Degenerate Golfers: 2022 Open Championship

[mkirsh]

It's British Open Championship week at historic St. Andrews Links! After a great week at the Scottish Open, the golf world heads 80 miles north to the Old Course for the 150th edition of the Open Championship. Amazing non-LIV storylines abound, such as Tiger's return to the Old Course, the white-hot Xander Schauffele coning off wins in back-to-back starts (plus the JP McManus pro am), Morikawa's quest to repeat, the chance that scores may be in the 50s if the wind is down, the potential final Open for Sergio, Poulter, Westwood, et al (sorry, had to get one LIV story in there), and most importantly, the drama surrounding who will win our contest.


Contest rules are as follows:

1. Select a team of as many golfers as the "salary cap" allows.
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, Scottie Scheffler "costs" 10, Rory 7, Rahm 7,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).


Finally, since we live in a world where the men's golf major championship season ends in July, this is the last week of our 2022 Majors contest. Year-to-date standings are below, where we have around 12 contestants who have a reasonable shot at taking home the season long title (I am not among them; I suck at both this contest and manipulating my stats to make them better).

Name	Masters	PGA	US Open	Total 2022
Rogue	$2,587,833	$5,908,275	$4,278,759	$12,774,867
JasonEvans	$1,804,500	$4,015,125	$5,262,238	$11,081,863
tbyers11	$3,418,833	$2,917,500	$4,289,173	$10,625,506
nmduke2001	$3,580,313	$4,194,355	$2,348,556	$10,123,224
Utley	$4,652,250	$592,493	$4,051,629	$9,296,372
CDu	$2,961,333	$4,817,413	$1,459,920	$9,238,666
Bob Green	$3,270,000	$3,274,192	$2,411,856	$8,956,048
Rich	$3,480,000	$3,069,407	$2,404,472	$8,953,879
CrazyNotCrazie	$3,658,800	$2,615,899	$2,515,926	$8,790,625
dudog84	$2,814,592	$3,906,189	$1,921,346	$8,642,127
jv001	$1,759,833	$2,843,582	$3,990,704	$8,594,119
rasputin	$3,351,896	$2,323,699	$2,851,000	$8,526,595
killerleft	$1,914,000	$1,150,315	$3,810,327	$6,874,642
Turk	$2,405,396	$2,981,675	$1,062,843	$6,449,914
rsvman	$2,134,833	$3,191,095	$1,018,202	$6,344,130
accfanfrom1970	$2,031,000	$3,099,107	$693,927	$5,824,034
CameronDuke	$3,122,063	$998,150	$1,551,170	$5,671,383
elvis14	$1,920,000	$554,057	$2,635,774	$5,109,831
mr. synellinden	$2,292,113	$1,525,900	$1,129,173	$4,947,186
mkirsh	$2,293,500	$1,005,707	$831,541	$4,130,748
chadlee989	$0	$0	$3,501,974	$3,501,974
sagegrouse	$1,920,563	$425,179	$1,032,171	$3,377,913
DevilHorse	$762,750	$556,478	$1,521,738	$2,840,966
laxdawg97	$0	$0	$2,741,530	$2,741,530
Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15	$0	$0	$2,663,484	$2,663,484
cato	$2,634,750	$0	$0	$2,634,750
Tooold	$0	$0	$2,521,474	$2,521,474
pcal6vb	$0	$0	$2,503,942	$2,503,942
sbroc012	$2,426,550	$0	$0	$2,426,550
duketaylor	$1,603,416	$0	$0	$1,603,416
fidel	$1,237,229	$0	$0	$1,237,229
91devil	$285,000	$0	$0	$285,000

Good luck all!

[CameronDuke]

Once again, mkirsh - you are awesome! Thank you so much for doing this. It is a huge treat for many of us including myself. Good luck to all! We are in for some great golf from The Old Course at St. Andrews - the home of golf! Looking forward to this year’s The Open Championship!

[CameronDuke]

Team CameronDuke

Rory McIlroy - 7
Xander Schauffle - 7
Collin Morikawa - 6
Matt Fitzpatrick - 6
Tommy Fleetwood - 2
Tiger Woods - 2

Winning score: -17

[Rogue]

Rory McIlroy 7

Xander Schauffele 7

Matt Fitzpatrick 6

Justin Thomas 6

Tommy Fleetwood 2

Thomas Pieters 2

-11

[Rogue]

Yikes.. I just saw how close Cameron Duke and my teams are.. Thomas Pieters vs Tiger Woods is the difference ?? Hope they both make the cut

[jv001]

Rahm........7
J. Thomas......6
Spieth........5
Zalatoris.......5
D. Johnson.....4
Hatton........3

Winning score....-13

[jv001]

Yikes.. I just saw how close Cameron Duke and my teams are.. Thomas Pieters vs Tiger Woods is the difference ?? Hope they both make the cut

And Morikawa vs. JT.

[CDu]

Team CDu:

Schauffele (7)
Fitzpatrick (6)
Spieth (5)
D. Johnson (4)
Lowry (3)
Hatton (3)
Fleetwood (2)

Winning score: -13

[killerleft]

The killerleft team:

7 - Jon Rahm

6 - Cameron Smith

6 - Justin Thomas

6 - Sam Burns

5 - Will Zalatoris

Winning score -15

[rasputin]

McIlroy 7
Rahm 7
Schauffele 7
Matsuyama 4
Im 3
Fleetwood 2

Tiebreaker Even par

[DevilHorse]

The golfers to be avoided are:

7 - Rory McIlroy
5 - Jordan Spieth
5 - Zalatoris
4 - Tony Finau
3 - Max Homa (I really picked him before his Tiger Woods comments)
2 - Adam Scott
2 - Justin Rose
2 - Keegan Bradley

Winning Score = -18

Larry
DevilHorse

[CameronDuke]

I think Rasputin thinks it will be windy this week at The Old Course and it will be virtually impossible to get into red numbers on!

[JasonEvans]

The pressure is on Team Evans... just a very doable $1.7 mil out of first but also less than a million away from falling into 4th (win, place, or show... you get nada for 4th).

The fact that first place Rogue has already picked his team gives me an advantage. The reality is that unless I really, really love a certain player, I probably need to pick exclusively different players from Rogue to have much of a shot at winning this thing. So, my first instinct is to take Rory, Xander, Matt Fitz, and Justin Thomas off the table. But, everyone who knows this stuff much better than me says Xander is the favorite... or maybe it is Rory. Ugh!

So, without any further ado, this is Team Evans. The club that will absolutely bring it home for me... I think.

Patrick Cantlay 7
Cameron Smith 6
Jordan Spieth 5
Will Zalatoris 5
Shane Lowry 3
Justin Rose 2
Ryan Fox 2

Winning score: minus 14

[mkirsh]

Struggling with this one. Everyone is so high on Rory and Xander I feel like there is no way they can win with all that pressure, but I really like the way they are playing (plus I want to root for those guys). So here is my team, though I may change my mind later.

Rory "I'm soooo overdue for a Major" McIlroy - 7
Xander "Don't tell Pat Riley I'm going for the 'three-peat'" Shauffele - 7
Cam "I just shot 3 rounds in the 60s last week but no one is talking about me" Smith - 6
Will "apparently my Wake teammates all hated me" Zalatoris - 5
Max "haven't missed a cut since Feb" Homa - 3
Tommy "Fairway Jesus" Fleetwood - 2

Winning score: -18

[Rich]

Schauffele - 7
Cantlay - 7
Fitzpatrick - 6
Cam Smith - 6
Fleetwood - 2
JH Kim - 2

Tiebreaker = -12

[CameronDuke]

Struggling with this one. Everyone is so high on Rory and Xander I feel like there is no way they can win with all that pressure, but I really like the way they are playing (plus I want to root for those guys). So here is my team, though I may change my mind later.

Rory "I'm soooo overdue for a Major" McIlroy - 7
Xander "Don't tell Pat Riley I'm going for the 'three-peat'" Shauffele - 7
Cam "I just shot 3 rounds in the 60s last week but no one is talking about me" Smith - 6
Will "apparently my Wake teammates all hated me" Zalatoris - 5
Max "haven't missed a cut since Feb" Homa - 3
Tommy "Fairway Jesus" Fleetwood - 2

Winning score: -18

I did not know Zalatoris’s teammates at Wake didn’t like him! He sort of resembles the caddie in Happy Gilmore to me!

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[mkirsh]

I did not know Zalatoris’s teammates at Wake didn’t like him! He sort of resembles the caddie in Happy Gilmore to me!

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You are not alone - he apparently has "Mr Gilmore I'm your caddy" stamped on one of his wedges.

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I've also seen him referred to as Beavis.
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[accfanfrom1970]

McIlroy 7
Xander S. 7
Speith 5
Zalatoris 5
Sam Burns 6

-13

[pcal6vb]

Team pcal6vb:

Will Zalatoris 5
Jon Rahm 7
Jordan Spieth 5
Tommy Fleetwood 2
Louis Oosthuizen 3
Justin Rose 2
Robert MacIntyre 2
Victor Perez 2
Tiger Woods 2

Winning Score: -15

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Wait... Has NO ONE taken Scheffler?

Scheffler - 10
Rahm - 7
Zalatoris - 5
Lowrey - 3
Tiger - 2
Varner - 2
Bubba - 1

Winner -11