The 2007 PGA tour thread

Nissan open at Riviera Country Club started up today.

Anyone going?

I have to go check out the pros.
Never seen em play in person.

Eight of the top ten in the world are at the Nissan Open.

Woods isn't there.
Don't know why.

I think it's just travel and other obligations. With the new FedEx Cup points and stuff, they're weighted more for the WGC events and the Majors and the tournaments down the stretch. I think he's going to have a very different schedule this year than most, and Riviera is sort of the odd one out right now. He wants to make SURE he's ready for next week and didn't want to push himself by coming back from Dubai and rushing things.

Was at Pebble on Sunday rooting on my buddy, who finished 3rd. It was a great day.

Good to see Phil (win last week, 2nd after Thursday at Nissan) looks like he's playing well...hopefully he can sustain this up to the Masters.

Ernie loses in the first round of the Match Play... I sure didn't see that coming.

Hogan Bracket:
I had DiMarco and Immelman advancing, but I thought Ernie would play Bart Bryant in the next round... guess those were both wrong.

Snead Bracket:
I've called it so far... Olazabal, Ogilvy, Fasth, Goosen advance.

Player Bracket:
Called Cink, Harrington, and Vijay, but I thought Karlsson would beat Ames. Turns out Ames annihilated him instead...

Jones Bracket:
Called Donald and Stenson, but I thought Pettersson would beat K.J. Choi. Wrong on that one. Looks like Baddeley will win like I thought. He's been playing well lately.

Well, I got destroyed today with my picks. I didn't predict a single match correctly in the Player bracket.

Tomorrow, Chad Campbell plays David Toms and Stephen Ames plays Stewart Cink. I thought Harrington would advance all the way to the finals, but he didn't play very well today. Micheel advanced again, and Fasth played great and beat Goosen. They'll play the only two people I picked correctly on that side of the bracket, Paul Casey and Geoff Ogilvy.

On the other side, my picks were a bit better. Tiger's going to play O'Hern (and destroy him) tomorrow. Baddeley will play Stenson in the only match I had both contestants picked for. Justin Rose upset Phil today and will play Chuck Howell, who walked over Sergio (I thought he'd walk over Clarke). Mr. funny-pants Poulter advanced to play Immelman, who I thought would beat DiMarco.

Saturday Tiger could have some trouble with Stenson or Baddeley, but I still think he'll advance and probably have to play Chuck in the semis. I think Ogilvy will come out of the other side, but that's a kind of strange, wide open bracket right now with Furyk, Love, Vijay, Harrington, Scott, Goosen all out of the picture.

Tiger is *not* destroying O'Hern. Right now O'Hern is 2 up through 5.

Also, Justin Rose is smoking Chuck Howell... 5 up right now.

Tiger was 4 down and looking really ugly through 7 holes or so, but he's got it back to 1 down through 14... and it's about to be all square through 15. Since the 8th hole he's been much better.

Tough conditions today... lots of wind, some drops of rain, even some hail. Really cold out there.