TOUGH LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL GOLFER ..... HAVING TO LIVE ON $4M PER YEAR AND MARRYING A COWGIRL !

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Leaderboard looks a lot like this ....

-12 Mickelson- Haas
-11 Mahan - Watson
-10 Kim
-9 Vegas

Winner should come from this group of players. Mickelson grew up here in San Diego and has a terrific record on the couse, but almost all of his best rounds came before the major redesign of Torrey Pines which happened almost a decade ago.

I am interested in Hunter Mahan , he grew up in Southern California too although just a little further north and seemed very contended with life in general in his post round interview yesterday. This was key, as he recently married ( a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader) and this appears to suit and has motivated him, for others it can have the reverse effect, at least in the early stage of marriage. Mahan is a very solid round 4 player, one of the best on tour and was ranked inside the top 8 in both 2008 and 2009, last year he changed his approach slightly, putting in huge effort when in contention and less when not, this meant his ranking dropped, but he also cliamed two tour wins for the first time in his young career. He closed with a 65 to win the Phoenix Open and a fine 64 to claim the prestigeous WGC Bridgestone. He also shot a final round 66 here at Torrey Pines last year for 11th place and a 67 on sunday at the Hyundai Tournament in his only previous outing of 2011.

All play will be on the South Course today, where Hunter is 7 under par on the back 9 for his two rounds this week. He missed a few fairways yesterday, but his approach play and especially putting was good, drive for show, putt for dough is the mantra by which we profit and if he can find a little more solidity off the tee today, I expect him to go very close.

Hunter Mahan to win outright 6.0 + ... a little bigger on the exchanges.

Good Luck.