OWGR - Week #2

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I think it would be fair to say that it hasn't been one of the most exhilarating weeks, but still, congratulations to Johnson Wagner and Branden Grace for their deserved, albeit rather unexpected wins!

Wagner jumps up more than 100 places to #92 and Harrison Frazar is the second new top 100 this week (#82) as a result of his T2 finish. Nice upward movements for the other 3 joint runner up finishers at Sony - Howell Three Sticks, SO'H and Pettersson, who is returning into the top 100. But a bunch of other players are slipping quietly out of the picture this week: Ross Fisher, Tommy 2Gloves, Tim Clark, Steve Marino... hopefully not for a long time. And it's a very nice jump up into the 160s for young Branden Grace from South Africa.
Otherwise, the European quartet at the top remains undisturbed, Tiger stays at #25, but the slump continues for Padraig, looking now destined to dive down into yet another owgr 'decade', the 90's, by the time he will tee off next week in Abu Dhabi...

The OWGR table after week #2 should look like this:

1 Luke Donald
2 Lee Westwood
3 Rory McIlroy
4 Martin Kaymer
5 Steve Stricker
6 Webb Simpson
7 Adam Scott
8 Dustin Johnson
9 Charl Schwartzel
10 Jason Day
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11 Matt Kuchar
12 Nick Watney
13 Graeme McDowell
14 K.J. Choi
15 Phil Mickelson
16 Justin Rose
17 Sergio Garcia
18 Hunter Mahan
19 Ian Poulter
20 Paul Casey
21 Alvaro Quiros
22 Bubba Watson
23 Kim Kyung-Tae
24 Bill Haas
25 Tiger Woods
26 Keegan Bradley
27 Louis Oosthuizen
28 Robert Karlsson
29 Simon Dyson
30 Bo Van Pelt
31 David Toms
32 Rickie Fowler
33 Martin Laird
34 Bae Sang-Moon
35 Thomas Bjorn
36 Brandt Snedeker
37 Anders Hansen
38 Geoff Ogilvy
39 Jason Dufner
40 Francesco Molinari
41 Fredrik Jacobson
42 John Senden
43 Zach Johnson
44 Peter Hanson
45 Miguel Jimenez
46 Aaron Baddeley
47 Y.E. Yang
48 Ryo Ishikawa
49 Darren Clarke
50 Gonzalo Fdez-C.
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51 Retief Goosen
52 Jonathan Byrd
53 Gary Woodland
54 Jim Furyk
55 Ben Crane
56 Ryan Moore
57 Mark Wilson
58 Greg Chalmers
59 Matteo Manassero
60 Robert Allenby
61 Charles Howell III
62 Toru Taniguchi
63 Rory Sabbatini
64 Joost Luiten
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65 Alexander Noren
66 Sean O'Hair
67 Edoardo Molinari
68 Kevin Na
69 Hiroyuki Fujita
70 Vijay Singh
71 Ernie Els
72 Chez Reavie
73 Lucas Glover
74 Ryan Palmer
75 Jeff Overton
76 Nicolas Colsaerts
77 Pablo Larazabal
78 Yuta Ikeda
79 George Coetzee
80 Jacko Van Zyl
81 Carl Pettersson
82 Harrison Frazar
83 Thomas Aiken
84 Anthony Kim
85 Brendan Jones
86 Spencer Levin
87 Paul Lawrie
88 Tetsuji Hiratsuka
89 Padraig Harrington
90 Gregory Havret
91 Charley Hoffman
92 Johnson Wagner
93 Chris Kirk
94 David Lynn
95 Koumei Oda
96 Jamie Donaldson
97 Camilo Villegas
98 Richie Ramsay
99 Scot Verplank
100 Michael Hoey
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101 Marcus Fraser
102 Fredrik A. Hed
103 D.A. Points
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Pablo Martin's round today: 2 bogeys, 4 double, one triple and one quadruple = +17! Superb!!

Looks like a tough day out there and things are very unpredictable still, with Grace moving in the wrong direction...

No TV coverage here, yet, but scores are all over the place.

Distinct signs of cream rising to the top; Schwartzel needs to concentrate on his opening rounds. Terrible last week which resulted in missing the cut.

Pablo Martin only just broke 50 on his back nine!

Suddenly the South African heavy weights are clogging the top of the LB, including Ernie. Great to have Ollie still among them... and Harrington who just birdied the 15th, although the prospect of him playing the last 3 holes again is giving me shivers already...

Harrington's trying to dispel the (justified) rampant scepticism!

... and doing a good job so far, but here comes the 18th...
Charl looking better with every hole...

WOW! to Padraig and Ernie!

Hurraay!!!
7 major champs in the current top 10!!!

Good for DC; now 8 Major Champs in top 11!

Ooollleeeee, Ollie!

...ah, forgot you said you can't watch it... Ollie just birdied the 14th after his drive went way to the right and ended on the edge of a concrete path, had a totally blind 2nd shot from there which ended at the back edge of the green and then holed a very long, partly downhill, putt from there! Superb!

After watching a bit of this today, I really think Fancourt is a great golf course. Looks good on the eye and sets up for some really exciting golf, specially when you add a bit of wind like today. From eagles (Charl almost shoot an albatross today) to triple and quadruple bogeys, you get a great mix of shots and scores, very enjoyable to watch... Ollie was putting a show out there today, pitty about the double at the 17th, but great recovery with a birdie at the 18th. So, it's Grace and Colsaerts in the lead, but they are followed very closely by 7-8 major champions... Should be a great final round tomorrow!

Wow, super start from Ollie, birdies the first 2 holes and moves to the top!!!
That would be some story...

Back to your 7 major winners in the top 9; shame DC couldn't make it 8.

Lots to gain now, not that much to lose, given the separation.

Anyone watching the Volvo champions?

Looks like it might be a nice battle between The goose and charl.

Looks like we can also add colsearts, els, and JMO into the mix after a slip up from goose and charl. First really exciting golfing action of 2012?

Jinxed Ollie
Not happening for Padraig, so looks like it's gonna be down to Goose and the Saaffers, with Ollie and Colsaerts still in the frame...
Glad to see that Matteo finally figured out how to play this course, great round today.

Goosen trying hard to play himself out of this; a good finish this week would go a long way to securing a place in The Masters, but going in the wrong direction right now.

C'mon Ernie!!

Obviously Ernie's heard that King Charl hopes to cook a South African braai at Augusta, and fancies helping Charl as guest celebrity chef.

Doubt a win this week will quite be enough for a return to the Top 50, but every little bit helps!

No bogeys on the back nine for Els this week so if he can birdie the two par fives remaining he must be in with a very good shout.

pd, !!!

What a mess from Charl at the 12th! Bye, bye...

Anyone would think this was the Hotel California!

Eagle, Birdie, Birdie,
'Allo, 'Allo Charl . . . . .

Dramaaaaa!!! 3xPlay-offffffff!

These depend of course on what will happen later at Humana...

Els wins.......... up as high as #53
Goose wins..... up as high as #32
Grace wins...... up as high as #91

Very impressive win by Amazing Grace!
How special was that for him, to beat two of his biggest idols in a play-off in his home town, and get €350,000 for it as well!!

Much more satisfactory than watching the denouement in Manchester, I'm sure.
No grace about the way Manchester City went about their business. What a disgrace, in fact.

Great for Grace, positive steps for Erns and Retief.
And J-M O up from #596?

kwinigolfer wrote:Great for Grace, positive steps for Erns and Retief.
And J-M O up from #596?

Els/Goose moving up to #56/45 at best.
Ollie up around 180 places...Podge up to #86, but only if he's lucky...

Would think only Ben Crane with a top two and Mark Wlson with a win (possibly top two?) have a chance to reach the top fifty from the Humana.

In theory there may be 1-2 others, but realistically, only those two. Both could make it with a solo 2nd place...