09/07/2008 - Sandy, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brendon Todd capped off four sparkling rounds of golf with a four-under 67 on Sunday to claim his first Nationwide Tour win at the Utah Championship.
The 23-year-old rookie may have been surprised to see that he won by six shots.
"I didn't look at a single scoreboard all day," said Todd, who went 64-66-65 over the first three rounds at Willow Creek. "I didn't look yesterday either."
Todd finished the tournament at 22-under-par 262, comfortably ahead of a group of six players who tied for second place at 16-under 268. He claimed $99,000 for the win -- vaulting him from 53rd place on the money list all the way to 15th.
And with just five events remaining until the season-ending championship, Todd is in position to earn a PGA Tour card for next season as one of the top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour money list.
"Music to my ears," he said.
Won Joon Lee fired a seven-under 64 to lead the players who shared second place behind Todd at 268. Jeff Klauk (65), Brian Smock (66), Ryan Hietala (66), Kyle Thompson (71) and Marc Leishman (72) rounded out the logjam.
Leishman, playing in the final pairing with Todd, still had a chance to win before making a double-bogey at the 12th hole to fall four shots back.
Todd, who snatched the third-round lead from Leishman on Saturday, made three birdies after that to pull away.
"I sort of loosened up there," Todd said of the 12th.
Although he has missed seven cuts this season, Todd had also shown previous flashes of the good play that guided him to his first win. He posted four top-10 finishes before Sunday's victory and had carded eight sub-70 scores in his last 12 rounds entering this week.
Those numbers are now 12-for-16.
Seems like the kind of run that would have any player monitoring those scoreboards, but not Todd.
"I just feel like for my game it's best if I just get out there and stick to my game and hit my shots and see how many birdies I can make," he said.
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their “supplements” to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this won’t be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a “truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit.” And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. “The plug-necked yahoos on your team,” you can say, “will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.”
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Where’s your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, “I’ll try to type slower for you next time.” Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, don’t just conclude by saying your opponent is a “twerp who drafts like my grandmother.” Say that your opponent is a “sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars.” By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m sure, to reply.
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