The British Open Picks Are Up! |
We're back to playing'em tight for the majors... |
![]() Five uniques for the week. Dave and Chris have 2 each. Oliver has one. The remaining 13 of us will not have a unique to watch hacking it from the heather and gorse. The purse distribution percentages are official, so the standings will be accurate, but the actual dollar amounts will most likely be different at the end. The R&A announces the purse in pounds, as they should, but I never seem to use the same exchange rate that the PGA Tour uses. And since we use the winnings posted on PGATour.com, we'll have to see what they come up with this year. We went back to fairly tight golf pooling for this major; right in between our incredibly tight Masters of 17 golfers and barely tight U.S. Open of 27. I expect 32 or 12 for the PGA, hopefully 32. We have some pretty clear favorites and the unique picks are pretty thin, but we have lots of deuces and treys to separate the field. The Scottish golf gods took it easy on them in the first round. It was an awfully nice day for a British Open. I think they're going to make up for that on Friday; 20 mph winds and rain are predicted. That's what I want to see at a British Open, make'em suffer. A stingy set of picks and inconsistent Scottish weather, and hell it's a major, means it's just gotta be a good one... Let's Get It On! Later, ![]() |
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 3:00 PM |