The Majors Dynasty - The Masters
 

Ok, It's a little late to post this and I'm sorry about that, don't know why I didn't think to do it earlier...

Anyway - here's the deal. The Majors Dynasty will be based on the real results of the 4 golfing majors. The way it works is, each participant selects 7 golfers in each tournament and your team of golfers will receive a point for how they finish in the final standings (first place gets 1 point, second 2 points, etc.) The team score will consist of the 5 best golfers (kind of like 7 card stud - where the 5 best cards count). If you end up having more than 2 players miss the cut, you'll get the highest score for making the cut plus 1. The only restriction is you can only use each golfer 2 times (so no Tiger in all 4 events)

I will post the winners of each tournament at the end of that tournament and the overall winner of all 4 at the end.

Enter if you are interested

Unfortunately, because I was late posting this, I'll need all entries prior to 8:00 EDT

I'll Start:

Tiger
Phil
VJ
Ernie
Furyk
Weir
Howell, D

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickleson
Vijay Singh
Mike Weir
Luke Donald
Stuart Appleby
Geoff Ogilvy

This first list is just for the Masters correct?

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Mike Weir
Adam Scott
Jose Maria Olazabal
Chris DiMarco
Fred Couples

Correct - the 7 golfers you have listed above are only for the Masters. I'll start a new thread before the US Open (hopefully several days before rather than just 1). I'll also post the overall standings (all 4 tournaments) prior to the start of each major.

Tiger Woods
Henrik Stenson
Geoff Ogilvy
Trevor Immelman
Paul Casey
Mike Weir
Vijay Singh

Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Charles Howell III
Trevor Immelman
Vijay Singh
Ernie Els
Luke Donald

Tiger Woods
Charles Howell III
Phil Mickelson
Adam Scott
Retief Goosen
Paul Casey
Ernie Els

If anyone needs some help coming up with a list go to:


The Official Masters Website

click the Players link and you'll get some good info on who's in and how they've played on the course in the past.

Chris DiMarco - Gator streak continues!
Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Mike Weir
Ernie Els
Vijay Singh
Jose Maria Olazabal

My brother wants to play and because we don't have very many entries I'm going to post his picks:

Phil
Tiger
Ernie
Goosen
C Campbell
C Howell
Immelman

Mickelson
Tiger
Vijay
Langer
DiMarco
Olazabal
Paul Casey

Did you mean 8:00 PM tonight or 8:00 AM Thursday morning? Assuming you mean the morning ...

Tiger
Mickelson
Steve Stricker
Vijay
Tim Clark
Adam Scott
KJ Choi

Woods
Mickelson
Singh
Furyk
Els
Goosen
Garcia

I think I might be guilty of choosing a better US Open group than Masters; guess we'll know in four days.

After the first day. Early obviously, but not too bad. Didn't think Mickleson would shoot the worst on day one of all my picks, that's for sure.

6 of 7 make the cut

all 7 make the cut and many are in prime position on the leaderboard

4 of 7 make the cut, the 3 that didn't (Couples, DiMarco, and Scott) were all on the number...

all 7 are in

You got 5

Only got 3...ouch!

Got 5...

My Brother gets 3 -

5 make the cut

6 are in

4 made the cut

If you are wondering it looks like for anyone that didn't have 5 people make the cut... you'll get 46 points for every open spot. (That sounds terrible, but if you only get 4 that make the cut at one of the Open championships that number will be MUCH higher because the fields are much larger).

Couples and Scott made the cut...look at the parings for today. Both finished at +8 so I had 6 of 7. Only DiMarco (+9) didn't make it.

Scott teed off at 10am and Couples was right after.

I picked the wrong cheesehead. If I picked Jerry Kelly, I'd be doing quite well, with Tim Clark leading.

my bad - misread the cut line...bsak is right. +8 is in, so Couples, Scott, C Howell all made in on the number...

Wow, only guy to have all 7 picks make the cut and I scored on Appleby who no-one else chose. I should have put some money down.

Hey! Don't forget about me!

No Appleby but all seven did make the cut! :)

As it turns out - after correcting my mistake on the cut number - everyone had 5 players make the cut - so no huge team numbers were posted. In fact, the last place team is about 60 points behind the leader. That sounds like a bunch, but with the large fields in the open championships that deficit can be eaten up with the performance of 1 player...

Masters Selection Notes


- All 11 players chose Woods
- 10 of 11 chose Mickelson
- The 3rd most selected player was Singh
- 6 of 11 chose Els (so we get a missed cut for 1 of our 2 selections)
- No one chose Zach Johnson
- No one chose T2 finisher Rory Sabbatini
- The highest finisher to only be selected by 1 team was: Appleby (T7)

Masters Results

Lil' Breeze - 113 - with only 5 making the cut 'Lil Breeze was stuck with Immelman's 55 points (that alone made his score higher than the winner), he did get two of the second place finishers or this number could have been much higher.

bsak16 - 103 - only had 1 player miss the cut, but only had 1 player in the top 5 and no one else inside 20 (Weir finished at 20).

Mike1409 - 103 - only 5 made the cut and Olazabal was 44 points of the total.

Ryan S - 93 - See Mike1409, Casey was 10 places better than Weir - thus the 10 point lead.

Tyrith - 79 - Mickelson and C Howell 3 were the high scores here.

Craptacular - 79 - if Scott or Choi had just done a little better...

Breeze - 72 - Like Tyrith or Craptacular, but Weir was slightly better than Scott, Choi, and C Howell 3.

Sublime 2 - 65 - Goosen and Woods are a good start, Casey ends up being a great pick, they help offset Mickelson and Scott.

NoSkillz - 62 - all 5 players are in the top 20 (and he didn't select Goosen)

hoopsguy - 54 - last entry nearly wins the first event. two second place finishers and two 13s, plus Mickelson's 24.

tanglewood - 52 - the great start and the super pick of Appleby carries the day. All 5 picks in the top 20 and 3 in the top 10 (without Goosen). The two players dropped from the team calcuation, Mickelson and Oglivy tied for 24th.

The US Open is rapidly approaching, begin thinking about your 7 golfers.

Seven for the US Open - times selected in brackets

Ernie Els (1)
Vijay Singh (2)
Retif Goosen (1)
Rory Sabbatini (1)
Paul Casey (1)
David Toms (1)
Adam Scott (1)

The course this year is supposed to be so incredidibley tough that I think this round may well be a shot in the dark. Why are the USGA so obsessed with a winner carding a 72-hole par? Just because we don't want the leader finishing on 20 under doesn't mean that you have to go the absolute opposite extreme.

Two times for each player means no Tiger for me this week either.

Here are my picks for the US Open, with the number in brackets indicating how many times I've picked them this year:

Sergio Garcia (1)
Jim Furyk (1)
Retief Goosen (1)
Colin Montgomerie (1)
David Toms (1)
Ernie Els (1)
Phil Mickelson (1)

All first timers for me!

Adam Scott (1)
Retief Goosen (1)
Jim Furyk (1)
Vijay Singh (2)
Geoff Ogilvy (1)
Ernie Els (2)
and a completely crazy pick
Steve Stricker (1)

These should all be new picks for me.

David Toms
Adam Scott
Geoff Ogilvy
Charles Howell III
Padraig Harrington
Rory Sabbatini
Luke Donald

Stricker finished top 10 last year, so not that crazy a pick at all.

I will be at Oakmont Thursday, Friday, and Sunday and will put a hex on any golfers i didnt pick. By the way Phil was still bandaged up today while playing. My picks to come tomorrow.

To be completely honest the USGA hasn't done a thing to the course, if anything they have actually slowed the greens down a bit. For the members the stimpmeter rolls at 15 for normal play, for the Open they will have them down to a 13.5. They also have lowered the first and second cut of rough a bit.

My Picks

Vijay Singh (1)
Jim Furyk (1)
Retief Goosen (1)
Luke Donald (1)
Padraig Harrington (1)
Adam Scott (2)
Zach Johnson (1)

I will be pulling for Phil but with his wrist banged up I'm not sure he has a shot.

Breeze's Picks

Tiger
Zach Johnson
Padrig Harrington
Oglivy
Adam Scott
Aaron Baddeley
Luke Donald

I probably screwed this up by being out of town until today, but thankfully most of the participants have gotten their picks in. Still waiting on picks from:

Sublime
Mike1409
RyanS
Craptacular
Lil' Breeze

If your picks are not in before tee off Thursday, your picks from the Masters will be Rolled over.

Goosen
Woods (2)
Els
Ogilvy
Harrington
Donald
Furyk

Lil' Breeze selects:

Rory Sabbitini
Luke Donald
Scott Verplank
Tiger Woods
Adam Scott
Jim Furyk
Sergio Garcia

Ok, the rounds have started so no new entries. Anyone that didn't get their selections in will have their masters picks rolled over.

Guys who blew up, in a bad way, on Day 1:

Adam Scott: +13
Sergio Garcia: +9
Zach Johnson: +6
Retief Goosen: +6

There are probably others that have been picked that I missed, but the ones above are going to have their work cut out for them today to make the cut.