Deutsche Bank Championship

captainidiot · 09-03-2005 , 05:22 PM

May as well extend droogy's break a little longer, since he missed out on making a thread this past week....

This week is the Deutsche Bank Championship, beginning Friday and culminating on Monday. It will be played (mother nature permitting) on the TPC of Boston, an Arnold Palmer design stretching 7415 yards at par 71. The Boston area supposedly had a good bit of rain today, and will probably continue to do so as the remnants of Katrina move through later this week. Given the likely wet conditions, I'd expect longer hitters to fare well, and the receptive greens should probably mean slightly lower scoring this year (the event's first two winners, Adam Scott and Vijay Singh, shot 264 and 268, respectively, although I think conditions were a little damp both those times as well). Oddly enough, however, neither of the past champs will be playing this week....Scott is taking time off to work on his game and I just looked on pgatour.com to see that Vijay withdrew with back spasms incurred while playing table tennis with his son. Too bad for Vijay, as the Fall Finish (this week is the first event of that section of the year) is typically when he shines, and I would have expected him to fare very well this week. Anyway, a pretty decent field has gathered, and I would expect a good event nonetheless.

So, a few questions about this week's event:

1. Will the event make it 72 holes? Given the high probability of heavy rains from Katrina, and today's practice already washed out, I don't think this is a given.

2. Who will be the winner?

3. What will be the winning score be?

4. Which player in the field from outside the top 50 could sneak up and surprise people with a good showing?

Just four simple ones, since this is not a major or anything...should be an exciting week if the weather cooperates!

09-03-2005 , 05:22 PM	#1
captainidiot Professional Duffer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago, Illinois Posts: 627 Rep Power: 0	Deutsche Bank Championship May as well extend droogy's break a little longer, since he missed out on making a thread this past week.... This week is the Deutsche Bank Championship, beginning Friday and culminating on Monday. It will be played (mother nature permitting) on the TPC of Boston, an Arnold Palmer design stretching 7415 yards at par 71. The Boston area supposedly had a good bit of rain today, and will probably continue to do so as the remnants of Katrina move through later this week. Given the likely wet conditions, I'd expect longer hitters to fare well, and the receptive greens should probably mean slightly lower scoring this year (the event's first two winners, Adam Scott and Vijay Singh, shot 264 and 268, respectively, although I think conditions were a little damp both those times as well). Oddly enough, however, neither of the past champs will be playing this week....Scott is taking time off to work on his game and I just looked on pgatour.com to see that Vijay withdrew with back spasms incurred while playing table tennis with his son. Too bad for Vijay, as the Fall Finish (this week is the first event of that section of the year) is typically when he shines, and I would have expected him to fare very well this week. Anyway, a pretty decent field has gathered, and I would expect a good event nonetheless. So, a few questions about this week's event: 1. Will the event make it 72 holes? Given the high probability of heavy rains from Katrina, and today's practice already washed out, I don't think this is a given. 2. Who will be the winner? 3. What will be the winning score be? 4. Which player in the field from outside the top 50 could sneak up and surprise people with a good showing? Just four simple ones, since this is not a major or anything...should be an exciting week if the weather cooperates!