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We’re in Texas this week, at the Valero Texas Open. It’s a 6,896-yard par 70, ranked 39 out of 55 in difficulty on the Tour last year, so expect some low numbers this week. The course record is 60, set by Bart Bryant in 2004, so hey, maybe even a 59 isn’t out of the [...]

My picks will be coming on Tuesday…in the meantime, if you want to look at some stats and find some gems on your own…this pdf shows the top 25 for the Valero Texas Open from 2000-2007, and tallies the players who have appeared in the top 25 the most times. (Would you believe, for example, [...]

A few top tens for me this week, but not anything to write home about…(or blog about, but oh well)… Allenby: 2nd O’Hern: T10 Baird: T36 Marino: T36 Pettersson: T55 Adamonis: T68 Slocum: MDF Gore: MC Rollins: MC Streelman: MC Lefty Watch: O’Hern was top lefty, as I predicted, at T10. Wilkinson finished a respectable T36, Flesch T61, and Axley missed the cut. Next up, the Valero [...]

It’s a crazy week in the office—so this just be a quick and dirty job for my Turning Stone Resort Championship (at the Atunyote Golf Club) predictions. Not much track record to work with, since the event was launched last year. We can also look at the ’06 B.C. Open, which was played at [...]

Big winner this week - Camilo Villegas, who with his second win of the Playoffs has busted out in a big way. Big loser? The FedEx Cup Playoffs itself, which saw Singh collect $10 million just for showing up and walking 18 holes four days in a row. Thrilling. Well, the tournament itself, playoffs aside, was [...]

This week, we’ve got the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Not much drama expected, unfortunately, since all Vijay Singh has to do is show up and play 72 holes and sign a correct scorecard, and he’s handed $10 million. Loyal Lefty Links readers (are you out there?!) know that I’m not [...]

A mediocre week for Lefty Links at the Viking Classic. Gay was a nice call, with a T2, but most of my longshots crapped out. Here’s the rundown: Brian Gay: T2 Rory Sabbatini: T14 Bo Van Pelt: T22 Charles Howell III: T45 Vaughn Taylor: T45 Heath Slocum: T56 Tim Wilkinson: MC Kent Jones: MC Joe Durant: MC Glen Day: MC Lefty Watch: Not much to write [...]

With the eyes of the golfing world on the Ryder Cup this week, I’m going to be a bit of a contrarian and focus on the Viking Classic. Call me a golf geek, but I think it’s more interesting to pick from among the lesser-knowns, especially when they’re starting to get nervous about their place [...]

Well, the nightmare for the PGA Tour marketing folks has come true–the FedEx Cup is clinched by Vijay Singh, rendering the Championship in a few weeks devoid of drama. Yes, technically someone else could win if Singh is disqualified or withdraws, but don’t hold your breath waiting for that. All that’s left now is to [...]

The BMW Championship is up next—that Monday finish for the Deutsch Bank threw me off—it doesn’t feel like time for a new tournament yet. But here we are, round three of the FedEx Cup Playoffs beginning on Thursday. It’s possible that with another top finish this week, Vijay can clinch the Cup and render [...]

I’ll be greedy and say that I would have liked a few more in the top ten, but it was a good bounce back week for me after a poor showing last week–and it was nice to have Singh and Weir in my group of 10. Here’s the full breakdown of my picks from the [...]

Quick and dirty Deutsche Bank Championship predictions this week, folks. I’ll be away from my desk for a while and won’t have another chance. So excuse the brevity this week; I’ll return to my usual rambling soon… This week’s 10 players to watch at the Deutsche Bank Championship: Robert Allenby: Has made 21 cuts in a row. [...]

Can I just skip the results this week? Please? No? Well, alright–but it’s not pretty. One of my worst weeks since starting this blog, actually. I suppose if you’re going to go down, you might as well go down hard and make it memorable. So here it is: Ben Curtis: T4 Anthony Kim: T12 Jerry Kelly: T19 Robert Allenby: [...]

With the start of the Barclays this week at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ, the FedEx Cup Playoffs are upon us. I have to admit I’m not as excited as Federal Express and the PGATour want me to be—as I wrote a few days ago, the money doesn’t add drama for me, (these guys [...]

With the Wyndham over, it’s time for the usual post-pickem post-mortem. I snagged the winner this week, which is always nice, and nine out of my 10 picks made the cut, which is also solid. A few more in the top 20 would have been nice, but you get what you get and you don’t [...]