Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 14-17, 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 July 3, 2016 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

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

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/Players

Deadline: 11:35 PM Wednesday July 13 FT time with no grace period (exact first tee time)

Jason Day
Rory McIlroy
Lee Westwood
Justin Rose
Ernie Els

Jason Day
Rory McIlroy
Louis Oosthuizen
Sergio Garcia
Anirban Lahiri

Jason Day
Dustin Johnson
Sergio Garcia
Zach Johnson
Justin Rose

Rory McIlroy
Danny Willett
Paul Dunne
Shane Lowry
Justin Rose

Dustin Johnson
Branden Grace
Sergio Garcia
Louis Oosthuizen
Shane Lowry

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Sergio Garcia
Scott Piercy
Matt Kuchar

Day, J
Mcilroy, R
Rose, J
Garcia, S
Matsuyama, H

Rafael Cabrero-Bella
Jason Day
Nick Cullen
Phil Mickelson
Dustin Johnson

Dustin Johnson
Branden Grace
Lee Westwood
Louis Oosthuizen
Russell Knox

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Justin Rose
Jim Furyk
Sergio Garcia

Dustin Johnson (USA)
Danny Willett (ENG)
Sergio Garcia (ESP)
Andy Sullivan (ENG)
Danny Lee (NZL)

I am aiming for last place

Jason Day
Dustin Johnson
Sergio Garcia
Lee Westwood
Louis Oosthuizen

Jason Day
Jordan Spieth
Sergio Garcia
Graeme McDowell
Chris Wood

Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 14-17, 2016

14 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Henrik Stenson 68 65 68 63 264 Phil Mickelson 63 69 70 65 267 J.B. Holmes 70 70 69 69 278 Steve Stricker 67 75 68 69 279 Rory McIlroy 69 71 73 67 280 Tyrrell Hatton 70 71 71 68 280 Sergio Garcia 68 70 73 69 280 Andrew Johnston 69 69 70 73 281 Dustin Johnson 71 69 72 70 282 Søren Kjeldsen 67 68 75 72 282 Bill Haas 68 70 69 75 282 Andy Sullivan 67 76 71 69 283 Zach Johnson 67 70 75 71 283 Charl Schwartzel 72 66 73 73 284

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 ElfTwinkle 1114 2 ozzz2002 1122 3 yoyoandcigs *1130 4 paper_aero *1130 5 George95 1132 6 wwe84 1135 7 Sypher 1136 7 Howie72 1135 9 srini701 1141 9 illiniman14 1141 11 N-Bomb 1145 12 Dizart 1150 13 irishtinytim 1154 14 PaulE 1157

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*- yoyoandcigs won the tiebreaker as his 5th golfer (Justin Rose - 285) to paper_aero's 5th (Hideki Matsuyama - cut at 150 for a 300).

Two golfers ended way ahead of the rest of the field in this year’s Open Championship, and only one of them (Phil Mickelson) was chosen by two tippers, which means they shared the top two spots. Between them, ElfTwinkle blew out to a tremendous 8-stroke victory. Congratulations! ElfTwinkle shared 3 golfers with ozzz2002, and all of them ended up being in their final foursomes. The gold came down to a Spanish matchup between ElfTwinkle’s Sergio Garcia against ozzz2002’s Rafael-Cabrera Bello. Garcia held a 3-shot lead going into Sunday, and shot 5 strokes better on the final day. ozzz2002 never had any threat of slipping to third. While yoyoandcigs picked the best 5-man team overall, the lack of one very low score kept him from vying for the top of the podium. He and paper_aero tied for third, but paper_aero was surprised by Hideki Matsuyama’s poor first two rounds, and he missed the cut, while yoyoandcigs’ fifth golfer, Justin Rose, but together a solid tournament and ended tied for 22nd, giving him the tiebreaker. Phil Mickelson started off the tournament by shooting for the record books. Nobody has ever shot 62 in any round at a major, and heading into #18 on Thursday he was 8-under par (at a par 71), and found himself with another birdie put on the final hole, but it went just wide and looped out of the hole. On Friday, Henrik Stenson threw himself in the mix by shooting a 65, placing those two in the final grouping on Saturday. The weather on Friday and Saturday turned ridiculous with wind and rain, so scores were a little higher on those days. Stenson took a slight advantage with a 68 to Mickelson’s 70, and took a 1-stroke lead heading into Sunday. Keegan Bradley and Søren Kjeldsen started the day only 3 strokes back of Mickelson, but by the end of Sautrday, Bill Haas was the closest contender 6 strokes back. Sunday was just good old fashioned fun. Mickelson took the lead back over on #1 with a birdie to Stenson’s bogey. Stenson birdied the next 2 holes, earning the lead back again at #3. Mickelson eagled #4, earning a tie after Stenson birdied. They matched the next 3 holes, but Stenson pulled out a birdie on #8 to hold the lead at the turn. Both birdied #10, but Stenson bogeyed #11, leaving another tie at -16. On #14, Stenson finally pulled away, birdieing 3 straight holes and #18 while Mickelson was only able to pull off a birdie on #16, giving Stenson the victory by 3 strokes at -20. The All-Not Taken Team was obviously headlined by Stenson’s 264, and with J.B. Holmes (3rd), Steve Stricker (4th), and Tyrrell Hatton (T-5th), the resulting 1101 score would have easily won this comp – so don’t be scared to go out on a limb! The major season winds up at Baltusrol in New Jersey at the PGA Championship on July 28, and we hope to see you back there!

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Scoring:

Great work, Illi! And congrats to the Elf. 16 shots between first and third is amazing.

Wow, I was so bad I didn't even get on the leaderboard!
Well done to all on the podium and Illiniman for running this comp again.

me too, I didn't make it either, lol


ditto!

Whoops, sorry about that. That's a good reminder to not compile results while also studying.

gtho4 has actually MISSED a comp here!!! WOW! First time in the 10 years I've been around that I am seeing this happen. No wonder he also thinks he should be listed on the leader board somewhere