OWGR - Week #28

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Not the most straightforward conclusion to this week's main events, with three out of the four main tournaments being decided in playoffs. Congratulations anyway, to Jeev Milkha Singh of India and to Zach Johnson of USA, the deserving winners in the end (both after playoffs) of the Scottish Open and the John Deere Classic, respectively. It's been Jeev's first win since 2008 and it will propel him more than 100 places, back inside the top 100, to #87. For Zach Johnson, this is the second win of the season, and the results of that are begining to show, jumping up right below the top 10 in the world at #11. This has been the second consecutive runner up place for Francesco Molinari, who continues his impressive climb up the ranks, reaching now #22. Hard luck to Troy Matteson, runner up in Illinois after he led virtually all week, but he'll enjoy a significant jump of ~160 places to somewhere around #210. And as we say welcome to the top 100 (at #99) to Scott Piercy following his 3rd place at JD Classic, we may well have to wish farewell very soon to the trio of Jeff Overton, Sean O'Hair and Robert Allenby...

And finally, an American called LaBelle (Doug) and a Frenchman called Gary (Stal) have won the Web.com Tour event in Utah and the CT event in Switzerland (following another play-off), moving up somewhere around the #430 and #280 spots, respectively. According to the ET oracle at least, the 20-year old Stal could be the next big thing on the European Tour, winning now his second event in the last two months in his first year on the tour, so I guess we shall watch this space...

The OWGR table after week #28 should look like this:

1 Luke Donald
2 Rory McIlroy
3 Lee Westwood
4 Tiger Woods
5 Webb Simpson
6 Bubba Watson
7 Jason Dufner
8 Matt Kuchar
9 Justin Rose
10 Hunter Mahan
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11 Zach Johnson
12 Graeme McDowell
13 Adam Scott
14 Steve Stricker
15 Martin Kaymer
16 Phil Mickelson
17 Dustin Johnson
18 Louis Oosthuizen
19 Charl Schwartzel
20 Rickie Fowler
21 Jason Day
22 Francesco Molinari
23 Sergio Garcia
24 Keegan Bradley
25 Bo Van Pelt
26 Bill Haas
27 Peter Hanson
28 Ian Poulter
29 Brandt Snedeker
30 Nick Watney
31 Paul Lawrie
32 Jim Furyk
33 David Toms
34 K.J. Choi
35 John Senden
36 Nicolas Colsaerts
37 Martin Laird
38 Thomas Bjorn
39 Carl Pettersson
40 Ernie Els
41 Fredrik Jacobson
42 Bae Sang-Moon
43 Mark Wilson
44 Alvaro Quiros
45 Gonzalo Fdez-C.
46 Rafael Cabrerra-Bello
47 Jonathan Byrd
48 Simon Dyson
49 Kevin Na
50 Aaron Baddeley
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51 Branden Grace
52 Anders Hansen
53 Ben Crane
54 Robert Karlsson
55 Geoff Ogilvy
56 Michael Thompson
57 Kyle Stanley
58 Marcel Siem
59 Padraig Harrington
60 Robert Rock
61 Jamie Donaldson
62 Ryo Ishikawa
63 Greg Chalmers
64 Matteo Manassero
65 Retief Goosen
66 Rory Sabbatini
67 Robert Garrigus
68 John Huh
69 Alexander Noren
70 Kim Kyung-Tae
71 Hiroyuki Fujita
72 Johnson Wagner
73 Spencer Levin
74 George Coetzee
75 Ryan Moore
76 Ben Curtis
77 Paul Casey
78 Marcus Fraser
79 Y.E. Yang
80 Mark Leishman
81 Charles Howell III
82 Ryan Palmer
83 Miguel Jimenez
84 Darren Clarke
85 Ted Potter Jr.
86 Toru Taniguchi
87 Jeev Milkha Singh
88 Gary Woodland
89 D.A. Points
90 Pablo Larazabal
91 Brian Davis
92 Vijay Singh
93 Charlie Wi
94 Joost Luiten
95 John Rollins
96 David Lynn
97 Jeff Overton
98 Sean O'Hair
99 Scott Piercy
100 Robert Allenby
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101 Michael Hoey
102 Chez Reavie
103 Noh Seung-Yul
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Rory at singles? He's only played once.

Monty was the singles master. Played nine, won eight, halved one. I think.

Seve and Ollie mighty impressive ....

Partnerships with Most Points Earned

Europe
Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal (11-2-2), 12 points
Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam (5-2-2), 6 points
Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie (5-1-1), 5.5 points
Bernard Gallacher and Brian Barnes (5-4-1), 5.5 points
Peter Alliss and Christy O'Conner (5-6-1), 5.5 points


USA
Arnold Palmer and Gardner Dickinson (5-0-0), 5 points
Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson (4-0-0), 4 points
Larry Nelson and Lanny Wadkins (4-2-0), 4 points
Tony Lema and Julius Boros (3-1-1), 3.5 points

i am suprised that westy and clarke arnt up there

Super - No denying Monty's RC excellence, but I would take Rory on this day.

I think Rory is a bit unproven as yet. He can shoot 62 or 82.
I'd take poulter in singles over anyone.

poulter is just class in a team event- he has to be in the next oylimpics for my money..

Even in the seve trophy he was on another level v molinari(or was it matteo)- the way he came back to win birdiing the last couple of holes in the singles!

Justin Rose (and Web.com Simpson) the only players in the owgr Top 14 to miss the cut.

Uneven field next week in Oh Canada:
Els
Furyk
Goosen
Kuchar
Mahan
Schwartzel
Webb Simpson - must be a mistake!
Snedeker
Stanley
Van Pelt

Paul Casey 3rd alternate - how are the mighty fallen.

After a waffle and few Stella's, my quick guess would be that the Canadian should be worth ~42 pts next week (give or take)...

Adam Scott!!! Is this his time? Could we have Steve &Tiger reunited in the final group tomorrow?! Hopefully GMac will have different plans...

Gooo Graemeeeeeeeeee!!!

Scott could go to #5 with win.
If Tiger doesn't win, a 2-way tie for 3rd for him could still be enough to move him up to #2, if Lee and Rory don't improve dramatically tomorrow...

Back to more Stella's now...