July 14, 2015

144th Open Championship

Back again and now we're going to be watching play from the Old Course at St. Andrew's, Scotland for the 2015 Open Championship.  Oldest major at one of the oldest golf courses in the world.  In the top 5 of every golfers bucket list of courses they need to play.  The defending champion, Rory McIlroy, injured his ankle in a game of pickup footy and won't be playing.  A real shame.  Maybe this will give Jordan Spieth a nice mental boost as he tries to capture his third straight major, as if he really needs one with the way he's been playing lately.  

Obligatory picture of the course (w/ a link to the major website http://www.theopen.com/):  





Now onto fantasy.


The scores from our US Open pool:

Paul: +14 (D. Johnson tiebreaker)
Dan: +14
Bill: +22
Beck: +27
Jeremy: +32
Adam: +39
Sean: +41
Cbell: +43
Abe: +44
James: +47

Tie at the top broken with the pick of Dustin Johnson to make Paul the winner.  

Rules:

The final score of all the players on each team will be added up and the lowest cumulative score wins. Each team will have 4 golfers.

+8 will be added to any players score who misses the cut

-8 will be deducted from the score of the team who picks the Champion

If there is a WD, that player will be given a score of the worst round from that day. And then a one time penalty of +5 (the same penalty a player who misses the cut would get.)

The draft order will be the reverse final standings of the previous major

Draft:

Round 1:
James: Jordan Spieth

Abe: Rickie Fowler
Cbell: Dustin Johnson
Sean: Henrik Stenson
Adam: Bubba Watson
Jeremy: Justin Rose
Beck: Jason Day
Bill: Matt Kuchar
Dan: Adam Scott
Paul: Phil Mickelson

Round 2:
Paul: Louis Oosthuizen
Dan: Tiger Woods
Bill: Hideki Matsuyama
Beck: Sergio Garcia
Jeremy: Paul Casey
Adam: Jimmy Walker
Sean: Jim Furyk
Cbell: Patrick Reed
Abe: JB Holmes
James: Martin Kaymer

Round 3:

James: Brandt Snedeker
Abe: Chris Kirk (*Ryan Palmer)
Cbell: Zach Johnson
Sean: Brooks Koepka
Adam: Billy Horschel
Jeremy: Shane Lowry
Beck: Bill Haas
Bill: Franceso Molinari
Dan: Ian Poulter
Paul: Angel Cabrera (*Jamie Donaldson w/ +5 penalty)

Round 4:

Paul: Tommy Fleetwood
Dan: Charl Schwartzel
Bill: Victor Dubuisson
Beck: Keegan Bradley
Jeremy: Ryan Moore
Adam: Bernd Weisberger
Sean: Kevin Na
Cbell: Kevin Kisner
Abe: Branden Grace
James: Danny Willett


Link to final Leaderboard:
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