Fantasy Golf: The Hero World Challenge Preview

I spent about an hour today listening to a guy sell the benefits of AI and all of the things that it can do to improve the efficiency of our operation. As part of his pitch, he told us that companies like Price Waterhouse, Morgan Stanley and others that exist primarily to leech off of companies that actually do stuff have hired at least one AI consultant for every thirty of their employees. Must be a real morale booster to have some nerd looking over your shoulder while explaining how you can help train the computer in front of you to take your job one day. 

But I don't work at a bean counting company named after two monocled rich guys who wear tuxedoes to work (at least not until we change our name) and my fellow employees need time to adjust when Chick-fil-a takes an item off their menu so the move to embrace AI is not going to be a smooth one. Shit, from a technology standpoint, I'm barely removed from my 87 year old father who used to printout emails, hand them to his secretary and dictate the response for her to type. I mean you've seen the so-called "graphics" on this website.

We know that AI is coming for us but, when people tell you how fast, remember that it's always best to remember that no one ever went broke by taking American resistance and giving the points. 

BLUESKY POST OF THE WEEK

OK here we go with our new friends at Bluesky as we continue to try to distance ourselves from the Nazis and hookers who took over Twitter like it was a Paris nightclub in 1942. 

I actually don't think my man Clue's solution here is extreme at all and should also apply to anyone who uses FaceTime or talks on speaker phone. At a minimum, we should be able to smack the phones out of their hands and/or douse them with the remainder of our lukewarm coffee. 

I know this is a tired Internet subject and I don’t want to be extreme but people who watch videos at full volume in public should be drawn and quartered, tied to the most powerful horses in the kingdom

— Clue Heywood (@clueheywood.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 7:31 PM

   

GOLF ANALYSIS

The new year has not begun but there's really no better time than the present to start not picking Scottie Scheffler to my detriment. It's not really my fault. Even in a twenty man field, I could not in good conscience ask you to bet on a guy to win with +190 odds. If you really believe in him, however, I would condone a parlay with an Akshay Bhatia top five which at least gets you to like +1100.  

 

Place	Player	Odds
Winner	Justin Thomas	+1000
Winner	Sahith Theegala	+2200
Top 5	Akshay Bhatia	+360
Top 5	Nick Dunlap	+450

And here is my stone-cold, lead-pipe, six-man overly hyphenated lock. And yes it includes Scheffler. I may be misguided but I'm not stupid.    

DraftKings Top Six Values

Going to be a big year for the FGR
and Akshay. May need to send him 
some sandwiches so he's up for it.

Scottie Scheffler	$11,900
Justin Thomas	$9,600
Sungjae Im	$7,800
Sahith Theegala	$7,300
Akshay Bhatia	$6,700
Nick Dunlap	$6,400

We've got a lot of new faces and we're missing regulars like Viktor Hovland and Rickie Fowler so the chart below is a little scant but, what it lacks in data, it makes up for with its limited usefulness.  

                             THE FOR SOME REASON IT'S GRAY THIS

                           WEEK HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

I don't know why it's gray and I don't have a secretary to help me fix it. Happy birthday Dubs. Go Terps!

	DK Price	2023	2022	2021	2019	2018
Scottie Scheffler	$11,900	1st	2nd	2nd	DNP	DNP
Patrick Cantlay	$10,200	DNP	DNP	DNP	17th	T5
Ludvig Aberg	$10,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Justin Thomas	$9,600	3rd	5th	T5	T5	T12
Sam Burns	$9,300	16th	12th	T3	DNP	DNP
Russell Henley	$8,800	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Tom Kim	$8,400	DNP	T10	DNP	DNP	DNP
Wyndham Clark	$8,000	19th	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Sungjae Im	$7,800	DNP	T8	DNP	DNP	DNP
Jason Day	$7,500	11th	DNP	DNP	DNP	16th
Sahith Theegala	$7,300	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Robert MacIntyre	$7,100	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Aaron Rai	$6,900	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Cameron Young	$6,800	15th	3rd	DNP	DNP	DNP
Akshay Bhatia	$6,700	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Brian Harman	$6,600	T8	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Keegan Bradley	$6,500	T13	DNP	DNP	DNP	15th
Nick Dunlap	$6,400	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Sepp Straka	$6,100	2nd	T10	DNP	DNP	DNP
Matthieu Pavon	$6,000	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

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