The Players Championship

Have gone with Luke 20s, Serg 33s, Zach 80s, Stenson 60s,all e.w top 6. Tossing up between Jimbo and Watney for final selection. Especially keen on Zach this week. He has been playing well in bits and pieces on courses that would be far from his ideal. This is more his cup of tea this week. Playing himself nicely into form for the Crowne Plaza in two weeks, where he will be very hard to dethrone. Luke has been also playing better than results suggest, he is due a good week with the flat stick, and seems sure to be involved. Stenson is coming back into the sort of form he was in when winning this a few years back. As much as i love Tiger, i am trying to stick to backing him on his favourite courses and majors. Has proved fruitful so far this yr, and he has never had an affinity with Sawgrass. Thinks the 17th is a circus, and turns the event into a lottery. At 8-1, there doesnt seem much value this week.

Poor Pod about 350s on here. Says it all - I could nearly cry.

Luke has a great record here as does Garcia & Stenson. Bo Van Pelt & Ben Crane others at bigger prices worthy of a look!

bubba,dustin are big prices this week,haven't been in form but this course can inspire also kaymer

Added T Clark 130's W & Pl.

Irish Times annual comp begins tommorrow, €15k to winner, well worth joining as it's free. Any of the regulars who have joined/are joining need to register before 12pm tommorrow. Link:


https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/Article.aspx?id=402&show_nav=sec_nav7

Anybody wishing to join a private league, I have set up one called - Betfair Irish Forum. Anyone wishing to join this, the pin code is 1734.

Looked yest but saw u need to get a code from the paper every week to make changes tho and i certainly wont b buyin that

Padraig Harrington 300/1 on betfair,

Even though runner up twice looks to be even better 1000/1 shots than Padraig this week, hope he finds something this week and not another last week.
Seems short and accurate off the tee players do wellish here. Furyk,Gay Kokkrak Knost and Maggert my few for starters.GL

Two players e/w with powers 6 places,1st Kyle Stanley in great form at the minute 100/1,and Zach Johnson at 66/1,going to do a Trixie aswell McDowell top irish player 15/8,Tim Clark top South African player 4/1,and Peter Hanson top Swedish player 5/2,going to be strange not doing Woods in a tournament but will hold fire with him til the next outing,doesnt have a great record on this course,best of luck to all.

BJG, the code is normally to be found on the golf forum, or in the golf section of Boards.ie.

nice one deplasterer. i've just joined your league. almost forgot about it this year. i used to prefer it years ago when you had limited transfers.

Boards.ie always has the password BJG, so will post on golf thread everyweek. Tub & 3 additional members so far accepted, c'mon lads, big prizes, I was in with a shout last year untill a disaterous last 2 weeks, €15k for nothing is worth a shot & good prizes down to third.

Michael & Padraig you are both added, less than an hour & half to register lads.

Flood of money for Tiger this past 24 hrs, tend to agree with Callit, even though he has won here before don't think it's his course, but the way he's played this year wouldn't put it past him to streak away.

Liquidity like a major this week, Added Adam Scott & Nick Watney.

Final team:

Phil
Scott
Watney
Clark

GL.

I'm in as well :)

You can still join the Irish Times comp going forward, but will obviously be a weeks points behind everyone.

Eight of us in at the start:

Pods Army - Deplasterer
Klubhouse Kings - Kalanisi
A Score A Man
Panel Beaters
Headhunters
Dawn Approach
Jewels of the Kingdom
Giggimi

If the various forum members would like put their username beside their respective teams, feel free.

To add spice to proceedings, if everyone agrees, we could have an additional €10 per man throughout the comp, winner takes all. Winner can PM each person with their address or bank details to forward payment. Let me know if you would like this or not, comp not over till mid September so gives us plenty of time to save up!

Winner = €80 (unless more join.)

Yep in for a tenner - A Score A Man :)

Pod eagle at the second followed by a trip to the water on the Par 3 third.

If I could strangle him, I think I would.

Hi guys, just got home. I'm the headhunter in the group. I will play for 10. Good luck everyone. Whatever about the miserable tenner, i could do with the winner this week. Zach, Stricker and Choi hanging in there for me.

Truly pathetic round from Padraig today. Another possible missed cut in the offing.

Yes indeed -the mandatory double bogey and the trademark bogey at a par 5.

Cracking round from Serg, hopefully he can tame the Tiger tomorrow. Like Huddys, its strange wanting Tiger to play poorly. Still cant believe he didnt win the Masters....fuc*in flag!! Nice finish from Stenson, puts him nicely in contention, though have to say i disappointed with Zach. Had numerous chances to take a strangehold on the event, but paid for his misses wit a couple of late bogeys.

Sorry for getting back so late, my my team name is Jewels of the Kingdom and i'll play for the tenner aswell.

If ever a tournament needs some hefty crosswinds to separate the men from the boys its Sawgrass, the weather has been far too good thus far hence the very low scoring, good weather gain today but 40% chance on Sunday of thunderstorms and between 10 to 20 mph winds, if that materializes then Sunday might make for more excitement especially the notorious 17th, where players nerves often crumble when wind comes into play.

Yeah, Sunday weather was always forecast to be the worst. Should thin out the contenders. Hopefully just wind and rain, no thunder storms.

Only catching up on play this morning as I was "away" yesterday .  Some pretty awful play from what I have seen so far , players missing greens  and pins by yards from no distance . Only one looking like he wanted to play well was Stenson , but he has drifted out considerably in the betting after hitting the front .

Weather must have been a factor , lots of putts short or looking like the ball did not want to even look like going close .  Think the leaders will have been glad they got a reprieve from the weather , could be someone coming from out of the clouds to rattle the leaderboard today though . Tiger and Sergio not enjoying each others company either  , if the delay contrives to put them out together for the last round , I would be looking elswhere --and they are 1 and 2 in the betting !

Could be an interesting evening / night !

Yeah, The leaders had a chance to put a lot of players out of the tournament last night, but they contrived to do the opposite. Hoping Serg or Stenson can bring home the bacon, and as Kelly alluded to, am glad Serg is not paired with Tiger today.

Pretty disgusted how things panned out there. Had 112.50 e.w Serg at 30s, and 57.50 e.w Stenson at 66s. When Garcia holed out at 16, he was in with a serious chance of winning, more or less guaranteed a top 6,...Stenson was tied 4th, one good tee shot away from guaranteeing his top 6. Worst case scenario...a nice place payout. Or so i thought. Have to say though, its a fuc*in delight watching the master at work, his celebration with La Cava saying it all....'i told you i would get this crack'. There are winners and losers in this world. We all know what heading Tiger comes under. If Garcia was ever in any doubt, he can now in full confidence phone the secretary in the morning, and tell her to file him away under L.

Sick aswell I didn't back the master.well we will learn from our mistakes callitasucit,and we will never see him at around 8/1 again this year either.

Very unlucky indeed Callitasucit...

No point crying over spilt milk....onwards and upwards!! We shall crack it this week

tiger maybe a winner in golf but that's where it ends