US Open

PGA Golf

June 16-19, 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 June 7, 2016 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Jason Day (AUS)
-Jordan Spieth (USA)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Bubba Watson (USA)
-Rickie Fowler (USA)
-Dustin Johnson (USA)
-Henrik Stenson (SWE)
-Adam Scott (AUS)
-Danny Willett (ENG)
-Justin Rose (ENG)

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.usopen.com/en_US/players/index.html

Deadline: Midnight Wednesday June 15 FT time with a grace period of a few hours

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Branden Grace
JB Holmes
Phil Mickleson

Jason Day
Rory McIlroy
Phil Mickelson
Hideki Matsuyama
Patrick Reed

-Jason Day (AUS)
-Jordan Spieth (USA)
Louis Oosthuizen
Brandt Snedeker
Anirban Lahiri

Jordan Spieth
Dustin Johnson
Hideki Matsuyama
Matt Kuchar
JB Holmes

Jason Day
Rory McIlroy
Matthew Fitzpatrick
Phil Mickelson
Louis Oosthuizen

Jason Day
Jordan Speith
Paul Casey
Hideki Matsuyama
Brandt Snedeker

I really wanted to be brave and pick Garcia but I am too competitive to take that gamble, though I do think he could do well.

Edit: just realised My last was hidden in the top 10, fixed now.

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Webb Simpson
Martin Kaymer
Bill Haas

Jason Day
Dustin Johnson
Patrick Reed
Brandt Snedeker
Branden Grace

Jason Day
Rory McIlroy
Phil Mickelson
Matt Kuchar
Brandt Snedeker

Day, J
Mcilroy, R


Mickelson, P
Matsuyama, H
Kuchar, M

Jason Day (AUS)
Jordan Spieth (USA)
Hideki Matsuyama (JAP)
Brooks Koepka (USA)
Branden Grace (RSA)

Jason Day
Bubba Watson
Matt Kuchar
Brandt Snedeker
Sergio Garcia

Day
Speith
Matsuyama
Schwartzel
Oosthuizen

US Open

PGA Golf

June 16-19, 2016

15 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Dustin Johnson 67 69 71 69 276 Jim Furyk 71 68 74 66 279 Scott Piercy 68 70 72 69 279 Shane Lowry 68 70 65 76 279 Sergio Garcia 68 70 72 70 280 Branden Grace 73 70 66 71 280 Kevin Na 75 68 69 69 281 Jason Dufner 73 71 68 70 282 Jason Day 76 69 66 71 282 Daniel Summerhays 74 65 69 74 282 David Lingmerth 72 69 75 67 283 Brooks Koepka 75 69 72 68 284 Kevin Streelman 69 74 69 72 284 Bryson DeChambeau 71 70 70 74 285

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 Dizart 1134 2 Howie72 1135 3 ElfTwinkle 1142 4 George95 1144 5 wwe84 1145 5 N-Bomb 1145 7 gtho4 1148 8 ozzz2002 1152 9 illiniman14 1153 10 PaulE 1156 11 srini701 1160 12 Sypher 1162 12 paper_aero 1162 14 yoyoandcigs 1168 15 chogobad 1169

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Dizart was only 1 of 2 tippers to take US Open winner Dustin Johnson, and that was enough to put him over the top as the winner of our version of the tournament. Congratulations! Dizart had 2 of his golfers fail to make the cut, and so had to take one of those scores in Patrick Reed. However, with Johnson and Branden Grace, Dizart was able to get 2 of only 6 golfers to finish at even par or better. One stroke behind fell Howie72, who was hurt by Jordan Spieth’s 5-over Sunday, who ended up being his worst golfer. While Howie72’s golfers were more consistent, Dizart got the benefit of the lowest score in the tournament. The next 4 tippers were only split by 3 strokes. ElfTwinkle came home with the bronze by 2 strokes over George95 on the back of Brooks Koepka, while George95’s pick of Bubba Watson dragged him down off the podium. Outside of Dizart, wwe84 was the next-highest tipper to have to use a golfer who missed the cut, with Phil Mickelson missing out by 1 stroke, but Jason Day and Grace kept him near the podium. He tied with N-Bomb, whose South African-heavy team gave him good, but not great, scores. As for the tournament, the end of the first round was strangely reminiscent of what the leaderboard would look like entering the final day. After Thursday, Andrew Landry led the tournament, with Dustin Johnson and Lee Westwood 1 back, and a threesome of Scott Piercy, Shane Lowry, and Sergio Garcia 2 back. Rain on Thursday caused the first 3 rounds to be scrunched up into Friday, Saturday, and some of early Sunday. As play for Round 4 started, Shane Lowry led the field by 4 strokes, and he played with Andrew Landry in the final group. The pressure crushed Landry immediately, and he went 7-over on the front 9. Lowry did not have such a dramatic fall, but did go 3-over on the front 9 while Dustin Johnson, in the group ahead of them, went 1-under. Westwood, playing with Johnson in his group, actually fared worse than Landry, going 8-over in the front 9. Jim Furyk played a solid Sunday but started too far back to make a real threat. Sergio Garcia, who chogobad probably wishes he had taken now, got to within 2 strokes of the lead (but actually 1 stroke... we’ll get to that), but three consecutive bogeys knocked him back to even for the round and tournament. The big controversy of the day came about as Johnson was about to tee off on #12. On #5, Johnson’s ball had moved just as he put his putter behind it, but the official at the time said there was no penalty. On the 12th, an official told him a penalty might be assessed, putting the leaderboard in flux. After Lowry birdied #12, Johnson was either up by 1 stroke or tied with Lowry, but nobody really knew. It ended up being a moot point as Lowry bogeyed 3 straight and Johnson won by 4 strokes... until the USGA eventually decided to assess the penalty and he won by 3 strokes. And now we take a short break until mid-July, when we take a trip across the pond to Royal Troon for the Open Championship.

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