Showing posts with label Phoenix Open. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phoenix Open. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Fantasy Golf: Farmers Insurance Open


An improvement of sorts last week as my Yahoo Fantasy side moved up ten percentile points thanks to two tied second placings (Watson and Matsuyama) and a tied fifth (Laird). Unfortunately not many points garnered in PGA Fantasy though as all my combinations struggled to break past one hundred points.

On to this week and I'm hoping for an even better return in what is a pretty open field. The Tour heads to San Diego and to Torrey Pines Golf Course. San Diego is a great place and I really must get back there someday. The crucial element to remember about the Farmers Insurance Open is that it is played over two courses. The North and South courses play slightly differently, with the North course giving up the lowest average score. With this in mind, when playing the Yahoo game it should be worth your while swapping players in and out over the opening two days depending on which course your golfer is tackling.

So here are this weeks picks. Slim pickings in Group A again, and I don't fancy Tiger Woods to return to form. Will he even make the cut?

Group A
Bill Haas
Seung-Yul Noh
Harris English

Group B
Hideki Matsuyama
Jimmy Walker
Jordan Spieth
Graham DeLaet
Brian Harman
K.J.Choi
Marc Leishman
Dustin Johnson
Cameron Tringale
Charles Howell III
Billy Horschel
Gary Woodland
Aaron Baddeley
Rickie Fowler
Nick Watney

Group C
Justin Thomas
Charley Hoffman
Sang-Moon Bae
Erik Compton
Keegan Bradley

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Fantasy Golf: Waste Management Phoenix Open


The less said about last weeks tournament the better I feel! A fall to the 52nd percentile in Yahoo Fantasy Golf and not even scraping three figures in the Official PGA Fantasy Golf game. As I thought, it was the crucial Group A picks that cost me. Bill Haas won the tournament and pulled in 68pts for a lot of people, if you didn't have him (and I didn't!) you were in trouble. This week again sees Group A with only a small number of golfers to choose from. Only seven from that group scored last week, hopefully this week will see more than that number.

Arizona is the place to be this week at TPC Scottsdale for the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Bill Haas is proving to be a popular pick again, while Matt Kuchar and Patrick Reed have made it into over half the fantasy teams. I haven't selected any of those three for my team though as I attempt to pull in the points with a few outsiders.

Here are the listings for this week. They are broken up into their respective groups from Yahoo Fantasy Golf, but as always if playing PGA Fantasy you can select any four golfers.

Group A
Bubba Watson
Harris English
Seung-Yul Noh

Group B
Billy Horschel
Hideki Matsuyama
Phil Mickelson
Hunter Mahan
Graham DeLaet
Robert Streb
Matt Kuchar
Nick Watney

Group C
Scott Piercy
Martin Laird
Brendan Steele
Francesco Molinari
Gary Woodland
Jason Kokrak
Jamie Donaldson