Welcome to Kentucky! It's time for the second M7 of the year and let's be honest with a field of 156 players to pick from this is where we start to separate the men from the boys
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 96 of us going for the big prizes (+ our good friends Control and Wisdom) - no shows from Alastair 'Baloney' Loney, Jamie 'The Reverend' Green, Colin 'Massage' McCreadie, Darren 'Little Plum' Robinson
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:
Chris 'COK' O' Keeffe as they won the masters (no one wins back to back M7s - except Todd 'Ronald' McDonald once )
Jonathan 'Nigel' Spink winner of last year's PGA Championship at Oak Hill (no one successfully defends an M7 championship)
What does it take to win M7?
I mentioned last time that the average winning score at the masters M7 was around 43 points (35 won it this year) but that the other majors tend to score higher. The PGA average winning score is 51 points - so there is a little more wiggle room normally. Last year's winning score was a surprisingly low 27!
Who picked who?
68 different players picked which is a very small 43% of the field. Similar spread to last year
Abraham Ancer was the only pick who is not playing. Was only in one team, so it's M6 for one of you
There are some really popular players in the picks this year The most popular pick is Brooks (80) followed by Bryson (70), Cam Smith (67) and Niemann (57)
Scheffler (47), Morikawa (47), Rory (34), Zalatoris (26), Fleetwood (23), and Lowry (21) are only other ones with over 20 picks
All in all this makes for another bunched selection of picks for majority with a tail of low selected picks
61 of you have the most popular 2 all in your team (Brooks, Bryson)
43 of you have the most popular 3 all in your team (Brooks, Bryson, Smith)
27 of you have the most popular 4 all in your team (Brooks, Bryson, Smith, Niemann)
16 of you have the most popular 5 all in your team (Brooks, Bryson, Smith, Niemann, Scheffler)
Norman's (Wisdom) team is Scheffler, Morikawa, Zalatoris, Koepka, Lowry, Smith and Bryson.....No one has the same exact same 7 - although Justin 'Tally' Price and Tom 'Dodecahedron' Browning have 6 of the 7
We had a 19 valid unique picks in all - 3 of those in 1-10 category (Clark, Cantlay, Homa).
Andy 'Beaker' Perkins, Adam 'Pirate' Shapiro and Control have 2 uniques in their teams.
Gooch is the highest ranked OWGR player picked (644) - 3 of you have him
What about the LIV splitters?
There are 16 LIV players and they have a big following. They account for 43% of all picks in M7.
11 of the 16 have at least one pick somewhere in M7
Only Ian 'Plums' Milne has swerved LIV completely. At least you can hold your head high when you are in the BOTR competition come Saturday.
Speed and Uncertainty
Fastest finger - Well done Julien 'Oliver' Reidy
Most entries - Daniel 'Snake' Martin with 6
Leaving it to last minute - Stephen 'Button Head' Harcombe with 28 mins to spare
Best of luck!!
Live m7 scoring will be up and running tomorrow after tee off on https://m7golf.wixsite.com/m7golf.
23 is the M7 record score to beat - set at the US Open in 2023 by Todd 'Ronald' McDonald but of course lets not forget the best record of the lot - John 'Cliff' Talbot Snr’s even more incredible record of 500 pts (no chance that gets equalled in a Masters)
The best PGA Championship score is 27 set last year by Jonathan 'Nigel' Spink
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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