Tuesday, July 21, 2015

British Barbasol

There were four people that picked the winner... Of the Barbasol Championship that is. Nobody in our pool picked Zach. Surprisingly he's been picked 31 times this year, probably because he's not major worthy but still worthy of picking.

The top pick in the British was Louis Oosthuizen he was picked by Mike Blair, Jeff Henry, Richard Rapkin (our new leader), Matt Saler and Tom Roberts. They each net $20 for top pick in a major.

Four of you picked Scott Piercy to win the Shaving Cream Open -- John Doyle, Jim Fisher, Hunter Hughey and Sue Hubbard. You all split the rolling winners pot which was up to $40.

Updated standings...

Richard Rapkin - $11,662,903
Jeff Henry - $11,555,921
Jim Fisher - $11,464,111
Chris Edwards - $10,633,700
Allen Freedman - $10,074,629
Sean Scoopmire - $9,893,702
Don Adams - $9,453,455
Mike Blair - $9,121,912
Tom Sullivan - $8,789,357
John Doyle - $8,695,742
PLAYOFF CUT LINE    
Ryan Zuckerman - $8,579,219
BJ Sweeney - $8,502,551
Joe Eber - $8,495,172
Bill Horton - $8,194,122
Jennifer Garrity - $8,186,938
Jamie Pimentel - $8,065,740
John Barnes - $7,935,320
Scott Stein - $7,869,964
Matt Saler - $7,572,246
Brian Jones - $7,325,071
Michael Fitz-Patrick - $7,213,947
Mark Wilson - $6,844,482
Rob Randall - $6,710,793
Nick Eber - $6,086,022
Chad Crawford - $5,822,237
Sue Hubbard - $5,633,160
Hunter Hughey - $5,342,158
Mark Eber - $5,265,497
Jason Swanson - $5,087,551
Gray Kitchens - $4,955,505
Chris Hood - $4,806,233
Tom Roberts - $4,716,222
Cale Harbin - $4,653,177
Russ Tigue - $4,595,699
Stefen Lovelace - $4,176,578
Brian Remsberg - $3,982,687
Kyle Rubeling - $3,939,488
Stefan Manford - $3,852,177
Justin Marksamer - $3,696,036
Mike Hubbard - $3,396,839
John Reilly - $3,143,873
Steve Smith - $1,237,430
Travis Brown - $960,227

Monday, July 13, 2015

John Deere Open

The kid is a stone cold killer. 46-year old tour journeyman Tom Gillis was just looking for a table scrap, feed the family win. Could have been his first tourney after 191 starts. The dude has just 9 top 10's in his career which started three years before Spieth was born! He was also hoping to become the first Michigander to win on tour since John Morse won the 1995 United Airlines Hawaiian Open. But no, Spieth couldn't let that happen.

The kid shot an even par the first round, he was eight shots off the lead. 99% of the time a top 20 player goes ahead and mails it in for the second round so he can hop on the NetJet to the major. Not Spieth. He shoots a 64 on Friday then backs it up with a 61 on Saturday. FREAK! After dinking around for the first 11 holes at +1, the dude birdies four of the last six to force a playoff then literally rips Gillis heart of our his chest on the second playoff hole. Baby-faced killer. Will he win The Open? I'm going to the PGA Championship and don't have tickets in hand. I'm going to go ahead and procure those now because IF/WHEN he does win this weekend those tickets are going to double on StubHub.

Clarification on my note re: nobody was dumb enough to pick Spieth... Why would you when he could "only" win $846K. This week's British he could net nearly $3M for your bottom line after converting Euros to Greenbacks.

Updated standings: 

Jim Fisher - $10,401,825
Chris Edwards - $10,078,477
Richard Rapkin - $9,967,163
Jeff Henry - $9,821,899
Sean Scoopmire - $9,746,336
Allen Freedman - $9,621,125
Don Adams - $8,937,169
Ryan Zuckerman - $8,405,821
Jennifer Garrity - $8,039,572
Tom Sullivan - $7,979,071
PLAYOFF CUT LINE    
BJ Sweeney - $7,947,328
John Doyle - $7,939,594
Jamie Pimentel - $7,918,374
Bill Horton - $7,757,670
Joe Eber - $7,490,418
John Barnes - $7,470,362
Mike Blair - $7,426,172
Scott Stein - $7,416,460
Brian Jones - $6,699,667
Rob Randall - $6,680,849
Michael Fitz-Patrick - $6,602,193
Mark Wilson - $6,412,196
Matt Saler - $5,897,724
Nick Eber - $5,894,148
Chad Crawford - $5,399,137
Mark Eber - $4,833,211
Hunter Hughey - $4,653,706
Jason Swanson - $4,634,047
Chris Hood - $4,343,953
Cale Harbin - $4,216,725
Sue Hubbard - $4,082,406
Russ Tigue - $4,079,413
Stefen Lovelace - $4,041,722
Gray Kitchens - $3,656,751
Justin Marksamer - $3,609,078
Brian Remsberg - $3,536,751
Stefan Manford - $3,424,529
Kyle Rubeling - $3,129,202
Tom Roberts - $3,011,756
John Reilly - $2,627,587
Mike Hubbard - $2,098,085
Steve Smith - $1,237,430
Travis Brown - $901,775