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This Week in Golf - May 27th through May 30thGolf Betting Lines05/24/2010 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - PGA TOUR - CROWNE PLAZA INVITATIONAL AT COLONIAL, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas - Once again, the buzz this week focuses on a possible change atop the world rankings. Phil Mickelson is in the field this week at Colonial and can overtake Tiger Woods for the No. 1 spot in the world with a victory. Mickelson won this title in 2000 and again in 2008, so the possibility of a change is very real. He also had the chance to become No. 1 at the Players Championship, but that didn't happen. Mickelson's pursuit of No. 1 is at the forefront this week, but the defending champion is no slouch in the rankings either. Steve Stricker, No. 4 in the world, defeated Tim Clark, who won the Players Championship a few weeks back, and Steve Marino in a playoff to walk off with the title in 2009. Stricker is scheduled to compete this week, although his last tour event was the Masters. He won the Northern Trust Open earlier this year, but has been out of action since Augusta with a right shoulder injury. This week's field is strong, not just because of Mickelson and Stricker. Angel Cabrera, Paul Casey, Stewart Cink, Clark, John Daly, Lucas Glover, Hunter Mahan, Kenny Perry, Vijay Singh, Henrik Stenson and Y.E. Yang are all scheduled to compete. Jason Day, who won the Byron Nelson on Sunday, is also on tap to appear. It was here seven years ago that Annika Sorenstam became the first woman in 58 years to play in a PGA Tour event. She missed the cut on a sponsors' exemption with rounds of 71-74. Colonial Country Club has hosted this event since the tournament's inception in 1946. No other course has held a U.S. Open, a Tournament Players Championship and an annual PGA Tour event. In 1991, Colonial added the U.S. Women's Open to that unique repertoire. This is the second oldest PGA Tour event still being played at its original site. The Masters at Augusta National is the oldest. The Golf Channel has the action on Thursday and Friday and CBS takes over on the weekend. Next week it's Jack's event, the Memorial. Tiger Woods won last year, but with his neck injury, it's not known if he will be in the field to defend his title. CHAMPIONS TOUR SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, Colorado Golf Club, Denver, Colorado - It's the first major championship on the Champions Tour this week and it's a PGA Tour player who will be defending his title. Michael Allen won last year's Senior PGA Championship at Canterbury Golf Club in Ohio. He has teed it up 10 times in 2010 on the PGA Tour, with his best finish a tie for fifth in late January at the Farmers Insurance Open. However, Allen has missed the cut in five of his last seven starts. Allen has also made four appearances on the Champions Tour this year. He finished third at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai the week before the Farmers Insurance Open. Allen would be one of the favorites this week, but not the No. 1 favorite. That status still belongs to the money leader this year on the Champions Tour, Fred Couples. Couples has three victories this year on the 50-and-over circuit, but hasn't visited the winner's circle since late March at the Cap Cana Championship. In the meantime, Couples took sixth at the Masters and has two top-12s on the Champions Tour. Bernhard Langer, Jay Haas, Loren Roberts and Eduardo Romero will all be in the hunt as well. The first two rounds are on the Golf Channel, then NBC has the final two rounds. Next week is the Principal Charity Classic in Des Moines, Iowa. Mark McNulty won last year's title. EUROPEAN TOUR MADRID MASTERS, Club de Campo, Madrid, Spain - There will be a strong Spanish contingent this week in Madrid, headlined by Sergio Garcia. Garcia will shoot for his fourth European Tour title on home soil, but will be joined in the field by fellow Spaniards Alvaro Quiros and Miguel Angel Jimenez, both winners this year on tour, as well as Rafael Cabrera Bello and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano. The strong homeland group will be trying to take down defending champion Ross McGowan, who will be defending his first title on the European Tour. McGowan fired a 60 on Saturday and had a seven-shot cushion heading into the final round. He won by three at Centro Nacional de Golf, but he will be defending on a different course. Also in the field this week is Luke Donald, who tied for second Sunday at the BMW PGA Championship. He was tied for the lead on the 17th hole, but took a double-bogey. Donald birdied the last to lose by a stroke, but there are Ryder Cup points on the line, so everyone will be looking to cash in on a chance to make Colin Montgomerie's team. The Golf Channel has all four rounds. Next week is the Celtic Manor Wales Open. Jeppe Huldahl won last year's title at the site of this year's Ryder Cup. LPGA TOUR BRASIL CUP 2010, Itanhanga Golf Club, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - This is an unofficial, 36-hole event in Brazil that highlights some of the best players on tour. Last year, Catriona Matthew shot a pair of 69s and won the tournament by five strokes over Kristy McPherson. Both players are in the field starting Saturday. The 2009 event featured 15 players with a $500,000 purse, but this year's championship will have 27 golfers and a $700,000 purse. Rio de Janeiro is the host city of the 2016 Olympics and that year, golf will make its debut. There is no television coverage of this unofficial event. In two weeks, it's the LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield, Illinois. In- Kyung Kim walked off with the title last year when she beat Se Ri Pak by a stroke.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL BETTINGNCAA Football Betting : USC's reward: Top spot in Top 25NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking. No. 1 always seems to fit USC. Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent. Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory. Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3. "We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team." Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time. "Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team." The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points. "I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won." Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State. "There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?" USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll. "It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter." While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls. As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule. But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference. Get the latest 2009 BCS Championship odds at MySportsbook.com. The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road. The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second. The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia. No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday. Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee. Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina. Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson. The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996. South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20. The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24. Get free Sports Betting lines RSS feeds from top rated online sportsbook MySportsbook.com |
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