Heading to the Open/ Predictions

[Wood]

Looking down at my tickets for Winged Foot, and thought I'd rub it in a little..... . Anyone else going?

As for everything I'm reading about the conditions, someone hitting the tee ball like Phil is gonna stuggle, even if he can dunk a full swing flop that never exceeds 6" in height from 5 yards. Even Magic Wedge Phil is gonna struggle with 5" of rough.

I'd love to see a Tiger charge, but he drives it like Phil, and I don't think someone who hits so few fairways is gonna get it done.

GOD, PLEASE LET THE ABOVE GOLFERS BATTLE IT ON SUNDAY WITH ME THERE TO WATCH!!!

As for me, I'm gonna take Luke Donald in the pool.

Others with a chance include Furyk and maybe Adam Scott. I guess you can't rule out Goosen any time in an Open, but he played pretty poorly at the Memorial. We'll see!

[FAHooGolfs]

Not to rain on your parade, but if Tiger and Phil are fighting it out on Sunday, you won't be able to consistently get anywhere near it. I went to Pinehurst last year and couldn't get anywhere near Tiger on a regular basis unless I was out for the practice round at 6:30 am (we did that, it was a lot of fun).

Are you going for the entire week or just for a few days? If you go for the entire week, I highly recommend getting to the course as early as possible for the practice rounds. We walked the first 5 holes with Tiger on Monday last year and there probably weren't more than 100 people watching... of course, he started at 630.

During the tournament, probably your best bet to see a lot of golf is to pick a neat spot on the course and just sit there. You can also see a lot if you find a relatively unheralded group towards the end of the day on Thursday or Friday.

We followed Jason Gore the final 3 holes on Friday at like 5:00. Very mininal amount of people there because most had left for the day.

[Thrash13]

I picked Jim Furyk at the beginning of the year, and I'm sticking to it. Furyk has a win in the past month or so, and he is always a contender at any U.S. Open.

Tiger will play well, but I just don't think he will win this thing.

I also think Goosen will be near the top of the leaderboard on Sunday, but unfortunately, Goose hasn't been able to close the deal with many good final rounds this season.

I'm putting my money on Furyk and Goosen until they prove me wrong.

Have fun at Winged Foot by the way!

[georgep]

I picked Jim Furyk at the beginning of the year, and I'm sticking to it.

I hope his back is feeling better. According to SI, he missed his own mini-event this week with back spasms. He tweaked it gargling. Sheesh!

I'll be pulling for Tiger. Dang the sentimentality! The Earl and Father's Day combination is pretty appealing. Also, does anyone else have the sneaking suspicion that the Memorial introduced the furrowed bunkers in preparation for the USGA to trot them out at Winged Foot?

[nurseduffer]

I will be in Mexico during the Open...I'll find a sports bar to watch the final day. I am looking at the Reno Hilton odds sheet and was planning on betting on a few but I was thinking of taking one dark horse because of the odds. Olgivy...60/1? waht do ya think?
Who was having the back spasms?

[FAHooGolfs]

Don't take Geoff Ogilvy... he didn't qualify yesterday

[georgep]

Who was having the back spasms?

Jim Furyk

[Thrash13]

Don't take Geoff Ogilvy... he didn't qualify yesterday

Geoff Ogilvy is ranked inside the 50 and has been in the top-10 on the money list. Those are automatics aren't they?!?

It would certainly be a travesty if a golfer inside the top 20 in the world didn't get to play the U.S. Open. As for Jim Furyk, my pick is looking worse and worse. But he is gritty, so I'll stick with him and take my medicine.

[georgep]

Ogilvy is exempt on two counts:

• From the 2006 official PGA Tour money list, the top 10 money leaders through May 29.
• From the World Rankings list, the top 50 point leaders as of May 30, 2006

You can find all the exemptions here:
http://www.usopen.com/news/2006_fact_sheet.html

[A.J.]

Phil.

This tourney is going to be sweet!

[Finn07]

I am actively trying to obtain tickets to the US Open being that I live 5-10 minutes from the course. Looks like its going to happen. Big two weeks of golf for us people in Westchester NY. The Barclays Classic and the Open, both 5-10 minutes from my house. Ill be at the Barclays on Friday and hope to be at the Open. As you've all heard, Phil thinks over par will win the tournament.

Whoever hits the most fairways will win this thing. Im taking Tiger not just for his playing ability, but for his heart as well. But he MUST keep it in the fairway and as we all know thats not his strength.

[flap]

Phill will pull this off !!!

[mnel]

I'm going with Adam Scott...

[Dirk Diggler]

I think it will be Goosen this time...

but i'm rooting for Maarten Lafeber (Dutchie)

who has won the qualifying in Engeland with an 8 !! stoke lead..

he is a pretty decent player with a few flaws.

i have compared his stats with the PGA tour players.

FW Hit 69,54% (would be ranked 15th on PGA tour)
GIR 72,47 (would be ranked #1 !!! on PGA tour)
His only real problem is putting, he makes an average of 30.2 putts a round (would rank him 187th!!!! on the PGA tour)

ofcourse these are European stats, he is ranked 14th in europe for GIR

[iacas]

I'm going with Adam Scott...

Can someone learn to putt in only two weeks?

[Guest]

Someone suggested Geoff Oglivy did not qualify. He is fully exempt from qualifying in two categories, top 50 in the World as of 5/30/06 and top 10 money list as of 5/29/06.

[Rafcin]

Phill will pull this off !!!

typical leftie comment.. gitta admit though - he should be way up there in Vegas's rankings. Wonder if Tiger will give a strong showing. So far whenever he was emotional about something we've seen fireworks on the course. I read somewhere that he was working on his driver a lot in the last few weeks - that's the only club that kept him from winning recently. I'm looking forward to Tiger / Phil final pairing, with Tiger winning eventually.

[xian]

Someone suggested Geoff Oglivy did not qualify

Part of the reason for this is articles like this:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...96_golf06.html which was picked up off the AP wire. There is also this one: http://www.kitsapsun.com/bsun/sp_gol...753806,00.html and one which has been deleted off the yahoo sports page. Unfortunately, they're wrong. Not sure how things got mucked up.