Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 17-20, 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 July 7, 2014 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Adam Scott (AUS)
-Henrik Stenson (SWE)
-Bubba Watson (USA)
-Matt Kuchar (USA)
-Jason Day (AUS)
-Justin Rose (ENG)
-Tiger Woods (USA)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Sergio Garcia (ESP)
-Jordan Spieth (USA)

Retrieved from: http://www.owgr.com/ranking

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 that 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.theopen.com/en/Players/PlayerProfiles.aspx

Deadline: midnight Wednesday July 16 FT time with a grace period of a few hours

1. Henrik Stenson
2. Jordan Spieth
3. Phil Mickelson
4. Hideki Matsuyama
5. Luke Donald

Bubba Watson
Justin Rose
Martin Kaymer
Luke Donald
Zach Johnson

Rory McInroy
Justin Rose
Luke Donald
Phil Mickleson
Jamie Donaldson

Henrik Stenson
Rory McIlroy
Martin Kaymer
Graeme McDowell
Ernie Els

Jordan Speith
Bubba Watson
Martin Kaymer
Brandt Snedeker
Phil Mickleson

Jason Day
Adam Scott
Phil Mickleson
Martin Kaymer
Graeme McDowell

Matt Kuchar
Adam Scott
Graeme McDowell
Martin Kaymer
Zach Johnson

Adam Scott
Rory McIlroy
Luke Donald
Lee Westwood
Martin Kaymer

Henrik Stenson (SWE)
Justin Rose (ENG)
Martin Kaymer (GER)
Jamie Donaldson (WAL)
Mikko Ilonen (FIN)

This time I thought I would pick a team without any from the USA and hopefully a golfer no one else picks....lol

Henrik Stenson
Justin Rose
Chris Wood
Francesco Molinari
Stephen Gallacher

Rose, J
Scott, A
Kaymer, M
Mickelson, P
McDowell, G

Rory McIlroy
Adam Scott
Martin Kaymer
Graeme McDowell
Lee Westwood

Bubba Watson
Adam Scott
KJ Choi
Ernie Els
Lee Westwood

Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 17-20, 2014

15 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Rory McIlroy 66 66 68 71 271 Sergio Garcia 68 70 69 66 273 Rickie Fowler 69 69 68 67 273 Jim Furyk 68 71 71 65 275 Marc Leishman 69 72 70 65 276 Adam Scott 68 73 69 66 276 Charl Schwartzel 71 67 72 67 277 Edoardo Molinari 68 73 68 68 277 Graeme McDowell 74 69 68 67 278 Dustin Johnson 71 65 71 72 279 Phil Mickelson 74 70 71 68 283 Henrik Stenson 72 73 73 69 287 Zach Johnson 71 75 71 71 288 Tiger Woods 69 77 73 75 294

Tipping Comp Standings position strokes -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 N-Bomb 1119 2 paper_aero 1120 3 PaulE 1126 4 LeoDaVinci 1128 5 Sypher 1129 6 Dizart 1132 6 illiniman14 1132 8 BxBarracuda 1133 9 gtho4 1140 10 srini701 1143 11 George95 1156 12 wwe84 1159 13 ozzz2002 1160 14 Howie72 1162

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Three majors are down for the year, and N-Bomb claims his second after nabbing the Masters in April. Congratulations! N-Bomb took the runaway winner Rory McIlroy, and followed him with 2 other golfers below 280 as well. Despite having to carry the weight of cut Lee Westwood, he prevailed by 1 stroke over paper_aero. paper_aero had more consistent golfers than N-Bomb, but they shared Adam Scott and Graeme McDowell, and neither Phil Mickelson nor Justin Rose could make up the huge difference between themselves and McIlroy nor could they pull far enough away from Westwood. PaulE had the most consistent golfers of the bunch, getting 280-280-283-283, but none of his foursome cracked the top 10. He did have the most unique team, however, as 3 of his golfers – Chris Wood, Francesco Molinari, and Stephen Gallacher – were all part of his top 4 scores and were all unique picks. The tournament itself was much like the US Open, as Rory McIlroy (instead of Martin Kaymer) won the tournament wire-to-wire, and provided little late drama with Sergio Garcia chasing behind all of Sunday. He cashed in over $1.6 million himself, and won $171,000 for his dad, who 10 years ago bet that Rory would win the Open Championship within 10 years. McIlroy joins only Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as 3-time major champions before the age of 26. Elsewhere, Howie72’s quest to take a unique golfer paid off with Mikko Ilonen, however his 296 did not help matters as Howie went from first in the US Open to last in the British. In a strange turn of events, of the 4 tippers to take McIlroy, only N-Bomb finished on the podium. Sypher and BxBarracuda were 2 of the others and finished in 5th and 6th, respectively, both dragged down by Luke Donald’s 292. Dizart was the fourth, and he like many of us was allured by Martin Kaymer following his US Open victory, only to have our hopes dashed finishing 25 strokes back of McIlroy. The final major will soon be upon us, as the PGA Championship heads to Valhalla in Louisville, KY to finish out the year on August 7.

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Scoring:

Thanks illini, and congrats to the podium finishers

Here's a free tip for all who want to be on the podium in Golf...wait till I lodge my tips and make sure you DON'T pick any of the same players! All my picks seem to fare badly in every golf major

Yeah, I did that, Srini, and ended up 17 shots behind you!. AND 41 shots behind N-Bomb. I think my team played five rounds...

Many thanks to illiniman for running the comp.
Congratulations to N-bomb & paper_aero on taking the top 2 spots on the podium.
Also, well done to Rory and all the other golfers last week.
Having been at Hoylake on the Thursday and seeing how tough the course was I can't believe that they took it apart like they did.
Those guys play a completely different game of golf to the one I do!

Otherwise we would be picking you in our teams here instead, Paul



A second free tip.....discount the 10 golfers ozzz and I pick then! ....see your podium odds are reducing by the day