2018 US Open
 

Long hitters course...who do you like? DJ is in top form coming off the win, Rory is hungry (I think), but what about Bubba at +5200? its tempting, very tempting...

Dustin Johnson +1100
Rory McIlroy +1300
Jordan Spieth +1400
Justin Rose +1400
Justin Thomas +1500
Jason Day +1600
Tiger Woods +1600
Rickie Fowler +1700
Jon Rahm +2300
Hideki Matsuyama +2500

here's the rest of the Open dope. wish i could make it to Monmouth to open up an account thursday ; should be a corker :D

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkay.../#27e69cfc3e84.

Bubba seems to have the best value by far!

I have the 2nd pick in my 25 man snake draft. DJ went first and I am stumped as to who to take. I had it pegged down to two players, Justin Thomas or Brooks Koepka. I was so stuck on it that I had to enlist the help of my daughter. I wrote both names down and told her to pick one of them.

LOOKS LIKE WE’RE ROOTING FOR A BACK TO BACK US OPEN WINNER TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 30 YEARS!

Let’s Phuckin Goooooooooo BK!!

Rahm is the man.
DJ first round leader bet

You mean Charley Hoffman doesn’t lead every event after Thursday?!?! Could’ve fooled me! :D



I wouldn’t bet Rahm with YOUR money! His first major win will come with me against. He doesn’t have the mental fortitude to survive a bad shot or two. Speith & JT suffered from this as well, but they were able to change that. Rahm would need to show me he has a major caliber win in his repertoire before I leave my stance of staunchly opposing him at every major.

GL this weekend guys!

:D We call him Thursday Charlie!


Jason Day for the win :$:

I'll take a lineup of
DJ
Dechambeau
Grace
Walker
R. Cabrera-Bello
Grillo

add McIllroy, Koepka as major contenders.

Sentimental Picks:
Snedeker - Coming off good tournament, is he finally in form?
Furyk - as consistent as a US Open competitor can get, but age and lack of distance caught up to him?

Dylan Meyer - Clark Kent, Tom Kite's son. 1st tournament as a Professional. Doesn't have the distance, but excellent short game.

Justin Rose ---
Marc Leishman
Rickie Fowler

Charlie Hoffman is leading. Great call by Declan!

Rory and Spieth are both off to terrible starts. Rory is 6 over after 5 holes. Spieth is 5 over after 5 holes.

I thought I read where one punter claimed that Rory would miss the cut...looks like he might be right, wow

This is awesome, love watching these guys struggle. 😂

fowler
day
tiger:wf

Joe Buck = the pits :zz:

he sucks:zz:

The scores look like boys weekend in Tampa

Who goes lower - rory +!0 or Tiger, now +4 after 2 holes ?

BTW - who dresses Brad Faxon bright blue windowpane :rolleyes:

That 5 hurt.

Love it. This is what a US Open should be PAR wins. No interest in 25 Under golf.

I think there is a happy medium. A US Open course should obviously be set up very tough. But I don't think they should make the greens so rock hard that they don't hold. And they shouldn't be so fast that if you are 3 feet above the hole and miss the putt that it goes 15 feet by. We've seen that some years.

The greens should obviously be very fast, but not unplayable, like we have seen some years. All they need to do at most of these courses is make the rough very deep, narrow the fairways, and make the greens very fast, but playable. The greens should not be so rock hard that you hit a perfect iron shot and it goes right over the green.

With regards to scoring, you have 140 of the best players in the world. and of those 140 guys, you will have at least a handful who are absolutely on fire, totally in the zone. When you have the best of the best and they are playing their best, I think there should be a few guys under par for the tournament. If 1 or 2 under par is a really good score every day, I think that is fine. I think the winning score for the 4 days should be somewhere around 5 under, give or take a few shots either way.

If not a single guy can break par for the tournament, I think something is wrong. It probably means the course is unfair. I mean when you have the best players in the world, if not a single can break par, the course is obviously too tough IMO. By the same token, this is the US Open. If the winning score is 15 or 20 under, then the course was obviously playing too easy.

I didn't watch much today. I was mainly just following the scores on the internet. But I heard there was a 230 yard par 3, where Tiger, JT and DJ all hit perfect shots and nobody held the green. To me that is ridiculous. A 230 yard par 3 is hard enough, without making the green nearly impossible to hold.