The Open Championship

[tcco94]

Whos your player to win?

Besides Tiger which doesnt really count, ill be rooting for Padraig Harrington.  8-)

[WebbPA]

Tiger has been a non-factor all year and getting worse every week.  He won't place better than 10th.

Vijay Singh and Ernie Els may have reached the end of their best competitive years.  (Ernie won twice in Florida but has struggled since March.)  Two more out of the top 10.

Phil never plays well at the Open but should make it within the top 10.

That leaves hot this year:

Justin Rose
Steve Stricker
Jim Furyk

Maybe time for a youngster to break through:

Camillo Villegas
Rory McIlroy
Rickie Fowler

[tcco94]

Tigers choked in the worthless tournaments, in the Masters and U.S. Open he's posted top 10 finishes. I dont think Ernie will be close to the leaderboard or Vijay, I would have liked to seen Ernie win the U.S. Open but he seemed to choke.

BTW- Tiger will be playing with Rose and Villegas...which will be 1:09AM my time.

http://www.opengolf.com/TeeTimes.aspx?ptype=tt&day=1

Are we still considering Camilo Villegas a youngster? I dont think he will even make the cut line to be honest, neither with Fowler. I dont think he can handle the pressure of a Major this young. I think you left out one of the biggest youngsters to make a run for it. Ryo Ishikawa...played good at the US Open and he's had a great year and was able to handle the pressure.

Justin Rose is doing GREAT right now, I think he'll do good in the Open, as for Furyk...dont think he will.

Ill have my fantasy team posted tomorrow.

[tcco94]

[WebbPA]

Round 1 is far from over but we have some interesting results.

Rory McIlroy -9
John Daly -6
Tiger Woods -5
Camilo Villegas -4
Ernie Els -3
Padraig Harrington +1
Tom Watson +1

[tcco94]

Boy I was wrong about McIlroy...Tiger did good. I dont like John Daly...but I like Rory and Woods in 8th  8-)

He switched to a Nike putter for the Open

[WebbPA]

Any idea what the real weekend tee times are?

1st and 2nd rounds last time is 4:21pm BST/11:21am EDT and ESPN cut live coverage at 8pm BST/3pm EDT.

[tcco94]

I bet after the cut is made tommorow the real tee times will be released. 

ESPN played it today as taped coverage and not live...well inless you watched at 1am like me! 

[WebbPA]

Bad weather on the Scotland North Sea coast?  Who would have guessed.

There are going to be some big shakeups before round 2 is over.

Like McIlroy's 80.

[WebbPA]

Projected cut: +1

[tcco94]

I think the cut will be +2...although Tom Watsons walk up to 18 was great. I still think Tigers in contention...that leader whoever that is will have to handle lots of pressure that I dont think he can which is why me and lots of other people are saying he wont be the winner or even leading tommrow they think.

Tigers drive on 18 was GREAT, to bad he missed the eagle putt.  :-/
This weather is HARSH! 

[WebbPA]

This one?

Class

[patchz]

[color=#000000]Personally, I'd like to see John Daly get his temper under control and come back to win. John has his faults, but I've always liked him.

The caption under Watson fits him to a tee. If there ever was a 'gentleman of golf', he's it.

Now I have an urge to put my golf sim disc back in the tray.

[tcco94]

Yeah thats the picture...and it was very nice of Tiger's group to let them tee off when they got up to the green before play got suspended so they could finish and Tom wouldnt have to tee off in the morning for 1 hole.

[tcco94]

Looks as if Tiger will not be winning. Casey and Oosthuizen pretty much will be battling tommrow as Oosthuizen has a 4 stroke lead at -15 and Casey at -11. Im not sure if Oosthuizen will be able to handle the pressure but we'll see tommorow. Id rather have Casey win but what a run this no name has given and he defiantly put his name out there. 

And check out this shot by Miguel Jimenez...very creative and a great shot too 
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil ... olf,256592