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Special thanks to JungleJ for creating the scoring spreadsheet for this Pick 'Em. I've been tinkering around with it and it will certainly make my job easier. Thank you!

This year's field comprises of 65 players which is what the Masters Pick 'Em field was.

1_iron_guy
14and18
3puttguy
alpod22
ANTHONY792
BamaGolf
bobnaish
boomer
BrianTayMade
Bronco9090
Buckshot
carverelli
colourblindchameleon
davehowe
delong19
Desertrunner
Donnakay
drstroud
Dukman
e3bsktbll
ForgedRbest
frichissin
GenErr
girlgolfa
golfmaniac77
gpickypick
Hacker100000
Halk
Halk
HarleyGuy
jcgolfpro
jimbowally
jimmigan
JimSomebody
JungleJ
Keith
leaguegolf
Lefty
leftyfan
longfellow_greg
maxd12
MinnSkinny
mitchalo2
mj23
NJPhil
noobie
Pullhook
Saderchick
sbrentt - defending U.S. Open Pick 'Em Champion
Scott1s
scotty1
shaderunner
someinfidel
stagday
stlcard_25
strongvardon
swingharder
tonyg
TourDreams
TwoPuttBirdie
valeogut
victory - defending PGA Championship Pick 'Em Champion
waylman
wazmankg
Wishbone86

Good luck!

Here's the first round leaderboard. Thanks again to JungleJ for the spreadsheet. It made calculating and inputting scores much easier!

boomer 102
davehowe 102
mitchalo2 100
colourblindchameleon 94
leftyfan 94
tonyg 92
Pullhook 92
Dukman 90
someinfidel 90
Wishbone86 90
BamaGolf 90
e3bsktbll 88
leaguegolf 88
valeogut 88
Bronco9090 88
jimbowally 88
ForgedRbest 88
mj23 86
1_iron_guy 86
NJPhil 84
swingharder 82
strongvardon 82
wazmankg 82
jcgolfpro 82
jimmigan 82
14and18 82
Buckshot 82
BrianTayMade 80
maxd12 78
delong19 78
girlgolfa 78
Scott1s 76
scotty1 76
noobie 74
stagday 74
carverelli 74
JungleJ 74
stlcard_25 74
longfellow_greg 72
3puttguy 70
GenErr 70
victory 70
Halk 70
sbrentt 70
ANTHONY792 70
bobnaish 70
JimSomebody 70
Halk 70
TwoPuttBirdie 68
shaderunner 68
Saderchick 68
TourDreams 68
Keith 68
drstroud 66
golfmaniac77 66
gpickypick 66
Donnakay 66
MinnSkinny 66
HarleyGuy 66
waylman 64
Hacker100000 64
frichissin 64
alpod22 62
Lefty 62
Desertrunner 58

Here are round 2 scores.

Pullhook 172
boomer 168
Buckshot 168
colourblindchameleon 164
leftyfan 162
mitchalo2 160
davehowe 160
BamaGolf 160
jimbowally 158
Dukman 156
e3bsktbll 156
Bronco9090 156
BrianTayMade 154
ForgedRbest 154
leaguegolf 152
tonyg 150
JungleJ 150
jcgolfpro 148
swingharder 146
valeogut 146
jimmigan 146
Scott1s 144
Wishbone86 144
JimSomebody 142
TwoPuttBirdie 138
wazmankg 138
someinfidel 138
sbrentt 138
noobie 136
Desertrunner 136
waylman 136
carverelli 136
gpickypick 136
GenErr 136
14and18 136
NJPhil 136
maxd12 134
Saderchick 134
strongvardon 134
shaderunner 132
mj23 132
bobnaish 132
delong19 132
stlcard_25 130
Keith 130
drstroud 128
scotty1 128
stagday 126
TourDreams 126
HarleyGuy 126
1_iron_guy 126
Hacker100000 124
MinnSkinny 124
3puttguy 122
victory 122
golfmaniac77 120
longfellow_greg 118
Halk 118
Halk 118
alpod22 116
ANTHONY792 116
Donnakay 116
girlgolfa 112
frichissin 110
Lefty 94

Here are third round scores. Looks like our last group on Sunday is mitchalo2 and leftyfan.

mitchalo2 266
leftyfan 264
boomer 260
BrianTayMade 258
Bronco9090 254
colourblindchameleon 252
Buckshot 250
JungleJ 248
Wishbone86 248
e3bsktbll 246
jcgolfpro 246
Dukman 244
gpickypick 244
Pullhook 244
sbrentt 242
strongvardon 240
ForgedRbest 240
TwoPuttBirdie 238
tonyg 238
BamaGolf 238
shaderunner 236
Scott1s 236
jimbowally 236
noobie 232
someinfidel 232
valeogut 232
davehowe 232
JimSomebody 232
swingharder 230
bobnaish 230
delong19 230
leaguegolf 228
14and18 228
TourDreams 224
Hacker100000 224
jimmigan 224
waylman 222
Keith 220
Desertrunner 216
drstroud 216
wazmankg 216
GenErr 216
golfmaniac77 214
NJPhil 214
scotty1 212
stlcard_25 212
HarleyGuy 210
longfellow_greg 208
mj23 206
3puttguy 204
carverelli 204
frichissin 204
Saderchick 200
MinnSkinny 200
victory 194
Halk 194
maxd12 190
1_iron_guy 190
alpod22 186
stagday 186
ANTHONY792 184
Donnakay 178
girlgolfa 160
Lefty 146

Congratulations to jcgolfpro, winner of the Golf Rewind U.S. Open Pick 'Em game! Also, it was a great run for sbrentt, our defending U.S. Open Pick 'Em champion. Hope you all had a great time!

jcgolfpro 350
gpickypick 348
leftyfan 348
Buckshot 348
mitchalo2 346
BamaGolf 340
shaderunner 336
JungleJ 336
Wishbone86 336
JimSomebody 334
Pullhook 332
Bronco9090 332
delong19 330
stlcard_25 328
boomer 326
someinfidel 326
14and18 326
tonyg 324
Dukman 322
e3bsktbll 314
jimmigan 312
noobie 310
davehowe 310
jimbowally 310
ForgedRbest 310
sbrentt 308
Hacker100000 304
TourDreams 302
Scott1s 302
longfellow_greg 300
Keith 300
swingharder 298
bobnaish 298
colourblindchameleon 296
leaguegolf 296
golfmaniac77 296
drstroud 294
valeogut 294
frichissin 294
strongvardon 290
waylman 286
scotty1 286
GenErr 284
victory 278
NJPhil 278
carverelli 276
MinnSkinny 276
HarleyGuy 272
3puttguy 270
mj23 268
wazmankg 264
1_iron_guy 262
Donnakay 254
maxd12 252
Halk 248
Halk 248
alpod22 240
stagday 240
ANTHONY792 240
girlgolfa 212
Lefty 174

WOW vic, you sure have a lot of reservations about this game..... actually i just wanted to say thanks for running it.

now if my boys will just play like they are supposed to....

It's early, but David Duval is tied for the lead!!!!

The only drawback I see to this contest is that it has nothing to do with who actually wins the US Open. You win by picking the low rounds of the day and that means you can pick right all 4 days and still not pick the actual winner.

For example: Players A, B, C, and D all shoot one great round but don't play well enough the other 3 rounds to win any points. Player E plays consistently (but never has a low enough round to gain points) and wins the US Open. Anyone who chose Player E correctly chose the winner but they wouldn't be a factor in this game.

Is there some way to award points for picking the best order of finish?

I suppose what you propose is a theoretical possibility... however Player E will almost by definition have to pick up some solid points.

I think it could be possible to add some points for leaderboard position, but the beauty of this game as it stands is that everyone is interested in every round (unless a lot of your picks miss the cut). Otherwise it only really gets interesting on Sunday.

On the Yahoo system, on how this is loosely based, if one of your golfers wins you receive additional bonus points. Maybe in the future we could have another section where you could pick the overall winner for some bonus points. We don't want to make it too hard on Vic to run this............wait a minute, he lives in Hawaii, what else does he have to do

Well all of my guys are doing well except for Justin L. and Jonathon Kaye who... ahem apparently didn't qualify.

I went over the past results for the Masters and looked at taylormade19's picks and he actually had both Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco in his picks. For those with a short memory, Tiger beat DiMarco in a playoff. He also had both Mike Weir and Vijay Singh who both finished T5. K.J. Choi finished T33, Fred Couples finished T39, Stephen Ames finished T45 and Jay Haas finished 48th.

For the PGA Championship Pick 'Em, I was kind of interested in how top point earners correlated with the leaderboard. Here's how it turned out.

1. Vijay Singh (50 points)
T2. Chris DiMarco (50 points)
T2. Justin Leonard (no points. wasn't picked)
T4. Ernie Els (48 points)
T4. Chris Riley (48 points)
T6. K.J. Choi (46 points)
T6. Paul McGinley (no points. wasn't picked)
T6. Phil Mickelson (44 points)

The top point earners correlate pretty closely to the leaderboard. I won that contest and of those 8 players, I happened to pick Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Chris DiMarco and K.J. Choi. I didn't pick Vijay (outside of my tiebreaker) but I did pick 4 of the top 8 golfers.

It's true someone could win without picking the winner (since I've already proved it). The winner might not even be in the original list of 40 players but I don't think it's possible to win this contest without picking players who more or less finish at or near the top of the leaderboard.

I could add bonus points for picking the winner of the tournament. It came across my mind before but I decided against it because I figured a player who shoots the low score of the tournament doesn't then get 5 strokes knocked off of his score. I guess it's what all of you feel the most emphasis should be placed on. Picking the winner or picking the best overall field.

I like the way it is. It keeps it interesting from day to day following the ups & downs of all ones players. There will probably be at least a dozen people with the winner, though I suppose it wouldn't hurt to work it in there somehow.

First round scores are posted. To check them out, go here:

*Official* GR U.S. Open Pick 'Em Leaderboard & Discussion

nice round Boomer.........................