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Fantasy Challenge: Pebble Beach, Omega Dubai picks - Group 1 (3:10)
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GolfChannel.com senior writer Rex Hoggard joins Win McMurry to make his group 1 Fantasy Challenge selections for this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Play alongside our experts by logging onto Golfchannel.com/fantasy today.
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-Hi, and welcome with this GolfChannel.com Extra. I'm Win McMurry,
joined by Rex Hoggard, Senior Writer at GolfChannel.com, and we
are going one on one, mano y mano, doing our
fantasy picks this week. Rex, are you ready for this?
-I think I am. Let's-- Wait, wait. What's that sound?
Oh, it's footsteps 'cause it's me coming from the back
of the pack. Second the last 2 weeks ago, 5th
right now. -Congrats on that. Guess you moved in to
number 1? -I admit [unk] that one. -Alright. -Well, 2
tournaments this week. We have the AT&T Pebble Beach National
Pro-Am as well as the tournament in Dubai on the
European Tour. So, who's hot this week in Pebble? Who
do you like? -You know, I have to go with
Tiger Woods, and it really boils down that there's only
2 numbers that count this week when it comes to
Tiger Woods; 15, that's how many he won by when
the US Open was played at Pebble in 2000; and
24, how many putts he needed on Sunday in Abu
Dhabi. Like both those numbers. The next guy on the
list for me would be Nick Watney. He's a Northern
Cal guy, finished tied for 6 last year at Pebble.
I like the way he's trending. -You like Watney. Okay.
Well, I am with you with Tiger, but I actually
like Phil this week. I'm actually giving him the edge
in the hot category. -Really? -Phil Mickelson, you know, he's,
I think, shaken the rust off. If he wants to
take advantage of the West Coast, he's-- you know, time
is running out, I think this could be his week.
He has a couple of victories out there. So, I'm
going with Phil. -Sounds like wishful thinking. Watch out. -Yeah,
we'll see. Alright. Who do you not like at Pebble?
-You know the one guy I don't like is the
guy that's had great success there. I know everyone is
gonna kind of raise their eyebrows on this, but Dustin
Johnson. He, in 3 starts of the season, not been
a hundred percent. You haven't seen all that much production
out of him. So, I don't know if I pick
him. Hunter Mahan is the other guy. He's flown close
to 35,000 miles in the last 2 weeks. Stay away
from jet lag. -Okay. In group 1, my dislikes at
Pebble are also Dustin Johnson, same reasons that you mentioned.
Also, Ian Poulter, tied for 45th last week. He has
a new baby. Focus, I'm not sure he's quite there.
Patience,-- -I like that. -you know,-- -Good start. Alright. -Yeah.
Not with him. Alright. So, who do you like in
Dubai? -Rory McIlroy, and I know that's a pretty easy
pick. He took all the last week. Spent the week
at The Els Club in Dubai working on his putting,
and he would have won at Abu Dhabi had he
driven it even a little bit better. So, I love
Rory. -Alright. I'm taking Alvaro Quiros. -Really? -The long-hitting Spaniard
for the hot trick. I mean, it's already been an
unusual year. We had, you know, Kyle Stanley come back
and win after his playoff loss, I think, you know.
Is he a hot trick? You know, unusual trends going
on? -Okay. I like the beginning. He's a good pick.
-Yeah. -Right. -I just like. -That one was kind of
tough 'cause you go down the list. Francesco Molinari is
the one that stuck out to me. He's such a
great ball striker, struggles so bad on his putting. He
is the one I would stay away from when it
came to [unk]. -Alright. For number 1, that group in
Dubai, Miguel Angel Jimenez, I'm staying away from him. 48th
last year and he's also not finished better than 42nd
in his last two starts out on the European Tour,
so I'm staying away from him. -It's a good start.
-Alright. Thanks so much, Rex. Good luck with your picks.
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