Preliminary Thoughts on the Mercedes Championships

First, I'd like to say that the writer of the article in the previous post had some really good points about Woods' and Mickelson's 'reasons' for not playing in certain events. Second, I can't wait to see the players who will be playing in this tournament. They are all exciting and I'm especially looking forward to seeing the first time winners play. I hope Brad Faxon does well. I think he had some surgery late in the year last year. Here's a list of everyone I'll be watching: Jason Gore, Brad Faxon, Sergio Garcia, Lucas Glover and Sean O'Hair.

Here's the complete list as PGA Tour's website had it at post time:

Stuart Appleby	Jason Bohn	Olin Browne
Bart Bryant	Mark Calcavecchia	Michael Campbell
K.J. Choi	Ben Crane	Brad Faxon
Fred Funk	Jim Furyk	Robert Gamez
Sergio Garcia	Lucas Glover	Jason Gore
Justin Leonard	Peter Lonard	Sean O'Hair
Geoff Ogilvy	Kenny Perry	Tim Petrovic
Carl Pettersson	Ted Purdy	Wes Short, Jr.
Vijay Singh	Heath Slocum	Vaughn Taylor
David Toms

With this list of top players, I doubt I'll find a second to think of Mickelson or Woods this week.