US Open

PGA Golf

June 13-16, 2013

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 2, 2013, in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

-Tiger Woods (USA)
-Rory McIlroy (NIR)
-Adam Scott (AUS)
-Matt Kuchar (USA)
-Justin Rose (ENG)
-Brandt Snedeker (USA)
-Luke Donald (ENG)
-Graeme McDowell (NIR)
-Louis Oosthuizen (ZAF)
-Phil Mickelson (USA)

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

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 full list of invitees can be found at:
http://www.usopen.com/en_US/scoring/groupings.html
Groupings will be announced on June 7

Deadline: midnight Wednesday FT time with a grace period of a few hours

Tiger Woods
Matt Kuchar
Jim Furyk
Hunter Mahan
Rickie Fowler

Tiger Woods
Adam Scott
Sergio Garcia
Bubba Watson
Jason Day

-Rory McIlroy
-Adam Scott
-Lee Westwood
-Jim Furyk
-Dustin Johnson

Rory McIlroy
Luke Donald
Bubba Watson
Keegan Bradley
Charl Schwartzel

Justin Rose
Luke Donald
Lee Westwood
Charl Schwartzel
Webb Simpson

Adam Scott
Justin Rose
Lee Westwood
Ernie Els
Sergio Garcia

Tiger Woods
Graeme McDowell
Sergio Garcia
Dustin Johnson
Lee Westward

Tiger Woods
Graeme McDowell
Zach Johnson
Jim Furyk
Henrik Stenson

Tiger Woods
Matt Kuchar
Dustin Johnson
Jason Dufner
Keegan Bradley

Graeme McDowell
Phil Mickelson
Hunter Mahan
Lee Westwood
Jim Furyk

Woods, T
Kuchar, M
Westwood, L
Garcia, S
Schwartzel, C

Woods
Kuchar
K. Bradley
Westwood
Mahan

Woods
Donald

And of course, my usual outsiders:

Choi
Colsaerts
Siem

Justin Rose
Graeme McDowell
Dustin Johnson
Lee Westwood
Keegan Bradley

Bet on John Senden, omitted him here for Tiger Woods. I'm an idiot!

I am heading for at least +100 for my 5 golfers (3 of whom failed to make the cut)....lol

US Open

PGA Golf

June 13-16, 2013

15 of 15 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Justin Rose 71 69 71 70 281 Phil Mickelson 67 72 70 74 283 Jason Day 70 74 68 71 283 Jason Dufner 74 71 73 67 285 Ernie Els 71 72 73 69 285 Billy Horschel 72 67 72 74 285 Hunter Mahan 72 69 69 75 285 Luke Donald 68 72 71 75 286 Steve Stricker 71 69 70 76 286 Lee Westwood 70 77 69 73 289 Ian Poulter 71 71 73 76 291 Tiger Woods 73 70 76 74 293 Adam Scott 72 75 73 75 295 Jim Furyk 77 79 CUT CUT 312*

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 BxBarracuda 1144 2 ozzz2002 1150 3 mikegolden 1157 4 illiniman14 1159 4 N-Bomb 1159 6 gtho4 1160 7 LeoDaVinci 1161 8 paper_aero 1162 9 George95 1163 10 wwe84 1164 11 Dizart 1167 12 PaulE 1171 13 chogobad 1172 14 srini701 1175 15 Howie72 1192

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In a tournament where no one finished under par (or even par), Justin Rose outlasted Phil Mickelson to become the first Englishman to win a major since Nick Faldo in the 1996 Masters. Mickelson held a 56-hole lead, but struggles early and late doomed his round to his record sixth second-place US Open finish. Rose finished the final round even par, while two early double bogeys and three bogeys in the final six holes put Lefty at four over on the day, and two strokes behind. There was no late drama in our comp, as BxBarracuda watched from the clubhouse while the rest of the field ambled in for an easy 6-stroke victory! All four of his golfers had top-15 finishes, including the winner Rose. Ozzz2002 also picked Rose, but Masters winner Adam Scott dragged him down with a +15 performance. Coming in third (with his first-ever post on the forums) was mikegolden, who rode a top-4 finish from Hunter Mahan to the bronze. Coming into Sunday, roughly 10 golfers were poised for a run at the trophy. Steve Stricker bowed out first, slicing his drive on #2 out of bounds, followed by a shank out of bounds on his 4th shot, and finished tied for eighth with Luke Donald. Donald was also one of those contending, but went +6 on the front nine and was knocked out. Hunter Mahan found himself in the last group, but went +4 on the final four holes and lost out by four strokes. Billy Horschel was also in the running, but slowly faded on the front 9 to take himself out of contention. Jason Day showed his performance in the Masters was no fluke, and was the leader in the clubhouse for a short time before Rose finished his round, ending tied with Mickelson in second place. Jason Dufner and Ernie Els both finished under par on Sunday, but were so many shots back at the start of the day they never factored in the running. If not for a triple bogey on #15, Dufner could have very well been in the mix. Consecutive birdies on #12 and 13 gave Rose a lead midway through the back nine, and Mickelson bogeyed #13, the easiest hole on the course, leading to Rose holding on to a 1-shot lead as he parred the final two holes. Mickelson came to the final two holes needing a birdie, but left his drive far short on the par 3 #17 and on #18 drove into the left rough and his second shot came well short of the green. Needing to chip in the shot for a playoff, he sent it scooting past and into the fringe, finishing with a bogey and tied with Day for second. For our own purposes, the oft-chosen Tiger Woods faltered on Saturday, earning 7 bogeys after a birdie on #1 to put him well off the pace, and finished Sunday +4 to end +13. Lee Westwood tied Tiger for the most-picked (with his #11 ranking), and finished with a respectable 289 and tied for 15th. The third most popular choice was surprisingly Sergio Garcia, who was ridiculed early for his controversial comments on Tiger Woods, and would have finished at +9 if not for a sextuple bogey on #15 on Saturday, sending him into a tailspin to +15 (and just more than $100,000 less to boot).

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Scoring:

Very nice work, Illiniman- I don't think that the last putt has stopped bouncing around in the 18th cup yet!

Congrats to BxB and welcome to Mikegolden, too.

Fast and great work illiniman, thanks for running the competition.

Thanks and wtg ozzz and mikegolden.

For the British Open I'm going to overload on American players.

Thanks to everyone who sent a note! This was fun. Sad to see Furyk and Woods perform so poorly. I'll be back for more!

Sorry Illiniman for not mentioning you personally. I'm sure a lot of time and effort goes into these events . Kudos to you!!