2005 ESPN Fantasy Golf League

[iacas]

Ha, I made some last-minute changes to my team to try to maximize the fact that this contest is once again being contested over three different courses (do any Texas, Midwestern, or east-coast tournaments do this???).

Here's my sheet:

[pre] Out
KJ Choi SP 14.4
Clarke, D PH 14.7
Lehman PH 10.7

Possibility 1
Price PB 9.2
Mickelson SP 16.0
Palmer PH 8.7
LoveIII PH 15.1

Possibility 2
Love III PH 15.1
CHIII PB 13.5
Mickelson SP 16.0
Oberhol PH 5.0[/pre]

Obviously I went with 2. I'll take the stronger players on different courses and an underrated guy playing with one of 'em over some so-sos playing on one course.

Entries are locked, boys, it's time to tee off!

[Mr High Anxiety]

Well I went with my gut and swapped Lefty for Love. I'm hoping I didn't make a wrong move.

Singh
Love III
Parnevik
Sheehan

[Ben]

I'm hoping I didn't make a wrong move.

Despite DLIII not having starting yet, it doens't look good so far with Phil 4 under after 5. And guess who has Phil... ME! Dude is on fire right now! Dunno what's up with Vijay lately though...

As you can see on ESPN I have Vijay, Phil, Oberholser and Furyk. I was strongly considering Riley, Purdy, Choi or big boy Gutschewski from the Nationwide Tour. Easy to say after they have teed off, but those would have been some stelar picks, so far. I am happy with my team the way it is though. Go team Winner!

[iacas]

Heh, -6 through 8 and CHIII is -3 through 9. I shied away from Vijay - his decline starts now, I figure. I'm at -7 or so, and I think this was another week where it's a good idea to space your players out among the three courses, so I have Love III, CHIII, Mickelson III, and Oberholser III.

Oops, DLIII just started (off of 10 at Poppy Hills) and birdied, so now I'm -8. With 8 holes completely unplayed. You may need -18 to be in the 90th percentile in this tournament!

[iacas]

Davis has 3 birdies in his first 4 holes. Yow!

[Mr_Slice]

I'm sitting on -9 with a lot of holes left to be played. Crazy, crazy, crazy.

[Mr High Anxiety]

WTF! Vijay at +2. This sickens me.

[gas_can]

I wouldn't worry too much about Vijay, he'll drop a 65 at least before this tournament is through, just make sure you've got guys who will carry you until then.

David Duval, aka Sir Shanks-alot seems to have affected his playing partner Fred Couples who's on my team.

[Mr High Anxiety]

Yeah Love III so far is carrying my team. Also my sleeper, Sheehan, has dropped me some birdies.

[Ben]

Wow, yeah DLIII looks to be tearing it up!

[Mr High Anxiety]

Charles Howell in P2. I saw earlier that quite a few teams in our league have him.

[Mr_Slice]

Wow. My team is -17. I believe Erik is also. Talk about a good start!

[iacas]

We were beat by Rafi, at -19. WTF? Mickelson is on a tear, man, setting or tying two course records within a week! This one by two strokes (not counting lift, clean, and place rounds). YOW!

I only wish my guys could have spread out the birdies a little more, and filled in the two 0s I had. One eagle, 15 birdies, and two pars. If you look at the raw scores for my team, they were 25 under par in the first round. And that's with Oberholser only managing a 71.

These guys are good.

[iacas]

I just realized as I write the round 1 summary that three members of my team are in places 1, T2, T2. And Raf still beat me!

[Rafcin]

I just realized as I write the round 1 summary that three members of my team are in places 1, T2, T2. And Raf

It shows you why it's important to read Golf Digest

I read an article about Hunter Mahan and was impressed with this guy. Figured he's a good "cheap" pickup... and lookie, lookie... tied for 2nd with -7 ! Hope he'll keep the good play, I need to make up some ground to the leaders

[Mr_Slice]

My goodness these guys are going low. I'm at -10 already and Phil still has an entire 9 holes left to play. I'll probably be down one golfer for the weekend, though, and that sucks.

Raf... dude, you are the man.

[Mr High Anxiety]

Looks like I'm going to have two miss the cut, Singh and Parnevik. I'm only at -6 under so this tourney was pretty much gone before the get go.

[Ben]

Sheesh, I'm bringing up the rear at my target of -13.

Rockin Rafcin, that's what your name should be, cause you are rockin!