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If'n I'm not mistaken, the Granddaddy starts tomorrow.

And I'm going to have to go with...

Dinsdale's Buddy's Stepbrother

Yup, it's Garrigus' time to shine.


Remember, have your official picks in no later than monday (unless you do it later).

You may post your unofficial picks prior to that, if you like... and since I'm apparently the moderator here, I'll just change your preliminary pick to Robert Garrigus.

I will, however, allow Mucho to take Phildo as a dark horse.

Two top 10 finishes in like 17 years at the Open. I wouldn't pick The Mick over the pond.

I'll take McIlroy with Tom Watson as the dark horse.

OK, so far I have:

Dinsdale -- Robert Garrigus
IndyFrisco -- Robert Garrigus

since I picked him early I'll go with Graeme McDowell
dark horse Thomas Bjorn

longest of longshots-Robert Garrigus

Put me down for

Garrigus

Dark Horse Garrigus

Long Shot - Rory Mc

Tom Watson ... -1 thru 3

Let's go old man...

Felix, nice pick with Bjorn.

David Duval in the house... at +8.

Just when he's getting better, he gets much worse.

Speaking of exempts... Big John in the house at +2.


Ben Crane is +1 through 8-btw.

Dinsdale wrote:Speaking of exempts...

Justin Leonard sitting at -2.

Paddy +4 thru 16

My StepbrotherThroughAssociation is back to even.

IndyFrisco wrote:Tom Watson ... -1 thru 3

Let's go old man...

I hope you didn't jinx him. So what'd he finish, +8 or something?

Dude had that jug in his grasp 2 years ago (at age 59) and let it slip away on the 72nd hole, losing in a playoff. That would've been the most amazing golf story ever if he coulda' pulled it off.

Did I mention he's from KC? Yeah, he's been like the 3rd major sports franchise around here for the last 35 years.

War Wagon wrote: I hope you didn't jinx him. So what'd he finish, +8 or something?

+2... not out of it.

Although as of right now, the projected cut is +1 ... but a whole lotta things are going to happen in the next 18 -- they always do.


At this point, I'm really just hoping for a victory by an American. Besides Cink, we're getting into one of those Open droughts again.

Garrigus better drop a 59 tomorrow. (It's a Par 70, so 59 is a little easier, maybe -- it's a "traditional" Par 70, and you get "cheated" out of 2 Par 5's, which is where most players make their hay, even us hacks.)

IndyFrisco wrote:
Felix, nice pick with Bjorn.

i remembered the last time they played at royal st. george and how bjorn got a bad break on 16

i figure the course may owe him

Looking at updates on Yahoo and I see where Watson dropped an Ace in the hole on the 6th. The old boy may still have a few tricks left.

Felix wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:
Felix, nice pick with Bjorn.

i remembered the last time they played at royal st. george and how bjorn got a bad break on 16

i figure the course may owe him

A bad break? He hit it into a sand trap and couldn't figure out how to hack it out. There's a hella lot of courses that owe me then.

Goober McTuber wrote:He hit it into a sand trap and couldn't figure out how to hack it out. There's a hella lot of courses that owe me then.

actually it was fifteen I was thinking of...ball took a nasty kick and threw him into a pot bunker that he had to play out sideways.....the bunker at 16 was pretty much his own fault for trying to play too fine of a shot....just accept the fact you're going to make a bogey and get the thing out....

Yeaah, I jinxed Watson into a hole in one. Cut projected at +3. Old man made it to the weekend. Now I am hoping for some TOTAL SHIT weather. Watson thrives in shitty weather while most of the rest would die.

Dinsdale wrote:I will, however, allow Mucho to take Phildo as a dark horse.

I wasn't going to pick him to win, or be a dark horse. I am very surprised to see him in the hunt.

If he could make a freaking short putt he'd be right at the top of the leaderboard.

Lots of Yanks making a run at it.

Although I've seen this movie starring Dustin Johnson a couple of times before -- in case any of you haven't seen it yet, I won't spoil the ending... but it's pretty funny and sad.

Darren Clarke looks like he's 80 years old.

Dinsdale wrote: Darren Clarke looks like he's 80 years old.

I hope I can snag somebody that looks like his new squeeze when I look 80.....



big clarke fan so it's nice to see him playing well

Dinsdale wrote:I've seen this movie starring Dustin Johnson a couple of times before

That's what you said about Dirk.

Darren Clarke looks like he's 80 years old.

Pretty sure I caught a shot of him lighting up a smoke before ESPN quickly yanked the feed away from such a non-PC act. I will root hard for this guy.

War Wagon wrote: Pretty sure I caught a shot of him lighting up a smoke before ESPN quickly yanked the feed away from such a non-PC act. I will root hard for this guy.

the guy us a cigar connoisseur...last year he reportedly spent over £25,000 on cigars

this is looking to be some good sport today.....

unless Mickelson shoots 60.

on the subject of Darren Clarke, in the town of Troon.....every restaurant has a pic of the owner with Darren Clarke looking blasted. pissed. 3 sheets to the wind.

DC did some good living in the early days. he earned that 80 year old look.

Mother Nature is making this a "real" Open.

Someone forgot to tell Phil he can't play in crappy weather.

this is some spectacular camera work with the clouds and shit so far.

this is how links golf looks on the ground. fucking great.

Leave it to Darren -- misses a putt, and turns and laughs and jokes with his playing partner.

Dude definitely "gets it."

there's a lot to like about this leaderboard.....but Clarke winning would be great.

unbelievable bunker shot by DC.

you can only see the top half of the pin.

DJ apparently is getting tired of reading the same script over and over.

Sucks that Rickie can't make a putt today, otherwise he'd be in the thick of it.

Young Mr. Fowler always ends up in the thick of every tourney he enters.

Dinsdale wrote: Although I've seen this movie starring Dustin Johnson a couple of times before -- in case any of you haven't seen it yet, I won't spoil the ending... but it's pretty funny and sad.

The word "dumb" comes to mind.

That just took the fun out of this one.

Unless Darren Van De Velde makes an appearance, it's over.

You think DJ is running out of pussy juice on the tip of his wick by the time he reaches Sunday of major championships. Maybe dude should get a hand job or something at the turn.

props to Darren Clarke...guy was steady while all those around him flailed away....

btw, what was up with Johnson yagging that layup out of bounds? man you could have landed a small airplane on that fairway and he jacks one out

^^^^

This at that point he was trying to get home in two it looked like...but Birdie there still puts a good bit of pressure on Clarke...what an asshat...but I don't expect anything less from a Hick from South Carolina...(trust me I am around a bunch of them almost daily)

oh and I had Darren Clarke all the way...