I Heart Fantasy Golf!

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I finally caved this year and joined a Yahoo PGA Tour Fantasy League and I must say, it's given me new reasons to stay awake during PGA Tour telecasts. Granted I've cursed at a few of my selections posting some seriously awful final round scores, but the purpose of this post is mainly to jinx the rest of the season and to ensure punishment from the Golf Gods (not to mention my league-mates who took me into their group just before tour play started)...

Yes, ArtVandelay (just going with the Seinfeld-theme to the league) is in 139th place, 99th percentile baby! 

It won't last, I know. But I just wanted to enjoy this monumental moment in Fantasy League history.

What's Bugging Sergio Files, Vol. 591

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Stephanie Wei tries to get to the bottom of what exactly it was that Sergio said to Ian Poulter after his semi-final drubbing that included an odd ruling situation. The whole thing is strange in the timing of Sergio's comment to Poulter and while not particularly important, it is fun to think of these two lovebirds as teammates in September.
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Finchem: "That's just a screw-up on my part."

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No, he's not talking about the recipe he dug up for his Commissioner-hosted Southern-style pig roast at last year's Players Championship and how it left the pork a tad dry. He's actually talking about something of substance: Wednesday's horrible handling of the Tiger statement-reading announcement.
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"If we lose Match Play, Tucson will surely turn to dust and be blown to El Paso."

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Greg Hansen makes a plea to Accenture to keep the Match Play in Tucson beyond 2011 when they can take it elsewhere. Love the hometown spirit, but the event falls painfully flat as a form of entertainment and it's hard not to blame a soulless, spread-out and not-particularly engaging Nicklaus course as the main problem. Throw in small crowds and it just isn't working.
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"Just like on television, the interview room was full of chairs, although surprisingly, most of them were empty."

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The match play gets underway tomorrow and while I couldn't find anyone writing about how they had to blow up a bunch of the Nicklaus greens to make the host course tolerable, I did enjoy a few stories. First this from John Huggan on the key to match play success:
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