OT: 2025 Open Championship Contest (17 - 19 July)

[mostonmike]

Just over a week to go until the final Major of the Year. You might call it the British Open. There are issues with the time difference - play will get underway late on Wednesday night your time so don't get caught out.

Rules:-
* PICK 4
* BUDGET - 100 Dollar pounds no need to save any money for later rounds
Protagonists may choose someone already selected by another protagonist. This is not a draft format.

Additional players:-
Everyone will be allocated an additional 2 unique players on Wednesday night (16th). Players will be put into OGWR and LIV WR order and allocated according to our own World Rankings. More about that in due course.

Scoring:-
Best 3 players count. Usual tie-breaker rules apply.

Subs & Cut:-
NO SUBSTITUTES after Round 2, as time difference makes it quite difficult. Anyone who doesn't have 3 players left will be allocated the player closest to the bottom of the leaderboard. This keeps everyone going into the weekend.

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90 Scottie Scheffler
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85 Jon Rahm
85 Rory McIlroy
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80 Bryson DeChambeau
80 Xander Schauffele
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70 Ludvig Aberg
70 Shane Lowry
70 Viktor Hovland
70 Collin Morikawa
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60 Justin Thomas
60 Tyrrell Hatton
60 Brooks Koepka
60 Tommy Fleetwood
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55 Hideki Matsuyama
55 Joaquin Niemann
55 Jordan Spieth
55 Matt Fitzpatrick
55 Patrick Cantlay
55 Robert MacIntyre
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50 Ben Griffin
50 Cameron Smith
50 Cameron Young
50 Corey Conners
50 J.J Spaun
50 Justin Rose
50 Russell Henley
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40 Adam Scott
40 Joohyung Kim (Tom Kim)
40 Min Woo Lee
40 Sam Burns
40 Sepp Straka
40 Tony Finau
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35 Aaron Rai
35 Brian Harman
35 Jason Day
35 Patrick Reed
35 Ryan Fox
35 Sungjae Im / Im Sungjae
35 Thomas Detry
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30 Carlos Ortiz
30 Sahith Theegala
30 Wyndham Clark
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25 Akhshay Bhatia
25 Dustin Johnson
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20 Daniel Berger
20 Davis Thompson
20 Dean Burmester
20 Harry Hall
20 Keegan Bradley
20 Louis Oosthuizen
20 Lucas Herbert
20 Marc Leishman
20 Rasmus Hojgaard
20 Sergio Garcia
20 Taylor Pendrith
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15 Rickie Fowler
15 Thriston Lawrence
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10 Andrew Novak
10 Denny McCarthy
10 J.T Poston
10 Jesper Svensson
10 Lee Westwood
10 Matthew Jordan
10 Maverick McNealy
10 Michael Kim
10 Nico Echavarría
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5 Brian Campbell
5 Christiaan Bezuidenhout
5 Harris English
5 Jhonattan Vegas
5 Matt Wallace
5 Thorbjorn Olesen
5 Tom McKibbin
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2 Laurie Canter
2 Lucas Glover
2 Marco Penge
2 Matthieu Pavon
2 Nick Taylor
2 Romain Langasque
2 Sebastian Soderberg
2 Stephan Jaeger
2 Chris Kirk
2 John Catlin
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Free
Francesco Molinari, Guido Mgliozzi, Jordan Smith, Kevin Yu, Mackenzie Hughes, Matt McCarty, Matteo Manassero, Max Greyserman, Niklas Nørgaard, Padraig Harrington, Phil Mickelson, Ryggs Johnston, Song Young-han, Tom Hoge
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-5
Aldrich Potgieter, An Byeong-hun, Bud Cauley, Daniel Brown, Jason Kokrak, Justin Suh, Kristoffer Reitan, Li Haotong (Hao Tong Li), Martin Couvra, Ryan Peake
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-10
Adrien Saddier, Ángel Hidalgo, Antoine Rozner, Curtis Knipes, Curtis Luck, Daniel Hillier, Daniel van Tonder, Daniel Young, Darren Clarke, Darren Fichardt, Dylan Naidoo, Elvis Smylie, Ernie Els, George Bloor, Henrik Stenson, Jacob Skov Olesen, Jesper Sandborg, John Axelsen, John Parry, Julien Guerrier, Justin Leonard, Justin Walters, Mikiya Akutsu, Nathan Kimsey, O. J. Farrell, Oliver Lindell, Paul Waring, Riki Kawamoto, Rikuya Hoshino, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Sampson Zheng, Shaun Norris, Stewart Cink, Takumi Kanaya, Zach Johnson
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-20
Bryan Newman (a), Cameron Adam (a), Connor Graham (a), Ethan Fang (a), FilipJakubcik (a), Frazer Jones (a), Justin Hastings (a), Sebastian Cave (a), Richard Tender (a)
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Others on request, apologies if there are any omissions, 3 players still to qualify via Scottish Open this weekend will be added on Monday
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[GL_Storm]

There have been enough of these golf threads that I wonder if we should have a golf forum.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Why is it called the Open Championship? It might make sense if the other majors were treated as "play-in" tournaments where only the top 25 finishers in each of those were eligible to compete in it. Otherwise, they should go back to calling it the British Open.

[mostonmike]

It’s the oldest golf tournament in the world. Before this there really was nothing of note and very quickly the tournament became Open to everyone professional pro and amateur player in the land.

It is still faithful to the principal with qualifying contests all over the world, top 50 in world rankings and winners of various tourneys including the Memorial, Arnold Palmer Invitation and Canadian Open all guaranteed slots in the Championship.

The US Open started over 30 years later.

[mostonmike]

There have been enough of these golf threads that I wonder if we should have a golf forum.

Fair point, but they are popular and go back as far as the forum itself.

Masters 19 pages, 8998 views
PGA 14 pages, 7611 views
US Open 12 pages 3031 views

There’s been 56 active forumistas in the last month, excluding those who stay logged out. 20% of those actives play the golf things.

Why not have a go? None of us know we are doing as the last tournament proved.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Here we go again....

MM, thanks for getting this going early. I am heading out on the road soon and will not have a lot of access if shit goes sideways, so if something is needed DT can text me if needed (if he agrees to that).


0 Max Greyserman
0 Tom Hoge
10 Maverick McNealy
90 Scotty Scheffler

[GL_Storm]

There have been enough of these golf threads that I wonder if we should have a golf forum.

Fair point, but they are popular and go back as far as the forum itself.

Masters 19 pages, 8998 views
PGA 14 pages, 7611 views
US Open 12 pages 3031 views

There’s been 56 active forumistas in the last month, excluding those who stay logged out. 20% of those actives play the golf things.

Why not have a go? None of us know we are doing as the last tournament proved.

That seems like a reason to have a dedicated forum.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

It’s the oldest golf tournament in the world. Before this there really was nothing of note and very quickly the tournament became Open to everyone professional pro and amateur player in the land.

It is still faithful to the principal with qualifying contests all over the world, top 50 in world rankings and winners of various tourneys including the Memorial, Arnold Palmer Invitation and Canadian Open all guaranteed slots in the Championship.

The US Open started over 30 years later.

I get all that, but calling it the British Open still seems more fitting to me. It's like tossing the name "Wimbledon" and calling it the "Grand Olde Open" instead. It smacks of a need for recognition by the ignorant masses.

[desbcoach]

L Aberg, K Bradly, M McNealy, J Smith, 70, 20, 10 and free for 100 quid

[Sibelius Hindemith]

L Aberg, K Bradly, M McNealy, J Smith, 70, 20, 10 and free for 100 quid

How's your ankle doing, did you need surgery?