U.S. Open Results

After a dominating performance through all four rounds, young Rory McIlroy is the 2011 U.S. Open Champion making Northen Ireland the home of back-to-back U.S. Open Champions.

25 of our pool participants had Rory as one of their squad for this week and that will net them each $1.44 million in earnings for this win.

This week's winner is Loyd Davis with total earnings of $2,609,871.  Mr. Davis put together a solid crew this week with McIlroy, Day, Garcia and Johnson.  That vaults him from the 77th spot all the way to the number 8 spot.  Your entry fee is on the way via PayPal Mr. Davis.  Congrats on a great week.

Our overall leader is Hill Shands who also had a solid Open.  Hill picked back-to-back tournament winners the for the past two events (very rare feat).  Remember that the top 7 spots will pay out as follows.  There's still two events to make up some ground.

1st Place ---------------------------	$1,217
2nd Place -------------------------	$845
3rd Place --------------------------	$507
4th Place --------------------------	$304
5th Place --------------------------	$237
6th Place --------------------------	$169
7th Place --------------------------	$101

As always, please double-check your totals to ensure they are accurate.  Final results and earnings can be found here: http://scores.espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard

The British Open is only 4 weeks away and we only have two tournaments left.  Start thinking about how you want to play these last two events.  Some of us have some major catching up to do.  Like last year, I will award the person in dead last at the end of the season exemption into the 2012 Majors Pool.  To qualify, you must have submitted golfers for each of the 5 events.

I will send out an email a week prior to the British.

The Golf Boys

For those that haven't seen this, it's pretty hilarious:

U.S. Open Leaderboard update thru 54

It appears that Rory has it on cruise control right now sitting on a 8 shot lead heading into the final round.  He's playing lights out right now.  If you're like me and did not choose Rory this week, you're rooting for him to repeat his previous majors meltdowns.  If he does hold out, 25 participants stand to pocket at least $1.35 million this weekend.  Come on Yang!

The leaderboard has been updated through 54 holes.  Once again, this is a cumulative score total for your players that make the cut.  This leaderboard can be deceiving since our pool is measured on earnings and not scoring, which can be quite different.  Check the US Open link to see individual player results

I've also added the overall majors pool rank so you can get an idea who has the potential to move up or down the rankings.

Good luck tomorrow.

US Open Picks Posted

My apologies to everyone for shortening up your time to get your picks in.  I also apologize for posting picks an hour after I originally stated but there are always procrastinators that wait until the last minute.

This week's overwhelming favorite is Steve Stricker (48 players) followed by Lee Westwood (33), Dustin Johnson (31) and K.J. Choi (29).  To see the rest of the breakdown, scroll to the bottom of the U.S. Open link to see the graph.

As always, please double-check your picks to make sure they are correct.

I will not be able to update the leaderboard Thursday or Friday but will do so Saturday and Sunday so check back for updates.

Good luck everyone.

Submitting players for the U.S. Open

Picks will be due on Tuesday, June 14th at 9:00 PM CST instead of Wednesday.  The 'Submit Golfers'  function will not be enabled until Sunday night (June 12th) when the final U.S. Open field is finalized at the conclusion of the St. Jude Classic.

Please start thinking about your picks becuase your window to submit golfers for the U.S. Open will only be a 48 hour period.

Players Championship Results

Yet another tournament with a packed Sunday leaderboard and several meltdowns.  Watney had another 'Watney-like' stretch of holes that hurt his chances.  All McDowell had to do was to shoot 2 under in his final round to take the win.  Instead, he shoots 79.  Who would have thought we would have seen David Toms and K.J. Choi in a playoff?  After a brilliantly played 18th by Toms to force a playoff, he chokes on a 3 footer to give K.J. the win.

Only two people in the field picked Toms.  Unfortunately, you won't be pocketing the winner's share of $1.7 million (Toms still earned $1 million so I don't feel too bad for you).  Instead, 12 players get to pocket the $1.7 million on top of what their other players made.

This week's winner is Paul Miller with total earnings of $2,567,850.  Paul had a huge week.  Not only did he pick Choi, he also had Watney, Donald, and Kuchar contributing to his arsenal.  Congrats Paul.  Please email me you payment info and I will get your entry fee back to you.

With a huge weekend, Paul comes from the 68th spot to take the lead.  As shown here, potential for big leaderboard movement is always prevelant so you're never out of it.

Earnings can be found here (please check and make sure your totals are accurate):
Players Earnings

Refer to the 'Overall Standings' link for current rankings.  The 'Player Championship' link has individual results.

The US Open is only 4 weeks away so start strategizing how you want to play the final 3 tournaments.

Steve

Players Championship Round 2

36 holes in the books for the 2011 Players Championship.  The leaderboard is pretty packed at the top with some big names which should provide some entertaining televison this weekend.

Refer to the 'Leaderboard' link under 2011 for round 2 standings.

The cut line ended up at even par which eliminated quite a few of our players (21).  The biggest bust of the week goes out to Adam Scott.  He was the second most popular pick (35 picks) this weekend behind Mr. Donald and he won't be teeing it up tomorrow.  Furyk and Bill Haas were two other popular picks that won't be earning you any money this weekend.  Also, we had three players withdraw after starting play; Tiger of course, Geoff Ogilvy, and defending champ Tim Clark.  As stated earlier about Tiger, alternates are only in play if your player withdraws PRIOR to the start of the tournament.  Since all 3 started, no alternates will be in play (same as in fantasy football when one of your players gets hurt during a game).  You may choose these players later in the season if you wish since they did not finish the event.  Please contact me if you have any questions.

Yours truly has all 4 of his golfers in the top 15 with a cumulative score of -26, which leads the pack into the weekend.  Did I mention that  I am the defending champion of this event from 2010?

Scoring conditions should become more difficult this weekend as the course dries out and the greens firm up so I don't suspect the low scoring trend will continue to Sunday.   Nonetheless, it should be an exciting weekend.

I will update the leaderboard this weekend as frequently as time allows.  Just check the timestamp for the last update.

Good luck!