The 2nd M7 of 3 for 2020 (#48 overall) is up and away, welcome one and all. Well, welcome to 96 of the 99 of you. Russell 'Milky' Humphrey, Mike 'Moron' Moran & Marcus 'Eric' Barstow missed the deadline and wont be joining us this week ☹
They will have likely just got the heartache and anger out a day earlier than most of us - the only difference being they cant irrationally take it out on a rotund millionaire with a face that looks like a slapped babys arse (Actually, I don’t know what they look like or their financial situation, so maybe they can!)
Joining them in defeat will be joint winners of the M7 US PGA Rob 'Glands' Hands & Michael 'Safe' Havens, and M7 2019 US Open winner Tiso 'Know Something I Don't?' Faletose.
· Fastest finger: Chris ‘Blubba’ Watson.
· The Darth Award for indecisiveness: 5 for reigning champ Rob 'Glands' Hands
· The Baloney award for tardiness: At least I can win something with my 1st entry being at 4:51 and last at 4:59.
· The Margherita Pizza award: Of course, Justin ‘Tally’ Price is one of the 4 to have the most popular 5 picks, but he is pipped to the prize by Jim 'Steve' McMahon who managed to pick the most popular golfer in every bucket. His walls are beige and he drives a Mondeo. Guaranteed.
Popular Picks
· Much more fun this week with a massive 93 players picked, almost 2/3rds of the field. It was so varied we of course had a few picked who aren’t playing.
· Jason Day goes back to back as the most popular pick after he gave us all a good run for our money last time. Only 45 selections down from his whopping 67 picks.
· Other popular picks are Other popular picks are Casey (43), DJ (41), English (40), Kaymer (28), Rahm (23). Everyone else has 20 or less picks
· The Casey / DJ / English treble picked up by 9 of you.
· In the top 51 golfers in the world, I’m delighted to say that other than the withdrawn Koepka, Fatprick Reed (10th) was the only player ignored by the crowd. Hats off to Scottie Scheffler who got 3 nominations – Many of you yanks may think it’s a hoax, but Scottie has the ‘Rona!
Unique Picks
· 16 unique picks in total – Jimmy ‘Dry Hands’ Evans has picked up 2 of them in Jazz Jasakhdjshbfjkdfbhfb and Matt Jones.
· Other notable uniques are 27th ranked Kuuuuuch picked by Darren 'Little Plum' Robinson, 32nd ranked 32 - Bernd Wiesberger picked by Chris 'Flamingo' Kiernan (who was unique in picking him last time out – He finished 43rd), and 33rd ranked Billy Horschel picked up by Nicole 'Grey Goose' Vodrazka
· At the other end of the scale, Takumi Kanaya is the highest OWGR ranked player picked at 234th position. Ruairi 'The Hatchet' Hatchell is the only one with him in his M7 - what does he know that we don't
· Special mention to Tiso 'Know Something I Don't?' Faletose. Stuck with all those great options in the 1st bucket, he went for 14th ranked Tyrell Hatton. I love it.
M7???
· We have 3 M0’ers as mentioned. Alas without 5 picks you don’t qualify for any records or position this weekend.
· We have 8 invalid selections from those who made it in time – Multiple selections for Brooks (2) & Scottie (3) - the only 2 from the top 50 not playing, Unique selections for Francesco Molinari who has his feet up with some Grappa at the moment, Harry WHooooo?? Higgs, and Brendan Steele.
· It might not make a huge difference for the 7 of you fancied making it tougher with an M6
· 1 of you doesn’t want any room for error – Congrats to our M5er Michael Paterson. 2 players in the top 50 not playing, and you nailed them both!
Records
· M7 Record – 28 - Andrew 'Bullet Baxter' Moffat (2014 US Open) & Michael 'Leggy Blond Swede' Khor (2015 US Masters)
· Overall unbeatable M7 record – 500 - John 'Cliff' Talbot Snr (2011 Open)
Factoids
· The 6th running of the US Open at Winged Foot, only one man has ever left with an under par score. The ole racist Fuzzy Duck himself after he beat Greg Norman in a play off.
· Despite the pitch & putt scores recently on tour, the course record is 66! Expect some high scoring
· Jack Nicklaus famously putted off the front of the 1st green (and then had 3 more). The short sticks are gonna be key.
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Cheers,
Baloney / Lobo / Tally
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