The Greatest Show on Grass WMPO

Welcome to the Greastest Show on Grass the Waste Management Phoenix Open.  Not to often that a pro gets to hit a golf ball in front of 30,000 crazies but that's what you get on the par 3 16th at the TPC of Scottsdale. Make the green and get cheered miss and get booed but make an ace and the place goes nuts. Plain and simple the 16th is one on going party where the your shot makes you the hero of the crowd or the goat of the masses. So who will join the party and be the hero of the Greastest Show on Grass and win this weeks Waste Management Phoenix Open.

And here are the odds.

14/1 Webb Simpson 16/1 Martin Laird 20/1 Matt Kuchar     20/1 Brandt Snedeker 20/1 Nick Watney 25/1 Keegan Bradley     25/1 Rickie Fowler 25/1 Bill Haas 25/1 Phil Mickelson     33/1 Charles Howell 33/1 Dustin Johnson 33/1 Sean O'Hair     33/1 Ian Poulter 33/1 Bubba Watson 33/1 Mark Wilson     40/1 Aaron Baddeley 40/1 Bud Cauley 40/1 Jason Dufner     40/1 Bryce Molder 40/1 Kevin Na 40/1 Scott Piercy     40/1 Camilo Villegas 40/1 Gary Woodland 50/1 Jonathan Byrd     50/1 Stewart Cink 50/1 Ben Crane 50/1 Brian Gay     50/1 J.B. Holmes 50/1 Y.E. Yang 50/1 D.A. Points     50/1 John Rollins 50/1 Vijay Singh 50/1 Kyle Stanley     50/1 Johnson Wagner 66/1 Robert Allenby 66/1 Brendon De Jonge     66/1 Anthony Kim 66/1 Ryan Moore 66/1 Bo Van Pelt     80/1 Ricky Barnes 80/1 Robert Garrigus 80/1 Justin Leonard     80/1 Pat Perez 80/1 Carl Pettersson 80/1 Cameron Tringale     100/1 Angel Cabrera 100/1 Greg Chalmers 100/1 Harrison Frazar     100/1 Chris Kirk 100/1 Spencer Levin 100/1 Jeff Overton     100/1 Rod Pampling 100/1 Andres Romero 100/1 Brendan Steele     100/1 Jimmy Walker 125/1 Stephen Ames 125/1 Chad Campbell     125/1 Kevin Chappell 125/1 Chris Couch 125/1 Harris English     125/1 Bobby Gates 125/1 Charley Hoffman 125/1 Ryuji Imada     125/1 Trevor Immelman 125/1 Brandt Jobe 125/1 Jerry Kelly     125/1 Marc Leishman 125/1 Davis Love 125/1 Bill Lunde     125/1 Jeff Maggert 125/1 George McNeill 125/1 Seung-Yul Noh     125/1 Joe Ogilvie 125/1 Nick O'Hern 125/1 Ryan Palmer     125/1 Kevin Streelman 125/1 Michael Thompson 125/1 Charlie Wi     150/1 Kris Blanks 150/1 Jonas Blixt 150/1 Jason Bohn     150/1 Fred Couples 150/1 Brian Davis 150/1 Graham Delaet     150/1 James Driscoll 150/1 Tommy Gainey 150/1 David Hearn     150/1 Tim Herron 150/1 Danny Lee 150/1 Blake Adams     150/1 John Merrick 150/1 Kenny Perry 150/1 Ted Potter     150/1 Chez Reavie 150/1 Heath Slocum 150/1 Scott Stallings     150/1 Chris Stroud 150/1 Kevin Sutherland 150/1 Josh Teater     150/1 D.J. Trahan 200/1 Cameron Beckman 200/1 Mark Calcavecchia     200/1 Tom Gillis 200/1 Mathew Goggin 200/1 Paul Goydos     200/1 Hunter Haas 200/1 J.J. Henry 200/1 J.J. Killeen     200/1 David Mathis 200/1 Troy Matteson 200/1 Billy Mayfair     200/1 Tom Pernice 200/1 Jeff Quinney 200/1 Kevin Stadler     200/1 Brendon Todd 200/1 Marc Turnesa 250/1 Arjun Atwal     250/1 Matt Bettencourt 250/1 Chad Collins 250/1 Matt Jones     250/1 Jason Kokrak 250/1 Jamie Lovemark 250/1 Rocco Mediate     300/1 Tommy Biershenk 300/1 Stephen Gangluff 300/1 Sung-Hoon Kang     300/1 Derek Lamely 300/1 Arron Oberholser 300/1 Jon Stanley

Dutch,  Thanks again for these great intros for each tourney!  

If you are a golf enthusiast like I am, and haven't experienced the 16th, you have missed one of the most exciting adventures at a PGA tourney, like no other.  In '09, I was there!  ( So was the Super Bowl!!) Cardinal logos were everywhere and when a player came through the tunnel waving a Cardinal logo, there were ROARS.  There were Roars and Boos galore for everything and anything.  It was fun to see how each players reacted.  All were right with the spirit of the atmosphere.  They seemed to love it just like the fans did.  If you haven't been, it is a MUST!

 Got there every early, got a good seat and stayed all day.  If you left, you lost your seat.  Fans were waiting in line all day for a chance to get in as others left.  Of course, had to tolerate some out of hand drunks, but for the most part, they had their beer and respected others.  The wave went around the stadium continually.  The VIP section wouldn't always WAVE and got boos from the rest.  Fun day! 

Tough break for Kyle Stanley at the Farmers Torrey Pines last week (He receives the Tiger award in the US - not closing the 4th Round)

Mark Wilson
Rickie Fowler
Martin Laird
Brandt Snedeker
Webb Simpson

Well, it's THAT time of year, again  -  The GSOG.!!

The University of Phoenix enrollment is approximately 300,00 students; which will probably all be attending the GSOG at some time during this weekend  -  mostly at the 16th hole.!!  For the life of me, I can't figure-out why the sponsors would ever hold a tournamment with that many collge students attending  -AND-   NOT have any waste containers.

That's right, NO waste containers will be at the tournament this year.  If Waste Management pulls this off, I'll be surprised.

“There’s going to be no waste bins. It’s recycling or compost, and in order to do this we had to educate our vendors and educate our patrons as well to live a greener life. We’ve always called our show the ‘greatest show on grass,’ now we call ourselves the ‘greenest show on grass.’”

Somehow, I just can't grasp this concept.  Additionally, they're allowing cell phones at the tournament.  Let's see (1) colege students, (2) no waste Bins, (3) cell phones.  This has disaster written all over it.


As for the golf, this isn't really golf.  With all those drunk college students, this event should appear as an event during the "silly season". 

This should be interesting . . .  I don't think picks will be worth much for this one.

   Doug,  You are right about golf and this toruney, and once is enough for me, but I had to see it to believe!  Still had fun!

PICKS   FOR   CIRCUS   WEEK



Simpson  /  Bradley

Haas  /  Wilson
Snedeker  /  Fowler

Maggert  /  Dufner


Mind you   .  .  .  .  I rank Last in my league, so now you've been warned..!!

Well, it another week at one of the tours rowdiest stops.

And another shot at those coveted golf balls (and what ever else Kerplookee is offering).

My confidence it reeling after two humbling weeks of suspect rosters, but here we go.

“A” team -

C. Howell III / Webb Simpson

“B” team -

Ian Poulter / H. Frazar

Bubba Watson / B. Snedeker

“C” team -

Pat Perez / A. Baddeley

Poulter is a GREAT pick . . .   he's bound to win as long as he wears PINK.

esox ouija board says

Ohair  /  bradley

rollins  //  snedeker
fowler  /  Points

baddely //  Wagner

good luck all

DGM,  You'll have to remember, you missed the first tourney!   You'll catch up.

I discovered great picks written in yellow snow on my front yard.  Temperature went up to 48 degrees while I was looking for a pen.

Sorry about that Kinik, but, I had to expel all that Diet Mt. Dew somewhere and I was thinkin' of my picks at the time.  Strangely enough I write cursive better that way than I do by using a pen.

Here's what it said:

Villegas/J.B. Holmes

M. Wilson/O'Hern
Fowler/Poulter

Laird/J. Wagner 

 Last week the Wheel let me down so its on to Lets Make A Deal and My picks Behind Door number one are Kuchar/Simpson Door number Two Fowler/Watson Points/Rollins and Door Number Three  Laird/Cauley  Hope these guys bring in the Big Deal and no Zonks
Good Luck everyone

Have some sames ones, BUT I DIDN'T COPY!!  Posted mine yesterday morn.  

Simpson/Kuchar

Frazar/Points 
Snedeker/M Wilson       

Wagner/Cauley 
May the one with the best guesses WIN... LOL     My luck is bound to run out.  I lucked out last wk with Snedeker sneaking out that win.  I was history, until that.

The bad news:  yep, that's right, I have Stewart Cink

The Good News:  I kept him on the bench

In case you were looking for Cink on a leaderboard and missed his name.......

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Just watched Jonathan Byrd fix a ball mark on the 16th at the WM tournament by "pulling up" on the turf; c'mon man!  Learn how to fix a ball mark correctly!

I was gone all day, didn't see what happened, only saw here where he had done so badly.  What the heck happened?

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LMAO....thanks for the chuckle!

Good news, bad news for the Tumbleweed Express!

Good news, the Express had three players in the top ten!

Bad new, the Express only started one of them!