Tiger Dominates the Blue Monster

I neglected to get Kevin picks posted last week. Me bad.

Golf is heating up, and Augusta is slowly coming into focus. Awesome.

Kevin is going out on a limb and picking Tiger at Doral. If you gotta problem with that go visit him at PGA 365

Unless you were hiding under a rock last week, you know about Tiger’s incredible putt on the 72nd hole to capture his 64th PGA title and 5th Arnold Palmer Invitational. This week’s tournament is a WCG event, the CA Championship, to be held at the Doral Golf Resort on the famous Blue Monster Course. Can you guess what course is also featured in the Tiger Woods line of video games?  If you guessed Doral you’d be correct, and knowing what happened last week and the current state of Woods’ game, it should be pretty clear that everyone’s top choice this week should be…Tiger Woods.

Woods has taken the trophy home the last 3 years consecutively, and 5 times in total, even though the CA Championship itself has not been played at Doral for all five of those wins. As a matter of fact, last year was the first year the CA was played at Doral, but Woods won the Doral Open in 2005 and 2006. Basically, he wins at Doral. Or anywhere for that matter. I was debating on whether to choose between Retief Goosen or Ernie Els as another top-tier pick, but instead I’m going to go with Geoff Ogilvy. Ogilvy has had a slow start this year but he always shows up at big-time events, WGC events included. Ogilvy finished 3rd here last year.

I’m hoping that Stewart Cink will have a good showing here this week. He has played very well but hasn’t been able to seal the deal, particularly in the 4th round. Cink might be a good 2nd or 3rd round insertion for points. I’m also going with Nick O’Hern here as well. Any time the letters “WCG” are involved and I see O’Hern’s name I can’t help but think of how he has, more than any other player I believe, prevailed over Tiger Woods. That’s not to say it’s a guaranteed thing, but Nick O’Hern is a great player and I expect to see at least a couple of low rounds from him at this event. A couple of other players to keep an eye on are Stewart Appleby and Stephen Ames.

Rounding off my selections are two more players, one of which shouldn’t be a surprise choice and the other who probably is more of a surprise. It’s hard to ignore Luke Donald after his performance at the Honda Classic and the past month in general, and out of the Tier 3 players I think he is clearly the best. I’m also going to go with Niclas Fasth. He had a top-10 last week, and although I consider him to be streaky I think he will shine in this limited-field event.

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