The Open championship

spireiteontour · **Posted:** 16 Jul 2007, 09:29

not the British open . THE open

Ok after my lesser guys have dug me out of a whole the last few weeks this weekends was a disaster seeing a drop down to 16th.
Dead weight has been moved out but the risk is that the players brought in will be no better. Although how you can be worse than Trevor i wait and see- 7 points from 9 events.

Ok

open team

Woods
Els
Poulter
Fasth
Rose

and one of Zach, mahan, and Havret

still have 14 changes left and plan on only 1 in a couple of weeks for the next double pointer

so, Furyk and Mickleson to mess up please

padmole · **Posted:** 16 Jul 2007, 17:15

Top 5 look great -cannot vouch for any of the other 3 though - can you not transfer one of them to get a stronger player?
Failing that then Havret seems the most likely (Playing well and not a dodgy yank that will be distraught at having greens where they need to pitch the ball 60 yrds short).
Richard Green could be ok?

Sorry - poor & tenuous link/joke

spireiteontour · **Posted:** 17 Jul 2007, 23:13

am leaning towards mahan ...played 2 opens last 2 years made the cut

dunno what zachs record is but he has missed the last 3 cuts in us

havret...maybe the safe bet

toffeelover · **Posted:** 19 Jul 2007, 20:40

How tough are those last 3 holes :shock:

Already cost me dearly with too many of my fantasy players :cry:

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Still, I guess it evens out over the tourni.

Jonathan · **Posted:** 19 Jul 2007, 23:56

A bit up and down. Got all excited when new signing and each way bet KJ Choi went off like a steam train. Still in there but other new signings Fasth and Sterne disappointed big time. Going to be COLD tomorrow, but dry I think. Saturday WET AND WINDY

Anybody got Garcia?

My teams:

V Singh
J Furyk
H Stenson
N Fasth
J Kelly
R Sterne

T Wood
S Cink
KJ Choi
J Rose
R Sabbatini
R Sterne

toffeelover · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 00:23

Got the following team in 103rd place;

Sterne's problem was sand today - only got up and down once from 4 bunkers

See even Tiger was 0 from 2 in this department :shock:

Best to keep out of them, I guess

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 10:01

I assume you all know that the BBC are showing the TV coverage online this week? Also the R&A have a cracking little live scoring console. Even flashes up on the course guide when somebody birdies, bogies etc etc.

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 10:03

I hope Garcia keeps it going. Always strikes me as a really top bloke who hasn't quite fulfilled his potential. Bit of a fidget when watching him, though!

Top 3 look decent picks toffeeover, and Furyk has made a decent start. Luke Donald +4 on the front 9, including an 8 on the par 5 6th :shock:

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 10:06

Wahayyy.. Just had some fun. I launched the live golf console on the BBC website, which plays it from within the browser. But, I prefer to watch it in the standalone Real Player player, and both were showing on screen with about half a second delay - and Peter Alliss sounded as though he was in a big stadium with loads of echo. :lol:

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 10:08

Come on Fasth... -4 after 6 holes! Have him as an each way bet, too! Nice to see F a nny on my screen. :lol:

Stenson's caddy - what else did you think I meant?

pa102aw · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 11:18

Jonathan wrote:

Come on Fasth... -4 after 6 holes! Have him as an each way bet, too! Nice to see F a nny on my screen. :lol:

Stenson's caddy - what else did you think I meant?

If F a nny got married to VJ would that make her F a nny Singh.

??

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 12:19

pa102aw wrote:

If F a nny got married to VJ would that make her F a nny Singh.

??

Sabbatini was going well... than a quadruple bogie 8 followed by a triple bogie 7 kind of ruined things for him. :shock:

zipnolan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 15:12

I always get confused by the cut rules. Now Sergio's in with -6, assuming no-one tops that today does that pretty much define the cut at +3?

Spencer4 · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 15:14

zipnolan wrote:

I always get confused by the cut rules. Now Sergio's in with -6, assuming no-one tops that today does that pretty much define the cut at +3?

No, I don't think the 10 shot rule counts, it's top 70 and ties I think.

Mr Green · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 15:35

Indeed - there's no 10 shot rule, just the top 70 and ties. It looks fairly certain that the cut will be +4 by the end of the day, but more likely +5 than +3.

zipnolan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 15:45

Thanks - that seems to be confirmed as it just dropped to +4....

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 16:10

A couple of the big guns look like missing the cut, Phil Mick & Stenson

pa102aw · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 16:19

Lister wrote:

A couple of the big guns look like missing the cut, Phil Mick & Stenson

And dare I say it, the way he is playing at the moment .... TIGER.!!!!!

X-Man · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 6814

pa102aw wrote:

Lister wrote:

A couple of the big guns look like missing the cut, Phil Mick & Stenson

And dare I say it, the way he is playing at the moment .... TIGER.!!!!!

Not Tiger - he's nowhere near...

But the list of likely casualties is quite fearsome:

McDowell
Sabbatini
Love III
Toms
Mickelson
Ogilvy
Stenson
Zach Johnson

Luke Donald's on the cusp as well

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 16:41

With the imrpoving conditions the cut has come down to +3 at the minute.

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 16:45

Tiger is struggling big time! Nice sunny weather though! I have a few doing OK... Furyk, Choi, Cink, Rose, Fasth but, of course, not all in the same team! :roll:

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 16:57

If the cut remains at +3 Tiger needs to watch it... very, very easily lost two shots on one hole!

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 17:04

he just got very lucky on his last hole could have easily been in the water.

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 17:09

Lister wrote:

With the imrpoving conditions the cut has come down to +3 at the minute.

Back up to +4 67th and ties

spireiteontour · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 20:08

well for the first time this season all 6 have made the cut

and if it wasnt for that lefty weir i wd have had nonus with Fasth

Only els is currently in the top 20. However with 6 in for the weekend i would be unlucky not to have at least 2 in the points by the end of the tourny

i still think +5 will make it. But i dont need it to

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 20:18

Still needs another couple of players to drop shots to make it +5

Jonathan · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 21:00

spireiteontour wrote:

well for the first time this season all 6 have made the cut

and if it wasnt for that lefty weir i wd have had nonus with Fasth

Only els is currently in the top 20. However with 6 in for the weekend i would be unlucky not to have at least 2 in the points by the end of the tourny

i still think +5 will make it. But i dont need it to

Just noticed that Weir stuffed things for me too, Fasth and Choi! In different teams admittedly, but what really hurts is that Weir is sitting on my bench in the Fasth team!

Lister · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 21:06

2 players on the last hole one at +3 and one at +4 if they, looks like the cut is going to be +4.

Doogal · **Posted:** 20 Jul 2007, 21:28

Only + 4 s get in - Won Jun Lee bogied the last - a double bogey would have let another lot of players in.

andybarrell · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 2829

not too sure on that because McIlroy is an amatuer and he does not count , so it could be +5

I think the wording is top 70 PROFESSIONALS and ties

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