The ISG Tour takes a swing through Tampa Bay Florida this week, site of the PODS Championship. What’s a PODS you ask? Portable On Demand Storage, right.

Here’s the field…

PODS Championship

Heads up that Calcavecchia and van Pelt won the pro-am. And Calcavecchia won it last it year.

You must have your ISG Tipping entry in before the first tee time to be eligible for scores for this tournament. First tee time is 7 am Thu morning Florida local, which works out to around 11 pm Thu night Aus East Daylight time.

Please post your entries here: Entries

Full rules, comments and questions here: Main Competition Thread

Existing entrants pllease check the Changes topic to see if you are qualified to enter.

Looks like picking Stewart Cink may work for me.

-5 and one off the lead after his first round :)

With DJ going well too, surely I’m near the top this time!

Yes Styles, you are near the top. But a few had an even better opening round… Three of our more recent entrants top the PODS Leaderboard at -10:

Toto: Appleby -4 Senden -4 Snedeker -2 Weir DNP

terrys: Kenny Perry -5 Appleby -4 Goosen -1 Matt Jones -1

Sidman: Cink -5 Appleby -4 Jason Day -1 Ames Ev

Rain delays have taken a big cut out of the playing schedule though, so these results are very preliminary.

-10 Toto terrys Sidman
-9 dougie1 Styles
-8 MJT chris81 MrConsistency
-7 kyle Beno
-6 rebjon suspectinoz RSG Topdog chris9485 glenn_18 Muntz
-5 brettmaverick barryl live4golf bossofthemoss1
$ $ PROJECTED CUT $ $
-4 Bunny AlexMc
-3 davego hozel have_clubs
-2 pom
-1 Andre_W tdoddsy Hopsing GoonerAl
Ev adlo1980 Sonab
+1 jb_ bucks05
DQ Danz Milhouse brentp leighdog Dowls

PODS Championship Second Round – Provisional Scores Update

Well, he’s been talking the talk lately, but finally it looks like Styles is letting his clubs do the talking. He’s jumped out to a three stroke lead, although the second round is still incomplete due to persistent rain delays.

Styles: D.J. Trahan -5 Chopra -3 Cink -3 Nathan Green +2 = -11

Scoring has been tough, and most entrants have slipped backwards. The cut line has been tentatively drawn at +1, but this could change given the number of players still halfway through their rounds (or worse). There have been 4 withdrawals: Kevin Na, Mark Hensby, Bo Van Pelt and Brad Adamonis.

-11 Styles
-8 terrys
-7 MJT glenn_18
-6 MrConsistency Bunny pom
-5 Toto Sidman dougie1 kyle Beno chris9485
-3 Topdog barryl
-2 live4golf
Ev rebjon have_clubs
+1 chris81
+2 RSG
$ $ Projected Cut Line $ $
+4 AlexMc davego bucks05 jb_
+5 bossofthemoss1 GoonerAl
+6 Andre_W
+7 tdoddsy
+9 hozel
+10 Hopsing
+11 suspectinoz adlo1980
+12 Muntz
+14 brettmaverick
+32 Sonab

wahay!

may it last as well!

lol +32 my team has played almost half a round again, imagine my score if I had a full team running

PODS Championship Third Round – Provisional Scores Update

Scoring at the PODS was diabolical again, and the cut ended up at +3. Only nine players are currently under par for the tournament, but once again there are a few players still with a few holes to play.

-5: Cink
-3: Ogilvy Snedeker Mayfair
-2: Pernice O’Hair
-1: Sutherland Bryant Calcavecchia

Styles lead has sadly proved short-lived, with Trahan and Chopra both crashing to +3. That leaves MJT as one of the few sub-par entries. He’s had a terrible season to date, with four straight DQs – a win here will put him into the top five quick smart though…

MJT: Cink -5 Snedeker -3 Nathan Green +2 Chopra +3 = -6

There two others with their heads above water…

glenn_18: Snedeker -3 Calcavecchia -1 Paul Casey +1 Nick O’Hern +5 = -3
chris9485: Snedeker -3 Ogilvy -3 Chopra +3 Nick Flanagan +6 = -3

-6 MJT
-3 glenn_18 chris9485
Ev Styles Bunny pom Toto
+1 terrys Sidman dougie1 Beno barryl
+2 kyle
+3 bucks05
+4 jb_
+6 RSG
+7 MrConsistency AlexMc GoonerAl Andre_W
$ $ Projected Cut Line $ $
+8 have_clubs
+10 Topdog Hopsing
+11 live4golf rebjon
+12 chris81
+13 hozel adlo1980
+14 Muntz
+15 tdoddsy
+16 brettmaverick
+18 davego bossofthemoss1
+23 suspectinoz
+33 Sonab

the weather is to be much better today.

I’m predicting Trahan, Green and Cink to bounceback and give me a maiden victory.

god damn it!

Another win for one of the God Squad. Well done Sean.

Didn’t see the full collated scores but it would seem my men were all in reverse!

Bah!

PODS Championship – Final Scores Update

Scoring was a bit healthier in the final round of the PODS. Steve Stricker posted a 66, while John Senden and Nick Watney both posted 67s. Sean O’Hair was the winner, a 69 enough to get him past a bunch of players heading in the opposite direction – Ogilvy and Cink both posted 74s.

Toto did similarly, sitting quietly in T4 at even par at the start of the last round, but he picked up three shots to be the only sub-par entry in the entire ISG field. Not a bad effort considering he only had three players. Toto was 20th on the money list coming into the PODS with 1 cut from 2 events, but is now firmly in the top 5 overall.

Toto: Senden -2 Snedeker -1 Appleby Ev Mike Weir DNP = -3

MJT’s breakthrough victory eluded him, but after 4 DQs I’m sure he will be happy to pick up a nice big fat cheque all the same. He’s been quietly tinkering with his squad and had them playing good solid golf for an even par result.

MJT: Cink -2 Snedeker -1 Nathan Green +3 Chopra +4 = Ev

Third place was tied between chris9485 and Beno at +3, but Beno clinches the last Vision prize pack on countback – he posted +2 in the final round, while Chris posted a +6.

Beno: Cink -2 Allenby +1 Chopra +4 Woody Austin DNP = +3
chris9485: Snedeker -1 Ogilvy Ev Chopra +4 Flanagan +9 = +3

Congratulations to everyone else who made the cut at +11, and commiserations to those that missed or DQed. The top eight on the ISG Tipping Money List all went away empty handed, proving how tough it is to stay competitive week in, week out on the tour.

-3 Toto
Ev MJT
+3 Beno chris9485
+4 kyle
+5 glenn_18 Styles Sidman barryl
+6 Bunny
+7 pom MrConsistency
+8 have_clubs
+9 Hopsing
+10 AlexMc GoonerAl chris81
+11 terrys bucks05 Topdog
$ $ Cut Line Cut Line $ $
+12 RSG
+13 dougie1 live4golf
+14 rebjon hozel
+15 Muntz
+16 tdoddsy
+17 jb_ Andre_W brettmaverick
+18 adlo1980
+19 davego
+21 bossofthemoss1
+26 suspectinoz
+36 Sonab
DQ Milhouse Danz leighdog Dowls brentp

Here’s the PODS Prizes:

$1,000,000 Toto
$600,000 MJT
$325,000 Beno

The top three placings all pick up a Vision Golf Ball pack thanks to Boz. Speeches please fellas…

$325,000 chris9485
$200,000 kyle
$136,400 glenn_18
$136,400 Styles
$136,400 Sidman
$136,400 barryl
$100,000 Bunny
$87,100 pom
$87,100 MrConsistency
$76,900 have_clubs
$71,400 Hopsing
$62,700 AlexMc
$62,700 GoonerAl
$62,700 chris81
$52,700 terrys
$52,700 bucks05
$52,700 Topdog

Geez, went from -6 after the 2nd round, to +7 after the third! Least I made some money. When does the cheque arrive? ; )

MrC – After your caddie, the taxman, your bank manager and your missus take their cuts, you’ll be left with sweet FA.

Sigh.. Looks like I’ll have to make it for real then before I see any of those novelty sized cheques..

Some extra notes:

Styles is the only player to make the cut in all 5 events this season. That consistent grinding from this tour journeyman has put him in 10th place on the money list with $714,500. His best pickup is $250,000 at the Buick. He is 4th on tour scoring at 71.5.

Toto has the best average of 71.0 after 3 events, and Dowls and rebjon are eq. 2nd with 71.4

Congratulations to the following entries who have picked up ISG Prize Money for the first time this season:

MJT, Beno, Sidman, MrConsistency (yay), GoonerAl.

This tipping comp requires more brain power than picking a shot in an ambrose comp.

well done Muntz on organising and calculating the results.

I am going to play the whole season with my picks so do not expect any changes from my team of Appleby, Cink, J Day and Ames.

Well Sidman, not a bad strategy as those players are now worth 11.06 ranking points…

So you don’t need to keep under 10 points?

Could our three winners (Toto, MJT and Beno) please email me your details:

Name, Address and Phone

so that Boz can send you your prizes…!

Send your details to amunter at hotmail dot com. This assumes you have an Aus address, I don’t think we are doing international deliveries of the prize packs.

So you don’t need to keep under 10 points?

Only (a) when you enter and (b) when you make changes to your squad. If you leave the squad as is you don’t need to worry about their total value.

Read Rule 2 on the main competition thread.

read? – I usually wait until the movie comes out :)

Hey Mr C looks like we get to share that B##ger all evenly. I reckon this tipping game is easy (HA-HA) Lot like golf , builds you up then knocks you down again.

Snedeker was in the team for the first 3 placegetters.

Appleby must be the leading Aussie on Tour for the year. (Muntzy – are there any scoring stats on the Aussies?)

Here’s a scoring average breakdown for the PGA Tour: Scoring Average

Snedeker has had a reasonably quiet year, T75 for scoring at 70.64, I was on the verge of replacing him. But he’s made 6/8 cuts and has 3 top 10 finishes.

Apples has been very hot this season, with 5/5 top 10 finishes, and is 3rd on the Tour for scoring (19 rounds at 68.99)

FBR T4, Northern Trust T7, Buick T8, Matchplay T9, PODS T10

Allenby is also pretty useful (69.55) and 5 events in the top 25 or better, best result T4 at the Honda.

Matt Jones is great value, with a World Golf Ranking of 165, but he’s made 7/7 cuts and has a scoring average of 69.75. Senden has 6/7 cuts and two top 10s.

what a weekend!

Stewart Sank
DJ got on the wrong Trahan
Nathan couldn’t hit a green
and Daniel turned into a chopra

Still another cheque is another cheque and if the top 8 missed out, it means I’m closing the gap.

Just goes to show those pampered prima donnas can’t play Jack once the wind gets up a bit.