It's football season!!!

My daughter re-enacts every guy's reaction to the first month of football.

2012 College Football Contest

I think there has been some confusion with regards the home page of the 2012 College Football Contest.

Under the 'Side Pools' link in the list on the left, you will see a link for the 2012 College Football Handicapping Contest.

http://cungsmajorspool.com/2012_handicapping.html

The 'Rules' link on the left applies to the golf Majors Pool, not the football contest.

Please use the link above for football contest related inquiries.

There are two more weeks to register for the football pool.  We currently have 31 players signed up.  We'd like to get a few more so pass the info along to friends.

Thanks.

PGA/Final Results

I was hoping for a more dramatic Sunday to close out our season but Mr. McIlroy wanted no part of that.  What a dominant final performance.  The last player to win the PGA Championship by 7 or more shots was Nicklaus in 1980.  Rory now holds the record at 8.  Well done Rory.

 

Thirty-one players, including 3 in the top 10, had Rory and pocketed a cool $1.445illion this weekend.  Cha ching.

 

Brent Powdrill is this week's winner with earnings of $2,045,453 (Rory, Bradley, Tiger, Oosthuizen).  Very good week for Brent.  $200 bucks coming your way.

 

And with that, the moment you all have been waiting for.

 

Congratulations to the following players for cashing in the 2012 Majors Pool (Final position, name, prior rank):

1st Place -  Eric Kelley $2,200 (3rd)

2nd Place - Brent Powdrill $1,600 (6th)

3rd Place - Lindsay Boston $1,100 (5th)

4th Place - Stephen Shapiro $700 (2nd)

5th Place - Edward Johnson $550 (1st)

6th Place - Chris Hampy $400 (4th)

7th Place - Trey Williamson $300 (7th)

8th Place - Thomas Zentner $250 (19th)

9th Place - Michael Ramirez $200 (23rd)

Two last place exemptions into 2013 pool - Lee Simmons and Mike Sirois

 

Please reply with your mailing address so I can send you a check for your winnings.

 

Double-check your results to make sure they are accurate.  Earnings for the PGA Championship can be found here:

http://scores.espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard

 

I hope everyone enjoyed the season.  If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to email me.  I'm always looking for ways to improve the pool for future years.

 

Also, don't forget to sign up for the 2012 College Football contest:

http://www.cungsmajorspool.com/2012_handicapping.html

 

We'll do it again in 2013.

 

Regards,

Steve Cung

 

PGA Round 2 Results

Wow, tough day for these guys as the wind picked up in a major way and made for a very different day than Thursday.  The projected cut was at +2 at one point but ended up at +6.

Yet again, Tiger is in the hunt at another major.  The good thing is that almost everyone has used him this year so only 5 players selected him for this event.

Our top 5 in the pool is struggling.  Out of the 20 golfers selected by the top 5, only 3 are under par.  Our current leader, Edward Johnson, is a combined +17 with 3 players making the cut. His best score is with Ooosthuizen at +5.  Ouch.

Brent Powdrill, round 1 leader and currently in 6th, is still in the hunt with Tiger and Rory.  He's the only player in the top 10 with two golfers under par heading into the weekend.

Should be a fun moving day.  Links will be updated at the conclusion of today's round.

Happy Saturday!

PGA Round 1 Results

Benign conditions leads to decent scoring today but that could change tomorrow.

Carl Pettersson is your leader after 18.  Only Aaron Shields (ranked 82) had Pettersson.  That should keep you interested this week Aaron.

Brent Powdrill is your overall scoring leader in the clubhouse at an aggregate of 14 under.
- Rory McIlroy -5
- Keegan Bradley -4
- Tiger Woods -3
- Louis Oosthuizen -2

Not only does Brent have all 4 golfers in the red numbers, he's currently ranked 6th overall in the pool.  If these guys hold on to finish strong, the top 5 could be in trouble.  Great start buddy.

Notables that had a rough first round:
- T66 Bubba Watson +1 Selected 45 times
- T92 Jason Dufner +2 Selected 41 times
- T92 Steve Stricker +2 Selected 21 times
- T143 Webb Simpson +7 Selected 13 times

But as we all know, round 1 results mean almost nothing, especially this year.  We still have 54 holes to  play so there's a long way to go.

Both leaderboards have been updated as well as the PGA links.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

PGA Championship Picks Posted

Picks for the PGA Championship have been posted.  Please double-check your selections to ensure they were entered in correctly.

Tee Times for Round 1 (all times EST):

Tee Number 1
7:20 am Kelly Mitchum D.A. Points Marcel Siem
7:30 am John Senden Ken Duke Michael Frye
7:40 am Greg Chalmers Spencer Levin Michael Thompson
7:50 am Thomas Bjorn Robert Garrigus Charley Hoffman
8:00 am Lucas Glover Ben Curtis Trevor Immelman
8:10 am Scott Stallings Jeev Milkha Singh Johnson Wagner
8:20 am Shaun Micheel David Toms John Daly
8:30 am Bernd Wiesberger Ryan Palmer Robert Karlsson
8:40 am Alvaro Quiros Cameron Tringale Ryan Moore
8:50 am Tommy Gainey Jason Day Carl Pettersson
9:00 am Mike Small Brian Davis John Huh
9:10 am Sean O'Hair Brian Cairns Seung-Yul Noh
9:20 am Chris Stroud Marty Jertson Thongchai Jaidee
12:30 pm Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano George McNeill Frank Bensel
12:40 pm Brendon de Jonge Danny Balin Hiroyuki Fujita
12:50 pm John Rollins Kyle Stanley Francesco Molinari
1:00 pm Charl Schwartzel Rickie Fowler Nicolas Colsaerts
1:10 pm Hunter Mahan Adam Scott Sergio Garcia
1:20 pm Bubba Watson Webb Simpson Ernie Els
1:30 pm Luke Donald Brandt Snedeker Zach Johnson
1:40 pm Padraig Harrington Phil Mickelson Davis Love, III
1:50 pm Scott Piercy Graeme McDowell Matt Kuchar
2:00 pm Justin Rose Paul Lawrie Nick Watney
2:10 pm K.J. Choi Simon Dyson Scott Verplank
2:20 pm Mitch Lowe Jeff Overton Blake Adams
2:30 pm William McGirt Paul Scaletta Robert Allenby

Tee Number 10
7:20 am Matteo Manassero Charles Howell, III Mark Brown
7:30 am Pat Perez Corey Prugh Martin Laird
7:40 am Toru Taniguchi Rory Sabbatini Rafael Cabrera-Bello
7:50 am Jose Maria Olazabal Branden Grace Matt Dobyns
8:00 am Darren Clarke Ryo Ishikawa Gary Woodland
8:10 am Dustin Johnson Rory McIlroy Jim Furyk
8:20 am Jason Dufner Paul Casey Geoff Ogilvy
8:30 am Keegan Bradley Martin Kaymer Tiger Woods
8:40 am Louis Oosthuizen Ian Poulter Steve Stricker
8:50 am Lee Westwood Bill Haas Angel Cabrera
9:00 am Stewart Cink Peter Hanson Tim Clark
9:10 am Jeff Coston Bud Cauley Robert Rock
9:20 am Joost Luiten Alan Morin Thomas Aiken
12:30 pm Bryce Molder Matt Every Bob Sowards
12:40 pm Sang Moon Bae Darrell Kestner David Lynn
12:50 pm Marcus Fraser Jamie Donaldson Doug Wade
1:00 pm Jonathan Byrd Anders Hansen Aaron Baddeley
1:10 pm Thorbjorn Olesen Fredrik Jacobson Jimmy Walker
1:20 pm Miguel Angel Jimenez K.T. Kim Bo Van Pelt
1:30 pm Y.E. Yang Rich Beem Vijay Singh
1:40 pm Charlie Wi Pablo Larrazabal Chez Reavie
1:50 pm Retief Goosen Mark Brooks Roger Chapman
2:00 pm Alex Noren Mark Wilson George Coetzee
2:10 pm Marc Leishman Ted Potter, Jr. Brian Gaffney
2:20 pm Michael Hoey Kevin Na Rod Perry
2:30 pm Brendan Jones Bill Murchison J.J. Henry

Submit Picks for PGA Championship

The 'Submit Golfers' function has been enabled so please begin submitting your golfers for our final event of the season.

The field still has two remaining spots to be filled after this weekend: winner of WGC and winner of Reno-Tahoe not already in.

Restated British Results

It was brought to my attention that I slightly over-stated everyone's earnings.

All earnings totals for the British have been corrected and had lite affect to the overall rankings.  Edward Johnson was still our weekly winner.

British Open Results

Wow, epic choke.  Adam Van de Velde had a 4 shot lead with 4 to play and ended up playing the last 4 holes four over.  What a clutch put by Ernie to essentially win the championship.  The last 45 minutes of this tournament proves that sports is the best reality TV period.  Gotta feel for Scott but I think pretty boy will survive.

 

I was expecting to give out the $1.4 million only to 12 Scott backers, including myself.  But instead, 28 people are $1.4M richer for picking the Big Easy.  3 of those 28 are currently ranked in the top 10.  Sheesh.

 

The winner this week was Mr. Edward Johnson with total earnings of $1,965,145 (Els, Woods, Harrington). Please contact me with your mailing address so I can send you your $200 check.  Congrats.

 

Edward was in 4th place heading into this tournament and now holds the overall lead over Stephen Shapiro who was able to stay in 2nd.  Although I envy your position at the top, I'm glad I don't have the pressure to hold the top spot for our grand prize of $2,200.

 

At the bottom of the leaderboard, Chesney Coker and Lee Simmons currently are in the running for the two exemption spots for next year.

 

Please double-check your earnings totals to make sure they are correct:

http://scores.espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard

 

The PGA Championship is our final event and will begin August 9th.  For those in the running for the top 9 spots, I would suggest you do your homework and start thinking about your players.

 

Contact me if you see any discrepancies with the final results.

 

http://www.cungsmajorspool.com/2012.htm

The Open - Round 3 Results

The leaderboard and British Open links have been updated with results for round 3.

The Open - Round 2 Results

Brandt Snedeker?  Really?  The guy who has never made a cut at The Open?  30-1 odds for him to win pre-tournament?  Luckily, no one in the pool selected him but the likelihood of him holding the lead through Sunday with Scott and Tiger breathing down his neck is slim.

The player popularity leaderboard, scoring leaderboard and both British Opn links ave been updated with results from round 2.  On the scoring leaderboard, I restated the Prior Rank column to only include golfers that will be teeing it up tomorrow.

As you can see from the Player Popularity Leaderboard, Adam Scott is at the top of the pool since no one had Snedeker.  Only 12 people, including yours truly, had Scott and only 6 of the remaining 13 people have Tiger.

At the top of the Scoring Leaderboard is Thomas Zenter (ranked 41) at -19 total with 3 players making it to the weekend:
Scott -9
Woods -6
McDowell -4

Sitting pretty for the weekend.

Here's how the top 10 players are doing heading into the weekend (only one player in the top 10 had Scott):

Name	Current Pool Rank	Players	Score	Today	Thru	Position
Hampy, Chris	1	Rory McIlroy	+2	+5	F	T51
Hampy, Chris	1	Louis Oosthuizen	E	-2	F	T28
Hampy, Chris	1	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
Hampy, Chris	1	Sergio Garcia	Cut
Shapiro, Stephen	2	Lee Westwood	+3	E	F	T68
Shapiro, Stephen	2	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Shapiro, Stephen	2	Sergio Garcia	Cut
Shapiro, Stephen	2	Ernie Els	-3	E	F	10
McShan 2, Patrick	3	Martin Kaymer	Cut
McShan 2, Patrick	3	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
McShan 2, Patrick	3	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
McShan 2, Patrick	3	Louis Oosthuizen	E	-2	F	T28
Johnson, Edward	4	Tiger Woods	-6	-3	F	3
Johnson, Edward	4	Justin Rose	Cut
Johnson, Edward	4	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Johnson, Edward	4	Ernie Els	-3	E	F	10
Williamson, Trey	5	Sergio Garcia	Cut
Williamson, Trey	5	Adam Scott	-9	-3	F	2
Williamson, Trey	5	Ian Poulter	E	-1	F	T28
Williamson, Trey	5	Retief Goosen	E	E	F	T28
Kelley, Eric	6	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Kelley, Eric	6	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
Kelley, Eric	6	Louis Oosthuizen	E	-2	F	T28
Kelley, Eric	6	Ernie Els	-3	E	F	10
Boston, Lindsay	7	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Boston, Lindsay	7	Sergio Garcia	Cut
Boston, Lindsay	7	Ernie Els	-3	E	F	10
Boston, Lindsay	7	Rickie Fowler	+3	+2	F	T68
Allen, DJ	8	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
Allen, DJ	8	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Allen, DJ	8	Justin Rose	Cut
Allen, DJ	8	Rory McIlroy	+2	+5	F	T51
Fischer, Marc	9	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
Fischer, Marc	9	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Fischer, Marc	9	Dustin Johnson	+1	-2	F	T40
Fischer, Marc	9	Ian Poulter	E	-1	F	T28
Gossen, Matthew	10	Padraig Harrington	+2	+2	F	T51
Gossen, Matthew	10	Graeme McDowell	-4	-1	F	T5
Gossen, Matthew	10	Louis Oosthuizen	E	-2	F	T28
Gossen, Matthew	10	Fredrik Jacobson	+2	+3	F	T51

I'll be up early as hell tomorrow for moving day and will update leaderboards and links sporadically during the round.

Good luck.

The Open - Round 1 Results posted

Results for round 1 have been updated on the Player Popularity Leaderboard, Scoring Leaderboard and British Open links.

The scoring leaderboard, was calculated differently than prior tournaments.  I excluded the scores of any golfers not projected to make the cut (top 70 and ties) when tallying scores for each participant.  This way, If you had Adam Scott at -6 but some hack at +6, it would not show you at even par.

Since we're only concerned about earnings, we only care about the players staying through the weekend.

I will post results for round 2 tomorrow at the conclusion of the round.

Good luck tomorrow.

British Open Picks Posted

All picks for The Open have been posted.  Please make sure your picks were entered in correctly.

Good luck.

British Tee Times

Round 1 tee times.  All times are eastern time.

6:19 a.m. – Barry Lane, James Driscoll
6:30 a.m. — Richard Finch, Garth Mulroy
6:41 a.m. — Matthew Baldwin, Adilson Da Silva, Tadahiro Takayama
6:52 a.m. — Rafael Echenique, Kodai Ichihara, John Huh
7:03 a.m. — Sandy Lyle, Todd Hamilton, Mark Calcavecchia
7:14 a.m. — Alejandro Canizares, Jeev Milka Singh, Greg Chalmers
7:25 a.m. — John Daly, Chad Campbell, Michael Hoey
7:36 a.m. — Thongchai Jaidee, Justin Leonard, Simon Khan
7:47 a.m. — David Duval, Raphael Jacquelin, Miguel Angel Jimenez
7:58 a.m. — Stephen Ames, Robert Rock, Kyle Stanley
8:09 a.m. — Stewart Cink, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Johnson Wagner
8:20 a.m. — Jamie Donaldson, Bill Haas, Y.E. Yang
8:31 a.m. — Davis Love III, Tim Clark, Paul Lawrie
8:42 a.m. — Adam Scott, Alan Dunbar (a), Matt Kuchar
8:58 a.m. — Vijay Singh, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter
9:09 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Zach Johnson
9:20 a.m. — Lee Westwood, Yoshinori Fujimoto, Bubba Watson
9:31 a.m. — Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Hiroyuki Fujita
9:42 a.m. — Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia
9:53 a.m. — Ryo Ishikawa, Martin Kaymer, Tom Watson
10:04 a.m. — Thomas Bjorn, Aaron Baddeley, Charl Schwartzel
10:15 a.m. — Jason Dufner, Martin Laird, Kevin Na
10:26 a.m. — James Morrison, Daniel Chopra, Joost Luiten
10:37 a.m. — Thorbjorn Olesen, Troy Matteson, Thomas Aiken
10:48 a.m. — Brad Kennedy, Mardan Mamat, Steve Tiley
10:59 a.m. — Warren Bennett, Aaron Townsend, Grant Beenstra
11:10 a.m. — Dale Whitnell, Sam Walker, Elliot Saltman
11:31 a.m. — Bob Estes, Steven O’Hara, Brendan Jones
11:42 a.m. — Juvic Pagunsan, Scott Pinckney, Nicholas Cullen
11:53 a.m. — Steven Alker, Lee Slattery, Russ Cochran
12:04 p.m. — Tom Lehman, Pablo Larrazabal, Greg Owen
12:15 p.m. — Marcel Siem, George Coetzee, Chez Reavie
12:26 p.m. — Marcus Fraser, Lucas Glover, Gregory Havret
12:37 p.m. — Charles Howell III, Paul Broadhurst, Richard Sterne
12:48 p.m. — Carl Pettersson, K.T. Kim, Gary Woodland
12:59 p.m. — Ben Curtis, Paul Casey, Trevor Immelman
1:10 p.m. — Robert Karlsson, Mark Wilson, Branden Grace
1:21 p.m. — Harris English, Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
1:32 p.m. — Angel Cabrera, K.J. Choi, Ross Fisher
1:43 p.m. — Jonathan Byrd, Sang-Moon Bae, Alvaro QUiros
1:59 p.m. — Nicholas Colsaerts, Hunter Mahan, John Senden
2:10 p.m. — Bo Van Pelt, Francesco Molinari, Toshinoro Muto
2:21 p.m. — Rory McIlroy, Louis Oosthuizen, Keegan Bradley
2:32 p.m. — Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington, Manuel Trappel (a)
2:43 p.m. — Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy
2:54 p.m. — Steve Stricker, Toru Taniguchi, Anders Hanson
3:05 p.m. — Peter Hanson, Retief Goosen, Robert Allenby
3:16 p.m. — Jim Furyk, Koumei Oda, Fredrik Jacobson
3:27 p.m. — Marc Leishman, Brandt Snedeker, Alexander Noren
3:38 p.m. — Andres Romero, Jbe Kruger, Richie Ramsey
3:49 p.m. — Ted Potter Jr., Ian Keenan, Andrew Georgiou
4 p.m. — Troy Kelly, Morten Orum Madsen, Anirban Lahiri
4:11 p.m. — Prayad Marksaeng, Justin Hicks, Ashley Hall

Submit Picks for British

Please start submitting your golfers for the British.  Picks are due Wednesday July 18th by 9:00PM.

U.S. Open Results Posted

U.S. Open results have been posted under the 2012 U.S. Open link.  Please ensure your earnings and totals are correct.  Overall pool rankings have also been updated.

Please contact me if there are any discrepancies.

U.S. Open Projected Earnings

 Heading into the final day, I'm sure we're all trying to figure out how much we will pocket at then end of the day.  Below are the earnings results from last year.  These figures are by no means official for this year's payouts but it should give you an idea how much each position paid out last year.  Not lookin' good for you, is it?

POS	PLAYER	EARNINGS
1	Rory McIlroy	1,440,000
2	Jason Day	865,000
T3	Robert Garrigus	364,241
T3	Y.E. Yang	364,241
T3	Kevin Chappell	364,241
T3	Lee Westwood	364,241
T7	Sergio Garcia	228,416
T7	Peter Hanson	228,416
T9	Louis Oosthuizen	192,962
T9	Charl Schwartzel	192,962
T11	Brandt Snedeker	163,083
T11	Davis Love III	163,083
T11	Heath Slocum	163,083
T14	Matt Kuchar	129,517
T14	Bo Van Pelt	129,517
T14	Fredrik Jacobson	129,517
T14	Graeme McDowell	129,517
T14	Webb Simpson	129,517
T19	Johan Edfors	105,905
T19	Steve Stricker	105,905
T21	Ryan Palmer	97,242
T21	Patrick Cantlay	-
T23	Gary Woodland	76,455
T23	Dustin Johnson	76,455
T23	Robert Rock	76,455
T23	Bill Haas	76,455
T23	Henrik Stenson	76,455
T23	Retief Goosen	76,455
T23	Brandt Jobe	76,455
T30	Rory Sabbatini	50,436
T30	Harrison Frazar	50,436
T30	John Senden	50,436
T30	Zach Johnson	50,436
T30	Gregory Havret	50,436
T30	Ryo Ishikawa	50,436
T30	Kyung-tae Kim	50,436
T30	Seung-yul Noh	50,436
T30	Do-Hoon Kim	50,436
T39	Sung-hoon Kang	41,154
T39	Martin Kaymer	41,154
T39	Adam Hadwin	41,154
T42	Russell Henley	-
T42	Sang-Moon Bae	37,351
T42	Lucas Glover	37,351
T45	Chez Reavie	31,264
T45	Luke Donald	31,264
T45	Robert Karlsson	31,264
T45	Charley Hoffman	31,264
T45	Padraig Harrington	31,264
T45	Michael Putnam	31,264
T51	Marc Leishman	24,708
T51	Alexander Noren	24,708
T51	Scott Piercy	24,708
T54	J.J. Henry	21,792
T54	Phil Mickelson	21,792
T54	Matteo Manassero	21,792
T54	Alvaro Quiros	21,792
T54	Edoardo Molinari	21,792
T54	Anthony Kim	21,792
T60	Todd Hamilton	19,763
T60	Marcel Siem	19,763
T60	Justin Hicks	19,763
T63	Brian Gay	18,620
T63	Bubba Watson	18,620
T63	Jeff Overton	18,620
T63	Bud Cauley	18,620
67	Kevin Streelman	17,819
T68	Kenichi Kuboya	17,178
T68	Christo Greyling	17,178
T68	Alexandre Rocha	17,178
71	Wes Heffernan	16,539