Degenerate Gamblers - 2023 Open Championship

[mkirsh]

Open Championship Week in Liverpool! I love the early AM golf on TV! Glory's last shot for our majors contest. You know the rules:

1. Select a team of as many golfers as the "salary cap" allows. Picks need to be in before the start of play Thursday.
2. The salary cap is 30 points - use them wisely!
3. Each player's "cost" against the salary cap is their OWGR points total rounded down. So Scheffler "cost" 12, Rory costs 10, Rahm costs 9, etc.
4. Anyone whose OWGR points is less than 2, costs 2. In other words, no player in the field costs less than 2.
5. You can pick any player in the field - it's not a draft, so in theory you could have the exact same team as someone else.
6. Your final score is based on the total money won by all the players on your team. If one of your players misses the cut, you get $0 for that player.
7. As a tiebreaker, you also pick the winning score relative to par (e.g., -12).

All eyes will be on Rory this week, who won last time the Open was at Hoylake and is coming off a dramatic win at the Scottish Open. Anything is on the table with Rory - top 10s in 6 of his last 7 majors, but that includes a missed cut coming into this year's Masters as the favorite. Can he handle the intense pressure? Can Englishmen Fleetwood and Hatton continue good form from last week and win a major on home soil? How will the LIV contingent, particularly defending champ Cam Smith, fare this week? Can our defending champ mr. synellinden recapture last year's magic and win his second major?

Good luck!

[CameronDuke]

Thanks mkirsh. Let’s have a week in this year’s final major folks.

[curtis325]

I'm going top-heavy:

Rory--10
Rahm--9
Hovland--6
Fleetwood--3
Rose--2

[CameronDuke]

Team CameronDuke

Rory McIlroy - 10
Cam Smith - 5
Matt Fitzpatrick - 5
Brooks Koepka - 4
Tommy Fleetwood - 3
Rickie Fowler - 3

Winning score: -19

[Bob Green]

Rory McIlroy - 10
Cam Smith - 5
Matt Fitzpatrick - 5
Rickie Fowler - 3
Tommy Fleetwood - 3
Shane Lowry - 2
Justin Rose - 2

Score: -12

[curtis325]

I'm going top-heavy:

Rory--10
Rahm--9
Hovland--6
Fleetwood--3
Rose--2

I forgot to add my winning score: -13

[accfanfrom1970]

Cantlay - 7
Hoveland - 6
Koepka - 4
Fowler - 3
Fleetwood - 3
Tom Kim - 3
Dustin Johnson - 2
Lowry - 2

Score -13

[sagegrouse]

Sage Grouse picks:

Rory - 10
Hovland - 6
Cam Smith - 5
Koepka - 4
Fleetwood - 3
Dustin Johnson - 2

Winning score: -13

[jv001]

Scheffler= 12
Koepka=4
Morikawa=4
Fowler= 3
Fleetwood= 3
Dechambeau=2
Lowery=2

Tie breaker= -15

[Chicago 1995]

Rory -- 10
Morikawa - 4
Brooks Koepka - 4
Fleetwood - 3
Fowler - 3
DJ - 2
Adam Scott - 2
Rose - 2

Tie break is -14

[Rogue]

Rory McIlroy 10

Viktor Hovland 6

Matt Fitzpatrick 5

Brooks Koepka 4

Ricky Fowler 3

Bryson DeChambeau 2

Winner -14

[mkirsh]

My team

Scheffler - 12
Rory - 10
Fowler - 3
Fleetwood - 3
Bob MacIntyre - 2

Winning score: -16

All my eggs in very few baskets, will see if this strategy pays off

[CameronDuke]

My team

Scheffler - 12
Rory - 10
Fowler - 3
Fleetwood - 3
Bob MacIntyre - 2

Winning score: -16

All my eggs in very few baskets, will see if this strategy pays off

Bobby Mac. Like that pick. Played well at the Scottish Open last week yet Rory snaked the victory from him on holes 71 and 72.

[nmduke2001]

Team NMDuke2001 goes with a superstar and bunch of longshots. This might be the first time that team NMDuke2001 is missing Justin Thomas so I'm sure he will win if you want to pick him.

R. McIlroy - 10
P. Mickelson - 2
V. Perez - 2
T. Finau - 4
J. Day - 3
R. Fowler - 3
S. Theegala - 2
T. Fleetwood - 4

Winning score -16

[AGDukesky]

McIlroy - 10
Koepka - 4
Fowler - 3
Fleetwood - 3
Lowry - 2
D Johnson - 2
Rose - 2
A Scott - 2
DeChambeau - 2

Winning score -15

[mr. synellinden]

McIlroy - 10

Hovland - 6

Cam Smith - 5

Hatton - 4

Fleetwood - 3

Rose - 2

Winning score -12

[rasputin]

McIlroy 10
Rahm 9
J. Thomas 3
Fleetwood 3
Tom Kim 3
Lowry 2

Tiebreaker: -7

[JasonEvans]

Team Evans:

Rory McIlroy - 10
Victor Hovland - 6
Cameron Smith - 5
Tyrell Hatton - 4
Rickie Fowler - 3
Dustin Johnson - 2

[CameronDuke]

Cantlay and Koepka are paired in the same group. What a juxtaposition of golfing styles.

[CDu]

Team CDu:

McIlroy (10)
Cam Smith (5)
Koepka (4)
Fowler (3)
Thomas (3)
Fleetwood (3)
Dustin Johnson (2)

Winning score: -10