Sports Predictor Golf

[nevadaballin]

I created a different thread about the Fox Super 6 and NBC Sports Predictor apps but this one is for the Predictor's golf portion with $50,000 in prize money. It is free to play..

This week was the first week it was live. It gave 7 match ups to pick a winner from and then pick the overall tourney winner and score. For this weeks Genesis Invitational the match ups were (my picks in bold):

Tiger vs Justin Thomas
Rory v Koepka
Rahm v Dustin Johnson
Bubba v Adam Scott
Schauffele v DeChambeau
Sergio v Spieth
Finau v Rose
> Rahm to win with a -18

Rahm maybe has an outside chance being 4 back but  -18 won't happen. I'm only up with Tiger, Rory and Sergio atm. The Bubba pick is a loss since he missed the cut but Tiger is a win for the same reason with JT.

This has been fun to play. For the WGC Mexico next week, the match ups are (I haven't chosen yet):

Rory v DJ
Rahm v JT
Finau v DeChambeau
Adam Scott v Leishman
Webb v Bubba
Fleetwood v Casey
Scauffele v Woodland Critters

[nevadaballin]

The NBC Sports Predictor app has the Charles Schwab at Colonial on tap. Three phase selection.... choose winners of match ups, winner of tourney and winning score.

Match ups are:

Rory vs Rahm
Koepka vs JT
DJ vs Phil
Spieth vs Na
Rickie vs Webb
DeChambeau vs Reed
Morikawa vs Scheffler

I won't reveal who i picked in those match ups or for the winner until the tourney starts but I do have -14 as the winning score.

[Friz]

I made picks on here as well, i'll come back thursday with details

[Friz]

My picks were:

Rahm over Rory
JT over Koepka
DJ over Phil
Na over Spieth
Webb over Rickie
Bryson over Reed
Scheffler over Morikawa

Rahm to win

And I expected some rust as the first week back, had -11 for the winning score...but leaders in the first round are already -5 through 9 holes so that is probably not correct

[nevadaballin]

I have:

Rory > Rahm
JT > Koepka
DJ > Phil
Na > Spieth
Rickie > Webb
Bryson > Reed
Morikawa > Scheffler

Oddly, I picked Rahm to win although I have Rory beating him lol. I forgot they were a match up. But if they tie then i could come out ok.
I'm at 50 pts as I write this. I chose -15 as a winning score, not the -14 that I initially said.

What the hell got into Spieth? Maybe he needs to play once a month.

[nevadaballin]

At the end of 2 rounds, i'm still at 50 pts. The leaders are at 95 pts going into the weekend.

But the cuts, holy cow...
Rahm
DJ
Phil
Na
Rickie
Webb

RBC next week will be tough.

[nevadaballin]

Ended last week at 50 pts.

This week at Harbor Town I chose:

Rory over JT
Bryson over Spieth
Schauffele over Rahm
Rose over DJ
Koepka over Reed
Morikawa over Simpson
Kuchar over Donald

Rory to win

Winning score -18

[nevadaballin]

Ended with 40 pts at RBC.

This week's matchups at The Travelers...

Rory vs Webb
Bryson vs Brooks
Rahm vs JT
Spieth vs Berger but it has a WD banner on Berger
Bubba vs Paul Casey
Morikawa vs Hovland
Phil vs Furyk.

[Friz]

I correctly nailed Webb winning last week...unfortunately my other head to heads were way off and I still only ended up with 35 points.

I'm on Bryson to win this week