With the early MB2K this year, its time already for the strokes and odds email, and we arent even in September yet. With officially 24 days til we get to myrtle, players are getting in 7AM teetimes (Pic and Schoey), 3:40 post-football draft tee times (Grove and Smith), and no tee-times (Vinch and Riba).  We’ll see how this rush to (and not to) golf affects the players come September 11th. 

Seeing as the strokes were pretty solid last year, and i think most players are playing at that same level this year, I’m going to leave them as is…we can tweek the first night there, over some firehouse subs and boones farm………….

Defending and lone MB2K 3-time champion Greg “No Job” Picarello - 0 strokes - The streak will most likely continue, as Pic may be doing some contracting work, but should have no full time job to speak of.  Pic has been hitting the ball quite well as of late (79 at Mountain View) and will be looking to become back to back champion.  3/1 odds on a repeat

2-time MB2K champion Neil “Allergic to Sand” Schoenberg - 0 strokes - Its been 4 years since Schoey won at Myrtle and has yet to break the 85 he shot at Mountain View last week down there.  Has been hitting driver decently most rounds and should be interesting to see if that results in a strong showing this year.  5/1

MB2K Champion Robert “9 holes” Smith III - 12 strokes - Bob has made a push for the championship this year with extra golf in the summer. It should be interesting to see if this pays off.  His recent string of sub 100’s (mid 80’s with strokes) would put him in contention this year.  5/1

MB2K Champion Raymond “Abraham producer” Grove - 7 strokes - With all thats going on for Grove this year, its been tough for him to get out on the course, and so consistency could be a factor in Myrtle.  But since this isnt a grover invatational at least a last place finish is very unlikely. 6/1

BPTHWAM Pete “FBI” Vinch - 12 strokes - Not sure if Pete has been golfing lately, but the best player to have never won at myrtle is now attending his 8th championship and looking for his first win. He was in position last year but couldnt come through in the final round.  13/2

Mike “Just for fun” Riba - 15 strokes - Riba is gracing us with his presence again this year and we’re all better people for it.  Last year his final round 102 was so close to breaking 100 so we are all pulling for a sub 100 round this year.  10/1

With 50 days left, all things are right with the world as Pic is jobless. In other news, Smith is actually trying to improve at golf, Grove misses golf, Schoey might actually play golf before Myrtle with mega-vacation time in August and Early September, Riba is riding motorcycles and Pete is simply Pete.

Here’s the courses we will be playing at MB2K8

Thursday - Arrowhead Country Club – Arrowhead has become the new Wizard with MB2K visiting here for the final round of MB2K6 and the 2^nd to last round of last years event.  MB2K6 saw an avg adjusted score of 90.3, while MB2K7 saw the average drop to 83.7. You know what that means – we’re all shooting 70’s this year sons!

Friday – True Blue – Don’t know much about True Blue. Not sure why a golf course would name itself after a Madonna song. Do you think Madonna had a Kaballa dream about A Rod 20 years ago and named a song after his lips? Strange world. Anyways, True Blue from the whites is 6375, so we’ll have our work cut out for us on day 2 after we shoot 70’s day 1. 

Saturday – Caledonia Golf and Fish Club – Bring your rod Smith (ghey), cause when you quit after 9 on round 3 this year, you won’t have the Stillerz, but you can get your fish on.  Caledonia is a top 100 USA course, as noted by Golf Digest. A par 70 with only 3 par 5’s, so scoring might be hard to come by. 

Sunday – The Legends, Moorland – Back in MB2K2, before the tour expansion of ot 6, we played the first of 3 Legends courses; the Moorland course. I don’t remember much about it, but I do know all the Legends courses are hilly, with big greens. So maybe someone’s putter will be the key to a final round MB2K8 Championship. 

Odds at the 25 day recap.  

Everyone post how you’re playing…..i just had 3 rounds in the 80’s in idaho..first round was one of the nicest courses ive ever seen, but real real easy…shot 83…..other two rounds were today on an indian reservation….theres a good possibility im cursed by chief limpy limpy…….shot 85 and 88 today……1-17 on birdie putts…..my putting stinks…..the rest of my game was solid though…..