US Open Competition!

It is the second major of the year taking place in Pinehurst, North Carolina. kouchi won The Masters Competition back in April and is looking to add the US Open to his 'grand slam' bid. Shotrock took this last year and is looking for back-to-back wins in the US Open.

The rules remain the same so if you haven't played before all you have to do is select six golfers, before the first tee off on Thursday, then sit back and see how they get on. I will hopefully get a leaderboard up for each round sometime the following morning.

The winner will be the person with the lowest combined score from their three best finishers. That allows upto three of your selections to not make the cut. The competition scores will be the actual scores from the golfers. So if you have Tiger Woods and he scores 280 for his four rounds, you get 280 towards you score.

The full rules are listed at the bottom of this post.

Here is a list of the winners so far and you can see the previous Masters' final leaderboards in the spoilers below:-

	The Masters	US Open	The Open	US PGA
2013	kouchi
2013	EmmDee57	Shotrock	Aruglia	raycastleunited
2012	Alsie	Bobby4320	EmmDee57	dynamark
2011	GG	WillyGilly	Yadsendew	Faldono1fan
2010	navyblueshorts	no1yankee	Rich	venice1

US Open 2013

Spoiler:

US Open 2012

Spoiler:

US Open 2011

Spoiler:

US Open 2010

Spoiler:

To clarify here are the rules:-

1) Select six golfers before 11.45am on Thursday.

2) Your score will be the cumulative scores from the three best performing golfers of your six selections.

3) As in any golf competition the person with the lowest score wins. Par for this competition would be 840.

4) You must have atleast three of your selections make the cut in order to win.

5) In the event of a tie for first place, your fourth best placed selection will be the decider. If there is still a tie after that the fifth then sixth selections will be considered respectively.
 
Hope that explains it all and good luck.

Kaymer
Z Johnson
Mickleson
Mcilroy
Stenson
Furyk

Cheers Sport

Lowry  
De Jonge   
Blixt
Casey
De Laet
Mickelson

Cheers Sport

Blixt
Garcia
GMac
Day
Kaymer
ZJ

Bubba
Rory
Philly Mick
Adam S.
Spieth
Jimmy Walker

Sporty, think you might need to adjust rule number 1. 11:45pm might be a bit late...

Adam Scott
Paul Casey
Dustin Johnson
Ian Poulter
Matt Kuchar
Stewart Cink

Cheers   

Rory
Scott
Spieth
Blubba
Henrick
Rosey

McIlroy
Mickelson
Goosen
D Johnson
Scott
Donald

Rory McI
Jordan S
Jason Dufner
Joost Luiten
Bubba W
Adam Scott

1GrumpyGolfer wrote:Sporty, think you might need to adjust rule number 1.  11:45pm might be a bit late...

Done. I copied that bit from The Masters thread and that tied off just past 12pm. I forgot that the time changes from am to pm at noon   

super_realist wrote:Lowry  
De Jonge   

What's wrong with Stadler?

Cheers Sportform.
Here is my random selection.
Siem
Snedeker
Compton
Jiminez
Horschel
Koepka

Aviary filling scores please gents!

Lots of old friends (come back Yads, venice, Faldo, etc) on the honour roll, but this lot is unlikely to get me there:

Mickelson
McIlroy
Webb Simpson
Stenson
Bubba
Jason Day

Thanks sporty,

Wish I lived in Hawaii. I could make my picks at 11:45 am Thursday and the first round would nearly be over.  

And I would be living in Hawaii!

This is like trying to pick a Grand National winner.. but more fun.

G Mac
Dufner
Scott
Mickleson
Furyk
Kaymer

Cheers Sporty

Rory Mc
Steve stricker
Webb Simpson
Ian Poulter
Adam Scott
Bubba Watson

thanks!

Jason Day
Sergio Garcia
Jonas Blixt
Jordan Spieth
Louis Oosthuizen
Graham DeLeat

Think the overall par should be 840, not 864, due to Pinehurst being a par 70.

Cheers Sporty, great work as always.

Kuchar
Kaymer
Matsuyama
W Simpson
Horschel
Todd

Cheers Sporty

Please accept these as my entries -

Rory McIlroy
Adam Scott
Lee Westwood
Jonas Blixt
Hideki Matsuyama
Luke Donald

Thanks Sporty

Matt Kuchar
Bubba Watson
Adam Scott
Zach Johnson
Jordan Spieth
Sergio Garcia

Cheers. Good luck everyone.

Rory McIlroy
Phil Mickelson
Sergio Garcia
Justin Rose
Adam Scott
Dustin Johnson

Think I'll go with:

B(l)ubba
Rory Mac
Adam Scott
Dustin Johnson
Kuchar
Garcia

Cheers once again Sporty.

Rory Mcilroy
Bubba Watson
Adam Scott
Dustin Johnson
Henrick Stenson
Martin Kaymer

Cheers Sporty!

There should be a rule that you can't have more than 3 picks in the top 10 of the betting........

MustPuttBetter wrote:There should be a rule that you can't have more than 3 picks in the top 10 of the betting........

I always think it's a bit boring when people go for the obvious.

FURYK, Jim
United States Of America

NA, Kevin
United States Of America

SCOTT, Adam
Australia

STENSON, Henrik
Sweden

SIMPSON, Webb
United States Of America

MATSUYAMA, Hideki
Japan

super_realist wrote:

MustPuttBetter wrote:There should be a rule that you can't have more than 3 picks in the top 10 of the betting........

I always think it's a bit boring when people go for the obvious.

Two or three i can understand but to pick 6 from the top 10 or 12 in the betting is a bit dull

I was listening the the radio earlier and they asked some guy who would win the world cup and he said "Brazil, Argentina or Spain, Portugal as a dark horse" - wow! really sticking your neck out! ha

Portugal is a bit bold! Pretty mediocre team + CR7.

When has an outsider last won the WC? 1954? 1982?

With that being said I think this years US Open is quite open(!). I guess most of you agree. Ironically it seems the variation of our picks has never been lower than this time...

True Pedro but "+CR7" is a pretty strong plus and probably has enough ability to turn a half decent Portugal team into a very dangerous one. If Ronaldo is really on song would you fancy them to be able to turn over Brazil or Argentina if they played them? Yes, i would say it's possible. Not likely, put certainly possible

I'd say Italy winning in 2006 was an oudside chance win. I know Italy are a big football nation generally speaking but at that time, no one saw that coming

Ok, I agree with you re. Italy in 2006.

But Portugal really needs to be on fire to win this. They have a pretty tough group, but otherwise an easy draw. So I agree that they could go far (if advancing from the group) but it will then mainly be due to an easy draw.

I'd love to see both Messi and Ronaldo at their best. I've always rated Messi as the slightly better player but if one of them has a good tourney and wins the WC it will be hard to argue against them. This is probably Ronaldo's last World Cup in his prime years whereas Messi likely will have one more.
I thought I wasn't fussed too much about the World Cup, have become a bit bored with football of late, but I'm really looking forward to it now

Haven't got the patience to watch a full match. Footballers are such gimps with their petulance, moaning, diving etc.
Might tune in to see England collapsing in the humidity though.

Rory Mcllroy
Adam Scott
Justin Rose
Matt Kuchar
Lee Westwood
Graeme McDowell

Thank you.

McIlroy
Speith
Kuchar
Lowry
Day
Donald

Thank you!!

McIlroy
Jason Day
Adam Scott
Lowry
Garcia
Kaymer

Rory McIlroy
Graeme McDowell
Shane Lowry
Dustin Johnson
Bubba Watson
Sergio Garcia

Watson can not play the long game here. It is why i never put him in my six.

ralphjohn69 wrote:Think the overall par should be 840, not 864, due to Pinehurst being a par 70.

Cheers Sporty, great work as always.

That's copy and paste for you   

Jason Dufner
Lee Westwood
Brooks Koepka
Martin Kaymer
Jason Day
Retief Goosen

Justin Rose
Jason Day
Jordan Speith
Phil Mickelson
Rory McIlroy
Ian Poulter

Cheers sporty

Bubba
Adam Scott
Ian Poulter
Rory McIlroy
G Mac
Dustin Johnson

Pay me now!!!

Rory McIlroy
Lee Westwood
Thongchai Jaidee
Justin Rose
Jordan Spieth
Adam Scott

Good to see people following my lead and picking Lowry for a bit of a laugh.

super_realist wrote:Good to see people following my lead and picking Lowry for a bit of a laugh.

shut it cousin macadder!

Jordan Spieth
Patrick Reed
John Senden
Matt Kuchar
Jim Furyk
MA Jimenez

Thanks sportform!   

No Lowry Inco?

No Lowry for me super, but I commend your selection and hope he performs for you. Not sure about de Jonge though, its to be a very hot week for lugging an ample frame around a golf course.

You think Lowry is designed for the heat?

de Jonge is much stouter than Lowry.