When Hunter Mahan won the Travelers Championship in Hartford yesterday he climbed 70 spots in the FedEx Cup Standings. The only bad part for Mahan is that he trails points leader Tiger Woods by 12,534 points. With winners of each PGA Tournament receiving a minimum of 4,550 points; golfers can only hope they string a run of tournaments together to catch Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods leads the standings with 19,524 points. The next closest competitor is Phil Mickleson with 15,818. Good luck making a comeback Phil. Picking a winner in this thing is not hard at all. For all you Phil supporters out there I am going to lay down a couple of points as to why Tiger will win the first inaugural FedEx Cup.

Tiger Woods has played in only nine tournaments this year achieving over 19,000 points. Phil on the other hand, has played in 14 events and trails Mr.Woods by almost 4,000 points. Are you kidding me? Can you imagine the number of points Tiger would have in 14 events? Just to get my disliking of Vijay Singh out of the way; the Fijian has played in 18 events and only has 15,723 points. Are the standings wrong or something? Vijay has played in double the amount of tourneys and still trails Tiger.

My second point that I would like to make is that Tiger Woods is going to make sure his name his carved on the first ever FedEx Cup trophy. If this is the “new era in golf”, Tiger Woods is going to make damn sure no one ever forgets ”his era”. Finally, my last point comes from a simple thing I like to call common sense. If Tiger is within reach of winning this thing when it comes down to The Tour Championship at the end of season, he will win it. Phil has lost his swing for the time being and Vijay won’t be able to string enough tournaments together. This trophy is Tiger’s to lose.

The only thing that can hold Tiger Woods back from receiving this FedEx package is his lack of playing time now that his daughter has been born. Actually, it won’t be a factor. Tiger will win regardless.