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Matt_Cohn

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GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« on: July 15, 2008, 03:17:30 AM »
Sorry, I've been busy. I need to get US Open results up too.

#1. Who will win?
#2. Who will record the best finish of players who have already won a major?
#3. Low Argentine: Cabrera, Romero, or Canete?

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Dan King

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 03:58:49 AM »
After careful consideration:

#1. Lee Westwood
#2. Jim Furyk
#3. Romero

And while I'm looking at my crystal ball:

Low by continent:
Africa: Ernie Els
Antarctica: Sorry -- Shutout another year
Asia: Vijay Singh
Australia: Robert Allenby
Europe: Lee Westwood
North America: Jim Furyk
South America: Camilo Villegas

Low lefty: Richard Green
Long odds: Nick Dougherty
Low Scott: Barry Hume


A good bet at this open would be to go with the Ls:
Doug Labelle II, Chih-Bing Lam, Bradley Lamb, Pablo Larrazabal, Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Michael Letzig, Wen-Chong Liang,  Jose-Filipe Lima, Jonathan Lomas, Davis Love III, Sandy Lyle.

Don't skimp, bet on all of them. You know if you leave off Chih-Bing Lam, he's going to beat out Jose-Filipe Lima is a playoff.

Cheers,
Dan King
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 04:24:32 AM »
Quote from: Matt_Cohn on July 15, 2008, 03:17:30 AM
Sorry, I've been busy. I need to get US Open results up too.

#1. Who will win?
#2. Who will record the best finish of players who have already won a major?
#3. Low Argentine: Cabrera, Romero, or Canete?



1. Westwood
2. Mickleson
3. Cabrera
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Mark Pearce

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2008, 04:31:18 AM »
Garcia
Curtis
Romero
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Jim Nugent

Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 06:49:01 AM »
Dan, if Romero comes in third, how does Villegas get low S. American honors?

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Mark Pearce

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 07:00:41 AM »
Quote from: Jim Nugent on July 15, 2008, 06:49:01 AM
Dan, if Romero comes in third, how does Villegas get low S. American honors?


Dan's suggesting Romero will be best Argentine (the answer to question three), not that he'll finish third.
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Mark Bourgeois

Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 07:01:38 AM »
Jim

This sort of thing happens all the time in South America.  For example, two Bolivians who I introduced discovered (quoting here), "We are from the same village but not the same city."

The Villegas-Romero Conundrum will be child's play after you solve that one!

Mark
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Jim Nugent

Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2008, 07:31:15 AM »
Quote from: Mark Bourgeois on July 15, 2008, 07:01:38 AM
Jim

This sort of thing happens all the time in South America.  For example, two Bolivians who I introduced discovered (quoting here), "We are from the same village but not the same city."

The Villegas-Romero Conundrum will be child's play after you solve that one!

Mark

The answer is clear.  Their city is a subset of their village. 

I'm not sure how to apply that to Romero/Villegas though. 
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David Sneddon

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2008, 07:45:33 AM »

1. Geoff Ogilvy
2. Geoff Ogilvy
3. Cabrera

If we had bookies here like they do in the UK, I think a 20pound flutter on Ogilvy would be a good bet.

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Phil McDade

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2008, 09:02:00 AM »
Garcia to win
Leonard best former major winner
Romero
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Dan Kelly

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2008, 09:11:37 AM »
Garcia
Els
Romero
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RJ_Daley

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2008, 09:25:03 AM »
Stricker
Duval
Romero

Hey, it is a fantasy league here, isn't it?  ::) ;D
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Dan Kelly

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2008, 09:38:27 AM »
Quote from: RJ_Daley on July 15, 2008, 09:25:03 AM
Stricker
Duval
Romero

Hey, it is a fantasy league here, isn't it?  ::) ;D

So ... Stricker over Kelly in a playoff. Right?

CHEESEHEADS RULE!
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George Pazin

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2008, 09:47:33 AM »
Harrington
Harrington
Romero

I think I'm in last overall so far this year - don't put any money down on my picks. :)
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Brian_Ewen

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2008, 09:48:34 AM »
1. Brendan Jones
2. Ernie Els
3. Andres Romero
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Joel_Stewart

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2008, 09:55:40 AM »
Anthony Kim
Pad Harrington
Romero
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Chip Gaskins

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2008, 10:15:07 AM »
1. Miguel Angel Jimenez
2. Justin Leonard
3. Andres Romero
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Dan King

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2008, 10:40:17 AM »
Jim Nugent writes:
Dan, if Romero comes in third, how does Villegas get low S. American honors?

Villegas isn't from Argentina.  The third question is who will be low Argentine?

Cheers,
Dan King
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Jason Topp

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2008, 10:50:36 AM »
1. Cink
2. Harrington
3. Cabrera
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CHrisB

Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2008, 11:31:02 AM »
Els
Els
Romero
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Will MacEwen

Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2008, 11:35:46 AM »
Furyk
Furyk
Romero
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Dean Stokes

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2008, 11:44:31 AM »
Kenny Perry. :D
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Patrick Kiser

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2008, 12:07:52 PM »
1. Jimenez or Garcia (why? Because it's the year of the Spaniards.  They took the Euro and Wimbledon.  Trifecta time...)

2. Els

3. Romero
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Kalen Braley

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2008, 01:22:52 PM »
My 3 picks are:

1)  John Daly
2)  Todd Hamilton
3)  Ben Curtis

All proven "champion" of champions so to speak!!
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Garland Bayley

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Re: GCA Contest 2008: Who will win the Open Championship?
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2008, 02:18:53 PM »
Richard Green
Mike Weir
Roberto de V.
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