Twofer Tuesday: Zurich Classic

It's my first attempt at selecting a crew competition for Twofer Tuesday! This week the Tour heads to New Orleans for the Zurich Classic.

In case you want a reminder, this week we have two-guy groups playing two days of fourball and days of alternate shot. After two rounds, the 35 great teams make the cut. It's stroke play, no longer in shape play, and the crew with the lowest rating after seventy two holes wins.

The event is played at TPC Louisiana, a par-seventy two Pete Dye layout that tops out at 7425 yards. The Bermuda tough might be just beneath two inches and the smallish Bermuda veggies (overseeded for this time of year) have a few serious contours. This, introduced to the huge-open fairways, makes this an terrific direction for crew opposition.

The protecting champs are Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy, but why could I go along with the protecting champs? This is Twofer Tuesday! But significantly, for some reason my picks regarded clear to me from the outset, so allow's get all the way down to it.

• My Top10 pick is the team of Henrik Stenson and Graeme McDowell. The fact that these two are Ryder Cup teammates seems a natural pairing -- but so does the pairing of Sergio and Tommy Fleetwood. Why go with Henrik and Graeme? Simply because Graeme -- who is coming off a win just a month ago -- is playing for something. He wants an exemption into the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, and I believe Henrik is on board for that. Two great teammates playing for a common goal that's bigger than the event? I like that pairing.
• And my pick to win is the team of Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown. These two have played together in both of the previous editions of this team play event -- they lost the first in a playoff and had the 54-hole lead last year before fading to T15. I can't help but feel that they're due. And with Kiz coming off the WGC-Match Play win, he's definitely on fire this year.

Again, both teams seem like no-brainers to me. That may be a bad sign, given my record over the last few weeks, but I still like my picks.

If you are interested by who's on whose crew, right here's the web page with the teams. And in case you're gambling myth golf, right here are the pgatour.Com electricity rankings.

GC coverage starts Thursday at 2pm ET. I love team events!