Another Masters Contest

The Game Room
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This one doesn’t exclude Tiger, but gives you a handicap for picking him. I heard a similar contest on our local sports radio, and it seemed to make sense.

Here are the rules:

  1. Pick three golfers to get your best score.
  2. If you pick Tiger, you incur a 4 stroke penalty.
  3. All three of your golfers must make the cut, else you are eliminated.
  4. Lowest total score of your three combined win.
  5. Tiebreaker Part 1: Total score for all days of the winner.
  6. Tiebreaker Part 2: Final score of the winner on the last day played.
  7. If, for any reason, the tournament is shortened (rain, tornadoes, flying pigs), then a par will be used to fill out the scoring.

Example 1: Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Davis Love III. Winner at 277, Final Round at 69.

Mickleson shoots 295, Singh is at 289, but Davis Love III doesn’t make the cut. Doper is eliminated.

Example 2: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Mike Weir. Winner at 280, Final Round at 70.
Woods shoots 280 (and wins with a 67 on the final round), Mickelson is at 295, Weir shoots 297. Total is 872 + 4 point Eldrick handicap, for a total of 876.

Example 3: Singh, Zach Johnson and Ernie Els. Winner at 280, Final Round at 68.
Singh shoots 289, Johnson shoots second at 287, Ernie Els shoots 300. Group score is also 876.

Doper 3 wins since he tied with Doper 2, but won the second tie-break.

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What the hell, I bought a lottery ticket the other night.

Els, Ernie
Mickelson, Phil
Garcia, Sergio

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Even with the handicap…I’m going with Tiger. Let’s also roll the dice with Retief Goosen and my pick from the other thread, Geoff Ogilvy.

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Don’t forget to put in tiebreakers.

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My three:

Geoff Ogilvy
Fred Couples
Jim Furyk

Tiebreaker 1: 279
Tiebreaker 2: 70

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My three:

Tiger Woods
Geoff Ogilvy
Vijay Singh

TB1: 275
TB2: 69

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Tiger Woods
Stewart Cink
Zach Johnson

TB1:277
TB2:69

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My tiebreakers:
1)276
2)68

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I’ll pick John Rollins,Vijay and Retief

  1. 284
    2)67
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Tiger, Ogilvy, Mickelson

  1. 277
  2. 68
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Stewart Cink, Tiger, Mike Weir.

  1. 282
  2. 68
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Woods, Singh, Mickelson

276
69

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Woods
Harrington
Mickelson

277
68

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ShermanAter - 218
Yeticus Rex - 219
MadTheSwine - 220
HongKongFooey - 221
Shibb - 221
SpoilerVirgin - 221
Kid_A - 222
Dinsdale - 222
MonkeyMensch - 223

Just five strokes separate the field, still anyone’s game. No one picked Justin Rose or Trevor Immelman, today’s co-leaders. Best player(s) picked so far are Zach Johnson and Jim Furyk. Worst round of our picks was John Rollins.

Note that above are adjusted for Tiger’s handicap but for ties are just in alphabetical order. Won’t worry about tie breakers until the end.

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TTT for a third round update.