The Humana Challenge

 The Bob Hope Palm Desert Classic last of the Hollywood endorsed icon events is now gone after 47 years and replaced in name by The Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foudation. Welcome to La Quinta home to the three courses to be played this week PGA WEST Palmer Course,PGA WEST Nicklaus Course and LaQuinta. Note that the tournament is no longer a five round event as it has been pared down to four rounds so the cut from what I read will be made after the third round low 70 and ties instead of the second. Last year Johnny Vegas came from out of nowhere to win in a playoff to win the last Hope tournament, so whos hopes will be dashed this year and whos hopes will be fulfilled and win the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation. Just doesn't have the same ring as winning The Hope. Good Luck all and I Hope your picks are good.

Interesting Dutch!  I hate it when they change the name.  LOL   Bay Hill,  FBR, etc.  It sort takes away something from the tournament for me too. 

We have a good group going here.   Good guessing to all.     


  

For those of you interested in betting your kids education fun on the result here are the odds.


14/1 Bill Haas 16/1 Matt Kuchar 16/1 Phil Mickelson     22/1 Dustin Johnson 25/1 Charles Howell 25/1 Martin Laird     28/1 Brian Gay 33/1 Zach Johnson 33/1 Anthony Kim     33/1 Bo Van Pelt 40/1 Bryce Molder 40/1 Kevin Na     40/1 Brandt Snedeker 40/1 Michael Thompson 50/1 Bud Cauley     50/1 Ben Crane 50/1 Jason Dufner 50/1 Harrison Frazar     50/1 Trevor Immelman 50/1 Chris Kirk 50/1 Spencer Levin     50/1 Ryan Moore 50/1 Carl Pettersson 50/1 John Rollins     50/1 Rory Sabbatini 50/1 John Senden 50/1 Kyle Stanley     50/1 Camilo Villegas 66/1 Brendon De Jonge 66/1 George McNeill     66/1 Ryan Palmer 66/1 David Toms 66/1 Jhonattan Vegas     66/1 Johnson Wagner 80/1 Chad Campbell 80/1 Robert Garrigus     80/1 David Hearn 80/1 Charley Hoffman 80/1 Jerry Kelly     80/1 Jamie Lovemark 80/1 Steve Marino 80/1 Nick O'Hern     80/1 Jeff Overton 80/1 Pat Perez 80/1 Scott Piercy     80/1 Kevin Streelman 80/1 D.J. Trahan 90/1 Greg Chalmers     100/1 Stephen Ames 100/1 Ricky Barnes 100/1 Kris Blanks     100/1 Brandt Jobe 100/1 Justin Leonard 100/1 Seung-Yul Noh     100/1 Rod Pampling 100/1 Ted Potter 100/1 Chez Reavie     100/1 Brendan Steele 100/1 Charlie Wi 125/1 Sang-Moon Bae     125/1 Briny Baird 125/1 Chris Couch 125/1 Brian Davis     125/1 Tommy Gainey 125/1 John Merrick 125/1 Tom Pernice     125/1 Chris Stroud 125/1 Vaughn Taylor 125/1 Mark Wilson     150/1 Stuart Appleby 150/1 Jason Bohn 150/1 Alex Cejka     150/1 Kevin Chappell 150/1 Chris Dimarco 150/1 Ken Duke     150/1 David Duval 150/1 Bob Estes 150/1 Hunter Haas     150/1 Tim Herron 150/1 Ryuji Imada 150/1 Jason Kokrak     150/1 Derek Lamely 150/1 Danny Lee 150/1 Bill Lunde     150/1 Jeff Maggert 150/1 Troy Matteson 150/1 Billy Mayfair     150/1 Joe Ogilvie 150/1 Heath Slocum 150/1 Kevin Stadler     150/1 Scott Stallings 150/1 Josh Teater 150/1 Cameron Tringale     150/1 Jimmy Walker 200/1 Arjun Atwal 200/1 Tommy Biershenk     200/1 Jonas Blixt 200/1 Michael Bradley 200/1 Joe Durant     200/1 Steve Elkington 200/1 Harris English 200/1 Bobby Gates     200/1 Tom Gillis 200/1 Mathew Goggin 200/1 J.J. Henry     200/1 Sung-Hoon Kang 200/1 J.J. Killeen 200/1 John Mallinger     200/1 David Mathis 200/1 Scott McCarron 200/1 Kevin Sutherland     200/1 Brendon Todd 200/1 Kyle Reifers 250/1 Cameron Beckman     250/1 Matt Bettencourt 250/1 Scott Brown 250/1 Miguel Carbello     250/1 Roberto Castro 250/1 Chad Collins 250/1 Erik Compton     250/1 Marco Dawson 250/1 James Driscoll 250/1 Stephen Gangluff     250/1 Paul Goydos 250/1 Brian Harman 250/1 Lee Janzen     250/1 Steve Jones 250/1 Blake Adams 250/1 Kyle Thompson     250/1 Kevin Kisner 250/1 Russell Knox 250/1 Jarrod Lyle     250/1 Rocco Mediate 250/1 Brett Quigley 250/1 Charlie Beljan     300/1 Rich Beem 300/1 Gary Christian 300/1 Troy Kelly     300/1 Richard Lee 300/1 Greg Norman 300/1 Sam Saunders     500/1 Mark Brooks 500/1 Keith Fergus 500/1 Mike Miles

For those of you interested in betting your kids education fund on the result here are the odds.

Greg Norman 300/1 Sam Saunders 500/1. Betting the farm on these two players to finish first and second. Higher education is over-rated!

A big thanks to Dutch and Noko for giving the beautiful intro to our little weekly challenge.

Winning roster (because Dutch likes to peek) will be posted tomorrow night!

Stay cool.

You wouln't need to bet the farm.  A $1 bet that predicted Norman was first and Saunders was second would get you a return of over $150K

   Having said that I have a feeling  this sort of bet is not allowed in the UK  when betting golf.

I'll post my ideas first:

Phil / Kuchar

Haas / Dustin J.
Kim / Snedeker

Crane / Immelman

I've always been a Trevor fan.  Any scuttlebutt on how he's doing?  He's been back to full health again right? 

J Vegas/Kuchar

Hass/Leonard
Hoffman/B Snedeker

Perez/Trahan

Good luck to all this week. It's a little musty down here in the basement. Hope someone in my group plays well this week.

(because Dutch likes to peek 

Wrong game show VC  I perfer to Spin to Win with Vanna however there are some that use that method and think they are Smarter than a Fifth Grader.

Esox will go with

Howell   Kuchar

Kim   Frazar
Molder  Haas

Taylor   Laird

good luck all

Here we go! Another attempt at those elusive dozen of free Nike golf balls!

(It goes without saying if I were ever to win a weekly segment those golf balls would never be used.)

(More than likely mounted like a trophy buck.)

(Put on display for all to see.)

(Proudly telling the tale of my fantasy golf prowess.)

Anyways, here is my starting line up.

“A” team

Chez Reavie / Matt Kuchar

“B” team

Bill Haas / John Rollins

Chris Kirk / M. Thompson

“C” team

Martin Laird / Pat Perez

Good luck to all!

Abandoning the old dart board and going with the Spin to Win pick em wheel my picks this week to get to the bonus round are


A Group   C. Howell III and Phil the Thrill
B Group   D. Johnson and Haas
              Frazar and DeJonge
C Group   Laird and Gay

Good Luck all

Good luck in the pick'ems, great intro as usual Dutch!  Now appears to me y'all best watch out for some young guns play'n in this'n too!  These kids have no fear, hit it long, putt lights out and love it hot and dry!!  Ah hello Bud Cauley, JJ Killeen to name a couple!!

Here we go:


Howell111/Kuchar

Snedeker/Killeen
deJonge/ Van Pelt 

Wagner/Cauley

Jimmy, good idea!  Thanks

And the winner is:::  The player scoring lower!!

Have fun everyone!           
      

ILG, uhOH listen'n to my idea on pick'ems is about as worthwhile as listen'n to OHbummer on how to reduce the debt and create jobs!!

Exactly.  Let's veto a pipeline to bring more oil into the country and force the Canadians to build one to the Pacific Ocean where they'll have to sell it to the Chinese.

No Oil for us = $5 gallon gas and more Government Motors cars running on electricity that happen to start on fire.


Whose side is he on anyways?  Heck let him play golf everyday.  If he's doing that then he's not forking us over with asinine decisions like this.

Speaking of vetoing I'm in favor of doing that to my picks. 

Are they all still hungover from the Hawaii jaunt?

Villegas!  Seriously!