Having a hard time getting into most golf events, I decided to try a fantasy event on ESPN. The Master's best ball challenge is similar to other "challenge" events on ESPN.com, where you get a salary cap and get to choose athletes based on their performance. Having really no clue on strategy and possessing what I thought was not a lot of golf knowledge I sat down to make my picks. Of course Tiger is on my roster. No matter what is cost and it turned out to be 6 dollars more than any other golfer, I knew I had to take him. My next pick was kind of a homer pick with Zach Johnson. I chose Aaron Oberholser and Tom Watson to round out my four. I couldn't find a group to my liking, so I joined the Iowa Hawkeyes group and named my entry Cyclone Fan. After Day One I was atop the leaderboard and I really got into it. I picked up Immelman for Oberholser for days two and three and then picked up Snedecker instead of Immelman on Sunday so I could pick up a fourth golfer that made the cut. After all was said and done I finished atop the Iowa Hawkeye leaderboard and in the 99.6 percentile, 189th place overall. I guess I knew more than I thought.
2 comments:
I like the Cyclone Fan at the top of the Iowa board! So, after the first couple of rounds you could just pick the golfers at the top of the leaderboard? That seems pretty easy. And I assume you meant that you dropped Oberholser for Snedeker and kept Immelman. Anyone else feel like vomiting when Nance starts talking about the eventual winner?
I went back and looked.
Day One: Tiger, ZJ, Oberholser and Watson
Day Two: Tiger, ZJ, Immelman and Crenshaw:
Day Three: Same as Day Two, forgot to check if Crenshaw made the cut, which he did not
Day Four: Tiger, ZJ, Snedecker and TH
I could not have Immelman and Snedecker becuase of salary cap. I chose to pick three solid golfers and choose some really cheap golfer as my fourth. As it turns out even though Crenshaw did not make the cut he won the group for me posting three birdies on Friday on holes that Tiger, ZJ and Immelman did not. Changing due to the leaderboard doesn't help you unless those golfers have good days the day you have them. I wanted to have four golfers that made the cut on Sunday and I chose Snedecker over Immelman thinking he may have a better round.
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