Fantasy Golf: Top Tour picks can guide you to big prizes

Or is the reliability of someone such as Jim Furyk more your style?

Well, now is your chance to play golf captain and win prizes in the process with our fun and free-to-enter online game.

Today the Yorkshire Post launches Fantasy Golf 2010, the online game which gives players the chance to select their favourite golfers from Phil Mickelson to Paul Casey.

Up for grabs is a host of great prizes from our partners at the Nike Golf Academy at Oulton Hall, ranging from weekly awards to a star prize for the person who tops the leaderboard at the end of the season.

You can win:

Weekly prizes: One-hour golf lesson with a PGA professional and a Nike goodie bag – (balls, hat and towel).

Monthly prizes: Four one-hour golf lesson with a PGA professional and a Nike Golf Bag.

Year's prizes: Full set of Nike irons and 10 one-hour golf lessons with a PGA professional.

Plus there is a one-off gift on registration of a 50 per cent discount on an individual lesson, a free basket of balls and a free Custom Fit session worth 50 at Oulton Hall.

The golf lessons will be provided by a head teaching professional at the academy at Oulton Hall, and Nike have also provided prizes, including the chance to win their latest golf clubs, all of which will be custom-fitted for the winner at The Nike Golf Academy.

The Fantasy Golf season runs from the WGC-CA Championship in Florida next month to the season-ending Dubai World Championship in November.

Unlike last year when there was a mid-season break, this year the competition runs right the way through the season and includes the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor.

But before that, there are tournaments on both the European and US PGA tours each week for your team to score points in. If your players are not up to scratch you can transfer them out on a weekly basis.

So you will have to think tactically throughout the season, asking yourself whether Vijay Singh is a sound bet at Sawgrass or Lee Westwood is worth a wager at Wentworth.

Of the Yorkshire players involved, Simon Dyson's elevation up the world rankings following his two wins in 2009, have seen him catapulted into a very competitive Category Six alongside a host of fellow Ryder Cup hopefuls.

Hull's Richard Finch, who returned to form in India last weekend, is joined by Rotherham's Danny Willett in Category Eight.

You can invite friends, family and work colleagues into the competition and set up your own mini-league.

If you are a member of a golf club, why not set up a league within your own clubhouse? Plus, there is also a leaderboard each week charting the best performing golf club from the players registered.

Tinsley Park reigned supreme last year but with nearly 200 golf courses in Yorkshire, how successful will the Sheffield club be in defending their title?

Individually, the man to beat is David Middleton. The Halifax Bradley Hall member pipped close friend and club-mate Mike Holdsworth to the 2009 crown.

So log on now to http://fantasygolf.yorkshirepost.co.uk/ and pick your eight players for the 2010 Fantasy Golf competition ahead of the season opener at the WGC-CA Championship at Doral.