OT: 2026 Open Golf Draft Contest & chat

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Joaquin Niemann
Jake Knapp
Alex Noren
Lucas Herbert
Frederic Lacroix

[rockycola]

FORE
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I've scrutinized "Official World Golf Ranking 2026" and have chosen the remaining top ranked duffer from each category.
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Cameron Young (3rd)
J.J. Spaun (12th)...................fwiw, Dustin Jonson is ranked 211th and Will Zalatoris 423rd
Kristoffer Reitan - NOR (25th)
Ryan Gerard (28th)
Jacob Bridgeman (27th)

4 Yanks and 1 Scandinavian is my team.

Note - just changed my #3 contestant from MacIntyre to Reitan (I picked Robert Mac and Moston chose Bob Mac) Sort of threw me off into the rough.

[mostonmike]

Cheers rocky, love your contributions to the golf threads and thanks for the extra research. What i am going to do is add those players to the allocation pool.

So this is the order I will allocate with lowest ranked / last to pick protagonist getting the #1 and so on. Unless of course they get selected
1. Wyndham Clark
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Viktor Hovland
4. Bryson DeChambeau
5. Brooks Koepka
6. Jordan Spieth
7. J.T. Poston
8. Bud Cauley
9. Alex Smalley
10. Sam Stevens
11. Marco Penge
12. Hideki Matsuyama
13. Nicolai Hojgaard
14. Alex Fitzpatrick
15. Akshay Bhatia

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And now I invite ANYONE who wishes to join in to pick their players.

WALLA WALLA DAWG II
DESBCOACH
N.E. OTHERS

First-come-First-Served


Use the list above - 1 from each group.

Deadline is Wednesday 10 a.m. PDT - to give me time to allocate everyone's 6th player, and of course the World Cup Semi Final is at Noon PDT - Eng v Arg.

[mostonmike]

For you Wildcard risk takers, Matthew Baldwin is ranked #779 in the world

And he has been a member at Birkdale since aged 17, so local knowledge for sure.

If anyone is thinking of a punt I would go for him to be leading after 1st round. 200 to 1 at the moment.

[desbcoach]

W. Clark
B Koepka
H. hall
L Oosthuizen
T Detry

Thx

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Cheers all!

I haven't been on the computer much since last Wednesday recuperating from a left hip upgrade. This is actually the first time I have been at my workstation since then.

Great news, I am walking a lot.
I am no longer on the narcotics.
I am sleeping pretty well.
With any luck, I will be back to walking a few miles a day in another 2 weeks.

To my picks.

Sorry desbocoach, I wanted Clark...... ah, you can have him.

Morikawa (from the USA)
Griffin (From the USA)
Whichever of the Hojgaards finished better at the Scottish Open (and I can pretend that the DEN means Denver)
Sungjae
Laurie..... only because I have a SISTER named Laurie (and the GB means Green Bay, right?)

Let's all have fun.

[desbcoach]

Cheers all!

I haven't been on the computer much since last Wednesday recuperating from a left hip upgrade. This is actually the first time I have been at my workstation since then.

Great news, I am walking a lot.
I am no longer on the narcotics.
I am sleeping pretty well.
With any luck, I will be back to walking a few miles a day in another 2 weeks.

To my picks.

Sorry desbocoach, I wanted Clark...... ah, you can have him.

Morikawa (from the USA)
Griffin (From the USA)
Whichever of the Hojgaards finished better at the Scottish Open (and I can pretend that the DEN means Denver)
Sungjae
Laurie..... only because I have a SISTER named Laurie (and the GB means Green Bay, right?)

Let's all have fun.

Sorry I took first come first served literally, made it look like the order of draft was complete and it was a free for all

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

No problem man...... If you snooze you lose, right?

Good luck

[Sibelius Hindemith]

That would be funny if Juliooooo posted his picks here then disappeared for another 6 months...

[D-train]

That would be funny if Juliooooo posted his picks here then disappeared for another 6 months...

Another Forum Lost Boy. Sad. So many have vanished into the Ether over the years....