this one and jamps up the South division. Hookers only have 5 golfers (the only team to be less than 6) and Hol-E-1 took out Hookers back in week 6. It happens again...
→ Week 12: The Cadillac
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, we are half way through the regular season and its been a good golf season. We settle in now with still 3 majors in our next 11 matches and then the playoffs. Every match counts now.
I had a tough week last week, but 3 matches were settled by less than 5 strokes. A very competitive week.
I can almost guarantee an undefeated week. Let's do it.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 27-28
GOW: Snowmen v Tee-It-Up. I know, "really, two middle of the road teams?". Hear me out. Snowmen are in danger of missing playoffs with a Scheffler roster. They need a win. Tee-It-Up has lost two in a row and those pesky Hookers have caught them. They need a win if they hope to catch CHiP. Watch out rest of the league, Scheffler finally wins a tournament and lead Snowmen to victory.
CHiP v Wedges: Wedges ride with Scott and Knapp on the bench. Meanwhile, CHiP parades out Justin Thomas for another shot. I feel CHiP, but something is nagging at me about this game. Hmmm, if there was a cut, I'd ride with CHiP, but there isn't. Something says Wedges make late run and pull upset.
Eagles v Hookers: Eagles pickup and start Alex Fitzpatrick, while the Hookers will be Fitzpatrickless this week. Morikowa continues good play and leads Hookers to a 21 stroke win.
Loopers v Drivers: The member-member partners square off in an important match. Loopers need a win to hold off the resurgent Masters. Drivers need to win to start a run at the playoffs. I'm not sure why, but I like the Drivers in this one.
Hol-E-1 v Masters: Masters are on a role and pound Hol-E-1 into next week. I see a 37 stroke win and that's a big win with no cut. Doesn't help when Fleetwood withdraws on Saturday...
→ Week 11: RBC Heritage
Published: by Jim GreenwellA fun tournament with an interesting course. Although... I've heard from some that have played it and didn't like. Hmmm.
Last week was a losing week mostly thanks to the latest Lowry meltdown (which also costed the Wedges). No one wants to see a golfer lose it like this. Hopefully Shane can get it back together.
I'd be interested to hear from CHiP who was in Augusta this week. The course looked completely burned up this week and seemed to lack some of the regular charm. Maybe I want too much... CHiP? How was the course this year compared to years past? Thoughts?
LW: 2-3; YTD: 25-25
GOW: After this tournament, we'll be half way through the season. All match-ups become huge for now on. But... this weeks Game of the Week has to be Wedges v Masters. The Masters are riding high and have found themselves tied for first. The Wedges have had some unbelievably bad luck and don't want to fall further behind. They have Lowry in the line-up (but on the bench). Bold prediction. Lowry finishes top 10 and carries the Wedges.
Eagles v Snowmen: Eagles are looking to win two in a row. The Snowmen have also been a little unlucky, but they return to form with a win over the Eagles this week.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: The Loopers find a way to win this one behind Xander and hi s top 5 finish. Tee-It-Up has a big showing from Min Woo Lee, but it won't be enough. Loopers by 3.
Hookers v Drivers: Morikawa is hurt and will likely WD on the Hookers, leaving him with nothing. Drivers will see Gotterup and Noren finish top 25 and finish off the Hookers.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Here comes the upset special. Fleetwood wins the tournament and carries Hol-E-1 to an upset win. CHiP is left scratching his head as 4 of 6 players finish in the bottom 20.
→ The Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellA tradition unlike any other…
Golfers “Mecca”, “Heaven”, “Nirvana”. A truly special place. I was fortunate to see it on 2003
I’m on the road and on my phone. So short predictions this week.
2 big weeks in a row and a guaranteed all pick this week. Wish I could parlay them.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 23-22
Masters beat CHiP in game of the week.
Wedges beat Eagles.
Snowmen beat Loopers as Scheffler comes alive.
Tee beats Hookers as Min Woo Lee wins the Masters.
Drivers beat Hol-E-1
→ Week 9: Another Texas Tourname
Published: by Jim GreenwellCan you feel the enthusiasm? Haha.
First - thank you to all of you who text me and let me know when things are broken. I really don't mind. I'm glad to get it fixed. You may have noticed some strangeness today and I'm kinda glad it happened - I now have a working theory on why players show up twice from time to time. I'll work on it.
As for predictions - oh yeah! - last week was a good one. Only the Eagles pick kept me from a perfect week. I'm rolling now.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 19-21
GOW: Easy pick this week for our Game-of-the-Week. The division leading Loopers and CHiP square off in a monster match. Loopers need to win to stay ahead of a crowded North Division. CHiP just wants to keep winning. I like CHiP in this one. Michael Kim has a top 20 finish, Hideki gets all warmed up for the Masters. Meanwhile Loopers lose Keefer, Peng and McNeally to the cut line. CHiP goes 8-1.
Wedges v Hol-E-1: Uh - well, uh, sorry, Hol-E-1 wins this one by something like 60 strokes.
Hookers v Masters: Hookers lost Morikawa on Wednesday and are playing a second tier against the Masters Aberg, Spieth and MacIntyre. Masters win easily, especially since MacIntyre will win tournament.
Snowmen v Drivers: This is a toss up, but I'm just going with the depth of the Drivers. It often matters. Drivers get a surprise top 20 finish from Li and they hold off Snowmen in a 3 against 3 battle.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: TIU should pull this one out. I think Tom Kim and Thorbjornsen lead them to victory.
→ Week 8: Texas Swing...
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell - talk about 2 tournaments I don't pay much attention to, its the next two...
First - I want to thank Charlie for calling my attention to a major malfunction in the website. Some of you may have noticed. It ran over the weekend like we had a live tournament and hosed almost everything. I have no idea why. The code puked on a bye week when it never has before. I'm staring at the code trying to figure it out. I'm at this stage of troubleshooting: "how did this ever work?" - because it looks like it should have never handled a bye week before (but it did). Sigh. Oh well. As always - let me know if you see anything wonky.
On to the predictions. Last week was good, just missing out on a huge swing week. Two straight weeks on the winning side. Looking for a monster week this time to get me closer to even on the year.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 15-20
GOW: Snowmen v Eagles. I know, I know. Really? A 1-6 v 3-4 matchup for game of the week? Well.... This is a big week for both programs. Snowmen have struggled to win with Scheffler and now must play without him. Eagles, well, are struggling to win. Eagles need this one desperately to get the season moving in the right direction. The Snowmen are hanging on, but a loss to the Eagles will feel like a big step backwards. Like the Eagles, I keep expecting Koepka to make some noise. This is his last chance for me. Koepka and Hojgaard lead Eagles past Snowmen by 10 strokes.
Wedges v Masters: Wedges are still stinging from a streak of terrible luck and that has been followed-up by sub par play. They now face a Masters team on the upswing. But, you know what I like Scott and Knapp in this one. Wedges get the ship sailing again with a 3 stroke win.
Hookers v Loopers: I thought the Loopers were unbeatable, but they got beat last week. I think they go down again this week as Aaron Rai and JT Poston have big weeks. Loopers only have 3 over the weekend to the Hookers 4 players. Hookers in a 27 stroke win.
Tee-It-Up v Drivers: Drivers find out how frustrating it is to play Tee-It-Up. The Drew Brees of Fantasy Golf - just doesn't go away and finds ways to win games. Tee-It-Up is loaded this week and will overcome a really strong showing by one of the Drivers' players. Tee-It-Up and it is over before they tee it up on Sunday.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Hol-E-1 wins skins, but not matches (except against Loopers?). CHiP gets out to an early lead and relaxes as he watches on Sunday morning. CHiP moves to 7-1 on the season. Wow.
Player skin: Jake Knapp
Team skin: Tee-It-Up
→ Week 7: TPC
Published: by Jim GreenwellSeems every week I say I like this tournament, but not this week. One of my least favorite. Not sure why. Maybe to me its just tricked up with and all the talk is about a certain green and not the golf. Idunno.
Anyway, before I get to the predictions, did you see the news? There appears to be big changes coming to the scheduling of PGA Tour events in 2027. It is sure to impact our league. I hope to rewrite this thing this year and make it more flexible. It may be a requirement now. More to come.
Okay - I got back to winning ways last week, but Scheffler let me down (and the Snowmen...). Let's see what happens this week.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 12-18
GOW: Wedges v Drivers. I pick this game because of the crazy match-up these two teams had in week 1. Wedges outscored everyone in the league by at least 20 strokes - except for the Drivers - who outscored the Wedges by 4. This is also where the drama is - will Rory play? Rory is not in Drivers line-up, so you know what that means? Rory plays, finished top 10, maybe even wins the thing, but this time the Wedges won't be facing a tournament winner. Lowry misses the cut, again, but Jake Knapp comes off the bench and leads the Wedges to victory.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: If Rory doesn't win, Aberg will. Masters team is playing well and I think Aberg and, yes, Spieth have a big weekend. This one will be close. Rasmus will come off the bench, but Hovland shoots a 75 on Sunday and Masters win by 3 strokes.
CHiP v Eagles: Will Brooks finally do something? Eagles really need him to. CHiP brings a strong line-up and played Justin Thomas (a reserve) despite is debacle last weekend. I'm not ready to call BK ready, therefore CHiP wins this on.
Hookers v Snowmen: Welp... Scheffler will finally play his game, right? Hookers need a win badly. Scheffler is top 5, but he is the only player to make the cut for Snowmen. Hookers by 47.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: Loopershave won 2 in a row and look like the preseason favorite I expected them to be. Make it 3 in a row. Loopers comfortably - it's over after Friday's round.
Player Skin: Aberg
Team Skin: Loopers
→ Week 6: Arnold's Tournament
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo... I promise I haven't looked. I know, if I go 5-0 this week I'll face fierce accusations. Oh well.
The last 2 weeks were brutal coming in at 1-4 for each. I'm determined to turn it around and Arnold Palmer's tournament is the place to do it.
Here we go (I have a long way to go to get back to .500).
LW: 1-4; YTD: 9-16 (ouch)
GOW: CHiP v Drivers - the Drivers might be 2-3 but have a bevy of skins already and not a team to be taken lightly. CHiP has been steady. Will there be fireworks this week? Here is a bold one for you. Justin Thomas comes off the bench and leads CHiP to victory.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges... They have twice in only 5 weeks had the second best score on the week and LOST. I haven't seen bad luck like this since CHiP 3 or 4 years ago. This is unheard of - check this stat out: Wedges opponents have had the winning golfer 3 of the first 5 weeks. That is simply brutal. Here is the sad part about fantasy: now the Wedges are going to get a beat down. Lowry misses the cut and Tee-It-Up easily wins.
Eagles v Loopers: Eagles are soaring after their first victory and are ready to take on the Loopers. They might be ready, but Loopers are loaded. Loopers win.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: I see Tommy Fleetwood having a big week and taking down the Hookers.
Snowmen v Masters: Scottie finally has a good first round and leads Snowmen to victory.
→ Week 5: Cognizant
Published: by Jim Greenwell... Or ... Shall we call it the "Temporary Open". There are 11 temporary players scheduled to compete this weekend. I believe that to be a record.
Sad, I used to like the Honda Classic and now it is mostly skipped. Not all change is good...
Anyway, I have a confession to make. I had AI help me with the picks last week and I went an ugly 1-4. So... Gemini go the boot and I'm going with my own brain this week. An easy 5-0 week. I feel it.
Game of the Week: Our GOW features the Loopers again. The preseason favorite takes on the front running Wedges. These teams are 1-2 in the division, in total strokes, power rankings and breakdown stats. And... they both have 2 temporary players. Talk about two teams due a clunker. Both clunk. Loopers clunk a little more. Wedges win by 7 strokes.
Eagles v Masters: Eagles have all their players, Masters are rolling out, count 'em, 3 temps. Brooks finally makes a splash and Eagles get a big win.
CHiP v Snowmen: CHiP is quietly undefeated and wondering when he would be featured in the GOW. Normally an undefeated team playing the Men of Snow would be featured. But, the top bill game is good and there is no Scotty or Hideki. I like CHiP's depth. CHiP stays undefeated and basks in the glory of being ignored (so far).
Hooker v Tee-It-Up: The only game that does not feature at least one temporary player. (Not sure what this says about these teams drafting strategy). Tee has the strongest team in the tournament and will take out the Hookers.
Hol-E-1 v Drivers: Man on man. I so want to pick the Drivers. Bridgeman will miss the cut. Zalatoris? Ugh. But Drivers are running out 3 temps. I have to go with HE1, don't I? Okay - I'll do it HE1 in a one stroke win with a Doug Ghim birdie on 18 as he finishes top 20.
→ Week 4: Genesis Invitational
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat a great week of golf we had last weekend and it will likely be better this week in LA. One of my favorite tournament - I just love the course. I'm glad it is back at Riviera.
I had a tough week last week and was shocked when Morikawa won a tournament and lead the Hookers to an upset victory. But... it didn't carry the week. Here is to my first 5-0 week this week.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 8-9
Game of the Week: Two 3-0 teams take each other on in what they hope is a Carl Cup preview. CHiP v Loopers: Sam Burns loves Riviera and Xander will be no slouch. CHiP's best path to victory relies on Hideki finding som magic and McCarthy going lights-out on the putting greens. I think this will be a close match, but the year's eventual champion (Loopers) will get this one by 5 close strokes.
Snowmen v Drivers: Scheffler v McIlroy. If not for the undefeated match-up previously mentioned, this would be an all eyes event. Snowmen win as Scheffler gets his first win on the season and watch this one - Kurt Kitayama gets a top 10 finish. Drivers drop to 1-3 and Snowmen get a much needed win.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: So... I'm going with an upset. There is a cut this week - top 50 golfers. I say Eagles get one more player to make the cut. Min Woo Lee and Hovland go low, but they are the only ones to make the cut. Eagles win my one stroke.
Hookers v Masters: Hookers are heavy favorites in this match. Morikawa, Homa and Cantlay play really well here over the last few years. But you never know... Spieth could come out of know where. Nah... I know. Hookers by 23.
Wedges v Hol-E-1: This pick may surprise everyone but the participants. I'm going with HE1. Yep, Wedges have a crazy low stroke count on the year. But.. Si Woo Kim misses the cut and they struggle as Fleetwood, Straka and Harman all have top 25 performances for HE1. Plus, look, there is a history in this rivalry. No since fighting it.
Best Player Skin: Snowmen (Scheffler)
Best Team Skin: Loopers
→ Week 3: Pebble Beach
Published: by Jim GreenwellI was just thinking about when this tournament was waning and not a lot of the best golfers were playing in the event. But it was made a Signature Event and it has taken off. It's always fun to watch an event at Pebble. The scenery is awesome. Someday I'd like to visit the area. My wife likes to remind me she has been to the course... Sigh...
Last week I got back on the winning side and I'm 0.500 on the year. My personal golfer predictions were a mixed bag. Biggest hit was calling Kim and Brennan coming off the bench for the Masters. Biggest whiff? Um, Hovland didn't miss the cut and finished 10th. Yet, somehow, TIU benched them. Oh well... (I also called Morikawa being very "mid").
LW: 3-2; YTD: 6-6
Wedges v Snowmen: Wedges are already -101 on the year. What? Snowmen have SS. Can Wedges hot streak continue? Can Scheffler get help from his teammates? Si Woo Kim wins the tournament and leads the Wedges to victory.
Loopers v Masters: A great rivalry game that I always look forward to ever time it happens. Schauffele v Aberg. I love Aberg - I still remember losing out on him at the draft. But... I'm telling you, don't sleep on Berger. I'm calling Berger off the bench and Bhatia in the top 10 for a Loopers win.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: Two 0-2 teams that desperately need/want a win. This is a toss up. I like Wyndham Clark and Tommy Fleetwood to make a splash. It's "tails". Eagles win a very close match.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: How does Hideki respond to last week's mini collapse at the WM? Hovland is ticked he got picked to miss the cut and has the website clipping on his locker. There it is. Min Woo Lee - top 15. Tee-It-Up wins.
Hookers v Drivers: Pin High has been rebranded "TheDesignatedDrivers" (Drivers for short) and they learned the lesson in how important making the cut is last week. They won't have that problem this week. Gotterup misses the cut, but there is plenty of depth there. Rory, Rose are more than enough to beat the punchless mid Morikawa led Hookers. Drive by 36.
→ Week 2: Waste Management
Published: by Jim GreenwellA great tournament that I usually don't get to watch. This week I can. Hoping for at least one hole-in-one each day.
Last week was a tough start on the predictions, but I'm feeling it this week. Let's do it.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 2-3
Eagles v Wedges: Wedges are still ticked off about their insane loss last week. They allow one loss to become two as the Eagles storm to victory behind Koepka's top 3 finish.
Loopers v Snowmen: Schaufflele v Scheffler? Nah. This tournament hinges on Daniel Berger who finishes top 10 and leads Loopers to a 3 stroke victory. The Loopers start to think "this is my year" after beatins Scheffler.
Masters v Pin High: Ugh - Pin High has a name change coming (forgot). Will do it after this tournament. Can Pin High repeat the skin sweep of last week? Unlikely. Michael Kim and Michael Brennan come off the bench for the Masters and they win by 12.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Feeling JJ Spaun and Theegala. Hovland misses cut, but TIU wins anyway.
CHiP v Hookers: I'm starting to think the Hookers are in big trouble. Morikawa starts the season proving to Hookers he shouldn't have been a keepers. CHiP wins against listless Hooks.
→ Week 1 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go.
Everyone is undefeated and hoping to remain that way for 25 weeks. (Unlikely).
Let's have some fun, talk golf and see who wins this dumb thing.
YTD: 0-0
Wedges v Pin High: The two youngsters in the league battle it out. Adam Scott is on the bench for Wedges, but Pin High didn't hesitate in rolling our Justin Rose. Pin High makes the wrong call in his first week on a sub and Wedges get a 5 stroke win.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: Is this finally the year Aberg breaks through with a major and multiple wins? I keep waiting for it. (So do the Masters). TIU roles out a lineup of unpronounceables (is that a word). Will Bradly have the same year this year as last? Theegala comes off the bench with a top 10 finish leading TIU to victory.
CHiP v Eagles: The Eagles only won a couple of games last year. They are due. Koepka makes a splash. (Sorry LIV haters). Eagles start the season 1-0.
Hookers v Snowmen: No Scheffler. No Win. Hookers by 47 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: Man - the Loopers have a strong team and have more depth in this one. Loopers' win is stress free.
Division Predictions
North
1. Loopers
2. Snowmen
3. Masters
4. Eagles
5. Wedges
South
1. Pin High
2. CHiP
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Hol-E-1
Keep this Wedges and Hol-E-1 so you can tell me how bad I am at this at the end of the year.
Title Winner:
Most Likely: Loopers, Snowmen
Great shot: Masters, Pin High, CHiP
In the running: Eagles, Hookers, Tee-It-Up
Long Shots: Wedges, Hol-E-1
→ Pin High is Champion
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn the weird world of Fantasy sports, the late Mike Miller has won his first championship.
We won't celebrate as we normally do. I did hear from Mike's wife and relayed the Mike was excited about his team this year and enjoyed our league.
On to 2026...
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellCongrats to Snowmen and Pin High on division championships.
I’ll be setting up playoffs matches today.
Playoff seeding
1 Snowmen
2 Pin High
3 Wedges
4 Hol-E-1
5 Hookere
6 Loopers
Toilet Bowl seeding
1 Eagles
2 Chip
3 Tee-It-Up
4 Masters
→ Playoff Scenarios
Published: by Jim GreenwellI apologize for lack of content - a combination of business, laziness, and forgetfulness...
Here are the playoff scenarios with 2 weeks to go.
With 2 weeks to go:
Clinched Playoffs: Wedges, Snowmen, Pin High, Hookers
Only team eliminated: Eagles
The breakdown
North Division, Division Champ: The Snowmen and Wedges are currently tied. The Snowmen hold the tiebreaker. Therefore, the Wedges must finish one game ahead of Snowmen to win division, otherwise Snowmen will win division.
South Division, Division Champ: Hookers hold all tiebreakers. They need to finish tied with Pin High or in a 3-way tie with Pin High and Hol-E-1 to win division or just win it outright with 2 wins and 2 losses by Pin High. Hol-E-1 can finish in a 3 way tie, but would still finish 3 in division due to tiebreakers.
Playoffs: There are other scenarios, but these are the easiest…
Hol-E-1 is in with one win; Tee-It-Up is in with 2 wins and one loss by the Loopers; the Loopers are in with 2 wins; Masters are in with 2 wins and 2 losses by both Loopers and Tee and 1 loss by CHiP; CHiP is in with 2 wins and two losses by by both Loopers and Tee-It-Up.
There are a ton of other options that bring in all kinds of tie breakers, we would end with a 5 way tie with 12 losses and all bets are off – haha.
Week 21 match-ups of Loopers v Masters and CHiP v Hol-E-1 will go a long way to settling this or making week 22 insane.
→ US Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe US Open at Oakmont. Where the rough is a little longer and the golfers a lot whinier. Good grief. "The rough is so long". "The course is sooo hard". "An 18 handicap would shoot 120 if they could even finish." Shut up and golf. :)
By the way, the Foot Wedges have clinched a playoff spot. Crazy this early.
I had a tough prediction week at the Memorial. Picking this tournament won't be easy. Let's see how it goes.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 36-29
Eagles at Pin High: Koepka has a top 3 finish - only quality golfer I haven't seen whine. So... I'm rolling with it.
Eagles with an upset.
Hookers v Loopers: Hookers have lost 4 in a row and will be 5 this week. US Open takes a lot of experience and Loopers have more than Hookers. Loopers win big.
CHiP v Masters: This will be a close one and will come down to Sunday afternoon. Masters slip by on a birdie by Alex Noren late on Sunday.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Scottie greatest since Tiger. Maybe. But he misses the cut this week shocking the golf world and Hol-E-1 wins by 18 strokes when Cameron Smith finishes in top 10.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges have clinched the playoffs but haven't secured the division yet. The trot out their A players and dang if it won't be good enough to beat Tee-It-Up - even with DeChambeau bombing the ball all over the course for TIU.
→ the Memorial...
Published: by Jim GreenwellOh crap, it's Thursday already - haven't seen a shot nor seen the leaderboard. Ugh. Why am I not on the job? Especially after I rocked a 5-0 week last week...
Here we go!
LW: 5-0; YTD: 34-26
Wedges v Loopers: The front-running Wedges will look to distance themselves from the rest of the North this week. But, they face very tough competition with the Loopers. Xander, Si Woo and Tony. Something about Xander... Loopers in a mild upset making the North a little tighter.
Masters v Snowmen: Here it is. Masters beat the Snowmen and suddenly the north is a 4 team race. I just have a feeling it will happen. Hard to pick against Scottie - just going with a gut feeling this week.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: Eagles are due and so is Spieth. Jordan surges into top 10 and provides and Eagles win over TIU.
CHiP v Pin High: CHiP needs a win to climb out of basement and Pin High can see the faltering Hookers just ahead and ready to take over the lead in the South. Look. Pin High is rolling. Staying with it. PH for the win.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hookers are reeling and it continues this week. HE1 with an important win.
→ Charles Schwab - Week 16
Published: by Jim GreenwellCan you believe it? Week 16, already...
Sorry for the lack of content, I've been a busy dude - how did I ever have time for a job. :)
I saw none of last week's tournament and haven't even gotten on the course myself.
Thanks to the Wedges and Hookers losing, things are starting to tighten up. Let's see what will happen this week.
2 weeks ago: 3-2; YTD: 29-26
Wedges v Hookers: Speaking of the division leaders, they play each. other this week guaranteeing that one will lose. The Hookers have lost 2 in a row and seem to be slipping. The Wedges have a solid line-up this week and will give the Hookers their 3rd straight loss.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: McNealy is top 5 and leads Hol-E-1 to victory. Loopers have been on a roll, but they are halted this week.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: Speaking of being on a roll, Tee has won 5 in a row. That ends this week. Masters get a big week from Tom Hoge and Olesen to take down Tee-It-Up.
Pin High v Snowmen: Pin High lacks some depth this week and the Snowmen have Scheffler. So... Snowmen - too bad too, because Pin High could have pulled within a game of the flailing Hookers.
CHiP v Eagles: CHiP needs a win to stay in the playoff hunt and gets it. Vegas comes off the bench and supports JT Poston (of all players) to carry CHiP
→ The Truist
Published: by Jim GreenwellBefore moving on to the Truist, I have to review 2 events from last week.
1. Snowmen won despite having 2 miss the cut because of the insane score Scheffler scored. What a week for the games best player on an easy course with no competition.
2. Fantasy sports at its best. Hol-E-1's van Rooyen, playing in the last group with Scheffler, needed to birdie 18 to give them a victory. van Rooyen had a 4 foot, 8 inch putt for a birdie and a Hol-E-1 victory. He missed. Tee-It-Up wins instead.
van Rooyen also cost your expert prognosticator a winning week. Back to my winning ways this week.
LW 2-3; YTD: 26-24
Eagles v Wedges: I'm not sure why Eagles keep losing - they have a good roster. This week they face the Wedges who lost last week after a very long winning streak. I guess I just have to go with how things are going. Wedges win.
Loopers v Masters: (didn't these two just play?). Anyway... What a lineup these two bring. I say its time for Xander to make big noise. Of course, Aberg is lurking too. Someone will be very unlucky to lose this one. Finau comes out of his slump and leads the Loopers.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: Hol-E-1 wins. Like that? Putting it right out there. van Rooyen misses the cut, Scheffler is home counting his money. Hol-E-1's Harman and Fleetwood have big weeks.
CHiP v Pin High: CHiP needs to string a couple of wins together to get back in the hunt. I think he starts with a win this week. McIlroy limps to the finish and Hideki has a big week.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Well. Hookers win with this lineup. Tee only has 5 players. I'm going with Hookers until they finally lose with this line-up.
→ Byron Nelson
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat was once a great tournament where the pros greeted Byron has become an also ran with nearly no one of note playing in the tournament. That's too bad. But hey, "collage" basketball players make millions now - things change.
Crazy line-ups this week. We shall see. Last week, I righted the ship with a big week and I hope to get another good one this week.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 24-21
(so many short line-ups and temp players...)
Wedges v Snowmen: Wedges have two temp players and Snow men have Scheffler. Snowmen win.
Eagles v Loopers: Loopers have a full complement of players and Eagles are short handed. Loopers win.
CHiP v Masters: The only match that both teams have 6 of their rostered players in the line-up. If we had TV, this is the one they would show. I like Sungjae Im in this one for some reason - and watch out for Beau Hossler. The unlucky Masters get unlucky again.
Hookers v Pin High: 5 v 4 and who exaclty are these guys? Knapp is cooling off and Dahmen is a stab in the dark. Pin High needs a win badly and Hookers have had their share of luck. Stab in the dark wins.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Four total temp players in this game. Makes it a coin flip - and anyone that has been around a while knows that Tee-It-Up doesn't win coin flips (brutal history). Hol-E-1 wins.
→ Half Way
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe have reached the half-way point of our season as we settle in to see more golf at the unique course at the RBC Heritage. Another signature event that should be fun.
I hope all of you got to watch the Masters on Sunday - I was able to watch Rory play from hole 11 on - the drama and the simultaneous choking/ brilliant play gave me whiplash. A career grand slam - wow. The only two active players that have won 3 separate majors are Spieth and Michelson.
So - last week I did an hard analysis and learned some things along the way - doing a slightly different approach this week, let's see how it goes.
LW 2-3; YTD 20-20
Wedges v Hookers: Good news everyone, one of these teams will finally get beat. The father/son/north leader/south leader face off in a huge match and maybe a Carl Cup preview. This is going to be close. Normally, I'd pick Rose to miss the cut, but there is no cut this week. Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry have top 10 finishes and Wedges win by 1 stroke.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: Schauffle is top 3, but it isn't enough. Hol-E-1 wins by 4 strokes as Clark and MacIntyre have huge weekends.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: I think Aberg has the same crash as Rose and leaves room for a Tee-It-Up victory as Max Homa comes out of nowhere to be top 10. Tee-It-Up by 12 strokes.
Pin High v Snowmen: PH licking their chops. They see a Hookers loss and their own win will pull the closer. They will do their part. Sepp Straka and JJ Spaun carry the day. Scheffler continues to be good, not great. Pin High wins.
CHiP v Eagles: Jordan doesn't like all the attention Rory is getting and tries to hard. Corey Conners follows Aberg and Rose in struggling this week. But... write this name down: Bud Cauley. CHiP wins.
Best Team skin prediction: Hol-E-1
→ The Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellA tradition unlike any other.
Easily the best tournament of each and every year. So much fun, so much drama. I was lucky enough to attend the 2003 Masters (and lost lots of money that weekend...).
This week our league also suffers an LIV invasion. I counted at least 7 - I may have missed a couple. It is a star-studded field.
So - I typically do a small amount of analysis and a lot of gut feel on predictions each week. This week, I tried a different angle and did some relatively deep analysis. I'm even going to set odds on games this week. Let's see what happens. I mean, last week was a disaster prediction wise. How can it get worse?
LW 1-4; YTD: 18-17
Team odds are in parenthesis after their name before the write-up:
Wedges (-110) v Loopers (+125): Two monster games in the North are headlined by this match-up. The analysis likes, Lowry, I'm not so sure, but I'm going with the data. According to the data, DJ, JT and Lowry will hold serve over the likes of Schauffele and Finau. Wedges continue their dominance of the North.
Masters (+105) v Snowmen (-120): Snowmen are a heavy favorite because of Rahm and Scheffler. Both teams need a win to catch or keep pace with Wedges. In a show of how bad the Masters' luck is this year, the analysis shows the Masters would have been favored over 7 teams this week, but not the Snowmen...
Eagles (-105) v Pin High (+105): The Eagles are very small favorites over Pin High. I'm not really sure how with McIlroy prowling the hollowed ground of Augusta National for Pin High, but they are. Eagles get a big win.
CHiP (-112) v Tee-It-Up (+104): Another odd analysis as Tee has Bryson who may drive a couple of par 4s this week, yet they aren't favored against CHiP. Look out for Corey Conners (apparently). CHiP with a win over rivals Tee-It-Up.
Hol-E-1 (+115) v Hookers (-108): Morikowa usually mucks up Augusta because he can't putt, but apparently the data analysis doesn't know this - haha. So, Morikowa caries the Hookers and they continue their dominating run in the South.
Odds to win best team skins:
-115: Snowmen
-110: CHiP
-105: Masters
+103: Tee-It-Up
+110: Wedges
+115: Loopers
+115: Eagles
+120: Hookers
+125: Pin High
+130: Hol-E-1
Anyone want to place any pretend bets? I'm not ready to book these just yet, want to see how my analysis goes.
Honestly, I'd bet on Snowmen, Wedges, Pin High, Tee-It-Up and Hol-E-1. And.. I'd bet Pin High for best team skin. :)
→ Week 10 - The Valero
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell... it is one of those weeks and we have some temporary players going this week. (Why have some of you this year not taken advantage of this?).
I apologize for the lack of content the last couple of weeks. I was in Greece for two weeks and I could barely remember to set my own line-up. No more travel plans until June for me...
I was 3-2 last week and missed on the Masters. The Masters had the second best score of the week and still lost - brutal! (Yes - I know, Loopers had same score, but in head to head, Masters would have won the tie-breaker).
Interesting line-ups this week. Let's dive in.
LW 3-2; YTD: 17-13
Wedges v Masters: The Masters need to start making up some ground on the North leading Wedges. It happens this week. Sam Burns and Tom Hoge have top 20 finishes and stop the 5 game Wedges win streak.
Eagles v Snowmen: Eagles got off to a good start and have now lost 6 in a row. That ends this week with a big win over the temp-playing Snowmen.
Hookers v Loopers: Look - the Hookers are a foregone conclusion. They were whooping everyone. Happens again this week. Hookers by 94 strokes.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: I'm going with the upset here. I like what I see with Tee-It-Up. Cantlay and Homa carry Tee to a big win.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: HE1 had a carryover line-up last week and will now pay the poisoner with one more loss. CHiP has too much depth to lose this one.
A guarantee 5-0 picks for you. Good luck this week. Next week: The Masters...
→ Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo. I’ve not looked, but I’m in Mycenea, Greece and I can’t keep track of what day of week it is. Ugh.
I’ll be back next week.
This week’s winners:
Wedges
Eagles
Snowmen
Loopers
Masters
→ The Players
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe fun continues this week with the ever exciting 17th island green (that isn't really an island). Is it just me or has the golf been more fun to watch this year?
Did you see what happened last week? Most of our matches were pretty well settled going into Sunday except for one. A back and forth affair between the Wedges and Pin High was settled late on Sunday when Jason Day played the last 3 holes +3 which included a double bogey on the very birdie-able 16th hole. This three over stretch gifted a one stroke victory to the Wedges.
Your prognosticator took a tough one last week with three losses. I knew I was struggling last week. I'm expecting these picks to be much better.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 14-11
This week is a complete inter-division week. Should be fun. All the teams have just about everyone on their roster participating in the tournament. This is where our management skills (or lack there of) will show.
CHiP v Wedges: The Wedges may have barely won last week, but their score was the 3rd best of the week and sit alone atop the North division. Hideki likes the TPC, but I see Bhatia and Thomas having monster weeks and Wedges sneak out a tough win.
Loopers v Pin High: Xander v McIlroy and the old(er) guard of Finau v Bradley. Can Day rebound from his mistakes last week? I'm going with Pin High to win by one stroke very late on Sunday.
Hookers v Masters: The Hookers have still only lost one game and that was to, you guessed it, the Masters. Their second meeting in 7 weeks. Here is the deal, Hookers stumble this week. Morikowa misses the cut and Aberg has a top 3 finish.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: When will Scottie start playing like Scottie? This week? Not quite, but the Snowmen have enough in them to take out Tee-It-Up.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: I really like Tom Kim and I suspect he may have a top 10 finish this week. But... I Hol-E-1 behind a strong performance of Fleetwood and Clark pull away on Saturday for a big win.
→ Arnie's Tournament
Published: by Jim GreenwellI tend to like tournaments that play at the same course year over year - even as a spectator you get to know the course. Bay Hill has been the home to Arnie's tournament since 1979. All the best players are playing and should be an exciting weekend.
CHiP (and Hol-E-1's Bridgeman) cost me a perfect week last week. I felt good about last week's picks. This week is far trickier with all teams having their best make a run. But, I feel another winning week. Here goes.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 12-8
Wedges v Pin High: This is the Rory show. Can McIlroy lead Pin High to victory? I keep waiting of JT to make a splash and he just doesn't. So... I think Rory carries the day for Pin High.
Loopers v Snowmen: The Snowmen have lost 3 in a row and return Scheffler to the line-up. The Snowmen are feeling the effects of a late draft pick and a keeper that has played well, but not like last year. The Loopers are loaded. Snowmen lose their 4th in a row.
Eagles v Masters: Believe it or not, I like the Eagles in this one. Detry, Kim and Hadwin have nice weekends and earn the Eagles a very close and hard fought victory over the Masters. Less than 5 strokes, not settled until late Sunday.
CHiP V Hookers: Hookers are 4-1 and rolling. Nothing can hold them back. Well... Hideki might. Hookers have been as luck as good this year - can it continue? I say one more week. Hookers squeak by.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: No one is paying attention to Hol-E-1, but I am. Hol-E-1 has won 3 in a row and are the favorites against an old rival. Tee is nursing a knee and forgets to adjust his line-up. Hol-E-1 wins.
→ The Green Mile
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go - 3 of the toughest stretch of holes on the PGATour are featured this week. Last week, you could count on a birdie on 18. Not this week - scores will be higher on the last 3 holes. Nothing will be decided until the end.
Last week I had my first losing week getting 3 wrong. But, this week, I give the prognosticator's guarantee of a perfect week.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 8-7
Eagles v Wedges: Lowry is favored in this tournament and usually plays well here. Can Lowry carry the Wedges? I think he probably does - or at least someone does... Wedges by a bunch.
Loopers v Masters: I like Denny McCarthy in this one to give the Loopers a big win over the Masters.
Hookers v Snowmen: The Hookers are the only team with 3 wins and face the Scheffler-less (is that a word) Snowmen. Hookers look to continue their luck with a 2 stroke victory over the men of snow.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Sepp Straka is in the top 3 and PH makes easy work of Tee-It-Up.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Hard to pick against depth. CHiP has 6 vs the Hol-E-1 4. Should be an easy win for CHiP.
→ Bye Week Blues/ Notes
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are off this week after an exciting first 4 weeks. Only 18 regular season matches to go...
The North Division has all 5 teams standing at 2-2 and it is shaping up to be a war over there - I mean the Eagles have clearly rebounded and there is so much talent on those rosters - my goodness.
In the South, the defending champion and luckiest team on earth continues their winning ways and stand alone at the top of the division. The only team in the league with 3 wins is the Hookers.
While we skip the Mexican tournament, get ready to set your eyes on the Florida swing. First the Cognizant (wasn't the Honda Classic a better name? What is a Cognizant anyway?). Then the Arnold Palmer followed by the Players. Great golf headed our way.
I've completed some housekeeping on the website - the Waiver Report is now accurate and the Stats page is now working properly. (That Stats page breaks every dang year).
Enjoy your week off. Real golf starts next weekend.
→ Torrey Pines, Again...
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Genesis Open has moved to San Diego and will be played at Torrey Pines. It is a relatively rare occurrence to have one course host two different events. In any case, the players will know the course, the setup can't be much different than the Farmers just a couple of weeks ago. This is also our 3rd Signature event of the year.
Unlike other signature events, there is a cut this week. The low 50 and ties and anyone with in 10 strokes of the lead after two rounds.
Let's get started on predictions. I'm off to a good start. I'm looking for a big week this week.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 6-4
Wedges v Hol-E-1: Wedges went off last week but were dismal at Torrey just three weeks ago. Hol-E-1 pulled an upset last week over Masters and look to get back to 0.500. I think this is going to be a heck of a match-up. Just my gut says Hol-E-1 by one stroke with a birdie on 18 on Sunday.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: I don't know why, but I like Pendrith in this one. Loopers hold on for a hard fought win.
Masters v Pin High: Masterw will look to return to winning ways, but Pin High stands in the way. If this was at La Costa, I'd be going with the Masters (Sam Burns effect), but at Torrey I see it differently. Pin High wins.
CHiP v Snowmen: Scheffler was human last week. Surely that can't continue, right? I'm going with no. Snowmen win (barely). If not, it might be time for me to get off the 'Scheffler can carry the snowmen' routine.
Eagles v Hookers: The division leaders square off in a big early season tilt. The winner will be in great shape after only 4 weeks. The Eagles players are better. My thought though is Detry will have a bit of a let down. But Spieth is on the rise to pick up the slack. Eagles win.
→ The WM Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell... are you ready for something that is like golf? The increasingly zany WM open will be played in the desert as usual.
Here are the week 3 predictions - I haven't looked yet - heck - I didn't submit my line-up until 5am... Busy day.
So here we go.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 3-2
Well - not a terrible start last week. Let's see if I can get all 5 this week.
Wedges v Snowmen: Really? SS is playing this week? I thought he would skip? His presence alone probably carries the. Snow men in victory over Wedges.
Eagels v Loopers: Eagles are headed in the right direction and I tend to like teams with more depth. Eagles win by 26 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Masters: I'm going with an upset in this one. I just see Wyndham Clark and Brian Harman having fun in the sun. Hol-E-1 by 3 strokes.
Hookers v Pin High: Pin High is rolling, but are lacking a player this week. Straka will cool down and the Hookers win by 10.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: CHiP simply has too many horses to lose this one. They win by 47 strokes.
→ Week 2 - The ATT at Pebble
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt's never hard to watch golf being played at Pebble Beach. This week will be no different with all the "big boys" playing in the second Signature Event of the year.
I'll make my predictions this week. Week 1 is always tough on me as I'm out of town and quite busy. Last week was a mess in San Diego with high winds and a lot of sissies dropping out.
Side note: I was in SD on the same days and played golf on the same days - it wasn't that bad - even shot an 80 of the Thursday.
Here we go.
YTD 0-0
Wedges v Masters: Wedges got off to a rough start and don't want to start 2-0. But... they are facing a stacked Masters team. The Wedges whole season will hinge on Lowry and Thomas. I think they'll play well, but I don't think it will be enough to overcome Aberg and Hun An. Masters in a close one.
Eagles v Snowmen: The Eagles won week 1 and sit atop the division. They take on the Snowmen and Scottie Scheffler. Snowmen will be good this year just because of Scottie, but they won't be as dominant without the supporting cast they had last year. Spieth makes the cut and Zalatoris finishes in the top 10. Eagles by 4 strokes.
CHiP v Loopers: I just don't have a feel for this one. Pendrith for the Loopers is screaming at me, but I don't know if he is going low missing the cut. The radar isn't working too good in week 2. Haha. I'm going with low. Loopers win.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: I think Hol-E-1 has an advantage here, but not much of one. So, I need an upset for the week, so I'm picking Pin High (and it might not really be an upset).
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: The only game featuring two winless teams. Hookers have their top 4, if they can't win this one, its going to be a long season. Hookers when by 15 strokes.
→ Farmers Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellStarts on Wednesday - do not forget to submit a line-up this week. Get off to a good start...
→ Season Ready to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellIMPORTANT:
Current field data is NOT accurate. I am deleting the field data and shouldn't display until the Farmer's field is available. I think it was displaying the 2024 field. The Farmer's field won't be available until Friday evening.
A great draft night and all the teams look good. Should be a great and competitive season.
→ Carl Cup Champion: Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellA most implausible champion due to unlikely circumstances. Lesson? Never give up. Make the playoffs and hope to get lucky.
I don’t believe anyone, including the Hookers’ front office will deny an (overwhelming) amount of luck contributed to a division championship and then the league championship.
The Snowmen had one of the greatest seasons ever with only 6 losses. They waltzed to the final only to have 2 players withdraw after play began. Regardless, the Hookers didn’t exactly run away with it. Finishing 11 over was “good enough” against a decimated lineup.
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again. Fantasy sports, man…
Congrats to the Hookers. No asterisk required. :) They won. Their 7th championship and 2nd “post Tiger” championship.
On to 2025 and our 26th season. Wow.
→ Carl Cup Finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellSnowmen vs Hookers
I'm sure only about 3.5 people are looking at this, but here goes.
The two #1 seeds, the two division winners square off in a title bout where there is a very clear favorite - the Snowmen.
The Hookers are looking for their 7th Carl Cup title and their first since 2022 while the Snowmen are looking for their first ever championship.
The two teams met twice this season way back in Week 1 and Week 7. They have not faced one another since mid March at the Players championship. The teams were 1-1 against each other.
Much golf and drama has unfolded over the course of the PGA season and we find ourselves at the Tour's penultimate tournament and our championship match.
While the Snowmen are prohibitive favorites, they only have 4 players in the field. They will have to overcome the Hookers 6 man field. The good news for the Snowmen is there is no cut allowing a golfer that plays poorly on Thursday or Friday to make up ground on the weekend. The Hookers will just have to guess right as to who will have the big weekends.
This big long article to predict this: Hookers will finally lose and Snowmen will have this wrapped up before Sunday tee times. Snowmen by 27 strokes.
→ The Semi-Finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters and Loopers bowed out in bizarre circumstances with the Olympics and a completely cancelled first round. The lower seeds winning both games. Fantasy sports is just cruel...
I was 1-1 last week because I refused to pick Pin High. Oh well. I'll get this week correct.
Wedges v Snowmen: The Wedges made the playoffs by 5 strokes and they've made the best of it. They are in the semi-finals against the might Snowmen. What is interesting is the Wedges handed the Snowmen 2 of their only 6 defeats on the year. Can the Wedges make it 3? Only if the Memphis police arrest Scheffler. Snowmen have no one left to beat them. Snowmen by 30.
Hookers v Pin High: The Hookers are 2-1 against Pin High, but PH is the hottest team in the league. We've seen this play before. I've picked against the Hookers all year and I see no reason to stop now. Pin High by 3 strokes.
Toilet Bowl: CHiP missed the playoffs by 5 strokes and will win the Toilet Bowl and have first pick next year. 2025 - the year of CHiP?
→ Playoffs - Week 1
Published: by Jim GreenwellPlayoff predictions. Regular season I was 54-46 with a big finish in the last several weeks.
If anyone has asked me to predict the winner of the tournament, I've said for the last few weeks it was between Loopers and Snowmen who will meet in the finale.
Of course, the always dangerous Masters and red hot Pin High will have something to say about that. Wedges, you say? You never know... The Hookers weren't the best team in 2002, yet won - anything can happen in the playoffs. So, yes, the Wedges have a chance.
What about the Hookers? They've been looking to lose for weeks and somehow just keep winning, surely it will end now.
Week 1 Predictions:
Loopers v Pin High: These two teams split the regular season facing each other in Week 1 (Loopers win at Farmers) and Week 7 (Pin High win at The Players). The Week 7 matchup was in March nearly 5 months ago. But now they meet with the opportunity to move onto the semi-finals. Both teams only have 5 players and had to do a drop/add to get a 5th player.
Both teams very hot coming in: Loopers winning 5 of last 6 (one loss by only one stroke); Pin High winning 9 of last 11 matches.
So... I actually like Pin High in this one with the given players, but I'm going with Loopers, because I think they will win entire thing. Loopers. Somehow...
Wedges v Masters: These two teams met three times in the regular season and the Masters won all three games. It is really hard to beat a team four times, but that is the Masters' task. The Wedges limped into the playoffs, but they aren't dead. These two teams had the lowest "players missing the cut" rate of all the teams in the league. So, this will come down to Sunday. Wedges by 3 strokes as Lowry plays well.
Toilet Bowl:
CHiP over Eagles
Tee-It-Up over Hol-E-1
→ Playoff Matches Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis ended up not being to complicated. I did find our tie-break procedures written in 2006 and applied them to the standings.
By-the-way - what a great season - 4 teams at 11? Wow.
Here are the playoff seedings, then I'll explain a little on the tiebreakers...
1. Snowmen
2. Hookers
3. Loopers
4. Masters
5. Wedges
6. Pin High
Both divisions finished as the website displays them. The first tie-breakers, of course, is overall record. The second tie-break is division record. So the South has a clear winner. Even if you do a "subset conference" of the 3 11-11 teams, they end this way as Pin High was 4-2, CHiP 3-3 and HE1 2-4.
Now - for the Playoff Seedings it works like this.
Compare the 2 division winners: Snowmen get #1 seed over Hookers based on overall record. Hookers get #2 seed based on winning division, regardless of how they did against the Loopers who had the same overall record.
Now seeding 3 through 6 you continue comparing across divisions:
3 seed, you compare Loopers (highest remaining North) to Pin High (highest remaining South). Loopers get #3 seed based on overall record;
4 seed, you compare Masters (highest remaining North) to Pin High (highest remaining South). Masters get #4 seed based on overall record;
5 seed, you compare Wedges (highest remaining North) to Pin High (highest remaining South). Wedges get #5 seed base on total strokes (only 5 strokes). These teams were 1-1 against each other.
6 seed, you compare Eagles (highest remaining North) to Pin High (highest remaining South). Pin High gets #6 seed based on overall record.
This would have all been different if CHiP doesn't lose week 17 tie break to Pin High or if any one of the 11-11 South teams had swept the Wedges - all were 1-1 against Wedges. Absolutely crazy (and lost the total strokes to Wedges).
Now you continue the same format to create a "top 10" that actually goes to seeding for "Toilet Bowl" and 2025 draft.
#7 goes to CHiP in comparing CHiP to Eagles.
#8 goes to Hol-E-1 in comparing Hol-E-1 to Eagles.
#9 goes to Tee-It-Up in comparing Tee-It-Up and Eagles.
#10 goes to Eagles.
→ Last Regular Season Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go.
There is a scenario where we could end up with 4 teams at 11-11 - I don't even want to figure that up...
Your best bet if you are 10-11 or 11-10 is this: win!
LW: 3-2; YTD: 51-43
Wedges v Pin High: This might be the biggest game of the week. Is it time for Lowry to finally do something? Will McIlroy take the Open Championship? I think this game will be very close. Going with Pin High in a one stroke victory.
Eagles v Loopers: Loopers are loaded, but the Eagles have Jon Rahm in the line-up. I keep thinking Eagles will win one somewhere. So - going against my new rules and going with Eagles here.
Masters v Snowmen: Last tune-up for the Men of Snow and. Scheffler. Snowmen take down Masters and DeChambeau.
CHiP v Hookers: Hookers keep winning team skins. No way that keeps happening. Right? CHiP as Hookers slump headed to playoffs.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Tee-It-Up has been on a nasty losing streak. I think it continues. Hol-E-1 by 37 strokes.
→ Week 21
Published: by Jim GreenwellTwo straight weeks with four games predicted correctly. The new strategy is working. Going for a 5-0 week this week.
The Scottish Open - in its inaugural time in the CarlCup competition. I was worried about this one, but looks like we have a good field and not a lot of transactions to field a team. That's good news.
In the penultimate week, we have 4 games that matter to the playoffs, and 1 other game. Huge week for us, played in a semi-remote area east of Edinburgh. (Just cool to me).
Good luck to everyone on a big week of fantasy golf.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 48-42
Wedges v Masters: Wedges can clinch with a win. Masters to secure second place. I see more experience on the Masters side for a trip through Scotland. Going with the Masters in a close one.
Loopers v Snowmen: Snowmen continue to rest Scottie. Loopers are thankful. Win an important one against the men of Snow.
Eagles v Hookers: The "other" game this week with no playoff implications. Eagles win their second game of the year.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Give me all the Rory noise. Rory hushes the critics. Pin High win an important match.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Crucial to both teams. You know what name jumps out at me? Denny McCarthy. Not sure why, but it does. CHiP wins.
→ Playoff Scenarios
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs always, this is a "best attempt". There are so many possible scenarios. The nightmare for me is if Wedges, CHiP, Pin High and Hol-E-1 all end up 11-11 which I think is mathematically possible.
Best solution for the 4 teams going for the last spot is to "just win, baby!" :)
Here are scenarios best I can tell:
North Division
Snowmen: Clinched division and first round bye
Masters: Clinched playoff, can get second place money with 1 more win than Loopers
Loopers: Clinched playoff, can get second place money by matching or betterin Masters wins in last two weeks
Wedges: Can clinch with on win or a loss by both Pin High and Hol-E-1 OR by maintain the stroke advantage over both teams. OR one loss by either Pin High or Hol-E-1 AND two losses by CHiP.
South Division:
Hookers: Clinched division and first round bye
CHiP: Can get second place money with a win or a loss by Pin High and Hol-E-1; Can clinch playoffs with 1 win or a loss by both Pin High and Hol-E-1 OR 1 loss by either Pin High and Hol-E-1 AND two losses by Wedges AND CHiP wins once and overcomes Wedges stroke differential
Pin High: Can get second place money with two wins, one loss by CHiP; can clinch playoffs with 2 wins and one loss by CHiP
Hol-E-1: Can get second place money with two wins, two losses by CHiP and one loss by Pin High; can clinch playoffs with two wins, two losses by CHiP, one loss by Pin High and two losses OR two wins, end up tied with CHiP or Pin High in second place and Wedges lose two games and lose the stroke differential
Eagles and Tee-It-Up have been eliminated
→ Only3 weeks remaining?
Published: by Jim GreenwellLast week was a birdie/eagle fest for the players. -70 took home the team skin. Wow.
My picks were good too. A solid 4-1 with my “hunch” pick of Tee-It-Up burning as I predicted it would. Haha. So. Maybe? 4.5-0.5 last week?
After this weeks results I’ll do a “how to make the playoff post”.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 44-41
Wedges v Snowmen: Snowmen finally lose as Scheffler takes a week off as Snowmen cruise to finish line with their first round bye already in hand.
Eagles v Masters: I keep thinking Eagles are going to ruin someone’s year. But…. No more hunches. Masters win.
CHiP v Loopers: I like the depth of CHiP in this one. This could be a round 1 playoff preview. Critical game for both teams. CHIP somehow wins this one.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: Two teams that need a win desperately to keep playoff hopes alive. Pin High has lost 2 in a row, but they get this one.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Tee must win. Hookers want the division title. A big game. Hookers get a monster weekend from Gotterup and barely win.
→ The Travelers
Published: by Jim Greenwell(Writing this without my glasses, so give me a break).
The Snowmen have clinched a playoff spot. Their "magic number" for the division title and first round bye is 2 (with the Masters). Everyone else is fighting for the remaining 5 playoff spots (except maybe the Eagles...)
I finally got my predictions back to .500 with my new methodology. Time to blow by .500 and have a winning record on my picks. Here goes.
LW: 3-1; YTD: 40-40
Eagles v Wedges: I want to thank the Eagles for hanging tough and submitting line-ups. At this point, no one wants to lose to EAgles. It would kill their playoff hopes. Wedges should have enough fire power to avoid having this happen in week 19. Wedges by 12.
Loopers v Masters: I keep calling on Homa, but he has missed the cut in two of his last three events. I say he does it again - miss the cut. But... Xander saves the day for the Loopers who get a hard fought 2 shot win over the Masters as Aberg slumps this week.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: Can anyone stop the Snowmen avalanche? I'm looking... give me a minute. I've tried. I just don't see it. Snowmen beat Hol-E-1 by 20.
Hookers v Pin High: A must win game for Pin High. Hookers have maybe their best line-up. Hookers win this one after 4 players miss cut for Pin High.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: Another big matchup, especially for Tee-It-Up. (Like Pin High, they only have 8 wins - they don't want to fall further behind). I really like CHiP in this, but something tells me Viktor H has a huge weekend and delivers a big win for Tee-It-Up. (Hunches have killed me this year, we'll see this week).
→ The US Open at Pinehurst
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis should be a good one. I'm hoping I'll get a chance to watch a lot of this tournament - no golf (for me scheduled on Saturday or Sunday).
My new approach paid off. I was much better last week. Now I have to take into consideration all the stories I'm hearing about the course set up in North Carolina this week.
Everything is crucial now. Four teams are tied for the last playoff spot and four other teams are within 2 games of those four teams. Going to be a wild finish.
LW: 4-1; YTD: 37-38
Masters v Pin High: Hmmm. Will Bryson's strength neutralize Pinehurst or cause more problems? Will Rory shine? I see Aberg struggling and Adam Scott having a career weekend. Going with a mild upset as Pin High wins by four strokes.
Hookers v Loopers: No way this Hookers line-up beats that Loopers line-up. Koepka, Schauffele and Homa all finish top 15. Loopers by 35.
CHiP v Snowmen: Look. The Snowmen are just mowing people down. I look at this line-up and try to find a way for them to lose. I'm going to quit looking. They won last week with one less golver making the cut. So... Snowmen win.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: Eagles are playing better. Is the US Open where they could win a second game? I don't think so, but it will be close. HE1 wins by less than 10 strokes.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges are better. Especially since Hovlan and Hatton will strugle. Eckroat will surprise, but it won't be enough to overcome the Wedges.
→ 6 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt starts to get real now. The South has really tightened up. And… 9 teams are in the playoff hunt. This week has some critical matchups.
Another great tournament. Is it just me or has this been a fun year with the PGA?
My predictions are. It going well. Time to re-evaluate my criteria. Look for a better week this week.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 33-37
Wedges v Loopers: Monster game. Both teams need a win. Zalatoris is on the bench for the Wedges and Loopers lead with Xander. Hmmm. Max Homa has a big week and carries the Loopers to a close win.
Eagles v Snowmen: Snowmen. :)
Masters v Tee-It-Up: Sigh. I feel like I really struggle with these 2 teams. I see them both losing. Haha. Since that isn’t possible, I’m going with Aberg on top 5 and that’s enough for a Masters win.
CHiP v Pin High: Boy. A win by PH sure would make a mess out of the South standings. Why not? PH wins because someone for CHiP shoots an 80 on Sunday.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: I’ve been calling for a Hookers slide for a while. Hookers lost last week because they forgot to modify lineup on Thursday and Friday. Bad fantasy Karma. For sure. HE1 beats Hookers by 23 strokes.
→ Week 16
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell. Interesting. Somehow the Hookers are winning their division and the Snowmen loss has tightened up the North. Only 7 weeks to go. Time to start positioning for playoffs.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 31-34
Time to get back to winning ways. I’ve been at Oxford University the last 2 days. Feeling really smart. Gonna be good picks this week.
Wedges v Hookers: Hookers are rolling and it continues this week. Wedges will be upset and wondering how they can make the playoffs after this loss. Hookers will begin to tumble after this week.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: Loopers seem to finally be the team they hoped to be. They are going after the Masters and the Snowmen. They will take care of HE1 this week on the way.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: it took the LMPD to finally beat Snowmen. But…. You know what? I see crap like this in fantasy sports that suddenly make teams spiral like it is real or something. Tee-It-Up with the win and the North gets real crazy.
Eagles v Pin High: Just too hard to pick Eagles. Especially with the good form of PH lately. Pin wins.
CHiP v Masters: I think. No. I know. CHiP finally gets back on the winning side of a match. 5 losses in a row is too many for this team. Even if they are playing the Masters.
→
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith Snowmen finally losing and CHiP losing 4 in a row things have tightened up in the divisional races.
This week is another major and it is being played in Louisville. A great opportunity for league owners to go support their own players or heckle opponents.
LW: 2-3; YTD: 29-31
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: I keep expecting Wedges to blow someone out but haven’t been doing well lately. Tee hasn’t been any better. This is a really important game for both teams. Wedges get a win as Lowry gets a top 10 finish.
Eagles v Loopers: Loopers are finally winning and they are ready for their run. Loopers win by 50 with 2 top 10 finishers.
Masters v Snowmen: This is it. Game of the week. Heck Loopers might (might) be cheering for Masters. Snowmen have Ben running away with it. If they win this one…. I think they do. Snowmen by one stroke.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: Rory McIlroy shows he is not done and leads Pin High to victory.
CHiP v Hookers: CHiP won’t lose 5 in a row and the Hookers weaknesses are exposed in majors. CHiP wins easily.
→ Week 14
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell…
I had another terrible week last week. Therefore, as the saying goes - I’m due!
Therefore this is a guaranteed 5-0 week. If I picked you to lose - too bad - you’re gonna lose.
LW: 1-4; YTD: 27-28
Wedges v Masters: Wedges have had a tough go as of late. Then again, the Masters had the best score in the league last week and lost. Ouch. Gets worse. Wedges find a way to win this one.
Loopers v Snowmen: Can anyone near the men of snow? Loopers can. Big upset and suddenly the division looks a little more wide open. Loopers by 23 strokes.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: Now that the Eagles have won one, can they start winning a bunch? Yep. Eagles pull another upset. This time over HE1.
Why do I not like CHiPs lineup but he keeps winning? Going with it. CHiP somehow beats Pin High. I don’t know why. I don’t understand it. But it will happen.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Hookers suck. Their fall to the basement begins next week though. Hookers beat Tee in a close one.
→ Week 13
Published: by Jim GreenwellMan... predictions should be easy.
1. Don't pick Eagles.
2. Don't pick against Snowmen.
3. Don't pick against CHiP.
Pretty easy. But... what do I do? I go 1-4 not following the basic rules of predicting.
So. This week we are in full recovery mode.
LW: 1-4; YTD: 26-24
Eagles v Wedges: See rule #1. Wedges win. Besides - they have one additional player - depth helps. And... Will Zalatoris wins this tournament. :)
Loopers v Masters: Man... I want to pick the Loopers. I see Luke List having a big tournament. However, somehow, it seems, Masters have Loopers number. Masters win this one - somehow. Loopers need this one. It would be a big win if they can get it.
CHiP v Snowmen: Rule #2 meet Rule #3. What to do, what to do? Jordan Spieth will play well and Joel Dahmen will surprise everyone this week. Snowmen by 8 strokes.
Hookers v Pin High: Hookers are so bad they are only team with 6 players in the tournament - ha. I like the depth for the Hookers, but only barely. Hookers win by 1 stroke.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Look out for Garrick Higgo. This match will be close as both teams will only have 2 players make the cut. I'm going with TIU in a 3 stroke win.
→ Week 12
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe have crossed over the halfway mark and the Hookers continue to be the luckiest team in the league. Oh, when the crash comes...
Don't look now, but here come the Loopers. They have now won 3 in a row. The once red hot Wedges have recently fell on hard times.
Literally no one is eliminated from the playoffs. Should be a heck of a finish to the end.
LW: 3-2; YTD 25-20
Yet another signature event with a limited field. Here are my guaranteed predictions.
Wedges v Hookers: Wedges have their A team and the Hookers had to pick up two players to field a team. Wedges get back on the winning track with an easy victory.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: I think the Loopers players have something to prove and are getting hot. Xander and Homa carry the Loopers to a resounding win.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: Upset special. Scheffler misses cut (Master's hangover) and Kurt Kityama has a top 5 finish. Tee-It-Up with a big upset.
Eagles v Pin High: Well... I said I wasn't picking or Pin High the rest of the year and then I did last week with Pin High. When will I learn? Now one of them has to win. Will it finally be the Eagles? I think it will be. Eagles get a win. Finally...
CHiP v Masters: No one is talking much about CHiP, but they are quietly putting together a heck of a season. Ownership won't like this much, but I'm going with CHiP to win by 7 strokes - exactly - over the Masters this week.
→ The Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt is Master's Week and after this tournament we will be half way through the season.
Maybe the coolest course and tournament all year and all the best golfers in the world are invited. Should be a good one.
Let's take a look at this week's predictions.
LW: 2-3; YTD 22-18
Wedges v Loopers: Wedges have a great team, but the Loopers have the Masters champion this week. Xander Schauffele wins the tournament and carries the Loopers to a huge win.
Eagles v Snowmen: The Eagles haven't won yet. But... they finally have Jon Rahm in the line-up. Is it enough to overcome Scottie and Hideki? I'm going with no. Eagles make it interesting, but Snowmen win by 4 strokes.
Masters v Pin High: I swore I wasn't going to pick Pin High until they started winning - well they won last week. Isn't that good enough? I just look at this and I really like the Pin High Masters line-up - it should be good enough. Pin High by 10.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: No one is talking about CHiP and he probably likes it like that. Seven wins in a row and an opportunity to shutdown their only real competition in the division. I don't get a "feeling" on this one. Going with a thought on Tyrell Hatton - that name just called out to me - we'll see. Tee-It-Up wins makes the division interesting.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hookers forgot to change a line-up last week and cost them a victory. Stupid things like that lead to losing streaks. Especially when Morikowa sucks and DJ is in the line-up. Sigh. Hol-E-1 walks away with an easy win.
→ Week 10 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs Tony told David in the chat: "life is normal now" after Hol-E-1 defeated the Wedges, I too am back on track with a huge 5-0 predicted week. I even accurately predicted the one stroke win by the Hookers over the Masters.
Speaking of the Hookers - is there a luckier team in the league? :)
Here are this week's predictions. (Another 5-0 week I'm sure):
LW: 5-0; YTD: 20-15
Wedges v Snowmen: This one is huge. A Snowmen win would certainly separate them from the pile after only 10 weeks. They have won 7 in a row, have won a skin 4 weeks in a row. But... They don't have Scheffler this week. They are still loaded. Why would anyone consider picking the Wedges? Because fantasy sports are weird. Seamus Power finishes in top 5 and lead the Wedges to a huge win.
Eagles v Masters: Look. Last week I said I wasn't picking the Eagles nor Pin High anymore until they won. The rule helped me get to 5-0 last week. I'm staring at this. No way the Eagles lose this. But... rules are rules. Masters win somehow becaue the Eagles unlucky streak is somehow worse than CHiPs from a couple of years ago.
Hookers v Loopers: I just like the depth of the Hookers in this one over the Loopers. Tom Kim breaks through with a top 10 finish. Hookers squeak out another win.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Rory McIlroy wins the tournament, but Tee-It-Up wins. Hey... rules are rules. Haha. Seriously - McIlroy is ready to win this. Pin High just has a bunch of missed cuts, I guess...
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Just like the Hookers/Loopers game, I like the depth of CHiP in this one. Hard to beat, but it happens. Besides, Corey Conners has a big top 10 finish this week. CHiP in a romp.
→ Week 9 Prediction
Published: by Jim GreenwellGreat News!
I have great news for Pin High and the Eagles. My predictions are 15-15 so far this year and at least half of the misses are me picking Pin High and Eagles to win. They lose, thus I'm clearly putting the whammy on them. So... No more picking these teams. Sorry, CHiP and Snowmen... :)
YTD 15-15; LW: 3-2
Wedges v Hol-E-1: Wedges only have 4 players and one is a temporary player. However... is the "Hall curse" over for the Wedges? They've won a couple in a row. Can it continue? Uh, no. Hol-E-1 wins this one, but it is closer than you might think.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: when will the Loopers step up and start making their run? Is it this week? I think it is. Cam David and Luke List have huge weeks and deliver a big win for the Loopers.
Pin High v Snowmen: I've covered this, I'm picking the Snowmen. I mean, Scheffler is in the line-up - they can't lose - period. (That whould reverse the whammy).
CHiP v Eagles: CHiP has 5 golfers to the Eagles 4. No way Eagles win this one. I'd bet the house on it. CHiP wins. :)
Hookers v Masters: I don't like picking the Hookers to win a second match over the Masters in in the first half of the season, but I have to in this one. Hookers hold on and win by 1 stroke.
→ Week 8 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - here we go - next week I'll add up how I'm doing - but I'm pretty sure I've only missed one or two games this year...
Last week, I accurately predicted the Scheffler victory. Going to try again this week. The winner of the Valspar Championship will be Brian Harman.
So take these predictions to the bank:
Wedges v Loopers: Uh, Wedges win this one. Done. Loopers are playing 4 temporary players. Wedges can't lose this one. Right?
Eagles v Snowmen: Snowmen are loaded an might be the best team in the league. Eagles are yet to win a game. I have no reason to pick the Eagles in this one except, well, crap happens. Eagles "finally" get a win in a HUGE upset.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: This is a low-key great matchup. This one will come down to Sunday afternoon. But... Nick Taylor finished in the top 10 and leads TIU to a 2 stroke victory.
CHiP v Pin High: CHiP has put together a very good team. Pin High won their first game last year. Here comes the Pin High surge. Brian Harman wins the tournament and gives Pin High a huge win.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: HE1 has 4 players and the Hookers are rolling with a full 6. The odds are in favor of the Hookers in this one. Playing the odds. Hookers win because they have one more than HE1 to make cut.
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Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 7 Predictions. (Wait. Did I call week 6 predictions week 7?). Ugh.
CHiP v Wedges: Wedges are stacked. JT is his 4th best player. Maybe 4th. CHiP will try for the upset. Sam Burns finishes in top 10 giving CHiP a chance, but Wedges win this thriller by 3 strokes.
Loopers v Pin High: PH needs a win badly. Adam Scott and McIlroy have great tournaments. They will need it as Schauffele finished on top 3. Pin High finally wins. By one stroke.
Hookers v Snowmen: The route is on. Scheffler becomes first ever to repeat as champion at the Players Championship. Hookers have only 2 players make cut. Morikowa misses yet another cut.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: On paper, this is a blow out. But… Hovland struggles and Byeong Hun A comes out of nowhere to finish top 7 and give Eagles a huge upset.
Hol-E-1 v Masters: Rumor has it that Wyndham Clark will be allowed to roll the ball and improve his lie on all shots not in the fairway. I mean… he did last week, so why not this week. I like the Masters in this one. My eye keeps going to Hol-E-1, but I just think Masters find a way to win.
→ Week 7 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellAnother Signature event.
I "think" this event is the top 50 and everyone within 10 strokes of the lead make the cut. I've put code in to handle this - BUT... double check your people - to make sure they actually made / or didn't make the cut. I'll be out of town with no way to make any modifications this weekend.
Predictions: I promise I haven't looked yet. But will when done...
Wedges v Pin High: Wedges lost a tough one last week to the Masters and will look to get back to winning ways. However, Pin High is 0-5 and no way they lose 6 in a row. Pin High in a close one.
Eagles v Loopers: Same as the previous match. Eagles won't lose 6 in a row. I like the Loopers in this one, but I'm going with the odds for the Eagles.
Masters v Snowmen: Masters, after meeting Eagles, stand alone in their division. time for the Snowmen to show they are a contender. Can Scheffler learn to putt? Snowmen win this one - somehow.
CHiP v Hookers: Hookers running with two temp players - no way they have the "Masters' Hoffman" luck. CHiP wins in a blow out.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: I can't pronounce any of the names on TIU, so I'm going with Hol-E-1...
:)
→ Week 5 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat was once the Honda Classic is now the Cognizant Classic (whatever Cognizant is - anyone know?) I've always liked this tournament and a little piece of history. This tournament was first played in 1972 and was originally the Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic. "to the moon, Alice".
LW: 3-2; YTD: 6-6
I'm back to 0.500 and am looking forward to a big week.
Wedges v Masters: The Wedges are 4-0 and one game up on the Masters. The Wedges have been a little on the lucky side. Besides, Lowery continues his bad form. Masters get a big win over front-running Wedges.
Loopers v Snowmen: Luke List continues his good play and leads the Loopers to victory. A bad week for Snowmen as Horschel and Glover miss the cut.
Eagels v Hookers: Ugh! Eagles are 0-4. No way this continues. The Hookers have been the luckiest team in the league. It all changes this week. Eagles win big.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High is 0-4, but they started slowly last year to roar back and be a very dangerous team. Could happen again this year. If it does, it will start this week. Pin High beats Tee by 3 strokes.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: I like CHiP's depth in this one. 6 golfers v 4 (one of which is a temp). CHiP smokes victory cigar on Friday evening.
→ Week 4 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst... A new website feature. I've added "Actual Win %" to the Stats page. This will give you an indicator compared to your Breakdown Win % of how lucky (or unlucky) you've been. 3 Weeks is not a good sample size, but I look forward to seeing this data as the year goes along.
Three notes from last week.
1. How the HELL do the Masters pick up a temporary player in Charlie Hoffman and nearly win the tournament. (Loopers are probably asking the same question). I was cheering hard for 'ol Charlie but Taylor was an absolute beat his last 6 holes...
2. Saw something I don't think I've ever seen. Wedge beat Eagles in an earnings tie-breaker. BUT... the Eagles had the lowest scoring player of the two teams. The new purses are so high now, I guess this paradigm has shifted for us.
3. Fantasy sports, man... Hookers had the 3rd worst score of the week and won... Remind me of this when I whine later about a bad beat...
Week 4 Predictions:
LW 2-3 : YTD 2-3 (12-3 in my head - haha)
This is a great tournament hosted by our old friend Tiger. Let's see where this one takes us.
Wedges v Hol-E-1: Wedges were crowing about their 3-0 start and I said, yeah, well, you play Tony this week. Wedges said: "all good things must come to an end". (Long story between these two. No reason to go against these odds. Hol-E-1 wins.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: Just playing the odds here, Tee-It-Up has to lose sometime, right? Schauffele is a top 5 finisher and carries the day (especially since Hovland will miss the cut). Loopers in a tight one.
Pin High v Snowmen: Can Scheffler find his putting stroke? If he does, Snowmen are going to be a problem. But, not this week. Rory McIlory has a top 3 finish and carries Pin High to victory.
CHiP v Eagles: 0-3 Eagles aren't 0-3 bad. But.. Burns LOVES this course. Ugh. What to do with this one. CHiP wins on a tie breaker sending Eagles ownership into fits of rage. (Not sure anyone has ever lost two tie breakers in a row - if they have, it's been Tim - haha)
Hookers v Masters: Hookers pull the upset. Hoffman remembers he is 47, Aberg (the player I wanted so badly in the draft) misses the cut and Fitzpatrick has a blah tournament. Morikawa finishes top 10 and leads Hookers to victory.
And my BOLD prediction: Tiger finishes in the top half of the tournament.
→ Predictions?
Published: by Jim GreenwellSorry... Ugh... This working part time thing has me all disoriented...
Predictions part way through round 1 and I haven't looked at the scores.
Eagles v Wedges: The Wedges just look loaded, but I really like Theegala for the Eagles. I suspect this one will come down to the final holes on Sunday. Justin Thomas has a top 5 finish and carries the day for the Wedges.
Loopers v Masters: Charley Hoffman in the line-up - love it!!! The Loopers predicted a championship this year. If that is going to happen, they need to be at the Masters in week 3 (ha). Loopers win this one.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: Snowmen win this one by 97 strokes (or there about). I believe Hol-E-1 ownership is attending the Waste Management and will probably drink too many beers to make sure the line-up is good.
Hookers v Pin High: Young guns v old farts. Sigh... Why do I think the old farts are going to win? Pin High wins.
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: Sungjae shines. Tee-It-Up have all by 2 golfers miss the cut. CHiP finally hand TIU their first loss.
→ An Update
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone - I apologize - I've been out of town and super busy. I'll start predictions this week. I did busy myself today with fixing a few issues. Clearly my code is not built to handle a golf tournament that ends with less than 4 rounds - fortunately - I just had to run a couple of jobs manually.
There was also some backend stuff that wasn't working correctly - I have NO idea how it ever worked, but it is working again - haha.
The good news is it looks like things are working out with Signature events - very few transactions - that is a good sign. Hoping for a great year for everyone.
→ 2024 Season is Ready
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell...
We are about as ready as I know how to make us. Which scares me. I've never been more confident, which scares me even more. And when I say confident, I mean in our website (not my team). Haha.
All testing is complete. We are ready.
→ Web Site Testing
Published: by Jim GreenwellOver the next 2 days, I'll be doing some testing on the site.
If you go to the "Team" page and look at your roster, you may see some indication that they are in the field for the Farmers and tee times - these are FALSE!!!!
They will be tee times and field information for the tournament this weekend. So - ignore it. I'll have it all cleaned up on Friday. I'll post something on the site so that you'll know the data is good.
The field for the Farmers isn't set until this Friday evening.
The data on the "In Field but Not on Roster" page will be for this weekend as well.
→ 2024 Season To Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellDraft is set for January 9 at 8:00pm
→ 2023 Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellThank you! A great year.
I didn't submit a line-up one week and never won again, losing 8 straight. Two on tie breakers. Ugh. Moral of the story: set a lineup.
Tee-It-Up (Tim Denham) won their FOURTH championship in league history (2004, 2011, 2015, 2023). The Masters were every bit as good as usual. Pin High came out of the bottom of the pack to scare everyone.
2024 will be the year we all need to beat the Loopers. The message out of their camp is they can't lose with the #1 pick next year. This was the first time I remember a team with 11 wins not making the playoffs. Crazy.
The money is updated on the website - but here is what you won:
Pat - 35
Joe - 30
David G - 15
Tony - 30
Jim - 10
Keith - 20
Charlie - 130
Mike - 5
David C - 60
Tim - 160
Next year's draft (which is only 5 months away):
1. Loopers
2. Hookers
3. Wedges
4. Eagles
5. Snowmen
6. Pin High
7. Hol-E-1
8. CHiP
9. Masters
10. Tee-It-Up
→ Battle for the Carl Cup
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go. Tee-It-Up vs. Middletown Masters.
Tee-It-Up is looking for their second championship (the other being 2015) and the Masters hope to win their 3rd championship (2018 and 2019).
These two teams met way back in Week 1 with Tee-It-Up winning the Farmers by 14 strokes. The also met in Week 7 where Tee-It-Up once again prevailed by 10 strokes in the Players Championship.
The lineups are similar to Week 7, but no Justin Thomas (for Masters) and Sam Ryder is absent for TIU.
Who will win this week? Heck if I know. I'm pretty sure my predictions have sucked. So... I'm going with a tie. This is how things work for Tee-It-Up (it seems). They will tie and Masters will win on a tie-breaker.
→ The Semi-Finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay... Yes I've lost some interest, but... I'm still working my ass off on this. I just spent the last hour figuring out why the hell the PGA scoreboard stuff wasn't working. Frigg'n PGA changed the identifier of the Fedex St. Jude after, idunno, 10+ years of using the old identifier. I hope this shit works in the morning, because I'm leaving town for the weekend...
Anyway, your predictions.
CHiP v Masters: I've been saying it all year, this is CHiP's year. I'm not backing down now. (Even though I picked against them last week - haha). CHiP lost to the Masters at the RBC Heritage, but won in the US Open. This is big time like the Open. There is no cut - so this is bring heat v heat. Somehow, someway, CHiP finds a way to upend the Masters. (Sungjae with a top 3?) Sure, why not?
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High is on one huge roll. Pin High knows how to beat Tee-It-Up. Despite losing by 55 strokes to TIU back in week 5 at the Honda Classic, PH won by 4 at the Masters and 23 strokes at the John Deere. McIlory has a huge weekend and Hovland struggles. Pin High wins this won by 17 strokes.
Toilet Bowl: Loopers v Wedges. Loopers win this one and predict a 2024 championship for themselves this coming Sunday night.
→ CHiP and Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 3 seed CHiP has advanced to take on the Masters in the semifinals.
In the other semi-finals, Tee-It-Up will face the red hot Pin High squad.
By the way, Pin High’s story is why you never give up. After week 8 they were 1-7. They won 9 of final 12 games are now in the semi-finals.
Toilet bowl update: Wedges will play Loopers.
→ The Playoffs
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go!!!
Snowmen v CHiP: The Snowmen were one win from a first round bye and then fall to the 6 seed. They now only have 4 players in the field. Fantasy sports, man... But... CHiP beat the Snowmen twice and it's really hard to beat a team 3 times. Even in fantasy sports, it seems. So - upset special. 6 seed Snowmen take out CHiP in a heartbreaker for CHiP (what else is new). Lowry somehow gets a top 10.
Pin High v Hol-E-1: In a double down from previous prediction (and in spite of what I said), Hol-E-1 has beaten Pin High 3 times. Pin High has been on one serious roll in the last half of the season. Pin High wins this one by 3 strokes.
Toilet Bowl:
Loopers beat the pitiful Hookers. Eagles beat Wedges.
→ Playoffs Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere are the playoff teams and seeds.
1. Tee-It-Up
2. Masters
3. CHiP
4. Hol-E-1
5. Pin High
6. Snowmen
Congrats to TIU and Masters on division championship. Snowmen and CHiP were division runner ups.
Round one of playoffs:
Snowmen v CHiP
Pin High V Hol-E-1
Round 2:
Tee-It-Up v winner of HE1 v PH
Masters v winner of Snowmen v CHiP
Toilet bowl:
1. Hookers
2. Wedges
3. Eagles
4. Loopers
Tourney: Hookers v Loopers and Wedges v Eagles.
If you have any questions, let me know.
→ Final Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellPlayoff Scenarios you didn't know you needed:
Let's start with division titles.
North: This is one is simple. The Snowmen and Masters square off in Week 22. Winner takes the North Division Title and a round 1 bye.
South:
CHiP wins division with a win and if Hol-E-1 beats Tee-It-Up.
Hol-E-1 wins division with a win and CHiP loses to Wedges.
Tee-It-Up wins division with a win.
The Wildcards - this is a complete disaster. I don't recall ever seeing anything like this. 7 teams with 10 or more wins? We could end up with a team with 11 wins missing the playoffs. I've never seen it happen before.
Here is what I think it takes for each team to make playoffs.
Masters. Has clinched. Could drop to a a 6 seed with a loss with a huge swing in strokes with Pin High and/or Tee-It-Up (if CHiP and Hol-E-1 win). (I told you this was crazy).
Snowmen: Win and in. Likely clinched even with loss, but gets really weird if Loopers win and Pin High loses. Will come down to strokes and percentage of wins.
Loopers: Needs a win and things are easier if Snowmen also win. Need Pin High to lose and maintain stroke advantage over Pin High. Eliminated with a loss.
CHiP, Tee-It-Up, Hol-E-1: All clinched. The scenarios are a mess. TIU will have number one seed if they win division. CHiP and HE1 get #1 seed if they win division and Masters lose. (There is an outside shot at CHiP getting it with a Masters win but VERY unlikely).
Pin High: needs to win, can get in with a loss with a Loopers loss or catch Loopers in total strokes.
Eagles, Foot Wedges and Hookers are out.
→ Week 19
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith only 4 weeks to go, winning is crucial. Especially for the teams currently in the bottom 4. The playoff hunt should shape up. I let after this week.
Eagles v Wedges: On paper, this one belongs to the Eagles. I’m going with the paper.
Loopers v Masters: A monstrous matchup. Tom Kim finally played well last week. I think it continues. Loopers in a match that isn’t settled until late Sunday.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: Snoen must win to keep pace with winner of Loopers and Masters. TIU doesn’t care about the Snowmen problems. I’ve picked against them all year. It this week. TIU I’m a HUGE win.
CHiP v Hookers: When was the last time the Hookers won? This weekend. That’s when. Hookers by 15 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: maybe the two hottest teams in the league meet. Pin High’s amazing streak continues with a hard fought win.
→ Only One Important Thing
Published: by Jim GreenwellThere is only one important thing happening this weekend. Don't let anyone tell you different. The US Open at the Los Angeles Country Club. The US Open, when golf "clubs" the golfers. When the best players in the world, at times, look like us duffers at the local club or muni.
So, when someone tries to tell you to pay attention to something this weekend besides golf, tell them I said you should ignore them.
Enjoy the golf - it should be great.
Predictions:
CHiP v Masters: A marquee matchup between to 10-7 teams. I have to go with Masters withe Koepka who seems to be on a roll.
Hookers v Loopers: A blow out. Loopers win this one by 50+ strokes. Morikawa and Matuyama mss the cut and DJ finishes in the top 3.
Pin High v Snowmen: Pin High is on a roll and it continues. The Snowmen are really good, but they fall this week as Mikelson, Reed and Spieth all miss the cut. This would give Pin High a 6th straight win.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: Eagles need a win to get into the hunt for the playoffs. I'm not sure they find it this week. I can't decide on Hovland. I see him missing cut. Just maybe there is an upset here. Heck - let's do it. Eagles in an upset (besides, I like disrespecting TIU).
Wedges v Hol-E-1: A rivalry game. Wedges must win. Wedges finally beat Hol-E-1.
→ Week 17 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere is a prediction for you - this LIV / PGA thing will be a mess to our league next year. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
Wedges v Loopers: Gotta go with depth as Wedges have 6 players going to Loopers 4. Wedges in a close one.
Eagles v Snowmen: Who are these guys? Hahaha. Snowmen win because Lowry finally has a good week.
Hol-E-1 v Masters: Masters have a decent line-up in this tournament and as a result will win by 20+ strokes.
CHiP v Pin High: CHiP has lost 4 in a row and Pin High has won 4 in a row. I think the trend continues. Pin High continues his run with a 5th win.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Luke List? Really, Tim? Hahaha (of course Hookers trot out Mike Weir). Theegala carries the week for TIU (finally some respectg for TIU).
→ Week 16 Predictions from Miami
Published: by Jim GreenwellI’m currently vacationing in Miami and managed to remember to set a lineup. Here are this week’s predictions:
Wedges v Hookers: father v son. Father wins. Easily. 40 strokes. :)
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: I like the Loopers in this one. Tee-It-Up just doesn’t have enough this week. One of these days I’ll give TIU some respect.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen: Upset special. Fowler has a top 10 at Jack’s tournament and upset the Snowmen.
CHiP v Eagles: CHiP have lost 3 in a row. This will make 4. Eagles get a big win and back in the playoff hunt.
Masters v Pin High: I like upsets this week. Pin High wins by 15 strokes.
→ Week 14 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellWow! Thanks for the "calling out".
Sorry - I got busy and out of the habit. But, we are nearing the tail end of the season and everyone still has a shot to make the playoffs.
Here are this weeks predictions:
Wedges v Masters: Wedges have lost 6 in a row while the Masters have won 4 in a row. I don't see any way the Wedges win this one. And... that is why I'm picking them in an upset special. Wedges by 12 strokes.
Loopers v Snowmen: Tom Kim finally does something. Loopers beat Snowmen as DJ has another strong showing in a major. This game might be the match-up of the week. Winner will likely have the best team skin.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: I just can't pick against Rahm and Day. Eagles wine a close one.
CHiP v Pin High: CHiP has the best record in the league and can afford to lose one and it's a good thing because they will lose this week. McIlroy and Smith finish in top 10 to help defeat first place CHiP.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Finau and Fowler against Hideki and Collin. The Hookers players have been average (at best) all year. But, average might be enough this week. Hookers by 3 strokes.
→ Week 11 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLove this tournament - the course is so unique and there is usually a great finish. We will be half way after this weekend.
LW: 3-2; YTD: 25-20
Every team has 6 players in this tournament. Should be a fun weekend to follow.
Wedges v Loopers: I just keep thinking Sam Burns is due. Wedges pick a win in a very close battle.
Eagles v Snowmen: So - I've followed this tournament for a long time, I believe in the "Master's hangover". Rahm disappoints and the Snowmen go on to victory.
CHiP v Masters: CHiP is rocking this year and his luck is certainly better than last year (so far). But he runs into a buzz saw this week. Masters win this match and win a skin as JT wins the tournament.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: Patton Kizzire comes of the bench and leads Pin High to a 3rd straight win.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Hookers apparently suck. But... they manage to upset Tee-It-Up when Hovland misses the cut.
→ Masters Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellOn the road. On my phone. This will be brief
LW: 3-2. YTD: 22-18
Wedges v Snowmen: upset special. Scheffler misses cut. Watson doesn’t. wedges win.
Eagles v LIV (Masters): Hunch - Rahm makes them look foolish. Eagles win.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: CHiP continues to impress with depth in a big win.
Hookers v Loopers: Loopers win by about 97 strokes.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High finding their stride. A big win for PH.
→ Week 9 Predictions
Published: by Jim Greenwell2 Weeks Ago: 2-3; YTD: 19-16
This isn't going well... I probably missed out on a 5-0 week last week. Ha.
So, I'll just do it this week. These are guaranteed, just so you know.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges will rocking temporary players (most likely) and while that has worked, Tee-It-Up is hot. TIU wins another one.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: HE1 is having a nice season, if not a little unlucky. I see them getting two top 10 finishes and beating the Loopers handily this week.
CHiP v Snowmen: Snowmen are loaded when they are loaded, but not this week. They all took a week off it seems. CHiP's B-Team should be plenty to melt the Snowmen in week 9.
Eagles v Pin High: Two teams that desperately need a win. Write this down. Adam Schenk leads Eagles to victory over Pin High.
Hookers v Masters: Masters are always solid, but Hookers have a little more depth and have plenty of A players going. If Hookers lose this one, they should plan for 2024. But, they won't. Hookers win by 7 strokes.
→ The Players
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 1-4; YTD: 17-13
Well, last week was a disaster. I do have one piece of good news, I've implemented a "Power Ranking" you can see on the "Stats" page. It gives a mathematical value to your position in regular season wins, breakdown win % and total strokes. A perfect score is 30 and the lowest possible score is a 3.
Anyway, on to this week's predictions.
Wedges v Pin High: Wedges took down mighty CHiP last week. Can they throttle the comeback efforts of Pin High who got their first win last week? Time for Sam Burns to make a splash with a top 3 finish. Wedges win this one.
CHiP v Loopers: Zalatoris haunts his previous manager and leads CHiP to a 6th win.
Hookers v Snowmen: Picking last in draft vs picking first in draft. Hookers have lost two key players to LIV this season and are in deep trouble. Snowmen win this on before sundown on Friday.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: John Rahm finishes in a playoff for the championship can carries Eagles past Hol-E-1 in a big victory.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: Masters in this one as Thomas ties Rahm and is in the playoffs too. In fact, this feels like a Masters' week. Masters finish: Thomas T1; Hatton: 36; Conners: 17; Young: 9. Masters sweep skins and plunder TIU.
→ Week 6: Arnold Palmer
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 4-1; YTD: 16-9
The Arnold Palmer Invitational - a great tournament. All the big boys are playing and our line-ups will be tested this week.
But, your good-prognosticator will make short work of it. Here goes.
CHiP v Wedges: Well... I like the Wedge with Fitzpatrick and Burns, but they are playing CHiP. So, gotta go with the hot hand until it burns me. CHiP by 4 strokes.
Eagles v Loopers: Kim and Rahm v Kim and Schauffele. This will be a good one. The weekend depends on Jason Day. Sorry to the Eagles and Day, but Loopers take this one.
Masters v Snowmen: Loaded line-ups everywhere. I just can't get past the Snowmen's line-up. Spieth finally has a good week and carry the Snowmen to a big victory.
Hookers v Pin High: Hookers get the winless Pin High team. Pin High is so loaded they have Horchel on the bench. Pin High finally get one in the win column.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Just because it would be funny for all kinds of reasons. Rickie Fowler finds the fountain of youth and finishes in top 20 in leading Hol-E-1 to victory over Tee-It-Up.
→ Week 5 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 2-3; YTD 12-8
I got killed last week. Time to rebound with a perfect week. This week is easy...
Wedges v Masters: Who are these guys? Haha. Vegas has big week and Wedges get a much needed win.
Loopers v Snowmen: A mix of solid players and temporary players on both sides. Should be a good one. Loopers narrowly escape with a win.
Eagles v Hookers: Hookers have more depth and should easily win this one.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: I've learned my lesson. CHiP by about 237 strokes... :)
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: A first - a roll-over line-up against an all-temporary lineup. The fighting temps get this one.
→ Week 4 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 3-2 YTD: 10-5
Okay - you guys don't complain enough - I just saw that tee times isn't working. I'll fix it later - everything will be better when I can move to PGA source data and that fixes all the name issues I have out there (if you have one, you know it - haha).
As for last week's picks - I may never pick against CHiP again (especially when playing my team).
Here we go. Just about everyone is playing. A good week to judge just how good your team is.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Sam Burns wins the tournament and guides Wedges to a much needed win.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: HE1 is undefeated and rolling with Fowler (wtf...). This one will be tighte, but Xander has a big week and pulls leads Loopers to victory.
CHiP v Snowmen: Zalatoris misses the cut and Snowmen win bet team skin in a blowout win (so much for always picking CHiP).
Eagles v Pin High: Eagles love when I pick against them. So, you're welcome Eagles. Pin High get a huge win as Horschel has a top 15 week.
Hookers v Masters: Morikawa loves Riviera. Hookers pull out a close win.
→ Week 3 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 4-1 YTD: 7-3
The year of CHiP. I'm accurately predicted to straight games. Last week I said they would win by less than 10 strokes. CHiP is getting all the close wins this year (after last years soul sucking experience...)
Eagles v Wedges: How do you pick against Kim and Rahm? Can Burns and Fitzpatrick carry the Wedges? This could be a close one. Hesitating... Going with Eagles in this one. Wait, no Wedges. Ugh. Okay - staying with Eagles.
Loopers v Masters: Two teams with all the players I wanted to draft. This comes down to Kim for Loopers and Young for Masters. Going with Young and the Masters.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: Snowmen are stacked with Scheffler, Spieth and Lowry. How exactly did they get all 3 of these guys? Snowmen over TIU in a close one.
CHiP v Hookers: CHiP are 2-0, but they lose this one and it won't be close.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: Pin High needs a win. They get it this week thanks to Chris Kirk top 15 finish.
→ Week 2 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 3-2 YTD: 3-2
Wedges v Snowmen: Both teams only have 4 players, but Snowmen have the upper hand. Snowmen are never challenged in this one.
Eagles v Masters: Eagles have to roll with a temporary player and Masters have more depth in this match. They are playing a lot of young players, but they should hold serve and beat the Eagles.
Loopers v Pin High: Loopers lose to 3 temporary players for Pin High (only because Loopers were so in favor of the rule change - just how crap works...)
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: I accurately predicted CHiP would when by exactly 3 strokes last week. This year CHiP will win all the close ones. He wins another one over Tee-It-Up by less than 10 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: HE1 easily has the best lineup and should have this won before players tee off on Saturday.
→ Week 1 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellYTD 0-0
Let's see how this goes...
Wedges v Pin High: Neither team is loaded, but Pin High as 2 temp players and no reserves. Going with Wedges on this one.
CHIP v Loopers: Zalatoris has a big weekend and haunts Loopers. CHiP lost every close game last year. Wins this one by 3 strokes.
Hookers v Snowmen: No reserves for either team. But Hookers, have top 2 players. Rolling with Hookers.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: Jon Rahm is hot. Jon Rahm carries this game for Eagles.
Masters v Tee-It-Up: Masters roll to victory by 30 strokes at Detry has a top 10 finish.
→ 2023 Draft: January 16, 7pm
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2023 draft is set for January 16 at 7pm.
→ Carl Cup Champion: Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers won their 6th title (and the first without a guy named Tiger on their roster).
What was shaping up to be a great final match feel apart on Saturday morning. Will Zalatoris withdrew after just few holes in the third round. This doomed the Loopers. On Sunday, the Hookers limped over the finish line (which included a 10 on a hole by Morikawa).
I've always said, be good enough to make the playoffs and then hope you get lucky. Well, the Hookers were exceedingly lucky.
In round 1, they beat the Masters despite having on less player make the cut: lucky.
In round 2, the Hookers would have lost to the other two playoff teams, but were playing Pin High - the #1 seed - and all 6 of their players miss the cut: lucky.
In round 3: they were in a fight with the Loopers, then Will Z WDs: Lucky.
The quote out of the Hookers camp is: "I don't care - I'll take it!"
→ The Carl Cup
Published: by Jim GreenwellLoopers vs Hookers
The Loopers are looking for their first ever Carl Cup. Meanwhile, The Hookers are looking for their 6th championship and the first since 2013.
The Loopers competed in the championship match just two years ago in 2020.
Since 2009, these two teams have met 26 times. The Loopers have won a whopping 18 of those games. They have only met once in the playoffs. That year was 2019 where the Hookers got one of only eights wins in a decade plus against the Loopers.
In 2022, the Loopers have beaten the Hookers twice, both times by 20+ strokes. They met in the Masters and PGA Championship tournaments.
The Loopers line-up includes 5 golfers that were in their original draft in January. The Hookers are playing only 3 from their draft.
Prediction:
Bottom line, the Loopers have the Hookers number. A resurgent Finau and Zalatoris (who loves the big stage) will be enough to beat the Hookers as Morikawa continues to not impress in 2022.
Oh yeah, the Snowmen won the Toilet Bowl.
→ The Semi Finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellEasiest predictions of the season.
Pin High v Hookers: Hookers have 6 of the top 27 in the Fedex rankings taking on the best team in the League. Pin High doesn't have Hideki, but that doesn't matter. I've said Pin High is the team to beat all year. Not changing now. Pin High by 5 strokes as Rory and Scottie finish 1st and 2nd.
Eagles v Loopers: Loopers beat Eagles twice (out of 3) during the season. Loopers have been on a roll. They have the better team. Loopers beat Eagles and set up one hell of a final next week.
Toilet Bowl: Wedges beat Snowmen as Dahmen has a surprise top 10 finish.
→ Semi-Finals are Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat great games we had in the first round of the playoffs. Both games were settled by one stroke.
The Hookers beat the Masters despite having one less player make the cut. A monster weekend from Cameron Young coupled with a disastrous weekend from Webb Simpson was enough to see the Hookers luck by the Masters.
Tee-It-Up gave the Eagles a scare even though they were short one player after the cut on Friday. Mark Hubbard shoots an 84 on Friday, with a bogey on 18 missed the cut by one stroke. Meanwhile, on Friday, Malnati birdies 17 to make the cut on the line. Vicotry was now in reach for the Eagles.
The semi-finals will feature the Eagles taking on the Loopers and the Hookers trying to upset Pin High. More on these match-ups next week.
Toilet Bowl:
Showmen play Wedges (after Wedges FINALLY beat Hol-E-1 this year).
→ The Playoffs Are Here
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs feared, this tournament isn't "good enough" for our playoffs. As the PGA Tour continues to update their schedule, we may need to find a better schedule ourselves. More to come...
We have two opening games and a couple of Toilet Bowl matches as well. Let's see how this week's predictions go.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: These two teams split their regular season matchups facing each other in the Masters and the PGA Championship. A step down in class for the tournament will be a big deal for these teams. A starting line-up that features Ricky Fowler is a kiss of death for Tee-It-Up. Eagles win this one easily as Fritelli has a great tournament.
Hookers v Masters: The Hookers swept the Masters in the regular season at the Wells Fargo and Memorial tournaments. Really hard to beat a team 3 times in one year. Hookers are relying on some very young players and recent pickups. Masters have a dropped Hooker on the team - Adam Scott. Scott has a great tournament and beats the Hookers in a "karma" moment. Sigh...
Toilet Bowl:
Wedges v Hol-E-1: Hol-E-1 loves to beat the Wedges - exactly half of Hol-E-1's wins this year were against the Wedges. But... hard to beat a team 3 times. Wedges prevail in this one.
CHiP v Snowmen: To quote a great line from the movie "Major League", "who are these f...ing guys?" Who do I pick? The cursed CHiP team or the Snowmen who look good on paper all year? I say CHiP wins this one just to be snake bitten in the finals of the Toilet Bowl. :)
→ Regular Season Ends
Published: by Jim GreenwellI didn't see a single shot of the Open Championship, but it looked like a good one. Our league had some good games too.
Here are the playoff seedings:
(Remember, the top 2 seeds get a bye)
1. Pin High
2. Loopers
3. Eagles
4. Hookers
5. Masters
6. Tee-It-Up
Toilet Bowl:
1. Hol-E-1
2. Snowmen
3. CHiP
4. Foot Wedges
Matchups in Week 23 - First round of playoffs.
Eagles vs Tee-It-Up
Hookers vs Masters
Toilet Bowl match-ups:
Hol-E-1 vs Foot Wedges
Snowmen vs CHiP
We start in two weeks.
→ Week 22
Published: by Jim Greenwell
The Open Championship. St. Andrews. Golf is awesome. Here we go.
LW: 5-0 YTD: 62-38
There is one spot left to be decided for the playoffs. The top 2 seeds are decided and only some minor movements are possible for the other seeds. The big story is who will get the last spot.
Here are the Scenarios. Pretty Simple.
CHiP: Win and they are in, lose and they are out.
Tee-It-Up: Win and have CHiP lose and they are in.
Wedges: Win (beat CHiP) and Tee-It-Up loses, Wedges are in.
I was 5-0 last week, look for a strong finish to my year long predictions.
CHiP v Wedges: I like Cantlay in this tournament. I look for Wedges to win, if anything, just to prove CHiP's curse is real.
Loopers v Masters: Masters can improve seeding and look for momentum for playoffs. Both teams are loaded. I'm going with Masters just because Loopers have won 8 in a row and are due a loss.
Eagles v Snowmen: Snowmen win another and will spend the off season wondering what happened and how close they were to the playoffs.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High: Pin High will beat the LIV boys.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Tee-It-Up beats Hookers and breaks the Wedges heart.
→ Travelers - A Big Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellTwo division titles on the line this week and huge playoff ramifications everywhere else. Let's see if I can improve on last week's dismal performance.
LW: 1-4; YTD: 57-37
Wedges v Snowmen: Wedges are in a MUST win situation. The Snowmen have been playing well in the last half of the season. Can Brendan Steele make the cut? That is the story here? I think he does. Wedges squeak by the Snowmen.
Eagles v Loopers: I want to pick the Eagles to win just to see if I can keep getting them wrong. But, alas, the Loopers are too strong. Loopers in a route and win the North.
Hol-E-1 v Masters: Masters win and clinch playoffs (for sure).
CHiP v Tee-It-Up: Will CHiP's season long curse end. Can they win two in a row and make the playoffs? I don't know about two in a row, but they win this one by one stroke.
Hookers v Pin High: Pin High only roll out Scheffler and McIlroy. Yeah, Hookers will settle for second place. Pin High cruises to the division title.
→ Playoff Scenarios
Published: by Jim Greenwell2 Weeks to go. Here are the playoff scenarios.
North Division:
Eagles and Loopers play this week. The winner will win the North Division.
Eagles, Loopers and (I think Masters) have clinched. Masters could end up in a 3 way tie with Tee-It-Up and CHiP, but I think they would get in if it happens. To be sure, Masters win one and they are in.
Wedges: Must win out, CHiP beat Tee-It-Up and then both CHiP and Tee-It-Up lose in week 22.
South Division:
Pin High and Hookers play each other this week. Winner wins the South Division. Both have clinched the playoffs.
CHiP and Tee-It-Up play each other this weekend. If Tee-It-Up wins, they are in and the playoffs are settled for all teams. If CHiP wins, they just need to match Tee-It-Up in week 22 (win or lose). Tee-It-Up can get in with a loss to CHiP if they win and CHiP loses in week 22.
Overall - I think a 3 way tie breaker with Masters ends up going to total strokes. I'll say this. If Wedges, CHiP wins and Masters lose - week 22 will be nuts.
Snowmen and Hol-E-1 look to play spoiler.
→ US Open Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellBig week for almost all teams fighting for division title or making the playoffs.
The course looks brutal. Will over par win?
LW: 4-1; YTD: 56-33
Eagles v Wedges: I don't know what to do. The team I get wrong the most vs the team I get right the most. Something has to give. I love that the Wedges played Mickelson - ha. Wedges win as Mickelson makes the cut.
Masters v Snowmen: I keep expecting Lowry to win one this year. JT is in great form. But so is Spieth. I look at Snowmen's roster and wonder how they only have 6 wins. Well, going with Masters anyway.
Loopers v Pin High: I think Finau and Pereira struggle this week and Hideki shows flashes of brilliance. Pin High in a close one.
CHiP v Hookers: Hookers don't win big tournaments. CHiP wins an important one in the hunt for the playoffs.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Hol-E-1 plays to LIV guys. I say these two can't handle the pressure and miss the cut (DJ and Bryson). Tee-It-Up also gets a big win.
If these predictions are right, the last two weeks will be wild.
→ Playoff Scenarios
Published: by Jim GreenwellClinched playoffs
Pin High, Eagles, Loopers, Hookers
North Division:
Division Title is relatively simple. Both Looper and Eagles control their own destiny. They play each other next week in the Travelers. Eagles have a big match with Wedges this week and Loopers finish with "Murder's Row" with Pin High, Eagles and Masters.
Masters can win division by winning out and Eagles lose two games (maybe even one). Masters finish with Snowmen, Hol-E-1 and Loopers.
The North looks to be a wild finish.
South Division:
Pin High and Hookers control their own destiny. The team that wins out, wins the division. Pin High and Hookers play each other next week. A Pin High victory in two weeks clinches the division regarldess of any other outcome.
Playoffs:
Wedges: Beat CHiP in week 22 and end up in a 3 way tie with CHIP and Tee-It-Up (or better) and they are in playoffs. 3 wins and one Tee-It-Up loss and they make playoffs.
CHiP: Win out and make playoffs. There are other scenarios depending on what Tee-It-Up and Wedges do.
Tee-It-Up: Win out and make playoffs. There are other scenarios depending on what Tee-It-Up and Wedges do.
Masters clinch playoffs with one win.
Snowmen and Hol-E-1 have been eliminated from playoffs. They now get to play the spoiler role.
→ Week 19 and Some Stats
Published: by Jim GreenwellTeams claim the commish prediction is a curse for them. I decided to look how often I get each team right.
If I picked you to win and you did, I got it right, if I picked you to lose and you did, I got it right. Here are the stats - how often I was right - wrong for each team.
Eagles: 5 - 12
Loopers: 7 - 10
Masters: 8 - 9
Wedges: 14 - 3
Snowmen: 10 - 7
Pin High: 9 - 8
Hookers: 11 - 6
Tee-It-Up: 12 - 5
CHiP: 10 - 7
Hol-E-1: 13 -4
Surprised at how well I predicted the Wedges and how poorly it has been with the Eagles.
Also, I found two errors in my YTD stats.
Here is this week.
LW: 2-3 YTD: 52-32
Wedges v Masters: Wedges went with an entirely new line-up, pulling Mike Weir out of retirement. A big fan of Weir, but I don't see this team beating Lowry and Thomas. Masters win.
Loopers v Snowmen: Loopers yawn to finish line.
Eagles v Hookers: Eagles win this one (hehe) easilty.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: CHiP has too much depth this week to lose to Hol-E-1, who's best player has resigned from the PGA Tour. Talk about a tough season...
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High can relax and enjoy the tournament. Pin High in a route.
→ Week 18 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellI was 2-3 last week, thanks to a Varner meltdown (why would I pick CHiP? Someone seriously has a voodoo curse or something on this team).
This week is Jack's tournament - the Memorial. A great tournament with a great field. Enjoy the golf.
LW: 2-3; YTD 52-27
Two people this week asked me to quit picking them to win - hahaha - we'll see how THAT goes...
CHiP v Snowmen: Reed is playing better. Spieth is ready to win. They are playing the cursed CHiP team. Easy Snowmen victory - yes? Yep - Snowmen by 6 strokes.
Hol-E-1 v Loopers: Loopers win.
Eagles v Pin High: No one talks about Pin High - you need to - they are going to win this Carl Cup in a few weeks. Pin High wins this match too.
Hookers v Masters: The losing team in this match won't be happy - this one should be a good one. I just get a feeling Lowry wins this things. Masters in a close one and sweeps the skins.
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges, Tee-It-Up and CHiP are vying for the last playoff spot. (Snowmen still have a chance). Anyway, that makes this match CRUCIAL. Wedges are almost in a must win scenario. Wedges get a win in a slug fest.
→ Charles Schwab
Published: by Jim GreenwellAnother great field and event. Yes, this is late, I promise, I haven't seen any scores yet.
LW: 4-1 YTD: 50-25
I had a good week this week, still searching for my second perfect week.
Wedges v Loopers: A critical match for the Wedges. They are playing a hot and loaded Loopers however. Loopers take out Wedges and start making playoff plans.
Eagles v Masters: The winner takes the lead in the North. Eagles have dropped 3 in a row. I say Eagles drop 4 in a row to the Masters.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: The Snowmen - I'm on the Snowmen sled? Anyway, This should be a good match, but Snowmen win a 5th in a row.
CHiP v Pin High: I like CHiP in this one, I know picking CHiP is dangerous, but gosh, they have a good team.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hol-E-1 can only beat the Wedges. Not playing the Wedges this week. Hookers win this one.
→ PGA Championship Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 3-2 YTD: 46-24
Well, I wasn't 5-0 last week, but returned to winning ways. CHiP let me down (haha) and I finally pick against Snowmen and they win. Ha.
This week - the PGA Championship, another Tiger sighting and Phil (Double-D) is still missing. Every team is loaded with their best players and have 6 ready to go. Should be a fun weekend.
Wedges v Hol-E-1: HE1 beat the Wedges in the Masters. Can they do it again? I say yes. Going with Cam Smith and DJ in this one.
Hookers v Loopers: Hookers have been feasting in "lesser" tournaments. They have struggled in the big tournaments. Loopers take this on as Will Z breaks through and wins a major for his first title.
Eagles v Tee-It-Up: Eagles have lost 2 in a row and are done with the losing. Everyone is surprised when Hovland misses the cut. Eagles win in a route.
CHiP v Masters: How can one pick the snake bitten CHiP team? My goodness. JT finishes second to Will Z and beat CHiP by less than 5 strokes.
Pin High v Snowmen: Snowmen have won 3 in a row. But they are playing Scottie, Rory and Hideki (you know - golfers you know by their first name). Pin High has 3 golfers finish in top 10 and beat the Snowmen, but only barely.
→ Snowmen Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellDon't look now, but the Snowmen have won 3 in a row and swept the skins this week. They are now only 2 games out of playoff contention. The Eagles lost a second game in a row but remain in first place in the North.
Loopers got a monster win over the Masters as Mito Pereira continues to have a very good year. JT had a nice weekend for the Masters, but Kisner missing the cut was a killer.
Speaking of missing the cut, the Wedges beat Tee-It-Up despite Luke List missing the cut and playing a man down over the weekend. The pickup of Riley has paid dividends and the Wedges got an important win.
We had a most rare win this week in the Hookers defeat of CHiP. I have written often about the poor luck of the CHiP team. This takes the cake. The Hookers had two players miss the cut. CHiP had all 4 players over the weekend. The game ended in a tie, with the Hookers getting the win with the earnings tie-break. You do NOT want to play CHiP in the playoffs (if they make it).
Pin High continues to demonstrated they are one of the best teams in the league with a relatively win over Hol-E-1. Again... how do they have both Hideki and Scheffler? Sheesh.
→ The Byron Nelson
Published: by Jim Greenwell
LW: 1-4 YTD: 43-22
Well... I had only one losing week until last week and it was an epic disaster. Snowmen was the only game I got right... ugh.
Back to my winning ways:
Wedges v Tee-It-Up: Wedges finally dropped some dead wood and fielded a 6 team line-up. They've lost 4 in a row. Bad news for Tee-It-Up. Both teams need this win badly, but the Wedges barely win this one.
Loopers v Masters: Both teams are still chasing the Eagles and a win would be huge. Is this the week Day misses the cut? (hehe). Loopers just look loaded with Zalatori, Schauffel and Ortiz. JT can't carry Masters alone. Loopers in a big win.
Eagles v Snowmen: Can Snow men win 3 in a row and get into the playoff hunt? He has started Koepka so it is all on him. Something just tells me the Snowmen lost a heart breaker late Sunday afternoon when Leishman birdies 18 in the final group. Eagles in a close one.
CHiP v Hookers: CHiP just h as more players against a makeshift line-up of the Hookers. CHiP doesn't ever win easy, but they will win this one.
Hol-E-1 v Pin High. HE1 hasn't submitted a line-up yet, but I'll just go ahead and call Pin High for the win. Call it a hunch - :) Sorry - Pin High - this kind of talk usually dooms a team.
→ Week 14: Wells Fargo
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter a well deserved two week rest, we are back at it. I'm glad to see everyone remembered to set a lineup. This week's predictions:
LW: 4-1 YTD: 42-18
Pin High let me down in week 13 keeping me from a perfect week. Oh well.
Wedges v Snowmen: An old school 4 on 4. I swore I wouldn't pick Snowmen if they let me down again (in week 13). They didn't. Going with them again. Cink has a big week.
Eagles v Loopers: Sigh... This depends on Jason Day. I think Day falters again. Eagles with a big win.
Hookers v Masters: Masters have too much depth in this one. Masters win easily.
CHiP v Pin High: I like CHiP's chances in this one especially with Dahmen and Vegas on the bench. This one will likely be close, but I think CHiP gets this one.
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Fowler misses another cut and Aphhibarnrat finished in top 10. Hol-E-1 gets the victory.
→ Eagles Take Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn what was billed a potential "Carl Cup Preview", the Eagles just hammered Pin High. Of course, Pin High had all 4 players miss the cut (actually, all 6). Just Brutal. Eagles now stand alone in their division and are (currently) the clear #1 seed and favorite moving forward.
But... don't count out the Masters. They kept pace with the Eagles with a good win over the Foot Wedges. The Wedges hung in there despite being down a man, but the Master had a good week. If Lowry continues to play well, the Masters will be very tough to handle.
The Snowmen got a win! The took down the Loopers after Ortiz missed the ct. The Snowmen got a great week from Spieth. Things might get interesting for the Snowmen as two of their starters are rumored to be headed to the new Saudi league.
CHiP had no close game this week. This was a walk-in-the-park-laugher against a roll-over lineup (come on, Tony...). No one deserves anything in fantasy sports, but one might argue CHiP earned an easy one - haha.
Hookers won a team skin and held off Tee-It-Up. Hookers got the team skin when Kuchar birdied 18 while Varner and Lowry were 3 holes behind and couldn't find a birdie coming home.
We are off for two weeks. Go plays some golf.
→ The RBC Heritage
Published: by Jim GreenwellAnother of my favorite tournaments. The course is interesting and the players have to play different kinds of shots.
I apologize for now updates last week and for Masters weeks of all weeks. I'm a lazy bum. You'd think I would be all over last week since my predictions were a 5-0 for the Valero. (I looked at Masters - I think I would have gone 3-2 or 2-3, but who knows).
Valero: 5-0 YTD: 38-17
Week 13 Predictions:
There are 5 teams at 6-6 and appear to be playing for the final 3 playoff spots. Every game matters for the 6-6 teams.
Wedges v Masters: Masters have some pretty big names rolling this week. Wedges lose one they really needed by a handful of strokes.
Loopers v Snowmen: I keep picking the Snowmen because on paper they look good. This is it - the last time I pick Snowmen if they let me down (again). Snowmen in an upset over the Loopers.
Match of the Week - Eagles v Pin High: The division leaders square off. Is this a Carl Cup preview? Charley Hoffman comes off the bench and delivers a big win for Pin High.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: CHiP lost another close game last week (2 strokes). Harman and Varner have big weeks and deliver a comfortable win over Hol-E-1.
Hookers v Tee-It-Up: Hookers win this one easily. This one is over by sunset on Friday.
Team Skin: Hookers Player Skin: Masters (Justin Thomas)
→ JJ Wins While on Bench
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe good news? Pin High won his match. The bad news? They missed out on a skin by not playing JJ Spaun. Whoops. Despite benching the tournament winner, Pin High had no problems with Tee-It-Up. TIU and a no show and 3 missed cuts. Yikes.
The Foot Wedges gamble didn't pay off this week and the Loopers went on to a relatively easy victory. It was an important win for the Loopers and put them right back in the playoff hunt.
In the match of the week, the Eagles left their 3 game losing streak behind beating the Masters. KH Lee had a disastrous Thurs/Fri to miss cut. The Eagle's win sets up a while finish in the North for the final half of the season.
When will the Snowmen when another game? A 4 game losing streak as Westwood missed the cut. They just can't seem to get players to play the weekend. CHiP was the victor and has won 3 straight.
The Hookers were benefactors of the JJ Spaun benching sweeping the skins and defeating Hol-E-1 relatively easily. The Hookers players all finished in the top 18. Looks like the Hookers may have the best "B Team". Sigh...
We are half way: As always, looks like we will have a dog fight for the last couple of playoff spots. If playoffs were today:
1. Eagles
2. Pin High (Eagles and Pin High have yet to play each other)
3. Masters
(4 teams tied at 6-5 is a nightmare to figure out - best I can tell it is this for last 3 spots):
4. Hookers
5. Wedges
6. CHiP
(Seriously - don't put too much in those last 3 - there are a lot ogames to go).
I'm expecting either Hol-E-1 and/or Snowmen to play the role of spoiler the last half of season. We'll see what happens.
→ The Valero
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell... We'll be halfway finished after this tournament.
I'd like to figure out how to play the Match play tournament - going to work on that.
Week 11 Predictions:
LW 3-2 YTD: 33-17
Okay - last week the Snowmen and Hol-E-1 both let me down. They looked good early and faltered. I feel a 5-0 this week - yeah, I know, but I do.
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hookers had to do a drop/add to field a line-up and Hol-E-1 appears to have a full team. Hol-E-1 gets a big win and looks forward to the second half of the season.
Loopers v Foot Wedges: Loopers should have won this easy, but win it hard when Day and Finau miss the cutt. Loopers in a 1 stroke victory.
Match of the Week - Masters v Eagles: A battle for first place. Masters have won 6 in a row and Eagles have lose 3 in a row. Mostly a "B team" roll out here for both sides. I'm going with Eagles only because they have 6 players available (compared to the Masters' 5).
CHiP v Snowmen: CHiP has finally found a winning way. I've picked Snowmen for a bunch of weeks in a row - going away from that this week (sorry, CHiP - haha). CHiP hammers Snowmen.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High wins by close to 70 strokes in a laugher.
Best Team Skin: Pin High; Best Player Skin: Pin High (Sam Ryder - yep).
→ Masters Win 6th in a Row
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter a 1-3 start, the Masters have clawed back to the top of the North Division after winning a 6th match in a row. This week's victim was the Snowmen (who can't seem to get anyone to make a cut). The Masters also took the best team skin. Clearly rolling, the Masters are.
The Foot Wedges made things even more interesting in the North with a big comeback on Sunday over the Eagles. The Wedges -6 on Sunday and the Eagles were a not-so-good +9. The Eagles are now tied with the Masters and the Wedges only 1 game back.
The Loopers kept pace with the 3 teams in front of them in the North with an easy win over Hol-E-1. HE1 could have made it more interesting if he had changed out his reserves. But, even if changes were made, the Loopers would have won by 1 stroke (instead of 16).
CHiP sailed to victory over the short-handed Tee-It-Up. Don't look now, but CHiP has won 2 in a row and are only 2 games back in the South.
The Hookers romped to an easy win over the Pin High "B Team".
→ The Valspar at Innisbrook
Published: by Jim GreenwellI've always liked this tournament. Years ago, I had a computer golf game that included this course. So - I like it - ha.
Last week was my first week not getting at least 3 games correct. Time for my first 5-0 week.
LW: 2-3 YTD: 30-15 (not bad...)
Eagles vs Wedges: Eagles have lost two in a row. After this week it will be three and, suddenly, fantasy golf won't look so easy. This match won't be scintillating, but Wedges slog out a tough victory.
Snowmen vs Masters: Masters have won 5 in a row and take on the 2 win Snowmen. They have 6 players vs Snowmen's 5. Easy pick? Yep - Upset Special, baby! Kokrak and Koepka finally make a cut and lead Snowmen to a big upset win.
Loopers vs Hol-E-1: This one is a tough one. I just get this feeling that Hol-E-1 is going to win another. So - I'm going with my gut and another upset special. Hol-E-1 by 1 stroke win DJ birdies 18 on Sunday to finish 2nd.
CHiP vs Tee-It-Up: CHiP cruises to victory and falls in love with fantasy golf all over again.
Hookers vs Pin High: Not sure why, but Hookers just look stronger (but barely). Pin High loses a tough one by only 10 strokes.
Best Team Skin: Hookers; Best Player Skin: Tee-It-Up (Hovland) (going to just keep picking him until he wins).
→ The Players Over (finally)
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell - that was a bit of a mess.
I'm working on the code, know how to do it, just need time now.
What "was" the closest game was the father/son matchup. Hookers had this won, then suddenly after 13 holes in round three, Horschel withdraws. The Hookers still had a 4 stroke lead going into round four and lost by 10. Good golly.
Tee-It-Up, as predicted won and took home the team skin. They had a solid week and the Loopers had everyone but Zalatoris miss the cut. Brutal.
CHiP finally won and sent the Eagles to their second straight loss. CHiP not only won, but were able to rest easy through the last two rounds and the Eagles had 2 miss the cut.
Look out! The Masters have won 5 in a row and are rolling. All 4 players in top 33, leaving Pin High with nary a chance after Griffin shoots an 80 in the second round and misses the cut.
Hol-E-1 Wins! Hol-E-1 Wins! You heard me. Hol-E-1 won a game. They took out the Snowmen who made all the wrong moves. But would have lost anyway.
Hard to believe we are approaching the half-way mark of the season. The standings are starting to take shape. Should be a fun summer. (Finally... daylight wasting time is over - enjoy the daylight).
→ Players Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 3-2; YTD 28-12
A great tournament with all the great players (except Mickelson...) deserves some great predictions. My first 5-0, I feel it.
Wedges v Hookers - Can Adam Scott continue his good play? Will Morikawa dominate? Morikawa has a great week, but it isn't enough against a strong Wedges line-up. Wedges by 15 strokes.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up - this could be Hovland's week. Jason Day doesn't play well and Zalatoris misses the cut. Tee-It-Up in a bit of a surprise win by 10.
CHiP v Eagles - CHiP, CHiP, CHiP. CHiP has lost 5 in a row and now have to face the Eagles. Si Woo Kim has a top 10 finish and Eagles win by 3 strokes and CHiP drinks heavily.
Masters v Pin High - Pin High is so strong, they have Hideki as a reserve - what the heck? Masters are on a roll winning 4 in a row - but they meet their match with Pin High. PH wins by 20.
Hol-E-1 v Snowmen - I just looke at Snowmen's line-up and feel it is stronger. Will Reed finally make a cut? I say he does and Snowmen win this one by 30.
Best team skin: Tee-It-Up; Player skin: Tee-It-Up (Hovland)
→ Eagles Fall
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Eagles have finally been beaten. They had all 4 players make the cut, but did not perform well over the weekend. The poor play included two straight 78s from Marc Leishman. The Masters had 3 top 11 performances and got a second place finish from Hatton. Don't look now, but the Masters have won 4 in a row and are in second place.
The Loopers beat back the Foot Wedges after the Wedges got some terrible weekend play from Paul Casey (77/83). The Loopers missed out on the player skin when Woodland played the last 2 holes +3.
Tee-It-Up got a big win over the Snowmen thanks to two top 10 performances from Hovland and Gooch. TIU is now in second in their division.
CHiP loses again - this time by 9 strokes. Still, but fantasy golf standards, a relatively close game. The've now lost 5 in a row and have to wonder what it will take to win. Meanwhile, Pin High, the victor of this match is now 7-1 and won a skin.
The Hookers had an easy win and took home the best team skin over Hol-E-1. HE1 is still looking for their first win.
→ Week 8 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellL:2-3; YTD 25-10
Well - last week's picks were by far the worse. Let's see how I do this week.
Wedges v Loopers: Wedges have won 3 in a row. Can they make it 4? This should be a good match and is a toss up. I like Wedges subs a little better. Wedges in a close one.
Eagles v Masters: The undefeated Eagles look to take out the Masters. Eagles have Rahm. Another toss up - Eagles in a close one.
Snowmen v Tee-It-Up: Patrick Reed misses another cut and Tee-It-Up sails to victory.
CHiP v Pin High: Is picking CHiP feeling sorry for him? Or is it going against the obvious curse? Doesn't really matter, I see Pin High winning this one outright (which means CHiP will finally win - ha). Pin High wins (I think).
Hol-E-1 v Hookers: Hookers have a full cast against the 4 of Hol-E-1. Depth should be enough to see Hookers over the finish line.
→ CHiP
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - who has the voodoo doll? While we should be talking about the Eagles 7-0 start, we have to start with CHiP.
CHiP has lost 3 games in a row. By a total of 6 strokes. 2 games by 1 stroke each. That is BRUTAL. I'll say it again. BRUTAL! This week, CHiP was done for after Kirk tripled the 15th after hitting in the water. Have I already said this: Brutal. The Loopers are the guilty of inflicting the pain this week.
Okay - Eagles. 7-0. Good grief. They basically took the week off as Hol-E-1 had 3 players miss the cut. When will the Eagles lose? Will they lose? The Eagles get the Masters this week. I know there will be maximum effort put into defeating the unbeaten Eagles.
Speaking of the Masters. The squeaked by Tee-It-Up in another close match.
How about the Wedges strategy? They deployed the "I think whoever Pin High picks up will suck" strategy and played only the 3 players available to them. The Wedges have now won 3 in a row and two team skins in a row. (They won a team skin with a No Show this week - not cool).
The Snowmen got their second win as they easily beat the Hookers.
→ Eagles and Pin High go for 7-0
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis week's predictions.
LW 4-1; YTD 23-7
Dang it - I'm going to get all 5 - I swear I am - and this is a tough week. But hear goes.
The Honda Classic is full of water and takes accurate players to paly well. I think, if crazy line-ups, and a very different course than the west coast swing, we'll see some different results. Here goes:
Wedges vs Pin High: Matt Jones finishes in the top 10, the Wedges are pissed they played the averages and Pin High is now 7-0.
CHiP vs Loopers: CHiP is one of the best teams and just keeps losing. If they lose this week, they might actually be cursed. Mito missed the cut, infuriating the Loopers and CHiP waltzes to victory.
Eagles vs Hol-E-1: (Charlie Brown voice while saying, "I got a rock") Eagles win again. A great pickup of CT Pan leads Eagles to victory.
Masters vs Tee-It-Up: Fleetwood loves the Honda. Fowler used to. Somehow Tee-It-Up pulls this one off on late Sunday.
Hookers v Snowmen: Not a Ryder Cup, so Poulter isn't a worry. But Reed and Koepka won't miss the cut again. Snowmen get a big win over Hookers.
Best Team Skin: CHiP; Best Player Skin: Snowmen (Patrick Reed).
→ A Wild Weekend
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe had three really close matches this weekend. Had nothing better to do but watch and track the matches.
The Wedges completed a comeback and beat CHiP by 4 strokes. CHiP had the fantasy nightmare of having the second lowest score of the week and still lost - just brutal. The Wedges were losing with only a few holes to go, but Niemann bogeyed a couple of holes and Scott eagles 17. It was enough to secure the win.
The Masters beat the Loopers by only 2 strokes. It was close all weekend, but the Loopers just couldn't catch them.
Despite having one fewer player make the cut, Tee-It-Up lead Hookers late into Sunday. Hovland ran into a cold spell and Morikawa had a monster back nine to help Hookers pull of a come behind win.
The Snowmen had their best golfers miss the cut and just had to watch the Eagles roll to 6-0.
Speaking of 6-0, Pin High is there too. Pin High had an easy win over Hol-E-1 who dropped to a brutal 0-6.
Off to the Florida swing.
→ Week 6 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 4-1 YTD: 19-6
I just can't seem to get all 5. Gonna try this week while still fighting Covid (you don't want this...)
CHiP vs Wedges: CHiP lost a heartbreaker last week by 1 stroke. The heartbreak continues, losing by less than 5 strokes and yet another strong holding. CHiP whispers to himself on Sunday evening, "fantasy sports suck". Yes. Yes they do. Haha.
Loopers vs Master: This matchup used to wake the echos of a Nebraska vs Oklahoma or Notre Dame vs USC. But... The Eagles and Pin High have relegate them to the middle of the pack. This is an important match for both teams. Sergio Garcia gets a top 20 finish and Loopers win.
Eagles vs Snowmen: Well... I've been predicting against the Eagles all year. I assume there is yet another beer wager on this one too. But... for the first time all year, the Snowmen have a full roster and it is a god one. Upset Special! Snowmen win by 20 strokes or more.
Hol-E-1 vs Pin High: DJ still has his head stuck in the Saudi dream of million sin signing bonuses and forgets to play worth a damn this week. Pin High wins their 6th in a row.
Hookers vs Tee-It-Up: These two owners first squared off in a one-on-one basketball game in 1973. The rivalry is renewed. Morikawa sees the Hookers over the finish line, but not until late on Sunday.
Skins: Team: Snowmen; Player: Snowmen (Spieth)
→ Pin High and Eagles 5-0
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High and Eagles look unstoppable. Both have improved to 5-0 on the season with no end in sight.
Pin High beat the Hookers behind Scheffler's big week (predicted by commish). The Hookers were hurt by Kuchar shooting +3 on back nine on Friday, missing the cut by 1.
The Eagles won the game and more beer. The Eagles are planning on drinking for free in 2022. Loopers didn't have much a chance when just about everyone missed the cut.
Tee-It-Up beat CHiP by one stroke (commish said this one was a toss up). CHiP was down by 10 on Sunday morning and came roaring back, but missed by a stroke.
Masters beat the lowly Hol-E-1. Masters didn't do anything special, the Harris English withdrew on Hol-E-1, sealing their fate.
The Wedges waltzed to victory over the Snowmen. The commish predicted a skin for Cantlay, but Cantlay missed two very makeable putts on 17 and 18 in regulation. Ultimately also costing him the tournaments.
→ Week 5 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW 3-2; YTD 15-5
Well - I got the upset special last week and really bombed on picking against the Eagles. I think this is an easy 5-0 week.
Wedges vs Snowmen: Snowmen won last week and the Wedges were shell-shocked after "dad adjusted the scores" - haha. Wedges are pissed. Take it out on the Snowmen.
Eagles vs Loopers: Eagles are riding high and take on a primary rival. Rahm may finish top 5, but Loopers win after they sub in Ortiz who has a top 10 finish.
Hol-E-1 vs Masters: Masters hate losing. They've lost two in a row. Hol-E-1 is searching for first win. Will still be looking for it on Sunday night.
CHiP vs Tee-It-Up: This will be a close one. I'm a little surprised to see Hovland on the bench for TIU. It's a toss up - going with Tee-It-Up.
Hookers vs Pin High: Pin High doesn't like all the attention the Eagles are getting. "Hey, look at me, I'm undefeated too". Pin High remains undefeated behind a monster week from Scheffler.
Best Team Skin: Pin High; Best Player Skin: Wedges (Cantlay)
→ Week 4 Recap
Published: by Jim GreenwellIssues: I think all the data is cleaned up now - I do recommend you check your team's score (as you should every week).
Details: it seems that the pga has blocked access to their data, so I rolled out my old code that gets it off the the cbs site. It worked fine except that it did not calculate scores properly for players that did not complete all 4 rounds. I manually updated the scores.
This weekend, I'll be at home and can monitor what happens with the cut scores better.
The Wedges thought they had a victory, but in a Tee-It-Up like story line, the changes this morning had them on the losing side, but a stroke. The Wedges have only won 1 game, but no one has played a worse schedule. -168 strokes against in 4 games is brutal.
Tee-It-Up got a big win and a skin as Tom Hoge (who?) goes off. Jason Day continues to impress for Loopers.
Eagles continue to soar and are already a whopping 3 games ahead in their division. So much for picking last being a burden...
Pin High had an easy time of with the Masters. The Masters had all players miss the cut - ouch.
The Snowmen finally won, beating Hol-E-1 in a match of attrition.
→ Major Issues
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone - please check your scores for week 4 - they were all wrong. I know the game between Wedges/Hookers changed the outcome - not sure on others.
I'm also having huge issues closing out the week.
I will work on it at lunch or tonight - for now - I have to get to work.
More info later.
→ Leaderboard problems
Published: by Jim Greenwell(I also dropped you an email on this)
I'm not sure we will be able to trust the leaderboard. If I think we get there, I'll let you know - but I'm going to have very little time to work on it.
Details (if you care): I get the data from a json object at pgatour - it seems they may now require authentication (which i don't have). We'll see how it goes.
My old code that ripped data from CBS website seems to be mostly working - we shall see...
Ugh.
→ Week 4
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe ATT Pro-Am at Pebble Beach.
This weeks predictions.
LW: 4-1 YTD: 12-3
I've been 4-1 each week. Getting all 5 right this week.
Wedges vs Hookers: The leagues first ever father vs son match. Wedges are loaded this week and will handle Hookers by 20 strokes.
Loopers vs Tee-It-Up: Upset special. Zalatoris will have a "i can't believe I didn't win" hangover and will miss the cut this week. Tee-It-Up wins a close one.
CHiP vs Eagles: Eagles have been soaring, but they stumble this week. CHiP gets a monster week from Brian Harman and wins.
Masters vs Pin High: Masters won't master Pebble Beach. Pin High wins after 3 Masters miss the cut.
Hol-E-1 vs Snowmen: Just a hunch - Snowmen get their first win.
Best Team Skin: Wedges; Best Player Skin: Loopers (Mito Pereira)
→ Week 3 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellLW: 4-1 YTD: 8-2
Week 3 is chaos with schedule - I fixed the website (I think) today - if you have issues with anything - call/text - and drop email with what you are trying to do (just in case).
Wedges v Masters: Wedges finally get their first win as DeChambeau tames Torry Pines.
Loopers v Snowmen: Loopers also get a first win as Lefty can't carry the day for the Snowmen.
Eagles v Hookers: Rahm misses the cut - yep, you heard me. Eagles fall out of the sky and lose match (and a beer) to the Hookers.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: CHiP just has too much depth. Hol-E-1 falls to 0-3.
Pin High v Tee-It-Up: Pin High may set another record. Pin High rolls (again).
Best player skin: Wedges (DeChambeau) Best Team Skin: Pin High
→ Week 2 Recap
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High! What the...
Two weeks in a row with best team skin and a whopping -59. The Loopers had a great week and still got clobbered.
The Eagles continue their run by taking to the Wedges. The Wedges' front office reported that their team "sucked". We've all felt that way...
Masters slipped by the Snowmen with a below average week thanks to a couple of No Shows for the Snowmmen.
CHiP - turned out it was an ass kick'n over the Hookers. Three players missing the cut (Hookers) is a recipe for a loss.
Tee-It-Up had no problem with the roll-over line-up for the Hol-E-1.
→ Week 2 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellUGH - I swear - I typed it out - forgot to post, I guess - now it is gone (sigh).
I haven't seen the scores yet...
LW 4-1: YTD: 4-1 (and got the best player skins)
Wedges v Eagles: Eagles win this one in a tight match that comes down to the back nine on Sunday.
Masters v Snowmen: No way Lefty carries the men of snow. Masters in a blow out.
Loopers v Pin High: Loopers have solid win over Pin High as they come crashing back to earth.
CHiP v Hookers: CHiP wins, but not an ass whoop'n...
Hol-E-1 v Tee-It-Up: Hol-E-1 has a rolloever lineup. Tee-It-Up wins.
Best team skin: Loopers Best player skin: CHiP (Sungjae Im)
Also - I fixed some problems with how the waiver and transactions logs were reporting activity. All better.
→ Pin High Record
Published: by Jim GreenwellI was asked if Pin High's -74 is a record. I only have data back through the 2009 season, but since it is the lowest score on record.
A score of -60 or lower has happened 9 times, counting the two that happened this week.
The previous high? -68 in week 14 of last year. The Masters set this record with the following individual scores:
-21 Daniel Berger
-21 Patton Kizzire
-15 Alex Noren
-11 Ryan Palmer
→ Week 1 Recap
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High! What a week from Pin High. A crazy 74 under par, making the Wedges decision to not decimate a roster look like a really good one.
Pin High also won the best player skin thanks to the "Tony Hall Rule" - ha.
CHiP and Hookers had lay-up wins thanks to roster decisions from their opponents.
The Eagles also had a huge week and pounding Hol-E-1. HE1 could have changed their line-up, but would have only lost be less.
The big news this week is that Tee-It-Up won with only 2 players to the Masters 3 players after the cut. I'm not exactly sure how the Masters handled KH Lee, but they may have had a chance to win this match.
This tournament wasn't the greatest, we'll see how it goes.
The good news (transparent) to you guys is all the work I did to make this leaderboard and automation work in the background. It is so much cleaner and easy to follow now (for me).
The Earning will update later and will happen all year long that way.
Additionally, I think I finally have the "field not in next tournament" functionality working - I think - more on that later.
→ Week 1 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellSome of these predictions are layups due to some teams not able to field a full line-up.
Pin High makes quick work of the Eagles.
CHiP can't lose this one - just needs one player to complete 1 round to win.
Eagles v Hol-E-1 is our only match with both teams fielding a full line-up + reserves. I like the Eagles in this one. New guy starts 1-0.
Masters have too much depth to lose to Tee-It-Up this week.
Hookers squeak by the Snowmen.
Skin Predictions: Team - Masters; Player - Pin High (Matsuyama).
→ 2022 Season to Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe have two new players: David Greenwell and Joe Willibaum. Great additions.
Draft is Tuesday, Jan 11, 7:30pm EST.
→ Eagles are Champions
Published: by Jim GreenwellCongratulations to Brian and the Eagles.
Well earned.
→ Carl Cup Preview
Published: by Jim GreenwellEagles vs Tee-It-Up for the Carl Cup.
On paper the two teams are pretty equal. Both went 10-11 in the regular season. The Eagles were the 5th seed, Tee-It-Up the 6th seed.
During the regular season these two teams split their matches.
In week 1, Tee-It-Up won when Si Woo Kim missed the cut, but he will face 3 similar foes this week in Rahm, Finau and Hideki.
In week 7, The Eagles won behind a big game from Conners. Tee-It-Up suffered a missed cut from Hovland and Homa.
The look equal. They aren't.
The Eagles win the Carl Cup by at least 30 strokes. You heard it hear first.
→ Eagles and Tee-It-Up Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat the Eagles did the Hookers shouldn't be allowed...
Can someone explain to me how the Eagles ended up with the top 3 in Fedex Cup points and 4 of the top 16? (And... how they managed to lose 8 in a row at one point this season?)
The Masters had a missed cut and they were doomed. Seems the famous anti-Tim luck may be going in the other direction this year. They beat the Loopers when Higgo mysteriously withdraws and now the Masters had a missed cut.
Fantasy sports... what can I say...
CHiP will have the #1 position in next year's draft.
→ Final Four Weekend
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe predictions are easy this week.
Simple: There is no way on this giant earth that either the Hookers or Tee-It-Up beat the giants of the game they face this weekend.
Tee-It-Up face Casey, Thomas and Berger.
...and...
The Hookers are up against Rahm, Finau, Matsuyama and Cam Smith - my gawd!
I've said since about week 4 that the Eagles are the team to beat. Not changing now. There is simply NO WAY Eagles or Masters lose this week.
Toilet Bowl: Pin High wins as DeChambeau finally extracts his cranium from his rectum.
→ Semi-Finals Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell... that was an eventful weekend.
The Loopers had the game won and then Higgo drops from the tournament with no explanation on Sunday morning. (On Monday Higgo clamed he had a stomach bug). Tee-It-Up wins this one and heads to semi-finals to take on the Masters.
The Snowmen's inaugural season came to an end after the Eagles absolutely thrashed them. The Eagles look back to form after an 8 game losing streak and now are looking forward to taking out the Hookers in the semi-finals.
CHiP and Pin High will play each other for the first pick in the draft next year. Pin High won on the player's money tie-breaker. Crazy weekend...
→ Playoff Preview
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe way it should be. There is no cut this weekend. Hope you started your best players and your reserves are ready. Changing out when there is no cut is sometimes risky business.
Here we go with Round 1 predictions:
Eagles v Snowmen: I've been boldly predicting all year that the Eagles were the team to beat. He has a bunch of tired Olympians and is playing the Snowmen who feature Keopka (the 'expert' pick for this tournament). I don't know how, but the Eagles start their run with an upset win over the Snowmen.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: I'm predicting a post Olympian let down for Schauffele and Tee-It-Up pull a huge playoff upset. The only way the Loopers when this is if Higgo ends up in the top 10.
Toilet Bowl:
Pin High beats Hol-E-1 ending their misery (and Dustin Johnson's).
Wedges beat CHiP.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe money, game and standings should update at 9pm tonight. If not, I'll have to fix it manually. But... I can tell you that the Masters have beaten the Looper and have won the North Division.
The Hookers win the South and they, with the Masters have earned first round byes in the post season tournament.
The first round of the playoffs don't happen for 3 weeks, but here are the seeds and matchups.
1. Hookers
2. Masters
3. Loopers
4. Snowmen
5. Eagles
6. Tee-It-Up
Yep, Tee-It-Up finished 2nd in the division and got the last playoff spot.
First round:
Match 1: Loopers v Tee-It-Up
Match 2: Snowmen v Eagles
Second round:
Match 3: Hookers v Match 2 winner
Match 4: Masters v Match 1 winner
Carl Cup
Match 5: Match 3 winner v Match 4 winner
→ Last Week: Loopers v Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Loopers and Masters play for the division championship. Also, the number 1 seed if still up for grabs if the Hookers lose.
The playoffs are pretty close to settled. CHiP can still make the playoffs, but they need to win (win big) and get a bunch of help. But, there's still a chance...
→ Week 18 Cancelled
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 18 has been cancelled - it appears we will only play a 21 week season.
As a result, the Hookers have clinched a playoff spot and the Loopers can with one more win.
If playoffs started today:
1. Hookers
2. Loopers
3. Masters
4. Eagles
5. Tee-It-Up
6. Snowmen
Wedges, Pin High and CHiP are only one game out of the playoffs
→ Historic Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters have now won 6 in a row and broke their own record for lowest score (in recorded history). I don't have scores before 2009...
The Eagles also set the record for the best score and still lost. Details below.
Scores at -60 or better since 2009:
-68 - Masters: 2021: Byron Nelson
-67 - Masters: 2019: BMW Championship
-66 - Slippery Frogs: 2012: Zurich Classic
-63 - Tee-It-Up: 2010: John Deere
-60 - Hackers: 2019: Rocket Mortgage
Best score and still lost:
-57 - Eagles: 2021: Byron Nelson
-49 - Slippery Frogs: 2013: Deutsche Bank (this last one was a tie and our semi-finals in week 24 - lost due to seedings - ouch).
It is fair to say the pros ate this course alive. Even Hol-E-1 was under par with 2 missed cuts and a WD.
On to another major. Monster matchup this week. Loopers vs Masters in the PGA Championship. Hope this one is televised...
→ Loopers and Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThere were a couple of high profile matches over the weekend and the Loopers and Masters won them.
The Masters dispatched the Hookers in a close match. The Hookers were TERRIBLE on Sunday, losing by 5. Masters have now won 5 in a row. Here they come...
Not to be outdone, the Loopers took out the Eagles after Rahm missed the cut. The Loopers have won 4 in a row.
This week the Eagles and Masters play each other. This is a huge match for both teams if they hope to catch the Loopers.
The Snowmen squeezed out a 1 stroke win after Woodland shot a +2 on the back nine on Sunday. This is the 3rd time this season that the Wedges could have won if they had changed their line-up on Friday night. (Of course, if the Snowmen had changed their lineup, this discussion would be moot).
Tee-It-Up just plain beat up Hol-E-1 in a laugher.
How in Pin High only 4-9 with both DeChambeau and McIlroy on the team. Maybe Rory's win will propel him the rest of the year. Pin High could be a team to watch down the stretch.
→ Half Way Update.
Published: by Jim GreenwellI cannot believe we are already half way through the season. We have a well deserved break this week.
There have been 1 huge surprise and 1 huge comeback. Will Zalatoris and Jordan Speith. They have meant everything to their respective rosters. As such, these two teams appear to be the best (so far) this season. A lot can change and we have three majors yet to play. Should be an exciting finish to the season.
If the season ended today, the playoffs would look like this:
1. Loopers
2. Hookers
3. Eagles
4. Masters
5. CHiP
6. Snowmen
If memory serves, 11 wins has always guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. 10 wins usually does (minus tie-breakers).
Bottom line, no one is more than 3 games out of the playoffs with 11 games to go. Can definitely be done.
Enjoy the break. When we come back for Derby Week for the Valspars, the feature match has to be the 9-2 Looopers vs the 9-2 Hookers.
→ Heritage Preview
Published: by Jim GreenwellI actually like this tournament - the course is quirky and the players have to play a little target golf and shape a lot of shots. Let's take a look.
Match of the Week: Masters v. Snowmen. Two mid table North teams that need to win to keep pace with Looper and Eagles. Snowmen are at the tail end of a 4 game stretch that featured 2 games against the Masters and one each against the Loopers and Hookers. A win here would make them 2-2 through that stretch. Unfortunately for the Snowmen, they may have to drop/add to put in reserves. The Masters will win this one.
Eagles v Wedges: Eagles are soaring high and Wedges can't catch a break. Eagles run out a good side even with their primary players resting. Eagles continue their hot play and win another.
Loopers v Tee-It-Up: Upset special Zalatoris misses the cut and Tee-It-Up finally catches a break and wins one.
Hookers v Pin High: Hookers have the players to carry the day on this one and should.
CHiP v Hol-E-1: Dustin Johnson is pissed. No matter. Hol-E-1 drops another one. This time to CHiP.
→ Masters Recap
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell... My predictions went 2-3, but could have been better if Kokrak shoots a 75 instead of a 77 - good grief.
Speaking of Kokrak, his 77 combined with Casey's 69 helped the Masters overcome a Sunday morning deficit. The Masters kept pace with the Eagles and Loopers. The Wedges were "snake-bitten" once again.
The Loopers won - but who would have foreseen Zalatoris beating Adam Scott by 20 strokes? Not me... Loopers pull off an important win over the Snowmen thanks to what appears to be a new star on the tour: 28 inch waisted Will Zalatoris.
The Eagles may be in second in their division, but they appear to be the team to beat. The Eagles had all four players in the top 10 and swept the skins. Hol-E-1 never had a chance.
Pin High squeaked by Tee-It-Up by 2 strokes. The exact number of strokes Ancer was penalized for touching the sand. Ouch.
Hookers continue to be the luckiest team in the lague, beating an experienced team. CHiP remains in 2nd in the Division. The Hookers will come crashing to earth soon enough after 6 straight wins.
→ Masters Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellHaven't done this in a long time, so let's go for it.
Wedges v Masters: I it possible Tiger and JT have a gay thing going on? Is Berger ready? Which Sergio will show up? The Wedges line-up doesn't look like one that deserves to be 3-6. The Wedges find a way to win by less than 5 strokes after JT misses the cut (wow - you heard it hear first).
Snowmen v Loopers: Another upset. Patrick Reed wins the Masters (again) and the Snowmen take both skins. The Loopers have a strong performance, but not enough to beat the Snowmen.
Eagles v Hol-E-1: I know, HE1 has both Spieth and Johnson. Something tels e that the loaded foursome of the Eagles will find a way to win.
Tee-It-Up v Pin High: Fleetwood finished in top 5, but not enough. Pin High will win this one going away with two top 10 finishers.
Hookers v CHiP: The Hookers are loaded with players that have not played the Masters much. CHiP has an experience advantage and that will win the day. CHiP wins this important match to pull a little closer to the top of the South Division.
→ Hookers Win 5th Straight
Published: by Jim GreenwellI guess it is time to put the "article whammy" on the Hookers. The Hookers had an easy win against a line-up less Snowmen. The Hookers did have the 3rd best score on the week, so decimating the roster to field a team may not have worked anyway. The Snowmen had no players in the field at the Valero Texas Open.
The Eagles took the team skin in destroying the "roll-over" lineup from Pin High. The win pulled them within a game of the North Division lead.
CHiP held on for victory over the Foot Wedges. It was only a two stroke lead headed into Saturday. The Wedges just couldn't get anything going and lost by 9.
The Masters are back to winning after a nice performance from Glover. Tee-It-Up has to be wondering what they have to do to win. The only team under par this week that lost.
Hol-E-1's draft pick of Spieth is paying off. A big win for both and a skin. The Looper just had no answer.
On to the Masters.
→ Loopers Win 5th Straight
Published: by Jim GreenwellLoopers have won 5 straight and are a whopping 7-1. This week's opponent was Pin High. Loopers only had one miss the cut, while Pin High had 2 miss. Pin High did take home a skin thank to Matt Jones' win.
The Hookers continue to get lucky. They won despite having a player missing the cut and Tee-It-Up did not. It helped that Rickie Fowler shot a 78 on Thursday.
The Foot Wedges got a gift as the Eagles decided to not blow up their roster. However, the Wedges had the second best score on the week. It was likely the Eagles would have lost anyway after picking up 3+ players.
The Snowmen took out the Masters. The Masters were obviously hurt badly by Berger's WD.
CHiP took home a team skin and waltzed to victory over Hol-E-1 by 52 strokes.
8 Weeks in - hard to believe.
→ Masters Explode
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter dropping 3 in a row, the Masters flexed a little fantasy muscle this week. Four players finished in top 9 at the Players Championship - wow. Hol-E-1, despite having all four make the cut never had a chance.
The Hookers had a mystery WD from English, but got a monster Friday from Kirk to give them a 1 player advantage over the weekend. The Foot Wedges continue to be a little snake-bitten and have dropped 4 in a row.
Eagles have won 5 in a row with a comfortable win over Tee-It-Up.
The Snowmen continue a strong inaugural season with an easy win over Pin High.
Loopers are 6-1 in (by-far) the toughest division. It is starting to look like the best 4 teams are in the North. The South division just hopes they start beating each other.
→ Week 6 Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellA few things.
1. Poor Wedges - Justin Rose withdraws after 16 holes on Saturday. Brutal.
2. The Master have lost 3 in a row - not sure when that has ever happened.
3. The luckiest team in the league is winning their division (Hookers).
4. The Eagles have won 4 in a row and look great. They may be the team to beat.
5. Okay - end of week processing. Here is what is happening. For some reason the data source doesn't have the earning for all players. It doesn't make a lot of sense. What makes even less sense is that my code assumes the player is a "No Show". I have no idea why that is happening. I'll look into it, but if I'm not watching while it is happening it is hard to figure out.
6. We have a team carryover going to week 7.
→ What a Weekend
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, easy to be excited when the author sweeps skins and wins a game - ha.
So many close games. The rule changes have made for far more exciting Sunday's this year.
First - some craziness with the automation to close the week. For some reason the international players weren't credited with earnings on the website and that blew up everything - all resolved now. But, likely to happen again, I'll need to figure this out.
Loopers move to first place with an easy road over Foot Wedges. The Wedges' golfers struggled to get anything going and had the low score on the week.
the Eagles held off the Masters thanks to a nice week from Cam Smith. The Eagles had the team skin until their last player on the course hit it in the water on 18. A par from Hideki and they win the skin, but he double-bogeyed.
The Snowman takes out Hol-E-1 on the tie-breaker on money earned. Nothing worse than losing a game like that. HE1 dropped to 1-4 as a result. How does Dustin Johnson go +5? What HE1 wants to know too.
Speaking of 1-4, Pin High lost another tight game by only 2 strokes. Hovland had a great tournament for Tee-It-Up. McIlroy just couldn't get it going on Sunday for Pin High.
The Hookers slipped by CHiP thanks to a huge tournament and win by Morikawa. Only a 6 stroke win that was aided immensely by Scheffler's -14.
→ Foot Wedges
Published: by Jim GreenwellTwo weeks in a row now the Foot Wedge would have won if they had made the Friday substitution. Hope that it doesn't come back to give them a playoff wedgy. No one in Fantasy Sports is proud and CHiP (like all of us) will take the win anyway he can get it.
How about them Eagles? On a tough track, they went very low. -39 on this course for a foursome? Wow. Pin High didn't put up a fight, but they weren't going to win anyway.
Tee-It-Up was a 40 inch putt from winning some skin money, but his boy yanked it left. Tee-It-Up was so aggravated by not getting the skin, the commissioner had to talk him off the ledge. His opponent, the Masters didn't have their usual big showing and lost a tough match.
The Snowman got his second win slipping by the Hookers with an 11 stroke gain on Sunday and won by two.
Another close game was between Hol-E-1 and Loopers. Around 3 or 4pm, HE1 actually had a 1 stroke lead. But, Johnson struggled a bit down the stretch and Zalatoris had a nice day for Loopers.
We now head to Florida. I've always like the Florida tournaments. Hope your enjoying the season.
→ Masters Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellMasters move to 3-0 and win both skins this week. Their match against CHiP actually got close midway through the day on Sunday. But, Berger helped lead the charge and they earned a 10 stroke win. CHiP, meanwhile, would have beaten anyone else this week.
The Loopers only lost by 9 despite only submitting one playing golfer. If the Eagles' Burns doesn't make the cut (made it by only one stroke), then the Loopers would have won this match. Crazy.
In a very close match, Hol-E-1 pulled out a 2 stroke victory over Tee-It-Up. As Spieth was headed to 17, they were tied in strokes AND money. I thought we were going to have to pull out our crazy tie breaker scenarios (that we haven't used yet). Spieth birdied the last two and Hol-E-1 wins.
The Foot Wedges made quick work of the Snowmen who (like the Loopers) short on players for this tournament.
The Hookers had all 4 make the cut and had a pretty easy win over Pin High. They had a shot at the best player skin with young McNealy, but Berger was too tough for everyone.
→ The Waste Management
Published: by Jim GreenwellFantasy sports are the worst.
In Week 1, the Hookers were the worst team in the league. In Week 2, they win the team skin. They beat the Eagles who would have beaten all be three teams and the still lose this week. Fantasy sports...
The Masters had a relatively lucky win. If the Wedges has put in Tringale on Friday, they would have won. Fantasy sports...
The Loopers properly welcomed the Snowman to the league with a beat down. The funny thing is, Keopka came out of nowhere, chips in on 17 for eagle and earns the Snowman a skin. Fantasy sports...
CHiP gets huge Friday rounds from Im and Simpson and they narrowly make the cut. After Tee-It-Up has two miss the cut, a ho-hum win for CHiP. Fantasy sports...
Hol-E-1 has the lead, despite being down a man, going into Sunday morning. On Sunday, none of Hol-E-1 players break par. Pin High manages to shoot -16 on Sunday and win by 6 shots. Fantasy Sports...
On to Week 3.
→ Week 2 News
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell - I couldn't be more pleased that the website is working well.
I have made a few changes. I hope you like them.
1. On Reserve leaderboard page, your designated reserves now appear in "red" - these are the reserves you have selected for possible move to the starting line-up.
2. Team rosters are now listed in alphabetical order by last name.
3. I've added a "Full Leaderboard". You can see our 40 golfers in order and context with team names.
If you see something that isn't right or would like to see something, please don't hesitate to ask. I don't mind at all.
Meanwhile, it appears my team will suck.
→ Week 1 Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 1 is over an it seems everything on web site worked perfectly (let me know if it didn't).
The new guy (Snowman) won their first game and both skins (sigh). It isn't often you have 4 guys make the cut and lose, but that is what happened to Pin High against the Snowman.
The Wedges were so bad, they couldn't have beaten anyone - exept for the even worse Hookers. The Hookers had 7 players in the field, only one made the cut. Sad.
Tee-It-Up cruised to victory over the Eagles thanks to Kim's 76 on Friday and a missed cut.
The Masters look strong again this year and hammered Hol-E-1 in week 1.
In our closest match of the weekend, the Loopers slipped by CHiP by only 3 strokes.
→ Under Way
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek One is off to a good start. Leaderboard is working and it appears the Friday change may work.
I've also made a change to the "Reserve Leaderboard". Just cosmetic - it was requested and I do like it better. It now change the colors of your "designated reserves" in the list of all reserves.
Let's hope the Friday change thing works.
→ 2021 Season Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellDraft is over. Games to start next week, January 28. Reminder - line-ups are due at midnight the night before the tournament begins.
Also - transaction page should be open. If you find it isn't, please let me know.
→ Hol-E-1 vs. Loopers in Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn a crazy year, the Masters will now be our championship event. Two months from now.
Pin High has won the Toilet Bowl.
→ Loopers / Hol-E-1 Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Loopers had a nice win over Tee-It-UP and Hol-E-1 pulled out the victory when Johnson hit that bomb on 18.
Round 2 Matchups
Hol-E-1 will take on the Masters
Loopers will face CHiP
Toilet Bowl:
Eagles and Pin High will play for 1st position in each round of next year's draft.
Reminder: Next matches are played during the US Open on September 17 - 20.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellA weird 2020 continues. The Regular Season ended and now the 3 month long playoffs begins...
Here are the seedings:
Championship Flight:
1. Masters
2. CHiP
3. Loopers
4. Hol-E-1
5. Hookers
6. Tee-It-Up
First Round
Loopers vs. Tee-It-Up
Hol-E-1 vs. Hookers
Second Round
Masters vs Winner of Hol-E-1/Hookers
CHiP vs Winner of Loopers/Tee-It-Up
Toilet Bowl:
1. Eagles
2. Wedges
3. Pin High
4. Hackers
First Round
Eagles vs Hackers
Wedges vs Pin High
Second Round
First round winner
→ One Week to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellMasters have won the North.
Masters, Loopers have clinched playoffs.
Winner of the Hol-E-! and CHiP game in Week 15 wins the South.
CHiP, Hol-E-1, Hookers have clinched playoffs.
The last playoff spot is between Hackers and Tee-It-Up.
Tee-It-Up is in with a win or Hackers loss. Hackers are in with a win and a TIU loss.
→ 2 Weeks to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - here are the playoff scenarios with 2 weeks to go. I think only the Wedges and Pin High have been eliminated. I reserve the right to be wrong.
I know the Eagles can still make it. It gets very complicated for Pin High, but I don't think they can make it.
North:
Masters - clinched playoffs. Clinch division with a win or Loopers loss.
Loopers - clinched playoffs. Can win division with two wins and Masters lose two AND Loopers overcome stroke differential.
Hackers - clinch playoffs with two wins, two losses by Hookers and one loss by Tee-It-Up
Eagles - clinch playoffs with two wins, two losses by Hackers, one loss by Pin High
South:
Hol-E-1 - clinched playoffs. Clinch division with two wins and a loss by CHiP.
CHiP - clinched playoffs. Wins division by winning in Week 15.
Hookers - clinch division with one win or one loss by Hackers
Tee-It-Up - clinch division by beating Hookers in week 14 and 1 loss by the Hackers.
→ PGA Restart
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere we go with a shortened season that will take forever to complete - ha. Schedules will be unbalanced, but we'll just deal with it.
→ Week 7 In the Books
Published: by Jim GreenwellI ran the "end of week automation" manually this week and it seemed to work. I'll let it fly solo next week...
Poor Pin High - lost on a tie breaker. One of the best teams in the league and can't catch a break.
I think the curse on Tee-It-Up has taken root. Two straight losses and this week they had the 2nd best score of the week and lost.
The Hackers, after a 2-0 start, well, haven't won since...
And the Hookers, who were 1-4 two weeks ago, would now be in the playoffs if they started today.
A long way to go - don't get discouraged. We still have 15 weeks to go...
→ Worked last week...
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo, Tee-It-Up stumbled on the way to their title and may have made room for CHiP. Clearly these two teams will be in the finals for the Carl Cup. I've called the engraver and told them to go ahead an make a marker for each team.
I've also gone ahead and allocated the winners money to these teams. 5-1. Sheesh.
To the rest of you, you're welcome.
→ Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellJust hear to put a curse on Tee-It-Up...
Clearly, Tee-It-Up is the class of the league. Can't be beaten. I've sent the trophy to be engraved already.
Not even sure why the Loopers would bother setting a line-up against them...
Oh - and clearly the Hookers suck - that dude kills himself before the draft and then drop/adds half his team every week to just make a line-up.
Everyone be safe. Stay away from sick people. Hope you're having fun with the league. I always do, even when my team sucks.
→ Unlucky. Def: Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellNot sure if you are paying attention, but Pin High has had the worst luck - I mean crazy bad luck.
Pin High has played the team that won the team skin in each of the first 3 weeks. Wow. Pin High is second in Breakdown standings, but is 0-3. Just wow...
This week they lost by 1. Hard to blame Phil, but he did have an awful back nine...
Leaderboard update: I've made a progress. I have everything but the hole by hole scores. Not sure if I'll get those. For now, I'll work on automating the live scoreboard for this coming week. There are still scenarios that I haven't seen yet (like no shows, DQs, MDF and so on) that I will need to figure out when it happens.
After a couple of weeks, I'll automate the week close too. Much progress well, I think so...)
→ Week 1 : 2020
Published: by Jim GreenwellOur first of twenty-two competition weeks begins in San Diego at the Farmers Insurance Open.
Be sure to set your line-ups.
Reminder: I'm on vacation and will be pretty busy from Thu-Sun. If the leader board blows up, I'm unlikely to have time to fix it.
And hopefully the waiver stuff works well. Do not do a drop/add on Mon/Tue if it doesn't. But I'll be back by then and can hopefully fix it quickly.
→ 2020 Season To Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellCan the Masters pull a 3-peat? As far as I can remember, that has never been done.
The system is set up and ready to go - I think it will all work. I still have to schedule the waiver job, but I can't do that until season starts.
I think (think) as we move into the season the flow for drop/adds will work properly. We'll talk more about it on draft night.
→ Masters Repeat as Champion
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith the double whammy of Cantlay and Thomas, the Masters were able to beat the Hackers.
Congrats to the Masters. The next draft will be in January.
→ Hackers vs. Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Carl Cup is a true grudge match this year.
Good luck to both of you.
→ Semi Finals are Next
Published: by Jim GreenwellTop item: Pin High lost to Masters due to issue with Olesen's score.
(AND... because this is all automated, it isn't easy to fix - like it used to be... so, I'll fix it sometime before the next tournament - my care meter has hit very low...)
The Masters will face Hol-E-1 in one semi-final.
The Hackers will battle CHiP in the other semi-final.
The two winners will play for the Carl Cup.
Toilet Bowl: Loopers will play Wedges.
→ Playoffs are Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - here are the match-up / seeding for the 2019 Carl Cup playoffs.
First - congratulations to the Hackers and Hol-E-1 for winning their respective divisions.
1. Hol-E-1
2. Hackers
3. CHiP
4. Masters
5. Pin High
6. Shankers
Explanations:
- Hackers win division because they went 3-0 against the Masters, the first tie-break is head-to-head record.
- Masters get the 4 seed as they were 1-1 against CHiP, but have a higher stroke count, giving the 3 seed to CHiP
- Shankers get the final playoff spot because:
-- They finished 3rd in North because the were 2-1 against the Wedges
-- They were 2-0 against the Hookers (the other 10-12 team).
The Playoffs start this week.
Week 23 - WGC - FedEx St. Jude
Game 1: Seed 3 vs. Seed 6
Game 2: Seed 4 vs. Seed 5
Week 24 - The Northern Trust
Game 3: Seed 1 vs. winner of Game 2
Game 4: Seed 2 vs. winner of game 1
Week 25 - BMW Championship
Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner
Toilet Bowl Tournament:
4. Hookers
3. Wedges
2. Tee-It-Up
1. Loopers
Hookers vs. Loopers
Wedges vs. Tee-It-Up
Winner plays in week 24 for first pick in each round of 2020 season.
Good luck to all.
→ 1 Week to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe have a week off and then our regular season concludes with the Open Championship. Should be epic. Here are the scenarios (I think):
North:
Masters: Have clinched the playoffs, can win division by beating Hackers in week 22.
Hackers: Can win division by beating Masters in week 22. This is confusing, but Hackers clinch playoffs with a win or a loss if Wedges lose or (both Wedges and Shankers win and maintain point lead) or if Wedges win, Shanker lose and the Hookers lose). It would also help them if CHiP lost. Bottom line, there are scenarios where they could miss the playoffs.
Wedges: Win and Shankers or Hookers lose
Shankers: Win and the they are in if they can gain points on Wedges or if Hackers win
Loopers: At least he didn't shoot a 100 this weekend..
South Division:
Hol-E-1: has won division
Pin High: Win and they are in, with a loss, they need the Hookers to lose
CHiP: Win and they are in, lose and they need Pin High to lose
Hookers: Win, CHiP win, Pin High lose, Hackers win, Shankers lose
This kind of a disaster to figure out. There is a real possibility that both divisions end with 3 teams tied at 11-11. If that happens:
CHiP gets 2nd in the South and a playoff spot; In the North, the tie breaker will go to lowest strokes. That leaves 4 teams for the final two spots. The scenarios are vast at that point and all depends on total strokes.
Set your best line-up. It could get wild.
→ 2 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere are the playoff ramifications with two weeks to go.
North:
Masters: Clinch playoffs with a win, clinch division with two wins
Hackers: Clinch playoffs with a wing, clinch division with two wins
Shankers: Clinch playoffs with two wins, or 1 win and one loss by Wedges or two losses with two losses by Wedges and one loss by Hookers
Wedges: 2 wins, 1 loss by Shankers and 1 loss by Hookers
Loopers: 2 wins, two losses by Shankers and Wedges, one loss by Hookers
South:
Hol-E-1: Clinched playoffs, division and #1 seed
Pin High: Clinches playoffs with 1 win.
CHiP: Clinches playoffs with 1 win (I think)
Hookers: 2 wins, two losses by CHiP, two losses by Shankers
Tee-It-Up: Maybe next year...
If playoffs started today:
1. Hol-E-1
2. Hackers
3. Masters
4. Pin High
5. CHiP
6. Shankers
→ Hol-E-1 Clinches
Published: by Jim GreenwellHol-E-1 has clinched the South division and the number one over all seed for the post season. HE1 beat the Masters this week, winning their 6th game in a row.
The playoff picture, with 3 weeks to go, is muddled to say the least. The standings on the web site are a little misleading. Because of head-to-head tie-breakers, the Shankers and CHiP are actually in 3rd, not 4th in the respective divisions. Also, the Hackers are winning the North division.
Things get really crazy and we are relying (as of now) on total strokes in many cases, but here is who is in the playoffs if they started now (and their seed):
1. HE1
2. Hackers
3. Masters
4. Pin High
5. CHiP
6. Shankers
Traditionally, 11 wins has guaranteed a spot in the playoffs and generally 10 wins gets you in as well. The race is on.
Week 20 brings us some enormous matchups that will clear the standings up, or make things really nuts.
As for clinching, way too much to parse. But this much is clear.
Both Masters and Hackers control their own destiny for a division championship. They face each other in week 22 (wow).
Should be a fun 3 week stretch.
→ Masters Win 5th in a Row
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt was a very low scoring week for just about every team - everyone under par even with missed cuts...
The Masters have won 5 in a row and are now two games clear in the North Division. They took out the Shankers thanks to Scott Piercy (really, Scott Piercy?) Piercy makes only his second appearance of the year, makes his first cut (in our league) and manages a -21. Wow.
The Foot Wedges earn the team skin and score a whopping -50 and take down the Hackers. The Wedges were the only other team in the North to win and are trying to keep pace with the Masters.
Hol-E-1 manages a win over the Loopers despite a No Show. The Loopers hav now lost 4 in a row.
The Hookers just can't win a game. They too have lost 4 in a row. This week, CHiP uses a 6 stroke swing on Sunday to manage a 3 stroke victory.
Pin High destroyed Tee-It-Up which will probably end up being a huge win come tie-breaker time for the playoffs.
→ Masters Regains Form
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters have now inched back into the lead in the North Division after winning a 4th in a row. This week's victims were the hapless Hookers. The Hookers lost hope when Double-D missed the cut.
The Loopers have to be pissed after Byeong Hun An withdraws half-way through Sundays round causing them to lose to the Wedges. This was the Loopers 3rd straight loss. The Wedges have renewed hope after a lucky victory.
Shankers cruise to victory over the Hackers thanks to two missed cuts by the Hackers. The Shankers also had a player withdraw after Saturdays round, making it closer than it should have been.
Tee-It-Up had all 4 players make the cut and went on to a big victory over CHiP and team skin. CHiP also had all 4 make the cut, but finished well back of TIU's players.
In the blow-out of the week, Pin High blasted Hol-E-1.
We have 9 teams battling for 6 playoff spots. Should be a fun last few weeks.
→ Half Way
Published: by Jim GreenwellA historic day on the PGA Tour saw us through the half way mark of our season. (I remember when The Masters was only week 5 in our season). Anyway, Tiger Woods won a skin in our league in 5 years. The Shankers are looking pretty smart for their draft pick of Woods now.
Someone may want to pay attention to CHiP. After losing the first 5, they have gone a 6 game winning streak and are only 1 game out of first place. CHiP had a pretty easy game against the Hackers whom have now lost two in a row after a long win streak themselves.
With the Hackers loss, there is now a 4 way tie at the top of the North. The Masters beat the Loopers and the Shankers have now won 3 in a row. The next 11 weeks in the North apparently is going to be crazy.
As for the South, Hol-E-1 has risen to the top and has the best record in the league. They sent Tee-It-Up to a 3rd straight loss.
Pin High continues to find a way to climb into the playoffs.
As for the Hookers and Wedges, they have some work to do...
→ Hackers Win 5 in a Row
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers have now won 5 and in a row with no end in sight. This week, they won a tough 3 on 3 match with Hol-E-1. Fitzpatrick's big weekend was the difference maker carrying the Hackers to victory.
The Loopers had all 4 make the cut, but it wasn't enough against Pin High. Loopers were +6 over the weekend and Pin High -9. Pin High got a big Sat/Sun from Molinari and took home the victory and both skins - including a carry-over skin.
The Masters won a game with fewer players making the cut. Happens once or twice a year. Master got huge weeks from Bello and Mitchell and beat Tee-It-Up. TIU had all 4 golfers in the top 40, but none higher than 23rd.
CHiP had an easy game of it agains the Shankers as Shankers had two miss the cut.
Speaking of easy. Foot Wedges had it as easy as it gets as the Hookers had all 4 (plus the two reserves) miss the cut (sigh).
→ Can Hackers Win North?
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers are now in first place in the North division. (I'll repeat that). The Hackers are in first in the North division. They lead the Masters and the Loopers by a full game.
The Hackers have won 4 straight games and this week took down the defending champion Masters. They had all 4 players make the cut and were powered by Koepka's very nice weekend. The Masters were harmed by Luke Lists missed cut.
Hol-E-1 is leading the South and has only 1 loss. This week they won despite only have 2 make the cut and were losing when Sunday morning began. Thanks to a huge Sunday afternoon by Ryan Palmer, Hol-E-1 was able to outlast Pin High.
The Loopers are probably fuming over the Shankers setting a line-up against them after giving the Masters a "bye week" the week before. Of course, if Cameron Smith doesn't shoot a lousy 79 on Friday they may have won anyway. The Shankers and Loopers are now tied in the North division.
CHiP won a game! They also took home a skin. It looked like Glover for the Masters had tied the best player skins, but Ryan Armour birdied 18 and secured the skin for CHiP. The Wedges never really had a chance as CHiP had all 4 make the cut and the Wedges' Alex Noren missed the cut after a terrible 77 on Thursday.
The Hooker had an easy win against Tee-It-Up as TIU had to missed cut and 1 MDF. The Hookers weren't stellar, but they were good enough.
→ Hackers win 3rd in a Row
Published: by Jim GreenwellI know no one is paying attention to the Hackers, but it may be time to do so. They have won 3 in a row and are tied for first in the North. They took down the Wedges this week with Sergio now playing golf instead of tearing up golf courses.
The Masters are tied for first too with a "bye week" against the Shankers' no-show-roll-over line-up.
The Loopers, begging people to set a line-up, are also tied for first in the north but suffered a loss this week to Tee-It-Up. The Loopers had a tough 2nd round and it was enough to give Tee-It-Up a small 4 stroke win.
Pin High has won 2 in a row with a big win over CHiP. Poor CHiP, still winless - with a good team. Sometimes fantasy sports suck.
The Hookers had a below average outing form Phil and Spieth, but there wasn't much hope against the high flying Dustin Johnson led Hol-E-1 team.
→ Week 4 Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North is kind of crazy with 4 teams standing at 2-2...
And.. Poor CHiP and Pin High - look at their opponent scoring - ouch!
Okay - here is the deal on the "automation project". Sunday was a big success - a little debugging, but all done. Feeling good about this moving forward.
More later.
→ Tee-It-Up Wins Big
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up had a red hot Fowler rolling (except for the crazy hold on the back nine where the ball rolled back into the water - did you see that?) and his entire team finished 44th or better. (editor note: I hate that Hideki is playing well - ugh). Pin High had two miss the cut and never had a chance.
Hol-E-1 remained undefeated with a solid performance with all 4 making the cut. CHiP had a good showing despite Finau's missed cut. CHiP sits a 0-2 but has to be encouraged by this week's effort.
Shankers also remain unbeaten with a complete beat down of the Hookers. Smacked them around good. The Hookers only had 1 player on the entire roster make the cut...
Loopers too have yet to lose. This week's victim was the Hackers. The Hackers had a shot until Uihlein wiht drew midway through round 2 (although he was likely going to miss the cut). No reason (that I have found) has been given for the WD.
And then there is the Masters. They clearly didn't like losing in week 1 and had a great effort this week taking out the Foot Wedges.
→ Off and Running
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst: a correction to the predictions from last article. Clearly Pin High can't be in two divisions. The prediction in the North should read the Shankers in second place.
And...
After this week's performance, maybe they should be first... Wow.
Shankers hammered CHiP with an all-star line-up and only missed out on skins due to Justin Rose's amazing weekend.
Speaking of Rose - he lead the the Loopers to a big win over pre-season favorite Pin High. Think on this boys and girls: Loopers took home the skins with a missed cut on the line-up...
The Hookers could be seeing a reversal of fortune in 2019. After so many close losses in 2018, they got a lucky one this week. The Wedges had cut the lead to only 1 until Keegan Bradley doubled 18 late on Sunday to give the Hookers a lead that was only increased as Day finished strong.
The defending champion Masters were heard grumbling to the press about taking it on the chin to Tee-It-Up. The Masters had no one finish better than 52nd. Don't count the Masters out yet, but this was the kid of loss they aren't used to.
Hol-E-1 waltzed to a win in a yawner over the Hackers.
Another fun tournament on slate for week 2. Enjoy the golf guys - looks like another exciting year.
→ Regular Season Begins
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 1 is upon us.
Draft Analysis (long awaited and abbreviated):
Shankers: Can Jon Rahm putt? Will Tiger perform for someone other than the Hookers? I really like the Grillo draft pick and could be the future star of the team.
Masters: Hoffman needs to go back to the mullet, Thomas is a stud and Bello is a very good. This team doesn't appear as loaded as last year's Masters team.
Wedges: Noren, Fleetwood and Noren - this team looks really loaded.
Loopers: This team comes down to Bubba Watson. Not sure if that is a good thing.
Hackers: Koepka is clearly a stud, but the big question is Sergio Garcia. Can he return to form?
Pin High: Scott, McIlory, Kuchar and Stenson - ouch! Look out for Pin High.
Hol-E-1: Johnson and Schauffelle - but I don't think Poulter will produce the same results.
CHiP: Has Finau and a lot of solid players - just not sure how this team will hold up in the playoffs.
Tee-It-Up: Fowler and Hadwin will lead this team. Will Matsuyama finally produce?
Hookers: Day, Spieth, Casey and good old "double-D". Will be an interesting year.
Predicted order of finish:
North:
1. Wedges
2. Pin High
3. Masters
4. Loopers
5. Hackers
South:
1. Pin High
2. Hol-E-1
3. CHiP
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Hookers
Carl Cup Champion: Pin High
(write it down)
→ Draft Date Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThursday, January 3, 2019 - Woodhaven Country Club, 7:00pm.
→ Masters are Champions
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, the Masters were starting to pull away from the Loopers and then Casey withdrew from the tournament. Suddenly, the Loopers were up by 3, but there was a lot of golf to be played on Monday.
The Masters retook the lead and were up by 3 with the Loopers' Rose still on the course with three to play. He birdied 16 and 17. A birdie on 18 give the coveted Carl Cup to the Loopers (and a championship for Rose at the BMW).
Alas, a poor second shot led to a bogey and the Masters are champions.
The Masters were ridiculously good all year. They were so good, they won this championship match with the winner of the tournament on the bench. Crazy.
Congrats to the Masters on earning their first ever Carl Cup!
→ Epic Semi-finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat a weekend.
First - I apologize for issues with site. I have already started the work of finding us a more permanent home. No offense to Sean, out admin, but this is running on a server in his basement - we really should be doing that.
Anyway, how about the golf?
The Loopers beat CHiP by one stroke - ONE! The Loopers overcame a 6 shot deficit at the start of the day on Monday.
All of CHiPs players finished in the top 12, but the Loopers had the champion and runner-up. Crazy!
And, it really all came to the last 7 holes. CHiP was 6 over on those holes while the Loopers were 3 under.
As for the other semi-final, Hol=E=1 gave the Masters a run despite Billy Horschel's WD after 41 strokes on round 1. HE1 had two top 10 finishers, but it is so difficult to overcome those WDs...
This sets up a great final. While CHiP may argue, the two teams playing for the coveted Carl Cup are the two best teams in the league. Masters vs. Loopers.
(Oh - Wedges beat Hookers in Toilet Bowl thanks to Jason Day missing the cut. Sigh...)
→ Loopers, Hol-E-1 Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Loopers overcame Justin Rose's missed cut and beat the Hackers. It helps that the Hackers had a player finish in last...
The Loopers will now take on CHiP in the semi-finals.
The Masters will face Hol-E-1. HE1 made quick work of Tee-It-Up as TIU had two miss the cut and Kisner finished 73rd.
The Hookers will face the Foot Wedges for the Toilet Bowl championship.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, like I've always said, 11 wins gets you in, 10 might.
Just a brutal ending of the season for a couple of teams.
The Foot Wedges were 9-7 and looking good, but lost 6 in a row. 3 of them by 10 strokes or less, including the 1 stroke loss to the Masters at the Open Championship.
The Hookers had a long losing streak but won a few to get in contention then lost the last two weeks, having big leads on Sunday each week - only to lose both times.
The other side of this, however is the Hackers. Left for dead at 7-11, but not quite. They rattled off 4 straight wins. Including wins over the Masters and Loopers. Huge win and dare I say, momentum headed into playoffs.
Your division champs:
North: Middletown Masters
South: CHiP
Division Runner-ups:
North: Loopers
South: Tee-It-Up
Wildcard playoff teams:
Hol-E-1
Hackers
The seeding and match-ups:
1. Masters
2. CHiP
3. Loopers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Hol-E-1
6. Hackers
Round 1:
Game 1: Loopers vs. Hackers
Game 2: Tee-It-Up vs. Hol-E-1
(CHiP, Masters first round bye)
Round 2:
Game 3: CHiP vs. game 1 winner
Game 4: Masters vs. game 2 winner
Round 3:
Game 3 winner vs. game 4 winner
(The Carl Cup)
Toilet Bowl:
Round 1:
Game 1: Hookers vs. Pin High
Game 2: Wedges vs. Putt-4-Doh!
Round 2:
Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner
(position 1 draft status at stake)
→ One week to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellMasters have won the North thanks to Justin Rose's late WD from the tournament.
Masters, Loopers, Tee-It-Up, CHiP and Hol-E-1 have all clinched the playoffs. One spot left.
First - who will win the south? Currently there is a 3 way tie. Neither of the 3 teams play each other.
If they remain in a tie, CHiP wins the division.
CHiP wins division with a win or a loss by both Tee-It-Up and Hol-E-1.
Tee-It-Up wins division with a win and a CHiP loss.
Hol-E-1 wins division with a win and a loss by both CHiP and Tee-It-Up.
Now... for the last spot.
Easy: Hackers win, they are in. The Wedges are out and the only way the Hookers make it is with a win and a loss by the Hackers and they maintain the strokes lead (which is likely in that scenario).
The Hackers have the Masters this week while the Hookers have CHiP.
If playoff started today:
1. Masters
2. CHiP
3. Loopers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Hol-E-1
6. Hackers
→ 2 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe British Open was as fun as ever and now we have a nightmare on our hands with our standings.
Let's deal with the North first.
It is actually possible that we could end up with 4 teams at 11-11. If that were to happen, CHiP would win the division followed by Tee-It-Up, Hookers and Hol-E-1.
CHiP wins division by winning out just finishing in a tie with any group of teams. CHiP has clinched the playoffs.
Tee-It-Up wins division with two wins and one loss by CHiP. Clinches playoffs with one win or one loss by Foot Wedges.
Hol-E-1 wins division with two wins and two losses by both Tee-It-Up and CHiP. Clinches playoffs with a win and a loss by Hookers, Wedges and Hackers.
Hookers clinch playoffs with 2 wins and one loss each by Hackers and Wedges or remains tied with them and has a better stroke count.
South:
Masters and Loopers have clinched playoffs.
Masters and Loopers play each other in week 21. If Masters win, they win division. If Loopers win, they only need to remain tied or better through week 22.
Hackers make playoffs with a two wins and one loss by Hookers or catch Hookers in stroke count.
Wedges make playoffs with two wins, one loss by Hackers and either one loss by Hookers or maintain stroke lead on Hookers.
Tie-Breakers get really wonky if Hol-E-1, Hookers, Wedges and Masters end up tied. But, I think Wedges look good in that scenario, but there are just too many.
Week 21 will be huge.
Masters play loopers with the North title on the line.
Hackers and Wedges play - winner could clinch a playoff spot.
Hol-E-1 and Hookers play - Hol-E-1 clinches spot
→ The Open Championship
Published: by Jim GreenwellThree weeks to go and we get to witness yet another major. The Open Championship (the British Open) is one of my personal favorites.
Here is the deal with the league:
The Masters, Loopers and Tee-It-Up have clinched a playoff spot.
North:
Masters and Loopers can win the division by winning out. They play each other in week 21. The other team will finish second.
The Foot Wedges make the playoffs with 3 wins or a combination of 3 wins / losses by both Hookers and Hackers.
The Hackers can make playoffs by winning out and one loss by Hookers (or they catch Hookers in stroke count).
Putt-4-Doh can make playoffs with 3 wins, Wedges lose 3 times and Hookers lose twice.
South
Tee-It-Up wins division with 3 wins or a combinations of 3 wins and losses by both CHiP and Hol-E-1.
CHiP wins division with 3 wins and 2 loss by Tee-It-Up.
Hol-E-1 wins division with 3 wins and 1 loss by CHiP and 2 losses by Tee-It-Up.
Hookers make playoffs with 3 wins and 1 loss by Wedges (if Hookers can win stroke count tie-breaker) and maintain stroke count advantage on Hackers (assuming they win 3).
Playoffs if the started today:
1. Masters
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Loopers
4. CHiP
5. Hol-E-1
6. Foot Wedges
Things will be way more clear (probably) on Sunday night...
→ 4 Weeks to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe schedule starts spreading out after this week. There are only four weeks to go and things are settling quickly.
The Loopers and Masters have clinched the playoffs. The only thing interesting remaining in the North is which of the two will make the playoffs.
In the South, we have a 3 way tie and anything could happen. All three are likely to make playoffs unless one of them drops all 4 remaining games.
The Hackers and Hookers have an outside shot. They really need on of the leading teams in the South to win out and drop teams. They are closest to the Foot Wedges, but even that is a full 2 game lead.
This week's game will go a long way towards settling playoff spots. Big week for everyone.
Warning - starting this Sunday through the end of the week next week I'll be in the wilderness. I'll try to update this site, but if it doesn't get updated right away, that is why.
→ Travelers is Upon Us
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo, we are in week 17 and the rich keep getting richer.
The Loopers and Masters seem to win every week and the Hookers seem to lose every week.
The playoff field is almost set and unless the Hackers or Hookers start making a move, we could the playoff field settled early.
I'm guessing that the Masters and Loopers have clinched a playoff spot. I haven't really done the math to be sure, but probably. They certainly will with their next win.
I went 5-0 with last week's predictions. Let's try again. This week's predictions:
It is so hard to pick against the Loopers and there is not a great reason to this week. I wonder if Russell Knox can produce and could be the slip up. I'm going with an upset and picking the Wedges in this one.
The Masters win (again). Ho-hum. Put-4-Doh! doesn't stand a chance against an almost replica of the smashing success of last week's US Open line-up.
Hooker and Hackers. Oh My! The winner has an outside shot at the playoffs. The loser can probably go ahead and start planning their summer vacation. I say Koepka has a hangover and misses cut giving the Hookers a win.
Pin High is starving for a win and McIlory can't be happy with last week's outing. Pin High wins a game.
The defending Travelers champion is back and ready to make amends for missing cut at US Open. CHiP handles Tee-It-Up.
We'll see how I do this week.
→ US Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellOne of the 4 Majors is upon us. This week's predictions:
Tee-It-Up gets a huge tournament from Fowler, but it can't overcome Leishman, Fleetwood and Mickelson. Foot Wedges win by a ton as Tee-t-Up have 3 miss the cut.
Loopers continue to win. Steele will miss the cut, but CHiP will have two miss: Bello and Hatton.
The Masters will obliterate the Hookers. Really? Molinari, Thomas, Reed and Casey? Good grief. Tiger continues to show he is not ready for majors.
Hol-E-1 finds the winner circle behind Johnson and Grace, easily beating Putt-4-Doh!
The only close game of the week is the Hackers 3 stroke victory over Pin High. The Hacker's KKK boys (Koepka, Kaymer and Kuchar) out play the 4 foreigners on Pin High's team.
→ Loopers Defeat Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Loopers got a big win and the dog fight is on to win the North Division. At the moment, the Masters own the tie-breaker, but these two square off one more time in week 21 at the Bridgestone. That should be a good one.
The Hackers recovered from a loss and are back to winning ways with a win over the Foot Wedges despite having one less player make the cut. Of course, it helps to Have Brooks Koepka finish second.
Putt-4-Doh! had a full squad make the cut versus 3 for CHiP but only won by a singl stroke. I'm sure CHiP would have loved to had Kirk out there instead of J.J., but those are the breaks.
Pin High loses with two no shows and only barely. If he would have had two miss the cut instead of not show, he would have won. Regardless, Hol-E-1 will take the victory and move along knowing he got away with one.
The Hookers good form is officially over as Tee-It-Up had all 4 players make the cut sending the Hookers to a second straight defeat.
If playoffs started today:
1. Masters
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Loopers
4. CHiP
5. Foot Wedges
6. Hol-E-1
The Hackers and Hookers are on the door step fighting for a final spot. Putt-4-Doh! and Pin High better start a winning streak (like, this week...)
→ CHiP Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP won despite a monstrous blow-up by Spieth on 18. I think he may have 4 putted. He certainly 3 putt from about 10 feet. Speith's 8 on 18 put CHiP in a tie with the Loopers, but they won on the money earned tie-breaker. Of course, Loopers could have won if Rose doesn't bogey 18.
CHiP has won 4 in a row and is now on top of the South Division all alone.
The Masters continue to roll beating the Hookers. Both teams had huge games and it really came down to Webb Simpson. No beating him this week.
The Foot Wedges sent Tee-It-Up to their 3rd straight loss behind yet another good tournament from Tommy Fleetwood. Tee-It-up was sunk once Chappell and Fowler missed the cut.
Hol-E-1 was the only team to have all 4 golfers make the cut. He played Putt-4-Doh! which only had 1 player make the cut. P4D was the only team to finish over par. What I'm trying to say is this was a blow out.
What is going on with the Hackers? They have now won 3 in a row and had a great showing from Koepka. Must have been Koepka's feature on the driving range Saturday morning that got him going. Meanwhile, Pin High has now dropped 3 in a row.
Playoff Picture. I'll do this from time to time. Here is who would be in if playoffs started today:
1. Masters
2. CHiP
3. Loopers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Foot Wedges
6. Hookers
Like I said, 11 wins nearly guarantees a spot and 10 you likely get in.
Hacekrs, Hol-E-1, Pin High and Putt-4-Doh! aren't that far off...
→ Masters - Powerful
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters keep trying to run away with the league. This week they were the only team under par, all 4 golfers in the top 21 and have run their season stroke count to -192 - WOW! The are 141 strokes clear of the next team in that regard. Staggering numbers. This week they just put the hammer to Putt-4-Doh! who happened to have the week's 3rd best score - ouch.
The Looper, of course, are screaming, "what about me?" They have the same record as the Masters and keep hanging with them. They have the league's second best stroke count and this week easily outlasted the Wedges. The Wedges had two miss the cut and the shouting was over.
The Hookers have now won 5 in a row and have climbed within a game of first place in the South. This week they had a tie with Pin High and won on the tie-breaker thanks to Jason Day winning the tournament and his money haul.
CHiP won a close one over Tee-It-Up. Despite having more players make the cut, CHiP had to hang on after Brian Harman shoots an 81 on Sunday and nearly blew the lead. Fortunately for CHiP, Finau fired a 66 to make some of that up.
And, now, for the Hackers. Don't look now, but the Hackers are on a winning streak (2) after obliterating Hol-E-1 by 59 strokes. Hol-E-1 hit the superfecta this week by having 1 made cut, 1 missed cut, 1 MDF and 1 no show. Tough week for Hol-E-1. The Hackers did have the second best score of the week, so it may not have mattered.
→ Kodaira? Who?
Published: by Jim GreenwellWonder how fast Kodaira, the winner of the RBC Heritage will be added to a roster this week?
We had some great games this week - three were decided by three strokes and another match by only five strokes.
The lone blowout this week was the Loopers' complete dismantling of Tee-It-Up. The Loopers kept pace with the Masters and Tee-It-Up's long winning streak is over. This was over on Friday as Tee had 2 miss the cut and a no-show - ouch.
The best game may have been the Masters and Foot Wedges. The Masters trailed by 5 to start the day, but made up 8 strokes to win by 3. The Wedges had to be disappointed in Si Woo Kim's 3 over back nine - it was the difference for him and the Wedges.
The other great game was the Hackers and Putt-4-Doh! The Hackers have now won two games - woo-hoo. The Hackers won with on less player making the cut, but Kaymer came in 73rd to make it closer than it should have been.
CHiP beat Pin High by 5 and Pin has to be frustrated with and for Ian Poulter today who shot a 75, which included a 5 over back nine.
The Hookers got another lucky win. The week's 3rd worse score and managed to beat Hol-E-1. It helps, of course, that HE1 had to late WDs from the tournament that he clearly didn't notice fore the deadline. That new sub rule would have given them a win...
We are off for a couple of weeks. Returning to play Derby Week/Weekend with the Wells Fargo Championship. Maybe it will warm up and we can actually play some golf...
→ Masers Delivers Again
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters is such a great tournament.
The run by Fowler and Spieth was something to see and somehow Patrick Reed found a way to win. Superb golf and entertainment.
Not only was the Masters entertaining, but this week's results in our league has certainly tightened things up.
The South Division had a clean sweep of the North Division (5-0).
CHiP and the Foot Wedges tied, but CHiP won on the tie-breaker. Thanks to Spieth's huge run on the back nine, CHiP found a way to win. (Tie-breaker is money earned for the team).
The Masters were finally beaten. The Masters had the champion, but Noren failed to make the cut. Hol-E-1's line-up found a way to over cope the Masters having 3 players finish in the top 17.
The Loopers also lost to the Hookers. The Hookers can quit whining now as they finally got a "lucky win". Despite having the third worst score for the week, they won. The Loopers were beaten when Cantlay missed the cut and Schauffele for the Hookers made it by one stroke.
With these two losses, we now have a new team with the best record: Tee-It-Up. Tee has now won 4 in a row. Tee beat the Hackers even though they had one fewer players make the cut. Tee is riding high and Hackers have to be thinking, "what do I have to do to win a game?"
Pin High beat Putt-4-Doh sending P4D to their 4th straight loss (brutal). Pin High needed this win to stay out in front of the two bottom feeders in the South.
Only 1 game now separates 2nd and 5th in the South. In the North we are starting to see there are 3 teams to fight this out.
13 weeks to go. It is starting to get interesting.
→ Ian Poulter
Published: by Jim GreenwellIan Poulter lost his PGA Tour card a couple of years ago. Today, he is a champion again and headed to the Masers. Wow.
He also led Pin High to a very important win over Hol-E-1. Both teams only had two players make the final cut, but with Poulter's and Stenson's superb play, it was an easy win for Pin High.
The Masters get back to their winning ways and also got this week's and last week's team skins. This one was never really close as Putt-4-Doh! only had 2 make the cut to the Masters' 4 - not a fair fight at that point.
While all the attention is on the Masters, Tee-It-Up and the Loopers have the exact same record.
Tee-It-Up has now won three in a row with a 4 stroke win over CHiP. It was close despite CHiP only having two make the cut.
And don't forget the Loopers who had a hard fought 7 stroke win over the Foot Wedges. The Wedges were hurt (big time) but the nasty "MDF cut" as Vegas shot a 78 on Saturday - ouch.
The Hookers managed a second win in a row over the Hackers. The Hackers have now lost 7 of 8 matches.
→ Off Again
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe do not play this week, but we are back on for the Houston Open and off again before the Masters. Love the Masters...
→ North Division
Published: by Jim GreenwellThere are three teams in the North with 5 wins - what the heck?
The Masters finally lost but sill fielded a very strong team. They lost to Tee-It-Up who has won two in a row and now has five wins as well. (This is shaping up to be a great season). Tee-It-Up went -9 today and the Masters were -3 under. The game was a 6 stroke difference. A very close match.
Speak of close, Hol-E-1 beat the Loopers by only one stroke even though they had one more player make the cut.
Pin High had to like McIlory look like the player he once was - wow - what a finish. But, they stil lfell to the Foot wedges who had all 4 make the cut and got solid, if not spectacular play form the team.
The Hackers finally won a game. CHiP just didn't get any great play from his team and the Hackers got just enough to earn their first win.
The Hookers also finally won again (the first time since week 1). They Had all 4 players play well (especially Tiger) but had an easy win as Putt-4-Doh! was stuck with a roll-over line-up.
We are off for another week. Enjoy the rest.
→ CHiP - Big Win - Skin
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP has a huge game, winning a skin and staying on top of the South Division. His huge -40 strokes put his team under PAR for the season (the only team in the South to be under PAR). They hammered the Hookers who have now lost 5 in a row.
Tee-It-Up kept pace with CHiP with a hard earned win over Pin High. Both teams got solid, if not spectacular play from their foursome and Tee-It-Up just outlasted Pin High.
In the North, the mastery of the Masters continues with an easy win over the Hackers who had a no-show.
The Loopers continue their outstanding play as well. The Loopers were down on Sunday morning, but a 24 stroke swing between the two teams on Sunday gave the Loopers the win over Putt-4-Doh!
And the Wedges! Everyone wondered if keeping Phil was a wise move. So far - it looks like a very wise move. The Wedges remain only one game behind the front runners in the North. Hol-E-1 has to wonder what else they can do to win losing a tough one this week.
→ Week 6: Don't Drink the Water
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo - we head to Mexico for week 6.
While you're down there, don't wear a sombrero otherwise you'll be accused of misappropriating someone's culture and that will somehow make you a "Nazi"? Unless, of course, a Mexican placess one on your head, smashes whipped cream in your face and sings happy birthday. What the hell kind of country is the U.S. these days anyway? Oh well, let's move on.
Ever been to Mexico? I've been to Tijuana - several times. During daylight and late night. The president is kinda right, just saying... (But, I had the kind of fun a 22 year-old guy can have in a place where $20 dollars made you a "Donald Trump" - haha).
Okay - this week week's predictions, Mexican style:
Hol-E-1 lo siente después de vencer a los Hookers y están deseando poner las Wedges en su lugar. ¡Qué gran juego también - Mickelson, Fleetwood, Watson, Johnson. Voy a ir con Mickelson, solo lo siento aquí ...
Los Loopers están obteniendo juegos increíbles de Berger y Cantlay. Rahm parece retroceder un poco. Los Loopers toman esto fácilmente.
Los Loopers están obteniendo juegos increíbles de Berger y Cantlay. Rahm parece retroceder un poco. Los Loopers toman esto fácilmente.
Los Maestros van a tratar a los Hackers muy, muy mal. Esto se pondrá feo y tendrá prisa.
Tee-It-Up está ejecutando un grupo de narcotraficantes estadounidenses contra un lado de Pin High dominado mayoritariamente por extranjeros. En México, busco a Fowler y Reavie que se vuelvan locos y pierdan la cabeza y no jueguen bien. Pin High obtiene una gran victoria.
Mire CHiP, lo siento, pero los Hookers están listos. Pero, a menos que Spieth salga con Fowler y Reavie, esta será otra pérdida para los Hookers. Aquí está la esperanza de que Spieth no sea demasiado brillante. Pero, ¡ay !, otra pérdida devastadora para los Hookers.
→ Masters Master Loopers
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters continue to take the league by storm. Week 5 finds them handling the Loopers and sweeping the skins. Maybe they are just too good. We shall see.
The Hookers were snake bitten once again. Another loss by only 4 strokes to Hol-E-1. HE1 won despite having fewer players make the cuts.
The Foot Wedges kept the Hackers winless.
Putt-4-Doh! made easy work of Tee-It-Up when Tee had 3 players miss the cut.
Pin High was one of only two teams to have all 4 players make the cut and hammered on CHiP who had two miss the cut.
→ Week 5 Looms Large
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are 2/11ths of the way through the season.
Already, there are 4 teams in deep trouble.
Typically, 11 wins gets a team in the playoffs - sometimes 10.
These four teams are 1-3 and 0-4 respectively. Going 10-7 or 11-6 the rest of the way is a pretty tall order.
Let's look at them:
Hackers (0-4) They were predicted to finish last and are headed that way. The Hackers players have only missed 4 total cuts, but they simply aren't scoring. The Hackers have the second worst total stroke count. With the hot running Masters and Loopers in the same division, it could be a long year. The were a bit unlucky with 1 loss inside 10 strokes. They will need to keep making cuts and find some better scores to climb out of basement.
Pin High (1-3) Pin High has the worst stroke count in the league and are suffering from not drafting their own team. They are last in Breakdown Stats and lead the league in missed cuts. They have made some drop/adds to try and improve team. I look for them to stay active there. The good news? They have two other struggling teams in the same division. There is time to recover.
Hookers (1-3) The Hookers have had some horrific luck again in 2017. Their breakdown record is 4th best and have lost two games by 6 points or less and have played, the hardest schedule based on points against. The early season has seen a lot of drop/add to just field a team. The Hookers finally dropped Woods and are probably looking forward to the Florida swing.
Hol-E-1 (1-3) This team has had a moderate amount of cuts and like the Hackers, just isn't scoring well enough. Dustin Johnson has been solid, but not enough help from the supporting cast. Maybe their big victory over the Masters in week 4 will be a spring board to a good season.
This week's opponents for the bottom 4:
The Hackers get the Foot Wedges - an important opportunity to win a game and gain on an inter-division rival.
Pin High will face CHiP (which as been one of the luckier teams this year). Pin High too will face an inter-division rival and have an opportunity to move up.
The Hookers and Hol-E-1 face each other in must-win game. The winner can breathe. The loser is deep crap, especially if Pin High wins...
→ Hol-E-1 Upsets Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThere was nothing about this matchup that made you think the Master could lose to Hol-E-1. But, this is fantasy golf..
Masters - undefeated. Hol-E-1 winless. Total strokes differential of two teams was 105 strokes after only 3 weeks.
Hol-E-1 had a player miss the cut. Masters had all 4 golfers for the weekend.
Then Sunday happened. Pieters for the Masters shoots a horrific 78 and then Bubba Watson returned to his glory years. Hol-E-1 wins the match and a skin - wow!
CHiP eased by the Foot Wedges thank to a better pre cut performance and outstanding play from Finau. The Wedges have to be pleased with the play of Phil Mickelson, however. If they can just find the right help for old Double-D Lefty.
It is official, Tiger sucks! Hookers didn't have any great options, but Tiger missing the cut was the difference in a very close loss to the Loopers. The Loopers were led by Cameron Smith and Patrick Cantly - outstanding young golfers.
In the "no you win, I insist bowl" Putt-4-Doh outlasted(?)/ underperformed less(?) than Pin High, This match had 5 of the 8 golfer miss the cut and the second worst score of the week is enough for a win over Pin High.
In the only match to have all 8 golfers make the cut, Tee-It-Up found a way to win over the Hackers. Just a whole lot of middle of the road play by both teams except for Hadwin's top 10 finish for Tee-It-Up. TIU has improved to 3-1 and leading the South Division.
→ Loopers Undefeated
Published: by Jim GreenwellScoring Note: Putt-4-Doh!'s Hoffman scored a 5, not a 4 as the live leaderboard indicates.
The focus this year has been on the Masters remarkable play, but you better not ignore the Loopers.
The Loopers had a huge pickup of Hossler and had all 4 golfers make the cut. As a result, they easily dispatched the Hackers who had the week's lowest score.
Of course, the Masters are still undefeated. This week they were blessed with late round heroics by Paul Casey. Casey was last one on course for this match and birdied 3 of last 4 holes and overcame a 2 shot deficit to win by a single stroke. CHiP would have loved to steal this one with two players missing the cut - but, alas, not to be. Could the the Masters year...
Tee-It-Up, who was picked to finish towards the bottom had the week's second best output despite having a player miss the cut. If Reavie continue to play like he has the last two weeks, Tee will become a force. Tee handled the Dustin Johnson led Hol-E-1 who had no chance after Horschel and Scott missed the cut.
The Foot Wedges took the team skin thanks, in part, to Phil Mickelson. Mickelson? -14? Good for Phil Nice to see him playing well. Meanwhile, fearing him in a line-up is not what the rest of the league looks forward to. Putt-4-Doh! put up no fight to Phil and the rest of the Wedges. Brown missed the cut and Hoffman withdrew after 10 holes in the 3rd round.
Pin High managed a much needed victory over the Browns. Got solid play from 3 golfers and that was enough as the Browns had both mid-week pickups miss the cut.
→ Middletown Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellWho invited this guy?
Two weeks in and the Masters are 2-0 and have all 4 possible skins. Ouch. They are also blowing everyone away in total strokes. They had 3 golfers at -10 or better and just pounded the Foot Wedges despite a wonderful resurgence from Mickelson over the weekend.
This sets up a match between the two division leaders as the Masters take on CHiP in week 3. CHiP improved to 2-0 despite two players missing the cut. Their opponent, Hol-E-1 returned the favor by having 3 miss the cut.
The Loopers also remained unbeaten after dismantling Pin High Loopers got excellent play from Steele and Berger and was more than enough as Pin High had two miss the cut.
Putt-4-Doh! got intot he win column with a close 5 stroke win over the Hackers. Both had two miss the cut, Kuchar out played Rahm, but good 'ol Charley Hoffman was better than Zach Johnson, securing the win for Putt.
The Hookers had the 5th best score of the week, but lost to Tee-It-Up. Tee got a huge lift from James Hahn who missed the cut in the tournament a year ago. Hahn missed 8 cuts last year, but none this year. The Hookers weren't helped any when Matsuyama withrew after one round.
On to week 3.
→ Week 1: Farmer's Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell - week 1 of a long season is in the books.
We had a carry-over skin and the new guy, the Masters, looked every bit as good as the preseason prognostication. They beat up on Tee-It-Up who had a nice outing, but not enough.
Tiger played 4 rounds and helped the Hookers upend Putt-4-Doh! Poor Jon Rahm just didn't have a very good tournament, finishing behind the much maligned Woods.
The other new guy, the Wedges got a big win after two players from Pin High missed the cut. Brutal start to the season for Pin High.
The Hackers had a no show (those suck) and didn't give CHiP much of a fight. Also, Holmes took for frigg'n ever to play 18 on Sunday. Something has to be done about that...
The Loopers had the second best team of the week and easily dispatched Hol-E-1.
Week 2 is always fun in Phoenix. A good field. Plenty of good match-ups.
→ Draft Over. Season Awaits.
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe draft has concluded and while we don't keep such records, it likely concluded in record time.
We welcomed two new members: Greg and Charlie. They draft like veterans. We missed our friend, Mike. I hope he likes the team that was drafted for him.
It was great to see everyone. JImmy claims he will setup a golf outing for us. Let's hold him to it.
And now, it is time for the never failing pre season prediction that never misses.
Here we go:
North Division
1. Putt-4-Doh! - if Rahm is the real deal, this won't be close. A good collection of veterans and rising young talent. Should be a good team.
2. Masters - I like this team and will give Put-4-Doh! a run. Thomas, Reed, Casey is about as strong as 3 players gets on a team.
3. Loopers - Justin Rose will carry this team to a past Hackers and Wedges, but probably won't be strong enough to overcome the top two teams.
4. Wedges - were dealt a poor hand. they made the best of it. They have a lot of solid players. The trick will be playing the right players on the correct week. Wedges will challenge for one of the last playoff spots.
5. Hackers - why, exactly, should this year be any different? Not an easy out, but there is a lot of talent in opposition to the Hackers this year.
South
1. CHiP - how to you argue with Spieth and Finau leading the charge. A good collection of golfers. We'll see if picking last will actually come back to haunt CHiP.
2. Hookers - I have it on good authority, the ownership is pleased with the draft. And since Tiger is back, the Hookers will challenge for the division title. (haha). Lots of young talent to be excited about: Day, Matsuyama, Grillo, Schauffele - we shall see - if they reach their potential...
3. Hol-E-1 - Can anyone say, "Dustin Johnson"? Grace and Perez help anchor this team. This team's success will boil down to depth - can Scott and Watson rebound this year?
4. Pin High - this foreign team (I think there are only two Americans). McIlroy, Garcia, Stenson, Oosthuizen, Lahiri - this team can make noise. Just not sure it will. If McIlroy can be "stud" material again, Pin HIgh will challenge for playoff spot.
5. Tee-It-Up - I just don't think Fowler can carry this team. If Howell III rejuvination is real and if Kisner is the real deal, this prediction could haunt.
Champion: Whether the Masters win division or not, I think they have a shot at being in the Carl Cup. Ask Jimmy - it is tough you first year making all the right calls - but the Masters appear built for a long haul. I think they sneak. Their opponent will be the Hookers. I hate picking these guys, but I'm bullish on them.
The winner? the Masters shock the league and win with their inaugural team with a franchise that never won before.
Good luck. Let's have a great season.
→ 2018 Season to Begin Soon
Published: by Jim GreenwellDraft is January 9 at 7pm
John's place of business
→ CHiP is Champion
Published: by Jim Greenwell***UPDATED***
The 2017 Carl Cup goes to Pat and his CHiP team.
The score on the web site is wrong. CHiP won by only 4 strokes. The final was -35 to -31 - what a great game.
(I'll update the site later (requires database changes). Here are the scores for each team:
CHiP -35
-7 : Hadwin
-7 : Swafford
-13 : Spieth
-8 : Berger
Hol-E-1 -31
-11 : Garcia
0 : Oosthuizen
-8 : Johnson
-12 : Simpson
Congratulations, Pat.
Another fun season in the books.
Be aware - there are significant changes to the 2018 PGA golf schedule.
I'm tentatively targeting Tuesday, January 9, 2018 as our next draft night.
→ Champions Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay - we have a great match-up this week.
CHiP versus Hol-E-1.
I love the line-ups.
Garcia, Hadwin, Ooshizen, Swafford, Johnson, Speith, Simpson, Berger
A good collection of outstanding golfers spanning a few years...
CHiP is 2-1 against Hol-E-1 in the regular season.
Hol-E-1 defeated CHiP in Week 5 at a WGC event in Mexico. In that match, Hol-E-1 is using 3 of the players that are in the line-up this week while CHiP is only using one. Dustin Johnson won the best player skin and carried Hol-E-1 that week.
CHiP prevailed in week 10 at the Valero Texas Open. CHiP again only had one player in the line-up that will play this week while Hol-E-1 used none of this week's starters in week 10. Bud Cauley led the way for CHiP that week.
CHiP also declared victory in week 21 at the WGC-Bridgestone. CHiP had two common starters to this week's line-up while Hol-E-1 had all 4 of the same starters. Spieth led the way for CHiP in week 21.
CHiP has not used this specific line-up in 2017 before. Breakdown by player:
Hadwin appeared in 13 matches, making the cut in 10 and had a total stroke count of 45.
Swafford appeared in 6 matches, making the cut in 4 and had a total stroke count of 11.
Spieth appeared in 15 matches, making the cut in 12 and had a total stroke count of -53. Spieth also won two skins.
Berger appeared in 9 matches, making the cut in 6 with a total stroke count of 28. Berger also won one skin.
Hol-E-1 has used this particular line-up five other times.
1. Week 16 victory over Putt-4-Doh! at the US Open
2. Week 20 victory over Tee-It-Up at the British Open
3. Week 21 loss to CHiP at the WGC-Bridgestone
4. Week 22 win over Loopers at the PGA Championship
5. Round 2 playoff win over Loopers at the Dell Technologies Championship.
Breakdown by player for Hol-E-1:
Garcia appeared in 10 matches, making the cut in 9 and had a total stroke count of -10.
Oosthuizen appeared in 11 matches, making the cut in 9 and had a total stroke count of 8.
Johnson appeared in 13 matches, making the cut in 9 and had a total stroke count of 14. Johnson also won one skin.
Simpson appeared in 12 matches, making the cut in 9 and had a total stroke count of -3.
This should be fun.
→ Round 1 Complete
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrive-4-Show's tenure came to an end with a loss to Hol-E-1.
Thanks, John!
Hol-E-1 will take on the Loopers in round 2.
Our first tie of the year and Putt-4-Doh! beats Tee-It-Up. Why is it that Tee-It-Up always seems to lose a heartbreaker this way?
Putt-4-Doh! will play CHiP in round 2.
As for the Toilet Bowl, Hackers and Hookers will play for the 2018 #1 pick.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellCongrats to the Loopers and CHiP on division titles.
The playoffs start in two weeks and here is the seeding and the schedule.
Championship Flight
1. Loopers
2. CHiP
3. Putt-4-Doh!
4. Drive-4-Show
5. Hol-E-1
6. Tee-It-Up
First Playoff Week Schedule
Loopers and CHiP have a bye
Putt-4-Doh! vs. Tee-It-Up
Drive-4-Show vs. Hol-E-1
The Putt-4-Doh / Tee-It-Up winner will play CHiP
The Drive-4-Show/ Hol-E-1 winner will play Loopers
Toilet Bowl Flight
1. Slippery Frogs
2. Pin High
3. Hackers
4. Hookers
Week 1 Schedule
Slippery Frogs vs. Hookers
Pin High vs. Hackers
→ 1 Week to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellLoopers have clinched Division and #1 Overall seed.
Putt-4-Dog!, Drive-4-Show, Hole-E-1 have all clinched playoff spots.
The last spot:
Tee-It-Up is in with a win and maintains stroke lead on Hackers (or Hackers lose)
Hackers are in with a win and Tee-It-Up loses (or overcome the 97 stroke differential with Tee)
Hookers get the playoffs with a win and both Hackers and Tee-It-Up loses.
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On a personal note:
Been a busy/rough year - I'm doing a bunch of work on house, you wouldn't believe the job..., my daughter bought a house (doing a ton of work there) and my mom, sigh, I've been working with my mom a lot this summer - moving her to an assistant living facility in two weeks.
So - I apologize for the tardiness of things and the sporadic updates.
And a golf note - second best score - and lose - look at my scores - it has been a tough year in fantasy golf too.
→ 2 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere is the playoff picture
North:
Loopers have clinched division and #1 overall seed in post season.
Putt-4-Doh! has clinched a playoff spot.
Drive-4-Show has clinched a playoff spot
Hackers can clinch playoff spot with two wins or a loss by both Hookers and Tee-It-Up.
South:
CHiP has clinched a playoff spot and can clinch division with a win over Hol-E-1 in the next match.
Hol-E-1 has clinched a playoff spot and can win division with two straight wins to end the regular season.
Hookers make playoffs with two wins and one loss by the Hackers and if hey maintain the stroke lead.
Tee-It-Up can make playoffs with two wins and one loss by Hackers and Hookers and maintains stroke lead over Hackers.
If the playoff started today the seeding would look like this:
1. Loopers
2. CHiP
3. Putt-4-Doh!
4. Hol-E-1
5. Drive-4-Show
6. Hackers
Reminder on playoff format:
Week 1 of Post Season
Game 1: 3 vs. 6
Game 2: 4 vs. 5
Week 2 of Post Season
Game 3: Game 1 winner vs 2 seed
Game 4: Game 2 winner vs. 1 seed
Week 3 of Post Season (The Carl Cup)
Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner
Also - there is a "toilet bowl" tournament for first pick.
It would look like this:
Hookers vs Frogs
Tee-It-Up vs. Pin High
Winners meet in next week
→ 3 Weeks to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellHere are the playoff scenarios and division stuff.
The North:
Loopers magic number is 1 - any win by them or loss by Putt-4-Doh!, they win the division championship. Loopers have clinched a playoff spot.
Putt-4-Doh! will win the North with 3 wins and 3 losses by the Loopers.
Note: I think it is mathematically possible for teams with 11 wins to miss playoff, but very unlikely.
Drive-4-Show can not win the division.
For Hackers to make playoffs, their magic number is 3 with two different teams. Hackers are in with 3 wins or a combination of wins and losses totaling 3 with both the Hookers and Tee-It-Up.
South Division
CHiP's magic number is 3 - combination of wins and losses by Hol-E-1.
Hol-E-1, like CHiP, controls their own destiny - win out and they win division.
Hookers can not win division - could end up in a 3 way tie with Hol-E-1 and CHiP, but that scenario would give championship to CHiP and Hookers would get 2nd. Hookers make playoffs if they can tie Hackers and maintain stroke lead AND Tee-It-Up loses once.
Holy Crap - so, looking at Tee-It-Up - it is possible for 4 teams in South to end up in a 4 way tie at 11-11. In that scenario, Hol-E-1 wins division, Tee-It-Up gets second, Hookers 3rd and CHiP would fall to 4th. Crazy.
Pin High (didn't figure this one) needs to win all 3 games and hope for a miracle. It is not very likely - probably not even mathematically possible that they make playoffs.
→ 4 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellThings get interesting now...
Loopers have clinched a playoff spot.
It is likely that Putt-4-Doh, Drive-4-Show and CHiP have, but I don't feel like doing the math tonight.
Plenty of folks still in the running for first place and second place money.
Like I said, it usually takes 11 wins to guarantee a spot - 10 wins might get you there. Therefore Hackers, Hol-E-1, Hookers and Tee-It-Up are probably playing for last two spots.
I'll do a complete breakdown after the Greenbrier next week.
Game Recaps:
Hol-E-1 has to be cursing - played a roll-over line-up and lost when all 4 players missed the cut. Ouch.
Hookers continue a winning streak against the complete "no show" lineup of the Hackers.
Drive-4-Show is still in the running to make his swan song a memorable won with a win over Pin High.
Putt-4-Doh! is still giving chase to the Loopers with a big win over Tee-It-Ups.
Speaking of the Loopers, they won a close one over CHiP this week.
And that is the game to watch this weekend as the Loopers take on Putt-4-Doh. If the Loopers win, they will clinch the division.
→ 5 Weeks to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith only 5 weeks remaining, this is what the playoff seeding would look like if the season ended today.
1 - Loopers
2 - CHiP
3 - Putt-4-Doh!
4 - Drive-4-Shiw
5 - Hackers
6 - Hol-E-1
→ Off This Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter a long stretch of playing, we take a week off as we head into the US Open.
Thanks to losses by the Loopers and Putt-4-Doh! the standings are collapsing a little bit. With only 7 weeks to go, the playoff picture is pretty clear at this point.
It would look like this:
1. Loopers
2. CHiP
3. Putt-4-Doh!
4. Drive-4-Show
5. Hackers
6. Hol-E-1
Tee-It-Up is only one game out of the hunt and the Hookers are two. The Frogs and Pin High have some serious work to do...
Traditionally, it takes 11 wins to get into the playoffs. If this holds true, that leaves no room for a misstep for the Hookers.
Should be a fun stretch run.
→ Sorry
Published: by Jim GreenwellFor the late updates. I'm out of the country and busy... and time zone changes... and beer...
All updated. Make sure yours is right.
As for me... 2 straight weeks with second best score for the week and two losses. Long season...
→ Looper Take Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellPutt-4-Doh! has finally tasted a losing streak, having lost two in a row. Meanwhile, the Loopers have won 3 in a row and are now in first place.
Speaking of first place, CHiP has widened the lead in the other division after winning their 3rd in a row and Hol-E-1 dropping a 4th consecutive match.
Everyone else is fighting to maintain pace with the Loopers. The big matchup this week is Hol-E-1 and Putt-4-Doh! Who's losing streak will continue? Who can right the ship?
Meanwhile, very quietly, CHiP hopes to extend their lead with a win over Drive-4-Show. I'm quite certain they do not want to draw any attention to themselves.
We are now have way through the season. If the playoffs started today, the Hookers, Frogs, Pin High and Tee-It-Up would miss the playoffs.
There is a long way to go and no is more than 2 games out of a playoff spot. The race to 11 wins is on (what it usually takes).
The Hookers take on the Loopers with a big opportunity to take down a giant an bolster their playoff chances.
The Frogs take on Pin High in a huge game. The winner keeps pace, the losing team falls a little further behind.
Tee-It-Up gets the Hackers, the last team currently in the playoffs - so a big game for everyone in in the bottom 6.
On to the Player's Championship.
→ The Bottom
Published: by Jim GreenwellFour teams sport a 3-7 record and are all a full 2 games out of the playoff hunt. The season is nearly half over. If these teams want to make some noise, they better start winning now. These teams: the Frogs, Hookers, Pin High and Tee-It-Up know how to win. They just need to make a key pickup, get a lucky win, change the momentum - something.
As for the top - the Putt-4-Doh! and Loopers race for the division crown is shaping up to be a dandy.
→ Putt-4-Doh!
Published: by Jim GreenwellP4D continues to roll. This week they won on a tie-breaker. But, despite their winning ways, they are still only one game up in their division. The Loopers continue to keep pace.
Meanwhile, Drive-4-Show's record would be good enough for first place in the other division, but with P4D and the Loopers ahead of them, they are only in 3rd place.
With CHiP and Hol-E-1 having solid seasons, it looks like the last playoff spot will go to one of the other 5 teams.
There is still a long way to go, a lot can change. Submit those line-ups.
→ El Niño
Published: by Jim GreenwellCongrats to Sergio Garcia on the Master's championship. I've never been a big fan, but caught myself pulling for him today.
In league play, Putt-4-Doh! pulls ahead of the Loopers. The Hackers pull off a 1 stroke win over the Loopers, who had Rose going. Ouch.
We play the Heritage this weekend for the first time in a couple of years.
The Master's ruins all other golf. What a tournament. Class personified.
→ Putt-4-Doh!!!!
Published: by Jim GreenwellSix wins - zero losses.
Wow.
Here: they won't lose another match. Too good, will win out and annoy us all.
That should do it...
Too be sure, I'll do a prediction article prior to next match - that will settle it for sure.
→ Committee Formed
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe commissioner has announced that a committee to look into PED use by Putt-4-Doh! If PED are found to be in use, victories will be vacated.
A newbie is 5-0 and is crushing teams.
27, 27, 23, 38 and 43: Margin of victory in his 5 game winning streak.
A total of -119 under par and his opponent scoring is the lowest in the league.
In other words, his teams play great and his opponents lie down. Pitiful.
There are FIVE teams with only 1 win. How is that possible.
Every year, 11 wins has been a "good number" for the playoffs - it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Hope everyone is having fun. I'll start being more timely with the weekly updates. Life is slowing down...
→ Week 4 is Upon Us
Published: by Jim GreenwellWho invited this Put-4-Doh! fella?
3-0. Obviously the best team in the league. Looks unbeatable.
And - the Hackers. 3-0!
What world do we live in?
Trump factor? Maybe?
All but two teams are under par on the season. This is shaping up to be a wild season.
→ Week 3 Skins
Published: by Jim GreenwellDon't look now, but the best player skin is worth $15 bucks in Week 3.
I don't think we've ever seen a two week carry-over.
Big pay day this week...
→ Season Begins
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 1 is upon us. The leader board appears to be working - will know for sure when they tee off.
Tiger is in the line-up.
Good luck to everyone - should be another epic year.
→ 2017 Draft Time and Date
Published: by Jim GreenwellJanuary 10, 2017
John's Place
7:00pm
→ Hol-E-1 is Carl Cup Winner
Published: by Jim GreenwellHol-E-1 beat down Put-4-Doh! in an epic way over the weekend, leaving no doubt as to who had the best team.
Hol-E-1 earned the 2016 championship and the prestigious Carl Cup trophy.
→ On the to Carl Cup
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Loopers gave is a shot but could not overcome Hoffman's missed cut. Putt-4-Doh takes a surging team, all the way from the 6 seed to battle for the Cup.
P4D will take on Hol-E-1 who won a squeaker. With one player left on the course, CHiP needed Ryan Moore to birdie 18 to win. 8 of the previous 20 golfers birdied that hole. Moore drove it way, taking birdie out of play and ended up bogeying the hole, giving HE1 a one stroke victory.
Hol-E-1 vs. Putt-4-Doh! for the Carl Cup
In other news: Hookers won Toilet Bowl and first pick in each round next year.
→ Well, That Was Interesting
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst:
Henrik Stenson withdrawals with pain in his knee and it is called "precautionary". The Frogs might call it colossal bull crappy. Put-4-Doh! has all 4 make the cut and they cruised to a victory. This sets them up with a semi-final match against the Loopers.
Second:
Tee-It-Up collapsed on Sunday. They went into the match up one stroke and lost by 7. Tee-It-Up's gofers were 7 over on the last 4 holes of the day while CHiP was even par on the same stretch of holes. CHiP goes on to play the #1 seed Hol-E-1 in the semi-finals.
Toilet Bowl:
Pin High rolls out the winner and will now play the Hookers for the first pick in 2017.
The Hookers pulled of the rare 2 golfers vs. 3 golfers after the cut win. Finally, a little luck for the Hookers.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2016 regular season has ended and we have crowned the division champions: Loopers and Hol-E-1
We are off for two weeks and then the playoff start. Reminder, the top 2 seeds get a bye. Here is the seeding for the Carl Cup and the Toilet Bowl...
The Carl Cup:
1. Hol-E-1
2. Loopers
3. Slippery Frogs
4. Tee-It-Up
5. CHiP
6. Putt-4-Doh!
Round 1 -
Game 1: Frogs vs. Putt-4-Doh!
Game 2: Tee-It-Up vs. CHiP
Round 2 -
Game 3: Hol-E-1 vs. Game 2 winner
Game 4: Loopers vs. Game 1 winner
The Carl Cup
Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner
(The Toilet Bowl:)
Round 1 -
Game 1: Pin High vs. Drive-4-Show
Game 2: Hackers vs. Hookers
The Toilet Bowl -
Game 3: Game 1 winner vs. Game 3 winner
→ Playoffs Nearly Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs, Loopers, CHiP, Tee-It-Up and Hol-E-1 have clinched playoff spots.
Two HUGE (Yuge) games this week.
The Frogs and Loopers play for the division championship.
Putt-4-Doh! plays Pin High for the last playoff spot.
After that - an anti-climatic 3 week break before we start the playoffs.
→ Playoff Scenarios
Published: by Jim GreenwellNorth Division:
Loopers and Frogs - both control destiny to win division. They are destined for a huge showdown in week 22. Both can clinch division with 2 wins or losses by any numbers of teams below them (it would take an epic collapse for these teams to miss playoffs)
CHiP - Can win division with 4 wins and the Loopers lose twice and Frogs once (CHiP plays Loopers in week 21)
Drive-4-Show - win every game, CHiP and Tee-ItUp lose every game and Putt-4-Doh! loses 3 games
Hackers - see you in the Toilet Bowl Tournament
South Division:
Hol-E-1 - has clinched division - on a serious roll!
The rest is a quaqmire - basically everyone controls their own destiny and needs to when a bunch of games. Chances also improve if the top 3 teams in the North start dropping a bunch of games too.
The picture will be come much clearer after the British Open...
→ Brutal Loss for Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High was at least 13 strokes better than every team - except the one they played - Putt-4-Doh!
Brutal.
As we take a one week break heading to the US Open, our league is seeing a separation of have's and have not's.
Six teams are at least two games clear of the bottom four teams.
With only 7 weeks to go, Hol-E-1 has opened a 3 game lead after winning a fourth game in a row. The Frogs have won 3 in a row and now have a 1 game lead on the Loopers.
Our last 7 weeks will get interesting. Can the Frogs and Hol-E-1 hold on? Can one of the bottom 4 sneak into the playoffs?
→ CHiP Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP has won 5 in a row and is now only one game behind the Loopers. CHiP had scored a big victory over the Frogs when Stenson and Thomas both shot a 75 on Friday and missed the cut.
Putt-4-Doh! doesn't know their history - playing Davis Love III - hahaha - misses the cut plus a no show Stewart Cink and they lose an important game to Tee-It-Up.
Pin High easily beat Hol-E-1 with all 4 players making the cut. HE1 is still in first place (in a tie) while Pin High pulls within two games.
The Hookers get big news this week as rumors of Tigers return seems imminent - as a result, they sweep both skins and beat the Hackers.
Drive-4-Show had a no show and still beat the Loopers who got some bad luck with 3 golfers missing the cut.
We are half way through the season. Things start heating up now.
→ Here come the Loopers
Published: by Jim Greenwellin the biggest match of the year, Hol-E-1 managed to forget to set a line-up. As as a result, the Loopers now lead the league.
Tee-It-Up took full advantage and are now in a tie for first after hammering Drive-4-Show and earning best team skin.
Putt-4-Doh! wins another lucky match - luckiest guy in the league for sure.
The Frogs kept pace with the Loopers with a solid win solid win over Pin High.
And... the Hooker suck! Suck so bad they played Els. Suck so bad they dropped at 4 players last week and just dropped 5 players this week... CHiP basically had a bye week win.
→ We start a 5 week stretch
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe start off with a huge matchup with the Loopers and Hol-E-1. They are both 6-2and the winner is in great shape moving forward.
As for everyone else - time to start winning, find some momentum and get into good position for the final run. All teams, except the Hookers has a real shot at the playoffs.
The Hookers? Mathematically in it - but come on...
→ Masters Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe have some great races for division championships shaping up.
Masters Preview:
The North division has some big games this week. The Loopers are up against Drive-4-Show and the Frogs have CHiP.
If D4S and CHiP can pull out victories, 4 teams within the division will be within one game of each other. If the Hackers can manage to beat the South division leader, it would be 5 teams within 1 game of the lead in the North.
In the South division Hol-E-1 and the Tee-It-Up are running away with it. They are tied for the lead, but are already 3 games clear of every other team.
Traditionally, 11 wins will get you in the playoffs, sometimes 10. As a result, Pin High, Putt-4-Doh! and the Hookers need to start winning and fast.
Tee-It-Up takes on Putt-4-Doh! while HE1 gets the Hackers. The Hookers are in a must win situation against Pin High while Pin High is nearly a must win too.
Anyway, should be a fun week. Here are some bold predictions for us to ponder:
Drive-4-Show takes out the hot Loopers as the Loopers have 3 players miss the cut.
Phil Mickelson finishes in second place after bogeying 18 on Sunday but carries the Hackers as Garcia misses the cut.
Hol-E-1 continues to ride a hot streak on the coat tails of this year's Masters champion - Adam Scott and pummel the Hackers.
The Hookers suck. They lose to Pin High even after Pin High only has one team make the cut.
Upset special: Put-4-Doh! beats Tee-It-Up when Rickie Fowler scores a 9 on the par 3 12th hole on Friday causing him to miss the cut.
→ Week 6 Complete
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are on another bye week, but after this we play 9 of the next 10 weeks. The upcoming stretch will include The Masters, the Byron Nelson, Colonial, the Memorial and the Players Championship.
We are now in the meat of the season.
As for our league.
Has anyone noticed that the Frogs have won 4 in a row? They dismantled the Loopers this week and are suddenly tied for first with the Loopers and Drive-4-Show.
Speaking of Drive-4-Show, they crushed the hapless/cursed Hookers. D4S also won the teams skin with all 4 golfers under par - the only foursome to do so.
Hol-E-1 was knocked down a little in a hard fault, contested match against Tee-It-Up. HE1 could have taken a commanding lead in the division, but TIU did what was necessary in a close match throughout.
Pin high coasted in against Putt-4-Doh! despite P4D having Jason Day. Varner and McDowell mised the cut badly for P4D. Pin High won behind some great play by Lovemark and Kokrak. Who needs McIlroy when you have Lovemark...
Hackers beat CHiP despite having the third worse score of the week. (Fantasy sports is fickle...) The odd thing - is both teams had 3 make the cut, they just didn't shoot well.
→ Week 6 is Upon Us
Published: by Jim GreenwellCan you believe we are to week 6 already?
Can you tell the Hookers are finally paying the price for hanging on to Tiger way too long?
Can you tell Pin High is in Florida enjoying the warmth?
Can you tell that Hol-E-1 is enjoying Adam Scott's year?
Who invited this new guy - the Loopers? (winning with no 'studs')
Nice to see the name change for Putt-4-Doh! hasn't really changed their prowess, despite having Jason Day - huh?
Did you know if playoffs started today, each division would get 3 teams? (not likely to hold if the South doesn't "rise again")
This week is an important week. Those teams at the bottom need to win. At this point they can claim a "bad start", but a couple of more losses will turn a "bad start" into a "long season".
This is one of my favorite tournaments. I hope you enjoy it.
→ Back at it
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are 4 weeks in and took a well deserved week off last week. Week 5 is this week - be sure to submit your line-ups.
→ Week 1 is Finally Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeather caused the week 1 tournament to end on Monday - which of course caused me issues.
As a result, I had to hand enter all the scores - p lease check your team.
The North Division went 4-1 against the South with Hol-E-1 the only winner in the South.
Brutal conditions caused scores to sky rocket on Sunday.
We play again this week. Get your line-ups set.
→ Drink, Putt-4-Dough Replaced
Published: by Jim GreenwellIf you haven't noticed, we have two new players.
Scott (Putt-4-Dough) resigned his team.
Dan (Drink) never responded to any attempts to contact him.
Scott is replaced by Keith Tear - some of you know him as the owner of the Creekers in the fantasy football league.
Dan will be replaced by Andy "Sugar Hubes" Huber. Andy is a great guy, despite the fact he is a UK fan. Andy has not yet renamed his team.
I work with both of them, they are both avid golfers and will be a great addition to the league.
→ Season is Nearing
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2016 season is upon us. The web site is currently being setup for the 2016 season. All 2015 data has been removed. If you need any of that data, let the commish know - he has it...
→ Tee-It-Up is Champ
Published: by Jim GreenwellCongratulations to Tee-It-Up for their Carl Cup victory.
One can only wonder what would have happened if Putt-4-Dough had a complete line-up.
A well deserved championship. The best team throughout the year won - hard to argue with that.
→ On to the Carl Cup
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs any good semi-final should, Hol-E-1 and Tee-It_Up had all 4 players make the cut. The difference in this game was Rickie Fowler who carried TIU to the Carl Cup. Solid play all around for both teams.
Putt-4-Dough continues their charmed season as the luck of the Hookers finally ended. The Hookers finally chose the wrong line-up with 2 top 12 finishers on the bench. P4D did get very good play from Mahan, Day and Donald. Leishman's WD didn't even make it interesting.
Drive-4-Show beat CHiP in the Toilet Bowl.
→ 1 Stoke and a Tie
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe two championship tournament games were separated by only 1 stroke and the other game was a tie.
Hol-E-1 won a game with on less player after the cut on the tie-breaker of money won. The match wasn't decided until Bubba Watson birdied 18 late in the day on Sunday - giving Hol-E-1 the victory.
The Hookers beat Pin High by one stroke in a match that was close throughout.
The Hookers will play Putt-4-Dough and Hol-E-1 will play Tee-It-Up in the semi-finals.
CHiP and Drive-4-Show will play for the Toilet Bowl championship.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellA great golf season is wrapping up. New talent all over the place playing a game that doesn't look anything like the game Jack, Arnold, Tom and even Tiger ever played. Golf is cool.
Division Winners: Putt-4-Dough and Tee-It-Up
Division Runner-ups: Pin High and Drink
The playoffs begin in 2 weeks. Here is the tournament seeding and bracket
1. Tee-It-Up
2. Putt-4-Dough
3. Pin High
4. Hol-E-1
5. Drink
6. Hookers
This might make things worse, but I haven't seen bad luck like CHiP's - well - ever. If CHiP had played Putt-4-Dough's schedule, they would have finished 15 - 7. Ouch.
Okay - here is the bracket
Week 1
Hookers at Pin High
Drink at Hol-E-1
Week 2
Hookers/Pin High winner vs. Putt-4-Dough
Drink/Hol-E-1 winner vs. Tee-It-Up
Week 3
Winners of week 2 face off for Carl Cup
Toilet Bowl seeds and match-ups
1. Slippery Frogs
2. Hackers
3. Drive-4-Show
4. CHiP
Week 1
Frogs at CHiP
Hackers at Drive-4-Show
Week 2
Winners of week 1 meet for the Toilet Bowl (and first draft pick each round).
→ 1 Week to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellAlmost everything is settled. This is what is on the line in week 22:
The "No Shows" Division championship:
If Putt-4-Dough wins, they win the division. For Drink to win, they need to win and P4D lose. Both teams have clinched a playoff spot.
The last playoff spot:
Putt-4-Dough, Drink, Tee-It-Up, Pin High and Hol-E-1 have all clinched a playoff spot. The last spot will go to either Drive-4-Show or Hookers. If the Hookers win, they are in the playoffs. For Drive-4-Show to get last spot, they must win, Hookers lose and maintain their strokes lead over the Hookers.
The rest of the games will be about seeding.
→ A few things
Published: by Jim Greenwell1. I have no idea why the scoreboard was acting up - it was getting a timeout for a long time and then started working. I couldn't investigate because I was traveling. I'm not sure why it didn't update today either. Ugh
2. We only have 3 weeks to go and all but 2 playoff spots has been filled. Here are the details:
Tee-It-Up, Pin High and Hol-E-1 have all clinched playoff spots.
Tee-It-Up has a magic number of 3 to clinch the division. Any combination of wins by them and losses by Pin High equaling 3, makes them champs.
Pin High must win out and Tee-It-Up lose out to win championship.
Hol-E-1 can end up in a 3 way tie for first, but can not win the division. They can get second place.
Putt-4-Dough or Drink have clinched. If they haven't before then, the winner between these two in week 22 will clinch a spot.
Putt-4-Dough can miss the playoffs with 3 losses and 3 wins by Drive-4-Show (which gets D4S in). P4D still gets in with 2 losses by hookers and 1 loss by CHiP
The whole things gets wonky if P4D, D4S, CHiP and Hookers tie at 11 and 11. If that happens, Hookers and CHiP miss the playoffs.
Hookers need 2 more wins or 2 losses by CHiP and D4S or 1 win and 1 loss by both.
CHiP needs to win out, Hookers lose 2 and D4S to lose 1.
(I think this is all correct).
We have one week off before we go on the big stretch run.
→ Quick Summary
Published: by Jim GreenwellI'm on the road (deep in the middle-of-nowhere) in southern Colorado, so a quick update.
The Showed Division swept the No Show Division in all 5 games.
Tee-It-Up and Pin High have clinched the playoffs.
We are off for a week. See everyone for the The Open Championship.
→ Big Week for Drive
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrive-4-Show got a big win, winning the team skin and getting within one game of making the playoffs. They faced only a roll-over lineup from the Hackers, but it mattered not as Drive got outstanding play from 3 of their golfers.
The Hookers have now lost 3 in a row and look very vulnerable. CHiP took them out this week and they too climbed to within one game of the playoffs.
The last two spots appear to be a battle between Drive, CHiP, Hookers and Hol-E-1.
Speaking of Hol-E-1, they got a big win, destroying the roll-over lineup from the Frogs.
Putt-4-Dough just keeps finding a way to win. They win by 3 strokes this week and have a firm hold on 2nd in their division. This week's victim was Drink.
The match of the week didn't fail to product a great game. Tee-It-Up beat Pin High with all 4 making the cut. Pin High made it interesting despite losing two to the cut.
5 weeks to go - this should get very interesting.
On to the Greenbrier...
→ US Open
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs usual, the scores sky rocketed during the US Open.
I'm not sure what my opinion of the course might be - but I did find it intriguing. One moment I'd think "this is goofy golf" and the next I thought it was a great test.
As for our league, we continue to see a separation from top vs. bottom teams. There doesn't even seem to be much of a middle class. Normally, 11 wins will get you into the playoffs. This year 10 may do it - maybe even 9.
Let's talk about luck. Where are the teams on the luck factor rating?
Ranked by the luckiest team to most unlucky team:
The Crazy Lucky:
1. Putt-4-Dough and it isn't even close. P4D has the 2nd worst team stroke count and 2nd worst breakdown stats, yet sits comfortably at 2nd place in the "No Shows" division.
The Lucky:
2. Pin High is a good team, but they should not be above Tee-It-Up in the division standings.
3. Hookers are in the playoff hunt despite a TERRIBLE keeper player (woods) and very average team stats.
4. Drink has had a good year, but their stats don't measure up to a 2 game lead in any division.
The "About right" teams:
5. Hol-E-1 starts a run of teams that is for the most part "earning" their position in the standings. Hol-E-1 should be in front of the Hookers, for sure.
6. Drive-4-Show has had some good weeks, but not very consistent. Pretty much getting what they had coming. Good enough to still make the playoffs with a little more luck.
7. Hackers are another team struggling mightily and as a result can't find any wins, but not necessarily unlucky.
8. Slippery Frogs - pretty much getting what the deserve (sorry Larry)
The Unlucky:
9. Tee-It-Up - hard to call a 13-3 team unlucky but they are blowing everyone away in strokes and breakdown stats, yet sit in 2nd place in the division.
The Ridiculously Unlucky
10. CHiP is the opposite of P4D - 2nd best stroke count and second best breakdown stats, yet sits in last in the "Showed" division.
→ Bizarre Season
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are through 14 weeks and (probably) due to our draft and division realignment, we are seeing some bizarre results.
6 teams seem to have separated themselves from the field. One of them isn't in the playoffs (yet).
CHIP has no the best scoring teams in the league but can't seem to catch a break - ever. This week they had he 2nd best score and lost anyway. I have a feeling that the "2 teams from each division" may end up costing CHiP (or some other team in the Showed division from making the playoffs.
Pin High continues to win - week after week - they just keep winning. 12 wins in 14 weeks in this league is very, very strong. This week they took out Putt-4-Dough.
The Frogs got a second win - finally.
Look out for Tee-It-Up - their total strokes and breakdown standings are very impressive. TIU and Pin High meet in week 17 for what should be a very important game.
→ Half Way
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe just completed week 11, the halfway point of the season. We were treated to a very exciting Players Championship. (One of the better tournaments I remember watching in a while...)
The league has turned into a "have and have-not" league.
The 1%ers:
Pin High and Tee-It-Up just continue to hammer the opposition. They both stand 9-2 and have rock solid teams (clearly). How evenly matched are they? This week, they played to a tie, with Tee-It-Up winning the tie-breaker. They play once before, Pin High winning by only 2 strokes. They play for a 3rd time in week 17.
Hol-E-1 falls in this class too at 8-3 with the league's best stroke count.
Middle Class:
Hookers, Drink and Putt-4-Dough.
The Hookers were 0-5 at one time but have now won 6 in a row and may be able to stand on their own two feet now. P4D and Drink continue to trade punches and fight to win the "No Show" division. These two teams may very well make the playoffs only because of the division they are in.
The Poor:
Hackers, Drive-4-Show and CHiP. Fair to good teams that are just down on their luck. They need a break, just someone to care about them. If the 1%ers would just not play their starters one week, they could win a game.
Welfare/Food Stamps/Medicade:
The defending champion Frogs. Ouch. Their only win coming against a "middle class" team. We shouldn't spend time making fun of the poor - it is politically incorrect. Let's just say the Frogs may not seen their name on the trophy again this year.
→ Off Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter 9 grueling weeks, the first major is behind us and we may have the oddest season ever shaping up. Two key factors contribute to this odd season.
1. We realigned the divisions
2. Only 5 teams were at the draft
The 5 teams that showed up for the draft are a gaudy 19-6 against the no shows. CHiP who is in last in the Showed division would be in 3rd in the No Show division...
We have seen some runs and there are 3 current notable runs:
1. The Frogs are still without a win and have nine losses.
2. The Hookers lost 5 in a row and have now won 4 in a row.
3. Pin High is on a 6 game winning streak.
We are off 2 of the next 3 weeks, with next week's Zurich the only match week. Time to take a break, evaluate the team, make the moves necessary to get you into the playoffs and/or win the playoffs. Even the winless Frogs are only 5 games out of the playoffs. Things are likely to get crazy through the meat of schedule leading up to the US Open.
Enjoy the week off.
→ Pin High (curse?)
Published: by Jim GreenwellEvery time a winning team is featured in an article, they seem to lose. We'll see if it continues this week as we feature Pin High.
Pin High has won 5 in a row and stands alone at the top of the standings. Their opponent this week was the other division leader, Tee-It-Up, and we had a heck of a match. A two stroke decision. TIU had a player miss the cut by 1 stroke and Rickie Fowler ballooned to a 76 on Sunday, sealing their fate.
The other top team Drink lost to a carry-over line-up from Putt-4-Dough. That has to sting a little.
Joining the big boys this week with a second straight win, Hol-E-1 beat the Frogs who dropped to a woeful 0-8.
The Hackers and Drive-4-Show had 5 (combined) golfers miss the cut. D4S had John Holmes and that was (way) more than enough to take down D4S.
Don't look now, but the Hookers have won 3 in a row (and won a skin). They had all 4 golfers make the cut and took down CHiP who also had a strong week, but ran into a hot Hookers team this week.
→ Drink Drowning Competition
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrink has now won 6 in a row and has swept the skins for 2 straight weeks. Drink is now tied for the best record in the league with no sign of slowing down. Drink took down the other powerhouse in Tee-It-Up thanks to an outstanding and winning performance by Walker.
In other games:
Don't look now, but the Hookers have won 2 in a row. They beat one of the other 3 hapless teams in the league, Drive-4-Show. Both teams are now 2-5.
The Frogs just keep losing. The defending champion is having a rough year. The Frogs lost to Pin High who is quietly now 6-1 as well. No one is paying attention to this team, but they might want to start dong so.
Hol-E-1 destroyed Putt-4-Dough. P4D had two missed cuts and Ernie was a now how. 3 of Putt-4-Dough's rounds were in the 80s. Scores were high this - week, but that is really high.
CHiP squeezed by the Hackers as both teams had two players miss the cut. CHiP's players just had a slightly better week.
One more week and then on to the Masters.
→ Tee-It-Up Still Undefeated
Published: by Jim GreenwellSix weeks in and Tee-It-Up has won every game. It is remarkable that only 2 golfers have miss the cut ALL year for TIU and that spells victory most of the time. This week's victim was CHiP who has now dropped 4 in a row after winning the first two weeks.
In other games:
Hol-E-1 had two missed cuts and a no show and as a result, was hammered by Pin High. PH got solid play from Kokrak and McIlroy and remain only one game behind Tee-It-Up.
Drink trotted out Matt Every who won the tournament and spearheaded a victory over the Frogs. The Frogs remain winless (ouch).
Putt-4-Dough eked one out over Drive-4-Show. It was a DeLaet who missed the cut by just two shots and Noh who ballooned to an 80 on Friday that doomed D4S.
In a powerhouse match-up, the Hookers finally won a game. The gave the Hackers their 5th loss in 6 tries.
We head to Texas for a couple of tournaments, then the Masters. As we head into the meat of the schedule, it will be interesting to see if we can tighten up some playoff races.
→ Honda Carnage
Published: by Jim GreenwellOnly 4 players in our league finished under par. OUCH!
Tee-It-Up continues to look strong. Off to a 4-0 start with a nice win over previously the pitiful (but defending champs) Frogs.
Pin High won a skin and a earned a victory over the Hackers who had a no show from Kuchar. The Hackers fell to 0-4 and continue to have the worse luck in the league.
Hol-E-1 tried to keep pace with TIU with an easy win over Drive-4-Show. D4S had 3 missed cuts and a withdraw - tough to win that way...
The Hookers still suck and made for easy fodder for Drink who improved to 3-1.
Putt-4-Dough won a 3rd in a row after beating CHiP and also won best team skins.
→ The 0-3 Teams
Published: by Jim GreenwellLet's talk about the 0-3 teams.
Hackers: Their sad sack story was told with some detail last week. Well, it continued this week. While they didn't have a great week, the could have won. They only lost by 3 strokes, but had their golfers shoot 5 over par on the last 4 holes, compared to even par over the same holes by their opponent (and victor), Putt-4-Dough.
Hookers: The Hookers have been bad, they've been "Tiger" bad. Without Tiger in the lineup, the Hookers did manage to have 4 golfers make the cut, but it wasn't enough against the now undefeated Tee-It-Up team. To make matters worse, the Hookers had to watch Dustin Johnson make the playoffs after not protecting him in the draft in favor of Tiger.
Slippery Frogs: The Frogs have been so bad, they have made the Hookers look mediocre. The Frogs have been so bad, that their breakdown records is a woeful 1-26. This means through 3 weeks, there was only 1 possible win for the Frogs. And that possibility was only against a no-show line-up in week 2. The Frogs have yet to beat any submitted line-up through 3 weeks. Ouch! (And he doesn't have his trophy or winnings yet - double ouch).
In other games:
Drink hammered Pin High who had 3 players miss the cut.
Hol-E-1 enjoyed Johnson's playoff appearance, leading them to victory and earning the carry-over skin.
→ Poor Hackers
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers had the 3rd best score in week one and the second best score in week two and have lost both games. That is rough. They are 1 of only 2 teams under par as a team through week 2.
Good news, they are playing well. Bad news, they are suffering some terrible luck.
Pin High beat the Hookers as the Hookers were impacted by misfiring glutes and two players missing the cut by 1 stroke each.
Drink beat the Hackers and won the best team skin as they were the only team to have all 4 players finish the weekend. The best player skin is a carry-over.
Putt-4-Dough only had two make the cut, but that was more than enough against the Frogs who had Mickelson miss the cut.
CHiP had an easy go of it, beating a carry-over lineup by Drive-4-Show.
Martin Laird had a huge weekend for Tee-It-Up and carried them to victory over Hol-E-1. Both teams had 3 make the cut, but no one other than Laird shot under par.
→ Showed clobbers No Shows
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Showed division went 4-1 against the No Shows in a wrecking ball kind of week.
The games weren't very close and we may well have witnessed the final collapse of one Tiger Woods - that was an absolute debacle. (Could be a long year for the Hookers).
Meanwhile, Tee-It-Up and CHiP went VERY low and look very strong. It is a long season. Buckle up, it should be wild and fun.
→ Historic Night
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2014 draft has concluded and it was a night for the record books.
For the first time, ever, the league voted to realign divisions and to re-brand the divisions.
On an overwhelming unanimous vote, the following changes have been made:
In the new "Showed Division" are the Hookers, Tee-It-Up, CHiP, Pin High and Hol-E-1.
In the new "No Shows Division" are the Hackers, Slippery Frogs, Putt-4-Dough, Drink and Drive-4-Show.
Should be a fascinating year. The league website is setup and ready to go. The first tournament is the Waste Management Phoenix Open which begins on January 29th.
Good Luck to everyone.
→ Slippery Frogs are Champions
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs won in a bizarre tournament.
Phil Mickelson withdrew, but won anyway. How?
In a stunning development, Tee-It-Up's Keegan Bradley withdrew from the tournament after feeling 'bad' about a decision he made on the first day of the tournament. He decided he misplayed a ball and scored incorrectly. On Thursday, Bradley found his ball in a pitch mark (not a divot) and replaced his ball with what he was a free drop. A spectator later told him that his ball came to rest not in his pitch mark, but another pitch mark, which makes the free drop not free. The indecisiveness of it all finally 'got to' Bradley and he withdrew. Wow, just wow. Golf is the coolest game ever. Keep in mind, this kept Bradley out of the top 30...
Congrats to the Frogs.
→ Slippery Frogs vs. Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs won in stunning come from behind fashion. First, Putt-4-Dough's Reed shoots a lousy 82 in the third round and misses the second cut. Then, on Sunday, the Frogs four golfers combined for a -18 under par. Crazy.
Pin High's Brendan Todd missed the cut and that is all it took for Tee-It-Up to squeeze out a victory.
So, here it is. The Frogs vs Tee-It-Up for the Carl Cup.
→ We move to semi-finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellDespite Brendon Todd's collapse of 5 over on Sunday, Pin High held on to defeat CHiP in a tiebreaker. Pin High won on the strength of Jason Day's -12 and huge money score. CHiP has to feel good about their new draft strategy implemented this year. I expect we will see more of that next year. Pin High will now face Tee-It-Up.
Putt-4-Dough was so confident in the win on Sunday, instead of watching golf in his easy chair, Putt-4-Dough ownership went for a little jog...
(Seriously, congrats on finishing another Ironman, my good man - well done).
In other games:
Drive-4-Show will face Tee-It-Up in Toilet Bowl final. (The Hookers shame is now complete).
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are headed to the post season after one of the most exciting regular seasons in some time. Valhalla was a great (if soggy) place to end it. (Man, was it wet and muddy out there yesterday).
Anyway, here is how it ended up - you will want to pay attention to this.
In the North:
1. Tee-It-Up
2. Hackers
3. Pin High
4. Drive-4-Show
5. Drink
In the South:
1. Slippery Frogs
2. CHiP
3. Putt-4-Dough
4. Hol-E-1
5. Hookers
Let me explain the tie-breaker in the North. The first tie breaker is overall record, followed by head-to-head, then division record, then points, then coin toss. Since Hackers, Pin High and Drive-4-Show ended up tied, I went to head-to-head in what is called a 'mini conference'. Those 3 teams playing each other had the Hackers at 4-2, Pin High 3-3 and Drive-4-Show at 2-4. That gives 2nd place to Hackers. Then 3rd place goes to Pin High as they were 2-1 against Drive-4-Show. Hope this makes sense.
Now - the playoff seeds:
1. Slipper Frogs
2. Tee-It-Up
3. CHiP
4. Putt-4-Dough
5. Hackers
6. Pin High
Let me explain this now. Putt-4-Dough gets 4 seed because we compare records that are similar until there is a tie-breaker, even though Hackers are guaranteed spot for 2nd place, they aren't guaranteed a bid. Putt-4-Dough was 1-1 against Hackers, but had better points (we don't use division records across divisions). So, that just naturally slots Hackers and then Pin High in seeds 5 and 6.
So, Frogs and Tee-It-Up get byes in round 1 and the pairing are CHiP vs. Pin High and Putt-4-Dough vs. Hackers.
Oh, the Toilet Bowl games are: Hookers vs. Drive-4-Show and Drink vs. Hol-E-1.
Playoffs begin next week.
→ The North Division
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat is going on in the North?
We could end up with a 4 way 11-11 tie for first. There are so many scenarios to play out on week 22, it is a little nutty. And it is all happening in Louisville. So, here is what will happen if there is a 4 way tie:
Pin High would win the division and the Hackers would be runner-up.
However, all 4 teams can still win the division.
Now, if there is a 4 way tie in the North and Putt-4-Dough wins, then this happens: Putt-4-Dough goes to playoffs and knocks Drive-4-Show and Tee-It-Up out. Why? Remember the coin flip in week 10 - that is literally the tie breaker for the playoffs in this scenario. In fact, this is about the only way P4D makes the playoffs - there is one other crazy scenario involving knocking Pin High out. P4D needs to win and have D4S finish 'third' after tie-breakers.
Okay, the boring South: the Frogs have clinched the division and CHiP has clinched runner-up. (The finance page reflects this).
And for good measure, the total fall and destruction of a dynasty seems to be now complete. The Hookers are done - what an unmitigated disaster...
And just because they weren't mentioned: Hol-E-1 and Drink will join the Hookers in the Toilet Bowl.
→ 2 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellThings are really tight now. But, lets start with some losers.
The Hookers and Hol-E-1 are eliminated from playoff contention.
Drink can still get in, but need lots of help. Pin High gets in with a two wins and one loss by Tee-It-Up. Tee-It-Up needs two wins or a loss by Drink and a loss by Pin High.
Putt-4-Dough is in with a win this week.
There is a scenario in the North where a 4 way tie at 11-9 is possible. I have no idea how that tie breaker will go. It is very possible - not even that far fetched. So, I'm assuming no one over there has clinched anything. In fact, I think it is possible for Pin High to win the division.
The South is a little more clear.
CHiP and the Frogs play in week 21. If the Frogs win, they clinch the division. If CHiP wins, they will need to win in week 22 (or Frogs lose) to clinch division. These two are headed for a big battle at Bridgestone.
→ 3 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst - thanks for your patience. I'm back from vacation (Europe is very cool).
I thought I would just go through playoff and division clinching scenarios.
South Division:
CHiP has clinched playoffs. "Magic Number" to clinch division is 3. Any combination of wins by CHiP or losses by the Frogs totally 3, gives CHiP the division.
Frogs has clinched playoffs. Can win division by winning last 3 games. They would win the head to head tie breaker with CHiP
Putt-4-Dough clinches playoffs with any combination of two wins or two losses by both Pin High and Drink.
Hookers can make playoffs with 3 wins AND Putt-4-Dough loses 3 times AND both Drink and Pin High lose twice.
Hol-E-1 will be in the Toilet Bowl tourny.
North Division (much more complicated):
Hackers 'magic number' is 2. Any combination of wins by them or losses by Drive-4-Show and Tee-It-Up equaling 2 clinches division.
Drive-4-Show clinches division by finishing in tie with Hackers as long as Tee-It-Up loses once.
Tee-It-Up can win division by winning last 3 games (and other scenarios).
Pin High can clinch division with 3 wins, 3 losses by Hackers and two losses by Drive-4-Show and Tee-It-Up. Can clinch playoffs by simply tying Putt-4-Dough in final standings.
Drink can clinch playoffs by tying Putt-4-Dough in final standings and Pin High loses once.
There are scenarios by which every team in North could still miss the playoffs. For example, Hackers could miss playoffs by losing 3 times AND Pin High and Drink win all 3 and Drive-4-Show and Tee-It-Up win twice and Putt-4-Dough doesn't lose 2 or more.
→ Week 15 has begun
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst - I apologize for the lack of content and it isn't going to get any better for the month of June. I'll send an email later to explain.
This season has seen a separation of the top teams from the bottom. A pretty clear delineation. This week features a lot of games with the top 4 playing the bottom 4. Only one game features two teams that would be in the playoffs today (if the season were over).
It is very important to the bottom teams to win this week. Otherwise, the last 7 weeks could get really long.
Traditionally it takes 10 wins to make the playoffs. 11 almost guarantees it. With only 8 games to go, winning 4 to 7 of those games seems daunting to a few teams. Winning must start this week. A great opportunity to start closing gaps.
→ CHiP!!!
Published: by Jim GreenwellRemember when CHIP ownership announced a 'whole new approach' at this year's draft?
Well, it is starting to pay off. CHiP is now tied for the best record in the league, while only having one skin to their credit. This team may not be flashy, but they clearly are not going to be an easy out in 2014.
This week CHiP took out Tee-It-Up thanks to the continued brilliant play of the young Spieth.
The Frogs continue to lead but have lost two in a row. The Frogs lost to Drive-4-Show because Mickelson missed the cut and D4S's Furyk found the fountain of youth down there in Florida.
Drive-4-Show's win but them in a tie for first the Hackers who have also lost two straight. This time, they lost to Putt-4-Dough. P4D just missed the best team skin.
Pin High has won two in a row and did win the best team skin, beating the Hookers. I think it is now pretty safe to declare the Hookers a 'bad team'. 10 weeks to go, can they turn it around?
Speaking of 'bad'. Drink lost to Hol-E-1. These two teams are the only teams that appear to have the potential to be worse than the Hookers. (Sorry, just the way it looks).
We move on to week 13. The game of this week will feature the Hackers taking on Pin High.
→ Half way
Published: by Jim GreenwellDoing this with phone so I will be brief.
We are half way completed with season. Here is what the playoffs would look like if it started today:
1. Slippery Frogs
2. Hackers
3. CHiP
4. Drive-4-Show
5. Putt-4-Dough
6. Pin High
Lots of weeks still to play.
→ Wild Week 10
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe saw a couple of crazy finishes in week 10.
1. Putt-4-Dough and Drive-4-Show ended in a tie with no tie breaker as both teams had 3 players miss the cut and both teams and 1 player with the dreaded MDF. For only the second time in league history, a coin toss determined the winner - Putt-4-Dough.
2. The Hookers pulled off the rare 3 vs. 4 win. The Hookers had 1 missed cut, but still managed to defeat Hol-E-1. Thanks, in large part, the pitiful play of Harrington for Hol-E-1. Not only did the Hookers win the match, but won best team skin. Hol-E-1 will not be too happy as they were the 2nd best stroke count of the week and still lost.
3. We had 3 different players from three different teams tie for the best player skin. The odd thing is that they finished tied for 5th. No one had one of the top 4 golfers. I don't have official stats, but that has to be close to a record.
In other games:
The Frogs outlasted CHiP in a 2 on 2 match.
Tee-It-Up won with two big -13s from Rose and Bradley. They beat Pin High who had a cut and Every withdrew from the tournament.
The Hackers had an easy win against a "no show" line-up.
→ Time for a break
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters and week 9 is over. We now have a one week break before we play for 10 straight.
I guess we have to talk about the Frogs now. They won the Masters and have won 5 in a row, despite Mickelson and Els missing the cut. Doesn't hurt to have Bubba. They beat the Hackers by 12 strokes.
The other big story is CHiP who has won 4 in a row with a tie-breaker win over Pin High. PH has to be hurting after that one. McIlory bogies both par 5s on the back and a great pick up of Couples kind of imploded on back 9. Meanwhile, CHiP over came a +6 start on the first 4 holes by Olesen as Spieth held tight. A great win for CHiP.
Drive-4-Show pulled within 1 game of the Hackers with a relatively easy win over Hol-E-1. HE1 had 2 miss the cut to only 1 for D4S and that is all it takes at the Masters.
Drink also pulled within a game of the Hackers with a 2 stroke win over the Hookers. The Hookers left Blixt on the bench (whoops) and have lost 6 in a row.
Tee-It-Up rode the Miguel Jimenez -4 under for a big win over Putt-4-Dough.
Enjoy the break. We commence in two weeks.
→ Week 8 Update
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters is next!
Sorry for the delay. Lost track of things...
Hackers continue to rule the North and the Frogs have taken over in the South thanks to a 4 game winning streak.
The Hookers have lost 5 in a row and every one else is right there in the hunt, except for maybe Tee-It-Up. TIU needs to start winning soon (winning this last week was a good start).
Off to the Masters, the greatest event in golf.
→ Frogs Take Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs have taken over in the South. The Frogs even with Els not playing and Mickelson withdrawing from the tournament. Tee-It-Up didn't put up much of a fight is what I'm trying to tell you.
The Hackers maintained their lead in the North even after losing to CHiP.
Drive-4-Show beat the Hookers after one of the Hookers' players gets the dreaded MDF.
Pin High had a 15 foot putt on 18 to win this thing, but it slid by and gave an win to Hol-E-1. Bottom line - neither of these teams had a good week.
Drink sweeps the skins while pummeling Putt-4-Dough.
→ Frogs Take Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs have taken over in the South. The Frogs even with Els not playing and Mickelson withdrawing from the tournament. Tee-It-Up didn't put up much of a fight is what I'm trying to tell you.
The Hackers maintained their lead in the North even after losing to CHiP.
Drive-4-Show beat the Hookers after one of the Hookers' players gets the dreaded MDF.
Pin High had a 15 foot putt on 18 to win this thing, but it slid by and gave an win to Hol-E-1. Bottom line - neither of these teams had a good week.
Drink sweeps the skins while pummeling Putt-4-Dough.
→ Hackers Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers got a minor break when Tiger was a no-show, but it may not have mattered. The Hackers had the week's 2nd lowest score and were 1 of only 2 teams under par. The Hackers have won 4 in a row and have a 2 game lead in the North.
Pin High had a monstrous game, led my Matt Every and swept the skins. Drive-4-Show is sill very much NOT in love with Russell Henley.
Drink's Pat Perez show an 83 on Sunday. And. It did not matter. Drink won easily because Tee-It-Up had 3 golfers miss the cut.
CHiP was good enough to win this week. It helped that no one on Putt-4-Dough finished better than 52nd and had a no show - ouch.
Frogs and Hol-E-1 both had a missed cut and a no show. The two remaining golfers for the Frogs just had a better week an won relatively easily.
→ North Sweeps South
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North division won all 5 inter-division games over the weekend.
The Hackers, lead the North after putting a hurt on the Frogs. The Frogs had 3 players miss the cut 2 of which were Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson. On paper, this looked like a Frogs win. Could this be the Hackers' year? They are the only team in the North with a winning record...
The leader in the South, the Hookers, were awful. Another Tiger disaster, 2 other missed cuts and what liked a win on Saturday night was an ugly loss on Sunday. Drink finally got a break. They have easily been the most unlucky team of the year. This little break may catapult them to bigger things.
Drive-4-Show won despite his benching of Henley. This might be the last week that young man isn't in the staring line-up. D4S made easy work of Hol-E-1.
Pin High cruised to victory over CHiP who had one ugly weekend. 2 missed cuts then even worse golf on Sunday (nearly as bad as the Hookers).
Tee-It-Up was the only team to have all 4 golfers make the cut and easily toppled Putt-4-Dough. TIU also took home the team skin.
→ Week 3 Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst - week 4 is two weeks away - we are off this week.
The Tiger-less Hookers improved to 3-0 on the season. The Hookers' Piercy, who was not in the starting line-up shot a ridiculously bad 83 (which included 3 double bogies and a quadruple bogie) to push up the last place score so high, it ruined any chance Putt-4-Dough had of pulling off the 2 vs. 3 golfers left upset.
The Frogs destroyed the field (and Drink). The Frogs won both skins, which included a carry-over skin from last week. By-the-way, Drink ownership may not want to look at the breakdown stats - it will only annoy them.
The Hackers continue to look strong in a big win over Pin High. The Hackers stand alone in first place in the North - been a while since we said that.
Drive-4-Show got their first win and sent Tee-It-Up further down the 'slide'. TIU is still winless. They had a no-show, then Peterson decided not to return after a delay and was disqualified.
CHiP had a score of 21 and could have beaten only 2 teams this week. CHiP played one of them - Hol-E-1. HE1 was the only team to not have a player break par.
→ Huge Week 3 About to Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2 remaining undefeated teams are about to begin play: The Hookers and Putt-4-Dough.
Another big game in the North with Pin High taking on the Hackers.
Inter-divisional game has Drink vs. the Frogs.
Hol-E-1 and CHiP will look to keep pace.
And the two remaining winless teams, Tee-It-Up and Drive-4-Show try to right the ship this week as they play one another.
→ Now that was ugly
Published: by Jim GreenwellSome ugly golf in bad weather. And some bizarre outcomes from our fantasy games. Here is a quick recap.
First 3 errors in live leaderboard:
1. Cuts and MDFs appeared to all happen after 3 rounds, so they appear inccored on the live scoreboard, but are not.
2. D.A. Points was not a no-show, he was DQed, more on this in the game recap.
3. Jason Kokrak was not a no-show, played and finished.
Tee-It-Up and Pin High appeared to have tied according to the live scoreboard. But, they didn't. Why does this always seem to happen to Tim? DA Points actually was DQed after playing two rounds. Which will give Pin High a two stroke win. This is a result of that quirky bug in the live scoreboard (guess it is time to fix that).
The Hookers appeared to be struggling against a carry-over line-up, but due to the scoring error, it was actually a pretty easy win for the Hookers over the Frogs.
CHiP's strategy to pick guys who make cuts may work out. All 4 made the cut this week and easily beat Drive-4-Show who had 2 miss the cut.
Drink only had 3 make cut, but tied CHiP for best team skin forcing a carry-over. They did beat the Hackers who had two miss the cut.
Putt-4-Dough showed Hol-E-1 who is boss with a big win with a bunch of 'drop fodder'. Hol-E-1 was seen standing in the snow late tonight scratching his head over this one.
→ Week 1 Results
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone hates losing week 1. An 'undefeated' start to the season always gives an owner a positive outlook on the season. But, we all know that it is a long season and one loss doesn't mean much in this league. But, man is it frustrating.
No one is more frustrated than Drink this week. Losing to Putt-4-Dogh after Overton misses the cut. Drink still had a shot at the game until Vijay Singh came in last with a really bad score (causing Overton to score very high). P4D did have solid play from all 4 golfers and won best team skin.
Frustration? How about CHiP? Had the champion and still lost. Lost to the Hackers and the Hackers had a guy shoot 79 on Sunday. Oh well, at least this: CHiP won a skin for the first time since 2012.
The Hookers had Poulter miss the cut, but so did the prized draft pick of Henley Drive-4-Show. In the end, it was the play of DeLaet that delivered a win for the Hookers.
Hol-E-1 and Pin High had 2 miss the cut, but Hol-E-1 got nice play out of Mahan and Howell III. If Howell can play like that this year, well, look out... Meanwhile, Pin High is not dealing with this damn snow in the 'ville.
And, the Frogs. Made easy work out of Tee-It-Up. Always an easy win when you have 4 golfers make the cut and your opponent only has two.
On to week 2...
→ 2013 Draft is Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2013 Season begins on January 28. 7:00pm - John's place for the draft.
→ Hookers are Champs
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Wednesday night decision doomed Pin High. The move to bench Castro for McIlroy doomed Pin High and gave the Hookers another title.
Pin High had an early lead on Thursday, but a late surge that afternoon took the Hookers to the lead and they stayed there all weekend. The lead was as small as 3 and as large as 12.
The Hookers looked to have it won easily late Monday afternoon until Stenson was 3 over on the closing 2 holes - coupled with a Johnson birdie - and suddenly the lead was only 4. At that point only Tiger and Zach were left on the course with a few holes to go. Tigers birdied on last hole and parred out to secure victory for the Hookers, despite a birdie flurry from Johnson at the end.
Another fun year. Our draft is only 5 months away. Get ready for another fun year next year.
→ Hookers vs. Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe number 1 and 2 seed face off for the 'Carl Cup' championship. It should be a doozy. 8 great golfers, no cut. Best team wins.
Pin High and the Hookers split their 2 regular season matches. Pin High won in week 1 in less than stellar play - as the Hookers had 3 miss and Pin High had 2 miss as well. It was more than enough, but both teams limped out of the startin box week 1. Week 7, the last time the two met was at the Masters. The Hookers won by 5 strokes in a very well contested match-up.
But, how times have changed for Pin High. PH will have only 1 golfer starting this week that they started in the Masters. The Hookers will have 3 of the same starters. The Pin High depth has shown itself all year long.
Pin High will be trotting out a relative new comer in Castro and the Hookers have a new player as well in Gary Woodland.
This week's game should be a dandy. Nothing settled until Sunday which has extra intrigue as the pros have never played this course before.
Good luck to the Hookers and Pin High.
→ What a Game
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn a thriller, Pin High beats the Slippery Frogs on a tie-breaker on money earned. Jason Day's 2nd shot on 18 that found the hazard cost the Frogs in the end. But, it was Spieth shooting a very low 62 that put Pin High back in the game.
This was very close all day on Sunday and was fun to watch. At one point, 3 teams, the Hookers, Pin High and the Frogs were all -47 for a few holes. It was kind of fun to watch.
The Hookers handled Drive-4-Show and will advance to face Pin High in the championship game in two weeks.
Hookers vs. Pin High for the Carl Cup. Two weeks. Should be fun.
→ Frogs, Drive-4-Show Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellGood matches that actually had a little drama even after the cut. The two winning teams,the Slippery Frogs and Drive-4-Show had the advantage after the cut on Saturday morning but never really put their opponents away. They both won by 10 strokes.
Hol-E-1 was doomed when Billy Horschel took an 8 on 13 and missed the cut be only two strokes. The Frogs got great play from Mickelson and Kuchar and held one.
Tee-It-Up had two miss the cut. Michael Thompson was HORRIFIC and Garrigus only missed the cut by one when bogeying 17. Drive-4-Show, of course, had Adam Scott and that was more than enough to hang on.
The Toilet bowl matches were entertaining and I don't usually comment on it, but this year is different. Winning this thing is important. Why? Because the Frogs are going to have to drop either Kuchar or Mickelson next year. Regardless of which one he drops, I'm guessing I know who the first pick will be. Either player in the hands of CHiP or Drink could be a dark day for the rest of the league for sure...
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, I didn't see a single stroke of golf over the weekend (from the pros). I was busy all weekend watching my son play in a tournament. So, I have no idea what happened.
I know this. If Duffner keeps playing like this, we might as well mail engrave the trophy for Pin High now. Here are the 6 teams and the seeds for the upcoming post season.
1 seed and North Division Champion: Pin High
2 seed and South Division Champion: Hookers
3 seed and North Division Runner-up: Tee-It-Up
4 seed and South Division Runner-up: Hol-E-1
5 seed: Slippery Frogs
6 seed: Drive-4-Show
Explanation on 5 and 6 seeds.
Drive-4-Show wins tie breaker over Drink because they were 2-1 head to head on the season. That makes Drive-4-Show #3 and Drink #4 in the division. The 3rd place spot (Drive-4-Show) is then compared to 3rd place in South (only because they have same record). Frogs were 1-1 against D4S which means tie breaker goes to strokes, which goes to the Frogs.
In fact, regardless of who would have finished third in the North, the results would have been the same, the Frogs were getting the 5 seed. So, the final spot went to the head-to-head play between Drink and Drive-4-Show.
It really all came down to the horrible British Open by Drink, having 3 miss the cut.
Remember, we are off this week, then the playoff start with the division winners getting byes. Here are the pairings.
1 - Pin High and 2 - Hookers have a bye
3 - Tee-It-Up vs. 6 - Drive-4-Show
4 - Hol-E-1 vs. 5. Slippery Frogs
Pin High will play winner of the HE1 - Frogs game.
Hookers will play winner of the TIU - D4S game.
Here is the seeding and pairing for the Toilet Bowl tournament:
1 - Putt-4-Dough vs. 4 - Drink
2 - CHiP vs. 3 - Hackers
→ One Week to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellI can't believe how fast 22 weeks goes...
Tiger won another tournament - Sunday's golf couldn't have been more boring. No one even attempted even the smallest of challenges and Tiger did nothing significant.
Playoff picture is almost complete.
North Division:
Pin High has clinched division, number 1 overall seed.
Tee-It-Up has clinched playoff spot and runner-up spot in division.
Hookers have clinched division and playoffs.
Hol-E-1 has clinched runner-up in division and playoffs.
I believe everyone else is still in it for the 5th and 6th spot in playoffs. it is very confusing - I'll try to get the full scenario's out tonight.
This should be fun...
→ Phil Mickelson
Published: by Jim GreenwellPhil may need to drop 10 pounds, Phil may need a haircut, Phil may need some nicer clothes - BUT - Phil can play.
If you don't feel good for Phil Mickelson, you are probably a serious hater. The guy is class all the way (as far as I can tell) and is a gracious champion.
Congratulations to Phil!
The standings are a full-on fiasco now. Pin High won a 4th in a row and has clinched the North and is one win away form clinching the overall number 1 seed. The Hookers and Hol-E-1 have clinched playoff spots.
The Hookers magic number to win the division is 2.
Tee-It-Up clinches a playoff spot with a win or one loss by Hackers.
As for the the last two spots - it is going to be a war. Someone has to win and pull away. Who will it be?
→ 3 Weeks to go
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst of all, we are off this week. We resume with the British Open Championship.
There wasn't too much excitement over the weekend as most of our games were pretty well decided by Friday afternoon.
Lets just review everyone's chances for the playoffs in the last 3 weeks.
North:
o Pin High clinches division with one win or one loss by Tee-It-Up. Pin High has clinched a playoff spot.
o Tee-It-Up wins division with 3 wins and 3 losses by Pin High. TIU will clinch playoff spot with one win or a loss by either Drink or Hackers.
South:
o Hol-E-1's magic number is 3 with the Hookers. Any combinations of wins by them or losses by Hookers equaling 3 gives them the division. They have clinched a playoff spot.
o Hookers just need to force a tie with Hol-E-1 to win the division. Hookers need 2 wins or 1 win with a loss by Drink or Hackers.
The four teams above are most likely going to make the playoffs. The remaining 2 spots have a million scenarios. Drink and Hackers currently own those spots, but the Frogs and Drive-4-Show are only 1 game out and can easily make playoffs.
CHiP and Putt-4-Dough can make the playoffs but need to win 3 games and get a lot of help.
Things will be way more clear after the Open Championship.
→ Week 18 in Books
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe only have 4 weeks to go and things are getting interesting.
Lets start with the North.
Pin High won a 2nd in a row and has opened a 2 game lead in the North. They have all but clinched and will clinch if they beat Tee-It-Up in week 20 or with any 2 wins.
Tee-It-Up must go 4-0 and have Pin High go 1-4.
Hackers can clinch division by going 4-0, Pin High 0-4, Tee-It-Up 1-3.
Drink and Drive-4-Show can not win the division but can still earn 2nd place and are in no way out of the playoff race.
In the South things are a little tighter. Hol-E-1 has taken a 1 game lead on the Hookers. For Hol-E-1 to win the division, they must maintain a 1 game lead on the Hookers.
The Hookers will win division if out running or tying HE1 for the division lead. This assumes that the Frogs don't run the table.
If the Frogs run the table, they need the Hookers to lose 3 times and HE1 to lose 4.
CHiP and Putt-4-Dough can not win division, but are still in the hunt for the playoffs.
No one is more than 1 game out of the playoff hunt. More on this after next week's games.
If playoffs started today:
1. Pin High
2. Hol-E-1
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Hackers
6. Frogs
Keep in mind - at this point - the 6th spot is between the Frogs, Drink and Drive-4-Show - the current tie breaker is points. This is going to be a wild finish...
→ Ken Duke Rolls (Ken Duke?)
Published: by Jim GreenwellKen Duke won a PGA tournament.
Sunday at TPC River Highlands, after 187 starts on TOUR, Duke pushed himself all the way to his first career victory, defeating Chris Stroud on the second hole of sudden death.
Duke has played in 187 events, with only 20 top 10s and a whopping 72 missed cuts. In our league this year, he had missed 3 of 5 cuts in events in which he has played.
Good for Ken Duke. It is nice to see a guy play so long and break through.
Duke's big pay day benefited Putt-4-Dough as they took down the Frogs by two strokes and won another skin. P4D is in last place, but is tied for second in skins. Go figure.
The Hookers took over first place in the South thanks to Hol-E-1's Huh shooting a horrid 78 on Saturday and getting a dreaded 'MDF'.
Tee-It-Up continues to chase down CHiP. This week they got a best team skin beating Drink.
It doesn't happen often, but it happened this week. Drive-4-Show beat the Hackers despite having fewer golfers make the cut. Their 2 made cuts were better than the Hackers' 3 made cuts. Of course, when the Hackers' Westwood shoots a 78 on Sunday and comes in last, he might as well have missed the cut.
CHiP has fallen all the way to the cellar and has to wonder, "what the heck?" Pin High took out CHiP this week and maintained their one game lead in the North.
→ 104! 104? Really, 104?
Published: by Jim Greenwell104. Yep, the Hackers won despite having a score of 104. We don't have records on such things, but it is bound to be one. The carnage at the Merion Golf Club in the U.S. Open led to some amazingly high scores.
The Hackers 104 was enough to beat CHiP who had 108.
By-the-way, the South was 4-1 against the North this week, nearly evening up the year to date record between the two divisions.
The scores, for the most part where very lopsided. For example, the Frogs won by 71 strokes as they had Jason Day and Mickelson. Meanwhile, the only player to make the cut for Pin High was McIlroy who was so frustrated he purposely broke a club.
Another lopsided win was by Hol-E-1 over Drink by 56 strokes. The good news for Hol-E-1 was that Garcia made it through the weekend without making any 'news' - unless you count the 10 he got on a hole on Thursday.
The Hookers beat Tee-It-Up by 30 even though TIU had Rose, the champion. The Hookers had all 4 golfers make the cut.
Putt-4-dough got some amazing play from Els, Mahan and Donald to take out Drive-4-Show as both teams had all 4 make the cut.
We are in the stretch drive. 6 weeks to go.
If playoffs started today:
1. Hol-E-1
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Slippery Frogs
6. Hackers
No one is more than 2 games out from the playoffs. This will be a crazy 6 weeks.
→ Close Games in Week 14
Published: by Jim GreenwellOnce again, I apologize for the delay. We had some crazy games over the weekend.
Let's start with the tie score between CHiP and Hol-E-1. CHiP won the tie-breaker with Furyk earning a ton of money at 1 under. But, this could have gone either way. Hol-E-1 had two players bogey 18. A single par would have been enough. Of course, CHiP could argue it was Freddie's awful 77 that even made it that close. Good game.
In a one shot game, Tee-It-Up squeaked by the Hackers. TIU and a No Show and a missed cut, but Westwood withdrew and dearly cost the Hackers. A very frustrating loss for the Hackers, while TIU kept pace with Pin High.
In a two shot game, Putt-4-Dough upset the Slippery Frogs. The Frogs had all make the cut and the winning golfer and STILL lost. Wow. I'm sure the Frogs have fined/suspended/cut the hair of one Charley Hoffman who carded a very ugly 81 on Sunday, costing them a victory. That being said, Putt-4-Dough did win the team skin with the best score of the week thanks to solid, if not spectacular play, from his starting 4.
Pin High had all 4 make the cut and Drink had two miss the cut. We all know what that means. Pin High won.
Drive-4-Show had an easy game as the Hookers had 2 miss the cut and that one guy didn't play very well...
→ South Surges
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter lots of talk about the North division dominance, the South went 4-1 this week. The question, however, is - was this "fool's gold"? Lets take a look.
The only North win was by the Hackers that hammered CHiP. The Hackers were the only team under par and the were 25 under par. This was never close as CHiP only had one player make the cut.
Hol-E-1 beat Drink, but this could have gone either way. Drink had a player miss the cut by two and then a dreaded MDF by 2 on Sturday. Of course, Hol-E-1 had a suddent withdraw by Oostheizen with a bad neck. 2 or 3 strokes either way and Drink could have won this.
Hookers beat Tee-It-Up thanks to 2 missed cuts by TIU. The interesting thing here is the luck by the Hookers. The Hookers had to add 3 golfers to submit a line-up and still won, with 1 of those finishing in the top 10. That is somewhat unusual, as going that deep in the free agent list usually brings a loss.
Putt-4-Dough beat Drive-4-Show thanks to Guthrie being a no show and then Wi also falling prey to an MDF. Still, D4S only lost by 10 strokes.
The Frogs beat Pin High thanks to Perez also getting an MDF.
That is 3 games impacted by that crazy MDF rule. Never seen that before in one week. What this week by the South does is seriously tighten things up.
If playoffs were to start today, there would now be 3 teams from the South in the playoffs. (Currently the Frogs hold the tie-breakers on Drink by 4 strokes).
→ Hookers Take Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers have taken a slim edge in the South with a huge win over Hol-E-1. The victory also gave the Hookers 3 skins (because of a previous carry-over). Clearly Tiger's play made a difference, but it was Billy Horschel that triple bogeyed 18 on Friday that made him miss the cut, killing any chances Hol-E-1 would have.
The Frogs had an easy way of it with CHiP. CHiP had two missed cuts and Dustin Johnson withdrew from the tournament. This is the second straight week that Johnson has withdrawn from a tournament with a sore wrist. If CHiP wants to climb back into playoff hunt, they need a healthy Johnson (hehe - did you catch what I did there?)
In the closest game of the week, Pin-High slipped by Putt-4-Dough. Both teams had 3 make the cut, but it was Sunday afternoon that made the difference. P4D had a furious rally, cutting 11 strokes off the lead, but it was McIlory righting the ship with a 4 under on the back that sealed the deal.
The Hackers had all 4 make the cut and had a shot at best team skin. Then, Peter Hanson shot an 82 on Sunday (which included an 8 on the par 4 14th), killing those chances. They still had enough to beat Drive-4-Show.
Tee-It-Up only had 2 make the cut, but it was enough as their opponent, Drink, only had 1 make the cut. At that point, TIU only needed Michael Thompson to not fall in a lake and the ywin.
We are half way. If playoffs started today, the teams would be:
Pin High
Hookers
Tee-It-Up
Hol-E-1
Hackers Drink
The South still has a lot of work to do...
Tiger Note: it was noted this year was the fastest he has ever reached 4 wins in a season. Seems hard to believe. Regardless of what you think of the guy - we are witnessing history. He is now at 78 career wins in 300 starts - that is plain silly.
Betting Note: I was in Vegas last week. A friend of mine called me and asked that I place a bet for him. I did. He bet $150 on Tiger at 6-1 odds. Pretty nice pay day.
→ Drive-4-Show Sliding
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrive-4-Show once stood near the top of the North Division. Now, with 3 straight losses, they find themselves in the cellar. He can basically blame Luke Guthrie for his dismal 84 on Sunday. It didn't help that Bubba Watson failed to make the cut. Pin High earned the 'W' in this match and is standing on top of the North.
Drink beat the Hackers easily as the Hackers got blind-sided by a no-show.
Speaking of a no-show, the Frogs has a no-show, a missed cut and the dreaded MDF. This is particularly unfair especially since the Frogs ownership warned their opponent of a no-show of their own. This is bad, bad, bad karma (if you believe in such a thing). Frogs deserved better. (for the record, their opponent had NO idea they had a no-show, heck he didn't even know about his own). The Hookers took the lucky side of this win.
Hol-E-1 rides Sergio Garcia to victory over Tee-It-Up.
CHiP got back to winning ways against Putt-4-Dough. Easy win as P4D had 2 missed cuts and a MDF.
→ Billy Horschel?
Published: by Jim GreenwellBilly Horschel wins the best player skins, leads Hol-E-1 to the lead in the South and is a top of the 'stats' page for the league with 3 events and a whopping -34 under par. The new star of the PGA? Doubt it, but he is on a roll. Pin High just had to sit back and take it this week.
Drink get an easy win thanks to the Hookers having 3 golfers miss cut by one stroke each. That has to hurt a little.
Tee-It-Up wins a 4th in a row despite only having two make the cut. TIU added to CHiP's woes giving them a 3rd straight loss.
Putt-4-Dough won a game and a skin with a huge week. The Hackers were done early on Friday.
The Slippery Frogs took out Drive-4-Show thanks, in part, to some more horrific play from Charles Howell III. Howell, has now missed 3 of 6 cuts. The Frogs got solid play, again, from Stadler.
→ 3 in a row for Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe season is off to an odd start with no clear dominance. It appears that 12-10 could win a division - crazy to think about.
But, out of the ashes, Tee-It-Up has suddenly won 3 in a row. TIU won despite having a 'no show' and a missed cut. Drink also had 2 missed cuts and Webb Simpson's big day got it done for TIU.
Even crazier is the Hackers who won with 2 missed cuts AND a withdraw. Drive-4-Show has to be kicking themselves over their own 3 missed cuts, costing them the game. Not to mention Kaymer's 8 over on the back nine on Sunday - ouch. Keep in mind, D4S only lost by 3...
CHiP had 3rd best score of week and still lost - since they played the lowest scoring team of week. Graeme McDowell carried the week for Pin High on their big win.
Putt-4-Dough as lost 4 in a row - this time to the Frogs. P4D had Els miss a cut and Mahan with the dreaded MDF - brutal.
The Hookers held on to beat Hol-E-1 and tie them for the lead in the South. HE1 had this in the bag until Glover collapsed on Friday and didn't make the cut.
→ North Dominates South - Again
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North was 4-1 against the South with the Hookers getting the only win.
The North now has all 5 teams with a winning record, while the South only has one - ouch.
→ On to Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellQuick update
I'm in Atlanta - other things on my mind - I barely know I lost...
Go Cards!
→ Things All Jammed Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone is either 3-2 or 2-3 except for Drive-4-Show who is 4-1 after losing their first match. This is shaping up to be a real dog fight.
The Hookers won a 3rd straight best golfer skin in their hard fought win over the Frogs. The Hookers won by 3 thanks to Stenson going 4 under over last 5 holes on Sunday.
Drink has won two in a row and got another best team skin after hammering Pin High thanks to Martin Laird's missed cut.
CHiP had an easy game against Putt-4-Dough as P4D was the only team over par for the week.
Hol-E-1 withstood a Sunday rally by Drive-4-Show and dealt them their first loss. The win kept HE1 in first place in the South.
Sean O'Hair played some hacker golf with a 76 on Thursday and then was 6 over after 5 holes on Friday and suddenly withdrew, hosing any chance for Tee-It-Up. The Hackers were the beneficiary and rolled to victory.
→ Drive-4-Show Streaking
Published: by Jim GreenwellOkay, Drive-4-Show has now won four in a row and remains undefeated. This week they held on to beat the Frogs. Somehow Mickelson played poorly enough to miss the cut by 5 strokes. This gave D4S the edge they needed to earn their 4th win.
Drink finally got a win with the game of the week, being the only team under par. They beat the Hookers, who had the week's 2nd best score.
CHiP got a first win despite only having two golfers make the cut. They were helped by Tee-It-Up having a whopping 3 miss the cut. Despite the disparity, the game remained close.
Putt-4-Dough hammered the Hackers after the Hackers were overheard doing a little smack-talk.
In a shocker Pin High beat Hol-E-1. The win for Pin High isn't the shock, it is the how. On Sunday, Sergio Garcia climbs a tree, plays a ball from in the tree and then withdrawals. Easily costing Hol-E-1 a victory.
→ Drive-4-Show Hot
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrive-4-Show is hot, hot, hot.
D4S has won 3 straight and is now the only undefeated team in the league. I'd say that is a good start. Drive-4-Show won easily as Drink was the only team over par. Regardless, D4S had the 2nd best outing this week and romped to victory.
Pin High did win the team skin and has to be excited about a rejuvenated Rory McIlroy. Rory looked like his old self on the last 27 holes. Pin High is LOADED. This week's victim was Tee-It-Up who never had a chance against the PH onslaught this week.
The Hookers took out the Hackers thanks to Tiger's win. Tiger still looks unstable with a lead, but a win in a win.
Hol-E-1 may have shut up Putt-4-Dough with a big win. Garcia is going to end up being the steal of the draft.
The Frogs took out CHiP. CHiP joins Drink as the two winless teams in the league.
→ Carnage in Florida
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn US Open like scoring, the PGA Championship Course in Palm Beach, FL only saw 17 players break par. Our league only had 7. Geoff Ogilvy won skins, including a carry-over with a -7 under par. We had 11 of 40 golfer miss the cut, or worse.
The story of the week was Rory withdrawing with a tooth-ache. Seems lame to me and I'm sure Pin High isn't too happy about. Pin High had heart surgery and he competed this week. Rory's WD was a back breaker as Pin High fell to Drive-4-Show and Ogilvy.
In the whackiest match up the week, Hol-E-1 won with 2 guys missing the cut and their opponent, CHiP, had all 4 make the cut. This is extremely rare. I've seen it only once or twice. I'm sure CHiP isn't too happy about it and I think I heard Hol-E-1 laugh and shrug from all the way down the street.
Don't look now, but the Hackers are in first place and have won a skin. They had a good showing with 3 golfers under par and all making the cut. This was more then enough to handle Drink.
Tee-It-Up got the lay-up win of the week when the Frogs had a no-show and two missed cuts - ouch.
The Hookers had 2 players miss the cut by one stroke each and still only lost by 6 strokes to Putt-4-Dough. Els didn't do much this week, but he made the cut and the was the difference maker.
→ North Dominates South
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst of all, I've not heard anything on Mike. If I get any news, I'll pass it along.
If week one is any indication, the North will hammer the South division this year. The North was a huge 4-1, with the only loss to the defending champion Frogs.
We had a carry-over for the best player skin.
The Frogs got solid play, if not spectacular, from all 4 golfer as they all made the cut. That is a sure fire winner even with Drink having a tie for low score.
Tee-It-Up won best team skin despite having a player miss the cut. Putt-4-Dough had a shot until Pettersson withdrew and Leishman shot a wickedly bad 77 on Sunday.
The Hackers got a big win over Hol-E-1. Big game from Schwartzel was enough to old off Garcia and Bradley.
In of 'those' games, Drive-4-Show won despite having 3 players miss the cut. How? Well, CHiP had 3 miss as well. So it was Scott vs. Moore. They were tied going into Sunday, but Scott shot a -3 and Moore a +1. Game over.
The Hookers had 3 miss the cut and lost to Pin High. Pin High had to be encouraged by Jacobson's early play as he usually plays well in the summer.
We are off to a wiz bang start.
→ 2013 Draft Date Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2013 Draft will be on Sunday, February 10 at 7:00pm at John Carroll's place on Bardstown Road.
→ Mickelson Leads Frogs
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe long suffering Slippery Frogs have finally done it. They finally won the Carl Cup behind one of the game's greatest - Phil Mickelson. Known in this league as "Double-D", Phil has been ridiculed and made fun of. However, in 2012, "Double-D" delivered the big win.
Jason Dufner was the Fantasy Golf Season's player of the year. Dufner played excellent in the tournament, but it was Mickelson that played beyond what he had shown during the season (in other words, the 'old Phil' was back). The combination of the two made the Frogs unbeatable.
The match was relatively close until Phil went nuts late on Saturday. Then Drink suffered when Jimmy Walker went from 5 under to 3 over through the weekend - bad weekend...
Congratulations to Larry and the Frogs. I'll say it for him, "Finally!"
→ Drink and Frogs Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrink took out Tee-It-Up when Justin Rose missed the cut by a single stroke. Drink didn't have any outstanding play, but all 4 made the cut and that was the difference maker.
The Slippery Frogs go to their first ever (I think) Carl Cup after easily defeating Hol-E-1. HE1 had two players miss the cut and it was all over.
It is Drink vs. Slippery Frogs for the Carl Cup. Should be a good one.
→ Hol-E-1 and Drink Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe semi-finals are upon us.
Hol-E-1 advanced by defeating the Hookers, who unexplainably benched Garcia in favor of Dustin Johnson. The good news is that Woods' collapse made that decision moot. Hol-E-1 got solid performances from Bubba and Oosthuizen.
Drink handled CHiP quite easily. Of course, it was more CHiP losing as they had 3 golfers miss the cut, ending his hopes on Friday. Drink won despite having no one under par for the tournament.
This week it is Hol-E-1 vs. the Slippery Frogs in one semi-final. The second semi-final will feature Drink against Tee-It-Up.
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Toilet Bowl Tourny:
Drive-4-Show and Hackers won their matches and will play for the 1st pick in next year's draft.
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat a finish!
Rory seems to be the new guy to beat, doesn't he?
Frogs win division despite losing to Hol-E-1 this week. The win have HE1 a playoff spot.
The Frogs won the division because the Hookers ran into a Pin High buzz saw named McIlroy over the weekend.
Tee-It-Up wins the North with Drink a close second.
P4D misses the playoffs despite a 11-11 record and winning the last 5 games - wow.
We are off for 1 week, then the playoffs begin. Here is the seeding and the match-ups for round 1.
Championship Flight:
1. Slipper Frogs
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Drink
4. Hookers
5. Hol-E-1
6. CHiP
Round 1: Hol-E-1 vs. Hookers; CHiP vs. Drink
(Winner of HE1 and Hookers play Frogs; CHiP vs. Drink winner play Tee-It-Up)
Toilet Bowl Flight
1. Drive-4-Show
2. Pin High
3. Hackers
4. Putt-4-Dough
Round 1: Drive-4-Show vs. Putt-4-Dough; Hackers vs. Pin High
→ 1 Week Left
Published: by Jim Greenwell1 week to go and what a week it will be.
If you didn't catch it, the Hookers nearly sewed up the South division, but Stricker birdies 4 of the last 5 holes to catch and tie the Hookers for the Frogs. The Frogs won the tie-breaker (earnings).
With 1 week left, there is now a tie at the top of both divisions.
In the North, both Tee-It-Up and Drink lost.
The Hackers won, keeping playoff hopes alive. Putt-4-Dough won a 4th in a row and is still in the hunt.
Here are the scenarios:
Tee-It-Up, Drink, Hookers, Frogs have all clinched the playoffs. 4 teams will battle for the remaining two spots.
North Division:
Tee-It-Up is champion with a win or Drink loss.
Drink is champion with a win and a Tee-It-Up loss.
South Division:
Slippery Frogs are champions with a win or Hookers loss.
Hookers are champions with a win and a Frogs loss.
Last two playoff spots:
(we could end up with a 4 way tie).
CHiP is in with a win or a loss by Hol-E-1 or Hackers
Hackers are in with a win and a loss by Hol-E-1 and Putt-4-Dough or (and catch this) a win by both Putt-4-Dough and Hol-E-1.
Hol-E-1 is in with a win.
Putt-4-Dough is in with a win and a loss by Hol-E-1 and Hackers
There are other scenarios where points will matter - every game matters this week. Should be fun.
→ Week 21 Set to Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith only two weeks to go, lots on the line.
Hookers can clinch division.
Putt-4-Dough can climb back in playoffs.
Drink looks for 8th straight win.
Tee-It-Up tries to recover and hang on in North.
Hackers vying for last playoff spot.
And, other things...
Bridgestone is normally a very good tournament. Enjoy.
→ Good for Ernie
Published: by Jim GreenwellI know Ernie Els has had his share of detractors in our league as he has struggled with his play. However, he remains one of the true 'good guys' of golf and it is nice to see them win. Adam Scott kinda honked up a lung, but so did Woods, Snedeker and McDowell.
Speaking of Ernie Els, look what Els has done for Drink! Drink has won 7 in a row and are now tied for the North Division.
Speaking of leading divisions, the Hookers are like Els too - nothing fancy, they find themselves on top of the South because everyone else is going backwards.
With only two weeks remaining, here are the playoffs as the stand now and the possible scenarios.
1. Hookers
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Slippery Frogs
4. Drink
5. CHiP
6. Hol-E-1
South Division Champ Scenarios
Tee-It-Up: just has to match or better the remaining win total for Drink.
Drink: One more win than Tee-It-Up over last two weeks.
North Division Champ Scenarios
Hookers: Magic number is two - any combinations of Hookers wins and Frogs losses equaling two.
Frogs: Win out. (This basically comes down to the Frogs - Hookers match-up in week 21).
Playoffs Scenarios
Hookers, Frogs, Drink, Tee-It-Up have all clinched.
Hackers make playoffs with two wins and two losses by either Hol-E-1 or CHiP and one loss by Putt-4-Dough.
CHiP make playoffs with 2 wins or 1 loss by Putt-4-Dough and Hackers.
Hol-E-1 make playoffs with 2 wins or 1 loss by Putt-4-Dough and Hackers.
Putt-4-Dough make playoffs with 2 wins and two losses by either CHiP or Hol-E-1. P4D finishes the year with both opponents.
Drive-4-Show and Pin High have been eliminated from the playoffs.
We are off again this week.
There is a lot on the line in the final two weeks.
→ Off this week
Published: by Jim GreenwellOne little break before a mad rush to the Cup.
Frogs, Hookers and Tee have clinched a playoff spot.
Chip is clinging to last playoff spot with only a one game lead on Hackers and Hol-E-1.
→ North rises up
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North division went 4-1 against the South this week. The playoff race just got crazy tight with only 4 weeks to go.
→ Drink Surging
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrink has won 4 in a row is in a battle for a playoff spot. This week they took down the might Frogs (who have now lost 4 in a row and didn't look very good - lost all 4 players to the cut line or mdf). Drink is now only 2 games out of first place in the North.
The see-saw season for the Hackers continue with a win this week. The Hackers are still very much in the playoff hunt and are challenging in the North. This week's victim Drive-4-Show who may be headed to the Toilet Bowl post season.
The proud Pin High foursome will not let this team die. Too many good players, too much bad luck. They did an important thing this weekend in beating Tee-It-Up. Lots of work to do to make playoffs, but very much in reach.
Putt-4-Dough can't get any more unlucky. On Friday night, they had won. 4 had made the cut compared to the Hookers' 2. Then Saturday happened. 2 P4D players missed the dreaded '2nd cut' (mdf) and handed the Hookers a victory (their 4th in a row).
After losing 7 in a row, Hol-E-1 finally won again, in convincing fashion (and a best team skin) over CHiP, who has to be shaking their head. CHiP had 3rd best score on the week and still lost.
With 5 weeks to go the playoffs (if starting today) would be:
1. Frogs
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Hookers
4. CHiP
5. Hol-E-1
6. Drink
(Hackers are only 1 game out)
→ Brutal Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellScores went high. The US Open was back to its old self. The course brought the players to their knees. (Was it just me, or did it look like the players were making it too hard?)
Anyway, things are getting crazy in our league now.
The Hackers gave the Frogs their 3rd straight loss and now the Hackers are in the playoff hunt.
CHiP nearly had the champion and won for the sixth straight time and is now only 1 game out of first place. Wow.
Tee-It-Up is now officially the team to beat after their walk-in-the park win over Hol-E-1.
The Hookers took out Drive-4-Show.
Putt-4-Dough had all 4 golfers miss the cut, resluting in an easy win for Drink.
→ CHiP Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP has won 5 in a row and finds themselves in second in the South Division. CHiP beat Putt-4-Dough despite having two miss the cut. In fact, we had 18 of 36 golfers miss the cut (with 4 no shows). Tough week on tour for the guys.
Pin High finally won one and beat the Frogs, who have suddenly lost two in a row (are they vulnerable now?) Can this start a winning streak for Pin High?
Tee-It-Up got back to winning ways with a best team skin and an important win over Drive-4-Show to maintain lead in North.
Drink got an easy win over the no-showing Hackers.
The Hookers are glad to see Dustin Johnson back on the tour. Best player skin and a big win over Hol-E-1 who has now lost 6 in a row.
With only 7 weeks to go, here are the playoff teams if it ended today. All teams are still alive for the playoffs.
1. Frogs
2. Tee-It-Up
3. CHiP
4. Hookers
5. Hol-E-1
6. Drink
→ Big Boys Fall
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up and the Slippery Frogs lost a game. Things might start getting interesting...
TIU had more make the cut than the Hackers, but they finished last and nearly last. The Hackers squeaked by and are now in the playoff hunt.
The Frogs had only their 5th missed cut of the year, but also their 2nd withdrawal and it cost them. CHiP had all four make the cut and won for the 4th straight time.
Pin High finally faced an opponent with a terrible game. Problem is - Pin High was worse. Drink wins and Pin High has to be wondering what they have to do to win a couple in a row.
D4S had no issues with Hol-E-1 as HE1 had 2 miss the cut and a withdrawal.
Hookers swept skins and took down Putt-4-Dough.
→ CHiP now rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP has won 3 in a row and climbed out of the basement, beating the Hookers who can't seem to win in division.
Don't ignore Tee-It-Up who has won 4 in a row.
The Frogs are laughing all the way to the bank.
→ 10 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis appears to be shaping up as a two team race. Tee-It-Up and the Frogs. Both teams are under par for the year and are opening up big leads in their respective divisions. There is also some movement from the bottom. Could be a wild 10 weeks.
Poor Pin High - what do they have to do to win a match? Good grief. 3rd best score on the week and still lose. Their opponent score is a crazy -44 under par. This week, they lose to CHiP who has won two in a row and are back to .500 on the season.
Tee-It-Up wins despite only two making the cut. They caught Hol-E-1 in a slump as they have now lost 3 in a row.
The Frogs keep on trucking taking out the Hackers, winning best player skin and missing team skin by two strokes.
The Hookers beat Drive-4-Show and it was over early with 3 D$S' missing the cut.
Putt-4-Dough rode VJ to a 3rd straight victory and are now .500 on the season. This week's victim was Drink.
Lots of talk about inter-division match-ups. This week the South was 4-1 against the North. The season record is now 23 - 9 in favor of the South Division. The Frogs are 6-0 and the Hookers 6-1 against the North.
If the playoffs started today - every team in the South would make the playoffs and only Tee-It-Up would from the North.
It a long season and we the South is about to start beating up on each other...
→ Pay Attention to Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up may not have the best record in the league, but they do own the best 'break-down' stat and are leading the North Division. Playing the seemingly weaker North, don't be surprised if Tee-It-Up ends up in with the best overall record.
Here we are, half way through the season, if you can believe it.
The Frogs finally lose, P4D has won 3 in a row and Drive-4-Show has lost 6 in a row - ouch.
The second half should be wildly entertaining.
→ Frogs and Hol-E-1
Published: by Jim GreenwellAre there are any other teams? Tee-It-Up will scream, 'yes' and they may have a case - but good golly.
The Frogs had all 4 golfers finish in the top 10, winning the game and best team skin. The only thing that went wrong was they had the two golfer tie for the championship, causing a carry-over on the best player skin. That has happened one other time this year - to Hol-E-1.
These two teams are clearly loaded.
This week's victims to the Frogs and Hol-E-1? Tee-It-Up and Pin High respectively. Want to see scary? Go look at Pin High's opponent's score - ouch.
The Hookers took out the hapless Hackers and are trying to keep pace with the other two.
Putt-4-Dough barely won this installment of the Bullit County wars.
CHiP beat Drink.
Yes, that is yet another South sweep over the North.
If the playoffs started today, only one North Division team would make it. Just saying...
→ Huh?
Published: by Jim GreenwellDespite having two golfer withdraw from the tournament Hol-E-1 won behind Huh. Yes, Huh. I have no idea, that is how you spell his name. Huh. Things that make you say Huh? Anyway, the two stroke win over CHiP has probably left CHiP saying more than, "huh".
Keeping pace with Hol-E-1 is the Frogs with an easy win over Drink and getting best player skin from Ben Curtis. Curtis? Really? Huh...
Tee-It-Up is now two games up in the North with a relatively easy win over Pin High.
The Hackers won despite two no-shows. Of course it helps when your opponent is ALL no-shows...
The Hookers beat Putt-4-Dough thanks to 3 missed cuts by P4D.
→ Bizarro Weekend
Published: by Jim GreenwellIf you didn't pay attention, the results don't get any nuttier than this:
Frogs had 3 no shows and won.
Hol-E-1 had 3 miss the cut and won.
CHiP had 2 miss the cut and won.
Tee-It-Up had only 1 miss the cut, earned best player skin and lost - ouch.
The South Division swept the North Division.
Hookers wish they were in the North where they are 4 - 0, against their 0 - 3 in their own division.
We are sort of 1/3 of the way through, shaping up to be a really interesting season.
→ Holy Hol-E-1!!!!
Published: by Jim GreenwellHol-E-1 was the only team to go under par this week. Everything (nearly) went perfectly for them. They won best team skin and had two players tie for the Masters Championship. (Unfortunately, for Hol-E-1, that is still a carry-over for best golfer skin). The outstanding performance gave the Frogs their first defeat of the season and put these two teams in a tie for the South division. The Frogs will be doubly aggravated as they had the second best score on the week.
Drink had all 4 players make the cut, with no one under par, but more than enough to take out the Hackers.
Tee-It-Up had an easy win over the 'roll-over' lineup from Drive-4-Show and have leaked out into the lead of the North division.
The Hookers knocked off Pin High thanks to some good play from Garcia and McDowell.
CHiP used a Freddy to eek out a 2 stroke win over Putt-4-Dough. Always nice to see Couples playing well.
→ Slippery Frogs go 5 - 0
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat the heck is going on? The Slippery Frogs have opened the season with 5 straight wins. They are just hammering folks and this week's victim was the punch-less Hookers. The Frogs are second in the league in strokes and just seem to have everything going for them.
Have you noticed what is happening to Pin High? Their opponent score would be second best in the league if a real team. Yet, they've managed to win 3 games - including a huge win (and a skin) over Drink.
Tee-It-Up continues to pace the North with a win over the Hackers (who didn't have such a great week...)
CHiP's struggles continue with yet another loss - this time to Drive-4-Show.
Hol-E-1 keeps pace with the Frogs with a win over Putt-4-Dough.
→ Frogs Go 4-0
Published: by Jim GreenwellTwo straight weeks, the focus is on the Slippery Frogs. Off to a stellar 4-0 start. The Frogs got the best team skin while taking out Tee-It-Up.
Hol-E-1 is the only team left with only 1 loss as they humbled Pin High by a whopping 48 strokes.
Half the league (yes, 5 teams) are now 2-2. Wow. One of those teams is the Hookers who got a best skin from Tiger in a win over the Hackers - been a long, long time...
Putt-4-Dough got their first win of the season over arch rival Drive-4-Show.
Drink improved to 2-2 with a big win over CHiP.
→ THE Slippery Frogs!
Published: by Jim GreenwellLadies and Gentleman, the only remaining unbeaten team after just 3 week is the Slippery Frogs. The Frogs haven't done anything spectacular, but they have been very steady. This week's victim was Putt-4-Dough. Putt-4-Dough has been decidedly unlucky this year as they are the only winless team so far (of course, it hurts when you are relegated to a roll-over line-up).
Drive-4-Show got their first win and a team skin by giving Pin High their first loss of the season.
Tee-It-Up just missed the team skin and hammered Drink to stay at the top of the North Division.
Keeping pace is the Hackers who won impressively again over Hol-E-1.
CHiP finally got a win over the less than inspiring Hookers.
→ Pin High Continues to Roll
Published: by Jim GreenwellWow! Is this how it felt to face Tiger in 2000? Rory is on fire and is making a good team great. Pin High took another skin and held of the Hackers. The Hackers lost despite the 2nd best score of the week. Pin High looks unbeatable.
Drink had an easy win against a roll-over line-up from Drive-4-Show.
Tee-It-Up gets a skin from Rose and defeated Putt-4-Dough, who inexplicably relied on VJ this week.
Hol-E-1 just hammered the Hookers as Garcia's weekend looked like Mr. Toad's wild ride that included a 12 on a single hole and quite possible the end, the real end of Tiger's career.
The Frogs kept pace with Hol-E-1 with a huge win over CHiP. The Frogs won despite a pedestrian outing from Double-D.
→ Pin High Rolls
Published: by Jim GreenwellHow about that pick up by Pin High? Sang-moon Bae? Really? Not only does Pin High pick him up, but plays him and he makes the cut. This lead to a double-up on the skins and a big victory over Putt-4-Dough. Looks like Rory may be the real deal...
The defending champ got "Tiger-ed" (thanks to Rory making the cut).
The all foreign Hackers team handled CHiP after CHiP had 2 miss the cut and the rest over par.
The Frogs took care of business over Drive-4-Show.
Hol-E-1 had a withdraw and a no show, yet still managed to beat Drink who's best score was 4 over.
→ 2012 Season Set to Begin
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2012 draft is completed and all competitors have a fresh sense of 'I can do this'. As always, it will be interesting to see how the season unfolds.
Will Tee-It-Up successfully defend his title? Can Putt-4-Dough win another 19 games? Could the Hackers, Frogs, Pin High or P4D finally earn the 'Carl Cup'? Can the Hookers (and Tiger) get back to winning ways? This and many other questions. The answers are only 26 weeks away...
→ 2012 Draft Order
Published: by Jim Greenwell1. John Carroll
2. Tony Hall
3. Mark Ianke
4. Larry Edlin
5. Pat Guenthner
6. Dan Apple
7. Jim Greenwell
8. Mike Miller
9. Scott Farrar
10. Tim Denham
→ Web Site Transitioning...
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe web site is transitioning to the 2012 season. You will find most information now gone. If you needed anything off of it, let the commissioner know.
→ Carl Cup to Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn a match that seemed to be over late on Thursday, Tee-It-Up rode Justin Rose to victory. Drink's hot streak comes to an end and Tee-It-Up hoists the Carl Cup yet again.
Congratulations to Tim.
Great season.
Enjoy the rest of the PGA season, 2012 is just around the corner...
→ Drink vs. Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt will be Drink and Tee-It-Up in the battle for the Carl Cup in a couple of surprising upsets.
First, the hottest team on the planet met their demise when de Jonge shot an UGLY 77 on Saturday to miss the cut by 2. Putt-4-Dough was clearly the better team all year, but this week Drink got the better of them. By-the-way, Drink now owns a 6 game winning streak.
Tee-It-Up beat Pin High relatively handily. PH was brutalized by Immelman's withdrawal from the tournament. Immelman apparently had a death in the family, forcing the decision. Immelman was a surprise play by PH as it was only the second time all year that he was in the line-up. Tee-It-Up had the tourney winner in Simpson.
These two teams have met 3 times in the regular season. Drink prevailed at the Zurich Classic and TIU won at both the Crowne Plaza and AT&T National. Should be a good one.
(oh, and Drive-4-Show won the Toilet Bowl and will have the first pick throughout next year's draft).
→ The Semi-Finals
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are now ready for the semi-finals - after a shortened first round last week, we move on to the real excitement.
The Hookers and CHiP feel a little short changed, but that is the way it goes. Congrats to Tee-It-Up and Drink on their playoff victories.
This is it! Does Putt-4-Dough and Pin High continue to dominate and setup a showdown for the ages? Or, does TIU or Drink pull an upset? It should be an exciting weekend in Boston. Lets look at the match-ups.
P4D only lost 3 games all year, but one of them was to Drink at the Byron Nelson. P4D won the second game by a small margin (5 strokes) at the Travelers. If there was one team P4D didn't want to see, it was a hot Drink team that has shown no fear of P4D. These two teams are the hottest in the league - P4D winning 10 straight and Drink winning 5 straight. Should be a classic, but the Swami is going with the upset - Drink takes out P4D by 8 strokes.
Tee-It-Up may have limped into the playoffs but they layed some lumber on the Hookers and easily advanced to the next round against Pin High. TIU is 2-1 against Pin High this year and they have all been close games. TIU won by 13 at the Transitions and by 2 at the Players. Pin High won by 7 at the Canadian Open. The swami sees another close one, but Pin High pulls out the victory by 4.
Good luck to all 4 teams.
(Also, the Frogs and Drive-4-Show play for the Toilet Bowl and the first pick in each round next year).
→ The Playoffs
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2011 playoffs begin this week at the Barclays. We have two good matches this week. Lets take a look.
Tee-It-Up vs. Hookers
This is a tale of two teams that have limped into the playoffs. TIU is sporting a 4 game losing streak, while the Hookers have lost 2 straight. TIU lost to the Hackers, of all teams, in week 22 and could still be licking their wounds. The Hookers sort of slid of the radar once their division title hopes ended.
The two teams split their 2 regular season games, with TIU winning at the Byron Nelson and Hookers at the Travelers. Who will win this week? The Hookers are bound to lose sooner or later, you don't win a championship with a collection of misfits and no 'A' player. Tee-It-Up turns it around this week as Webb Simpson leads them to a tie-breaker victory.
Drink vs. CHiP
Drink may well be the 2nd hottest team in the league, riding a 4 game winning streak. CHiP, meanwhile, has been very hot as well winning 5 of the last 7 and those two losses consisted of a 1 stroke loss to Putt-4-Dough and a miracle loss to Hol-E-1.
These two teams also split their regular season games. Drink won at the St. Jude Classic and CHiP won at the British Open. This week, the Swami sees Drink winning this one with big weekends from Day, Watney and Woodland.
Oh, one last thing. The Toilet Bowl tournament is happening too:
Hol-E-1 vs. Frogs
Drive-4-Show vs. Hackers
→ Regular Season Concludes
Published: by Jim GreenwellFirst - congrats to the playoff teams.
1. Putt-4-Dough
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Drink
5. CHiP
6. Tee-It-Up
That is also the seeding for the tournament.
Quick recap: Again, it appears to be P4D's year. They beat a good Pin High team with one fewer player making the cut. Good AND lucky is very dangerous - it appears that P4D is both...
The P4D win over Pin High was a stunning 10th in a row. Only two more to the coveted Carl Cup.
Pin High was certainly hurt by an ailing Rory. The question now is: Will Rory play in the PGA Tournament?
CHiP not only made the playoffs but got the 5 seed. Tee-It-Up limped into the playoffs after losing to the Hackers.
Toilet Bowl seedings:
1. Hol-E-1
2. Hackers
3. Drive-4-Show
4. Slipper Frogs
We are off this week and pick back up in 2 weeks for the first round of the playoffs. Here are the matchups:
Championship Flight:
Hookers vs. Tee-It-Up
Drink vs. CHiP
(P4D and Pin High have a bye)
Toilet Bowl Flight:
Hol-E-1 vs. Slippery Frogs
Drive-4-Show vs. Hackers
→ Steve Williams
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, now we know. Steve Williams has won another event at Firestone. This time, on Adam Scott's bag. If you believe in Karma, this was one big dose of it for one Tiger Woods this week. Tiger's week had to be no fun in a long, long series of contemptible weeks....
As for our league, Tiger's return didn't help the Hookers as they lost for a third time to Putt-4-Dough. If this was the Derby or the Open Championship, they would be already engraving....
Pin High got a 'bye week' against the Hackers but appears to be the only serious challenge for P4D.
Drink clinched 2nd place money with a cross-divisional thrashing of the Frogs.
Hol-E-1 ended a double digit losing streak with a win over CHiP.
Drive-4-Show won a bunch of money thanks to Mr. Scott and beat Tee-It-Up.
With one week remaining, only the last playoff spot remains available. Here is how it will be settled:
Tee-It-Up: with a win or a CHiP loss.
CHiP: with a win AND a Tee-It-Up loss.
CHiP plays the Hookers and TIU plays the Hackers.
→ Update Warning
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone - I may not be able to update this week for another week. In a few hours, I will be heading into the wilderness for 7 days with limited to no internet access. I will try really hard to update, but don't be surprised if week 22 is finished before I update either 21 or 22.
P4D will clinch - the next two weeks are huge for the remaining playoff spots...
→ Putt-4-Dough
Published: by Jim GreenwellIs any tired of hearing about Putt-4-Dough yet? Look at what they did this week. The play O'Hair for only third time this year, despite him missing cuts on the previous two tries. Then, this week, O'Hair delivers a win - in come back fashion, a carry-over skin victory and a seventh straight victory.
CHiP, despite the loss, stays in the last playoff spot thanks to losses by Hackers and the Frogs.
And what about Pin High, lost in all of the love fest for P4D, Pin High has now won 4 in a row and has clinched the North division. (If PH looks at the Finance page, they'll like what the see). Tee-It-Up remains in the hunt for 2nd in the division.
The Hookers won again, not that it matters much. The Hookers are still mathematically in the division hunt, but have clinched at least 2nd in the division.
Drink crushes the Hackers to solidify their hunt for the playoffs and puts them squarely in the mix for a 2nd place finish in the North.
This just in: Hol-E-1 Sucks! 10 Straight losses. This week's victor was Drive-4-Show.
Playoff picture:
Clinched: Putt-4-Dough, Pin High, Hookers. P4D can clinch #1 overall seed with one more win or Pin High loss.
Current seedings
1. P4D
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Drink
6. CHiP
Tee-It-Up and Drink clinch a playoff spot with two wins, 1 win and a loss by either Frogs or CHiP (or two losses by them) and 1 loss by Hackers.
Hackers can actually still reach playoffs.
But, the most likely is the last spot goes to either Frogs or CHiP. Currently, CHiP owns all tie breakers over Frogs. But, there are still 3 weeks to go.
→ Pin High and Putt-4-Dough
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High and Putt-4-Dough will face each other in the last week of the season - week 22. The question is: should we just make that game the final for the Carl Cup?
Plenty of teams will suggest they can be beaten in the playoffs, like the Hookers, Tee-It-Up, Drink, CHiP and others. However, to date, they both look very unbeatable.
Pin High earned a huge win over the Hookers. PH was winning by 4 Saturday night, losing by 4 at 9:00am on Sunday and won by 2. The has all but mathematically cost the Hookers a chance at the division title. Pin High has a 3 game lead over Tee-It-Up with only 4 to go.
Also with a 3 game lead in their division is Putt-4-Dough who won despite having only one golfer make the cut. Why? How? I'll tell you. The Hackers had 1 no show and 3 missed cuts - hard to win that way.
The Slippery Frogs won a best team skin in a victory over Drive-4-Show. The win keeps the Frogs playoff hopes very much alive.
Tee-It-Up made easy work of Hol-E-1, sending HE1 to their 9th straight loss. Ouch.
CHiP was the only team to have all 4 players make the cut and outlasted Drink for their 3rd straight victory.
The best golfer skin is a carry-over.
Only 4 weeks to go. Here is the playoff picture as of today.
1. Putt-4-Dough
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Drink
6. CHiP
The Frogs and Hackers are very much in the hunt.
P4D, Pin High and Hookers have clinched a playoff spot.
HE1 has been eliminated from the playoffs.
→ Hol-E-1 Skid is now 8!
Published: by Jim GreenwellSo, lets see, you are playing the best team in the league, so you want to cart out some of your best. You trot out guys like Glover, Appleby and Weekely. But by Friday afternoon, the had either withdrew or been disqualified. The only player to make the cut is some guy known as Lumpy. And, THAT is how you lose your 8th in a row in style. Putt-4-Dough was this week's recipient of HE1's futility, winning their 5th in a row.
Pin High had a good week, winning a skin and now owns a 3 game lead in the North. Drive-4-Show had 3 make the cut, but it was never close.
The Hookers kept pace with P4D with their own 5th straight win, this time over the no-showing Hackers.
Drink won a skin, but that is it. Thanks to Couch's WD, Tee-It-UP won easily.
Don't look now, but CHiP is now on a two game winning streak and edging closer to the playoffs.
Playoffs:
Putt-4-Dough has clinched a playoff spot.
If playoffs began this week:
1. Putt-4-Dough
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Tee-It-Up
5. Drink
6. Hackers
Yes, that is 4 teams from the North and includes the Hackers. CHiP and Frogs lose tie-breaker for now with Hackers. Still 5 weeks to go...
→ Going Low
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, you know the tour has been to Connecticut when EVERY fantasy team finishes under par - even those teams that had two people miss the cut - where a 19 under par is only good for a TIE for 2nd place. The pros just kill this course every year.
Speaking of killing it, CHiP went for 56 under par and pounded Drive-4-Show. The win was huge in keeping the defending champion's playoff hopes alive. Drive-4-Show was never in it, despite having all 4 players make the cut.
The big story, for now, is in the South where both Putt-4-Dough and the Hookers have won 4 straight. P4D took out a pesky Drink team. Drink was hurt when 'A' player Furyk missed the cut by only 1 stroke.
P4D's win streak has kept a red hot Hookers safely two games behind. This week the Hookers took a best player skin and obliterated Tee-It-Up by 40 strokes. TIU had no chance when the lost 2 players to the cut.
Don't look now, but the Hackers are in the playoff hunt. Winning their 2nd in a row now has them in a tie with the Frogs for the last playoff spot (currently, the tie-breaker goes to the Frogs). The Hackers took advantage of a rapidly disappearing Hol-E-1 team that has now lost 7 in a row.
Pin High took care of the Frogs this week and coupled with Drink's loss, have moved two games clear in the North. This year is shaping up into a tale of "have's" and "have not's" and Pin High is definitely a "have".
Playoffs:
P4D clinches a playoff spot with their next win or a loss by either the Hackers or Frogs. If playoffs started today the seeds would be:
1. Putt-4-Dough
2. Pin High
3. Hookers
4. Drink
5. Tee-It-Up
6. Slippery Frogs
→ Rory!
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat a tournament. Rory set soooo many tournament records, but that isn't what I want to mention. Rory birdied his second hole of the day, the 4th hole, 2 under for the day, 16 under for the tournament - as he walked to the 5th tee he handed the ball to a kid standing along the ropes.
There were a lot of comparisons to Tiger over the weekend and in my opinion, Tiger's Pebble Beach performance was still more impressive. But, Rory did something Tiger would never do - he engaged the fans, he was likable. Rory is better for golf.
Speaking of Rory, he was the only player for Pin High to make the cut, enabling the Hookers to win a 3rd straight. To add insult to injury - all 3 golfers (Cink, Mahan and Fowler) all missed the cut by only 1 stroke.
Speaking of 3 straight wins, Putt-4-Dough continues to blow people away. 1 of only 2 teams to have all 4 make the cut, P4D hammered CHiP who had 3 miss and the only player to make the cut (Bubba Watson) had a very pedestrian 9 over. P4D has now won 12 games against only 5 losses - very impressive.
The other team to have all 4 make the cut? The Frogs. The Frogs easily handled Hol-E-1, despite Mickelson not having the greatest of tournaments. Still hard to root against Phil.
Drink beat Drive-4-Show because of Jason Day's gritty Sunday. Day hit so many bad shots that he could have easily have shot an 80. Instead, he was under par and delivered a win for Drink, by 3 strokes.
In an UGLY game, the Hackers beat Tee-It-Up on a tie-breaker. The teams tied at a 71. Kuchars was two over on the last two holes, and the Hackers won anyway. Of course, Zach Johnson's bogey on 18 then cost Tee-It-Up the victory.
→ Drive-4-Show Ends Skid
Published: by Jim GreenwellRight now, only 1 team (Hol-E-1) is more than 1 game out of a playoff spot. The stretch run should be wild.
Drive-4-Show had lost 7 in a row, but they won this last week by beating Tee-It-Up, ending TIU's 5 game winning streak. D4S got a big week from Stephen Ames who placed a top 10 despite having missed every cut since April.
Putt-4-Dough's dominance continues. P4D had top 3 finishes from Imada and Villegas, sending Hol-E-1 to a 5th straight loss. HE1 continues with the tough schedule, playing the leagues 2nd hardest schedule to date.
Playing the hardest schedule in the league and winning their 8th game despite that fact, Drink beat CHiP. CHiP has to be screaming, scoring the league's 3rd best points this week and still losing. CHiP was hurt by Bettencourt's opening 80, causing him to miss the cut. Drink didn't get huge play from any one golfer, but all 4 made the cut.
Pin High got a an easy win over the 'no show' Hackers.
The Hookers kept pace with Putt-4-Dough with a sloppy win over the Slippery Frogs. The Frogs had both Kim and Bohn miss the cut, while the Hookers had Karllson tie for first (losing in a playoff). It was enough to secure a win for the Hookers.
→ Tee-It-Up Keeps Winning
Published: by Jim GreenwellDon't look now, but Tee-It-Up has won 5 straight games and is now in 2nd all alone in the North. They continue to chase down Pin High - this time, they beat Hol-E-1 who just can't catch a break.
Speaking of Pin High, they won again by just pounding Drink. Drink had 2 missed cuts and a no show - can't beat Pin High like that. The Swami still stand by their pre-season pick of Pin High winning the Carl Cup.
Yes, the Swami is fully aware of the powerful Putt-4-Dough squad, who won again and is now a whopping 10-3. P4D slid past the Frogs and won the best team skin. P4D has a 2 game lead on 2nd place and a huge 4 game lead on 3rd place in the South.
The Hackers had Matt Kuchar and won best player skin and it was enough to send them to victory over Drive-4-Show.
The Hookers won again, narrowly escaping with a win over CHiP thank to Spencer Levin missing the cut.
→ What Happened in Dallas?
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe scores looked like a bad US Open. Only 3 players in our league managed to break par and we had one team win with a score of 82! Wow!
Let us start there. Despite, 3 no shows, the Hackers beat Hol-E-1 on the tie-breaker. How? Hol-E-1 had 2 no shows and a missed cut. Ugly.
Tee-It-Up used a 13 stroke swing on Sunday for a come-from-behind victory over the Hookers. TIU has now won 4 in a row is only a game out of first in the North.
Drink wins the best team skin, upseting Putt-4-Dough. Drink was helped when to P4D players missed the cut.
The Frogs won, somehow. They had two no shows and a missed cut, but won thanks to Palmer's 3 under, which was more than enough to beat Pin High who had 3 missed cuts and Taylor shooting 7 over.
CHiP beat Drive-4-Show with no golfer shooting better than 7 over. What kind of crap is that - it was a rough week on the PGA Tour.
With the top 3 teams all losing, the standings are considerably tighter headed to week 13.
→ Tee-It-Up Continues Streak
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up won a for a 3rd straight week thanks to solid play from Zach Johnson. This win over Drink was huge in that it pulled them into a tie with Drink for second place in the North. Drink was doomed when Gainey bogeyed 18 on Friday to miss the cut by one stroke - ouch.
Putt-4-Dough's season is making everyone ignore Pin High. You better stop ignoring him if you are. The lead the league in strokes, have a 2 game lead in the North and whoever they play seems to be 'cursed' each week. This week's beat down was over Drive-4-Show who had 2 miss the cut. Pin High also won best team skin.
Speaking of Putt-4-Dough, their charmed season continues. This week, P4D had the 2nd worst score of the week and still won. How? Because the Hackers had 3 players miss the cut - three of them! Putt-4-Dough managed to win with a missed cut and a No Show - not that is pitiful.
The Frogs beat the Chip in a match that neither will crow about. 4 missed cuts between the teams makes for an ugly contest.
Have the Hookers found a new keeper in David Toms? What a season Toms is having. Toms lead the Hookers to a win over Hol-E-1 in of those 3 on 4 wins - where Hookers had a missed cut, Hol-E-1 didn't, yet the Hookers still won. Tough break for the 'breakless' HE1.
→ CHiP's Big Haul
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP cleaned up the skins this week, winning multiple skins worth $30 bucks. CHiP got a win they desperately needed against a snake-bitten Hol-E-1. HE1 was beaten when defending champion Tim Clark decided his elbow hurt and withdrew after 1 round.
Speaking of withdrawals, Tiger shoots a 42 for 9 then bails because he suddenly can't walk, handing Putt-4-Dough the win and a 2 game cushion in the South.
In a big win, Tee-It-Up slowed down Pin High and really tightened things up in the North.
The Frogs got back to winning ways thanks to Drive-4-Show having 2 miss the cut. The Frogs needed that win, could there be a run from this team?
Drink won despite having 2 miss the cut. Why? Because the Hackers were even worse. Els and Harrington miss the cut and Kuchar didn't do anything.
→ Hackers -10 * 4
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers had all 4 golfers score 10 under par, giving them 40 under par as a team (duh). The Hackers handled the Frogs even though the Frogs had a good weekend as well. The Hackers didn't win any skins, however.
Tying the Hackers for best skin was Tee-It-Up who put an momentary halt to the run away Putt-4-Dough train. P4D was as good as ever, but TIU was outstanding. Despite the loss, P4D maintained their lead in the South.
Gaining on P4D was the Hookers who got an easy win over Drive-4-Show who had a "no show" line-up (with the one player who did play, miss the cut).
Pin High continues to lead the North and even took a 2 game lead over Drink. Pin High beat CHiP as both teams had 2 players miss the cut.
Hol-E-1 finally won again with a big win over Drink.
Here is the interesting stuff:
1. No team is more than 1 game out of the playoff now - it is going to be a tight race and no one should give up on this one.
2. The best player skin will carry-over for a 3rd consecutive week. Next week's player skin will be worth $20 dollars.
3. The best team skin will carry-over as well and it will be worth $10 dollars.
A clean sweep next week will be worth some coin.
→ Pin High Cruises
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High continues to stay ahead of Drink in the race for the North championship. This week they used a "best team skin" kind of performance to easily handle Drive-4-Show. Drive-4-Show was practically a "no show" with 3 players missing the cut.
In other games:
How can you not talk about Putt-4-Dough as they have now won a whopping 5th straight game (the crowing begins in 3,2,1...). This could be their year. P4D normally loses on weekends like this with two players missing the cut. Not this year, give them another win over this week's victim, the nearly helpless Hol-E-1 team.
Drink got a good game out of Gainey, the new darling of the PGA Tour and beat Tee-It-Up who pushed the best player skin. TIU had 2 players miss the cut, dooming them.
The Hookers used a lousy Sunday by VJ to slip by the Hackers. VJ show a 78 on Sunday, including two double bogeys in the last 4 holes to help the Hackers lose to the Hookers.
Well, it wasn't pretty, but CHiP beat the Frogs and keep pace with the Hookers and P4D. Frogs were seriously harmed by a couple of "no shows".
→ Run Away Train
Published: by Jim GreenwellWill it end? One team hopes it doesn't.
Putt-4-Dough is on a run that is very "Hoochie-esque". P4D has won 4 in a row and has taken a 2 game lead in the South. This week's victim was Drive-4-Show. P4D was so good, they stole a skin from themselves as they had the two golfers with the best score. P4D looks for 5 in a row against Hol-E-1 next week.
Pin High continues to lead in the North with a win even with 2 players missing the cut. It was a narrow 2 shot win over Hol-E-1.
The Hackers pulled a big win over CHiP with a nice weekend from Kuchar.
The Frogs got a big win when Tee-It-Up had two miss the cut.
The Hookers had no chance against Drink as Drink had all 4 players make the cut.
→ Putt-4-Dough on a Streak
Published: by Jim GreenwellPutt-4-Dough has won 3 straight and took home best team skin. P4D was the ONLY team to shoot under par this week with scores resembling a US Open. This week's victim was Pin High who slipped into a tie for 1st in the North. P4D is now all alone in the South. The crowing should start in 1,2,3...
Drive-4-Show had the second best week and easily handled Drink. D4S has won two and a row and is now in 1st in the North. Drink's up-and-down season continues.
The Hookers won a game that no one wanted to win (or deserved to win). The Hookers won with a score of a whopping 43. They won because CHiP was just a little bit worse. This, for the Hookers, was one of them 'lucky ones'.
Hol-E-1 took out the Frogs, but the Frogs got a skin out of Hoffman.
Tee-It-Up had a good week, but didn't need it against the no showing Hackers.
→ Putt-4-Dough Leads South
Published: by Jim GreenwellPutt-4-Dough got a huge win over the Hookers this week, putting them in first place, all alone, in the South division. P4D had all 4 make the cut and easily hung on to win as the Hookers had two miss the cut.
Pin High continues to lead in the North thanks to their win over the Hackers. The Hackers had a "no show" and the Masters' champion on the bench. Pin High got one of those 'wins'....
The Frogs got terrible play from the world's number 1 player and Mickelson didn't nothing noteworthy in a tough loss to Drink. Drink's team wasn't stellar either, but had only one golfer miss the cut.
Drive-4-Show sweeps the skins in a huge win over Tee-It-Up. Since Shwartzel was on the bench, Scott's 12 under was enough to win a skin.
CHiP had an easy win over Hol-E-1. CHiP got great play from Couples and Choi while Hol-E-1 had a no show and two missed cuts.
→ Frogs Go Crazy
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Slippery Frogs - wow! Mickelson is always capable of such a big weekend. But, the big news is the play of Kim and Howell III. If they play like that the rest of the year, we can all sit back and wait for week 25 when the Frogs play Pin High for the title. The Hackers had a great tournament, but not enought to overcome this Frogs' onslaught.
Speaking of Pin High, they continue to impress with another easy victory. This time against CHiP. CHiP had 2 miss the cut and no one under par.
Hol-E-1 had a nice weekend, finally winning a game in the 2011 campain. Scott Verplank was huge as was Baddeley.
The Hookers were very average over the weekend, with only 1 golfer under par. They had an easy win over Drive-4-Show, who had 3 miss the cut - ouch.
Putt-4-Dough continues their good season with a rock solid weekend. de Jonge is stgruggling a bit, but they are now 3-1 thanks to Tee-It-Up laying an egg with 3 missed cuts.
It is Masters week. Enjoy.
→ CHiP Finally Wins
Published: by Jim GreenwellWatch out now, CHiP has finally won and earned a skin in the process. CHiP took out Tee-It-Up with all 4 players making the cut AND shooting under par for the weekend - very solid.
In a survival weekend, Drive-4-Show hammered the Hackers with Laird winning a skin for D4S.
Pin high had all 4 make the cut, but no on under par. It was still plenty to beat Drink who had 2 miss the cut. Woodland was especially bad on Friday.
The Frogs took care of the previously undefeated Putt-4-Dough. P4D had 2 miss the cut while the Frogs got steady, if not spectacular play from Slocum and Mickelson.
The Hookers beat Hol-E-1, sendng HE1 to their 3 loss in as many tries in 2011.
→ Arnold's Tournament
Published: by Jim GreenwellA true "good guy" of golf. An ambassador and what appears to be a solid, moral, unselfish man and man of golf hosts this week's tournament.
It is actually a site to see as they replay some highlights from previous tournaments to see Palmer happily greet Woods after some of those wins. All the while people though Woods was some sort of super-human golfer, daddy and husband.
I don't expect Woods to win this week, but will be the reception from Palmer if he does? Here is my guess: A very classy congratulation as Palmer would never show any ill will and mar this tournament. Just a guess (and will probably not find out).
Anyway, this week's big story is the 2-0 teams as the battle to remain unbeaten.
First, Drink takes on Pin High. What a great game this will be. Two very solid starting 4. I give the edge to Pin High as I just think Woodland will come back down to earth on this very difficult course. Pin High by 5.
Tee-It-Up has a cross divisional game against CHiP. The key is Rose, as he faltered a little last week in clutch - can he regain form? I say yes and I expect Mark Wilson to struggle. Tee-It-Up by 18.
Putt-4-Dough is on a roll and ready to all comers. This week it is the Frogs. What is going on with Mickelson - not a single expert is picking him. You know what that means - that is right - look out! Mickelson has a great tourny and leads the Frogs to their first victory.
Drive-4-Show may have an easy time of it with the Hackers as the Hackers are still line-up less at this time. D4S by 48.
Hol-E-1 gets a sub par Hookers team. The Hookers had to go with 2nd run players as many of the better players on roster are sitting this one out. Hole-E-1 by 24.
→ Putt-4-Dough Rolls
Published: by Jim GreenwellPutt-4-Dough continues a hot start. Not only did they hammer CHiP, but narrowly missed a best team skin despite having a player miss the cut. If not de Jonge collapsing on back nine, they would have. CHiP just couldn't answer huge weekends from Snedeker and de Jonge for P4D.
Drink improves to 2-0 with a win over the Hackers. This one was not close as two players missed the cut for the Hackers. Drink has to be thrilled, however, with the hot play of Nick Watney.
Tee-It-Up also got to 2-0 by beating Pin High who also had two players miss the cut. Johnson and Byrd lead the way for TIU.
The Hookers won the best team skin because they wer the only team to have all four golfers make the cut. No great performances, just 4 good ones and it was enough to take out the Frogs.
Drive-4-Show got a good weekend from Laird and outlasted Hol-E-1.
→ Week 2 is Important
Published: by Jim GreenwellWeek 2 is important, neigh, it is critical - crucial. No one wants to be 0-2, no one. So lets look at who will be 0-2 at teh end of the week.
One team sure to be 0-2 will be the Hookers. They had to add Toms for goodness sakes and taking on a powerful Frogs team. Look for Hoffman and Kaymer to be more than enough against a listless Toms and Garcia.
CHiP will be 0-2 as well. Not because they have a bad team, but because Putt-4-Dough is on a roll and will win this for no other reason that he wants to be rub every win he gets in our face, so look forward to that.
Hol-E-1 will be 0-2 on Monday after losing to Ricky Barnes and Justin Leonard this weekend. Not possible, you say? Well, watch and see. Drive-4-Show has this nack for winning these kinds of games.
That outcome of thos previous listed games will make Putt-4-Dough 2-0. Lets see who else will be 2-0 on Monday.
Pin High will beat Tee-It-Up, but it will not be easy. All 8 golfers make the cut and the all the skins will come from this game.
I'm sorry, but the Hackers are loaded and they will beat Drink, especially with Watney having the - i just won hang-over - this weekend. That will Make the Hackers 2-0.
Should be a fun golf tournament.
→ Pin High - WOW!
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, the Swami is off to a big start - looking quiet brilliant in his pick of Pin High for the Carl Cup. What a hammering they put on Hol-E-1 for the lesser known, LG&E Cup. Pin High was destined for the win, when Tim Clark pulls a DNS. Meanwhile, all four Pin High golfers went -7 or better - ouch!
In other games:
Putt-4-Dough uses his first pick to bring the heat and outlast Drive-4-Show. Putt-4-Dough got moster games from Dustin Johnson and Luke Donald. Poor D4S had the 4th best score of the week and still suffered a loss, those are hard to take.
The Hackers return to their winning ways (I swear, if they win this year, I'm not showing up to the draft next year). They beat CHiP who also had a DNS with Bubba Watson. It was never close.
Drink gets a big break when Crane pulls a DNS for the Hookers and gets a best golfer skin from Watney (a Hooker last year).
Tee-It-Up simply outlasts the Frogs as Kim and Lefty lay huge eggs. Kim was a risky pickup, but you expect better from Mickelson.
→ Predictions Part 2
Published: by Jim GreenwellRead the 2011 draft analysis in post below this one.
The predictions of the Swami:
Predicted order of finish by division.
North: Pin High, Drink, Hackers, Drive-4-Show, Tee-It-Up
South: CHiP, Hookers, Putt-4-Dough, Frogs, Hol-E-1
Carl Cup Champion: Pin High
This weeks winners: Pin High, Putt-4-Dough, Slippery Frogs, Hackers and Drink.
→ 2011 Predictions
Published: by Jim GreenwellAs we begin week 1, we should give the swami a chance to review the draft and give final predictions. First Draft Analysis
CHiP: Long gone are the days of a Vijay dominated team. This team is now long on talent with a good spread of players for a range of tournaments. How will Levin hold up? Will Casey be a force? Will Wilson continue his hot play? Can Choi be a spark in majors as usual? All good questions. This team is very balanced and should have a good season. Draft score: B.
Drive-4-Show: The defending champion held on to Stricker, but drafted Scott who was a complete disaster area. If Scott can return to form, look out. There are plenty of names on here, but most are either fading (Love, Leonard, Scott) or unproven (Vegas, Barnes). Draft score: C-.
Hol-E-1: Drafting through Skype had to be hard, but ended up with a solid team (Clark, Badeley, Poulter). There were some mystery picks too (Kirk, Henry). Appleby may be the key, can he play as he is capable. Draft score: C.
Pin High: Young studs (Mahan, McIlroy, Marino, Fowler, Taylor). This team is primed for a huge year if any of these guys really take off. They should b e ankered by Cink perfectly with a good 3rd tier in Marino, Wi and Streelman. Draft Score: A.
Slippery Frogs: Mickelson is the anchor for sure, but the Frogs may have depended too much on some slipping players - Kim, Weir, Howell III. There are some good names here - Hoffman, Slocum and Kaymer. If the veterans return to form, look out. Draft Score: C.
Drink: Big name foreigners - McDowell, Molinari to go with Americans Watney and Furyk. Is Furyk done? Can Kelly, Day and Couch carry the lesser tourneys. The names on the list just aren't impressive and is not set up well for the big tournaments. Draft Score: C-.
Hackers: This team is loaded, absolutely loaded. There is only one name that is not recognized, there are 8 players in the top 51 in the world. But, will they play the lesser tourneys. Harrington, Else, Goosen, Kuchar - ouch! Too top heavy - probably. Draft Score: B+.
Hookers: This team will go as Tiger does. The Hookers tried to find some new young talent to go with some solid balance. Karlsson has committed to the PGA tour which could be huge. Sabbatin, Crane, Van Pelt must continue stellar play. Draft Score: C+.
Putt-4-Dough: Great balance and good talent top to bottom if not over loaded. Villegas, Donal, Sendeker, Johnson with up and comers Holmes and de Jonge could be very, very solid. Anchored by Westwood in the majors makes them dangerous. Draft Score B-.
Tee-It-Up: This roster is much like Drive-4-Show's in that it is balanced and has plenty of good players, but nothing terribly strong. There are good players Rose, Trahan and Ogilvy. Can Johnson continue to produce? Simpson, Molder and Overton can be mysteries. Draft Score: C-.
→ 2011 Season to Tee Off
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe draft is over and we are ready to go - the season starts this week - get the line-ups in.
→ Draft Set
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2011 Draft Order has been set. Draft is 7:00pm, Monday, March 7 - at draft central!
Here is the 2011 Draft order.
1. Putt-4-Dough
2. Slipper Frogs
3. Tee-It-Up
4. Drink
5. Pin High
6. Hookers
7. Hol-E-1
8. Hackers
9. CHiP
10. Drive-4-Show
Finances information to come later this week. See you on the 7th.
→ Drive-4-Show is Champion
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrive-4-Show has won the 2010 Carl Cup championship. In a final match that really never was close, D4S just simply outlasted the Hookers.
D4S used Steve - Mr. September - Stricker to keep the Hookers down. D4S has now won 6 in a row. What a great run. D4S was one loss from missing the tournament for 3 weeks, never lost and then finished the run in the playoffs.
The Hookers best player was Woods and he was not good enough, but like the rest of the team.
Drive-4-Show is champion, congratulations!
→ Hackers and CHiP Upset
Published: by Jim GreenwellBoth division champions were upset in the semi-finals this weekend.
First, in the North, the Hackers fell to red-hot Drive-4-Show. D4S now has a 5 game winning streak. D4S now has 12 total wins and 4 of them have been against the Hackers.
In the South, CHiP lost to the very lucky Hookers despite having more players make the cut over the weekend. The Hookers were aided by a huge weekend from Jason Day and a 3 under by Woods on his last 4 holes. This win by the Hookers was the first one in 4 tries against CHiP this season.
So, it is the Hookers vs. Drive-4-Show for the Carl Cup.
Oh yeah, Putt-4-Dough smashed Tee-It-Up and won the Toilet Bowl tourney.
→ Hookers, Drive-4-Show Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers won a tie-breaker over Pin High, overcoming a for shot Sunday morning deficit. The tiebreaker went like this: Hookers $205,159.09 and Pin High had $177,600 for a differential of $27,559.09 giving the Hookers the win.
Pin High and the Hookers both had 3 players make the cut and it was a very close battle throughout the weekend. In the end, by the virtue of Woods earning $157,500 on his own for his 12th place finish, the Hookers move on to face CHiP.
Drive-4-Show just hammered, throttled, beat-down - call it what you like, it was a massacre. Drive-4-Show had a huge game and it was coupled with Hol-E-1 having all 4 players miss the cut. D4S would have been tough to beat even if HE1 had all four make it.
This was a smack-down of WWE proportions. D4S advances to take on the Hackers.
In the Toilet Bowl tourney Putt-4-Dough beat Drink and Tee-It-Up beat the frogs. They will now face each other for 2011 first pick.
→ Battle for Carl Cup Begins
Published: by Jim GreenwellBye Weeks: Hackers, CHiP
Hol-E-1 vs. Drive-4-Show (winner gets Hackers). They split in the regular season. Drive-4-Show won at the Memorial and Hol-E-1 won in week 16 at the AT&T National when D4S had all 4 golfers miss the cut.
Hookers vs. Pin High (winner gets CHiP). The Hookers won the first match-up way back in week 1 at the Transitions Championship. The Hookers won again in week 7 at the Quail Hollow Championship despite Tiger missing the cut.
Toilet Bowl Tournament:
Putt-4-Dough vs. Drink (Drink was 2-0 against P4D)
Slippery Frogs vs. Tee-It Up (split 1-1 during year)
→ Hackers, CHiP Take Divisions
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Regular Season has concluded and what a wild one we had.
First of all - how about the Hackers?!? The Hackers win the North Division and earn the number 2 seed in the post season tournament. The Hackers lost this week to CHiP but hung on to the division championship because Pin High lost as well.
CHiP needed a big win over the Hackers and a little help from the Hookers and got it. CHiP had the team skin in taking out the Hackers.
Hol-E-1 could not win the championship due to a lack luster performance against the Hookers.
And, how about Drive-4-Show - winning their last 3 games to garner the last playoff spot. D4S rode Zach Jonson (of all people) to victory this week.
In what would have been an important game if D4S had lost, Drink beat Tee-It-Up in a relatively ugly game. The two teams combined for 5 missed cuts. Unfortunately, for these two teams, they both did not make the playoffs.
And, speaking of teams not making the playoffs, Putt-4-Dough beat the Frogs in the only truly unimportant game of the weekend.
The Playoffs should be fun. Here is the seeding:
1. CHiP
2. Hackers
3. Hol-E-1
4. Hookers
5. Pin High
6. Drive-4-Show
The Toilet Bowl tournament is seeded like this:
1. Drink
2. Tee-It-Up
3. Slipper Frogs
4. Putt-4-Dough
Remember, we are off this week - the playoffs start in 2 weeks.
→ One Week to Go!
Published: by Jim GreenwellSorry about the late post. I was out of town and had NO internet activity. All is now updated.
Huge games with all kinds of playoff and division winning implications on the line last week. Lets recap.
Look at Drive-4-Show go! With the win over Drink, D4S has catapulted into the last playoff spot (for now). D4S just got a good steady week and Drink was hurt by Villegas poor outing.
Speaking of poor outings. The Hookers got hammered by their own golfers. Tiger played like, well Farrar, and Westwood takes a powder - giving CHiP a very easy win. This eliminates the Hookers chance at winning the division.
Just when you thought the Hackers couldn't pull it out, they pull off a very hard fought 4 stroke win and maintain their lead in the North.
Hol-E-1 just might win the division and he can thank Robert Allenby for not showing up this week. A no show with a +24 on your opponents score card is nice. HE1 still only won by 2 strokes.
And, Pin High - they just cant seem to catch the Hackers. They beat the all-year-long-snake-bitten Frogs and keep pace.
Here are the scenarios for winning the divisions:
North:
Hackers: Win or Pin High loses.
Pin High: Win and Hackers lose.
South:
Hol-E-1: Win or CHiP loses.
CHiP: Win and Hol-E-1 loses.
Playoffs: Hackers, Pin High, Hol-E-1, CHiP and Hookers have all clinched playoff spot.
Last spot is up for grabs:
Drive-4-Show: Win (lose and they are out)
Drink: Win and D4S loses
Tee-It-Up: Win and D4S loses
(Drink and Tee-It-Up play each other - D4S has Pin High)
Frogs and Putt-4-Dough have clinched toilet bowl entries - sorry fellas...
→ Score update
Published: by Jim GreenwellJim is on vacation check back Monday night for updates Go Porkers
→ Wild AND Confusing
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, if you look at the standings - it is both wild and confusing.
In the North, we have only 1 team with a winning record.
In the South, 3 teams are now tied for first.
How about them Frogs? They have 2 miss the cut and then get a Mr. 59 out of Appleby to score a huge come from behind win over CHiP.
The Hackers regained their position at the top of the North with a big win over Pin High.
Drive-4-Show stays alive with an easy win over Tee-It-Up, who had 3 players miss the cut on one easy course.
Hol-E-1 took over (based on tie-breakers) in the South with a monster game slipping by Drink.
The Hookers stayed in the fight with a a win despite a no-show over Putt-4-Dough.
Playoffs:
Hol-E-1, Hookers, Hackers and CHiP have clinched playoff spots.
Division Title Scenarios
South:
Hol-E-1: Win out.
Hookers: Win out.
CHiP: Win twice, Hol-E-1 loses once
North:
Hackers: Win out.
Pin High: Win once, Hackers lose once.
To make playoffs:
Pin High: Win out.
Tee-It-Up: Win out.
Drink: Win out.
Drive-4-Show: Win out. Tee-It-Up loses once. Frogs lose once or if tied with Frogs gets stroke advantage.
Slippery Frogs: Win out. Keep stroke advantage on Drive-4-Show. Get a stroke advantage over the team ends up in 3rd in the North as long as they have 12 losses.
→ Getting Interesting
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, with only 3 weeks to go, things have gotten suddenly interesting. There are now 7 teams with a shot at the division title with 3 weeks to go.
First, Hol-E-1 took out CHiP which was coupled with the Hookers come from behind lucky win against the Frogs. There is now only 1 game between all 3 teams.
In the North, the Hackers dropped a 4th in a row to Drink and Tee-It-Up won by only 1 stroke over Pin High. PH lost despite going -16 (3rd best score of the week). There is now only 1 game separating these 4 teams.
In the other game, Putt-4-Dough beat Drive-4-Show keeping their slim playoff hopes alive and seriously damaging Drive-4-Shows chances.
Here are the scenarios:
North:
Pin High: win last 3
Hackers win last 3 (yes Hackers and Pin High play this week - that is a big one)
Tee-It-Up: win last 3, Pin High loses 2
Drink: win last 3, Pin High loses 2, Hackers lose 1
South:
CHiP: win last 3
Hol-E-1: win last 3, CHiP loses 1 division game
Hookers: Win last 3 (yes, Hookers actually control their own destiny)
Frogs, Drive-4-Show and Putt-4-Dough all have mathematical chances at getting into playoff but can't lose again.
→ 4 Weeks to Go
Published: by Jim GreenwellNo article on the Open Championship - sorry about that. But, in preparation for the last 4 weeks, below are the scenarios for teams to win their respective division championships. There are, of course, a thousand permutations that could work, but below is the easiest.
We have a lot of separation from the top and the bottom this year. CHiP has already clinched a playoff spot and the Hookers and Hol-E-1 are close (as are the Hackers and Pin High). But, nothing is guaranteed.
Here they are:
North
Pin High: win the next 4
Hackers: win next 4, Pin High loses 1
Tee-It-Up: win the next 4, Pin High loses 2 (1 of which must be a division loss), Hackers lose 2
Drink: win next 4, Pin High loses 3 division games, Hackers lose 3 (two in division) and Tee-It-Up loses 1 game
South
CHiP: win 3 games
Hol-E-1: win 3 games, CHiP loses 3 games
Hookers: win 3 games, CHiP loses 3 games, Hol-E-1 loses 1 game
Playoffs
CHiP has clinched play-off spot
All teams can still reach playoffs
→ Tee-It-Up Hammers Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up scored a -63. I don't know if that is a record, but has to be close. The Hookers had a -30 and LOST by 33 strokes. Wow! Tee-It-Up needed that game badly to keep their winning streak alive and stay in the playoff hunt.
CHiP got back to his winning ways with a win over Putt-4-Dough in a sad, sad, sad game. Both teams only had 1 player make the cut. Jones outplayes Howell and CHiP gest the win.
Drive-4-Show pounded the Hackers who had 3 players miss the cut.
Pin High got a nice week and beat Drink who had 2 miss the cut. Pin High has won 3 in a row and is now tied for first in the North.
Hol-E-1 had an easy go of it against a carry-over lineup from the Frogs.
→ Pin High Surges
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High had a big weekend, winning the team skin and taking down lead leaguing CHiP. Pin High has won two in a row and has surged to a 2 game lead on 2nd place in the North and only 1 game behind the Hackers. Pin High had all 4 players make the cut and easily won.
Drink lost to the Hookers in a tough battle. Drink only lost one at the cut but the Hookers lost none. The Hookers have taken over at the overall stroke leader in the league.
Tee-It-Up gets a huge game from Justin Rose and easily wins over a carry-over line-up from Putt-4-Dough. Tee-It-Up will take this win and count themselves lucky with 2 players missing the cut.
Vijay Singh finally makes a cut and leads Hol-E-1 to victory over Drive-4-Show. D4S had all 4 players miss the cut - brutal.
The Frogs win again - this time over the Hackers. The frogs are now only 1 game out of the playoffs. The Hackers continue to win, lose, win, lose, win, lose - but it is enough to remain in first.
→ Frogs Finally Win
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Slippery Frogs have finally won a game. After a grueling 10 game losing streak they beat Putt-4-Dough. The P4D carry-over line-up consisted of 4 no shows. The Frogs may have won anyway with a strong showing. Keep this in mind. If the Frogs (who still have one of the best teams in the league) can now WIN 10 in a row.... The Frogs are only two games out of a playoff spot with plenty of weeks to go. Of some note, P4D is now on a 5 game losing streak.
The Hackers and Hookers played to a tie, with the Hackers getting the tie-breaker. When the 2nd lowest score of the week is not good enough to win, that is a tough week.
CHiP continues to dominate with a 7 straight win and with one fewer gofer than Hol-E-1. Helps that Hol-E-1 had the standard bearer for last place.
Pin High beat Drive-4-Show to take over 2nd place in the North all alone. I wasn't necessarily pretty, winning by only 6 with 2 D4S missing the cut, but a win is a win.
Tee-It-Up finally wins again. The barely beat Drink with Drink also having two miss the cut.
→ Hackers Continue to Roll
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers avoided the -ernie els curse- and won and used Els to sweep the skins this week. It was an easy win with Tee-It-Up having 3 miss the cut.
CHiP continues their amazing win streak -6 in a row- by having a strong, if not spectacular outing this week. Putt-4-Dough lost this one when Crane missed the cut by 1 lousy stroke. Regardless, CHiP continues to dominate the South.
The Frogs lost again, with the 3rd best score of the week, to the Hookers. On Sunday morning the Frogs held a 12 stroke lead. On Sunday, the Hookers were 1 over compared to 19 over by the Frogs. Can the Frogs get any unluckier?
Drink held on for a big, big win over Drive-4-Show and snapping their long winning streak.
Hol-E-1 keeps pace with a win over Pin High who only had two golfers make the cut.
→ CHiP Stays Hot
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP is on one serious roll. They have now won 5 in a row, won a best team skin and is trying to run away in the South Division. On the other side are the poor, poor Frogs. The Frogs had 1 WD and 3 missed cuts and gets hammered by CHiP losing their 9th in a row. CHiP now boasts the best record in the league as looks like a defending champion.
The Hookers pull out a big win and try to keep pace with CHiP, beating Hol-E-1 in a huge match this weekend. The winner got sole possession of 2nd place in the South and keep CHiP in sight.
Drive-4-Show is another hot team, winning a 4th in a row, climbing all the way out of the basement into 3rd place and in the playoff picture. This win was at the expense of Tee-It-Up, your new cellar dweller in the North.
Pin High continues to hang tough and had a monster win over the Hackers, closing the Hackers lead in the North. There is only a 1 game gap. The Hackers, after a quick start, have been up and down the last few weeks but still cling to the North Division lead.
In our one inter-division game, Drink upended Putt-4-Dough, sending them to a 3rd straight loss. P4D needs to right the ship and start winning again. Drink, meanwhile, is keeping pace with two timely wins in a row.
→ Hackers beat Frogs
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers got back on track with a 1 stroke win over the poor, poor, poor Frogs. The Frogs have now lost 8 in a row - this time, again, by only 1 stroke. Mickelson made a double bogey on the par 5 15th, which did not help matters. The Hackers again have a 2 game lead in the North.
CHiP is on one serious roll. The victim this week was Pin High. CHiP has now won 4 in a row and is all alone in first place in the South.
Drive-4-Show wins a 3rd one in a row - this one over Hol-E-1. Despite their 3rd straight win, they are still in the basement of the South. A couple of more wins may vault them to 2nd.
Drink found an easy one over the pitiful Hookers. The Hookers only had 2 make the cut and other than Van Pelt had nothing. Drink did not have a great week, but it was more than enough to handle the Hookers.
Tee-It-Up makes easy work of Putt-4-Dough. This one was over on Friday afternoon. Tee-It-Up wins both skins, which leaves on P4D and the Hookers to not win a skin this year.
→ CHiP on a roll
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP is officially on a hot streak. They just won a 3rd straight match, crushed Tee-It-Up by going a whopping 47 under par - that is crazy low. CHiP remains in a first place tie with two other teams. Tee-It-Up takes a 2nd tough loss in a row and is dropping quick in the standings.
Drive-4-Show had an impressive tournament while destroying the Hackers. D4S needs a few wins and taking out the league-leading Hackers always helps. The Hackers remain in 1st place in the North despite the loss.
Pin High gets one of the whoops wins, winning with only two players making the cut over Drink.
The Hookers had all 4 make the cut and make quick work of Putt-4-Dough. The Hookers win kept them in a tie in the South.
Hol-E-1 wins another one and at the expense of the Frogs. The Frogs have lost an amazing 7th in a row after Michelson misses the cut at Colonial. Frogs were not helped by one player making the cut finished last.
→ Hackers win close one
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers maintain their 2 game lead with a tie-breaker win against Drink. Drink had 2 players double bogey 18 on Sunday. The Hackers won even though they had a player finish last in the tournament. The Hackers are, at this point, clearly the team to beat.
Pin High was the only team to have all 4 players make the cut. As a result, they easily beat Tee-It-Up and won the team skin.
The Frogs continue to slide and may still be suffering from some volcanic ash in the lungs as they have hacked up 6 straight losses after a very hot 4-0 start. The Frogs still have the 2nd best stroke count in the league and are a very dangerous team.
CHiP hammered the Hookers with only 2 players. The Hookers had 3 miss the cut (2 of them by only 1 stroke). CHiP's win, coupled with a Hol-E-1 loss has created a 3 way tie at the top of the South division.
Speaking of Hol-E-1, they lost to Putt-4-Dough in a two on two contest.
→ Frog Gigging...
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat has happened to the Frogs?
From a commanding 4-0 start to losing a 5th straight game. This week was made even worse by 3 no shows and a missed cut. Tee-It-Up was the recipient this week and they have climbed into 2nd place in the North despite a 4-5 record.
The Frogs must find a way to right this ship before to much damage is done.
The Hookers have now won 3 in a row and have climbed into a tie for the lead in the South. The Hookers beat Drive-4-Show despite D4S having Adam Scott and winning the best players skin. The Hookers won because all the other D4S players missed the cut.
The Hackers continue to flex their muscle winning a huge game over Hol-E-1 and taking a 2 game lead over the rest of the North Division.
CHiP got a huge win, hanging on to defeat Drink. CHiP has climbed back over .500 and should be a force to deal with the rest of the year.
Putt-4-Dough continued to pile on Pin High and their pain that is the 2010 season. Pin High can't seem to get over the hump and had 3 players miss the cut. P4D is on a mini-roll with 2 straight wins.
→ Hol-E-1 Wins 4th in a Row
Published: by Jim GreenwellHol-E-1 now has the best record in the league with a big win over the Frogs. The Frogs have lost 4 in a row despite being the best scoring team in the league.
Drive-4-Show wins a 2nd in a row at the expense of the Hackers.
Pin High beats Drink, tightening up the race in the North.
Futility award goes to Tee-It-up and CHiP who had ALL 4 golfers miss the cut, giving easy wins to the Hookers and Putt-4-Dough, respectively.
→ Hackers Remain on Top
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers continue to reign at the top of the North Division. The Hackers had a very solid week having 3 players make the cut and all three going under par. Which, was enough to outlast Putt-4-Dough. P4D was undone by Duval's 76 on Friday, missing the cut.
Hol-E-1 continues to have a charmed season. For the second week in a row, they win with only 2 golfers making the cut and the opponent having 3 make the cut. This week's victim was Tee-It-Up - and it gets worse - this game ended in a tie on strokes, but Hol-E-1 gets the win on the tie breaker. Tee-It-Up's 3 golfers shot 16 over par on Sunday to HE1's 5 under - wow!
On the other side of this is the Frogs. The Frogs lost again, with Mickelson finishing second. They lost to Drink, who has now won 3 in a row and is in 2nd place, alone, in the North.
Drive-4-Show finally wins a game by beating CHiP. D4S had 3 make the cut to CHiP's 2, making the difference.
The Hookers could have only beaten one team this week. And, lucky for the Hookers, they played them - Pin High. Not only did Pin High lose to the Hookers with Woods missing the cut, but they also had McIlory on the bench. Mark this one down as one the Hookers didn't deserve.
→ Hol-E-1 Climbs to Top
Published: by Jim GreenwellHol-E-1 has won two in a row and finds themselves atop the South division. This week's win was at the expense of the Hookers. Hol-E-1 won despite having only 2 golfers make the cut to the Hookers 3. The Hookers were +9 on Sunday, compared to HE1's -2 for a 1 shot win.
The Frogs won another skin, but the lost the game, thanks to Poulter's last minute withdrawal. They lost by two strokes to Putt-4-Dough. P4D needed that win badly in order to keep pace with the leaders.
Don't look now, but Pin High has won 3 in a row after a horrid start. They won best team skins this week in dispatching Drive-4-Show, who is still without a win.
The Hackers have lost 2 in a row after losing to CHiP thanks to a horrendous outing from Goggin and Marino. CHiP also had 2 miss the cut, but had a very nice weekend from Dufner slipped by the Hackers by only 5 strokes.
Drink is climbing up the standings too, with a 2nd straight win over Tee-It-Up. Drink got solid performance from 3 golfers, which was more than enough against only 2 golfers from TIU.
→ Drink Thumps Drive
Published: by Jim GreenwellDrink won both skins (by-the-way, we are 5 weeks in and 3 teams still hold the monopoly on skins money) and left Drive-4-Show still searching for a victory in 2010. D4S had 2 "no shows" and a dreaded "mdf" to Drinks 3 golfers under par - no contest.
The Frogs finally lost a game - and if you didn't know it, the Frogs ownership is stuck in Europe thanks to a volcano - so might Poulter be since he was a "no show" for the Frogs this week.
The Hackers finally lost too, but 2 lousy strokes. It all came down to the back nine as the Hackers were 3 over (thanks to Leishmans' +4 on the back) and Tee-It-Up was only 2 over on the back.
Putt-4-Dough lost another heart-breakers this week, this time to Hol-E-1. The game ended in a tie, but the tie-breakers gives the victory to HE1. P4D had a dreaded "mdf" that cost them the game.
CHiP took care of the Hookers, thanks is part to Garcia's awful 77 on Friday causing him to miss the cut. CHiP probably would have won anyway, with the week's second best score.
If you didn't see the end of the tournament - huge props to Brian Davis for calling that penalty on himself on the first playoff hole - now - that is character.
→ The Year of the Frog?
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Slippery Frogs are 4-0! Not only are they undefeated, they are swamping the league in skins won, winning 5 of 8 so far in 2010.
The Frogs just hammered Tee-It-Up having 3 of the top 4 golfers in the Master's - good grief!
Let us not forget the Hackers. They too are off to a 4-0 start and have won 2 of the 3 skins that the Frogs haven't won. The Hackers made easy work of a Tee-It-Up skin that had a "no show" and two missed cuts.
The Hookers improved to 3-1 with a nice showing from Lee Westwood as they slipped by Drive-4-Show.
Pin High got their first victory of the year at the expense of Putt-4-Dough. Pin High won despite having two miss the cut to P4D's one missed cut.
CHiP even their record to 2-2 with a hard fought win over Drink.
→ The Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Masters is, by far, the greatest tournament - and that is saying something!
I love to watch this tournament.
Drive-4-Show and Pin High look for first win while Hackers and Frogs try to remain unbeaten in 4 unrelated games.
No live scoreboard this week.
→ Hackers and Frogs 3-0
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hackers and Frogs have jumped out to a 3-0 record.
The Hackers were 3-1 last year before disappearing, can they maintain the momentum keep winning?
The Frogs look terribly strong with Mickelson and Kim.
This week the Frogs creamed CHiP when Casey didn't show, Baird withdrew and Snedeker missed the cut - brutal. Meanwhile, the Frogs swept the skins.
The Hackers had second lowest team score on the week and punished Pin High who had two miss the cut.
Tee-It-Up improved to 2-1 with a big win over Drive-4-Show. Tee-It-Up wasn't great, but didn't need to be as D4S had 2 miss the cut.
Hol-E-1 dropped their first game of the season when Singh withdrew and Donald missed the cut and the remaining golfers did nothing special. Drink beat HE1 despite have 1 missed cut and 1 MDF.
The Hookers improved to 2-1 with another lucky win. This time at the expense of Putt-4-Dough. Both teams had two miss the cut. P4D was losing by 10 when Sunday's play started but built a 4 stroke lead before losing by 8.
Now, on to the Master Circus featuring a Tiger....
→ Week 2 Completed and News
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone,
The Week 2 article is gone and lost forever, but all other data is restored.
Schedule, scores, skins, transactions - everything (as far as I can tell are back to normal).
Thanks everyone.
→ Week 1 Completed
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Slippery Frogs had a nice weekend and had 3 players under par as they won the best team skin. They beat defending champion Drink who has the best player skin despite the loss.
CHiP is off an running with a surprising outing from Goosen and beat D4S. D4S had a rough weekend with Maruyama suddenly didn't show and then Zach Johnson had one of these dreaded "MDF" cuts.
The Hackers had a great win and probably would have won no matter what P4D did, but P4D is apparently AWOL.
The Hookers were in very, very bad shape on Thursday afternoon but somehow beat Pin High thanks to a wild Friday afternoon.
Hol-E-1 had a "no show" from Vijay but held on to beat Tee-It-Up when TIU had 2 players miss the cut.
→ Draft Completed, Season Begins
Published: by Jim GreenwellSuccessful draft. There is a game this week - submit your lineups.
You are allowed to do drop/adds this week.
→ 2010 Draft Date
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2010 draft has been set for March 15, 2010 at 7:00pm at Draft Central
→ CHiP is Champ
Published: by Jim GreenwellAfter long last, after 10+ years of struggle, after enduring hardship after hardship, after suffering the Hookers' wins and Putt-4-Dough's remarks, finally, after long last, CHiP is Champ!
The battle for the Carl Cup wasn't a classic and it didn't need to be. CHiP finally outlasted Drive-4-Show and easily won their first ever Carl Cup.
Congratulations to CHiP!
→ Battle for the Carl Cup
Published: by Jim GreenwellShould be a good one. Drive-4-Show takes on CHiP for the championship and the coveted Carl Cup trophy.
These teams are 1-1 against one another this week. Let us relive.
Week 6, the Verizon Heritage, CHiP gets a huge week out of Luke Donald and Briny Baird and routed D4S. Only one golfer managed to break par for D4S.
Week 22, the PGA championship, just a few short weeks ago. Talk about a route! CHiP had only 1 player make the cut and Drive-4-Show cruised to victory without even breaking a sweat.
What does this mean? I barn burner this weekend. No cut - best team wins - just as it should be. Good luck to both.
→ CHiP, Drive-4-Show Advance...
Published: by Jim Greenwell... again. The number 1 and 2 seed have been eliminated. CHiP and Drive-4-Show will battle for the Carl Cup.
The Drive-4-Show, Pin High matchup was truly a thing of beauty. Steve Striker birdies the last two holes to win the tournament and deliver a 1 stroke victory for D4S. What a game.
CHiP has no problems with the Hookers. The Hookers were bitten by the Ernie Els bug and just didn't get any help from anywhere else.
We will have a worthy champion this time next week.
The Hackers win 3 in a row and have won the Toilet Bowl tournament.
→ Playoffs
Published: by Jim Greenwell2 Great Semi-final matches - no matter who wins, we will see two good teams in the final.
→ CHiP, Drive-4-Show Advance
Published: by Jim GreenwellChampionship Division:
Drive-4-Show beat Drink in a good game. Both teams had all 4 players make the cut. Neither team had stellar play, except for D4S's Stricker. Drink, just didn't have the guns to stay with D4S.
CHiP had Vijay miss the cut and not very good play from anyone else. But, Tee-It-Up had 2 players miss the cut and just could maintain.
This week, Pin High and the Hoookers re-enter the tournament taking on Drive-4-Show and CHiP.
Toilet Bowl Division:
The Hackers won (as they usually did this year when setting a line-up) and so did Putt-4-Dough. They play this week for the 2010 first pick.
→ The Playoffs
Published: by Jim GreenwellA long season finally hits the payoff - the playoffs!
While Pin High and the Hookers take another week off, there are some great match ups to discuss.
Championship Round:
3 vs. 6 - Drive-4-Show takes on Drink. Drive-4-Show has been arguably the best team in the league this year. Their reward? To play a tough as nails Drink team. Stricker should pull them through even if Yang can't reproduce any magic.
4 vs. 5 - Tee-It-Up takes on CHiP. CHiP has been doing very well the last half of the season and will take down Tee-It-Up. Ogilvy will be the only player to make the cut for TIU and CHiP cruises to victory.
Toilet Bowl Round:
The Hackers finally have 4 golfers playing. When they do that, they are 4-1 this year. Make it 5-1 as the take out Hol-E-1.
Putt-4-Dough makes easy work of the Slippery Frogs who seem to have disappeared - maybe in Japan for a really long time.
→ LINE-UP Problems
Published: by Jim GreenwellSUBMIT A LINE-UP - I had an error in the code - it is now fixed. Everyone must re-submit a line-up. Sorry.
→ Pin High Wins North
Published: by Jim GreenwellIt was a hard fought battle, but in the end Pin High finds a way to win 3 in a row to close the year and win the North Division championship.
Pin High barely hung on against the Hackers, Drive-4-Show just hammered CHiP and Tee-It-Up barely lost to Drink.
Drink's win gives them the last playoff spot when coupled with Hol-E-1's loss to Putt-4-Dough.
The Hookers handily beat the Frogs and won both skins.
Here are the playoff seeds. We are off this week and then the playoffs resume in two weeks.
1. Hookers
2. Pin High
3. Drive-4-Show
4. Tee-It-Up
5. CHiP
6. Drink
The Toilet Bowl Tourny:
1. Hackers
2. Putt-4-Doug
3. Slippery Frogs
4. Hol-E-1
→ Last Week
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, it is officially the end of the Regular season with a ton on the line. Here is how it breaks down.
In the North:
Pin High wins, they take the North.
Drive-4-Show needs to win with a Pin High loss.
Tee-It-Up needs to win and have both Pin High and Drive-4-Show lose.
Last Wild Card:
Hol-E-1 is in with a win or Drink loss.
Drink needs to win and Hol-E-1 lose - then they get the wild card.
In the South:
Hookers have clinched division and CHiP has clinched playoff spot.
The number one seed will go to the Hookers if they win and are Pin High wins North. If Hookers win and either Drive-4-Show or Tee-It-Up wins the winner of the North gets the 1 seed.
So, how will it end? Here is the scoop.
The Hackers and Frogs have not yet set a line-up. Their carry-over line-up each has 3 players in the field. So, it isn't impossible for them to win.
Pin High plays said Hackers and will have a rough go. The Hackers' 3 players will make the cut. This will depend on Weir and McIlroy. Time for Rory McIlroy to dissapoint. The Hackers pull of the a stunning upset in week 22.
Drive-4-Show draws a match-up with the always tough CHiP team. CHiP is playing to prove they are the team to beat. Watson finally comes out of his shell, Garcia plays well and CHiP beats Drive-4-Show.
Tee-It-Up takes on Drink and wins, winning the North division. Why? Because it always seems to work out for Tee-It-Up, now doesn't it?
Hol-E-1 lays a ginormous egg against Putt-4-Dough and loses. However, with Drink's loss, they will back into the tournament.
The Hookers may have clinched, but not all is well in Hookersville. They look to beat the Frogs and right the ship. After a 10-1 start, the Hookers have lost 6 of the last 10 - not exactly entering the playoffs on a hot streak. Hookers beat the Frogs, but barely.
→ Nothing Changes
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP has closed the Hookers lead to one game. The Hookers have already clinched, but CHiP is by far the hotter team.
The big news this week is in the North. All 3 teams in a 3 way tie won to remain in that tie. In an odd fate of the schedule none of these 3 teams played each other this weekend and they will not play against one another in the final week.
Oh, and the other thing that doesn't seem to change is Tiger Woods. What a freak! An 8 iron from 182 over water to 5 inches? Ridiculous!
Hol-E-1 retook the lead over Drink in a battle for the last playoff spot.
Every game this week has playoff, championship and seeding ramifications but one (Hookers and Frogs).
→ Pin High Takes Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High takes over first place in the North via the tie-breaker. There is a 3 way tie with only two weeks to go - should be wild.
Drive-4-Show got smacked around easily with two missed cuts and with Perry returning home to be with his ailing mother. Pin High was more than good enough to win.
Tee-It-Up kept pace with a win over the Frogs thanks to the money earned tie-breaker. Letzig was outstanding for Tee-It-Up but needed a 5 foot bogey putton 18 to keep the score teid for Tee-It-Up.
Drink gets a monster win over the Hackers when the Hackers have 3 players miss the cut to go with Drinks' 3 missed cuts.
Hol-E-1 has to be ticked off. They have all 4 make the cut - the only team this week to do so - and still lose to the Hookers. The Hookers clinched the South Division.
CHiP made easy work of Putt-4-Dough. P4D seems to be reduced to depending on Duval and Austin. CHiP may not win the South, but their team keeps getting stronger.
North Division Championship Scenarios:
Pin High - Win out.
Drive-4-Show - Win out with won loss by Pin High.
Tee-It-Up - Win out with one loss each by D4S and Pin High.
Currently, Drink has the 6th playoff spot.
→ Week 20
Published: by Jim GreenwellCan you believe this is week 20?
Here are the scenarios for the playoffs:
5 teams have clinched a playoff spot: Drive-4-Show, Pin High, Tee-It-Up, Hookers and CHiP. 4 teams are playing for the last spot. The Hackers are out.
North
Championship:
Drive-4-Show: Beat Pin High, Tee-It-Up loses or just wins out (lots of other scenarios)
Pin High: Win out
Tee-It-Up: Win out and Drive-4-Show loses twice and Pin High loses once.
Playoffs:
Drink: Win out, Hol-E-1 loses 1 (other scenarios)
South
Championship:
Hookers: One win or one loss by CHiP
CHiP: Win out and Hookers lose out.
Playoffs:
Hol-E-1: Win out (other scenarios)
Frogs: Win out, Hol-E-1 loses out, Drink loses once (other scenarios)
Putt-4-Dough: Win out, Hol-E-1 loses out, Frogs lose once, Drink loses twice
This week:
Drive-4-Show and Pin High - huge, huge, huge. Pin High has monster pickup of Nathan Green and they pull off the big victory.
Tee-It-Up is pulling for Pin High and destroys the Frogs. Then, there will be a 3 way tie at the top.
Hackers are due a win and they get it this week over Drink.
CHiP won't lose to Putt-4-Dough. P4D has Duval - a sure fire problem, despite his fluke in the US Open.
This is a big hunch, but Hol-E-1 beats the Hookers. Woods is average, Crane misses cut and Calcavecchia loves Grand Blanc.
→ Things are very tight
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North is a mess. 3 teams within one game of the division lead. AND, Pin High and Drive-4-Show face each other this week. It doesn't get much better than that.
In the South, the Hookers finally won again and are 1 win away from clinching the division. Meanwhile, CHiP keeps applying all kinds of pressure.
Drive-4-Show lost despite a heroic -14 in round 4. This was just one of those good ones. Tee-It-Up won and got best team skin with only 3 players.
Pin High couldn't take advantage and they lost to Drink and had a terrible weekend play, withdrawals and missed cuts. Drink's win keeps them nipping at Hol-E-1 for the last playoff spot.
Hol-E-1 smacked around the Hackers and looked strong doing it.
CHiP handled (hammered) the semi-retired Frogs. What a tough year - a couple of bad breaks, and then lose the "A" player - not easy to overcome.
The Hookers beat Putt-4-Dough in a relatively boring matchup when Lonard missed the cut.
→ 4 Weeks Left
Published: by Jim Greenwell4 weeks to go and so much on the line.
No one has been eliminated from the playoffs and there are still 5 teams trying to win a division title.
This week we continue our trek of open championships. We have already played the US, then British (as they call it THE Open Championship) and now we travel to Canada for their Open championship. The tournament in Canada doesn't draw the field it once did, but is still a good tournament to watch. Should make for some good games this week.
Lets start in the North.
Drive-4-Show continues to roll. This week they have Tee-It-Up followed by Pin High (and they had the Hookers last week). It doesn't get much tougher than this 3 week stretch. They own the Hookers. Overall they are 5-1 against these 3 teams. So, if they win the next two weeks, write them the check.
D4S had to pick up two to compete - but they have Canada's second favorite in Ames and pull of the win over Tee-It-Up.
Pin High has to win to keep pace and make next week a huge win. they can't look past a dangerous Drink team. Pin High has Canada's chosen on in Weir who usually struggles under all of the attention. Not this week Weir - goes off - delivering a huge win for Pin High.
CHiP gets the carry-over line-up of the Frogs and wins easily as they continue their chase of the Hookers. They have trimmed the Hookers lead from 5 games to 2 and are desperate to get closer for their matchup that looms in week 21.
Speaking of the Hookers, they have needed a break and may have gotten one. The P4D line-up includes 2 no shows. Hookers should win.
Hol-E-1 looks to solidify their playoff position with a win over the Hackers. But, the Hackers are loaded this week and will win, making a mess out of the bottom of the standings in each division.
→ Now, That was a Bummer
Published: by Jim GreenwellTom Watson nearly shocked the world. I don't know how you couldn't have been pulling for him.
As for our league, things are getting interesting.
Drive-4-Show holds on to win as Goat-of-the-Week Tiger Woods misses the cut. The Hookers only lost by 6 despite Woods' missed cut. D4S has no missed cuts. D4S continues to lead in the North.
D4S' lead is still only one game because Pin High won despite having 3 players miss the cut - stupid game.
And Tee-It-Up has goat of the week number to in Goydos - who was 15 over on the weekend, costing them the game by 4 strokes to Hol-E-1.
CHiP was only 12 over and hammered Drink and have closed with two games of the Hookers.
The Hackers long losing streak is over, beating Putt-4-Dough and winning a skin.
→ The Open Championship
Published: by Jim GreenwellOne of the coolest tournaments of the year is the back drop for Week 18 in our league. It is inter-league play again this week, and the last one of the year.
All of the attention is on the North as three teams battle for the division title. In the South, the Hookers hope to keep CHiP at a distance.
Man - is it hard to pick when all the stars are playing.
Drink vs. CHiP: Drink is 1 of 4 teams battling for the last playoff spot. Losses are not good. CHiP is chasing the Hookers. Just a hunch: Furyk outplays Singh and Drink gets a huge win.
Hackers vs. Putt-4-Dough: The Hackers are bound to win soon or later and what better time than this week. They have their Euros out in full force.
Tee-It-Up vs. Hol-E-1: TIU needs win to keep up with Pin High and D4S. Hol-E-1 needs win to keep fighting for playoffs. I have to go with Tee-It-Up just because I think Scott is struggling this year.
Pin High vs. Frogs: Pin High's strong line-up vs a week Frogs (sans Mickelson). Pin High gets big win.
Drive-4-Show vs. Hookers: Doesn't get much bigger than this. These teams combine to have the top 3 golfers on our stats page and 4 of the top 8. The Hookers keep thinking Casey will come around. He doesn't, again! D4S beats Hookers for 2nd time.
→ Pin High Rolls
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High had all 4 players make the cut and they steamrolled the field, not to mention poor Tee-It-Up. TIU now has 6 losses on the season, 3 of them to Pin High. Ouch.
Pin High kept pace with Drive-4-Show. These 3 teams in the North appear to be the team to beat.
What about the Hookers, you ask? Well, they keep winning, but no one is quite sure how. They cobbled together another win against Drink.
Putt-4-Dough had a lousy Sunday, with both golfers going 12 over as they lose by 13.
CHiP still has an outside shot at catching the Hookers for the Division title after beating Hol-E-1. HE1 was 5 over on Sunday and CHiP was 4 under to eek out a 3 shot victory.
→ Pin High vs. Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellThey will play for the 3rd time already. Pin High has won both previous meetings. They need another one, badly. Drive-4-Show continue to look like the team to beat and has the Hackers this week. Pin High can not fall 2 games behind.
Pin High as this one and the D4S in two weeks. Other than that, they have an easy schedule the rest of the way. This week means everything to Pin High.
As for Tee-It-Up, they want to keep pace with D4S and have, essentially, the same schedule as Pin High the rest of the way.
D4S has by far the hardest road remaining of the 3.
Record of teams remaining on schedule:
D4S : 50-46
TIU : 44-52
PH : 43-53
In the South, the Hookers are reeling. They have Drink this week and the tough D4S next week before finishing with 4 straight in the division. The Hookers are only 4-4 against the North.
This weeks games:
Drive-4-Show sends the Hackers to their 13th straight loss.
Pin High beats Tee-It-Up despite Love missing the cut. Mahan wins the tournament and another skin for Pin High.
CHiP needs this one, if they want to catch the Hookers they can't afford to lose to Hol-E-1. Hol-E-1 needs a win to climb back into the playoffs. Hol-E-1 finally gets a big win.
Putt-4-Dough wins one and sends the Frogs packing for the Toilet Bowl tournament.
Hookers finally get back on track and beat Drink. They have to. If they can't win with Woods at Woods' tournament - well, that would be bad.
→ North Dominates
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe North dominated the South this past weekend. The only win from the South was a very lucky win over the Hackers.
Short article - must go to work....
The Hookers have lost the #1 overall seed.
CHiP failed to make up more ground on Hookers by losing too.
Pin High continues to dominate the skins. They have won 25% of all skins.
Drink is now in the playoff picture. If it were today, they would go over Hol-E-1.
Hookers, Drive-4-Show and Tee-It-Up can all clinch playoff spots this weekend.
→ Tee-It-Up's Turn
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis week it is Tee-It-Up's turn to play the Hookers. The Hookers are on a slide and had to pick up 3 players just to field a line-up this week.
The Hookers need to win to keep a comfortable lead in the South and to keep up front in the battle for a number 1 over all seed.
After, yet another, non shocker of a great showing by Mickelson only to see another collapse - here is another non shocker - guaranteed picks that never seem to pan out:
Tee-It-Up is simply too good to lose to a team that has to pick up 3 players to field a team. TIU hammers away at the suddenly vulnerable Hoookers.
Drive-4-Show is salivating over the prospects of playing Putt-4-Dough. This is one is a laugher - never even close. D4S wins by 60+ strokes.
The Hackers and Frogs square off as the two bottom feeders. The loser might as well start preparing for the Toilet Bowl tournament. The winner still has a shot at the playoffs.
Another intriguing match-up is the CHiP and Pin High. Both teams are desperately trying to keep up with or catch their respective division leaders. I'm a believer in the Major Curse. Mahan misses the cut and CHiP win, applying more heat to the Hookers.
At the moment, Hol-E-1 has a loose grip on the last playoff spot. Drink can take it away from them with a win this week. This game looms large in all tie-breaker scenarios. Each team needs a win badly. Drink wins, just because things will be more interesting if they did.
→ Tightening Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellThings are suddenly getting tight all over.
What once looked like an insurmountable lead by the Hookers is now within reach. In the North, it is even crazier. Drive-4-Show, Pin High and Tee-It-Up keep pin balling around for the lead. There is currently a two way tie and Pin High is only one game out.
Pin High wins another skin - and needed it. The Hackers had the 2nd best score of the week and still lost to Pin High.
Drive-4-Show beat the Hookers when Els and Casey missed the cut. Hookers' ownership was over heard talking about a possible "ernie else curse".
CHiP held on to beat the Frogs. The Frogs, snake bitten again as Sabatini, goat-of-the-week, bogeys 18 and misses the cut by 1 stroke, costing the Frogs a chance at beating CHiP.
Hol-E-1 has player of the week Glover and makes easy work of Putt-4-Dough. P4D had 3 players miss the cut.
Tee-It-Up makes relatively easy work of Drink when Drink has two players miss the cut.
→ Drive-4-Show vs. Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe two division leaders will tangle at the US Open. AND, it gets better. For all those teams chasing D4S and the Hookers, they play each other again in 4 weeks at the British Open. In fact, the Hookers start a 4 game out of division streak and will be playing a very tough schedule. Besides D4S twice, they get Tee-It-Up and Drink.
The next 4 weeks will be critical for teams to catch the Hookers. Meanwhile, D4S is in a dog fight and needs to win to stay out in front of Hol-E-1, Pin High and a resurgent Drink.
This week's US Open guesses:
D4S and the Hookers have lost their last game. They have all the "A" players going and with Hookers pickup of Casey, they look loaded. However, Els is a wild card and Villegas hasn't shown it at a major yet. This one depends on Els. I say he missed the cut and D4S takes it.
The Hackers are due - big time. I say they upset Pin High this week, just because that is the kind of year Pin High is having.
CHiP plays the Frogs and the emotional Mickelson. I predict that Phil just isn't right with the news on his wife and can't make a run. CHiP gets another big one from Vijay and wins this one.
The Tee-It-Up and Drink match-up is interesting. I still can't figure out how Drink has so many losses with that line-up. I bet they can't either. Drink wins their 4th in a row this week.
Hol-E-1 and Putt-4-Dough battle to stay in the playoff hunt. The issue is that Adam Scott has been a disaster for Hol-E-1 this year and it continues this week. P4D is now on an official tear by winning their 3rd in a row.
→ Gap closes a little
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers have now lost 2 of 3 with a very daunting 4 weeks coming up and Drive-4-Show finally lost. Things are very tight in the North and CHiP is now within shouting distance in the South.
Drink has now won 3 in a row and beat a very hot Drive-4-Show. Drink won by only 6 shots despite having 1 more golfer over the weekend. D4S still looks very formidable. Drink is on the rise - look out.
Tee-It-Up smacked around the Hackers as most of the "euro-trash" was using Memphis as a US Open warm-up and were not concerned with making the cut, which they didn't.
The poor Frogs got hammered win Mickelson just couldn't put it together and Brian Gay (golfer-of-the-week) goes off for Pin High. Pin High continues to dominate the skins with another one this week.
CHiP got a solid performance from his team and easily handles Hol-E-1. With 8 weeks to go, CHiP is now 4 games behind the Hookers and a great opportunity to make up more ground over the next 4 weeks.
The Hookers finally had a little bad luck, with the 3rd best score, yet still loses to a surging Putt-4-Dough team. The Hookers were killed by Romero, this week's goat-of-the-week, missing the cut by only 1 stroke.
→ Week 14
Published: by Jim GreenwellDosn't seem possible that we are already to week 14 of the regular season. It appears the Hookers have a lock on the South (although, you never know), but the race for the title in the North should be a wild one.
Besides the race for division winners, the 2nd place money will be interesting, not to mention the fight for playoff spots. Everyone but the Hackers are but one game out of a playoff spot. The Hackers aren't out of it, but they need to turn that losing streak around.
This weeks lame guesses:
The big game of the week is between Hol-E-1 and CHiP. The winner sets themselves ahead of the pack and will probably be the last team able to make a run at the Hookers. The loser finds themselves slipping back towards the Toilet Bowl area. CHiP should win this one, but Garcia has been as unpredictable as Vijay. Still, going with CHiP in a close one.
Drive-4-Show takes their 7 game winning streak against a resurgent Drink. This is a hunch play, but Drink isn't as bad as the record indicates and D4S is bound to lose sometime - why not now. Drink in an upset.
Hackers will shock the world and take out Tee-It-Up this week. It is a lock - take it to the bank.
What to do with Pin High and the Frogs. How will Phil respond? It just isn't clear. Both teams need this badly. The two unluckiest teams in the league battle it out. I saw that the Frogs prove to be the most unlucky when they lose this one.
Putt-4-Dough can do themselves and every one else a favor by beating the Hookers this week. The Hookers continue to live on marginally good play and poor outings by opponents. P4D is due for a good outing, plus they have been improving over the last 3 weeks. P4D in a stunner over the Hookers.
→ Hookers' Big Day
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers recovered from their loss last week by hammering the Frogs. The Hookers was the only team under par and won a by a whopping 74 shots. Not only that, the Hookers swept both skins behind player-of-the-week Tiger Woods. If that wasn't enough, this week's skin was a carry-over, giving the Hookers three skins this week. The new stand 5 games clear of the nearest pursuer in the South.
In other games:
Drive-4-Show continues to impress after winning their 7th in a row. They now stand alone atop the North. The squeaked by Pin High after Davis missed the cut for PH. D4S was the only team besides the Hookers to have all 4 golfers make the cut.
Drink held on for a win over the Hackers despite to missed cuts. Jim Furyk's monster 11 under sealed the deal for Drink.
Hol-E-1 beat Tee-It-Up by 2 strokes even though they had 1 more golfer makethe cut. This week's goat-of-the-week has to be Sean O'Hair who withdrew after 1 round, dooming Tee-It-Up.
Putt-4-Dough got one of their favorite victories of the year, beat CHiP. The Vijay saga appears to not be over. Will Vijay ever fully get his form back? Vijay missed the cut along with Baddeley to destory CHiP's chances.
→ Drive-4-Show vs. Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellD4S puts their 6 game winning streak on the line against Pin High.
We have some good games in a big tournament, just as it should be - all of the stars are out.
My very tired guesses:
D4S becomes the official "team to beat" by winning a 7th in a row with a true hammer job over Pin High. People may start to notice D4S later this weekend.
The Hackers will win, finally. After dropping 8 in a row, the Hackers will beat Drink and put themselves back in the playoff hunt.
Tee-It-Up hopes to keep up with D4S with a big game against Hol-E-1. TIU just seems to have the better players - should be a close one.
CHiP and the Vijay machine are on a roll. This week's victim is Putt-4-Dough. CHiP wins this one easily.
How about the Frogs - winners of two in a row without Phil. This week they get the Hookers. The Hookers proved they were vulnerable last week. The Frogs make a statement by winning this game.
→ Drive-4-Show Goes Nuts
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhile everyone has been paying attention to the Hookers, D4S has torn off 6 wins in a row and has claimed top spot in the North. D4S also won this week's skin - all behind player-of-the-week Steve Stricker. P4D had everything go bad with Campbell withdrawing and Duke missing the modified Saturday cut.
In other games:
The Frogs have now won 2 in a row with Lefty on the shelf. The Frogs, if I know them, won't let up. They are back in the hunt.
The Hookers 7 game winning streak ended against a heavily favored Tee-It-Up team. The Hookers' smoke and mirrors tour appears to be over.
CHiP now has a red hot Vijay on his roster (as the swami predicted) and could be on his way to a very nice 2nd half run. Pin High had all 4 make the cut, but nothing but poor scores on Sunday doomed them.
Hol-E-1 is back in the "unlucky" club when goat-of-the-week Tim Clark bogeys 2 of the last holes (including the last hole) which cost himself the tournament and Hol-E-1 a skin and a win. Drink climbs out of the cellar in the North - look out!
→ Tee-It-Up vs Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up was once alone in the lead in the North, but has dropped two in a row. They face the red hot Hookers who have won 7 in a row. Tee-It-Up needs to win to keep pace with the North leaders and wants desperately to beat the Hookers.
There are important games this week. No team is more than 2 games out of a playoff spot. We are half way done. Time to get serious.
Good guesses coming up. After a stellar 4-1 week last week, but not the guaranteed 5-0, these guesses are sure to go at least 4-1 again.
Tee-It-Up will just hammer the Hookers. The Hookers are due a really bad outing and are going against Ogilvy, O'Hair, Rose and Verplank with Klauk?, Estes?, Wilson? and Crane. No way. If the Hookers win this one, they might start believing the hype.
Pin High trots out an all star line-up to take on CHiP. After last week's win, CHiP has his swerve on again and has Vijay in the line-up. Something tells me something goes wild for Vijay this week. CHiP in a mild upset.
The Bullit County Bowl (or Mullet Bowl) or (CDE Bowl) commences this weekend. Putt-4-Dough whips out the Duke weapon and finds a way to beat Drive-4-Show in a big upset, ending the D4S 5 game winning streak.
Drink takes on a truly hacked off Hol-E-1 team after all 4 players missed the cut, costing them a chance at the Hookers. Both teams have solid line-ups and the up and down Hol-E-1 team is ready for an up - A very close win over Drink.
The Frogs and the Hackers. What more can be said. How badly can things go for the Frogs? What about the Hackers - losers of 8 in a row. The winner of this game keeps very close tabs on a playoff spot. The loser starts planning Toilet Bowl tourney strategies.
→ How is that possible?!?
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Frogs, with only 1 player making the cut and a "no show" with Mickelson - won! They won with one golfer against Putt-4-Dough who had two golfers make the cut. Wow!
The Frogs had a huge, huge weekend and Sunday from player-of-the-week Rory Sabbatini to catch and defeat P4D. That is crazy!
The game actually ended in a tie. I'm assuming Sabbatini's earnings will be more than enought to offset the other 2. I'll double check later.
In other games:
Drive-4-Show had a nice week with only one missed cut and easily handled the Hackers to win their 5th game in a row and to tie for first in the North.
Pin High, for the second time in 3 weeks has defeated Tee-It-Up. They got superb play from Brian Davis who is starting to look like the sleeper of the year.
CHiP used Singh and destroyed Drink and won best team skin as well. All 4 players made the cut and shot 7 under or better.
The Hookers improved to 10-1 after Hol-E-1 had all 4 players miss the cut. After that, the Hookers only need one player to finish the round on Saturday.
→ Phil Mickelson
Published: by Jim GreenwellEveryone - if you haven't heard the news, Phil Mickelson's wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has suspended his tour schedule "indefinitely".
Obviously, everyone supports Phil and his family and all well wishes to a recovery and a speedy recovery at that.
On that fantasy front, it is just more bad luck for the Frogs. How bad can it get?
Here are this weeks locks - right them down - I'm guaranteeing a 5-0 week.
First, Putt-4-Dough will beat the Frogs. The Frogs mouthed off earlier in the week, lose Mickelson and now the game.
Second, Drive-4-Show will beat the Hackers. D4S continues a very strong winning streak.
Third, Pin High beats Tee-It-Up (didn't these guys just play). TIU suffers while Cejka is still busy hacking up a fur ball this week too.
Fourth, Hol-E-1 beats the Hookers. The Hookers have two tour rookies in the line-up. No way that beats a line-up headed up by the talented Adam Scott.
Fifth, CHiP wins because he is playing Vijay this week. CHiP will win even if it only serves to confuse CHiP further over whether to play Vijay or not. Poor Drink just gets caught in the cross fire.
→ Drive-4-Show Rolling
Published: by Jim GreenwellNo one is paying any attention, but Drive-4-Show has very quietly torn off 4 straight wins and is now only 1 game off the lead in the North.
D4S has a monster weekend from player-of-the-week Zach Johnson who was 10 under on Saturday alone. Tee-It-Up, who could have taken a nice 2 game lead, was hurt by goat-of-the-week Cejka. Cejka who collapsed at the Players collapsed on Thurs and Friday, hacking it around and was never anywhere near the cutline.
In other games: Drink had all 4 golfers at -7 or better and just hammered away at Pin High who lost 1 player to the cut.
The Hackers refusal to submit a line-up cost them this time. Putt-4-Dough was the only team over par that submitted a line-up. P4D won by only 24 despite a no show lineup from the Hackers.
CHiP and Hookers were tied going into the 4th round. CHiP show +4 and the Hookers -11 on Sunday. The Hookers now have a 6 game winning streak.
Hol-E-1 found a way to survive agains the Frogs as the Frogs lost Chopra to the cut by only 1 stroke. Better things just have to be ahead for the Frogs.
→ Week 10
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, Thursday's round is almost over, so no lame guesses this week.
Instead - some absolutes:
o Everyone wants the Hookers to lose to CHiP.
o P4D will beat Hackers - why does he submit a line-up of people not playing?
o Someone will be unlucky in the Hol-E-1 vs. Frogs game.
o Pin High wants to beat Drink badly.
o Drive-4-Show can make things real interesting in the North by beating TIU.
Lets see what happens.
→ Hookers win 5th in a row
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers continue good play coupled with a little luck to extend their winning streak to 5 games.
The Hackers came out swinging and looked like an easy winner after Thursday's play. But things went poorly after that, and coupled with goat-of-the-week McDowell having a bad Saturday and missing that crazy 2nd cut that the PGA uses now, doomed the Hackers. The Hackers do have a first - they have the goat-of-the-week and player-of-the-week. Stenson gets player-of-the-week despite a losing team effort - his play was just too good to ignore.
In other games:
Tee-It-Up takes over first place in the North with a very close win over CHiP. Both teams only had 1 player miss the cut. But John Merrick's poor play over the weekend doomed CHiP.
Drink finally wins another game and is hopeful is starts a long winning steak. They had all 4 players make the cut and win the team skin. P4D lost two to the cut and then Weekley withdrew after 3 rounds.
Poor Pin High. The Mr. Hyde of the Jekyll and Hyde of this team came out again this weekend. They had 2 missed cuts, one withdraw and one "mdf", which is a miss of the weird 2nd cut on Saturday. Hol-E-1 has now officially passed the mantle of unluckiest team to the Frogs.
Speaking of the Frogs, the lose a heart-breaker to Drive-4-Show. Despite having one few golfer on the weekend, they lost by only 10 strokes. D4S is now only 2 games out of first place.
→ CHiP takes on Tee-It-Up
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP looks to take out the Tee-It-Up and stay within three games of the Hookers. They will need to win as the Hookers appear to be on the verge of victory - thanks to a carry-over line-up from the Hackers.
Of course, Tee-It-Up always seems to respond when necessary. It should be a good match-up.
This week's lame guesses:
CHiP is desperate. Doesn't know what to do with Vijay and benched him this week. Maybe a smart move, but CHiP can't be as confident as he once was in games like this. Tee-It-Up wins because all 4 players make the cut.
Hol-E-1 and Pin High renew the LG&E Bowl. Big game for both and PH keeps trotting out Davis Love III. No way he makes two cuts in a row. Hol-E-1 gets a winning streak going with a big win.
Drink is ticked off and wants to win. Putt-4-Dough has rolled out the secret weapon - Ken Duke. This one will be close. P4D probably has the better 4, but Drink is due - big time. So Drink wins this one.
The Frogs and Drive-4-Show throw plenty of fire power at this one. Major stars in each foursome. Frogs win this one just because that is the way it goes.
Hookers will beat Hackers, if Hackers don't have a last minute line-up. Although, stranger things have happened. The Hookers could go 8 - 1 with a monster game with CHiP in Week 10.
*Update* - As soon as this story was submitted, a line-up was posted by Hackers. Hackers have a strong line-up and Hookers are due for a loss. Look for Pin High to celebrate a Hackers win.
→ Pin High back on top
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High, after a weak outing last week, won a huge game against Tee-It-Up. Despite Tee-It-Up throwing up the individual skin winner, Pin High won with all 4 players making the cut (the only team to do so). Tee-It-Up made it a game, but Pin High was too much this week.
In other games:
Drive-4-Show sweated out the collapse of Zach Johnson on Sunday and survived by only 1 stroke over the Hackers.
The Hookers won by only one stroke win goat-of-the-week David Toms didn't find a way to shoot even par. Tom's just couldn't match his early tournament success with the game on the line.
CHiP has to be wondering about Vijay now. There is now way this line-up, that CHiP paraded out should have had 3 missed cuts. As a result, they lost to Hol-E-1.
Putt-4-Dough got a huge win behind player-of-the-week Boo Weekley. Boo's big Sunday held off the Frogs' own big Sunday from Mickelson. It was the difference maker. Putt-4-Dough wins a close one.
→ Tee-It-Up vs. Pin High
Published: by Jim GreenwellTee-It-Up tries to validate their 6 - 1 record against a good Pin High team that was last seen laying in tall grass licking his wounds from last week's thrashing.
Tee-It-Up would love nothing more than to shut the league up and pounce out to a 7 - 1 record and 2 game lead. Pin High, of course, will have something to say about that.
This week's guesses:
Pin High and Tee-It-Up have early line=ups and this tournament has brought out all the stars. The key this week is Davis Love. If he makes the cut, Pin High wins. That doesn't happen - Tee-It-Up wins a close one.
The Hookers try to extend to 7 - 1 too against the 1 - 6 Drink. Everything says, "pick the Hookers". Which is exactly why I'm picking Drink - something has to give and when something has to give, it usually does.
Drive-4-Show keeps pace with the top of the division with a big win over the Hackers. The Hackers, after a hot start, have cooled as of late. They will try to recapture the magic - but not this week.
Is CHiP looking ahead? Is this a trap game? CHiP as division leading Tee-It-UP and then Hookers in the next two weeks. Will they overlook the hard luck Hol-E-1 team? Here is saying they do. Hol-E-1 finally gets a win.
The Frogs and Putt-4-Dough face off in a crucial mid season match-up. The Frogs need a division win and P4D needs a win. This should be a good one, but Double-D will carry the day for the Slippery Frogs.
→ Missed Cuts Galore
Published: by Jim GreenwellNot counting the 6 "no shows", we had 18 the "submitted" 32 players miss the cut - that is some pretty lousy player picking.
4 players were added to rosters this week and started - all 4 missed the cut.
In what was supposed to be a monster game, the Pin High - Hookers game was a mess. 6 of 8 players missed the cut, including all 4 for Pin High.
Hol-E-1 improved to 6-1 thanks to the non submittal by P4D. They may regret this one at the end of the year - P4D could easily have had this one.
Drive-4-Show and CHiP were the only teams to have 3 players make the cut - sheesh.
Drive-4-Show made very quick work of Hol-E-1. Hol-E-1 will find that they once again played one of the best scoring teams of the week.
CHiP had no problem with a non showing eurotrash team of the Hackers.
The Frogs, however, were in a game - the only game with the same number of players making the cut. They had player-of-the-week Sabbatini deliver an important win over Drink and goat-of-the-week James Nitties who went 3 over on the last 3 holes to miss the cut by 2 strokes, costing Drink the game.
Look at the standing - who out there would trade for Tee-It-Up's schedule?
→ Pin High vs. Hookers
Published: by Jim GreenwellIn a huge bout, two 5 - teams tussle for dominance in the league. Pin High looks to beat the Hookers after losing to the in Week 1.
In Week 1, these teams combined for a -62 score and lapped the field. This week they are pitted against one another in a lower rated tournament.
Meanwhile, Tee-It-Up is screaming, "what about me? I'm 5 - 1 too!" True enough and Tee-It-Up looks to keep on a roll against an up and down Putt-4-Dough team.
This week's wild guesses:
Pin High will absolutely destroy the Hookers - are you kidding me? Pettersson, Weir, O'Hern against Piercy, Marino and Crane. This will be a landslide.
Same is true for Tee-It-Up - they will hammer away at Putt-4-Dough. Justin Rose just may win this tournament.
Can Perry rebound from his Masters' failing and lead Drive-4-Show to victory? The answer is yes - Kenny is a tough old bird and will recover nicely to help D4S beat Hol-E-1.
A little birdie told me that the Eurotrash of the Hackers went on a binge tonight and will not be able to compete at all against CHiP. CHiP makes up ground on Hookers with monster win.
The Frogs are bound to beat Drink only because only 1 other South team was picked. The hard-luck Drink loses a tight one to the Frogs.
→ Pin High Rocks
Published: by Jim GreenwellPin High has a monster week. They are now 5-1 and maintain their lead in the North, they win both skins and 2 carry-overs for a total of $20 in skins in one week - that is huge.
Pin High, behind player-of-the-week, Brian Gay, just hammered away at the Hackers.
CHiP was the only other team under par with a very nice outing from his team. Drive-4-Show wasn't terrible, but CHiP just kept the pressure on and never relented.
Tee-It-Up stays in a tie for the lead in the North after Drink fails to submit a line-up.
Putt-4-Dough wins a relatively close match but win after 2 from Hol-E-1 fails to make the cut.
The Hookers win the closest match of the week after the Frogs have goat-of-the-week Daniel Chopra shoots a 5 over on Friday to miss the cut.
→ Can you believe it?
Published: by Jim GreenwellWe are already on week 6 and we have some big games this week.
Here are some random guesses:
CHiP is bound to win this week. Baddelly shoudl be the difference over a slumping Howell III. CHiP in a very close one.
Could it be the Hackers' year? Will see. If they beat Pin High this week. I say they do - in a tough battle, but wins on a birdy on 18 by Immelman.
Tee-It-UP gets lucky when Drink is stuck with roll-over line-up. Now, Drink is making their bad luck...
Putt-4-Dough simply hammers Hol-E-1. Boo Weekly is due - look for a monster week from Weekly.
The Hookers are due to lose, why not lose to the team with the lowest stroke count for the year - the Frogs.
→ Hookers Take Control
Published: by Jim GreenwellWith only 5 weeks gone, the Hookers have vaulted to a two game lead in the South. Meanwhile, in the North there are still 3 teams within 1 game of the league lead.
As for the Masters, what a tournament. What started out so good will now be remembered as the tournament that no one wanted to win.
Mickelson: Hacked up a lung on 12, 15, 17
Woods: 17, 18
Furyk: Majorly on 9
Campbell: First playoff hole
Perry: 17, 18 and both playoff holes
Cabrerra, just simply hung on.
As for our games, we have the best player skin carry-over for the 2nd straight week - next week is worth $15 bucks.
Hol-E-1 scores a huge victory over the Frogs. Hol-E-1 played player-of-the-week Cabrerra and won despite have a more players miss the cut than the Frogs.
The Hookers beat CHiP thanks to goat-of-the-week Goosen missing the cut. If Vijay makes the line-up instead of Retief.....
Pin High remains in a tie in the North after making quick work of P4D, who had 3 players miss the cut.
Tee-It-Up stays tied with Pin High after outlasting the Hackers' Euro-trash line-up.
Drive-4-Show had 2 players miss the cut and still beat the luckless Drink team, who had 3 miss the cut.
→ The Masters
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe tournament has started and so has our Week 5. Huge games this week.
Drive-4-Show and Drink both try to avoid 1-4. Drink is way better than 1-3. Drink wins in a landslide.
Hackers and Tee-It-Up play for first place in the division. Hackers are on a roll and the EuroTrash does it for them again.
Pin High keeps pace in the North by handling Putt-4-Dough with the 17 year old making the cut....
Hookers are a one man show and that isn't good enough in the Masters. CHiP, minus VJ, win a big one.
Hol-E-1 tries to climb out of the cellar with a huge win over the Frogs. But, it doesn't happen - Frogs' Jimenez does it again...
→ Hackers are 3 - 1
Published: by Jim GreenwellWhat a turn of events. The Hackers are using their Euro-trash line-up to thrash their opponents. I'm not the sure the Hackers have ever been 3 - 1. It is probably June before they win 3 in most years.
The Hackers also won this week's team skin as they pounded the Hookers, handing them their first loss.
Pin high is also 3-1 after a come from behind victory over Hol-E-1.
Another 3-1 team, Tee-It-Up just crushed CHiP who only had one player make the cut and that player came in last - wow!
Drink finally won thanks to a bizarre DNS line-up from Putt-4-Dough.
And, the only team from the South to win, the Frogs handled Drive-4-Show despite Mickelson's lousy play.
→ Week 4 Matchups
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Shell Houston Open provides the backdrop for one of the "between weeks" as we head from Arnold's tournament to the Masters.
(Note: Remember, you can leave your own predictions or notes in the "TalkTrash" link.)
Drive-4-Show and the Frogs need this win. The winner goes to .500 and the loser starts to lose some important ground early in the season. Frogs win this one, because Tiger isn't around - so, Phil can play well.
The Hackers have their Euro team agains the Hookers B team. The Hackers will improve to a stratosphere record, for them, 3 - 1.
CHiP wants this one bad and has rolled out the big guns. Two of the best line-ups in the game go at it. This one will come down to Vijay and Ogilvy on Sunday. Edge to Vijay as CHiP wins a very clse one.
Pin High trots out some new blood and these are the kind of tourneys these guys do well in. Pin High spanks Hol-E-1.
Drink needs a win and bad. They have been too good to keep losing. They win this week only because they are do. They handily beat Putt-4-Dough.
→ Hookers remain undefeated
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe Hookers are a huge 3-0 and the only unbeaten team in the league. The Hookers were aided by 2 missed cuts and 1 no show by Hol-E-1. This essentially ended this match on Friday. Tiger Woods has to be this week's player-of-the-week.
Pin High had the 3rd best score after some solid golf from Mahan, Weir and Goggin. The held off Drive-4-Show when the lose 2 players to the cut.
What about Drink? The defending champ is 0-3 and could easily be 3-0. Their 3 losses have been by a total of 11 strokes - that is it. Meanwhile, the Hackers win puts them at 2-1. Drink had the goat-of-the-week in Jim Furyk, the ace, miss the cut by a full 3 strokes.
Putt-4-Dough finally wins and wins over the previously unbeaten CHiP. They were helped by 2 missing the cut for CHiP.
Tee-It-Up has a big win over the Frogs after some very good play form Rose, O'Hair and Verplank.
→ Week 3 Already
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, we are on week 3 and two teams may already be a little desperate. Drink, the defending champ, and Putt-4-Dough are still looking for their first win.
Will it come this week?
Drive-4-Show has the edge this week over Pin High. His III (Howell) should out play Pin High's III (Love).
Drink needs a win and gets the Hackers. But, the Hackers are loaded with them Euros again and the Hackers send Drink to 0-3.
CHiP will "will" this one and go 3-0 just to spite Putt-4-Dough and send them to 0-3.
The Hookers have Tiger, but nothing else. Is Tiger ready to carry the Hookers? I'm going with not yet. Hol-E-1 wins this one.
→ CHiP is Big Winner
Published: by Jim GreenwellCHiP equaled last year's skins total in week 2. With a huge effort form player-of-the-week Reteif Goosen, CHiP hung tough and beat a very good Frogs team.
Drive-4-Show had an easy time of it when 3 Tee-It-Up golfers failed to make the cut - pitiful.
Drink loses to Pin High when KJ Choi, this week's goat-of-the-week goes 2 over on the last 3 holes on Friday to miss the cut by 1. It helped that Pin High got a huge week out of Mathew Goggin in the win.
Putt-4-Dough loses a heart breaker by two strokes to the Hookers when Mark Wilson shoots a 3 under par on Sunday. This match was close all weekend.
Bunch of teams are now 1-1 in the North and CHiP and Hookers are only remaining unbeaten teams.
→ North should win a couple....
Published: by Jim GreenwellThis week, a North team should be able to win a couple of games - they are playing each other....
Drive-4-Show is one of them, as they womp Tee-It-Up, who is playing a "Yang" - is that legal?
Drink's line-up looks like a masters leader board, while Pin High looks like Q School. So, I pick Pin High... I don't know why, just a hunch.
Hol-E-1 finds a way to beat the Hackers - oh Hackers? You out there?
The Frogs take on CHiP and continue their winning ways as JB show Wi how it is done.
The Hookers have to go with their B line-up and that isn't enough to beat Putt-4-Dough.
→ South Destroys North
Published: by Jim Greenwell4-1 was the South against the North.
And, another season begins....
Hol-E-1 got some huge games and overcame Adam Scott's over par weekend to edge Drive-4-Show.
In a ridiculous game - CHiP lost Baddeley to a DQ but won anyway - by one stroke - when this week's goat of the week, Henrik Stenson, shot a 10 OVER par on Sunday - alone - wow!
Tee-It-Up, the lone victor in the North hammered Putt-4-Dough - it was never close.
The Hookers got a big weekend out of a healing Woods and Villegas to hold off Pin High and their Irish stud, McIlroy.
The Frogs used player of the week Phil Mickelson to punish Drink.
→ Week 1 Under Way
Published: by Jim GreenwellWell, we are playing week 1 and what a big weekend. All the stars are out on a great course - a very good way to open a season as Dan tries to defend his title.
Not-so-lame guesses, nearly guarantees for this weekend's games:
Drive-4-Show vs. Hol-E-1: Kenny Perry is great on smaller courses and lesser fields, he doesn't carry the day in these types of tournaments. Hol-E-1 wins a close one.
Hackers vs. CHiP: Hackers pull off a win with a huge non-USA line-up. Better enjoy while he can, they won't often play in the states.
Tee-It-Up vs. Putt-4-Dough: Putt-4-Dough probably won't win 8 games with this roster (besides I'm jealous of where he is at the moment) and this won't be one of them. Tee-It-Up gets this win.
Pin High vs. Hookers: Tiger just isn't ready yet. Pin High wins with who may be the new stud - Anthony Kim.
Drink vs. Slippery Frogs: The defending champ get off to a lousy start, losing to the Frogs and the "mechanic".
As I understand it, there is no cut this weekend. Enjoy.
→ Draft is Over
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe 2009 Fantasy Golf draft is over and a good time was had by all (I think).
I hope everyone finds the new web site easy to use and error free. Feel free to send me improvement suggestions and always contact me with errors. Please keep in mind, I will move very cautiously to make any "enhancements" while we are mid season. I will be working on a live scoreboard over spring break. Maybe by the end of the season, we will have live scoring - but it is a challenge.
Favorites:
In the South, it has to be CHiP. If Vijay can rebound and do anything close to what he is capable of, CHiP will be very difficult to beat.
In the North, Pin High looks best. They were a little unlucky last year and had a relatively early draft pick. Some nice draft picks, plenty of depth - the team to beat.
→ Draft is Monday
Published: by Jim GreenwellThe draft is set for Monday, March 9 at 7:00pm - be there!
📢 Commissioner Bulletin
The 2026 Season has concluded. Congrats to CHiP!
🗣 Message Board
Eagles are predicted to fall this week. Yes - the new site already has a leaderboard link on home page. It also has the ability to add pics in the message board. Now is the time to hit me with requests. See main article for link to see new site.
Eagles are on a massive 5-game heater with lots of skins.
I meant to say "scoreboard", not "leaderboard" in my previous message. Thanks
Can you build a link directly to the current week's leaderboard from the home page? That extra click is wearing me out. :-)
That’s dedication (working on the Web site) … TO A FAULT!
I think you are conniving against me winning division!
No predictions?
Commish must be really excited about NASCAR in San Diego this weekend that he doesn't set a lineup!
20-30MPH wind Thursday, on a us open setup Shinnecock?! Good luck……. In reality par will be closer to 75-76 and if you keep it under 80 you’re probably still in it after day 1.
Eat a dick Sam Burns!
Jimmy, you recently dropped JT Postin for Brandt Snedeker?!??!!?
Hope he doesn’t win and you miss the skin!
Nice lineup this week :)
Not in my lineup
No! I don’t want to talk about it.
Have I ever said “fantasy sports!” before?
Ugh.
Well, sucks when your match is over by Friday…… but good game Jim!
I didn’t g this year. Sent others who REALLY appreciated the opportunity to attend.
It’s interesting from where I sit seeing Augusta National clamping down on unsanctioned ticket sellers. I’m curious what their next moves will be.
As far as the course conditions, I saw some brownish areas on TV. I’m sure they weren’t happy about that.
Lowry*
Anyone want this bum Lowery
Maybe just one putt…or two. Fantasy golf! ARGH!
This week is about the golf, not the predictions. Haha. Idunno. I’m in WV and busy…
Masters week and we get Cliff Notes on the matches?
Xander to win @ -11
Predictions? Does Chip win again?
Here’s one (or two): Final winning score will be in the single digits. Augusta National Golf Course will make many of the pros look like amateurs this year.
By far the best week of the year! And it’s not even close!!!! Let’s enjoy it!!! Cheers, it’s masters week!!!!!! Fore Please……
for another dominant week by the Foot Wedges
The "beauty" of fantasy sports...
How can I be 2nd in money earned and in last place. Lol
I’m getting lots of breaks early in the season. Just means second half of the season likely will be awful for CHiP!
F***. Lol ok, I’m done complaining. See ya at the players
Well F my A**??!! Hehhhhhh
I thought maybe last week with you not picking me or Berger was the key. Maybe I just needed you to skip the selections completely for him to play well!
Looks like I finally get a win!!!! First one over a year in the league. Like out might be on a roll
Thanks for not picking me or Berger. I expect to him to win the tourney now!
Tony, I know this one stings. I can almost hear the excuses loading. And while I do acknowledge your pain… I don’t feel even a tiny bit of sympathy. Not a flicker. My guys showed up, stacked birdies, and turned Sunday into a victory lap. It wasn’t personal — it was just business. Ice up, buddy. I’ll try not to win by that much next time.
Swapping in Glover for Scheffler. That's what's wrong.
100% on that first round thing. WTH?!?!?
David, are you ready to trade Scotty yet? Can’t play at first round
Too funny.
Soooo - 2 things...
I never said Colin sucked, I said he was "mid". And boy, did he prove me wrong - haha.
And... second thing, I'll guess I'll hold onto him for one more week...
I'm going to try Jim's coaching strategy. Aberg sucks!
Morikawa Still available
Soooooo Jimmy, you ummmmmmmm still giving Colin away?!
GAME ON Jimmy!
Hang in there Joe, it's only the second week... :)
And like I said, Morikawa sucks - anyone want him?
Every year I think I pick a good team and they suck!! I may have to give up
Not sure that I’ve ever moved Scottie to a reserve slot.
Im winning this week
Mike put together a great team. RIP Champ.
All. Sorry to be the one to let everyone know but Mike passed away this morning. Not sure if all the details but apparently he had been in the hospital for the last 10 days fighting an illness.
Congrats Jim. With the week I had I missed setting a line up.
Wow
“Matsuyama”
No breaks for me this year; Corey Connors quit on me and I should have kept Mariana on the bench!
Winning team losing team winning team losing team
If playoffs started today:
1. Hookers
2. Wedges
3. Pin High
4. Snowmen (PH and Snowmen tied and have yet to play one another)
5. Hol-E-1
6. Loopers (tied with Masters, but hold tie breaker - to play each other twice more).
No one is more than 2 games out of making the playoffs - long way to go - keep getting after it.
Can those Greenwell boys be beat?
Thanks for the Kiss-of-Death Mr. Odds-Maker.
I think this may be Rory’s year. He’s coming in with great form and two wins this year. Can he take the pressure everyone is putting on him? Can the rest of the team make the cut? We’ll see. Good luck all.
I used to bet beers against Joe, but he got tired of buying buckets.
Keith - funny...
After doing the predictions yesterday - I was wondering if it would be fun for me to set a line with odds on each match and book the bets myself. Could I find an algorithm that worked and would people bet it? I mean, I have a winning record picking the winner - It was just an idea I had. Would people want to bet on these games?
What's the Money Line on those 94 strokes? I think I want to place a wager.
I’m aware that Pin High should get the best player skin for week 7. I’m out of the country for 2 weeks and can’t fix it until I get back. Another piece of code I need to build automation for…
Hookers are running away with it. Looks like a repeat championship? (Masters (2018/19) and Hookers (2003/04) are the only teams to ever repeat as champion).
I guess a 59 helps. Jeesh!
Please quit picking the Snowmen. “You’re killing me, Smalls.”
Looks like 5 great matches shaping up. Should be fun.
Congrats to the Hookers.
To lose by only 16 strokes with two withdrawals is amazing…and Scottie was +1, no arrest needed. Weird. Crazy.
I think you need to put an asterisk next to this year since the Snowmen had 2 players withdraw, and you won with 11 over par. :-)
You’re right this is the strangest final we have ever seen. You are so lucky. Can’t believe Snowmen had two players withdraw.
The Snowmen are all quitting on him. Strangest final ever.
Too bad our starters didn't play last week. My team is looking good so far this week.
I could have done it with no problem - too late now, however - code would break all ongoing games.
I should've asked you to setup a grudge matchup this week for us, so the rest of the league could see what they missed.
There are no skins in the post season - never have been. Not all teams participate in any given week. Therefore, we only do skins in the regular season.
Hey Jim. If there are skins for the playoffs I think I had the low player skin. My guy had second place alone. And Arron Rai (your player) was not fielded.
I guess I hit the word limit:
The final paragraph should be this:
In this case, Pin High would have been 5 seed and Wedges the 6 seed. Wedges and CHiP tied based on .500 win %, then it goes to head to head. CHiP and Wedges were 1-1 against one another. Then it goes to total strokes, which Wedges win.
Crazy stuff...
Just a note (and we can talk about this).
We could have put all 4 11-11 in a "sub league" and have an overall record (win % would be actual tie break) between those 4. We change to this if we like next year. The good news, even if we did it this year it wouldn't have changed anything. Between the 4 teams, their records were:
Pin High 5-3 .625 Win %
CHiP 4-4 .500
Wedges 3-3 .500
Hol-E-1 3-5 .375
In this case, Pin High would have been 5 seed and Wedges the 6 seed. Wedges and CHiP ti
Four teams at 11-11. What’s the tie breaker for that mess?
Commissioner also overrules the objection.
Power (ringing hands and cackling), Power, Power!!! Drunk with Power!!!
Hookers are easily the luckiest team in the league.
I object to Hookers winning the division. Rigged! Commissioner winning the division!!!!! RIGGED!!!!!
You added one temp player to get to 4. The rules this year allow you to have added two players to get to 5.
Anybody have the number for the DFW police? We need another distraction for Scottie so the Snowmen don't run away from all of us.
Thanks to the LMPD, I finally got a Team and Player Skin!
Who do the Masters know in police force to do this to the Snowmen’s star? That’s what I want to know today. Hahaha only in Louisville…
Tim. Can your brother get us more info?
Cut, no cut, cut, no cut. What a joke.
Cut at The Masters is top 50 and ties.
Back to winning against you.
Thanks Keith.
But I’m still confused.
What I recall was that if we selected a temp player, they were in our line-up for all four rounds.
Maybe I made that up. Anybody else remember it that way?
Game on David G.!!!
By the way, if anybody is reading this, I’m still confused about our rules of temp players. I might need to understand for Majors that are coming.
Pat, yes, that was the rule last year on temp players, it was only to complete a roster to have a starting lineup, so you didn't have to drop players from your roster.
This year, they added the option of adding a 5th player as a temp, which allowed movement on your roster. That is how I understand the current rules in place.
I thought when a team had a temp player, they had to be in the line up all four rounds. Did we do it that way last year?
Pat - CT Pan and Webb Simpson are both temp players. Pan is a starter and Simpson is a reserve.
Do you (Jimmy) have both CT Pan and Webb Simpson as temp players this week? I don’t see Webb in your line up.
Talked to CHiP - realized the bug. I've made a fix. I think...
Pat - when you say "dropped" a player - do you mean from your roster or from your line-up? You can move reserves and starters around freely on Thursday. Changing your mind many times... On Friday, you have to "choose" which of your two reserves you will use. The other one will disappear as a choice. But after that, your remaining 5 players you can move in and out as many times as you like.
I think I found bugs. One in the application and one in my behavior:
1) I dropped a player, but shows them as eligible to be moved to starter from reserve.
2) I shouldn't have dropped him and forgot to move the player I picked up into the reserve slot. The player I dropped is tied for 2nd, so a bug that I dropped him in the first place.
Just put in some changes for the active leaderboard. The projected cut should be more accurate now. You'll see in parenthesis what I believe to be the cut line for that tournament. This week it shows "(Top 65)" which means the top 65 will make the cut.
If you see any problems, let me know.
Setting a Wednesday alarm to remind me to do predictions... I hate getting old...
I’m not going to be able to get to sleep tonight WITHOUT YOUR PREDICTIONS —- Jimmy!
Dang, I wanted Aberg to get a head-to-head match-up with Clark in the final round.
Thought the same thing but then realized I was actually in the lead lol!!! Thank goodness for LIV rules lol! 54 holes baby!
Tee-It-UP - you got lucky - if we have a 4th round a chase you down and I win - just so you know... :)
How will you handle Tim’s loss. Hatton goes to LIV.
Lost a drafted guy to LIV already before the 1st Tourney. Good thing that Alabama kid went pro today and I have #1 Waiver :)
First week predictions, Jimmy? (You’ve had plenty of time, no excuses.)
Justin Thomas is available for trade for swap of draft picks. Contact Charlie (Masters) if interested.
Hey Jim. I hope your enjoying your offseason. Can you please summarize the rules for trading draft picks for players? The Masters may be planning a major trade prior to this year's draft.
Was a fun year! Great players to watch and a little luck(always need lol). Very competitive year. Thanks for all you do Jimmy!! Website is the coolest!
I think I was sweating more than Lucas Glover watching Taylor Moore on the back 9 with a 1 shot lead. Luckily Moore held it together enough for me to get the win. I almost ruined my season by subbing Hatton for Corey Conners. Should be a close final this week.
Charlie
What a match. If Sunjae shows up on the back nine, I win! I predicted losing by ten, a loss is a loss :-( . Good luck Charlie. And thanks again Commish!
The way I see it, I should lose by at least 10 strokes. If I wasn’t a dumb ass and dropped Sep Straka (I thought nobody was looking), I’d win by at least 10 strokes.
Predictions on next round? Or have you lost interest?
With Pin High, Hol-E-1 and CHiP tying for second, the tie breaker is a "mini-conference" among the 3 teams. I take the overall record between the 3 teams as they play each other.
CHiP was 4-2
Hol-E-1 3-3
Pin High 2-4
Giving CHiP 2nd place. Then it reverts to head to head between Hol-E-1 and Pin High for 3rd place. HE! was 3-0 in those games, giving HE1 3rd place.
It gets way more complicated when someone ties in the other division. Hope this helps.
Since we had a number of teams tied for second place what is the tie breaker? I don’t remember.
Thanks! I thought my team was going to get 1st thru 4th place there for a minute.
Wow!!!!!! What a team score. (-74)
Don’t think I have ever seen one that good.
Dearest Commissioner: Please consider the following circumstance: I need a new brain. I will, of course, fully accept the commissioners wise and benevolent decision as a just and righteous outcome even if it triggers me. If I had a brain, CHiP wins by 3 (or 4?). I added Sam a.k.a. Samuel Stevens then my brain kept him hidden from sight. UGH!
Pat, use this form to make disputes:
"Commissioner: Please consider the following circumstance: ________. I will, of course, fully accept the commissioners wise and benevolent decision as a just and righteous outcome even if it triggers me."
Fill in the blanks and email to me. :)
Anybody know where I can find the official Carl Cup dispute form?
Pin High and the Snowmen lost by only 5 with each having a player miss the cut. Almost.
What a match. I was watching this one Thurs. thru Sun. Didn’t kick Jimmy’s ass but squeaked out a win. So much for a 15 stoke loss.
I’ve been around grand kids too much, I thought I had to put my #1 player in time-out because of missing cuts (Sungjae Im). He is T8 thru two rounds and on my bench. I’M STILL GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!
Nope I win by at least 15. :)
Ha ha ha. Hookers are going DOWN this week.
What the hell happened to Justin Thomas? His marriage isn't working out well for the Masters!
Are we getting commish predictions this week?
Come on, this IS a major!
Tiebreaker decides the Masters vs Loopers, and the lead in the North division.
Yep. Could be a wild finish on Sunday. Hate rooting against Day, but will today. Haha.
Let’s see which golfers show up for the weekend; GAME ON!
Nice of the Snowmen to take this week off, our match will determine the new Division leader (Masters or Loopers).
24pgachampvol
From there you select a committee. I think Woodhaven will fill. I belong to Polo Fields also.
Keith - Can you check with the club to see if Woodhaven has any open volunteer positions, and if you can share the code?
Yes, I signed up under Woodhaven CC. Think we have hole #7
Did anyone sign up to be a marshal for the 2024 PGA at Valhalla?
Second best score, still lost. Fantasy golf... harder than real golf...
I predict that CHiP loses by 3 strokes.
Five in a row and only one skin earned. Must be some luck involved. Getting tougher now with Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players, Velspar, and The Masters upon us. Then around the corner, the PGA Championship. Tough road ahead.
CHiP wins 5th of what will be 25 consecutive wins? Haha. What a start for Pat.
Damn!!!!! I knew I forgot something this week. Probably didn’t matter. Get’em next week.
Gunshy or just occupied? I’m still looking forward to the Commish’s predictions.
Looking forward to Week 5 predictions.
Temp Players can be added after the waiver run over night tonight - it will be available on the Transactions page after that. If you need help, give me a text.
Also... I hope you folks are happy - fixing the Tee Times for the web site was a huge PAIN - haha.
Jim, can you remind us how to add temporary players? Looks like the Honda Classic is missing many of the top players. Thanks
LOL
How the hell did you screw up and not have Cantlay in the lineup and only used 5..
I like my chances. Picking against me again next week in the Honda?
Ha ha ha; still too early to count chickens, I’m liking my chances! Maybe 4 making the cut vs. 2??? Linking my chances to nullify the commish’s projection AGAIN!
Ha ha! Too early to “count my chickens”, but I like my chances after round one.
For now, I have only one word on your predictions: “Ha.” (More later or tomorrow!)
yeah, yeah, yeah.... :)
Dang... 2023 - The Year of CHiP
“CHiP v Hookers: CHiP are 2-0, but they lose this one and it won't be close.” Correct, looking like it won’t be close but HOOKERS LOSE! (Fingers crossed.)
If I lose to 3 temp players, then that's a good thing. That's why I wanted the rule, so people didn't have to blow up their roster to make a lineup. I know if I needed 3 players last year, whomever would've gotten a bye week from me.
Two out of three. Mg bad.
Didn't you get all three wrong?
Good luck gentlemen. Let’s go!
In true loser fashion, the toilet bowl was won with a +2.
Mine shows the same way. Not sure why that is broken.
Correction. My top golfers are in n this tournament. They didn’t show as flagged on our team page.
I can’t believe that my top three golfers are not playing in this tournament. McIlroy, Matsuyama, and Scheffler out. That really sucks.
Great season! Thanks again Jimmy. This league keeps me interested in golf on TV throughout the non-football part of the year. Maybe I’ll pick better next year.
Yours truly,
SnakeBit.
I can’t believe I beat someone other than you. BTW thanks for the beers when I was on vacation.
Snowmen DO NOT win another...but there is no curse. 😉
Just win baby
US Open Cut is top 60
Told you that you jink me and you did it again cause we are playing!!! Haha
Could you believe in me
I've always hated this tournament - really hate it this close to our playoffs.
The LIV stuff is going to make things interesting for sure...
With all the players leaving the pga. We need to re draft or just change my schedule to play David G every week. LOL
Hey Commish...QUIT PICKING ME! I seem to have better results when you don't.
Onward to the the toilet bowl.
Skins are based on regulation finish. Not, the playoff. I've often wonder if we should change that. We can discuss for next year.
I really just cant win against you, in anything
Why it is the only team I can beat is you!!!!!
Need to fix the playoff winner to winner of the individual skin just like when the team scores end in a tie
Sincerely, Justin Thomas, 2022 PGA Champion
Thanks for pointing out the standings problem - what an obscure bug. My code applies the money won by each golfer, but not back to the team for tie-breaker purposes. Guess I need to fix that. It has been manually fixed for now.
…You need to give yourself a tiebreaker win.
Hey Jimmy, I think you need to adjust standings. The way I see it I lost a tiebreaker that is not yet accounted for in the Standings.
Fantasy golf sucks!
Thanks for jinxing Koepka...effin last minute withdraw...not that Westwood would have been much better.
Thanks for talking shit about Jason Day..
Read he has to play in a qualifier for the US Open..
I love when you pick against me. Please keep doing it as when you have all season I do good. But when you pick me I had a losing streak. But just can’t believe Pin High had everyone miss the cut.
Wow!!! What a run this guy has had. Now the Masters Champion. Can’t wait to see what he does the rest of the year.
#2 in the world my AZZ…he sucks as a keeper. 1 year and done player.
Masters' Cut: Be aware - the top 50 and ties make the cut at the Masters, not the top 65 like most PGA events.
I guess I should have fielded JJ Spaun this week. Maybe next week.
Interesting - I've been asked twice this week: yes - trades are allowed. I do not have any software that facilitates it. Just work it out with another owner the old fashioned way: email, phone, text and let me know. I'll work on software...
Much needed break this week. Remind me, are trades between teams allowed? If so, how do we execute a trade? I’m guessing that I have at least one that one of you team owners would be interested in, assuming of course the trade offer is a fair one.
Another bad outing for the B team. None of my top players in the field. Better luck next time. It’s getting tight in both divisions.
Vegas is my favorite player and would have drafted him if someone hadn’t.
And I thought Jonathan Vegas would fly as a free agent under the radar; let a rookie pick him up! Congrats David on the pick up.
Okay Eagles and Snowmen - only teams without a skin. Better pick it up... :)
I was in my 40s when I finally beat my dad in golf.
and i've finally beaten my dad at golf... Kinda
Webb Simpson finally remembered he's a pro golfer and decided to enter a tournament this weekend. Hooray!
4 matches have a full field for the weekend. Should be fun.
Anyone else see his 1 inch putt? Happens to everyone. 10 inches for par and he scuffed it - moved 1 inch. 9 inches for bogey. Sure hope it doesn't cost the Eagles...
Just so I understand this moving forward, let's say I don't add anybody this week and perhaps move up to 5th next week. As long as the people from 6 thru 10 add at least one player moving forward I would stay at 5 in the waiver order? I only ask because most fantasy sports free agent/waiver adds move the team that adds a player in the last waiver round would move to the back of the line if nobody else added a player in that round.
Just don’t have words. Fantasy sports suck.
So... The commish's pick of Patrick Reed was off (waaaaaaayyyyy off) Ha
I looked at him and decided not to do it. Not really sure why - I guess I got "one" right - haha. (Not that my adds are killing it...)
So glad I picked up Hudson Swafford this week. He is currently +8 though 6 holes. :-(
I had only one player in the field. Had to bring the B team off the bench. Good luck all.
When your big stars get old and start missing the cut.
Pat - that prediction was eerily close. Maybe we should handicap our league and place bets... :)
At least I won the winner’s skin.
4 games in doubt - could be a crazy round to watch. (which I'll do from my covid isolation chamber...)
That was amazing hole in one and the response from the crowd. Beer and water flying. What an atmosphere, that would be so much fun to be there or even try to hit a shot on that hole.
Well... I'm stuck with nothing to do - so - I'm watching this tournament - it has been fun. Anyone else see that ace on 16 - that was wild.
Beer 30 looking good and starting 3-0. Go Eagles. Don’t think Rambo is missing the cut that you predicted.
Waste a waiver pick on him and withdraws as tournament starts. Ugh.
I wanted Molinari - ugh
Leaderboard good to go
Ignore scores in Week 3 Leaderboard - I'm testing some code... It will work fine when tournament starts tomorrow.
The cut for this tournament isn't until after Saturday's round.
Predictions this week???
My 2-cents, I kick Hookers ass.
[mic drop]
Mike - that is exactly the Tony Hall rule - some years ago this happened to him and it was ruled a carry-over even though they were on the same team. We changed the rule after the season.
What’s the Tony Hall rule? If both players in a playoff are from the same team that team wins the player skin?
I just want to point out that I totally nailed the Hideki prediction to win/ win skin. Wonder if I'll get all 22 tournaments right.
21 Weeks to go.
I can’t believe they tied. If either one wins I get the skin. That sucks but you could see it coming.
Going to win every game
<a>Hello World</a>
LOL!
Bah! Let’s go!!!
The playoff tiebreaker is money followed by seeding in the tournament.
I can’t believe DeChambeau sucked so bad on the back nine. He even missed a three footer on 18 for a bogie.
What’s the tie breaker for our match?
just saw this... been busy - I only had 1 player in the field that week. Took the loss. Wish I didn't have to.
Hookers got such a big lead, they decided to take the week off?
Appears the US Open Cut Line is the top 60 and ties. Please do your own validation.
Looks like the 2021 RBC Canadian Open is cancelled, so I guess our week 18 matches are cancelled? https://www.pgatour.com/news/2021/03/09/2021-rbc-canadian-open-cancelled-due-to-covid-19-challenges.html
4 matches are 4 v 4 - including the Loopers and Masters - this could get wild.
There are more than 78 golfers that made the cut. Don't be surprised if we see that dang MDF after round 3. A few golfers may not see Sunday...
Cut for PGA Championship is top 70 and ties (not the top 65).
Line-ups on site are final. Should be a great tournament.
(Also - see previous message)
This was also a record week in cumulative score at -385. The previous record was -370. This occurred in Week 14 of of 2019 at, drum roll, the ATT Byron Nelson...
Worst cumulative score? Glad you asked. It was a whopping 714 over par in Week 16 of 2013 at the US Open.
In the article, I gave you some data on best scores ever. Well, here is the worst.
8 times, teams have scored 100 or worse. The worse score of all time (since 2009) is 128 by the Hookers in 2016 in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
The worst score ever and STILL win is 104. The Slippery Frogs beat CHiP 104 to 108 in 2013 at the US Open.
Can you believe the scores in this tournament? Must be a very easy course. I wonder if they will ever go back there again.
WOW!!!!
I do write the code that runs this thing...
Things will turn ugly soon. If not now, certainly in week 23 - ha
I'm still trying to figure out how Jim arranged the schedule so that his opponents are so far over par. :-)
Reserves? We don't need no stinkin' reserves!
Yes... and Zalatoris - I had him on list, but took McNealy first - that was a mistake... I took frigg'n Joel Dahmen instead of Spieth. Sigh
Yes... and Zalatoris - I had him on list, but took McNealy first - that was a mistake... I took frigg'n Joel Dahmen instead of Spieth. Sigh
Anybody else kicking themselves for not picking Speith earlier in the draft?
I showed my team Jim's prediction on Saturday night, and I fired them up to overcome the 8-shot deficit and overtake the Wedges by 1 shot. :-)
Brutal. Only 20 golfers broke par for the week. Was it just me or did the greens look almost purple? What a tournament.
Augusta National is TOO HARD for my golfers. I might have to just quit.
Warning: Masters Cut is top 50 and ties. The "Projected Cut" on the Leaderboard will be incorrect for The Masters.
Sorry guys. I forgot to submit a lineup this week. I doubt it would have made a difference. This team sucks.
I'm sure that "all square" is offensive to square people...
"All square" is cancelled!
In match play, isn't "All Square" the proper phrase? NBC Golf graphics and talking heads all use "Tied" on the broadcast.
Are they dumbing it down to attract a younger audience?!?! What's next? Is tennis going to lose the "Love" too?
Idunno, Brian - I kinda liked. I think Tim did too - hahaha
Honda Classic sucks. drop this POS from schedule.
I've (I think) improved transaction tracking. Moving forward, I will now have a time stamp on the drop/adds. The new Beta Transaction Log won't see much benefit until we do drop/adds moving forward. I have fixed why it wasn't recording. Hopefully this will be better.
There is something wrong with the recording of transactions. To figure it out, I need to perform drop/adds. I'll be drop/adding Blake Adams and Carlos Ortiz until I figure it out. Once done, I'll make sure Ortiz is returned to my roster.
I've added a historical view to the leaderboard. As always - the leaderboard is NOT official. Also - I don't have data from week 1 to 6. I may load some of it.
I'm going to go fix the disaster that is the transaction log now.
Let me know what you think.
Can't believe we are 1/3 of the way through the season already. I'm having fun with it this year (probably helps to be winning).
The Masters and spring are just around the corner.
I like the new scoreboard. Good summary for backward reference.
I've built a new scoreboard page - you can get to it via the "Beta Scoreboard" page on the main scoreboard page.
Check out the current week and previous weeks. Let me know what you think.
more details in article, but I know the leaderboard is wrong for Hookers/CHiP game. It doesn't matter - the official scoreboard is correct.
You're correct. All the WGC events are no cut because they only invite small fields.
The leaderboard will talk about a projected cut: be aware I don't believe there is a cut at all for this tournament. Do your own independent research, but there are only ~70 people in the tournament.
Okay - waiver drop/adds now appear in the overall Transactions Log - the whole thing needs to be overhauled. I need to relook at this and see what I can do to change how it reports and looks. I'll see when I can get to it.
Don't get mad at me when you see Tiger starting this week. I only have 1 player in Tourney and not blowing up my roster for 1 week. Going to 2-1.
Yeah - when I read the rule, I realized it was in effect last year too - I guess I just never noticed.
All last year: “Right now, as the 2018-19 season comes to an end, the top-70 golfers (including ties) play into the weekend after the usual Friday cut. However, in 2019-20 that will get reduced to the top 65 (including ties).”
Did anyone know this? Apparently the PGA Tour reduces the cut from the top 70 and ties to the top 65 and ties. I'm somehow missed this.
Well, since I'm working from home, I signed up for PGA Live and have it running in the background throughout the day. Sure hope it helps me find players to replace my sucky ones.
Carl Cuppers
Thanks for the welcome. A win and two skins. WOW! I guess you could say I'm embedded in the league now.
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Hey - let me know if you use this and if it worked.
Remember - it is important to understand: you get one shot at picking your reserve for the day. After that - you can swap them at will.
But only ONE chance at selecting that reserve for the day. Doesn't matter when you do it, but only one chance.
Sure is nice to be tied for first place in my division!
Thanks everyone
So who won the Carl Cup? The scoreboard doesn't show the final score. Also, any date yet for the draft?
Hey Jim. Do you have any tentative draft days in mind for the 2021 season? Kinda crazy that the 2021 PGA Tour season has already started. Looking forward to bouncing back next year.
Fixed the leaderboard - I unintentionally broke it unwinding the previous issue. Sorry about that. Hopefully we run smooth now.
I have probably have my best lineup playing against the Masters. Let's see if it does any good.
Let the games continue
So I guess our season just got shorter. PGA cancels next 3 events.
91% of the field played bogey golf!! Gooch shoots a 78 instead of an 80 we win. Wow!
!@#$%^Shane Lowry!
I'm glad someone is having success with waivers... I'm not... haha My team sucks (again)
I’m liking the new Waiver functionality. 3 and 0!!!
Has nothing to do with me being LUCKY!
Thanks for running the league again, and dealing with all the technical difficulties.
Charlie
I got lucky!
Congratulations Mark and good luck in the finals. I thought I had you after Thurs., but then you jinxed me with your message and my guys laid down. They came down to Earth as requested. :-(
Hey Chip! You want to wake up from your fantasy first round! Holy crap! Come down to earth.
Give peace...I mean the Hackers a chance!
I'm playing Pin High this week.
Wow - bye team picks up 5 players.
"Shane Fucking Lowry. Really!?!
Tub of Lard POS!" Lol!
Jimmy, I got rid of “Mac” Hughes.
Jimmy, I think I found a flaw in your player list. I dropped Luke Donald for MAC Hughes. MacKenzie Hughes is on a roster. Please put Luke Donald back when you have time. No rush for the tournament this weekend,
Those are some very complicated playoff scenarios there Captain Hooker.
...are not accustomed to the bottom of the table. I think he is smarting a bit...
I wish the Loopers would have subbed in Cameron Champ after his opening round 66 against the evil Hackers!
Gary Fucking Woodland. Really!?!
Tub of Lard POS!
Too bad this tourney before a major wasn't on our schedule. McIlroy was awesome. 61 on Sunday. Hope he's still hot at Pebble Beach.
Good luck in the Open boys.
He is Thanos, right?
ends up be a disaster more often that not. Not sure of a way around it in order to get tournaments in. Yes, a WD and MC have me jaded!
Shane Fucking Lowry. Really!?!
Tub of Lard POS!
Wow, could the Tiger pick up be the difference this year? Like Peyton Manning, one last hoorah!!??
Am I reading the standings right. You started 0-5 and now 6-5. WOW
By-the-way, I know I've been a little absent of late. I've been busy and traveling. I'm back and will refocus on the league. (Would help if I could win a freak'n game - haha).
there is no tie breaker for skins - they are carry overs to the next week.
What is the tie breaker for low team skin?
We could have a 4-way tie for 1st in the North Division is the results stay as they are right now for week 11.
We need inspirational comments and projections from The Commissioner for The Masters!
Watch out for HaoTong Li! (We get everything else from China, may as well get a Masters winner.)
I don't see it either. Maybe bc I'm still on Cali time. Or 1st time I dropped the ball on a lineup. Ugh! Odds weren't great to begin with. Only 2 guys in the field begin with. Carryover had no one. Sorry guys!!
I can’t see Tee-It-Up’s lineup.
It wasn't luck. It was being clutch on Sunday afternoon when the pressure was on. The late triple bogey by Hadwin did help me breath a little easier though. ;-)
Middletown Masters...you got lucky today!!!
Lol
Yes - Pat - you are right - Armour's birdie have you a win.
The carry-over for best player skin did NOT work - otherwise - everything seemed to work. I'll address this issue tonight or tomorrow night.
I think I finally have a win AND EVEN A SKIN - haləlûyāh!
Squeaked in the skin with a closing birdie (Ryan Armour) after Koepka made his!
...I think?!!?
Roster issues have been corrected.
I see that - there are two...
Guys - if you have a player with crazy characters in their names - it could be an issue - let me know or use the player search feature.
I'll fix Wedges roster tonight and remove the second Olesen from the available player list.
Two teams had Oleson this weekend, didn’t matter for me, not sure about Foot Wedges???
I watched my "check for end of tournament" code closely today and it seemed to work. I ran the full automation job manually and it all worked.
It is now set to run full-auto next weekend.
Please stop giving the Masters a BYE week, they don't need the extra help!
There are 2 tournaments this weekend - the Puerto Rico Open and the WGC event in Mexico. For some reason, all paths lead to the Puerto Rico Open. At this moment, if you click on "leaderboard" on the the WGC event, you will get the Puerto Rico Open scores even though it says it is the WGC event. My code is working as it should. Once the PGA straightens it we should be good...
Yes - the score is correct. The issue is that it is last place number of rounds missed. In this case - and it is VERY odd - the cut was on Saturday. So missed cut was las place + 1. The MDF also occurred - but has the same score. Typically, a cut occurs on Friday and MDF on Saturday. From a PGA perspective - the difference is that MDF's earn money and those that make the cut do not.
Masters and Hol-E-1 end in tie, after Cabrera-Bello doubles 18! Both teams had two plays make the cut, but the Masters had 1 MDF and 1 cut versus Hol-E-1 having 2 cuts. The scoreboard has the same score for both the MDF and cuts. Is this correct?
I don't keep that data - but I suspect it could. I know we've had teams (Tony) that had two golfers tie for first...
Been a team finish with all 4 in the top 10??
I just looked wow - at the moment I have 3 players tied for the lead on late Friday afternoon. With my luck - 2 of them will WD... sigh - haha
How do you wave the white flag? Hookers are killing it at PB.
Brian - no - there isn't - I'll figure out a way to add that too.
Being new to the league, is there anywhere on website showing owners name with team?
Corrected in latest article...
Sorry about that...
Where are the Shankers in the league predictions? This is just the bulletin board material needed for the Shankers to lay waste to the league this year.
I'm taking draft flu boy down with my only starters...lol
I like the predictions. Pin High 2 in the North and 1 in the South. Go Pin High!!!!
Looking forward to another championship this year! Thanks for all you do commish!! Think the field is wide open this year. Lot of good golfers(& not so good--what were u thinking when you drafted that guy-lol?).
Didn't think I had a chance, thought I failed to set the incorrect lineup again. Kept looking at Smith up there and wishing he was in there.
Unbelievable! I feel like I lost with a boggie and a par on the last hole, easiest hole on the course.
Good luck in the finals, Keith!
Since other rule changes have been proposed for next year, I'd suggest going to a snake draft rather than having the same draft order for each round. A snake draft makes it more equitable for everyone. I don't know of any other fantasy leagues that haven't switched to a snake draft order. Thanks
Tough break for Hol-E-1. Horshel WDs during the 1st round.
only down 4 day one.....
This is so typical for the horrible season my team has had. He shoots 59 last week and wins the tourney (we weren't playing). And the withdraws at the last minute today.
Better luck next year.
I will vote for the rule change with lineup switch after round 1. Sure would've been nice to swap a player in for Rose.
Sorry about your lineup. I was surprised to see that Rose dropped out as well. I kept looking for his name on the leaderboard.
Can't believe I forgot to check my lineup last night and missed Rose withdraw. Biggest match of the year and I'm hosed..
Sorry guys. I forgot to submit a line-up. Looks like I only had one player in the field anyway.
Heads up, Charlie: I think Steve Stricker decided to NOT play this weekend!?
Put him on the blacklist! If you are 10 shots worse than anyone else, walk off the course!
Yeah. The old man Poulter let me down. He can't play three weeks in a row any more. I should have thought of that.
Yeah - I always go with biggest purses. But, I'm open to suggestions. We should watch fields in ones we don't play to see if they are better...
Valero, Zurich and Wells. Honest question. Which is the best to play? Potential fields don't look good in the Wells.
Looks like they've been waiting for this tournament. LOL!
I think I'm going to move to a more blog like implementation - the front end will be a wordpress implementation - that means better security and direct comments on blog posts - will be much better - with link to this site in the back end. Hope to get it done before the end of the season...
Glad everyone enjoyed the spanish predictions and watching Tiger play well in tournaments we aren't participating in.
Sorry - been busy last two weeks with taxes... Also - headed to California next week for some R&R - but I'll stay on top of things.
Masters would have swept the skins. Hopefully our good play carries over the the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Hookers killing it with Tiger in the lead.....wait what...we're not playing
Maldición, Jim. Tuve que buscar un traductor de español a inglés para poder leer tus predicciones.
¡Notario: Estas muy loco! Spieth es solo uno de los jugadores de poder en mi alineación. Observe si CHiP patea el culo con más de 20 golpes.
who picked this crappy tournament...
who picked this crappy tournament...
ugh - i hate drop/adds to field a line-up
I'm going to make Jim eat his words...lol
let the haunting begin!!
Jim,
Thanks for another fun draft! Looking forward to the season, as it should be interesting. Once the weather warms up, I'll shoot out a league email and we can get a consensus on a date/time that everyone would like to get together for a golf outing, and figure out the format we want to play. Get ready, boys.. Putt-4-Doh! is coming for the trophy this year!
yeah - I know - but that would take way too much time.
Both teams were relatively hot coming in.
Congrats!
Jimmy, I appreciate your detailed analysis! One aspect you didn't comment on - who is playing better recently?
Tony, good luck!
I have no idea why leaderboard is not working for the British Open - if I get time later today, I'll look into it.
yet, it is likely I will miss playoffs.
Ugh - frustrating. Some brutal losses this year.
Losing to Tony 3 times has been a killer.
Okay - I think this is a tournament we can move to the trash bin...
Yang? Singh? Streelman? Cink? Ogilvy? Barnes? Weekley? All in line-ups this week. It's like we turned back the clock to 2007.
Yes - Tony - it is your rule - it happened to you and we voted off of it. So, if it happens again, to you, you'll win. Think Love can shoot another -22?
Jim/Pat
We did vote this in I was the first to have this screw you. It was a while back, because it was Davis Love III and some no body both -22 and I didn't win the money....
5 bucks is 5 bucks. Julie thanks you!
Pat - we did vote that in - at least I'm pretty sure we did. The software just doesn't calculate it. I'll work on that. I'll go back and make sure you get that skin.
How do you guys go about proposed rule changes? Would you take it to a vote? I can't imagine it happens too often, but I agree with Pat. If you have 1st and 2nd, I don't understand why you wouldn't win the individual skin. Just my 2 cents.
I think I tried to propose this last year: If you tie yourself, and only yourself, for the individual skin, why wouldn't you get it? BOGUS! (I had Jordan Spieth and Daniel Berger this past weekend and I was cheering for one of them, either one, to SCREW UP!)
Tim, it is recorded - we shall see what happens.
"These teams: the Frogs, Hookers, Pin High and Tee-It-Up know how to win." One of these teams will win the Carl this year. Write it down.
happens to all of us from time to time. Did you at least break par yourself?
So I guess the epitome of dropping the ball would be P4D this week. I rushed out of the office yesterday in a hurry to make my own tee time, and did not set my lineup.
my team sucks...
Why couldn't he hit the put on 18 instead of waiting for the Playoff. UGH!!!!
WGC tourn. this week... Come on Jimmy, we need your predictions for this flagship event!! I predict Putt-4-doe first loss.
Yes a very good season!! I actually mentioned this during and after that season kinda challenging our all knowing commish might do some statistical analysis like our football history. Hint, hint. If I'm wrong I would definitely give props. Love ya man!
I beg to differ, take a look at last season if you want to see a dominant season. I think I had the playoff spot with 6 weeks to go and #1 wrapped up 2 weeks later. And Oh a 51 point win in the final game.....
As some of us know the first 2 days don't determine a tournament or first few weeks a season. Lots of fun twist to be had!! Only dominate team I believe was TIU 2 years ago! :-)
Pat, that is a very legitimate point. Notice, I haven't started talking trash yet.. only responded to any that were directed towards me (::cough cough::)
However, might want to put the keyboard down until you have more than 1 win under your belt!
Jimmy (Greenwell), don't be so quick to judge! Putt-4-doh owner is a HACK (trust me, I've seen his golf swing). Lucky start to the season, but note that he has ONLY ONE SKIN. Can be beat and will be as the rest of us get into the groove. Early season flair-out is my prediction.
Did everyone see Tiger withdrew from a press conference due to back problems!!!!LOL!!!!
Pat, I believe my record and stats say otherwise.. so far.
Jimmy White, the new guy for Putt-4-Doh just sucks!
I guess he just withdrew from Dubai. Will he quit again, if so will the Hookers keep him. Let the saga continue
I know you all looked at my line-up, saw Tiger was playing and a little shiver ran up your spine - he's back baby!
Did I beat him so bad he couldn't come back.
Tony are we the only ones to win back to back leagues?
Following up the Football title with a Golf Title. What a year.
Record says it all .500 pct.. Fowler decides to break his bogey streak on the last day! Oh well can't win every year!
Stenson WD's from two events this year that cost me both times. Who would have not played him this past week with his latest run. Sour grapes.
Damn Jim another 1 shot lose. I guess Tiger won't be your keeper much longer.
Another close loss. Not my year.
Has been cancelled due to the terrible flooding.
Do we need to play this tournament every year? Turning into made for tv golf.
A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth an
The 18th hole at Quail Hollow must be a bitch. Everyone is struggling with it. My team was +6 on that hole today. Might prove to be a great finishing hole though on Sunday.
See if I just set a line up I have the luck to win......Good thing Tiger didn't play.
1 and 9? Another 1 stroke loss. Sigh...
Ernie is over the hill, can't play with these young guys!
1-7 team so desperate they picked up Els...
UGH
Jimmy,
I noticed you haven't submitted your line-up yet. Please don't submit one! I don't know if I could take a loss to a 1 and 7 team.
Thanks for your understanding.
Hookers, I agree... And now Tiger..
My team sucks. Anyone out there feel sorry for me?
OK what's up with Steven Bowditch? His last 5 rounds have been 80+. Is he really a PGA Pro?
I'm currently OH for 2016. Time to make some moves.
WAKE UP team.
I'm surprised there haven't been more...
Maybe you need to add Tiger....LMAO
2 weeks in a row. Lost by a single stroke. Sigh...
Second best score. Lose by one. Ugh. Fantasy sports...
Nobody wanted to be at this tournament.
Can you turn on transactions so we can drop-add? Just checkin', I might what to pick up Tiger before you (Jimmy) wake up and decide you miss him!
without the spaces
ram.blocker @ twc.com
TIU another championship! Definitely top to bottom. Could've put in just about any player and won.
Division winners duking it out for the Title. This match will end differently than the Regular Season frukus.
Trying to submit line-up, won't stick:
Spieth
Born
Snedeker
Streb
8/18; 10:26 PM
9 wins came within the Division...I knew the games that needed to be won that seperated myself from my common foes.
Does Tiger even pack his red shirt for Sunday anymore?
I got beat by that no-show line-up - I was stupid lucky this year...
Jim - I guess you played your way into the playoffs against a "No-Show" line up.
And P4D dud show how the "no show" division goes......did I misspell that?
Time to show TIU how we do this in the No Show Division.
After Rd1 of The Open, David Dual is in 66th (72) whereas Tiger is in 138 (76). There are only 156 competitors!
Hookers roll him out again! This weekend MAY be the nail in his coffin - ahhh, its good to be a Tiger Hater.
His life story is "crazy"...brought down by...the scorn of a woman & a 9-iron..or is that all coincidence?
Per Lachlin McLane (filling in for Terry Meiners). I never thought I see this day...all smiles!
For the first time that I can remember, Tiger is in the field and I've benched him. I may change my mind, but goodness he has been awful. Normally, I wouldn't even carry someone ranked 195...
Hello Tiger...remember me (David Duvall)...it took you a few years...welcome to my island!
The more I think about it, the more I think it was a mistake - it was an interesting course - but the lack of spectators and normalcy was odd.
I think it is kind of telling that they set it up with the easiest on Sunday after all the comments...
That golf course was ridiculous. I thought it was so bad it was painful to watch those pros try to play it. Their comments after the round were pretty damning. I agree the USGA should be ashamed.
Congrats to Speith for prevailing as Champion.
OMG!!!! What happened to Tiger today? Can't believe he shot 85.
The reason I took him.
Any reason my team is not showing up in the ScoreBoard screen? It s/b a Rollover from the previous week we played (The Masters).
Sitting atop of the Division is a nice change as I'm usually the Court Jester who's sitting at the bottom.
Wow!!! What a tournament. That was fun to watch.
Looks like Tiger is the real deal again. Nice to see Brandell Chamblee eat crow.
1. The time on the scoreboard: I just checked - the time on the server is wrong. I'll let my admin know.
2. Tiger comes back this week. What say you? Do I play him?
Why is the clock about 16 minutes fast?
There now have been 5 golfers WD from this tournament. Can't say I've seen that many before. This is crazy.
What is going on in San Antonio - there are 70 golfers on the course and only 1 is under par - must be some nasty winds or something...
Jim - the score board is wrong, your program is not picking him up. He is named Sangmoon Bae on the leaderboard He made the cut.
What is with all the NS this week? I know I checked for tee times, crazy the number
Tiger out again this week. Bad back, I think he tore his body up and will never be the same.
Jim - I asked you if you wanted to keep him. It looks like he is playing this week too. You may get to see him miss lots of cuts instead of only playing a few he may play all the tourneys to "get back into it" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what the heck!
Congrats Larry. Turned out to to be a not so bad year!
MDF is something like "Made cut, but Did not Finish"
There is an obscure rule on the tour that takes place when more than 78 players make the cut. After the 3rd round, there is a 2nd cut where only the top 70ish continue on to play in the 4th round.
In the Deutsche Bank, 80 players made the cut after 2 rounds. After Saturday's rounds, the field was pared back to the top 71 and ties.
Reed missed that line by 1 stroke after ballooning to an 82, which included a 44 on inward 9 and a boge
Patrick Reed got this in the semifinals.
Looks like all three matches this week are going to be BLOWOUTS.
Better luck next year.
Jim - Did you quit? No Tiger No lineup?
Thanks to a strong finish by McIlroy, Pin High makes it into the playoffs. Four weeks ago it looked like I was bound for the Toilet Bowl.
Good luck in the Playoffs all.
A great outcome based on an excellent draft!
So as to not put pressure on my team I will in disguise at the 9th hole today. Great job 3 out 4 that I will see. If they are slacking I will have to "motivate" them!
I guess Jim you will have a long off season, to keep the Tiger or not, that is the question.
It's Phil's week. Hits it long and a magician around greens. Putter is back.
First Dustin Johnson goes down with a Nose Candy issue (who knew?!) and now Tiger's Back goes out on him during a tournament. WOW!
I think the Spaniard is playing...
Screw Matt Kuchar!
Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!
Sorry Scott - but I can't let you break your own rule of having only golfers with names you can pronounce. Since "Tiger" is literally Asian in name and pronunciation, he doesn't qualify for your team.
Straight Up! A golfer participating in The Masters for an over-the-hill-has been who can't make cuts AND a Surgeon's dream patient (annual surgeries on his knees and back) - pays C-A-S-H!
Not likely to trade, but this could be it. I'm 0-3 with him in line-up with a No Show, a Withdrawal and a 5 over. He isn't even making cuts now.
I have 3 young golfers, one of them may be my new keeper - we shall see how the year progresses.
Breaking news...Tiger out of Masters..Has back surgery, will he ever be the same...maybe you should drop him like Scott did with Manning and pick him up again in like 5 years....
I don't either team wants to win
Just what I needed. After having a good week finally. I have no players in this weeks tourney. I had to drop/add 4 new players. Looks like a weak field.
Good luck this week.
Larry - I agree, I was just setting my line-up and really surprised at who wasn't playing. It is a big purse too. Just odd...
Wow, it is amazing how weak this field has got. It used to be you would never turn down an invite from the King. He may be losing his reign.
For a 2nd time in his career, I'm ready to give up on him. What a mess. We'll see what happens over next few weeks.
After 2 weeks in sub-freezing temps, P4D is still alone at the top with the best record in the league. It must be somehow related to Global Warming!
Looking forward to next years first pick...
So much for all of those roster comments during Draft Night...right Dan!
Whoa!!!! It's going to be a long season.
Scott - Don't take that for what is says. I have 2 NS but they are playing. Just not picking up scores
Wonderful...TWO No Shows on Day #1 of the Year. One of them was my #1 Pick (Bill Haas)...figures!
The Hookers prevail again. It was a fun match but I had too much ground to make up in one day.
Congratulations to the 2013 Carl Cup Champion. The Hookers.
that was close - Stenson put a scare into me, but I hung on. That was fun...
Sorry about that Mike - I thought you had the best team all year...
Just looked and Pin High is within 4 shots of the Hookers. It will be an interesting finish with Tiger and Zach Johnson the only ones left to finish.
Mike. You came back from 12 down on final day at Duetche. This is a long way from over. I'm worried about Poulter who on his twitter feed is talking about a break and watching the fight last night. Need him to focus. Haha.
Hookers had a very good day on Saturday leaving Pin High in the dust. A commanding 12 stroke lead will be tough to beat. I need someone to shoot a 59.
McIlroy sucks today. I hope he wakes up. Currrently +7.
Looks like I should have left Castro in my lineup.
It's a long tournament though.
I left for a meeting at 3:00 and I was losing by 4. I come back 45 minutes and winning by 4. Good grief.
Looks like there were not enough votes to make Tiger inelligible for the Carl Cup.
Let the games begin!!!
That was an amazing match. Speith fires an early 62 and it was back and forth all aternoon. Pin High was 8 strokes down to start the day and we ended up tied.
What's the tie-breaker anyway?
I don't know who is following this - but the match between Frogs and Pin High has been epic. Since Spieth went off for a 62, they have been tied or 1 or 2 strokes from each other for the last 3 hours.
They are now tied with only Dufner left on the course for Pin High.
This TPC Boston course must be a putt-putt course. Look at the scores they are putting up. How can I beat the Frogs when they are -30 before round 2 is even complete.
I would NEVER agree with Scott on anything but CARDS FOOTBALL. I'm just sayin' that since he is an Irion Man now, he has SPECIAL POWERS so Tiger should be disqualified since Scott doesn't like him. My point is that Comissioners shouldn't have an advantage... ESPECIALLY ONES WHO CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH LEAGUE THEY ARE IN!
So, your going to start agreeing with Scott now? Hmmmm
Let's make a change to the bylaws: Tiger is NOT eligible; Scott doesn't like him; Scott is an Iron-Man now; Tiger played in 13 tournaments this year, won FIVE; top six in three others; missed no cuts. For all these reasons, I respectfully submit this important change to the bylaws.
Really! I drafted Jason Dufner some years ago before you guys knew who he was. I followed him a bit on hole number 6 at the Masters and thought he was special.
Is it good or bad to win the toilet bowl...Scott, you probably know!
I almost got an individual skin!
I ALMOST got a team skin!
After all this crap this year, do I still have a chance to make the play offs?
Whatever!
Jimmy, I'm going to kick your butt this weekend, Tiger or no-Tiger!
GO FURYK!
You've heard me say it a few times. When Tiger is putting with an open stance, he has issues - I can see it on TV. Here is what Steve Stricker said about Tigers putting and alignment today.
“He trusts me enough where he wants me to look at his setup a lot,” Stricker said. “It’s very basic stuff all the time; his shoulder alignment has been a little left.”
For those who don't know, a right handed putter with shoulders aligned left - that is an open stance. Just wanted to let you know I'm
Hey Jim the Spaniard is doing pretty good for a NS. Check'em in.
I think Tiger has lost his "mental edge". He is still a clearly talented golfer. Based on what I've seen over the last couple of years, Tiger will not catch Jack. I think he will win 1 or 2 more - but that is tops. I've said it 100 times and I'll say it again - I can tell when he will win because he wins when he closes his putting stance. He putted with an open stance in the British.
21 Majors since his last win. To beat Jack's record he now needs to accomplish what Phil has done (in his ENTIRE CAREER!!). Good news is Tiger is 38...bad news is he has less than 10 yrs (depending on how his knees hold up).
Mike - if you remember Tiger had that same issue, took a lot of time to switch. If I remember correctly, he continued to use Titlist irons for a while after swithing to Nike drivers. Kind of funny though that in the papers over there Rory said he needed mental help.....
Anybody want to trade for McIlroy? He can't play with all that Nike stuff.
The John Deere was a huge win for the 19 year old. He gets full PGA Tour status, qualifies for the Open, jumps to 11th in Fedex point standings, and plays in the 2014 Masters. It doesn't get any better than that.
Jim - you have a tough match this week......NOT. What kind of line up is that.....
So, is Bubba a jerk now too? Or does he get a pass like everyone else (besides Tiger)?
Ian Poulter - dude goes all Garcia on me and gets a 9 on 17 - dumping 3 in the drink.
Scott - you're such a hater. But, I'll give you credit - you were a Woods hater before it was popular...
We are in Year 6 since he won his last Major Tournament. Now that his putting is coming back to earth and he has another injury (strained elbow), its doubtful he'll capture the British Open or PGA. GOOD!
...is a D-O-G! It looks like a Senior's Tour list of participants!!!
Can not believe I just added DLII
Winner, Winner - Chicken Dinner!
Well it seems the 2nd tie didn't happen, but we had some very close matches this week. Golfers had some really odd scores over the weekend.
Have we ever had 2 ties in the same week?
If we didn't have things like this what would the media have to write about. Don't you find it funny that Bubba Watson's dinner pick at the Masters was fried chicken, I guess he should be offended too.
Scott said it better than me. (I don't care for watermelon, though). Funny thing is, Tiger probably only cares at the micro level in his general feud with Sergio - it is everyone else that makes this a big deal. Who knows, maybe Tiger will fire back with a 'wet back' remark...
Personally, I LOVE Fried Chicken...I worked at KFC for 8 years. I'm not offended ssssoooo all these people with THIN skin need to get over it. BTW: I also like Watermelon! SLAVERY ended a long time people - quit using it as a crutch.
I said it when Fuzzy said it and I'll say it after Sergio said it. - Lighten up! It is a very stereotypical thing to say, but who cares - are black people really offended by that? I guess I just don't understand because I can't imagine being offended by such a thing. Maybwe we should all work on not being so easily offended...
Tiger is a lot of things, but I don't believe for a second he would intentionally try to disrupt another player. Catch this story on yahoo sports:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/two-marshals-grounds-players-said-tiger-woods-did-161243970.html
A marshal is now saying that he DID tell Tiger that Sergio had already hit. I have no idea why there are so many stories, but come on - there are haters and defenders - I think we are seeing them all.
Not a 'put's, but certain
Can we all now agree Tiger is just a "putz". He pulls a club out and causes Sergio to miss hit a shot and then says the Marshal said it was ok. The Marshal tell the story they are not allowed to talk to the golfers and said nothing. We all know that if Sergio had done that to Tiger he would have gone nuts.
Now Sergio fully pulled a Non Linda Lovelace and choked on the big one at the end Sunday...
The whiff is not a penalty, but it does count as a stroke. And how about Johnny Miller trying to cause problems for Tiger's drop. I agreed, the TV angles made it look like a bad drop. But everyone on the ground said it was good. I'm glad the walking commentary shut down Miller on that one.
And, poor Sergio... wow.
Could be wrong but I thought Westwood's "whiff" by the tree should have been a stroke.
Just a remimder from Movie our "Battle for the Carl Cup" is from....BTW Jim, he has made 23 straight cuts now as well.....
Here is how I understand it.
1. A caller notified masters that he was wrong and it was reviewed and deemed okay.
2. Tiger was told of the review, told it was okay and signed score card.
3. Tiger does interview and says he moved back.
4. They is a penalty, but new rule in 2012 says any scorecard signed that was thought to be right is no longer a DQ. Weird rule, but it is what it is. So, if the review had not happened prior to the signing, he would have been DQed
Did anyone see the Reilly article in SI. He was talking about the Tiger situation at the Masters and went on an on about why do Pro Golfers have to keep their own score. No other sport requires the athelete to keep his own score. They have official scorers follow every group around so why should a golfer have to keep his own score? It an unnecessary part of the game.
Scott
Tiger did not take the 2 stokes he signed an incorrect score card and then the tourney added the 2 stokes. Anyone else and they are DQ for signing an incorrect score card...Now is that right I don't know, but it has happened that way but they (Masters) found a loophole.
I'm not a Tiger "lover" so my comments may surprise some...he openenly admitted in the interview that he broke the rules. He was penalized 2 strokes, as per the Rule Book. Granted the rule took effect in 2012 but its still the rule in effect TODAY! Its no different than slow play or double-striking a ball or hitting it into the water...its a penalty and strokes are added. He took his penalty strokes. In hindsight, it probably cost him the tournament or a legitimate chance at winning so it u
Sorry guys I was wrong, he moved back 2 yards to get a yardage he liked better....
Tiger's a CHEAT and admits he moved back 2 feet to gain an advantage. I can see the other tourney's letting him play but the Masters they are better than this.
Jim do the right thing WD this week.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Okay - for some reason it isn't working with the guy in last - which is Kuchar right now (because he has last tee time). Also Jacobson's name has changed again - ugh!
FGL is sure a funny game. I benched Martin Laird this week because he has sucked every other event this year. He shoots 63 and beats the course record and wins the tournament.
Who could figure?
I had to take it easy on P4D. His wife called me last week and begged for his mercy.
To clarify my previous opponents comments...I've beaten him 4 times in a row...he's actually MY Bye Week!
1. Sergio claimed he was hurt, even after climbing a tree and then jumping out of the tree - bizarre.
2. MAN I HATE COMING IN 2ND FOR THE WEEK AND STILL LOSING... STUPID, STUPID, STUPID FANTASY SPORTS...
Ha!
Garcia WD after playing 12 holes and Bradley and Fowler go 5 over for the last 4 holes.
What a lucky win for Pin High.
Sh#@ happens, I guess.
I wonder if he got a hang nail or someting......
Oh good! I play Scott this week. I have a bye!
Now that I've said that, I'm going to turn in a line-up and watch none of my players will be starting.
Just another reason to hate Larry Flint...I mean Tiger Woods!
This league is ssssoooooo much more fun when I'm winning - don't you guys agree!
"you can't win a championship with Ernie Els", Scott Farrar (Putt-4-Dough, 2010 Draft (hehe)
After 2 weeks (and one mis-managed move of not starting Els in Week1), P4D has surged into First Place. An unfamiliar spot, yet still comfy. The scenery is nice up here - I think I'll stay for awhile.
Ok I have to admit after seeing I only had 2 players and Chip had 4 I didn't pay any attention the rest of the weekend. Spent all day yesterday refereeing soccer games and had no clue....WOW
So, Rory quit after shooting a 7 over on 8 holes, hit 2nd shot in water on 9th hole and then withdraws because his tooth hurt. At least, Daly was honest...
Leaderboard looking great! Thanks Jim!
Hello all. Surgery went well but recovery has been slow. I was in the hospital for almost 8 days but I'm home now and doing well. I guess I do need to be a little more patient. It has only been 13 days since surgery.
Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers.
Go Cards!!!
I guess we may have a repeat of the football season....I guess it will be interesting to be on the other end.
So, after Week 1, is it safe to say the South Division stinks? Get on The Train CARDS fans, the North Division is coming through!
Congrats Larry!
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once and a while. Glad Phil decided to show up. Lot of luck the last two weeks. Good fight Dan. See you all next draft. Beers on me.
Congratulations Larry!
the Hookers go for a whopping -30 this week - one week late again... I've got to figure out how to get that first round bye - it kills me every year (not having it)
WOW I can't believe Tiger fell apart and allowed me to win.....
Scott - I think you might be confused. The playoff scenario for golf has never changed - always been the top 6. The football league is where we changed from 8 to 6 - that was a Hoochies / Browns / Cowboys rule (for sure) - haha
Golf - not so much
For the record - the south was 27 - 21 against the north with the Hookers providing 4 of those win differentials, so...
WOW.....Where has this team been all season? The only redeeming fact is I take all the skins the last two weeks. Helps fund next year. But....
Still end up in the Toilet bowl with guess who? Scott and the infamous Putt-4-Dough.
Yep, just because I made it to the Finals last year as the 8-seed a new rule had to be applied to keep me from doing it again this year (as I finished up as the hottest team down the stretch).
It's scary to think how good my record would have been if I'd had played in the North Division - for sure I'd be making some noise in the Playoffs instead of being placed on the sidelines.
yeah, for some reason the majors have been messed up and I don't know why. I haven't had time to deal with it. My guess is the web site has changed - I scrape them and parse them - so if they change the format, I'm hosed... Sorry. We should be good for the playoffs.
What's up with the LIVE scoring? I keep getting funky results on Thursday & Friday.
Maybe my players will show up tomorrow.
This stinks. All of my best performing players I sat on the bench this week AND VJ is leading... VJ really should be on my team.
North takes it to the South division this week. North goes 4-1. The season gets more interesting now.
I will win the Toilet Bowl and look out for next year.
Funny how this league makes us watch the bottom of the scoreboard instead of the top...
Bull shit! Hunter Mahan was tinkering on the MDF cut all day yesterday. Comes out today and shoots a 61!!!
Total B.S. ...he must have cheated when the TV cameras weren't on him.
I forgot I put in the automation to make this easy. It is fixed.
I am just that good... hahaha
As you can see, the live scoreboard is broken. Not sure when I will get a chance to fix it but will try
Nice - two wins in a row.... starting to like this...
Not even for Duffner.
I'm feeling better - if I could just get some consistency from him. And Rory - where did that come from? He has been a mess - didn't even play him - look at his record this year - if he is back, look out!
Also - good to have Johnson back - we'll see what he can do. Hookers could be on the rise...
Jimmy,
You want to trade Tiger?
The NEW Tiger Woods.....
Scott, I might have been, but I'm going to be out of town - taking Daniel for a leadership conference at his college.
Anyone interested in going to this convert at the YUM! Center on June 10th?
I would love for the divisions to be reorganized each year based upon the previous years rankings...except for the year you get in my division. I'd want you to stay so I'd be 2-0 each year!
Hackers!
Missed yet another cut...hear him roar....MEOW!
"If the playoffs started today, only one North Division team would make it. Just saying..."
I'll say it...and have been saying it for years...one day I'll get my wish and get re-orged into an EZ Division (either in Fantasy Football or Fantasy Golf)!
Cordially,
P4D Mgmt Team
4 in the top 10??
Huh John Huh that is who!!!!!!!!
You guys are killen me...nice pickup of Colt Knost...ppppuuuu-lease!
I went to get Knost - you beat me to him - nice pickup...
drop/adds are free - put your better players in the pool for us...
Not one of my 10 golfers is playing in this weeks tourney.
Looks like a sure win for Tee-it-up.
Larry
Looks like the 2 best teams are in a battle
The Frogs have come to play. Let the streak continue. We are tired or the toilet. Besides we quit drinking and chasing. We are focused.
John where are you!!!!!!!
The focus shifts this week to the Final Four. Can you believe it? What a run by the Cards. If they can only win one more game it will quiet all of those obnoxious Cats fans. Well maybe it will quiet them. Not.
Peyton Manning is no Tiger Woods
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7660415/thanks-memories-peyton-manning
Jim
Don't feel bad, my keeper left on the 1st tourney for me too. I guess this damn rich golfer types who can trust them......
I'm fed up - I was fed up last year - but what a piece of crap. He quit - and if he is really injured, that is fine. But did you see what he did? He took a cart from the 12 tee directly to the car and drove off without explaining to anyone what was happening. I just don't know what my other keeper option is... but I'm looking for one. Anyone want Tiger?
I was watching basketball and enjoying a nice Vandy game and hadn't check the scores...Did Tiger quit????? What happened?????
Yes I was surprised to see that I didn't have 4 players in the field after the draft. When I went looking for a replacement I found that Bae had not only just earned his card at Q-school last year but he has not missed a cut in his first 6 tournaments. Maybe a good find.
So my keeper is a no show and then I get another player WD. And I still win. How can that be?
well, the automation didn't work, but I fixed it. Also, my last game, I lost to Tim - now he is off to another hot start! ugh! (is it too early in the season to start whining?)
Well, we are about to see how good the automation is. I've purposefully not tried to see if it would work. If it kicks in tomorrow morning - woohoo - if not, I'll get around to fixing it...
What is this? I'm playing a bunch of foreigners at the Honda Classic? That's just "UN-AMERICAN"!
Tim, I would say you deserve it BUT I'd be lying! It should have been me...
Can you smell the engraving brother!
Congratulations Tim! Well done.
Good luck to Tim and Dan in the finals. At least we will keep the Carl Cup in the North Division. Not on the mantle I had hoped for however.
See you all at the 2012 Draft.
I love this theme "Saving the best for last" :-)
Wow, Drink almost had all 4 in the top 10. What a time to do it against the best regular season team.
I'm betting on Drink this weekend. Scott you in for $5?
Who said anything about PLAY-O-F-F-S!?!!?!??
That wasn't any fun.
Good luck everyone (accept Scott) the rest of the way.
My boy JB Holmes was red-hot at the start of the season and then disappeared only to be out because of Brain Surgery. Good thing I'm deep enough to win without him!
Will the dream season continue? Or will Cinderella appear during the Playoffs and defeat the undefeatable.
Maybe P-4-D will hit a tree and rumers will begin about his off the course antics.
Who knows what the next four weeks will bring.
Scott, Putt-for-Doe is going down in the playoffs.
GAURANTEED!
Total BS how you got through the season!
Wow...even though I did pick up on that, even I wasn't going there because, well, the sport of Golf never went there (I wonder why!?!)
I do disagree with you on his behavior on the course (and we've discussed it here in the past)...he was an ASS-HOLE on the course...potty mouth like a sailor! Pure Jack-Ass!
Yep, you bashed Tiger and I defended him - but it was all about golf and golf course behavior. Keep reading - you'll like this. A couple of things:
1. I've never defended his behavior with the girls
2. We haven't talked about it, but his changing of coaches and caddy over the last 2 years was a bad move.
3. Did you notice he quit winning and was WAY more injured after they started testing for steroids in the PGA?
Jim, I almost feel bad for you other than the fact I suggested to you prior to the Draft on who you should NOT save as your KEEPER. As a matter of fact, I gave you grief about it last year too. Don't stand too close now as Lightening may strike...but one day you might listen to me as sometimes I good advice.
That guy was dirty...I knew it over 10 years ago (as can be attested by how much Tiger-Bashing I've done over the years)...it just didn't impact his game until the last 2 years. You w
I have 10 guys on my roster. Guys named Points, Overton, Henry and Toms. 9 players made the pga fedex cup playoffs. 1 didn't. Can you guess who?
...that I only needed 2 Golfers to win my match this week!
So, I have to beat Jimmy and Mark has to help me out by beating Tee-it-Up?!?!?!
Jimmy is "smart" enough to start Tiger (thanks Jimmy) and Mark is "smart" enough to have two no-shows and leave Paddy Harington ON THE BENCH...THANKS A LOT Mark!
The way I see it this morning, I still have a chance to make the play-offs if Charl Schwartzel beats Zach Johnson by 5 strokes...NOT THAT ANYBODY CARES!
GO CHARL!
(As I submit this message, Charl only has to pick up 2 strokes on Zach for Tee-it
...is good enough for T140. He's sitting right there with his good buddy John Daly, another has-been. Oh, and Vijay is just one shot ahead of that posse of has-been "Idols"!
Well sports fans. Looks like a big match but it means nothing to either team. Nothing but bragging rights that is. Speaking of bragging. Are you as tired of hearing P4D rant as I am?
All the "A" players are in this week. Not like that Valero Texas Open when we last met. We'll see if the P4D juggernaut continues or not.
Can you say "Go Pin High"? Can you say "R O R Y"?
* Best Regular Season Division Record (11-1)
* Most wins in a Regular Season (19)
* Longest Regular Season Win Streak (10)
* Most victories against TIGER in a season (3)
* Most wins as an Underdog (19...as everyone thought I would lose every match)
I just want to thank my opponents this year - its been such a HUMBLING experience!
Scott - the Hookers are 1-4 with Tiger (with the only win being against Hol-E-1). The Hookers are 13-3 without Tiger in the line-up. The good news? I probably won't be able to play him in the playoffs (is that good news? ugh).
What a mess!
Putt-4-Dough knocks off the Hookers for the THIRD time this year, completing the Regular Season SWEEP of the Division Rivalry. Not to be singled out, P4D also swept CHiP and Hol-E-1. Only the pesky Frogs were able to notch a Division win this year against the stacked P4D Team.
Jimmy - what was your record this year WITH Tiger in the Lineup and WITHOUT Tiger in the Lineup?
...must be the Bag Man (Steve "Bully" Williams) all of these years and not really Tiger. Faxon's game improved tremendously when he got the previous Tiger reject carrying his bag.
...an APD has been posted. He was last seen hanging out with the likes of John Daly and using the alias "David Duvall". Rumor has it he has been leading a double-life for several years now as a "Winner" and as a "LOSER". Lets see what he can do the next few weeks with a new Bag Man (I mean on the course not in the bedroom/back seat)...perhaps he can back up that Top 21 World Ranking.
it seems you know about those 27 stroke massacres! :-)
Come on Mike...it was a 27 stroke massacre!
barring a major miracle, P4D will clinch the division this weekend...
I like the Frogs line-up vs. the unbeatable P4D this week. It could be the defeat that the Hookers are looking for.
Remember...I picked up DiMarco as my drop/add last week...he helped me pull off the 1-stroke victory!
Especially in THAT fashion :-)
Looks like no title for me this year. P4D has been good AND lucky - that is very difficult to beat.
And, I get to play a team that has lost 10 in a row this week - a sure loss now...
Scott, P4doe is going DOWN. Arse-kicking!
Scott, did you forget your bye last week? You are very close to clinching the division.....
Jimmy - how much are you paying these guys off!!!
Come on CHiP, give me something to play for in the last 3 weeks. Trying to catch that behemoth at the top - Putt-4-Dough
(can't believe I'm a CHiP fan...)
Scott, you are getting an ass-kicking this week!
My boy Karrlson missed the cut by 2 strokes - shooting a 5 over 40 on the back nine on Friday, including bogeying 17 and 18. Looks like we were destined for a 3 vs 3 matchup. After saturday - advantage Pin High....
I don't believe it. Mahan bogies 18 and misses the cut by 1 shot. Should have had 4 to 3 vs. the Hookers. Now it is a dog fight.
Good luck Jimmy.
Scott has one guy make the cut and is still going to win - looks like a charmed year for Putt-4-Dough. Meanwhile, the Hookers have a real fight on their hands over the weekend....
News: Remember, we are off this week.
HE1: Tony? What? Couldn't get a missed cut? Wow, what a mess....
2 WD's and a DQ
Two Golfers Withdrew (Weekley & Glover) and one gets DQ (Appleby). When it rains it poors. Perhaps next year you can let the College Boys go off by themselves and hang out with us Men - your golfers might see the commitment by you and decide to stick out the different tourneys instead of WD, NS & DQing every week.
same to you.... HE1 has a no show too
Nice victory this week...decided 5 minutes after the tournament started!
It could be real interesting - I'm hoping week 21 will matter. This is what makes it fun....
...the Hookers lose!
Week 21 should be interesting.
Dude - slow down - crap - I've won 4 in a row and have gained not one single game on you. And as you probably would predict, I may not lose again until Tiger comes back (if ever)!
Actually, both are ahead of Jack's pace. Tiger has 4 years to win his next major and keep on pace with Jack (not that I'm necessarily expecting that). Rory is clearly an exceptional golfer - he started to win me over this weekend. Also, keep in mind, that Rory is behind Tiger's pace. Tiger won a major at a younger age than Rory. Not defending Tiger, just sharing facts...
How cool would the British Open be with Rory and Tiger head-to-head. (Yeah, I know, won't happen).
Has anybody seen Tiger OR is he busy hiding from RORY. At this moment in history, Rory is on track to beat Jack's record and not Tiger. If Rory did not collapse at The Masters a few months ago he would be WAY ahead of the pace. Tiger kind of looks OLD compared to the young 21 year old whipper snapper.
At least for Team P4D. All 4 Golfers make the cut (again). Lowest round. Heck, only team to shoot under par.
GO RORY!!!!
Was just looking at my schedule. I have Pin High in the US AND British Open and have P4D at Firestone - ouch!
What's his record this year for the Hookers - 1 and 3? Didn't he lose twice to Team P4D...actually costing the Hookers a victory when he dropped out (they ended up losing by 2 strokes to P4D). Nice keeper...right up there with David Duval.
From my KFC days, I believe that's the upscale portion of KC - correct?
...Royals fan.
Just a note to explain my ability to take the time to execute a bunch (I lost count) of drop-adds this week: I'm working in Kansas City now. I took a position in a growing company called eScreen (look it up when you have time, we talk more about urine at the office than you could imagine) and have begun co-habitating in Overland Park (greater Kansasas City) and Louisville. I've decided Tom Watson and I are going to become buddies (he doesn't know it yet) and I'm going to become a Chiefs and R
...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning...and winning!
The first to double-digit victories this year.
I won but this week has got to be the ugliest in FGL history.
All - I wanted to say sorry, I forgot about setting my lineup and woke up this morning, but was too late.
Where is everybody this week? Vacation. Lots of no shows.
Thanks for started Eldridge Woods against me this week. Your #1 man helped keep you out of First Place and now has put you 2 full games behind. Rumor has it there is room on the bench for him right beside David Duvall. :-O
Thanks, Jimmy! Who would have thunk it, bench Tiger and start Toms...NOT!
Jim
Want to trade keepers. I give you Tim Clark you give me Tiger?
If there was any doubt that Tiger was finished, you shouldn't any longer.... I've watched him for a long time, no him pretty well. Not only is he physically hurt, he is mentally unstable now - I really believe that.
Maybe a win someday will bring him out of it, but he won't win playing these big tournaments - he needs to go back to the smaller tournaments and re-learn to win again, but his ego is too big. It is over.
Scott - Tiger didn't NS, he quit!!!!!!!!
After shotting 42 on the front nine. He should get a +8 on Sunday.....
Two of the better players in the world decide to miss THIS event...must be something to do with Obama Bin Ladan.
Oops, that should be OSAMA but I really meant Obama. Getmo was evil - now its OK. Water Boarding was inhumane - now its a valuable intelligence gathering tool. Shooting an unarmed man in the head is against the law - except when its convienent. Mmmmmm...sounds like his actions are those of a man who spent time as a POW (McCain) instead of a man voted into office by people who
Looks like P4D is on their way back to reality. The new streak begins today.
Jim - I guess you can relax this week??!?!?!?!?!?
Surely I can pull off a win this week, I have 3 of the 10 players in the PGA Tour's Power Ranking list and KJ Choi as my 4th. (Choi T37 last year at Zurich and is playing well.)
I NEED A WIN to start my mid-season winning streak.
Its tough having a team with the #1 Golfer in the World (Westwood) and the #2 Golfer in the World (Donald) but then again, that's what happens when I actually try.
P4D great start but see Frogs(2010).....it's a long season.
...when I try! All these years, I've just showed up to kill time. Last year it came off pretty bad when I couldn't make the draft and caught a lot of flack because you guys picked me a piss-poor team. I was determined this year to actually try. Now, I know you guys will poo poo me but the season is early and I'm just getting started...I purposing drafted my team for the MAJORS as well as the Minor tournaments and so far its paying off (both in Wins and $$).
I've done my part (took down their best teams this year). I know, I know...not everyone can have a dominating team like I do.
Hey, South division! We need to start winning. If playoffs started today, the North would get 4 and the South only 2 - lets not let that happen...
How the he€£ did Kevin Na take a 16 on the par 4 ninth hole? I see it but I can't believe it. He was 4 under on the other 17 holes. Looked like Rory on10 at the Masters. Woo hoo!!!!
You may have noticed server issues today. I had issues with the service provider, but all is fixed now. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Looks like Tee-it-up gets an easy victory this week. Hackers must be on an extended vacation.
Get in the game....
Yeah, they thought they had something - if Tiger does ANYTHING on the back nine he may have scared them all off, but he faltered. Not the eagle miss on 15, it was too late - he needed to play 10-13 at 1 or 2 under, not 1 over.
I can't believe Rory on 10 - that was awful. After he hit it the water on 13 I actually started to feel bad for him. Think about it. When he started 10, he was winning by a stroke and lost by 10 strokes - that is a collapse of epic proportions...
Tiger got to Rory. The roars, the charge up the board. Number 10 was a disaster. It ended there for McElroy. The TV never picked up Charl until 13. No story, no charisma. So focused on Tiger and a short group of others that they missed it unfolding in front of them.
I almost felt bad for rory - but, wow, what was it 7 of them had the lead at one time - and Tiger going off on the front nine - made for a great tournament.
WOW what a disappointment McIlroy was today. Great finish to the tournamemt though. One of the most exciting finishes in a long time.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the live scoreboard has been funky off an on - a scoreboard for majors is new - I'm debugging as the event occurs... expecting more problems once the cut is established...
Tony were you drinking/hungover with that message this morning? don't look now - but you have 2 golfers in the top 10...
Ok, I guess I should not have been skiing and drinking when I made my picks. I'm heading to 0-4 and may not have anyone make the cut this week....
I had 3 of my 4 golfers double bogey 18 today - good grief!
HI. One son plays ball with Blake while another son plays ball with Cole. She said she went to Doss with you & Terry (and she named 10 other people that I've heard of) BUT she kept saying you were NICE and KIND and CONSIDERED...perhaps there were TWO Tony Halls that got out of Doss in 1982!?!?
And UNDEFEATED! Best Total Score (-49). A Skin has already been pocketed. The Universe is finally adjusting (after 12 years) and all is good. Now, I just need to play either John & Pat every week!!!
I might even through a team skin performance on you this week.
If you notice issues with live scoreboard, it is because I'm making changes - easier to debug during tournament....
Scott, your undefeated season is short-lived. You are GOING DOWN at the Transitions Championship! (Bubba is feeling better this week.)
After the begining of the tourn. I thought I was done...what a suprise.....might try that again :-)
And UNDEFEATED! Difference btwn this year and last year is I would have lost that match because I was playing the High Score Team. This year things will even up and go my way OR I could just play John every week. (LOL)
It's a long season boys. Just ask Larry how good a quick start is. Don't give up hope after one week.
Those DNS's sure do hurt though.
my starting 4some from last year went -33, just saying... could be a long year...
that might be the nicest thing you've ever called me, Pat
EVERY time I planned to pick one of my guys from last year, one of you goof-balls picked them. THEN, my keeper doesn't feel good enough to tee off in a no-cut tournament.
I'm targeting success in the toilet bowl this year!
A no show in week 1 - good grief - of course, I have good company with Tony and Pat...
Way to go John!!!!! Great finish.
John - congratulations on the championship
Golf is a fickle game, why do we love it so much?
Well, I logged on to wish Drive-4-Show good luck since he dominated last week, but then I read the home page that said 33% of his wins were against me. So, KMA John! Go Hookers!
thanks, yeah, better lucky than good - did you notice that Willis withdrew? - big break... thanks
Jimmy: Looks like you got it in a 3 on 4 match. Good luck in the finals.
Come on Garrett Willis...shoot a hundred tomorrow!
These line-ups for the semi-final games are huge - some really good golfers - no matter who wins either game, they will be fortunate to advance.
How do I have 8 golfers in the field and have 4 make the cut and 4 miss the cut and pick the exact 4 that miss.....Bring on Football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was close!
Oh sure. The divorce is final and now he decides to play. Where is Elin with that 9 iron when I need her?
Live Scoareboard is back for the playoffs.
Pat - you can't submit a line-up because you aren't playing this week. You won the division, you get a bye to the semi-finals.
I can't get the site to take my line-up this week; anybody else having that problem?
Just for the record, I would have recorded my first (and only) Skin of the year except that Dustin Johnson grounded his club in the bunker of the last hole for a 2 stroke penalty. I think that act is appropriate in summing up how my entire FGL season went this year!
the Majors doesn't work - they use a different leaderboard and I've never gotten around to trying to scrape it - maybe I'll work on it over the winter... sorry!
What up? You give us this great feature that we get hooked on like Crack Cocaine and then you take it away from us?!?!
Ryder Cup? RYDER CUP? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
I don't even know if I can play him this week in the PGA and he may not even qualify for the first round of the Fedex Cup!
I wonder which one of his girls is consoling poor Tiger this week?
He looked like he didn't even care. Would you want him on your Ryder Cup Team?
GO MAHAN!!!!!
What no live score board this week?
Hey does this tourney have a cut? I need all the help I can get.
P4D may -suck- as you put it (not me), but we both need them to beat Hol-E-1 this week. And, as for Sergio, I have to play him, he was my first draft pick
REALLY Jimmy!?! You're starting Sergio??????? You can't do better than that?!
Good luck and P4D sucks!
Why does it always seem that my biggest games are against that CHiP team? At least they don't have Vijay team anymore. We keep battling, even if the profile of our teams have changed. Used to be VJ vs. Tiger. Now it is Westwood vs. Casey.
Of course, we are both HUGE Putt-4-Dough fans this week...
Larry, great final round with S. Appleby! Touche'
I am playing the worst team the league (by standings, not my opinion) and all 4 of my guys are mentioned as a possible winner by the experts...... doomed, doomed, I tell you.....
This has to be the tightest race we have ever had. 3 weeks left and it's anybodys game. Good luck all.
The Finances page has finally been corrected to not charge fees for drop/adds - enjoy - you guys have now won a lot more money....
I hate having to do drop/adds to fill a roster (glad they are free this year - I have done a ton of them)
Tiger has changed his putter...
Sure sign that he is going the way of Vijay....
Guess I should have looked more closely, however, still only 1 made the cut....
Jim - The carry over line up had 4 players not playing...;.
I pick up a player and he withdraws right before his tee time - I look it up - and it is the 4th time this year he has done that. I bet I never pick this guy up again.
And Tony - dont count them chickens just yet. The Frogs get a carry-over line-up...
Well I'm going out on a limb and guarteeing a win this week....
What happened to Tim Herron? I think I'm going to squeek out another win because he shot 83 today!
Would have had a good match for the weekend...against my old lead guy, VJ, if I had started the right players! Larry, now I know what you were talking about! DUUUUHHH!
Jim - Is a losing 10 in a row a record for us?
I can't believe Scott end's the Frogs losing streak by going awall
Larry you have a chance this time. Bad luck can't touch you!
the answer to Mark's question is Kobe - Tiger doesn't appear to have a wife for much longer (to go with his mental toughness, which too is gone, gone, gone)
Shouldn't the question be, which one will mess around on his wife next?
Dan Patrick Show:
Which will happen first?
Kobe Bryant passing Michael Jordan's six titles
Tiger Woods passing Jack Nicklaus' 18 majors
I think my team is now fully made up of Tiger and a bunch of CHiP rejects....
NOW I'm going for skins! CHiP has 4 (four) make the cut, Slippery Frogs 0 (ZERO)! Touché.
Yeah - Larry - every week I look at your line-up and think - he wins this week - now you get CHiP - maybe it is your turn...
Everybody sucks......man I'm starting sound like that other guy.....
I am the worst team manager in history. I am actually putting some thought into it this year. I have the horses to win each week and play the wrong guys. I fire myself!!!!
Second best score of all and whats that get???....everybody sucks
These late spring events suck. Nobody plays in them. I got two hurt - Kim and Poulter. Toms also needs Shoulder surgery. Just took the loss last week and entered three not playing. Had to drop add this week. The Frogs will return to dominance - just not sure when.
John - I fixed it - but not fun - I ran the risk of changing every golfers name to Jeev Milkha Sing - that would have been fun to unwind.... hahaha - yet another management console view to build - sheesh (and i have to automate the week to week transition - this is killing me).
you have a golfer (Singh) that is showing up as a no show on the live scoreboard - he is not a no show - I know how to fix it - just don't know if I'll have time - no worries, he will have correct score at end of tourny - I'll try now - but don't hold me too it - scary stuff - have to update a db on the fly...
Two first place teams play in a preview of the Carl Cup? hmmm, this goes under the category of things I thought I would never say - live scoreboard up - had to do some fancy footwork from Beantown...
...i saw an interview with a golfer - can't remember who - but, he said something to this effect, the only thing that will stop Tiger is a bad marriage or an injury. Well guess what?
the next - Ricky The Pussy Williams
at least I wasn't alone in sucking this week!
What the crap? Tiger wins the US Open with a torn ligament and two cracks in a bone in his leg. BUT, he can't play 12 more holes with a sore neck? The boy is starting to get on my nerves - just play golf.
Hey John,
Would your boys want to wake up from their fantasy rounds some freakin' time this weekend????? Good luck on skins. I concede big time!
Go CARDS!
Wuss Boy Poulter better show this week and quit crying over a sore knee. Tiger won the Open with a fully blown knee. Cmon show your British MoJo.
Looks like a long season for Pin Low. I benched Rory this week because he hadn't done anything in the US this year. Missed the cut at the Masters. He sure made me look stupid. 62????
I am also about to give up on Stewart (I can't make a putt) Cink. I think Rod Pampling may be my new A player
Last time I look sunday morning and figure I won.....geezzzzzzzzz.
Haas was 4 over, but there were worse scores today - ask Tee-It-Up, wow, what a lousy Sunday.
Will someone please tell me Bill Haas died on what he choked on on the back nine?
Well Dano - Looks like we have a real shootout this week. Two strong teams. Shame you will go down with such a strong line-up.
Back in town. Poulter goes lame on me with bumb knee. I played him because I knew he was still State side. Woos.
You still stuck in Europe? Play a lot of golf while you were over there?
I hope you all saw the penalty Davis called on himself on the first playoff hole on Sunday - that takes amazing character to do that. To do this meant:
Losing a chance at his first career victory and winning and addition $411,000 dollars. Great character! Just a stunning event at the end of a tournament.
Yes the guitar solo was very impressive. Heck, Angus never stopped moving for 2 hours...I was worn out just watching. Even more impressive when you saw the rhythem guitar and bass guitar guys just standing next to the drummer the entire 2 hours.
I was there too - what a show - that solo Angus did towards the end was over-the-top nuts!!!! The show had everything a good rock concert should have.......
And, Scott, Tiger is making things worse with his behavior - Kim and Michelson will crush him on the PR front. It is no longer about just winning.
But, he can clearly still play....
First time I've seen them. It was worth the wait. Lead singer (Brian Johnson) is 62, Angus Youn is 51 and worked his ass off then entire 2 hours. I hope I'm that healthy and having that much fun at my "job" when I'm that old.
Get into your Hottub Time Machine and come back on a trip with me. Remember when Tiger was in LOVE with Elen and decided to get married. We (yes, Jimmy too) all said that the only way Tiger would faulter is because a woman would get in the way - Sampson & Delila.
Well, we study history because it is inevitable that it repeats. Tiger, the imortal Golf God, is being brought down to earth because of his love for ALL women AND himself...that's called Narcicism (sp?).
What a POSER!
Did anyone else get the total IRONY of Michelson winning. The man is totally in LOVE with his wife. Supports her puplic fight with cancer. Plays chess with his kid before his round at the tournament. Take his kid to the emergency room when his wrist was broken on a skateboard accident. The 30 second hug / embrace / kiss / tears shared between the couple who represent golf as the perfect, totally in-love couple.
Michelson is now 1 Green Jacket behind Woods and is now winning the media ove
Wow - Jim I'm glad to see you FINALLY saw the same things I saw. I said the same thing about those Sunglasses - not that BS about his "allergies" the commentators were dishing out. Also, he was suppose to be on his BEST PR behavior (one touching moment when he shook a little girls hand - probably slipped her his phone nbr)...instead you still get all of the cursing and non-Country Club behaviour that you would expect from a PROFESSIONAL!
Funny - they got laughed at by a 1-3 team.
I don't see me winning too many more games.
To finish on Tiger: the tour needs to sit on him - his behavior is unacceptable. He has reached prima-donna status...
The banners are funny - Tiger was a mess. You can just tell he doesn't have the same mental toughness - it all started with his melt down at the PGA last fall.
Those sun glasses - clearly - are only to avoid eye contact with people.
I could tell from his body langauge on teh putting green prior to Sunday's round he was not going to play well.
His language! Good grief! I've heard a few slip every now and again - but he was the ONLY golfer that was cursing - and he did a LOT of it - th
What a joke that team is!!
My second lefty kept me from getting a full sweep. Actually went on Thursday to the tournament, just for the day. Two planes pulling banners over the tournament - one said "Tiger did you mean Booddyism" and the other said "Sex addict - yeh right - me too"
Did I get beat twice this week? I know it felt like it!
Everyone - there is no live scoreboard for the Masters.
Everything with web site should be back to normal. Sorry for the problems.
The * means that the player started on hole 10 that day. In other words, that player played the back 9 first - they do that for the first two rounds. One day, a player starts on 1 - the next day, they start on 10.
Also - Thursday was a tough day for the Hookers - good grief, Weir goes -5 - go figure...
What's the Asterik (*) mean next to the player's score?
Pat - nice pickup
I had him some last year and played rally well at times - this could be his break out year...
Scott...who?.....still on the field running laps?
Looks like Hackers get an easy victory in week 1. They submitted a line-up but Putt-4-Dough did not. Is Scott still at baseball practice or is he protesting the team that was selected for him?
We are off and running....
Live scoreboard appears to be working.
Anyhone seen or heard from Scott?
Who knew? Been listening to radio all day and never heard that.......:-)
Now - do I play him at the Masters?
If I don't and he does well - laughing stock. If I do and he misses cut - duh?!? hasn't played in 6 months.
What to do, what to do?
He said "start his season". I hope that means he will continue to play his regular schedule after that.
When and where do I pick up the cup?
I have to admit, THIS year, I kind of threw in the towel thinking I had no chance of winning!
Any advice you guys what to give me on who to keep next year is welcome:
Goosen, Garcia, Senden, Donald...potential top-10 world class players; Bubba Watson, Singh, Baird, Charlie Wi...do any of these clowns deserve consideration????
YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE!
See you next year!
It's been agreat season and very competative all year. Good luck to both of you.
May the best team win.
I'd rather root for me but I can't. That damn Canadian Weir took an 8 on a par 4 in the final round to dash my hopes. Just kidding. :)
I'm not sure who to pull for
the host of the annual draft or the lovable loser who should have about 4 Cups to his name but doesn't...
good luck to both!
My all International team will prove to be more resiliant at Cog Hill than the spoiled brat all U.S. team. "Johnson and Johnson" = baby powder! Stricker will prove to be intimidated by passing up Tiger in points, he'll puss out. Our favorite Kentuckian will just be too tired.
I think I've finally figured out how to win this thing...play VJ during the year, then dump him during the playoffs! (Looks like I really don't have a chance.)
Good luck John, but I think you used up your team las
Weir double bogies the 18th hole. Pin High and Drive-4-Show are dead even going into the final round.
It should be interesting tomorrow....
Yeah, I think my time is limited - I think the Ernie Els curse will finally get me this weekend.
Game on!
Tiger is tired of playing, Camilo Villegas is injured, Ernie is old an tired, who is Jonathan Byrd?
Garcia and Singh are expected to do well to make the top 70 and continue in the playoffs, Luke is primed for a good showing, and Ratief is due for a win!
GAME ON!
Since this is the case; "Be aware - Week 24 doesn't start until Friday!"; can we change line-ups on Thursday?
What a match this will be. 7 of the 8 players are on their respective President's Cup Team. If Hunter Mahan becomes a Captains Pick that will make 8.
This one will be fun to watch....
Good Luck all.
Tim, thanks for the note.
Now, if I can get 3/4ths of my team to show up for a stinking tournamant, we will kick Hookers' butts!
I think I have an advantage becasue VJ AND Sergio like this golf course!!!!!
Go CHiP!
Congrats to CHIP. Tee it Up regulars were to up and down this year...was happy with added players....my $$ is on the North teams for the champ.
Say good night Hol-e-1. So much for that first draft pick next year.
Guys - I have fixed the line-up problem. I have submitted the line-ups for CHiP and Drive-4-Show based on the message board.
Everyone else needs to submit a line-up - sorry! The problem is fixed.
VJ Singh
Luke Donald
Sergio Garcia
Ratief Goosen
Can't submit a lineup. Please put the following starters in for me.
Perry,
Stricker,
Z. Johnson,
Y.E.Yang
Hey John, VJ for Ying Yang? (You must not think much of him since he sat on your bench.)
Tiger can't putt so I don't want him anymore!!!!
Maybe I missed it in the latest Tiger distraction, but I tried to enter a line-up for the Barclays and it will not take it... What if I fall asleep over the next two weeks?
I was racking my brain to come up with his supposedly spontaneous reaction to Yang's win. I completely missed it - Y E Yess.... ugh - that guy gets on my nerves - Nance, not Yang... Congrats - Golf just got way more interesting....
Cursed by the commish again....
This schedule all but guarantees Pin High the division Title. Hey Mark turn in a line-up.
Tiger is definitely amazing. He shoots 5 under on the front to take a 2 stroke lead and then gives it away on the back. Harrington is up by 1 with 3 holes left to play.
OH NO!! I'm playing against Tiger and have a chance to win. PLUNK. Is that water I hear? He takes a snowman and Tiger coasts home for his 7th win at Firestone.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
I fealt bad for Paddy. (For a minute anyway)
That's what I like about FGolf, if it can happen it will likely happen...btw today my youngest Audrey turns 11! Amazing and blessed!
Scott, please tell me you didn't......
Scott I know I screwed up and forgot but you submitted 2 players playing in the wrong tourney....
man, I feel bad for you, you're breaking me up......
Yeah, don't I remember.....seems quirky rules, etc. cost me at my count at least 2 fantasy titles over the years!!
Okay - first of all - they both have 1 player playing this week. They get their roll-over line-up from last week.
In the event of a tie, we do have a tie-breaker - it happened last year - ask Tim - he remembers. It is a coin toss. Pure and simple coin toss. Tim lost a playoff game last year with a coin toss.
The Frogs are up by 1 stroke after round 1.
This could challenge the Commish and the rule book. Both teams have 4 no shows. Obviously they will tie. What's the tie-breaker for that?
It may require a new software release to enable a decimal place in the scoring. (9.5 wins)
Good luck Jimmy.
I can't believe I forgot a lineup. Things are crazy and work. The only saving grace is it apprears Larry forgot as well. This could be the tie of no one playing. AGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It obviously wasn't Tiger who cut the cheese. I read that it was David Farity with his iPhone Fart app.
Apparently they are 8 year olds at heart.
It is pretty clear that neither Tiger nor Steve did it - but it is clear that they thought it was very funny - which is funny all by itself.
It is offical. Guys everywhere think farts are funny.
http://newteevee.com/category/shows-stars/
http://deadspin.com/5329581/fart+gate-officially-the-dumbest-sports-scandal-of-the-year
Who knows with tech....but his reaction and with the video already pulled..anybody record the tourn.??
I can't believe that is real - the fart is way too loud compared to Tiger's reaction. I'm thinking it is not real - I can't find anything else on it. If real, outrageous funny. If not, still funny.
Tim - what is this about Woods, Flaherty and Dan Patrick?
Nobody wants to play the North right now.....trophy will go to the north(TIUP)
the you tube portion has been pulled but david flarety's portion of the pod cast is still available. I believe tigger's quote was something like "are you serious?"
Hey John! Kenny Perry isn't playing this week. His mom is ill and he withdrew.
Not too happy right now
I have 4 players make the cut. They take 2 players and make them "mdf" before even playing the 3rd round - meaning, they basically missed the cut now. And, with all this weather, you have to wonder who will withdraw. 13 players have already withdrawn from the tournament. Them may not finish until Tuesday - could be a 54 hole event.
Yes, Pin High was the recipient of a gift victory this week when the Frogs forgot to submit a line-up. I consider it payback time. Others have benefited from the same lack of line-up submission. I guess it all evens out in the end.
Thanks Larry.
You are right - what a mess - losing 5 of 7 - I'm coming unglued.
And, in baseball, despite being second in the league in points scored - I'm 5th in the standings - just can't catch a break. I've lost 4 of last 5 there.
What was looking like a stellar year is quickly headed down the toilet. I have 4/5 weeks respectively to get this thing turned around....
Normally Hooker's mgmt. would have picked up an "old" veteran(see B.Langer)like Watson and won despite no Tigger....
Pin High should get a loss for shooting an 86(!) and winning????? And Frogs should loss should count as 2. I quote another owner "GOOD GRIEF!!"
No sympathy for the guy in first (and has beaten me twice in 4 weeks)...
Who picked this POS tournament!
Ok,I'll trade VJ for Tiger. You might have to throw in $20.
Is he finally pulling his David Duval impersonation?????
I'm going to lose because Tiger Woods is going to miss the cut at a major.
May be time to trade this guy...
BTW....did Ogilvy forget how to play golf or is he doing his "Chris Dimarco" impression???? GEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
What a lesson...experience at the Open means that if only for a day "old" guys can kick ass on the younger folk. BTW suprised Hookers didn't p/up Watson
I figured you guys were. Despite Tiger's Van de Velde imitation, I'm up by 2 after round 1.
BTW....did I mention that Pin High and Tee it Up are rooting for the Hookers this week.
GO TIGER.
Anthony Kim (Goat of the Day) makes a 9 on the par 4 second hole. Sh**. I could do that.
Good thing the Frogs didn't submit a lineup. Are you in China again????
Now that Tee It UP mgmt is back from its annual in season trip to GulfShores(home of the champion Gorillazzzz)it turns toward another FGL title run!
I have plenty of "trash talk" building up...I'm holding until I begin to dominate...IT IS NOT TOO LATE!
All this great action and no trash talk?
The North should be all over each other - what a crazy race up there.
I'm doing my best to pull a "van de velde"...
Mike - glad you like - I've added the player stats now - I think these are always fascinating.
And, no, I have no time - but I don't watch TV (well, very little of it) - so that helps...
Nice job with the stats page Jim. It's interesting to see some of them. If the Hackers submitted a line-up every week they would be in first place.
Jim you have too much free time on your hands. :)
Yeah - I only missed 1 game (and NEVER left early) in 12 years and last year I missed 3 of 8. I suspect I'll be there this year. This is the year we return to the Orange Bowl!!!
Jim - you or your "twin" are doing a fine job coaching the Orlando Magic. My boys are rooting for you and look forward to getting your autograph at the UL Football games, if you choose to go to any this year (we missed you last year).
What a tourney. This was the first time I ever found myself rooting for the last player in the tourney. If he could only have bogied a few more holes I could have won. After all Chip was one man down.
I suck at this game.
Okay - you guys can now go back to your regular dislike for me, instead of the white hot dislike you have had over the last 7 weeks. Can you please turn your negative energy on D4S now?
Stop the fight......D4S is just being silly.
Looks like the Hookers have met their match finally. At least they should with that line-up. If they win this week just give him the Carl.
It appears that the Hookers are going to get pounded this weekend, sigh....
Let us remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.
Let us also pray for safety for all who are now serving and for moral leadership from our president.
Only 16 of the 40 golfers in our starting lineups are below the cut line at the end of round 1.
13 of them are in 114th or WORSE!!!! Beg for birdies on Friday...
Wake up the hackers??
Tony, if you think I'm going to do that math, you're crazy. What a sure way to lose a game, figure out what you need to clinch. Besides, I'm playing 2 rookies this week. This is an easy win for you.
I can't believe I'm 5-5 and in 2nd place. If we can just shoot Jim, our division would be competitive. How many more games do you have to win to sew up 1st place?
Wow what a slump. Glad to have Putt4Dough to end the slide. Always good to play the Padres every now and then.
Great matches......even Hacker & P4D seperated by 12 strokes with a team of 3 NS?!
everyone is being quite....
good games going on, early on Friday...
3 games still in doubt - 1 should be a wild one today (D4S and CHiP) and 3 players tied for the skins - going in...
Oh - and if you didn't notice - there is a whole new thing "MDF" - that is that new modified cut they do on Saturday. Sorry to those who were impacted...
Jim - thanks for the info the LIVE scoring is EXCELLENT idea and looks to be well implemented. Thanks for the tip about the cut-line being at T70.
BTW: What does a "--" mean? ;-)
Everyone, The live scoreboard now has more info. You will see name, followed by their score, followed by "status" which is what hole they are on. A "--" means they haven't teed off yet. An * in the status means they are playing the back nine as their front nine. Then you will see the position - like tied for 6th. If they have "--" - it means they haven't started yet.
This is nice so that you can see how close they are to the top 70 (which is the cut line - you want your golfer to be T70
Hackers post line-up - Mike - how many emails did you send him to remind him?
....would be in the playoffs today if the season ended. But, they keep forgetting a line-up. I bet the lack of emails this year doesn't help. I would remind him, but it would be a conflict of interest for me.
Someone might want to send him an email to remind him to submit a line-up. If I think about it, I'll send one to whole league, but only him and Scott seem to forget this year.
And, Mike, you're right - the Hookers are not that good. Decent team with a lot of luck so far....
Hackers it's your turn to take on the Hookers. Let's hope that euro-trash team of your shows up this week. I have failed to beat him twice. Come on people Hookers aren't really that good. Someone has to take them down.
My new favorite team is whoever is playing the Hookers.
GO HACKERS!!!!!!
The commish was right...D-love makes the cut pin high wins. If he didn't Tee wins going away!
Interesting we were the only 2 under par.
Justin Rose of all players to miss the cut?????
How in the hell can you finsih second one week and miss the cut the next!!!! Sabatini Sucks.
Hey Jim I think I can find you a job as a web developer. Pays $50K a year, Interested?
Great job with the site man.
Now the scoreboard shows the team winning the skin in "red" - wasn't as hard as I thought.... now if I can just figure out my "dns" on the live scoreboard....
by-the-way - this week I hope to roll out a new live scoreboard that will show their relative position to the field, how many holes they have played that day and score.... we shall see...
The Finances page shows how much money you have won.
The Scoreboard page shows who has won individual skins. The players winning the individual skin is highlighted in "red". Be aware that 3 of our now 7 weeks have been carry-overs, so you'll you not see one on those weeks.
There is no where that the team skin is indicated - you have to look at the Schedule page and figure it out. I'll try to find a way to improve that.
Are you showing the Skins winners somewhere? I may be "slow" and can't find it...????
"Hol-E-1 improved to 6-1 thanks to the non submittal by P4D. They may regret this one at the end of the year - P4D could easily have had this one." Talk about no respect... Yes P4D could have but they DIDN'T! TEE IT UP will just keep winning. BTW while "opp. strokes" is a neat stat, it is also misleading. Some tournaments are unique to which players play and some teams just don't think their line ups through.
How about that Charlie Hoffman playing that one hole back and forth for a double
I like it too - there are some quirks with it.
1. Players that don't play will show up as DNS and I can't figure out how to give them a score.
2. WD / DQs will show up as DNS until after the "cut" is established - I can't do anything about it (not that I can figure anyway).
3. You see their real scores until the cut is established - then you will see the scores they will get for players that miss the cut, DQ or WD
I hope to work on it later to make it a little more clear.
Oh - ano
This live scoreboard is awesome. I vote for a dime raise for the Commish. I will bring my dime at my Carl Cup acceptance party. Nice job Jimmy.
Big time frowned upon, especially if you are a big gun - Tiger or Phil and others. The charity money is driven through the Pro/Ams and that is as much as anything where the pressure is on for the players to show and participate. Lesser knowns get hammered from the PGA Tour but go unnoticed by title sponsors because there is always a waiting list.
Frogs should have went with a Far East roster. Had a better record I think??
BTW Larry a general question, why would a player submit his name for the field but then "pull out" the day before tee times are announced. Is this considered "normal" or frowned on by the PGA?? I know it happens frequently.
Best damn team top to bottom I have ever fielded and getting my clock cleaned. WTF. Strong next few weeks by the Froggies. I'm not out of this yet.
Big test for Pin High now with back to back games with Hookers and Tee it Up. Change at the top!
yeah - impressive week - I was surprised to see we play again so soon. Should be fun and certainly the match-up of the week. All eyes on Pin High and Hookers this week.
Woo Hoo!!!!!!! What a week for Brian Gay. He crushes the field by 10 and brings home the $15 skin for Pin High.
I picked the right starters this week. All 4 made the cut.
Next week it's the Hookers, again.
Drink has a line-up - I'll do the roll-over tonight...
.... that means you didn't have the low score....
I sure would like to win that $15 skin this week. I don't think we have ever had a 2 week carry-over.
2 weeks in a row I have low score only to tie with someone and roll the skin over.........
Hookers and CHiP are tied and both had 3 golfers make the cut. Now, if Tiger can just hit a putt.....
... but I don't like seeing Tiger hack up a lung on 16,17,18....
... and I'm starting to see why no one ever keeps Els....
... but I have a 6 stroke lead and both teams have 1 player in danger of missing cut. Could be an exciting weekend...
I bet Putt-for-dough wishes he had started Chad Campbell (-7) this week. I know I wish I had started Hunter Mahan (-6).
Timing sucks so far. Good luck Scott.
Congrats to Blake. Just keep the Farrar boys away from my daughters!
LOL
I forgot about the FGL last week. Busy with Spring Break - Freshmen Baseball tournament. Trinity went 4-1. Blake started Pitching againg Bullitt East (going 6 2/3 innings...out of 7 innings) for the victory.
I'm back this week...
At least your in second.
Yeah, as soon as you don't start VJ, he will torch the field and be the espn.com "jockey" for the weekend.
Isn't that what fantasy golf is all about?? Unless you just want to see Scott lose.
All I care about is that Scott lost again this past week!
Anybody want to give me "free advice"...do I start VJ or sit him at the Masters? His record is top-tier, but his performance this year is gimpy at best...anybody?
Yes its early but...NORTH looking like the Big East and South the Big Ten(one good team). P4D and Chip 109 strokes already?? Tee it Up will take the skins at the Masters!!
Goat of the week has to go to Hol-E-1's Lucas Glover. He went +8 in his last 5 holes to let Pin High steal the victory. He actually went +8 in three holes (double, triple, triple).
That never happens to me. This could be the year for Pin High.
Actually, the site does it - I just have to run the job manually - I want to make sure it gets it right. Since line-ups aren't due till midnight, I have to run it on Thursday - didn't get to it until this afternoon. Look for an email this weekend that explains it all.
The bigger question is why did Putt-4-Dough submit 4 golfers that aren't playing....
Looks like the Frogs will skip home this week. No line-up was submitted by Drive. What happened there?
With the new website it doesn't carry over your last weeks line-up. How will you handle this one commish?
Yeah, what is up with that? Two years in a row there is a fight with the coach by one of the players and they lose - in the elite 8 - what gives?
Louisville beats Maryland, 77-60, on to the Final 4 in St. Louis!
Reason we lost yesterday: Coach took T-Will's MOJO!
Scott, I demand a rematch (I simply picked the wrong starters).
Now that Basketball is over, its time to start focusing on FGL. Always a good way to start is by pounding CHiP!
NEXT!
Yeah, I haven't been watching because of the basketball, but they are putting up scores like you would find in a major.
I may try to watch a little today....
Must be tough out there this week. Only 5 under par after 3 rounds.
As the commish predicted my III (Love) missed the cut and Drive's (Howell) made the cut. Unfortunately for Drive, Ames and Pampling missed it also.
Can Pin High win with a one player advantage? Watch out on Sunday.
Welcome to the rudimentary, cheap old message board - best I can do for now - look for more later (maybe)
Meanwhile - I thank Tom Pernice, Jr. for not showing up this week....