The Masters

PGA Golf

April 7-10, 2016

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 April 3, 2016 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Jason Day (AUS)
-Jordan Spieth (USA)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Bubba Watson (USA)
-Rickie Fowler (USA)
-Henrik Stenson (SWE)
-Adam Scott (AUS)
-Dustin Johnson (USA)
-Justin Rose (ENG)
-Patrick Reed (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 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.pga.com/news/masters/2016-masters-field-list

Deadline: First tee time Thursday, April 7 at 6:20 AM FT time

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Zach Johnson
JB Holmes
Danny Willett

Jason Day
Adam Scott
Zach Johnson
Rafael Cabrera-Bello
Hideki Matsuyama

Jordan Spieth
Adam Scott
Zach Johnson
Phil Mickelson
Charl Schwartzel

Rory McIlroy
Bubba Watson
Phil Mickelson
Hideki Matsuyama
Louis Oosthuizen

Jason Day (AUS)
Rickie Fowler (USA)
Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)
Louis Oosthuizen (RSA)
Danny Willett (ENG)

Louis Oosthuizen
Rory McIlroy
Rickie Fowler
Jim Herman
Phil Mickelson

Rory McIlroy
Bubba Watson
Hideki Matsuyama
Brandt Snedeker
J.B. Holmes

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Louis Oosthuizen
Bill Haas
Rafael Cabrera Bello

Jason Day
Adam Scott
Darren Clarke
Mike Weir
Sandy Lyle

Jason Day
Bubba Watson
Louis Oosthuizen
Charl Schwartzel
Brandt Snedeker

Bubba Watson
Rickie Fowler
Phil Mickelson
Louis Oosthuizen
Hideki Matsuyama

Rory McIlroy
Jordan Spieth

Phil Mickelson
Sergio Garcia
Louis Oosthuizen

Day, J
Mcilroy, R
Mickelson, P
Matsuyama, H
Oosthuizen, L

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Phil Mickelson
Brooks Koepka
Branden Grace

Louis Oosthuizen seems to be the flavor for this tournament, much like Fowler was last year

Is it too late, I keep meaning to take part and always forget due to the time differences Aust and the US.

If it's not here are my 5

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Brandt Snedeker
Branden Grace
Hideki Matsuyama

You're perfectly fine - I like being lenient with the deadline in comps like this since they're one-offs

So close and yet so far away. I thought I might win this after 3 rounds but Danny Willett's storming finish does me in :-(

I can't find the Results?

Had a paper due yesterday and a presentation tomorrow - aiming to get them finished up tomorrow night

No problem, I just thought that I couldn't find them.

The Masters

PGA Golf

April 7-10, 2014

17 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Danny Willett 70 74 72 67 283 Jordan Spieth 66 74 73 73 286 Lee Westwood 71 75 71 69 286 Paul Casey 69 77 74 67 287 JB Holmes 72 73 74 68 287 Dustin Johnson 73 71 72 71 287 Matthew Fitzpatrick 71 76 74 67 288 Soren Kjeldsen 69 74 74 71 288 Hideki Matsuyama 71 72 72 73 288 Brandt Snedeker 71 72 74 72 289 Justin Rose 69 77 73 70 289 Jason Day 72 73 71 73 289 Rory McIlroy 70 71 77 71 289 Brandt Snedeker 71 72 74 72 289

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 wwe84 1145 2 Howie72 1151 3 chogobad 1152 4 LeoDaVinci 1153 5 paper_aero 1157 6 PaulE 1158 7 Sypher 1162 8 yoyoandcigs 1165 9 Dizart 1166 10 ElfTwinkle 1168 10 illiniman14 1168 12 N-Bomb 1170 13 George95 1178 14 gtho4 1181 15 terraorca 1188 16 srini701 1191 17 ozzz2002 1210

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wwe84 and Howie72 were the only tippers bold enough to take Danny Willett, who only had 1 previous top-10 finish in a major at last year’s British Open. That pick propelled them to the top, and wwe84’s pick of now-favorite Jordan Spieth put him over the top. Despite Spieth’s collapse, he held on to a 6-stroke win and picked up the first gold of the 2016 golf season. Congratulations! The battle for the rest of the podium between Howie72, chogobad, and LeoDaVinci all came down to their top picks. Howie72 picked the winner, and although he was brought down by Louis Oosthuizen’s 3-over, Willett’s 5-under kept him one stroke ahead to take silver. chogobad would have been the favorite for second place until Spieth’s collapse, but held on to go exactly even between his four golfers for third place. Finally, LeoDaVinci needed JB Holmes to make a big last-round run, and while he shot a four-under on Sunday, it wasn’t enough to make up the difference for Rory McIlroy’s Sunday woes, and he took fourth. Two weeks ago, Danny Willett wasn’t sure if he’d play at the Masters, with his son’s due date on April 10 – the day scheduled for the final round at the Masters. His son was born early, and Willett became the last golfer to arrive in Augusta. Four rounds later, he became the last golfer left at Augusta, as he delivered a 5-under tournament for a 2-shot win. The first 63 holes of the tournament were all Jordan Spieth. The young phenom led nearly from the word go with an opening round 66, but gave 2 strokes back on a windy Friday and kept a 1-stroke lead on Rory McIlroy. Up by 4 strokes on the field going into #17 on Saturday, he ended the round with a bogey and double bogey to fall to within a stroke of Smylie Kaufman. By the end of the front 9 on Sunday, he lead ballooned to 5 strokes over Willett, when it all came crashing down. Bogeys on 10 and 11 left him 2 shots up after a Willett birdie, followed by 2 shots into the water on 12, leaving him a quadruple bogey and suddenly 3 strokes back. He fought back with 2 birdies over 3 holes, but could never challenge Willett’s 5-under when he entered the clubhouse. Kaufman had a worse Sunday, being paired with Spieth in the final group on Sunday. He started with a birdie on #2, but then finished the front 9 at 3-over, and filled the back 9 with 5 bogeys, a double bogey, and only one birdie to temper them, as he finished tied for 29th at 7-over. Willett became only the 2nd Englishman to win the Masters, preceded only by Nick Faldo in 1996. Not only was April 10 the day his son was due to be born, but was also his wife’s birthday, and she described his win as the “best birthday present ever.” The All-Not Taken Team included: Lee Westwood, Paul Casey, Matthew Fitzpatrick, and Soren Kjeldsen, who together put up a score of 1149, which would’ve been good enough for second in our comp. And with that we come to the end of the 2016 Masters, and look forward to the U.S. Open starting on June 14 at Oakmont.

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