Last week: Tiger’s win was nice but at 5-1 with 1/6 unit, I only made $833.33. Adam Scott, at 40-1 would have been much nicer, but he couldn’t do anything Sunday like the rest of them. In the head-to-head I got served, picking Monty over Sergio. That was 1/3 unit, or $333.33, lost, which brought the week’s total to plus $533.33. Now, close viewers of this page will note that I changed the betting structure recently. For most of the year we’d been putting 2 units on the H2H and one 1 (1/3, 1/3, 1/3) on the outright. Recently, I’ve cut that in half---from 3 total units to 1.5 (1 on the H2H, 1/6, 1/6, 1/6 on the outright). That means that my bottom line is not what it appears, meaning I’m down less than the $21,036 doing the math the old way. Obviously, it’s not half that figure because I’d have to look at the winning picks and losing picks, H2H and outrights, and of course the odds. In the spirit of the fight to get back on top, though, I’m not going to recalculate. Also, I’m going to refer to the season tally in units from now on, rounding the “,036” situations above. So, the bottom line is last week I finished up half a unit, bringing the season total to -21 units.

At this week’s U.S. Bank Championship of Milwaukee, Take Carlos Franco (100-1), 1/6 unit: Franco’s won this tournament twice, in 1999 when it was known as the Greater Milwaukee Open and in 2004 when it was the U.S. Bank in Milwaukee (did they add “Championship” to the name last year because people thought it was a big, gray, square building on a corner block in Milwaukee and not a golf tournament?). It’s a short course at 6,700+. Franco is a long hitter who hits greens. Putting, which was the strong suit of Ben Crane last year, is a big problem.