US Open Championship

PGA Golf

June 14-17, 2012

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 3, 2012 in our fivesome. The current top 10 is:

1. Luke Donald (ENG)
2. Rory McIlroy (NLR)
3. Lee Westwood (ENG)
4. Tiger Woods (USA)
5. Bubba Watson (USA)
6. Matt Kuchar (USA)
7. Justin Rose (ENG)
8. Hunter Mahan (USA)
9. Jason Dufner (USA)
10. Martin Kaymer (DEU)

Retrieved from http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/rankings/default.sps

3. The lowest 4 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.

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. Picking the same 5 golfers as another participant will result in an absolute tie.

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 FT time
there's a period of grace of a couple of hours

1. Rory McIlroy
2. Louis Oosthuizen
3. Justin Rose
4. Vijay Singh
5. Ernie Els

1. Tiger Woods
2. Lee Westwood
3. Ernie Els
4. Sergio Garcia
5. Dustin Johnson

Woods
Westwood
Mickelson
Dustin Johnson
Fowler

1. Luke Donald
2. Tiger Woods
3. Keegan Bradley
4. Rickie Fowler
5. Phil Mickelson

1. Rafael Cabrera-Bello
2. Kevin Chappell
3. Bo Van Pelt
4. Colt Knost
5. Tim Clark

Lee Westwood
Luke Donald
Dustin Johnson
Sergio Garcia
Zach Johnson

Tiger Woods
Lee Westwood
Phil Mickelson
Dustin Johnson
Rickie Fowler

Tiger Woods
KJ Choi
Phil Mickelson
Adam Scott
Ernie Els

1. Luke Donald
2. Rory McIlroy
3. Bo Van Pelt
4. Adam Scott
5. Phil Mickelson

Lee Westwood
Jason Dufner
Zach Johnson
Jonathan Byrd
Jim Furyk

1. Bubba Watson
2. Lee Westwood
3. Graeme McDowell
4. Jim Furyk
5. Robert Garrigus

1. Luke Donald
2. Lee Westwood
3. Zach Johnson
4. Phil Mickelson
5. Louis Oosthuizen

How do you spell second day Meltdown G-A-R-R-I-G-U-S.

My ace in the hole turned out to be a deuce when he bogeyed 5 holes in a row and 7 of 8 to barely miss the cut. With Bubba Watson also missing the cut by 1, I think that puts me off the podium, no matter how my other 3 finish. Though my three left aren't doing too shabby.

Shaping up to be a good Sunday and Tiger's in the mix, will he be wearing Red?

George, gillyharold and ozzz are looking good! Very intriuging final day at Olympic coming up

US Open Championship

PGA Golf

June 14-17, 2012

13 of 13 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Webb Simpson 72 73 68 68 281 Michael Thompson 66 75 74 67 282 Graeme McDowell 69 72 68 73 282 Jim Furyk 70 69 70 74 283 Jason Dufner 72 71 70 70 283 Padraig Harrington 74 70 71 68 283 David Toms 69 70 76 68 283 John Peterson 71 70 72 70 283 Ernie Els 75 69 68 72 284 Lee Westwood 73 72 67 73 285 Tiger Woods 69 70 75 73 287 Phil Mickelson 76 71 71 78 296 Bubba Watson 78 71 CUT CUT 149* Luke Donald 79 72 CUT CUT 151*

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 George95 1142 2 ozzz2002 1143 3 gillyharold 1146 4 BxBarracuda 1148 5 paper_aero 1159* 5 Sypher 1159* 7 gtho4 1164+ 8 PaulE 1164+ 9 srini701 1169 10 illiniman14 1170 11 Howie72 1172 12 LeoDaVinci 1177 13 N-Bomb 1182

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*- paper_aero and Sypher once again picked the exact same 5 golfers, and the tie could not be broken

+- gtho4 won the tiebreaker over PaulE 300-302 (Rory McIlroy v Luke Donald)

Our own finals, like that of the real tournament, came down to the wire. George95 would have had a comfy lead if not for Jim Furyk throwing away his own lead in the final 3 holes of the tournament. Despite that 2-shot swing, George came out on top, unlike Furyk. The other podium finishers, ozzz2002 and gillyharold, also saw one of their main golfers fall in the third round, as Tiger Woods collapsed early on in the day. James Simpson caught it easy on Father's Day, since his dad Webb earned himself a shiny new trophy by birdieing 4 out of 5 holes from 6-10, and then parring every hole on the way in to finish at +1. Just a few minutes after he finished, Jim Furyk bogeyed the 16th, putting him behind for good. With every golfer in the world available, Lee Westwood, who has never won a major championship, was the most popular pick. He seemed to be in contention throughout most of Sunday, but by the 14th hole he sat at +6. An eagle on #17 helped temporarily, but he finished his round with a bogey on #18. The Olympic Club pulled out all the stops to trip up the field, and the winner finished over par for the first time since 2007. Only 7 players finished under par for the day on Sunday - Simpson was -2 and Michael Thompson was -3, finishing 1 stroke back from Simpson. Jim Furyk seemed to have the tournament in his hands until the tee of the 16th, when he hooked his drive into the trees in Mickelson-like fashion, and finished the hole with a bogey to move to +2 as Simpson parred the 18th to finish at +1 overall. Tiger Woods was the news of the first two rounds of the tournament, going into the weekend tied for the lead at -1. On Saturday, he bogeyed 4 of the first 8 holes and finished at +5 for the day, but still in contention. That did not last on Sunday, as he went +6 in the first 6 holes and immediately took himself out of the running. If you decided to pick the #1, 2, 5, or 10 golfer in the world, you picked someone who missed the cut. In fact, the only two tippers who didn't pick someone who failed to make the cut were George and ozzz - who finished first and second. Twice as many tippers had to use the score of a golfer who didn't make the cut as compared to the Masters of this year. And the British Open will roll around on July 19 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, we hope to see all of you (and many more) then!

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Scoring:

A podium finish for moi? Geez, I am not used to that happening. I would like to thank the Academy, my parents, my cats, Spike Milligan and illiniman, in no particular order.

Congrats and very well done to the podium! Especially happy for Ozzz and his acceptance speech

Didn't know PaulE and George95 were the one and same ...he appears in both 1st and 8th positions!

I am also very happy for myself...have moved up from the last position...one day I shall get the hang of this sport...thanks, illiniman for introducing a nice comp and for the prompt write-ups!

Whoops, the Masters wanted its presence felt even today - fixed though!

Wow! I don't really follow golf, so this is a shock.

Thanks illiniman, and congrats to ozzz and gillyharold fo finishing beside me.

I thought I'd finish last with my great picks, not mid-table
Thanks to illiniman14, and congrats to the three medallists!

Congrats on your win George and to illiniman on running a great comp.

WTG George, ozzz and gilly.

Nice work illiniman.

They were joking that Westwood's ball that didn't drop might only be one of over 100 up in that one cypress tree.