Fantasy Golf - Buy, Sell, or Hold: Hyundai Tournament of Champions
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 9:55AM
No, I'm not crazy. But I do play Fantasy Golf. It's what I do after another disappointing Fantasy Football season. And what great timing, Fantasy Golf starts up just as Fantasy Football ends. Actually the Fantasy Golf league I've been involved in for four years is just as competitive as the main football league I participate in. Here are the basics. There are three categories of golfers for each tournament. (A,B,C) You need to select golfers from each category and there scores are added up after each round to give you a score. The A-level players are typically your Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Ernie Els types. B-levels players include players like Justin Rose, Hunter Mahan, and Tim Clark. That leaves the C-level, which consists of players playing on a sponsor's exemption or guys like Cameron Beckman and Rocco Mediate. Many weeks, your C-level player will determine how your team fares. If you have players that miss the cut, your scores will go down. Different teams owners look at different factors when selecting a team each week. Some like going with the hot players, some like players that play well on certain courses. Sometimes you get that "gut" feeling and just go with an off-the-wall pick. One other thing to consider is you can usually use each player in 10 events the whole season. So you can't pick Tiger, Phil, Steve Stricker and John Daly each week. Well, I'm not sure you want to pick John Daly any week, but that's another story.
This week, the PGA season tees off with the annual Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. The track this week is the Plantation Course at Kapalua, and remember this is not a full-field event. 34 golfers this week, so that can help or hurt you as the tournament progresses.
Here's the Buy, Sell, and Hold for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions:
Buy:
Geoff Ogilvy (A) - Two-time defending champ is in good form and loves playing in Hawaii.
Ernie Els (A) - Won recently in South Africa, has finished well many times here, and should be near the top this year.
Matt Kuchar (A)- One of the biggest surprises of 2010, he finished third here in 2010. He's a great putter.
Francesco Molinari (C) - You get good value with a Molinari Brother here as a C-level selection.
Sell:
Justin Rose (B) - Coming off a long layoff. The course suits him, but he might be rusty.
Derek Lamely (B) - Won the Puerto Rican Open last year to get here. He won't win this week.
Hold:
Rocco Mediate (C) - Well all root for Rocco, but do we want to start him here?
Rick C.Limpert
Here's my AudioBoo on this weeks picks and event in Hawaii.
At the end of the broadcast is a bonus "Flyer" pick you won't see in the blog.
Good luck this week and stay out of the trees.
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