Calling my shot at Accenture Match Play....

Well, my predictions from two days ago were COMPLETELY off base, and we've determined that my predictive capabilities are COMPLETELY worthless, so let's go out on a limb and make MORE predictions, and observations....what the heck...

The morning coverage on the Golf Channel is winding down, and NBC is just starting up....

Observation #1: Are these guys WILDER than usual??? I can't recall another tournament where I've seen SO many shots being made from the cactus patches!!! I cannot RECALL hearing "FORE" yelled so often at a PGA Tournament!!! (Didja also see that marshal that scampered out into the cholla patch to retrieve Tiger's errant shot, and got a BIG-OL' cactus just STUCK to his hand??? MAN that was painful to watch!!! Both Tiger's SHOT, AND the volunteer picking the cactus spines out of his paw....OUCH!!!)

Observation #2: Nick Faldo certainly CAN be condescending, can't he??? Some of the comments that eminate from that man's mouth...wow.....(Someone please smack that guy upside the head with the sensitivity-training manual - Fanny's ponytail does NOT look like a pineapple up on top of her head, and you SHOULDN'T mock her higher-pitched voice - just cuz she was your caddy for a long time....geez...)

Observation #3: Kelly Tilghman almost sounded disappointed during the handoff to NBC, almost like she didn't want to stop covering the tournament...I think she's done a really good job moving from the role of staged commentator to doing real-time coverage...but Nick, Nick, NICK!!!...

Observation #4: I just LOVE listening in on Henrik Stenson and Fanny Sunesson talking amongst themselves in Swedish...even though I don't have a CLUE what they're talking about...it just SOUNDS cool....

Prediction #1: Geoff Ogilvy and Henrik Stenson will meet in the final match, and Stenson will win it....{he said, crawling out on that branch, saw in hand....}

*Follow-up: Was out running errands this afternoon, listening to XM146 - PGA Tour Network, and the announcers were blathering on about Geoff Ogilvy's match-play streak, and how unbeatable he is at this venue, blah, blah, blah....

Now Geoff's a cool guy, AND one of my favorite PGA Tour golfers, but Henrik Stenson's got ice-water in his veins this week, a RED-HOT putter, just dropping LAWN-DARTS in and around the pins, and I'm predicting that Stenson breaks Ogilvy's winning streak tomorrow...{gulp}