After successfully resisting any kind of fantasy sport leagues over the years, I broke down this year and joined a fantasy golf league.<\/p>\n
My previous reservations had a lot to do with the image of the fantasy league participant (nerdy guy living in his parents basement, perhaps:)), the amount of time required to be successful (way too much for my liking) and, mostly, I never wanted my viewing of sporting events to be ruled by the results of some random fantasy pick rather than an enjoyment of watching the event unfold. So, I have persistently avoided (and I suspect I will continue to do so) all forms of team fantasy leagues.<\/p>\n
But, I thought, what the heck, a golf fantasy league has to be a different beast than say a football league. So, I made the plunge and I am now one week into my league.<\/p>\n
The results of my picks for week one were somewhat disappointing since I had third round co-leaders Webb Simpson and Dustin Johnson on my team. Sunday night found me licking my chops in anticipation of a first week sweep. Needless to say, neither one did much during the final round which is reflected in my 21st place out of 30 teams in our league.<\/p>\n
However, I did have some interesting observations after week one.<\/p>\n
I did find myself paying more attention to a tournament whose outcome I normally would have had very little interest in. I am not sure if this is good or bad. I’m guessing time will tell.<\/p>\n
Watching the eventual winner (Zach Johnson) rise and my guys fade really didn’t have much of an impact on my enjoyment of watching the tournament so that is a real positive.<\/p>\n
In the same vein, picking a winner of a golf tournament in an expanded field seems nearly impossibility considering that only a handful of players one more that one event in 2013. With the number of extremely capable golfers on tour now, every week is a virtual crap-shoot.<\/p>\n
Fantasy golf (or any other fantasy league) has almost no connection to the real sport.<\/p>\n
So, I’ll keep making my picks until I grow tired of doing so or (maybe) until I am so far down the leader-board that I decide to raise the white flag. But, please don’t ever ask me to join your fantasy curling league, I just may tell you where to stick that rock.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After successfully resisting any kind of fantasy sport leagues over the years, I broke down this year and joined a fantasy golf league. My previous reservations had a lot to do with the image of the fantasy league participant (nerdy guy living in his parents basement, perhaps:)), the amount of time required to be successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricos-rants"],"yoast_head":"\n