Outrights:
Anders Hansen(25/1) e.w.
Scott Jamieson(50/1) e.w.
Ignacio Garrido(70/1) e.w.
Steve Webster(100/1) e.w.
David Howell(100/1) e.w.
I'm still stuck in last week, and the one that got away. The clip of Ben Crenshaw at the Ryder Cup just keeps playing in my mind over and over: "I have a good feeling about this" . . . I didn't see any television coverage of the first two days from the Czech Republic, but I had my eye on Fisher's name the whole time as it worked it's way up the leaderboard in the early afternoon on Friday (while at 100/1 or I don't know what e.w.). Friday night the price was 18/1 e.w. (1/4 for Top 5), and while I was out doing stuff all night, I couldn't get the name of you-know-who off my wager obsessed mind . . . "I have a good feeling about this." . . . I had sufficient opportunity to get to a computer and pull the trigger before the off on Saturday (and do any reading or research if I thought it would help), but I decided that since I just hadn't seen a scrap of the coverage, I'd just blow it off and see if I regreted my decision (you are allowed only one guess as to the exact seven words I would have included for a cryptic comment/analysis on the play if it had been wagered and then posted). So what if the feeling I was feeling was really one of those feelings that comes along maybe only 5 or 10 or 15 times a year (and has a track record of being insanely profitable when the results therefrom are tallied up), because, really, what had Oliver Fisher shown (other than posting a decent score on Friday) to give a shred of credence to any gut feelings? . . . Starting early Saturday a.m. I was glued to the leaderboard and then the television throughout the weekend to see the outcome, and I think I was pulling for young Oliver as hard as I would have been if he was carrying my cash (just not with the same level of concern as I would have felt with a significant wager in play if things didn't work out) . . . It's not really after-timing when I tell my story about how I didn't even have the wager down that I (somehow) failed to post . . . There's that clip for the umpteenth plus one time: "I have a good feeling about this." Ay Caramba! . . . It takes a village of missed moments and opportunities, some authored by the schmucks carrying your cash, but at least an equal helping of your own doing, to properly fill out a career of war stories from wagering . . . Well played, Master Oliver . . . Now I can only hope my last weekend of following all the golf on both Tours somehow manages to pay some dividends this week by helping me catch some morsels laying about from last week's buffet table . . . But regardless of outcomes, there have not yet been and are unlikely to be any good feelings this week in the same league as the "good feeling" from last week.
GL
