My picks for the Mercedes-Benz Championship Tournament.

I love this tournament. It's a restricted field, composed of last year's tournament winners... well most of them. This year, 34 golfers will assemble for the challenge.

Now, working under the new PGATour Fantasy Golf format, I've selected my players.

My "numero uno" player is Jim Furyk. He has a home there, and really understands the elevation changes, the wind changes, and the very subtle greens. This represents the first time in three years I've had Jim on my team.

I've selected Scott Verplank as my second player. He's also new to my lineup. He's not played in the Mercedes-Benz Championship since 2002. However, over the past year, his game has matured and become very solid.

In the number three slot is Charles Howell III. This is his first return to the Mercedes since 2003. However he has routinely come to the islands for the first tournaments, starting with the Sony Open.

I have Mark Calcavecchia on my team for the first time. He's a Mercedes veteran and should add stability to my team. He's played well, finishing T-5 in 2002.

Chad Campbell returns to my team this year. He's got plenty of experience at the Mercedes Championship and I really expect him to finish well this year.

My final active player is always a fan favorite... Fred Funk. He's also my oldest player, shortest driver... Depending upon how points are awarded this year, Fred can be a real asset as he drives the ball straight as an arrow, has an awesome short game, and is an accurate putter.

I've chosen Joe Ogilvie as the highest FedEx point golfer and have selected the final round winner's score as 71.

I believe tomorrow they are opening the leagues and I'll find one to join.

Bet ya' wonder what happened...

Not sure what I did last spring, but long about Masters week, I got locked out of my PGA Tour Fantasy account. No matter what I did, I couldn't get back in... yeah, I requested my password and never received it.

Signing up for a new account wouldn't work, as I wouldn't have my same team... so, I was dead in the water... guess it was time for me to go do some farming.

I'm back... got a new account and I see they're doing things differently this year.

I'm playing the PGA Tour Pick'em Fantasy Game.

This year, we'll be picking an entirely new team for each tournament, selecting one golfer (6 total) from each group of five golfers. I'll then have to select a seventh golfer from the remaining field list and I'll have to predict the winning golfer's final round 18 hole score.

The season starts with the Mercedes-Benz Championship, and I'll select my team tomorrow.

So, I'll be back tomorrow with the low-down on who I'm selecting for the start of the season in Hawaii.