It's time for the third M7 of the year and if you think you've got a chance of winning anything in this one I can tell you that the vast majority of you are in la la land, which is incidentally also where the golf takes place this weekend!
Full picks are in the email I sent and can be seen by going to https://m7golf.wixsite.com/m7golf/leaderboard.
Please check your own entry is correct. Any objections please raise before tee off. N.B. "My picks are sh*t" is not a valid objection - that is your own fault
There are 100 of us going for the big prizes (+ our good friends Control and Wisdom) - you all got your picks in in time!
Prizes (TBC)
1st - S$5000
2nd - S$2800
3rd - S$1600
Best of Rest (<5 make cut) - S$600
Lets get this out the way. The following have no chance whatsoever:
Jonathan 'Nigel' Spink as they won the PGA championship (no one wins back to back M7s)
Stuart 'Apple' McIntosh winner of last year's PGA Championship (no one successfully defends an M7 championship)
What does it take to win M7?
The US Open average winning score is 54 points but the last couple have been even higher at 77 and 88 points. However as you will see below the picks are quite bunched again -
Who picked who?
73 different players picked which is 47% of the field - once again fairly bunched due to some popular Liv'ers especially in last category
However a few picks are not tee'ing off this week - Kisner, Gooch and Oousthuizen - and one of you has picked Hovland in the 11-20 category (OWGR 5) meaning 4 of you are playing M6
Picks are really dominated by 2 players - the same top 2 as last time out DJ (79) followed by Koepka (74)
Then we have:
Scheffler (54)
De Chambeau and Reed (45)
Fowler (42)
Fleetwood (37)
Scott (35).
Then there is a massive jump down with no one else having more than 20 picks
All in all this makes for another bunched selection of picks
60 of you have the most popular 2 all in your team (DJ, Koepka)
34 of you have the most popular 3 all in your team (DJ, Koepka, Scheffler)
18 of you have the most popular 4 allin your team (DJ, Koepka, Scheffler, De Chambeau)
10 of you have the most popular 5 all in your team (DJ, Koepka, Scheffler, De Chambeau, Reed)
Norman's (Wisdom) team is Scheffler, Koepka, Fleetwood, Scott, Reed, Lee MW and DJ.....No one has the same exact same 7 - but Matthew 'Beevower' Price takes over his brother's boring tag this week having 6 of the 7 (as does Dave 'Molton' Browne).
In case you were wondering Justin 'Tally' Price has 5 of them
We had a 15 valid unique picks in all - 1 of those in 1-10 category (Fitzpatrick).
James 'Alan' Partridge has 2 uniques (Fitz and Power) as does James 'Hillbilly' Kilbee (Lee KH, Wise) Ryan Amour is the highest ranked OWGR player picked (344) - last minute selection from John 'Balsa' Wood - they certainly are John!
What about the LIV (soon to be PGA, maybe) splitters?
There are 15 LIV players due to tee-off on Thursday and again with most of them featuring on the wrong end of the OWGR it made them an appealing proposition for M7'ers
They account for 37% of all picks in M7. This is I think the highest so far!
12 of the 15 have at least one pick somewhere in M7
Everyone has at least 1 LIV player
Speed and Uncertainty Fastest finger - Well done Marcus 'Dicky' Davies
Most entries - John 'Balsa' Wood with 6
Leaving it to last minute - Alastair 'Baloney' Loney with 19 mins to spare (not counting others who put new entries in)
Best of luck!!
Live m7 scoring will be up and running tomorrow towards the end of the first set of tee times at https://m7golf.wixsite.com/m7golf.
27 is the M7 record score to beat - set at the Masters in 2021 by Matthew 'Beevower' Price and equalled at the 2023 PGA by Jonathan 'Nigel' Spink but of course lets not forget the best record of the lot - John 'Cliff' Talbot Snr’s even more incredible record of 500 pts.
The best PGA Championship score is 33 set in 2014 by Stephen 'The Pig' Farmer
Reminder - "You can't win M7 on the first day but you sure as hell can lose it" - Alastair 'Baloney' Loney
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