The Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 19-22, 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 July 8, 2012 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Luke Donald (ENG)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Lee Westwood (ENG)
-Tiger Woods (USA)
-Webb Simpson (USA)
-Bubba Watson (USA)
-Jason Dufner (USA)
-Matt Kuchar (USA)
-Justin Rose (ENG)
-Hunter Mahan (USA)

Retrieved from http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/rankings/default.sps?region=world

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/en/Players/PlayerProfiles.aspx#player=Thomas+AIKEN



Deadline: 11:30 PM Wednesday night FT time
There will be no grace period this tournament since the first tee-off occurs at 11:30 PM

Luke Donald
Tiger Woods
Thomas Bjorn
Adam Scott
Phil Mickelson

Padraig Harrington
Graeme McDowell
Ross Fisher
Lee Westwood
Adam Scott

Woods
Westwood
Harrington
Fowler
Garcia

Lee Westwood
Tiger Woods
Padraig Harrington
Martin Kaymer
Sergio Garcia

1. Lee Westwood
2. Luke Donald
3. Sergio Garcia
4. Zach Johnson
5. Phil Mickelson

Lee Westwood
Tiger Woods
Padraig Harrington
Graeme McDowell
Louis Oosthuizen

1 - Lee Westwood
2 - Hunter Mahan
3 - Retief Goosen
4 - Padraig Harrington
5 - Chad Campbell

Luke Donald (ENG)
Justin Rose (ENG)
Francesco Molinari (ITA)
Jim Furyk (USA)
Padraig Harrington (IRE)

Bubba Watson
Lee Westwood
Phil Mickelson
Sergio Garcia
Padraig Harrington

Rory McIlroy
Tiger Woods
Graeme McDowell
Darren Clarke
Dustin Johnson

Lee Westwood
Padraig Harrington
Ernie Els
Tiger Woods
VJ Singh

Lee Westwood
Webb Simpson
Padraig Harrington
Dustin Johnson
Ian Poulter

1.- Lee Westwood
2.- Graeme McDowell
3.- Justin Rose
4.- Rickie Fowler
5.- F. Molinari

1. Lee Westwood
2. Justin Rose
3. Ernie Els
4. Sergio Garcia
5. Padraig Harrington

2 hours late, most people haven't teed off so I'll have a go:

Molinari
A.Hansen
Cabrera-Bello
Fisher
Westwood

N-Bomb, I'll allow your team since you got it in 11 minutes before your first player (Westwood) teed off

I FINALLY seem to have had a decent first round from my picks

The Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 19-22, 2012

16 of 16 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Ernie Els 67 70 68 68 273 Adam Scott 64 67 68 75 274 Tiger Woods 67 67 70 73 277 Brandt Snedeker 66 64 73 74 277 Luke Donald 70 68 71 69 278 Graeme McDowell 67 69 73 74 278 Thomas Aiken 68 68 71 72 279 Nicolas Colsaerts 65 77 72 65 279 Ian Poulter 71 69 73 67 280 Zach Johnson 65 74 66 75 280 Bubba Watson 67 73 68 74 282 Lee Westwood 73 70 71 72 286 Rory McIlroy 67 75 73 73 288 Phil Mickelson 73 78 CUT CUT 151*

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 ozzz2002 1115 2 wwe84 1116 3 PaulE 1121 4 Dizart 1123* 5 srini701 1123* 6 gtho4 1124 7 paper_aero 1131# 8 George95 1131# 9 Howie72 1132+ 10 szabs 1132+ 11 gillyharold 1132+ 12 illiniman14 1132+ 13 Sypher 1137 14 BxBarracuda 1141** 15 LeoDaVinci 1141** 16 N-Bomb 1145

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*- Dizart wins tiebreaker over srini701 286-294 (Lee Westwood v. Darren Clarke)

#- paper_aero wins tiebreaker by default as George95’s fifth golfer (Webb Simpson) withdrew from the tournament

+- The top 3 tippers picked Justin Rose as fifth golfer, Howie72 wins tiebreaker with a 285 (Francesco Molinari); szabs is second with a 286 (Lee Westwood); and gillyharold is third with a 288 (Sergio Garcia) using the fourth golfer from each. Illiniman14's fifth golfer Phil Mickelson shot 302 to Rose's 288.

**- BxBarracuda wins tiebreaker over LeoDaVinci 291-302 (Chad Campbell v. Phil Mickelson)

Our comp mirrored the actual British Open, as Ernie Els’ (ozzz's pick) birdie putt on #18 and Adam Scott’s (wwe's pick) late collapse gave ozzz2002 a 1-stroke victory over wwe84 – congratulations! Ozzz was on the receiving end of a similar situation during the US Open, as he lost by 1-stroke then, but makes up for it here. It is the first podium appearance in the first golf appearance for wwe84, and PaulE also returns to the podium following his Masters victory. Wins don’t come much more improbably than Ernie Els’ on Sunday. He entered the day 6 shots down, and he teed off on #17 down 4 strokes and having missed an easy birdie putt the hole before. However, he birdied #18 and Adam Scott bogeyed the final 4 holes, giving Els the upset victory. Each golfer in contention seemed to have a moment when things came apart. Brandt Snedeker, the leader after the first 2 rounds, double-bogeyed #7 and #8 (losing his drive on #7). Tiger Woods found the bunker on 3 straight holes, #13-15, bogeying each one and taking him out of the race. Graeme McDowell hit a bizarre line drive into the trees on #11, losing his ball and forcing a third straight bogey, putting him 6 shots back. Things were going well for Adam Scott as he teed off #15. He hit a drive right down the middle and had a 4-stroke lead with 4 holes to play. Then, he went into the bunker on his 2nd shot and missed an easy par putt. On #16, he had a 3-putt bogey with the par putt rimming out. On #17, he overshot the green following a loud roar from #18 as Els made a birdie putt to make the lead only 1 shot, leading to another bogey and a tie on the leaderboard. On #18, Scott hit his drive up against the ridge of a bunker, forcing a blast out to the side, and missed the 8-foot par putt that would have forced a playoff. Brandt Snedeker seemed to be off well in the first two days, shooting -10 and was bogey free for the first 40 holes. Then he bogeyed 4 of the next 5 and 6 of the next 10, and while he still finished tied for third, he never vied for the lead on Sunday. The most popular pick for the British Open was, unsurprisingly, British. 12/16 picked Lee Westwood (+6) in hopes he would win his first major. In a close second was Padraig Harrington (+5), with 11/16 picking him. Some big names didn’t seem to show up this year. Phil Mickelson, who tied for second last year, went wild early and often, shooting +11 after the first two days. Sergio Garcia, who finished tied for ninth last year, went +4 and also missed the cut. World #5 Webb Simpson withdrew the week prior in preparation for the birth of his second child. World #9 Justin Rose matched Garcia shooting +4 and missing the cut. Also, last year’s winner Darren Clarke found trouble in round 1 and finished +7 at the cut. We also had our first instance of a score of a cut golfer beating out one that made the cut, as N-Bomb’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello collapsed from +1 after 2 rounds to a +14 final. Anders Hansen only shot +4 after 2 rounds, so his doubled score beat out Cabrera-Bello by 6 strokes. And the PGA Championship is right around the corner, as players will tee off the first round on August 9 at Kiawah Island in South Carolina, and we hope to see you there!

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Scoring:

Congrats Ozz, WWE and PaulE.

My golfers couldn't sniff the top 10, even though they all made the cut.

Great work and write up Illiniman.

Nice write up....thanks, Illiniman!

Well done to Ozzz, wwe and PaulE...

Well done to ozzz & wwe. Great picks.
Many thanks to illiniman for doing all the hard work.

Congratulations to the winners!!!

Thank you Illiniman, for running the comp. and for your fantastic write up.