Players Championship- who do you like?

[ttyh]

I've been involved with a group of guys the past 6-7 years where we gamble on the Majors on the PGA Tour. Added Players Championship last year to the slate. Rules are you pick 5 players per major and the person with the highest purse total for the tournament wins that particular tournament. There is also an end of year money winner for the person with the highest cumulative sum of purse winnings from all tournaments.

It's similar to a suicide league in the NFL in the sense that once you pick a golfer, you may no longer use that particular player again the remainder of the season, you can see how one would strategize.

Who do you like this weekend and why?

 

[DawgB]

TPC typically rewards great ball strikers, who are also in form, I like:. Cantlay,Morakowa, Xander, and Rahm, in that order

 

[Cooper]

I've been involved with a group of guys the past 6-7 years where we gamble on the Majors on the PGA Tour. Added Players Championship last year to the slate. Rules are you pick 5 players per major and the person with the highest purse total for the tournament wins that particular tournament. There is also an end of year money winner for the person with the highest cumulative sum of purse winnings from all tournaments.

It's similar to a suicide league in the NFL in the sense that once you pick a golfer, you may no longer use that particular player again the remainder of the season, you can see how one would strategize.

Who do you like this weekend and why?

its crazy but Bryson. I have no strong reasoning other than he’s good and he’s a good putter.

 

[ttyh]

TPC typically rewards great ball strikers, who are also in form, I like:. Cantlay,Morakowa, Xander, and Rahm, in that order

Xander is likely to be one of my five this weekend. Probably save Rahm and Morikawa for later in the season. Cantlay is on my list for the remaining four slots for this tournament.

 

[Nape]

Ball striking and great short game are required. Gotta like Morikawa, Kisner, Cantlay, Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Hovland and X.

Mental toughness is the next requirement. I think those above have that in spades. Add in JT, Rahm, Im, Louie O, and Spieth and there you have it.

 

[ttyh]

Ball striking and great short game are required. Gotta like Morikawa, Kisner, Cantlay, Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Holland, and X.

Mental toughness is the next requirement. I think those above have that in spades. Add in JT, Rahm, Im, Louie O, and Spieth and there you have it.

Louis O is on my short list for this weekend.

Jordan has just never played well at Sawgrass. I don't trust him this weekend despite him playing well lately. Would prefer to use him in Augusta or The Open.

 

[Nape]

Louis O is on my short list for this weekend.

Jordan has just never played well at Sawgrass. I don't trust him this weekend despite him playing well lately. Would prefer to use him in Augusta or The Open.

Spieth is indeed a flier. This probably isn’t the week to pick him to win but I like him as a Top 10 play.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Homer gonna Home....

Viktor Hovland
Rickie Fowler
Alex Noren
CHIII
Taylor Gooch

 

[ttyh]

Homer gonna Home....

Viktor Hovland
Rickie Fowler
Alex Noren
CHIII
Taylor Gooch

Hovland is on the short list for this weekend, too. I thought about Rickie for a minute.

 

[Boxman4]

Would love to see Finau get the monkey off his back.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Hovland is on the short list for this weekend, too. I thought about Rickie for a minute.

Alex Noren has been playing some quiet sneaky good golf of late. Sucks Wolff had to WD.

 

[ttyh]

Would love to see Finau get the monkey off his back.

Yeah. Love that guy, but I'm planning on saving him for The Masters as of right now.

 

[ttyh]

Alex Noren has been playing some quiet sneaky good golf of late. Sucks Wolff had to WD.

I think of consistency and steadiness when I think of Noren.

 

[Boxman4]

JT hasn’t been the same since his Re-education

 

[ttyh]

JT hasn’t been the same since his Re-education

Yeah. Based on this reasoning, I'm staying away from him until he shows me something. He's always good to have on hand for US Opens.

 

[Boxman4]

Reed has played well the past two weeks. Fitzpatrick has been close too. Paul
Casey? Good to see Westwood on a leaderboard too. What happened to Fleetwood? Thought he would stay on a tear. He has fallen off.

 

[Nape]

Why did Wolffe WD? Wrist?

 

[Quatch$]

Heard Max Homa on the Pat Macafee show after his win a few weeks back and he sounded like a cool dude that you could go to a strip club with and get ripped drunk. Because of that alone, I will go with DJ.

 

[Whiskey&Weed]

I would pick DJ but his putting at Concession scares me. I think this is a tournament that a guy with the first name "Xander" is eligible to win, so I am rolling with him.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Why did Wolffe WD? Wrist?

He keeps saying it is his hand. I think it is more of him being a mental mess. When he is on he is riding Collin’s ass for a major, when he is off he is in last place at a tourney. His last tourney, last place.

 

[ttyh]

Louis Oosthuizen
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Tyrrell Hatton
Cameron Smith

271

 

[ttyh]

Finau making a mess of It.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Hovland playing well again. Waiting for that quad to happen.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Cantley, Xander and Finau look to be not making the cut.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

McIlroy with the quad and is now +5

 

[denn]

McIlroy with the quad and is now +5

Rory should have 10 majors by now with his talent. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have the alpha dog in him like the games all time greats.

My pre tourny picks were this;

Max Homa
Matt Fitzpatrick
DJ
Sam Burns

 

[ttyh]

Louis Oosthuizen
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Tyrrell Hatton
Cameron Smith

271

Well that certainly didn’t go as planned this morning. I should have let y’all know to bet on Xander missing the cut. He does this to me every time I ride with him.

 

[denn]

Well that certainly didn’t go as planned this morning. I should have let y’all know to bet on Xander missing the cut. He does this to me every time I ride with him.

Next time you go with him, let me know. Maybe I can go with Xander and use my jinx abilities to counter yours for you.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

Well Gooch got a Top 5.