Advance warning that I'll run a "fantasy' golf game for 3 WGC's and 4 Majors

Hopefully this won't tread on the toes of anyone else, but I'll organise a game which will run from late February to August and just cover the first three WGC's and the four Majors.

Different rules but quite simple:

For every one of these events, each participant selects one golfer and the participant accumulates his/her players' earnings, in $US, over the seven tournaments. With one wrinkle: You can only pick any one golfer once.

If your player misses the cut, tough luck, winnings for that week will be ZERO, and you cannot select that golfer again.

Calendar of events is:
Feb 22nd - 26th: WGC-Accenture Match Play
Mar 8th - 11th: WGC Cadillac
April 5th - 8th: The Masters
June 14th - 17th: US Open, Olympic Club
July 19th - 22nd: The Open Championship, Royal Lytham
Aug 2nd - 5th: WGC Bridgestone
Aug 9th - 12th: PGA Championship, Kiawah Island

This is meant to be complementary to, not replacing, any League that any brave soul wishes to initiate.

The field for the WGC Match Play will be announced Feb 13th.

Mods: Perhaps this can be elevated to "sticky"ness during the appropriate weeks? Thanks.

Count me in Kwini.

Sounds great so count me in as I really like the idea of a simple fantasy league.

Welcome aboard!
It would be great if we could attract a decent share of goldwolf etc and Ned alumni. Not to mention goldwolf and Ned of course.

Typical golf Kwini, all about the $$$$$$. Sounds great, nice and easy with is how I like my fantasy leagues. Im in.

I'm in Should be an interesting one!

Don't the majors give some token cash even to the Friday night casualties now? Though I guess that's still no reason to include it in this.

$$$$$$ !!!!!!

Ned,
Only unofficial ducats, nothing official - which will make for some disappointed punters, for instance, if Tiger or Rory should miss the Augusta cut!

Stick me down, Kwini

Sounds like fun -- please count me in.

Thanks.

Cleaver, Plunky,

i'm in kwini - though plenty notice before the first pick would be useful as i might not be popping my head in here too much toward the end of feb!

cheers,

b_b

Cheer Kwinni
Sound simple enough for me to participate

Sounds good kwini, count me in.

Forgot the PGA is at Kiawah!

SOunds good i'll play

May I play too please Kwini?

I'll have a go at this, though I pick with my heart rather than my brain.

I'm in Kwini, thanks

ban_bam, Doon, Lairdy, Fader, Hibbz, SetUp, BlueC:

All in! Great.

Me too, me too.

Anyone for Poulter at Accenture...?

Sounds good - happy to throw my name into the hat (well, I suppose I'll be throwing 7 names into the hat eventually, and none of them mine).

Thanks - appreciate the thought and effort in advance.

Keep it simple... that's always a good idea, kwini.
I'm in...

Good Morning kwini and sign me up. How many of these current Top 7 OWGR (Stolen from pd's list) will win any of the 7 events for kwini's comp, maybe 2 or 3 at best?

1 Luke Donald
2 Rory McIlroy
3 Lee Westwood
4 Martin Kaymer
5 Steve Stricker
6 Webb Simpson
7 Adam Scott

Sky, pd

venice,
Pick 'em and your fate will be in their hands!

The first event, Accenture Matchplay, is the toughy right out of the gates. Don't know if I'd pick any of the seven for that one. Only one, TW, has repeated so I don't give Luke a good shot. Stricker perhaps as he won in 2001 but on a completely different course and in a completely different country. In fact, the only time the tournament was held outside of California or Arizona. It's starting to get boring but the corporates are difficult to root out of their bliss once they sniff a good fire hydrant to relieve themselves.

And what about your icemen tonight after the All-Star break as they host the Sabres. From nhl.com: "Buffalo has won the previous four matchups at the Bell Centre and the last five meetings overall." Time to start skating hard every single shift for Les Habs. Hopefully Price will find the touch he had in the nets from 2 years ago or it's going to be a long summer on the island. Just learned this trivia about Montreal: was originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary." Actually a nice name for a city. Wonder why they changed it.

At least everyone has the chance to pick up some notional $$$$$$ at the MatchPlay! Or not, but that would tell a very different tale!!

City of Mary a beautiful city, venice - deserving a much better hockey team than has been exhibited so far this year. Better results these past few games though; not really Price's fault the team has stopped skating, but sure he'll get more than his share of the blame if they miss the play-offs.

Count me in Kwini, Cheers

Kwini, love to try this as a fantasy league virgin. Decided to choose players not normally bet on to give myself a half decent chance!

alan, Noel, Good to have you - hopefully we'll get a decent entry.
Looks like Jonathan Byrd should make the MatchPlay field, Noel!

Sounds interesting!

Sounds good to me, I will be involved! Though Fantasy Golf has never been my strong point.

GG, ben,
Should be fun, twenty plus signed up so far, hoping for at least forty.

Count me in Kwini

Kwini - I like the simplicity, at least until my pick misses the cut or loses in the first round! Put me down please.

Sand, Tiler
Tiler, At least you get paid with a first-round loss at the MatchPlay!

unless you pick big phil

I'm in!

count me in too. Looking forward to it.

sounds good kwini, count jeffkenna in

FastLane, Caf, jeff,
All in!

Count me in,

Well done Kwini for stepping up to the plate. I like the format too.

Kwini

I'll have a go too, please. Don't expect to trouble the scorers too much but it'll be a laugh.

Kwini

If you're looking for more entrants you could see if the guys over on golf-chat fancy it!

GG,
Would just prefer the regulars on 606 and v2, plus any new participants, as there's the camaraderie aspect also.
Won't turn new people away but we'll have 40 or 50 as it is and that's close to optimum. You are more than extremely welcome though, GG.

Kwini,

I'll give it a bash!

Count me in as well kwini, good work.

I like the simplicity of this, please sign me up. (Note to other candidates, I am useless at these things so if you fancy my choice, choose someone else to get your money).

I like the simplicity of this, please sign me up. (Note to other candidates, I am useless at these things so if you fancy my choice, choose someone else to get your money). Oops double post sorry.

kwinigolfer wrote:GG,
Would just prefer the regulars on 606 and v2, plus any new participants, as there's the camaraderie aspect also.
Won't turn new people away but we'll have 40 or 50 as it is and that's close to optimum. You are more than extremely welcome though, GG.

Kwini, weren't they regulars on 606 too?

'Morning Grumps,
Not sure what I'm missing . . . .
My slight ambiguity was intended to express the hope that some exiles might cross over . . . . .

Oops, 1-0.

Morning Kwini, happy so far nice early goal.

Just thought the comment about regulars and Golf-Chat guys may have been a snub. My mistake, I misread your intentions.

Looks a painful one for the keeper.