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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Well we have our first victory. Kudos to Kevin Currie for picking our first winner, and, in the most difficult tournament to select the champion - the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship. All praise to Kevin Currie, who is now my personal hero.

Gerard Gallagher (0) - Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, George McNeill, Robert Allenby, Troy Matteson, Luke Donald, Mike Weir, Retief Goosen
Kevin Currie (12) - David Toms, Davis Love III, Ryan Moore, David Duval, Jeff Quinney, Justin Leonard, Robert Allenby, HENRIK STENSON.
Mediocrity (0) - Stuart Appleby, Rory Sabbatini, Scott Verplank, Robert Allenby, Justin Rose, Mike Weir, Adam Scott, Padraig Harrington.

Honda Classic
KC - I'll stick with the hot player theory, gimmie the Beemer this week. Rich Beem
JB - Carl Pettersson. I have nothing to add here.
G - David Toms

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

A day early for the blog with the Match Play as our tournament of choice, not the thing in Mexico. For your enjoyment, we have selected a final four, but for the purposes of The Sports Network Golf Editor Challenge, it's just picking winners.

Currie has flown out of the gate with his second top-five finisher, Robert Allenby at the Nissan. Good for you, Kev.

Gerard Gallagher (0) - Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, George McNeill, Robert Allenby, Troy Matteson, Luke Donald, Mike Weir
Kevin Currie (2) - David Toms, Davis Love III, Ryan Moore, David Duval, Jeff Quinney, Justin Leonard, Robert Allenby.
Greatness (0) - Stuart Appleby, Rory Sabbatini, Scott Verplank, Robert Allenby, Justin Rose, Mike Weir, Adam Scott

For the Match Play

GG -Tiger Woods, Darren Clarke, Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen with Goosen beating Woods.
KC - Henrik Stenson, Darren Clarke, David Toms and Paul Casey with Stenson beating Toms.
JB - Padraig Harrington, Paul Casey, Ernie Els and Luke Donald with Harrington beating Donald.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

I posed a question at the end of my column about hating snow, and wondering if there was anything you loved as much as a kid, but hated more as an adult. So far the repsonses I've gotten vary from God to "Star Wars" movies. Interesting.

Real quick version this week as I have to go shovel snow.

Gerard Gallagher (0) - Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, George McNeill, Robert Allenby, Troy Matteson, Luke Donald.
Kevin Currie (1) - David Toms, Davis Love III, Ryan Moore, David Duval, Jeff Quinney, Justin Leonard.
Greatness (0) - Stuart Appleby, Rory Sabbatini, Scott Verplank, Robert Allenby, Justin Rose, Mike Weir.

Nissan Open
Currie - Robert Allenby
G - Mike Weir
JBone - Adam Scott

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

OK, one week into the new scoring system, and we already have some points. Currie, who did not love my crack about his dating life last week, tabbed Jeff Quinney and he looked good for a "w" until Quinney played like "Dr. Quinn (ey) Medicine Woman" on the back nine Sunday.

Still, he took third and that gets Kevin a point.

Previous selections and points

Gerard Gallagher (0) - Adam Scott, Vijay Singh, George McNeill, Robert Allenby and Troy Matteson.
Kevin Currie (1) - David Toms, Davis Love III, Ryan Moore, David Duval and Jeff Quinney.
Greatness (0) - Stuart Appleby, Rory Sabbatini, Scott Verplank, Robert Allenby and Justin Rose.

Pebble Beach

Currie - Justin Leonard - "Why? Cause No one else jumps out at me. I know I wouldn't take Sabbatini because he likes fast play and this event is the antithesis of that."
GG - Luke Donald - "Another guy raking in the good finishes."
Big Jimboski - Mike Weir - "I can't see taking him anywhere else, so why not take the guy with five top-eights in his last six starts at Pebble and four in a row in the top-five?"