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TyeDye · #31 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2004, 06:40 AM

Ell chalk up anothe W for Jimenez.... get your bets on soon or his odds are gonna be way down.

taylormade19 · #32 (**permalink**) December 5th, 2004, 11:00 AM

Tiger, I dont care what ranking says he is still the best in the world IMO. Hes a married man, soon to be family man I imagine. He will need to start producing. As if the endorcement cheques from Buick and Nike arent enough ****. Yeah so Tiger will be the man to beat in the 05 season. My prediction. Tiger wins 7+events in 05, 2 of those majors.

twntywunz · #33 (**permalink**) December 8th, 2004, 08:58 PM

he's due to win in at the masters

igolfalot · #34 (**permalink**) December 8th, 2004, 10:38 PM

Mike Weir will win eh?

stagday · #35 (**permalink**) December 9th, 2004, 06:52 AM

it's way to early to pick, but i'm wondering if Retief Goosen won't be in the hunt. he has a great swing with great tempo and doesn't seem to get to flustered.

but on the opposite end, i kind of like Aaron Baddeley. if he get's on a roll, he can be unconcious, but not sure he can keep it up for 4 rounds under the heavy pressure.

stagday

***shaderunner*** · #36 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2005, 06:30 PM

The cream usually comes to the top for big money tourneys and majors...Goosen is one of those guys that is quite often in the hunt at the majors. He doesn't seem particularly strong through the green but imo he has just about the creamiest putting stroke out there and it seems to get laser-like at times. I fully expect to see him on the leaderboard at Augusta.

I'm watching the third round at Doral and Tiger has just driven a par 4...what an awesome athlete...didn't look like his back was hurtin' on that one! Tiger is coming back on form and should be ready for the Masters as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith

I will go with a lefty three years running.

Me too.
I wasn't ready in December to commit and, yes, a lot can happen between now and the Masters but having seen the consistent caliber of play from Mickelson this year I have to say that he has as good or better chance than anyone to win it again. I think he has really found something in his game and has risen to the next level, whatever that is.

And I haven't even mentioned Ernie and Vijay but that doesn't mean I'm not considering them.

Any one of these guys, on any given day, could beat the rest but usually it is the one that is "peaking" at the time and/or playing/putting the most consistently that comes out on top. So my early picks are:

Phil
Tiger
Retief
Ernie

On the Euro side I'll give Darren and Padraig outside chances.

not snubbin' Vijay...he'll be in there somewhere I'm sure.

All conjecture anyway.

At any rate it promises to be a Masters to remember.

Shade

4rplay · #37 (**permalink**) March 5th, 2005, 07:23 PM

freddy seems to play well there all the time if his back holds out,would be a very nice to see him back in the winners circle

3puttguy · #38 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2005, 01:43 AM

I have to agree with most of you by going with the big 4
Tiger
Phil
Ernie
Vijay
If I was making a wager it would be on Tiger. It looks like he is getting comfortable with his swing changes.

scotty1 · #39 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2005, 08:41 AM

I feel LEFTY has a really good chance again this year and TIGER will be there or there abouts. It would be nice to see a european win it someone like SERGIO or CLARKIE and Clarkie has been playing pretty solid this year so he may challenge....