Fed Ex play-off winner.....

[Royal]

1		Nick Watney	17	1,906		2	8
2	2	Steve Stricker	15	1,865	2	5	41
3	3	Luke Donald	14	1,856	1	10	50
4	24	Keegan Bradley	24	1,621	2	4	285
5	5	Phil Mickelson	17	1,601	1	5	305
6	4	K.J. Choi	18	1,601	1	6	305
7	6	Bubba Watson	18	1,577	2	3	329
8	10	David Toms	17	1,487	1	6	419
9	8	Gary Woodland	20	1,466	1	6	440
10	7	Mark Wilson	21	1,461	2	4	445
11	11	Matt Kuchar	19	1,407	0	8	499
12	9	Webb Simpson	19	1,361	0	6	545
13	15	Adam Scott	14	1,332	1	5	574
14	12	Jason Day	17	1,308	0	8	598
15	17	Bill Haas	21	1,273	0	6	633
16	13	Fredrik Jacobson	21	1,235	1	3	671
17	14	Martin Laird	19	1,234	1	6	672
18	16	Brandt Snedeker	20	1,227	1	5	679
19	18	Dustin Johnson	17	1,191	0	5	715
20	22	Hunter Mahan	21	1,186	0	7	720
21	23	Charl Schwartzel	13	1,185	1	3	721
22	19	Aaron Baddeley	18	1,181	1	4	725
23	20	Rory Sabbatini	20	1,175	1	3	731
24	21	Jonathan Byrd	20	1,165	1	4	741
25	38	Jason Dufner	18	1,143	0	5	763
26	29	D.A. Points	21	1,055	1	3	851
27	25	Rickie Fowler	20	1,038	0	4	868
28	27	Charles Howell III	23	1,033	0	5	873
29	28	Spencer Levin	24	1,025	0	4	881
30	26	Scott Stallings	23	992	1	2	914
31	30	Zach Johnson	19	962	0	4	944
32	32	Chris Kirk	23	957	1	4	949
33	31	Steve Marino	19	935	0	3	971
34	33	Jhonattan Vegas	21	919	1	2	987
35	36	Ryan Palmer	20	902	0	3	1,004
36	35	Ryan Moore	18	883	0	3	1,023
37	34	Bo Van Pelt	22	881	0	3	1,025
38	37	Lucas Glover	18	839	1	1	1,067
39	43	Brendan Steele	22	826	1	1	1,080
40	39	Tommy Gainey	26	809	0	5	1,097

Who is your winner......Adam Scott

[deasy55]

Donald or Stricker

[cdnglf]

Gotta go with the chalk. Donald leads the tour in scoring average, and has accumulated by far the most OWGR points this year.

This year's Fedex is a little light on star-power: no Westwood, McIlroy, Kaymer, or Tiger; and Ernie and Padraig are going to have to scramble just to get in to the first event.

[Kieran123]

Adam Scott

[Frank-0-Sport]

Greetings .....

A closer race for the Cup in 2011 than in 2010, I think. I'm a Bama Guy but I'll pull for the Auburn man Jason Dufner. Will also follow the likes of Steve Stricker, Nick Watney, Dustin Johnson, Charl Schwartzel , Adam Scott, Keegan Bradley, Brandt Snedeker, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar and a few others.

Just for reference, I present these links from PGATOUR.COM

Current Fed Ex Cup Leaders .... Projected Fed Ex Cup Leaders

Current Official Money Leaders .... Projected Official Money Leaders

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport

[jamo]

If I had to guess, I'd go with Luke Donald, although he doesn't seem to come up big in big moments.

[cdnglf]

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If I had to guess, I'd go with Luke Donald, although he doesn't seem to come up big in big moments.

You mean apart from the 3 times he won this year?

[Zwick]

Martin Laird

[Kieran123]

Originally Posted by cdnglf

You mean apart from the 3 times he won this year?

No, he means the majors.

[deasy55]

Which have nothing to do with the Playoffs, to be fair. The 3 events he has won are all big events in their own right. A WGC (speaks for itself), The BMW PGA Championship (The European Tours version of 'The Players Chamionship') and the Scottish Open (One of the strongest regular event fields you'll see all year). If he can with them he can win a playoff event.

Originally Posted by Kieran123

No, he means the majors.

[Kieran123]

Originally Posted by deasy55

Which have nothing to do with the Playoffs, to be fair. The 3 events he has won are all big events in their own right. A WGC (speaks for itself), The BMW PGA Championship (The European Tours version of 'The Players Chamionship') and the Scottish Open (One of the strongest regular event fields you'll see all year). If he can with them he can win a playoff event.

So because the Majors ( theoretically the hardest tournaments all year with strongest fields ) have 'nothing to do with the playoffs' - his performance in them should not be a good gauge of how he will play with the top 125 players of the year?

Then you say if he can win lower tiered tournaments he should be able to win a playoff event?

[deasy55]

Well I would consider some of the events he won to have just as good fields as the playoff events. I guess I don't rate them that highly. Only 2 of the worlds top 5, no Tiger, possibly no Els, Harrington, Casey etc....meh. The majors are in a different league to the playoffs. He's won events that I would consider to be in the same league as the fedex cup events.

I'm not overly bothered, I just felt like chiming in with my opinion.

Originally Posted by Kieran123

So because the Majors ( theoretically the hardest tournaments all year with strongest fields ) have 'nothing to do with the playoffs' - his performance in them should not be a good gauge of how he will play with the top 125 players of the year?

Then you say if he can win lower tiered tournaments he should be able to win a playoff event?

[cdnglf]

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his performance in them should not be a good gauge of how he will play with the top 125 players of the year?

Top 125 players of the year? Hardly. No Westwood, McIlroy or Kaymer. No Quiros, Clarke, Jimenez, etc...

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Then you say if he can win lower tiered tournaments he should be able to win a playoff event?

As deasy55 says, the fields at the 3 events he did win were at least as good as the playoff events, and probably better. In any case, Donald finished third overall in the playoffs last year and  second in two of the four events, so the notion that he doesn't "come up big" seems a stretch.

[Kieran123]

Originally Posted by cdnglf

Top 125 players of the year? Hardly. No Westwood, McIlroy or Kaymer. No Quiros, Clarke, Jimenez, etc...

As deasy55 says, the fields at the 3 events he did win were at least as good as the playoff events, and probably better. In any case, Donald finished third overall in the playoffs last year and  second in two of the four events, so the notion that he doesn't "come up big" seems a stretch.

Top 125 players playing in the PGA Tour for the year ( sorry should of been more detailed )

Well what are the biggest events in the year? The 4 majors

Has he ever come up big in any of them? No.

I think Donald will do great - but like jamo said - he just doesn't seem like the guy to do it

[deasy55]

^^

I would like to point out that out of all the picks so far in this thread nobody has selected a player that has "come up big at a major". A combined total of 0 majors between all the picks, yet apparently you can't see Donald winning the playoffs because he hasn't won one

[Kieran123]

I didn't say he wouldn't win because he hasn't won a major - putting words in my mouth!

I said he would do great, but not win the playoffs because I think Adam Scott will

[cdnglf]

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Well what are the biggest events in the year? The 4 majors

Yes

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Has he ever come up big in any of them? No.

Has your boy Adam Scott ever "come up big in any of them"?

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I think Donald will do great - but like jamo said - he just doesn't seem like the guy to do it

Maybe he will, maybe he won't. Maybe Scott will, maybe he won't. But the notion that Donald can't win the Fedex because he hasn't come up in "big moments" (for some bizarre definition of "big moment" that doesn't seem to include his 3 quality wins so far this year) is just silly.

[xxsoultonesxx]

I'd like to see Stricker take it. I feel like Stricker's 2011 season is similar to Furyk's 2010 season. Call me crazy.