Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 18-21, 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 July 7, 2013 in our fivesomes. The current top 10 is:

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

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 final list of participants can be found at:
http://www.theopen.com/en/Players/PlayerProfiles.aspx

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

Justin Rose
Adam Scott
Steve Stricker
Ernie Els
Webb Simpson

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Keegan Bradley
Ernie Els
Peter Hanson

Rory McIlroy
Graeme McDowell
Lee Westwood
Ian Poulter
Ernie Els

Tiger Woods
Luke Donald
Lee Westwood
Francesco Molinari
Richard Sterne

Louis Oostuizen
Jason Day
Matteo Manassero
Bill Haas
Henrik Stenson

Justin Rose
Luke Donald
Ernie Els
Lee Westwood
Padraig Harrington

Adam Scott
Luke Donald
Ernie Els
Jason Day
Sergio Garcia

Tiger Woods (USA)
Phil Mickelson (USA)
Ernie Els
Lee Westwood
Jason Day

Justin Rose (ENG)
Graeme McDowell (NIR)
Sergio Garcia (ESP)
Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL)
Branden Grace (RSA) - have to go for an outsider somewhere...lol

I decided this time to not pick any Americans, I cannot do any worse than the last major...lol

Graeme McDowell
Brandt Snedeker
Dustin Johnson
Sergio Garcia
Graham DeLaet

Woods, T
Mickelson, P
Els, E
Westwood, L
Garcia, S

Luke Donald
Dustin Johnson
Nicolas Colsaerts
Alex Noren
Rickie Fowler

What happens if someone retires injured re Louis Oosthuizen?

The score simply results in a withdrawal - it's happened a few times before, especially with KJ Choi since we started the golf comps. As long as your other 4 golfers finish the first round, you'll have a final score.

I didn't know an Indian was in the fray Wanted to pick Shiv Kapur, but was too late as the Open kicked off by the time I realised...horrible to ask now, but can I have him instead of Hanson in my team???

Would understand if it's not possible...

Seeing as Kapur is 9 shots back of Keegan Bradley, I doubt it'll matter either way whether I let you have him or not. Consider him on your team (in spirit)

Thanks, illini Just to support a fellow Indian (who I didn't even know about till yesterday )

Open Championship

PGA Golf

July 18-21, 2013

13 of 13 players lodged tips: Tournament Scorecards (in brief): Golfer Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Score Phil Mickelson 69 74 72 66 281 Henrik Stenson 70 70 74 70 284 Ian Poulter 72 71 75 67 285 Adam Scott 71 72 70 72 285 Lee Westwood 72 68 70 75 285 Hideki Matsuyama 71 73 72 70 286 Zach Johnson 66 75 73 72 286 Tiger Woods 69 71 72 74 286 Francesco Molinari 69 74 72 72 287 Hunter Mahan 72 72 68 75 287 Sergio Garcia 75 73 68 75 291 Ernie Els 74 74 70 74 292 Graeme McDowell 75 71 73 77 296 Luke Donald 80 72 CUT CUT 304*

Tipping Comp Standings position points -- ------- # Total -- ------- 1 paper_aero 1143 2 Sypher 1144 3 gtho4 1149* 4 PaulE 1149* 4 srini701 1149* 6 illiniman14 1158 7 ozzz2002 1161 8 George95 1168 9 BxBarracuda 1176 10 wwe84 1178 11 Howie72 1186 12 Dizart 1193 13 N-Bomb 1207

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*- gtho4 won a 3-way playoff with his fifth golfer (Jason Day) shooting 293, while PaulE’s fifth golfer (Luke Donald) missed the cut for a 304, and srini701’s fifth golfer (Peter Hanson) withdrew. For scoring purposes, srini’s ‘fifth golfer in spirit’ (Shiv Kapur) was not included.

At one point, Phil Mickelson was the greatest player to not have won a major tournament. After Sunday, he was behind only Tiger Woods (by 1) for most major championships in the last 9 years. With a masterful final round 66 after entering the day down 5 strokes to 54-hole leader Lee Westwood, Lefty powered his way to a 3-stroke victory over Henrik Stenson, the only two players not over par for the tournament. Four of the top five finishers picked Mickelson in their group, but paper_aero also took Lee Westwood (T3), Tiger Woods (T6), and Sergio Garcia (T21) to earn a 1-stroke victory over Sypher, who had the same top 3 but his fourth golfer, Ernie Els, finished a stroke behind Sergio. Congratulations! There was a 3-way tie for third, broken by gtho4’s fifth golfer Jason Day, who finished with a 293. The two behind him were PaulE and srini701, who chose Luke Donald (304, missed the cut) and Peter Hanson (withdrew), respectively. srini would have finished tied for fourth had Shiv Kapur been included as the official fifth golfer with a 299. Through 54 holes, the Open Championship was Lee Westwood’s to lose, and lose it he did. He did not hit a single fairway on the front 9, and finished +4 on the day, although his day was over several holes because he actually finished. That is because Phil Mickelson, several groups ahead of Westwood, hit #13 at +1 and went on a tear. He birdied #13 and 14, had a putt at eagle on #17 (got birdie), and finished with a dagger birdie putt on #18. At that time, he had a 2-stroke lead over Adam Scott and Westwood, but Westwood would bogey #13 shortly thereafter and Scott bogeyed #13-16 to both fall out of contention. The other two main golfers who had a chance were Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter. Poulter was well ahead of even Mickelson, going into Sunday 8 strokes back. After an eagle on #9 and birdies on #10-12, he sat at even par, which appeared could be in play with the leaderboard falling back. A bogey on #16 put him back to +1, but he was taken out of play with Mickelson’s run. Stenson was -1 after 11, but bogeys on #12 and 13 put him over par and a birdie on #17 could not help him threaten Mickelson. Does anyone fear Tiger anymore? Tiger Woods was -1 and 2 strokes back after Saturday, and started Sunday with three bogeys in the first six holes. The rest of the round finished even par (three birdies and bogeys), but was never a threat coming down the stretch. He finished tied for sixth. Another major goes by, and now only one remains for 2013: the PGA Championship on August 8-11 at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, NY. Hope to see you there!

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Scoring:

Congrats to paper_aero, Sypher and gtho4.

Thanks for running the comp illinman.

Nice ... congrats to paper, Sypher and gtho and thanks to illini for letting me pick the Indian guy...

Three of the usual suspects on the podium. Congrats to all of you, and a great writeup from illiniman.

For once I put my money on my tips and it paid off !! I had Mickleson and Scott each way !! Sweeeet !!

Shurely some mishtake!

My knowledge of golf is in agreement with 'a good walk spoilt'!