Monday, November 20, 2006

No Wie

Michelle Wie appetite for playing in men's tournament shows no sign of abating and she will kick off 2007 by competing in the PGA tour's Sony Open on her home island of Oahu.

Sony, one of the 17-year-old's key sponsors, granted Wie an exemption to play in the early-season event for the fourth straight year. FULL STORY

Friday, November 10, 2006

Tommy "2 Gloves" - Q School round 2

"2 Gloves" will be playing his 2nd round of Q-School in Florida. Round 2 starts Nov. 16th. Get the scores and see who else is at this location HERE.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Question

Does anyone know if that Nextel... er, FedEx Cup money is going to count towards official money next year? JG?

Monday, November 06, 2006

Your Winners

From left to right: Da Boca Bandit, Steve V., . and Johnny V
Thanks to Stevie V. for providing this recent photo of our 2006 FPGP winners... he wanted me to point out the irony that the photographer was Da Rodent.

FINAL UPDATE


And the winners are.......

407 .... Da Bandit
379 .... Stevie V.
342 .... Johnny V.
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And the also-rans...

301 .... Shades/Jeff
263 .... Robbo
262 .... Vic/Talonflier
250 .... Tiger Philp
245 .... Steve / New Tex
180 .... Stan the Man
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Deserving his own category....

-169 .... Fraser

Congratulations to the three winners... and as for the rest of us... well, we just suck ass. Here is the final tally for dollars to be awarded.

We had 10 players, at $100 per player for $1,000. Plus, 9 made $20 trades, for an additional $180 in the kitty. So, our grand total is $1,180, to be awarded as follows.

Da Bandit, $826
Stevie V., $236
Johnny V., $118

Winners, if you want me to hold back $100 for next year's pool (which I'd appreciate as it will mean three fewer people to chase for next year) let me know. Also, if anyone wants to see the spreadsheet and the formulas that were used to derive the final scores, let me know and I will email it to you. I'll leave this request up for about a week, and then I am sending checks...

I am going to be out of town for about a week, this wednesday until next wednesday... then, the following week, I am getting hitched and will be gone for a while on honeymoon. I'll be back and fully blog-ready the week of December 3rd. I want to initiate some incentives for bringing more people into the pool, and I will post those either before I take off for the wedding stuff, or immediately thereafter. It seems to me that this pool/blog will be even more fun if we get more people involved, and also, as the "founders" of such pool, we should get a little discount / incentive for bringing in more players... I am thinking that we keep the entry at $100, and also offer a $10 discount for every player that is brought in... so, if I bring in 3 new guys, they all pay $100, and I pay $70. If this makes sense, let me know... if not, we can scrap the idea.

And no one gets credit for bringing in JG or MG for next year, although they can get in for $80, since Jeff and Stevie V. each owe them $10 from the "Wie/Trahan" bets. Also, since they've been loyal bloggers, I'll extend the discount program to them as well...

Thanks for a great season everyone... I hope the blog was as enjoyable for everyone else as it has been for me.


Da Bandit, singing to a packed crowd after learning of his FPGP 2006 victory.