The Masters

PGA Golf

April 10-13, 2014

The Rules
1. Everyone will pick 5 golfers.

2. We may have a maximum of 2 golfers from the top 10 of world rankings as of March 30, 2014 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Tiger Woods (USA)
-Adam Scott (AUS)
-Henrik Stenson (SWE)
-Jason Day (AUS)
-Phil Mickelson (USA)
-Justin Rose (ENG)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Sergio Garcia (ESP)
-Zach Johnson (USA)
-Dustin Johnson (USA)
-Matt Kuchar (USA)

Retrieved from: http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/rankings/default.sps

3. The lowest 4 total scores from each tipper’s fivesome will be added together to make the final score, and the lowest total score wins.

4. If one of your golfers fails to make the cut, his score from the first two rounds will be doubled to account for his final two rounds.
-A golfer must finish the first two rounds in order for his score to be counted towards the total

Tiebreaker
The lowest score from each tipper’s fifth golfer will serve as the tiebreaker. Should those be the same, it will go to the fourth-highest score and so on.

Sign in with your teams below, and good luck!

The final list of participants can be found at:
http://www.masters.com/en_US/players/invitees_2014.html

Deadline: midnight Wednesday April 9 FT time with a grace period of a few hours

Adam Scott
Zach Johnson
Graeme McDowell
Steve Stricker
Bubba Watson

Tiger Woods will officially miss the Masters - this has been updated in the original post and now the top 10 will include #11 Matt Kuchar. Since this doesn't affect wwe84's team we shouldn't have any problems.

Jason Day
Zach Johnson
Bubba Watson
Jason Dufner
Charl Schwartzel

Rory McIlroy
Jason Day
Charl Schwartzel
Jordan Spieth
Graeme McDowell

Dustin Johnson
Keegan Bradley
Rory McIlroy
Bubba Watson
Sergio Garcia

Adam Scott
Jason Day
Sandy Lyle
Vijay Singh
Trevor Immelman

Jason Day
Sergio Garcia
Bubba Watson (I keep picking this guy just for his name!!!!)
Hideki Matsuyama
K J Choi

Mcilroy, R
Scott, A
Watson, B
Schwartzel, C
Snedeker, B

Adam Scott
Zach Johnson
Bubba Watson
Ian Poulter
Keegan Bradley

Rory McIlroy
Zach Johnson
Ian Poulter
Charl Schwartzel
Harris English

Phil Mickelson
Adam Scott
Charl Schwartzel
Lee Westwood
Luke Donald

Adam Scott
Matt Kuchar
Lee Westwood
Patrick Reed
Bill Haas

Adam Scott
Jason Day
Lee Westwood
Angel Cabrera
Jordan Spieth

Adam Scott
Dustin Johnson
Lee Westwood
Brandt Snedeker
Bubba Watson

Unfortunately since it was past the grace period and several groups had already teed off by the time the picks were entered, George95 won't be eligible this time around. If it had been before the first group actually went off I probably would have allowed it.

The Masters

PGA Golf

April 10-13, 2014

13 of 13 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Bubba Watson 69 68 74 69 280 Jonas Blixt 70 71 71 71 283 Jordan Spieth 71 70 70 72 283 Miguel Jimenez 71 76 66 71 284 Rickie Fowler 71 75 67 73 286 Matt Kuchar 73 71 68 74 286 Lee Westwood 73 71 70 73 287 Bernhard Langer 72 74 73 69 288 Jimmy Walker 70 72 76 70 288 Rory McIlroy 71 77 71 69 288 John Senden 72 68 75 73 288 Kevin Stadler 70 73 72 73 288 Thomas Bjorn 73 68 73 74 288 Adam Scott 69 72 76 72 289

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 N-Bomb 1149 2 paper_aero *1152 3 Howie72 *1152 4 LeoDaVinci 1159 4 illiniman14 1159 6 srini701 1162 6 wwe84 1162 8 Dizart 1168 9 ozzz2002 1171 10 BxBarracuda 1172 11 PaulE 1176 12 gtho4 1177 13 Sypher DQ**

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*- paper_aero beat Howie72 on a tiebreaker on their fifth golfers: Charl Schwartzel has a 298 and Patrick Reed had a 304

**- Sypher was disqualified for choosing 3 of the top 10: Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, and Sergio Garcia. He would have finished tied for 8th.

For the second year in a row, the winner of the Masters was not chosen by the winner of this comp, as N-Bomb romped to victory despite not taking the low score of Bubba Watson. However, he did take young phenom Jordan Spieth who finished tied for second. paper_aero and Howie72 tied for second, with paper_aero taking advantage of Bubba – but they were decided by way of their fifth picks, and paper’s fifth Charl Schwartzel scored 6 shots better than Howie’s fifth Patrick Reed. N-Bomb had the strategy of choosing some unexpected golfers for previous majors (looking at Graham DeLaet, Alex Noren, Marcel Siem), but went for 4 big names and a young star this time around and took the gold. Well done! The Masters lost a little potential drama the week before the tournament started, as #1-ranked Tiger Woods withdrew due to back surgery. It looked like there would be no shortage of drama moving into the final day with Watson, Spieth, Jonas Blixt, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Rickie Fowler, and Matt Kuchar all tied for or within 2 of the lead, but ultimately Watson had no real threat in the final holes. Bubba Watson had a little stress early on in the day. He came in tied with Spieth at -5, but watched the youngster birdie #2, Watson bogeyed #3, and while waiting for a birdie putt on #4, watched as Spieth chipped in for a birdie on #4. Three strokes down, he put in the birdie putt and proceeded to birdie 3 of the final 5 holes on the front nine. After a Spieth bogey on #12 and a Watson birdie on #13, he held a 3-stroke lead, and they played even all the way out, giving Bubba his second green jacket in three years. Spieth made an early run, grabbing a 2-stroke lead at -8 by #7. However, consecutive bogeys to finish the front nine and a +1 back nine left him unable to really threaten the lead. Blixt played one of the most consistent rounds on Sunday, earning only 1 bogey and 2 birdies, but due to that lack of movement, stayed at -4 or -5 most of the day and finished at -5 while Bubba was breaking away. Jimenez entered Sunday at -3, but exited the front nine at -1. Despite 4 birdies on the back nine, he finished at -4 and was never a serious threat. Kuchar looked to be making an early move, birdieing #2 and #3, but a double bogey on #4 and a bogey on #9 left him at 3-under, and bogeying the final two holes put him tied for 5th at -2. Fowler found himself out of contention after bogeying #10 and #11 out of the gate on the back nine, sending him to -1, where he would only recover back to -2 tied with Kuchar. The only common thread between the three podium finishers was last year’s Masters champion Adam Scott, who finished at +1. Scott was the most-chosen golfer, with 8/13 choosing him. No one chose Jonas Blixt, Miguel Angel Jimenez or Rickie Fowler, while only N-Bomb and LeoDaVinci chose Jordan Spieth, only Howie72 took Matt Kuchar, and Lee Westwood was only chosen by 3 tippers. Plenty of low scores were available for much of the field. The U.S. Open will be held June 12-15 at Pinehurst No. 2; hope to see you there!

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Scoring:

Very nice work, Illi! And congrats to the three blokes at the top of the table.

Good ol' Jordan Spieth! Time to stop with taking random longshots one feels, seems to be successful.