I can't say it any better than sports student did in a different thread on 12/18/02:
"congrats to everyone on the leaderboard and to all the people on this board. As a first year player I learned a lot and lost very little so it was a good experience. A special thanks to Stanley for all the hard work you put into your website. Am already looking toward the new season."
It's good to be back. Cheers!
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I didn't really get wrapped up in the golf season last year until about Pebble Beach and San Diego, and I'm not even close to being up to speed right now. But NCAA football is over and the NFL season is winding down so I'm ready to get started, s-l-o-w-l-y I expect in terms of wagers made. We'll see.
Here Goes:
OUTRIGHTS:
(The small field must account for the discrepancy from the usual correlation in odds at 5dimes?)
Phil Tataurangi (90/1 To Win and 12/1 Top 5) for 0.25* e.w. @ 5dimes
I'm intrigued by the possibilities in a small but elite field on a spacious but interesting resort course with Pacific breezes and lengthy putts to be holed . I know he is explosive. I think he is talented and ambitious. I'm hoping that there is not a real aversion to Bermuda greens. While I didn't find anything of note regarding his preparation for this season, I did come across these words from April of 2002 regarding his start to the 2002 campaign:
-- -- "I'm playing solid. I changed my offseason. I dropped midway through last year what I was doing wrong. I've never gotten off to a good start all the years on Tour. I was kind of looking forward to the offseason midway through last year. What I was doing wrong was, I was going back to New Zealand, taking some time off and working with my coach about two weeks, a week or so before I would come back to play tournament golf. My game would need a little bit of work and we would do some mechanical changes in my swing, but I never got a chance to play rounds of golf with the changes I made to my swing, and I would come out and my swing wouldn't be in good enough shape to play and I would lose confidence. It would take me all over the West Coast to get going.
-- -- "Last year, as soon as I got through Q-School, I went straight home and worked with my coach for the next two weeks prior to Christmas, didn't take any time off, played with my friends and played rounds of golf, did a little bit of practice. Just played a lot of golf over the Christmas/ New Year period and came to Hawaii feeling like I was ready to play tournament golf and I haven't taken a decent break all year, at the same time my schedule has only been like a couple of tournaments in a row, a week off, and a couple tournaments in a row. So I just feel like from the get-go my game and my swing was ready to play tournament golf. Mentally I was ready to play, and I've just kind of been topping it out on my weeks off. It's been a big change around and seeing the fruits of it."
Ernie Els(11/2 To Win) for 0.25* @ Bet365
I'm too late to the table for any e.w. value. Ernie is a giant that is too big to ignore at a venue where he has so much going for him in a spot that may have real importance to him.
GL
