Degenerate US Open Contest

[mkirsh]

Open week! And what a week it's going to be with PGA and LIV players in the same field. Hopefully we actually get to watch golf vs just endlessly discussing golf tours, but we will see. ALthough it would be highly entertaining to see Rory or JT paired with Phil or DJ on Sunday.

Contest rules 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, Jon Rahm 7, Rory 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).

Good luck!

[CameronDuke]

Open week! And what a week it's going to be with PGA and LIV players in the same field. Hopefully we actually get to watch golf vs just endlessly discussing golf tours, but we will see. ALthough it would be highly entertaining to see Rory or JT paired with Phil or DJ on Sunday.

Contest rules 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, Jon Rahm 7, Rory 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).

Good luck!

Thanks for teeing this up mkirsh. Great work as always. Really look forward to these four contests per year.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Thanks for teeing this up mkirsh. Great work as always. Really look forward to these four contests per year.

Cameron Smith - 7
Justin Thomas - 7
Zalatoris - 4
Matsuyama - 4
Dustin Johnson - 4
Tony Finau - 4

[mr. synellinden]

McIlroy - 7
Thomas - 7
Cantlay - 7
Burns - 6
C. Young - 3

Winning Score -8

[mkirsh]

Dustin Johnson - 4
Bryson - 3
Oostie - 3
Kevin Na - 3
Patrick Reed - 2
Phil - 2
Sergio - 2
Talor Gooch - 2
Sam Horsfield - 2
Martin Kaymer - 2
Branden Grace - 2

Winning score: $2B

Just kidding...

Rory - 7
Cam Smith - 7
Speith - 5
Billy Horschel - 5
Max Homa - 3
Shane Lowry - 3

Winning score: -3

[Rogue]

Rory Mcllroy 7

Justin Thomas 7

Xander Schauffele 4

Matt Fitzpatrick 4

Max Homa 3

Cameron Young 3

Justin Rose 2

Tie Breaker -7

[CameronDuke]

Team CameronDuke

Rory McIlroy - 7
Justin Thomas - 7
Collin Morikawa - 6
Jordan Spieth - 5
Brooks Koepka - 3
Webb Simpson - 2

Final score: -6

[CDu]

Team CDu:

Rahm (7)
Morikawa (6)
Spieth (5)
Schauffele (4)
Koepka (3)
English (3)
Reed (2)

Winning score: -5

[jv001]

Justin Thomas 7
Jon Rahm 7
Mat Fitzpatrick 4
Joaquin Nieman 4
Abraham Ancer 3
Louie Oosthuizen 3
Seamus Power 2

Tie breaker score: -4

[Rich]

Rory McIlroy - 7
Justin Thomas - 7
Cam Smith - 7
Will Zalatoris - 4
Shane Lowery - 3
Justin Rose - 2

Tiebreaker = -6

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Cameron Smith - 7
Justin Thomas - 7
Zalatoris - 4
Matsuyama - 4
Dustin Johnson - 4
Tony Finau - 4

Tie breaker -11

Thanks for the heads up

[rasputin]

Jon Rahm 7
Rory McIlroy 7
Xander Schauffele 4
Will Zalatoris 4
Abraham Ancer 3
Sungjae Im 3
Tommy Fleetwood 2

Tiebreaker: -3

[elvis14]

Hope I do a better job than the last major. Right now I'm thinking DJ, Phil, Bryson, Na etc

[Rich]

Dustin Johnson - 4
Bryson - 3
Oostie - 3
Kevin Na - 3
Patrick Reed - 2
Phil - 2
Sergio - 2
Talor Gooch - 2
Sam Horsfield - 2
Martin Kaymer - 2
Branden Grace - 2

Winning score: $2B

Just kidding...

Hope I do a better job than the last major. Right now I'm thinking DJ, Phil, Bryson, Na etc

I was going to make a similar joke but mkirsh wins the prize

[Bob Green]

Team Green:

Rory McIlroy - 7
Justin Thomas - 7
Collin Morikawa - 6
Sam Burns - 6
Hideki Matsuyama - 4

Tiebreaker: -6

[sagegrouse]

Sage selections:

Rory McIlroy- 7
Cameron Smith - 7
Tony Finau - 4
Xander Schauffele - 4
Cameron Young - 3
Abraham Ancer - 3
Justin Rose - 2

Tie breaker: Winning score of -6

[elvis14]

I was going to make a similar joke but mkirsh wins the prize

Yeah, had I seen mkirsh's post I wouldn't have made that joke because he took it next level!

Good luck to all.

[accfanfrom1970]

Rahm 7
Horschel 5
D Johnson 4
Conners 3
Im 3
Homa 3
Koepka 3
Rose 2

-8

[Tooold]

Open week! And what a week it's going to be with PGA and LIV players in the same field. Hopefully we actually get to watch golf vs just endlessly discussing golf tours, but we will see. ALthough it would be highly entertaining to see Rory or JT paired with Phil or DJ on Sunday.

Contest rules 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, Jon Rahm 7, Rory 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).

Good luck!

JT-7
Burns-6
Morikawa-6
Spieth-5
Zalatoris-4
Varner-2

Tiebreaker -10

[killerleft]

The killerleft band of temporarily inept golfers:


10- Scottie Scheffler

7- Rory Milroy

7- Cameron Smith

4- Will Zalatoris

2- Talor Gooch

Some other guy will finish with the winning score of minus (-) 6