Jeff Palopoli

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the 2012 Farmers Insurance Open

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Humana Challenge

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the 2012 Hyundai Tournament of Champions

The 2012 PGA Tour season is officially upon us, which means Fantasy Golf is back in action. It may be cold wherever you are (it certainly is here in Boston), but the boys are getting ready to tee it up in sunny, warm Hawaii for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.   read more »

Join NEGM’s Fantasy Golf League in 2012

Throughout the 2011 PGA TOUR season I regularly provided my predictions and analysis for fellow Fantasy Golf fanatics. Sometimes I fared quite well, others not so much. Picking winners isn’t as easy as you would think, as you are picking players out of a field of 150 a   read more »

Fantasy Golf 2011 Wrap Up

Just like the FedEx Cup Playoffs, Yahoo!’s Fantasy Golf 2011 season came to an end at the TOUR Championship. The finale didn’t disappoint either with two of golf’s brightest young stars, Hunter Mahan and Bill Haas dueling it out in an exciting three hole playoff   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the TOUR Championship

Check out my picks for the final round of the FedEx Cup Playoffs!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the BMW Championship

My picks for the BMW Championship, the 3rd Playoffs event!   read more »

Palopoli's Picks - September 2011

The fourth and final major of the year gets underway on August 11th at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The club was founded in 1898 and has some serious history, as it was the home club of the legendary Bobby Jones. It is also one of only five clubs in the country to have hosted   read more »

Keegan Bradley throws out first pitch at Fenway Park (Video)

Video of Keegan Bradley's first pitch at Fenway Park   read more »

Fantsy Golf Picks for the Deutsche Bank Championship

Check out my picks for this week's stop at the TPC Boston!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for The Barclays

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Fantasy Golf PIcks for the Wyndham Championship

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PGA Champion Keegan Bradley shows he has no quit in him

After a disastrous triple bogey on the par 3 15th hole most guys would let the wheels completely fall off and stumble their way in to the clubhouse. 25 year old Keegan Bradley on the other hand dug deep, real deep, and went on to a   read more »

Palopoli's Picks - August 2011

The fourth and final major of the year gets underway on August 11th at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The club was founded in 1898 and has some serious history, as it was the home club of the legendary Bobby Jones.    read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the WGC Bridgestone Invitational

Check out my picks for this week's WGC event!   read more »

Despite illness Charley Hoffman looking forward to defending Deutsche Bank Championship title

Charley Hoffman is excited to return to Boston to defend his title.   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Greenbrier Classic

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the RBC Canadian Open

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Shhhhh I've gone private - The Harmon Golf Club

The Harmon Golf Club is a 9-hole private club that also has one of the most amazing practice facilities I've ever seen.   read more »

Palopoli's Picks: The British Open

The 2011 British Open gets under way on July 13th at the Royal St. George’s Golf Club. The last time the Open Championship was held at this venue, back in 2003, a virtually unknown Ben Curtis took home the Claret Jug by shooting a final round 69, and was also aided by   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the John Deere Classic

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Travelers Championship

The TOUR makes it's way up to New England this week! Check out my picks for the Travelers Championship.   read more »

Are we entering the “Rory Era”?

U.S. Opens are supposed to be hard right? Red numbers are supposed to be at a premium, with the course always set up to be the truest test of golf.   read more »

Palopoli's Picks: The US Open

The second major of the year gets underway on June 16th at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. This will be the third time the U.S. Open will have been played at Congressional, the last being in 1997 when a young, fresh faced Ernie Els took home his second majo   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the FedEx St. Jude Classic

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Product Review: Ogio Helios stand bag

The Ogio Helios bag is one of the lightest in the market. Check out my review of it!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the HP Byron Nelson Championship

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

The TOUR heads back to Texas this week for the Crowne Plaza Invitational. Check out my picks!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for The PLAYERS Championship

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Wells Fargo Championship

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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Fantasy Golf Picks for The Heritage

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Kevin Na's "Tin Cup" Impersonation (Video)

Kevin Na recorded a 16 on the par 4 9th hole on Thursday at the Valero Texas Open.   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Valero Texas Open

Check out my picks for this week's Valero Texas Open!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for The Shell Houston Open

Check out my picks for this week's Shell Houston Open!   read more »

Maybe Tiger and Spencer Levin can get a group rate on anger management classes

Saturday’s round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational featured a lot of great shots by players like Martin Laird, Rickie Fowler, and Bubba Watson. The camera’s also captured some not so great moments by Tiger Woods and Spencer Levin.   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Arnold Palmer Invitational

Check out my picks for this week's tournament at Bay Hill!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Transitions Championship

Check out my picks for this week's Transitions Championship!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the WGC Cadillac Championship

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Fantasy Golf Picks for The Honda Classic

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Mayakoba Golf Classic

Check out my Fantasy Golf picks for this week's Mayakoba Golf Classic!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

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Fantasy Golf Picks for the Waste Management Phoenix Open

Check out my picks for this week's tournament in the nice warm desert of Arizona!   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for The Farmers Insurance Open

Tiger makes his return this week! Check out my picks for this week's tournament at Torrey Pines.   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Bob Hope Classic

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Fantasy Golf Picks for The Sony Open

Check out my picks for this week's Sony Open.   read more »

Fantasy Golf Picks for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions

I'll be making my picks here on myNEGM each week, and they will be centered around the Yahoo! Fantasy Golf league format with 2 players from an "A" list, 4 players from a "B" list, and 2 players from a "C" list. You can only start 4 players for each round.   read more »

What I'm looking forward to on the PGA Tour in 2011

With all the snow we got nailed with during the holidays in the northeast, and the cabin fever that came along with it, I'm dying to hit the links again. Santa brought me a new 3-wood (Taylor Made SuperFast), and new set of "spikes"... I say that in quotes because I grabbed a pair of   read more »

2012 Ryder Cup Captains all but confirmed

In the past few days reports have been surfacing of who in all liklihood the US and European Ryder Cup Captains will be.   read more »

Should cell phones be allowed in to PGA Tour events?

As you may have already heard, cell phones may be prevalent at PGA Tour events next year. The PGA Tour did a trial run of this at this year's Wyndham Championship and it seemed to have gone off without any incidents. But one tournament won't give any insight in to the headaches this could cause.   read more »

Walk (again) first – Then golf

A family member's drive to first be able to walk again, then get back out on the links to play the game he loves.   read more »

The Kodak Challenge - Will Troy Merritt hang on?

A week from this upcoming Sunday the Kodak Challenge will wrap up as the 2011 PGA Tour season comes to an end as well. We've seen some of the most exciting finishes all year in these last few Fall Series events.   read more »

New England TOUR players on the bubble

As both the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour wind down their respective seasons in the next few weeks, many players find themselves fighting for position on the money list.   read more »

Rocco Mediate wins Frys.com Open with 4 hole-out eagles

Earlier today Rocco Mediate ended an eight year winless drought on the PGA Tour with a 1-stroke victory over Bo Van Pelt to win the Frys.com Open.   read more »

David Duval and Nike Golf part ways

Former #1 in the world and 13-time PGA Tour winner David Duval has parted ways with Nike after a 10 year relationship. He will no longer be wearing their clothing or playing their clubs. He's decided to go it alone and will be doing some heavy testing in the off season to see what will be in his bag   read more »

Bridgestone's B330S - My new ball of choice

Let me preface this by saying that by no means am I a "gear freak" or know about all of the ins and outs of golf ball manufacturing and technology. But I know enough to feel the difference between a Pinnacle and an NXT and I'd even go as far to say that I can tell a difference between an NXT Tour an   read more »

The Roller Coaster That is Dustin Johnson

In a year where much of the golfing world news took place OFF of the course, and without the world number one player for much of the year the PGA Tour needed someone to step up to keep spectator interest.   read more »

Wounded Warrior golf tournament to benefit Quality of Life Plus

Just one more reason why the powers of social networking are so great, I recently became connected with the Wounded Warrior Golf program through Twitter and have been able to learn more about the great work they do.   read more »

Zach Johnson makes his case for a Ryder Cup selection

You have to know scoring conditions are good when your threesome group shoots a combined -23. Think about that for a second... -23 from 3 players! The players that made up that ridiculous score were Jason Day (63), Zach Johnson (63), and Ryan Palmer (64)   read more »

Photo Gallery – Deutsche Bank Red Sox Legends Pro-Am Day

For all of us New England golf nuts the Deutsche Bank Championship is long awaited and has become a Labor Day tradition in the area.   read more »

Arjun Atwal - All done with Monday Qualifiers

Yesterday Arjun Atwal became the first Indian-born player to ever win a tournament on the PGA Tour. He also became the first Monday qualifier to win a tournament in 24 years, when in 1986 Fred Wadworth won the Southern Open.   read more »

The 2010 PGA Championship - The Year of the "Bunker"

The 2010 PGA Championship will forever be remembered as "the year of the 'bunker'". In 10 years when people look back at this Championship, they won't remember that it was Martin Kaymer's first major (let alone first PGA win). They won't remember that Tiger came in 28th place, or Nick Watney's colos   read more »

Club review: Scratch Golf's 1018 Forged 56-degree wedge

It was a long time coming, but this past Friday I received my long awaited new sand wedge from Scratch Golf. Due to some supply issues overseas, my order (among with many others) were delayed quite a bit. But I stayed patient and the guys at Scratch were more than apologetic, as well as VERY respons   read more »

Course Review: Glen Ellen CC - Millis, MA

Glen Ellen Country Club, or "The Glen" as it is affectionately called by it's regulars, is located in Millis, MA about 30 minutes outside of Boston. Where I'm located in Massachusetts there aren't a lot of great public courses within a short drive. To play anything of good quality I need to drive 40   read more »

Course Review: The Shattuck - Jaffrey, NH

I normally wouldn't drive 2 hours to the middle of nowhere to go play golf on a weekday, but my buddy had a voucher for a free foursome at The Shattuck up in Jaffrey, NH. I had heard about The Shattuck for years, and in fact my college team played a tournament there (that I didn't play in), and hear   read more »

Q&A with Nationwide Tour Player Justin Peters (Pembroke, MA)

Earlier this year I interviewed Justin Peters before he had even tee'd it up in a Nationwide event this year. He was basically waiting for the reshuffle and his chance to play. Justin's journey to this point in his career has been a long one, but just like his ringtone "Don't stop believing", he has   read more »

Everybody Loves Bubba

Yesterday Bubba Watson took home his long awaited first victory on the PGA Tour. He's been close many times, but was yet to seal the deal. Watson took a lot of slack from the media and bloggers earlier in the year when he all but had the Bob Hope in his back pocked but made a questionable layup call   read more »

Teeing it up with The Jimmy Fund Golf Program

Ask any New Englander about The Jimmy Fund and they’ll most likely mention the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and its connection to the Boston Red Sox and the Pan Mass Challenge. Often overlooked is the strong connection the Jimmy Fund has to the golfing community through its Jimmy Fund Golf Pr   read more »

Interview with Scratch Golf CEO - Ari Techner

If you're a golf club nut, chances are you've heard of Scratch Golf. They've been making the highest quality custom wedges and irons since 2003 and this past year made news with Ryan Moore becoming a part owner of the company, along with longtime club making legend Don White joining the Scratch fami   read more »

Getting back to par - Q&A with Ken Green

In June of 2009 Ken Green's life was turned upside down. While travelling to a Champions Tour event in his RV, the right front tire blew, causing the vehicle to veer down a steep embankment and hit a tree. The crash killed his brother, girlfriend, and precious dog, all who were travelling with Green   read more »

Is Tiger a changed man? I'll reserve judgement for a while longer

Earlier today Tiger Woods once again faced a room full of journalists, although in a much different setting than when he made his first public appearance back on February 19th. The main difference? He wasn't just reading a statement, but would field questions.   read more »

Q&A with Tour Rookie and Q-school medalist Troy Merritt

Troy Merritt has come a long way from his walk-on days at both Winona State (Div. II) and Boise State. While at Boise State Merritt collected nine wins over two years, including a record setting five straight in his senior year, where he led all of Div. I with a 69.53 scoring average. He took that m   read more »

Ken Green denied his major medical exemption by the Tour

Earlier this week Ken Green announced on his blog that the major medical exemption he'd applied for has finally been turned down by the Tour. "I’m disgusted with the Tour for their decision on this issue. I’m just numb right now." Green said. Making a bad week even worse,    read more »

Johnny Miller continues to sit on his high horse from the 18th tower

While watching NBC's coverage during the final round of the Transitions Championship I was again put off by a comment from our good friend Johnny Miller. I'm not sure if any of you caught this but it certainly stuck out to me and was completely uncalled for.   read more »

New Groove Rule - Much Ado About Nothing? Scores Say Yes

Much has been made about the new groove rule in effect this year. Just when the story seems to be dying down more fuel gets added to the fire (see Hunter Mahan's win last week). From discussing it with some players as well as reading the numerous articles that have been done on it, playing with the   read more »

Interview with Justin Peters - Inaugural Big Break Champion and Current Nationwide Tour Player

Some of you may recognize Justin Peters from the very first season of The Big Break challenge on The Golf Channel in 2003. Justin was the inaugural champion and ever since has been hard at work on his game to try and get to that next level. I actually first met Justin almost 18 years ago while playi   read more »

How can the TV networks make golf coverage more engaging?

I recently read an article by Frazier Moore (AP Television writer) about how golf television coverage can survive in Tiger's absence. He cited CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus saying "We’re all looking forward to him coming back, but until then we’re doing perfectly fine".   read more »

Interview with Golf Channel's Big Break champion Mike Perez

For fans of the Golf Channel's Big Break, Mike Perez needs no introduction. This was my first season really watching the show, and my first thought during the premiere was, "Who do you have to know to get on this show?" There was former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's son (Andrew), famous soap o   read more »

Q&A with PGA Tour hopeful Matthew Lombardo

There are certainly no shortage of guys hoping to make their way on to the PGA Tour. But I believe few have as an interesting back story as Matthew Lombardo. I recently "met" Matthew through Twitter and was instantly intrigued with his background and journey thus far in the golf world.   read more »

Tom Watson is a 60 year old stud

Last July at the 2009 British Open, Tom Watson reminded us that age is just a number. He came within just one misjudged club selection of raising the Claret Jug. Watson was thinking about hitting a 9-iron from the middle of the fairway, but then settled on an 8-iron. The ball soared right   read more »

Ryder Cup Captain Pavin chooses his assistants

Yesterday Ryder Cup Captain, Cory Pavin, announced the selections for his assistant captains for the 2010 Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup will be played October 1-3 in Wales. For the first time in a while, the U.S. team is the defending champion after beating Europe in 2008 at Valhalla.   read more »

Observations from the Farmers Insurance Open

While following the Farmers Insurance Open this past week and weekend I couldn't help but notice a few things I felt the need to point out.   read more »

Is Phil Mickelson Cheating?

It seems our good friend Phil, or as some are calling him this week, "The Tour Savior" is ruffling some feathers already after only being back for a total of 18 holes. Phil has decided to put in to play a Ping wedge that falls through the loophole of the new groove rule that was put in to effect thi   read more »

Catching up with PGA Tour Rookie Chris Wilson

Throughout the season I'll be checking in with PGA Tour rookie Chris Wilson as he gives us an inside look as to what tour life is like for a rookie. I first did an interview with Chris via Twitter about a month ago after he earned his card, and now that he has a couple of tournaments   read more »

Further Heartbreak for New England's Ken Green

Yesterday Ken Green announced on his blog that his youngest son, Hunter, had passed away in his dorm room at SMU. Apparently Hunter had actually died the week prior but Green’s ex-wife had kept the news from him until just yesterday. As a parent, I can’t imagine the anger and hurt h   read more »

A John Daly Reality Show Is What Golf Really Needs Right Now

I recently read a blog post basically stating that following around a has-been like John Daly, who isn’t the most perfect role model for the sport, is not what golf needs right now. I have to completely disagree with that blogger. I on the other hand think it’s exactly what golf nee   read more »

Olde Scotland Links (Bridgewater, MA)

Growing up in Bridgewater, MA I've had the opportunity to play Olde Scotland a number of times.  Olde Scotland is a well cared for municipal course where you can typically count on soft fairways, tricky pin placements, large undulating greens and lots of wind.   read more »

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