The Viking Classic..

[DerrickTulips]

Well in typical fashion, I got destroyed in the Euro tour even last week. Back to my guns.. the PGA tour. I'm sure this event will generate monster TV ratings. :0corn

 

[DerrickTulips]

Bob Sowards 225/1

Had him in my notepad ever since his last event. He finally had a decent showing at the Wynham with a top 10, and was excited to go home to continue to work on his swing changes. I think he has the potential to have a huge fall swing. :shrug:

"We've been working on things things that are tough to change," Sowards said. "It's taken a long time. I've been hitting it good on the range. I just haven't been able to transfer it to the course."
"I think I'll be primed after working with Jon the next two weeks," he said.

Decker espouses a method known as ModelGolf. For Sowards, that has meant smoothing his motion from the top of his backswing to the bottom of his downswing for more consistency.

"The main thing is getting me more rotary, with less slide," he said. "Smoothing out the transition is the hardest thing for me. From backswing to downswing, I'm very quick. I jerk (the club down) and it's tough to square up the club face (at impact) consistently. I'll make bogey from the middle of the fairway with an 8-iron. You just can't make stupid mistakes like that."

Sowards has made six cuts in 15 tournaments this year and usually done himself in with one bad round. The main culprit is he hits fewer than 62 percent of greens in regulation. But in the Wyndham Championship, he hit more than 83 percent.

"That's the reason I first went to Jon," Sowards said. "I knew my swing wouldn't hold up over four days, and to make a living playing, you have to play reasonably well four straight days. You can't fire a 76 one day like I've been doing. If that round is one of the first two, you miss the cut."

His success last week has Sowards looking forward to making another kind of cut. He improved to 186th on the tour money list. The top 125 at the end of the season retain their exempt status for next year. He has seven tournaments left to bridge the gap.

"Obviously I've got some work to do," Sowards said, "but it's a lot less than I had before last week. At least I can see light at the end of the tunnel now."

 

[c20916]

I am taking a shot here to Win only:

Jeff Quinney +10,000, put down one unit to win $10,000, now wouldn't that be nice.

Ok nevermind he w/d, hence the long odds.

 

[DerrickTulips]

I am taking a shot here to Win only:

Jeff Quinney +10,000, put down one unit to win $10,000, now wouldn't that be nice.

Ok nevermind he w/d, hence the long odds.

Not that it matters now, but what did you like about Jeff here? This is a new course and I am struggling to find anything. I'm hoping to find some injury info somewhere..
Jeff Quinney withdrew on Monday afternoon from the Viking Classic.
Quinney has been mired in a horrible slump and has made only one cut in his last eight events on the Tour.

 

[DerrickTulips]

OK, Im thinking about fading guys from Texas for obvious reasons. Also a lot of these guys played in the nationwide events the previous 2 weeks.

 

[DerrickTulips]

Spent close to 2 hours capping and this is all I have come up with.

Kirk Triplett -105 over Greg Kraft (72 holes)

 

[DerrickTulips]

These top 10 odds are ridiculous. Might put in a few, just wish I could find some info (any info) from players in this tourney.

 

[DerrickTulips]

Kevin Na +100 over Woodrick Austin (72 Holes)

 

[Tommyjay]

This is my second bite of the apple, this year. I can't believe he hasn't won one yet. Bottler I guess.

Bill Haas to win 56.00 sia

Bryant over Gay -110 More than a hunch, this one wins in a close race.

 

[Stanley]

Round 1 plays (2pts):

Jesper Parnevik to beat Vaughn Taylor +105 @ Five Dimes
Glen Day to beat Vaughn Taylor -105 @ Five Dimes
Not hard to oppose Taylor this week. In the three occasions that he has played in this event, he has withdrawn after the first round twice (outside the top-100 at the time on both occasions) and missed the cut on the other occasion. Parnevik was a top-20 finisher on his course debut last year and Day has finished in the top-20 in four of the last five years

Patrick Sheehan to beat Mark Calcavecchia -110 @ Five Dimes
Calc has finished a tournament ahead of Sheehan just once since March, so with the veteran making his course debut this week, that trend shouldn't be reversed at Annandale

John Senden to beat David Toms -110 @ Bet365
Difficult to see Toms playing well this week. He has been suffering with degenerative discs in his back and without a top-10 finish in the last 15 months, he certainly his current 120th place in the Money List. Add to the equation the playing of the Ryder Cup at the same time and it should be hard for Toms, a member of the last three U.S. teams, to fully focus on this event as, as Fred Funk put it, "it's a little slap to your ego"

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

trying to find at least one play this week--and all I could up with--

72 holes

PGA Golf / Game
Line:
Kent Jones (Tourn) 9/18/2008 9:00:01 AM - (EST)
+100
Opponent: Brett Quigley (Tourn)

 

[lostinamerica]

In-running:

David Duval(100/1)(1/4 for 1-2-3-4) e.w.

GL

 

[Stanley]

Round 3 plays (2pts):

Marc Turnesa to beat Paul Stankowski +120 @ The Greek
The Greek appear to be the only book making Stankowski the favourite in this match, so that itself is indicative of value in these odds. Turnesa has held the 36-hole lead in a PGA Tour event recently (St Jude Championship) and shot 70 in the 3rd round, so there is no reason to expect him to buckle under the pressure today. It should be a different matter with Stankowski who has started the weekend in the top-10 just once in any Tour event over the last 12 months; he shot 79 in the next round

Justin Bolli to beat Brad Elder -121 @ Five Dimes
Again the generalised odds provide evidence of value: Bolli is widely -120 with ties lose. With Bolli ranked 5th in greens in regulation so far this week and Elder 76th, it should be Bolli who carries on with the low scoring over the weekend

Brian Gay to beat Eric Axley -125 @ Five Dimes
Another matchup involving two players playing very differently from tee-to-green: Gay ranks 6th in greens in regulation so far this week and Axley 57, however, unlike Elder, it means that his position on the leaderboard (50th) is warranted so I'll certainly back 2nd-placed Gay to continue his form for at least one more round

 

[DerrickTulips]

Stanley you aren't worried about ties being losses? I think that is the reason he is 'favored'

 

[Stanley]

Round 4 plays (2pts):

Scott Sterling to beat Will Mackenzie-105 @ Five Dimes
Marc Turnesa to beat Will Mackenzie +100 @ Unibet
Opposing MacKenzie whose hot putter has turned around a very poor run of form this week: he ranks 2nd in putts per round and 3rd in putts per GIR, but only 48th in greens in regulation (hitting only 10 greens yesterday when starting from 2nd place). It seems unlikely that his putter will be able to save him as much in the final round when again starting from 2nd as past experience shows: when starting the final round in the top-10 in any Tour event, he has never finished the day closer to the leader than he began it

 

[DerrickTulips]

I knew this was a tough week to cap, should have stayed away. :shrug: Hard to predict a guy like Greg Kraft would make the cut much less be top 15.