The Barclays The start of the Fed Ex Cup Chase is this week with The Barclays, at Ridgewood CC in Paramus, NJ. Heath Slocum is the defending champion and that should tell you allot.
You cannot over-power this track. An A.W. Tillinghast design, classic along the U.S. Open courses as in Winged Foot and Baltusrol are usually tree lined, long and straight.
The weather could be a major factor this week, as it is raining now there, softening up the fairways will make it play longer, but the greens more receptive, however I still believe accuracy off the tee is important.
We bet Furyk over Els, but Furyk missed his Pro-Am tee time this morning and is subsequently DQ'd.
[B]Rory McIlroy -130 [/B]vs Tiger Woods
Tiger's divorce has gone through and 9 out of 10 questions that he answered today after his practice round were about exactly about that and not golf. You have extra gossip media here this week and so far have been allowed on the property.
He has the first tee time on Thursday which is very unusual and has to play with also rans Cameron Beckman and Troy Matteson. If it rains more today or tonight the course will be so wet and long that approach shots could fly anywhere, possible mud on the balls as well.
Rors opened his big mouth last week to the media that he would relish playing against Tiger in the Ryder Cup because Tiger's game is nowhere, where it should be. If they get in the same pairing on the weekend, which I doubt will happen, Rors will have to step it up a notch or two. Regardless, Rors is playing and has finished much better than Tiger over the past month, this is a no brainer matchup play IMO and would have played it at -150 or less.
