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If you're new to the board or if you've been living in a cave somewhere the past few months it may have eluded your attention that there has been a bit of discussion regarding Michelle Wie, her record, playing against men, who she could/couldn't beat... , etc. Well here is your chance to to show off your predictive powers. Here is the field and Thursday teetimes for this weeks Sony - The 2006 Sony Field as it currently stands. The object of the contest is simple - Pick up to 10 guys whom you think Michelle will beat. Whomever picks the most correct wins. Tiebreaker will be the number of guys she beats. Contest will be open until the 1st man tees off tomorrow at 12:15pm EST. The winner will receive a, still undetermined, fabulous prize.

Here are my picks -

David Duval
Vance Veazey
Steve Schneiter
Greg Chalmers
Parker McLachlin
Shiv Kapur
Jimmy Walker - "Dy-No-Mite !!"
Shane Bertsch
John Engler, Jr. "He really should've stuck with politics"
Aaron Baddeley "Badds !! "


Tie breaker #1

She'll finish ahead of 34 players

Kevin Hayashi Alex Aragon Beau Yokomoto
Parker McLachlin Brandan Kop David Ishii
Ron Whittaker John Engler, Jr. Jeremy Tucker
Jeff Overton
Tiebreaker: She'll beat 55 players.

This was hard work! Pick all players I've never heard of. Roll the dice on 10.

Michelle Wie will make the cut at the Sony , and will finish in a tie for 27th in the end ( she will be in a 6 way tie there , so she will beat 112 players ) . She is gonna whip some names , too .... to wit ...

1) Jason Gore
2) Frank Lickliter
3) Jeff Maggart
4) Chad Campbell
5) Carl Pettersson
6) Loren Roberts
7) Mike Weir
8) James Driscoll
9) Carlos Franco
10) Jay Haas

She will beat:

Woody Austin
Jeff Brehaut
Robert Gamez
Dudley Hart
Steve Lowery
Pat Perez
Tim Petrovic
Tag Ridings
Tadahiro Takayama
Thaworn Wiratchant

Tie Breaker: She will beat 60 people.

List of 10 guys:
1 Alex Aragon
2 Jeff Gove
3 Kevin Hayashi
4 David Ishii
5 Brandan Kop
6 Craig Perks
7 Vance Veazey
8 Ron Whittaker
9 Beau Yokomoto
10 Kaname Yokoo

She will finish ahead of 80 players

Rory Sabbatini
Arjun Atwal
Kiyoshi Miyazato
Charles Howell III
Corey Pavin
Daniel Chopra
Pat Perez
Bubba Dickerson
Shaun Micheel
John Engler Jr.

Tiebreaker: She will finish ahead of 21 players

Jeff Overton
Jeff Gove
Jeff Brehaut
Jimmy Walker
Eric Axley
Hunter Mahan
Shane Bertsch
Kiyoshi Miyazato
Yusaku Miyazato
Steven Bowditch

She will finish ahead of 54 players.

peter allis and johnny miller

I think she will finish better than Tiger Woods.

Wow, she is really stinking it up out there today, +7 through 14 holes.
Maybe the cut will end up being +15.

...and John Cook, so far.

2 down, 152 to go.

Wow, apparently this going to be pretty easy to keep track of. I can't believe that none of our Wie-bashers entered and put zero for the tie-breaker. Sorry Boomer & TourDreams, but the players have to be actually in the field to count for this contest, though she might have trouble with Miller & Aliss the way she's going.

The way it looks is the only one she will finish ahead of is me.

She can still finish ahead of some more players after 1 round:

Chris Riley +6 after 8 holes.
D.A. Points +5 after 7 holes.
Robert Garrigus +4 after 6 holes.
Jeremy Tucker +4 after 7 holes.
Jimmy Walker +3 after 5 holes.

So she may not even finish round 1 in last place.

Well yours truly and bogiedreamer have jumped out to a quick lead (with me holding the tie-breaker) as Michelle edges out "Kid Dy-No-Mite" - Jimmy Walker after round 1.