Transitions Championship

The tour takes a bit of a breath this week, as the Transitions Championship in Tampa is a little bit of a lower profile event than most around this time of year.  Next week, it's Bay Hill, then Houston (which is an event many top players play because...), which is followed by the Masters.

So, who can we look out for in Tampa?  Vijay Singh and Steve Stricker are probably the favorites.  Veej has been harnessing his spectacled days of late (and, how hard is is to find a picture of Vijay in glasses these days?  It's like they've all been eradicated, was there a scandal I'm not aware of?), and Stricker is always a threat, and he's posted a T4 and T14 here the last two go arounds.  Vijay has won here, BTW, in 2004.

After those two, Harrington is here, and he finished third last week at the WGC, and Ian Poulter is in the mix as well and I love him for 2010, but neither of those Euros has played this course before.  Sergio isn't to be touched right now, and Jim Furyk really isn't playing great yet in 2010.

Retief Goosen (he has won here twice) is the defender and he is joined by past winners Sean O'Hair and KJ Choi (twice).  All three of those guys are good plays this week, though Goosen isn't in form.

Other names of note in the field are up and coming Americans Rickie Fowler, Nick Watney, JB Holmes and Dustin Johnson, of which Watney is the only one with a decent history here.

Most talent
Stricker
Harrington
Poulter
Sergio
Furyk

Course History
Goosen
Choi
O'Hair
Stricker
Vijay

Who's hot?
Vijay
JB Holmes
Harrington
Stricker
Poulter

Who's not?
Sergio
Furyk
Toms
Scott
Glover

My picks
Vijay
Stricker
O'Hair
Choi
Fowler

Cheers,
TFAM