The Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 19-22, 2018

Howie72 won this in 2017. wwe84 and srini701 won the Masters and the US Open comps this year.

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 12, 2018 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

1. Dustin Johnson
2. Justin Thomas
3. Justin Rose
4. Brooks Koepka
5. Jon Rahm
6. Jordan Spieth
7. Rickie Fowler
8. Rory McIlroy
9. Jason Day
10. Tommy Fleetwood

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:
https://www.theopen.com/Players

Deadline: First tee time, roughly 11:25 PM July 19 FT time (6:25 AM local)

Brooks Koepka
Tommy Fleetwood
Charles Howell III
Martin Kaymer
Henrik Stenson

Rickie Fowler
Tommy Fleetwood
Matt Kuchar
Patrick Reed
Matthew Fitzpatrick

Johnson, Dustin
Fowler, R
Woods, T
Stenson, H
Garcia, S

Rickie Fowler
Tommy Fleetwood
Sergio Garcia
Marc Leishmann
Eddie Pepperell

Justin Rose
Tommy Fleetwood
Henrik Stenson
Branden Grace
Marc Leishman

Justin Rose
Jason Day
Sergio Garcia
Marc Leishman
Phil Mickleson

Dustin Johnson
Justin Rose
Alex Noren
Henrik Stenson
Paul Casey

Tommy Fleetwood (ENG)
Jon Rahm (ESP)
Ryan Fox (NZL)
Russell Knox (SCO)
Marc Leishmann (AUS)

Thought I would try a non-American group this time

Rickie Fowler
Tommy Fleetwood
Francesco Molinari
Tiger Woods
Patrick Reed

Dustin Johnson
Jordan Spieth
Keegan Bradley
Sergio Garcia
Louis Oosthuizen

and we have teed off

The Open

British Open Golf

July 19-22, 2018

11 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score F Molinari 70 72 65 69 276 K Kisner 66 70 68 74 278 R McIlroy 69 69 70 70 278 J Rose 72 73 64 69 278 X Schauffele 71 66 67 74 278 K Chappell 70 69 67 73 279 E Pepperell 71 70 71 67 279 T Woods 71 71 66 71 279 T Finau 67 71 71 71 280 M Kuchar 70 68 70 72 280 J Spieth 72 67 65 76 280

Tipping Comp Standings  position         points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 George95 1120 2 PaulE 1129 3 ElfTwinkle 1131 4 ozzz2002 1132 5 srini701 1133 6 Dizart 1133 7 N-Bomb 1133 8 paper_aero 1140 9 wwe84 1144 10 Howie72 1148 11 dg_dave 1151

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Italy’s Francesco Molinari emerged from the pack on a thrilling final day at Carnoustie to win the British Open, seeing off the challenges of reigning champion Jordan Spieth and a revived Tiger Woods to win the first major of his career. Molinari produced a bogey-free final round under the most extreme pressure to end eight-under, two strokes clear of the field, and become the first Italian to win a major golf title. It made sense that only one of us here, George95, even had Molinari in our teams here: in ten previous appearances at the world’s oldest major, the Italian had missed four cuts, and only once had he finished inside the top 10 - back in 2013. But George95's faith in Molinari paid off, as he won our comp here by a whopping 9 strokes! He strung together a killer team that also included Tiger Woods and Tommy Fleetwood, and is a runaway winner. PaulE takes home a very very respectable silver, 2 strokes ahead of ElfTwinkle, who held off ozzz2002 by just a single stroke for the bronze. Three others are another stroke behind ozzz2002....that's how close the rest of us were behind George95! The All-Not Taken Team consisted of Kisner, McIlroy ( :confused: ), Schauffele and Chappell, who would have totaled a most impressive 1113 (and won our comp by 7 strokes!) The Next Major on the calendar is The PGA Championships, which will be held between August 9-12 at Bellerive Country Club in Town and Country, Missouri. See you all then!

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