Open Pool Bragging Rights!

[Shivas Irons]

1. FIGJAM Mickelson
2. Trevor Immelman, Luke Donald
3. Darren Clarke, Paul Casey, John Daly (I added him to the list)
4. Mike Weir, Tim Herron, Paul McGuinly, Lucas Glover

low round = 61
winning score = -23
tiger opening day = 66

I'll replace Immelman with Sergio Garcia. I'm pretty sure Sergio isn't expecting any children in the next week.

[NoBack]

5.Jin Furyk, USA

11.David Toms, USA
14.Jose M Olazabal, Spn

22.Chris DiMarco, USA
25.Nick O'Hearn, Aus
33.Scott Verplank, USA

37.Mike Weir, Can
38.Arron Oberholser, USA
43.Ben Crane, USA
48.Lucas Glover, USA

Tie Breakers
-4
-3
73

[fundonny]

Pick 1 player from offical ranking 1-6

1.Tiger Woods, USA

Pick 2 players from offical ranking 7-19

12.Luke Donald, Eng
18.Padraig Harrington, Ire


Pick 3 players from offical ranking 20-34

21.Darren Clarke, NIr
30.Paul Casey, Eng
32.Kenny Perry, USA

Pick 4 players from offical ranking 35-50

37.Mike Weir, Can
39.Stewart Cink, USA
41.Robert Allenby, Aus
48.Lucas Glover, USA

Tie Breakers are as Follows;

1-Pick the low round of the tournament 64
2-Pick the winning score -17
3-Pick Tigers Woods opening round score 69

[larry]

Group 1 - Goosen

Group 2 - Montgomerie, Donald

Group 3 - Clarke, Appleby, Casey

Group 4 - Johnson, Weir, Cink, McGinley

Low round - 64
Winning score - -14
Woods opening round - 70

[Thom Panikorn]

1. Tiger
2. Ogilvy
3. Howell
4. Appleby
5. Clarke
6. Campbell
7. Weir
8. Oberholser
9. Jimenez
10. Cink

Tie breakers:

1. 64
2. -15
3. 67

[Golfbum]

I'll replace Immelman with Sergio Garcia. I'm pretty sure Sergio isn't expecting any children in the next week.

Well at least none that he knows of Johny Miller said Sergio would be getting Villegas's MULLIGANS now as he is now the Top Dog for the single women

[Eldred]

from my Magic Crystal ball...

Pick 1 player from offical ranking 1-6

1.Tiger Woods, USA

Pick 2 players from offical ranking 7-19
7.Geoff Ogilvy, AUS
12.Luke Donald, Eng


Pick 3 players from offical ranking 20-34
20.Stuart Appleby,Aus
21.Darren Clarke, NIr
29.Thomas Bjorn, Den

Pick 4 players from offical ranking 35-50
37.Mike Weir, Can
39.Stewart Cink, USA
41.Robert Allenby, Aus
44.Paul McGinley, Ire

Tie Breakers are as Follows;

1-Pick the low round of the tournament
68
2-Pick the winning score
-5
3-Pick Tigers Woods opening round score
71

[mpare]

Here's my meagre offering: Furyk; Olazabal; Harrington; Appleby; Clarke; Weir; Ames; Cink; Glover. The low score: 64. The winning score: 9 under. TW's opening round, 74.

[BirdieMan]

Pick 1 player from offical ranking 1-6
1.Tiger Woods, USA

Pick 2 players from offical ranking 7-19
18.Padraig Harrington, Ire
13.Colin Montgomerie, Sco

Pick 3 players from offical ranking 20-34
33.Scott Verplank, USA
22.Chris DiMarco, USA
23.Davis Love III, USA

Pick 4 players from offical ranking 35-50
37.Mike Weir, Can
41.Robert Allenby, Aus
35.Stephen Ames, Can
46.Miguel A Jimenez, Spn

1-Pick the low round of the tournament 63
2-Pick the winning score 12 under
3-Pick Tigers Woods opening round score 67

[Chambokl]

Here are my picks:

1) Tiger Wodds

10) David Howell
18) Padraig Harrington

20) Stuart Appleby
27) Carl Pettersson
30) Paul Casey


35) Stephen Ames
36) Zach Johnson
37) Mike Weir
38) Arron Oberholser

Lowest round: 64
Winning score: -15
Tiger: 69


Thanks,

Jean-Guy

[Started2k3]

guys & gals,

I put this together, so we can keep track of the bragging rights.

It is a zipped Excel file and only requires that the leaderboard be pasted in.

Later,
C.

[jvincent]

Good job.

I've got a bunch of guys who are finished at either -3 or -4. Looking good for me.

[jvincent]

Ok, so I must be a royal cut and paste spaz today because I can't seem to match my "cut" with the paste area.

Anybody else less spaztic than me want to give an update?

[jeffc]

jvincent, you are at 705 in 10th right now but it's not done yet for today. I am at 699 or tied for 2nd ;-)

Actually, correction, it looks like Steve (noback) has David toms who isn't playing.....that will mess things up.

[jvincent]

I'm counting on my guys to all make the weekend. I have three people over par which isn't too bad I guess.

I never bothered to check, how do people who don't make the cut get scored for the last two rounds?

[Sakuraba]

Not that I'm likely going to win, but on that spreadsheet, it says I picked the low round of the tourney @ 69, but I posted 64

[jeffc]

check the 2nd page Sakuraba...it is right there but isn't being brought over correctly onto the 3rd summary page. If someone doesn't make the cut, they get the high round for that day (Sat/Sun).

[Sakuraba]

gotcha

[sharkhark]

Great idea with the spreadsheet. Although it showed my tie breakers wrong. Read you guys talking about not transferring to 3rd page properly?
Is that whats happening?

anyhow though it is really cool!!!!

["Richard"]

I should have read the rules more closely, seems like the goal is to pick 10 guys who are going to make the cut. Sure we all picked 10 guys we thought would do the best but some are a bit more risky (dark horse), inconsistent or whatever. What I should have done was pick the 10 guys I thought had the best chance of making the cut because if you pick a guy that doesn't make the cut and are forced to take the worst score of the day... you are screwed.. probably wont matter if you pick 1st 2nd and 3rd right.


If I had to redo it I would pick players who have never missed a cut at the open... is this offically my excuse for not winning the pool?? YOU BET!!! HAHAHA

(I actually took that into account when I picked my team, so really the excuse isn't valid... but still a good one )

[little brit]

Mmmm. I am not a good excel user. I seem to have chad Campbell in red in there. Didn't pick him. ?? Help! Is a withdrawl the same as not making the cut?? I guess likely.

[Started2k3]

Winners from Round 1:
Sharkhark, Indio, scottycameron, & jeffc - start bragging! (but not too much there are still 3 more rounds).


I have updated the file a little, but not much.

Now to answer some questions.

In Sharkhark's original post it was the responsiblity of the "picker" to make sure that all their players were actually playing. To players are not playing in the Open from the original list "David Toms" and "Trevor Immelman".

Some people choose Immelman then switched in a later post - which I have taken into account. little brit and No Back unfortunately didn't make the switch from Toms in time. The penalty was that the last place player in that group was picked.

Shivas chose Daly who was not on the list - penalty get the last player in the 3 group. (If he was on the list I would have choosen him also.)

mpare did not choose enough players so the last player in group 3 was choosen to round out his roster.

The tie breakers on the "Output" sheet are (now) the absolute difference of your pick less the final outcome. So "Richard", Thom and BirdieMan picked Tiger's opening round exactly correct so on the output sheet it shows a zero.

I figured to start with we shouldn't be as penal as a missed the cut (+16 ouch).

Any problems with the method we can discuss it ... as "Richard" goes on and on about how he is "in the mind of the Tiger" because he picked his first round score exactly .... blah... blah ... (need to have the most posts ever) ... blah ...

[jeffc]

BTW, nice job on the spreadsheet...that would have taken me weeks.

[Shivas Irons]

Shivas chose Daly who was not on the list - penalty get the last player in the 3 group. (If he was on the list I would have choosen him also.)

So this means I switch Daly (ranked 74th & is currently +1 ) for Caberra (ranked 34th and currently - 5 ) ?!

Works for me!!

[jeffc]

hmmm...something's amiss there...I think you should get the same as if the guy missed the cut......

[Shivas Irons]

hmmm...something's amiss there...I think you should get the same as if the guy missed the cut......

Personally I think any player outside the top 50 should be allowed as a substitution. I don't think I should be penalized after the fact for choosing Daly - a player ranked 74th.
However the pool administrator has spoken and we must abide.

[Started2k3]

Personally I think any player outside the top 50 should be allowed as a substitution. I don't think I should be penalized after the fact for choosing Daly - a player ranked 74th.
However the pool administrator has spoken and we must abide.

The initial pool responsibility belongs to Sharkhark - he can have the final decision I don't want it. I made the spreadsheet out of the kindness of my heart (touching, eh?), and I don't mind updating it. It only took me 1.5h to put together (the most time consuming was getting everybody's picks correct).

If we had challenged any of the people who made "mistakes" before the first tee off they probably would not have chosen the last place player in each group. Remember this is a friendly pool, and nobody will be forced to change their avatar or caption ... except maybe "Richard" ... any suggestions?

[Shivas Irons]

Remember this is a friendly pool, and nobody will be forced to change their avatar or caption ... except maybe "Richard" ... any suggestions?

Exaclty - I really don't care what the decision is, it just didn't seem fair to everyone else that I would benefit from having the pick of Daly disallowed and Cabrerra substituted.

[Indio]

Winners from Round 1:
Sharkhark, Indio, scottycameron, & jeffc - start bragging! (but not too much there are still 3 more rounds).

I think I will let common sense take over here and wait till Sunday, unlike other people who like to take abuse (no names necessry) I'm foolish, not stupid!

[Started2k3]

Exaclty - I really don't care what the decision is, it just didn't seem fair to everyone else that I would benefit from having the pick of Daly disallowed and Cabrerra substituted.

Would you like "23.Davis Love III, USA" instead? or how about "20.Stuart Appleby,Aus"? [In your very best Eric Idle impersonation] Very good player - lots of people choose him.