GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

Tshwane Open

28 February – 3 March 2013 ___ Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate, Centurion, South Africa

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard – Final Round

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. SetupDetermines ___ 25 (5/6) ____ 40 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____ 00 _____ 55 ______ 160

2. LadyPutt __________ 20 (4/6) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 30 ____ 00 _____ 40 ______ 110

3. Doc _______________ 20 (4/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 _____ 15 _______ 45

4. Redrage ___________ 20 (4/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 15 _______ 45

5. Mary_S ____________ 05 (1/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 _____ 15 _______ 40

6. BlueCoverman ______ 15 (3/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 05 _______ 30

7. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 10 _______ 20

8. Davie _____________ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 00 _______ 20

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Darren Fichardt came so close to making it back to back victories on the European Tour but he was ultimately held off by Dawie Van Der Walt and had to settle for second. The other joint leaders after the third round did not have much fun out there sliding down the leaderboard to a tie for fifth and twenty seventh!

SetupDetermines marched on to a comprehensive wire to wire victory aided by two top 10 scoring finishes. LadyPutt was the only real chaser but she slipped further behind after the final round. Everyone else was chasing scraps. RedRage had three of his four picks score finish points but they weren’t enough to stop Doc taking third on countback. Doc’s pick of Danny Willett finished higher than any of RedRage’s picks. 1GrumpyGolfer had all of his picks, all two of them, score points and that was just enough to sneak out of last place and above Davie on countback.

There were bonus points to be had for low round but no one had chosen Desvondes Botes but Doc did chose Matthew Nixon who slumped to a final round 79. Those extra points helped boost Doc to third. There was a tie for last place; Jose Maria Olazabal and Grant Muller finished at +3 just 24 shots behind the winner.

Next week sees the GolfChatUK Fantasy League travel to the Doral Resort in southern Florida for the second of four World Golf Championships. It’s a strong, limited field, no cut event with plenty of points to play for.

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Final Round Low Round (10 points)
Desvonde Botes -8
1. None

Final Round Worse Round (10 points)
Matthew Nixon +7
1. Doc

Last Place (10 points)
Jose Maria Olazabal and Grant Muller +3

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We may as well call this the SetupDetermines show; another three picks in the scoring positions and a further extension of his lead. LadyPutt is trying valiantly to keep up with him with two scoring picks. Mary_S is making a bit of a charge; her old favourite keeping up the good work and scoring some points too. Everyone else scored a big, fat, lonely, zero.

Darren Fichardt had the low round of the day again so SetupDetermines and LadyPutt have big smiles. Scott Arnold had the worse round but no one had picked him.

Will LadyPutt be able to make one final push or will SetupDetermines hold on for another win?

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Round 3 Low Round (10 points)
Darren Fichardt -8
1. LadyPutt
2. SetupDetermines

Round 3 Worse Round (10 points)
Scott Arnold +6
1. None

Round 3 Low Scores (10 points)
-5 or lower

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Carnage ensued at the Tshwane Open at Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate as play was stopped for a dangerous situation. No it wasn’t a Pistorious trying to get his own way and make the cut but the threat of lightning. The carnage resumed on Saturday morning as round 2 resumed at 6:45am and everyone didn’t return for that early start. Jaco Van Zyl and Simon Dyson were among those taking early baths. Several other GolfChatUK Fantasy League picks didn’t make it either but that didn’t really affect SetupDetermines as he had 5 picks through. The one that didn’t was one of his low scorers from round 1; Jeev Milkha Singh had a bad day at the office missing out by 1 shot ultimately.

RedRage, LadyPutt and Doc had 4 picks make it through to the final rounds. BlueCoverman had 3, Davie and 1GrumpyGolfer both had 2 picks. Mary_S had 1 pick in an old favourite.

There was some good scoring to be had as pros tried to make the cut. The low round was 65 and 5 pros shared that mark. Charl Coetzee, Dawie Van Der Walt, Louis De Jager, Magnus A Carlsson and Paul Waring were the good scorers. Davie earned 10 bonus points from Waring. At the other end of the spectrum Tyrone Ferreira slumped to a +9, 81. No one picked him and those points were left on the table.

Round 3 is already underway and there’s many Fantasy Leaguers hoping for some good scores from their picks so they can get some points on the board.

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Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Paul Waring -7
1. Davie

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Charl Coetzee -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Dawie Van Der Walt -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Louis De Jager -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Magnus A Carlsson -7
1. None

Round 2 Worse Round (10 points)
Tyrone Ferreira +9
1. None

Cut Line (5 points)
-2 or lower

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SetupDetermines confesses to having a magic pin and boy does this work. Half of his picks ended up in the top 3 after round 1 of the Tshwane Open. With the low score and two other low scoring picks he has a 20 point lead over LadyPutt who also picked the lowest scoring player.

BlueCoverman, Mary_S and RedRage rounded out the scoring Fantasy Leaguers as they each had 1 pick shoot low. Davie, Doc and 1GrumpyGolfer have strong shoulders as they hold up the leaderboard. It’s especially distressing for 1GrumpyGolfer as two of his reserves have scored points.

By all accounts the course is a bit of a monster at Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate and the highest ranked players, Simon Dyson, had one of the worse rounds of the day. Fortunately for him but unfortunately for some Fantasy Leaguers it wasn’t the worse. JG Claassen and Tsietsi Chabangu both carded +8, 80s however no one picked them. Darren Fichardt continued his fine form of late shooting the round of the day, a -7, 65. SetupDetermines and LadyPutt chose wisely.

With over half the field under par already there’s work to be done for some in round 2 if they are going to make it to the weekend.

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Round 1 Low Round (10 points)
Darren Fichardt -7
1. LadyPutt
2. SetupDetermines

Round 1 Worse Round (10 points)
JG Claassen +8
1. None

Round 1 Worse Round (10 points)
Tsietsi Chabangu +8
1. None

Round 1 Low Scores (10 points)
-5 or lower

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WARNING THIS IS NOT A FINALISED FIELD; THE PLAYERS LISTED HERE MAY WITHDRAW OR MAY BE ADDED TO.

This is the inaugural Tshwane Open so not much information is available for the background bumpf. The event is being held at an Ernie Els designed course at the Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate.

The field is regular sized at 156 not a brain busting 200+ players. The field listed below stands at 140; there will be 10 more added from Tuesday qualifying which sees GolfChatUK’s Steve Surry teeing off in the last group at 12:40 local time. There will be another 6 added from somewhere. Soren Hansen is not expected to be one of them.

Full field event, cut bonuses are in effect.

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Everyone please notify others of changes in field before tournament starts and invalid or incomplete picks from participants.

Rankings based on the Official World Golf Ranking for Week 8 – February 24th 2013:

CATEGORY A

Simon DYSON 83
Kristoffer BROBERG 86
Danny WILLETT 88
Darren FICHARDT 93
Jeev Milkha SINGH 96
Jaco VAN ZYL 104
Fredrik ANDERSSON HED 105
Pablo LARRAZABAL 111
Joost LUITEN 113
Robert ROCK 115
Thomas AIKEN 122
Garth MULROY 130
Steve WEBSTER 145

CATEGORY B

Peter LAWRIE 152
Michael HOEY 155
Darren CLARKE 164
Soren KJELDSEN 174
Julien QUESNE 175
Romain WATTEL 177
Jbe' KRUGER 178
Marc WARREN 188
Hennie OTTO 191
Magnus A CARLSSON 194
David HOWELL 195
Eduardo DE LA RIVA 198
Keith HORNE 206
Trevor FISHER-JR 207
Espen KOFSTAD 215
David DRYSDALE 216
Andy SULLIVAN 228
Michael CAMPBELL 231
Jake ROOS 240
Doug McGUIGAN 251
Simon WAKEFIELD 252
Richard FINCH 270
Chris DOAK 272
Gary LOCKERBIE 277
Edoardo MOLINARI 280
Justin WALTERS 286
Joel SJOHOLM 289
Matthew BALDWIN 293
Oliver BEKKER 301
Tom LEWIS 305
Alexandre KALEKA 308
Eddie PEPPERELL 312
Jorge CAMPILLO 323
Jaco AHLERS 331
Chris PAISLEY 334
Adilson DA SILVA 336
Mark TULLO 338
Peter WHITEFORD 339
Sam LITTLE 348
Morten Orum MADSEN 350
Mikko KORHONEN 354
Allan VERSFELD 355
Damien MCGRANE 363
James BUSBY 372
Graeme STORM 377
Maximilian KIEFFER 380
Tjaart VAN DER WALT 381
Jose Maria OLAZABAL 382
Mikael LUNDBERG 389
Desvonde BOTES 391
David HORSEY 395
Oliver FISHER 397
Ignacio GARRIDO 399
Bjorn AKESSON 400
Scott HENRY 402
Shaun NORRIS 424
James KINGSTON 434
Dawie VAN DER WALT 436
Jose Manuel LARA 438
Tano GOYA 445
Alex HAINDL 466
Merrick BREMNER 467
Chris LLOYD 479
Christiaan BASSON 498
Ruan DE SMIDT 499

CATEGORY C

Dean BURMESTER 507
Vaughn GROENEWALD 520
Bryce EASTON 524
Paul WARING 540
Colin NEL 545
Divan VAN DEN HEEVER 547
Alexander LEVY 549
Ockie STRYDOM 557
Jean HUGO 560
Richard MCEVOY 564
Danie VAN TONDER 571
John PARRY 571
Tyrone FERREIRA 579
Justin HARDING 585
Michael JONZON 593
Joakim LAGERGREN 601
Ulrich VAN DEN BERG 613
Chris SWANEPOEL 614
Martin WIEGELE 617
Wallie COETSEE 620
Matthew CARVELL 625
Niclas FASTH 636
Oscar FLOREN 644
James KAMTE 650
Matthew NIXON 652
Mark WILLIAMS 667
David HIGGINS 683
Matthew SOUTHGATE 691
Ryan CAIRNS 694
Lasse JENSEN 701
Callum MACAULAY 706
Louis DE JAGER 715
Anthony SNOBECK 724
Scott ARNOLD 728
Matteo DELPODIO 731
PH MCINTYRE 733
Andrew GEORGIOU 749
Keenan DAVIDSE 769
Brandon PIETERS 769
Andrew CURLEWIS 809
Lyle ROWE 812
Jacques BLAAUW 822
Michiel BOTHMA 835
Warren ABERY 871
Daniel GAUNT 878
Grant MULLER 881
Teboho SEFATSA 882
Titch MOORE 902
Neil SCHIETEKAT 905
Peter KARMIS 951
Michael HOLLICK 957
Charl COETZEE 973
Theunis SPANGENBERG 992
Albert PISTORIUS 1036
JG CLAASSEN 1043
Hendrik BUHRMANN 1124
Lindani NDWANDWE 1390
Tsietsi CHABANGU N/A
Yubin JUNG N/A
Toto THIMBA-JR N/A
Peter EROFEJEFF N/A
Moritz LAMPERT N/A

HOPEFULLY CATEGORY C

Steve SURRY 1203

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Upcoming events:

____________ Date ___________ Event ______________________________________ Weight

Event #12 _ Mar 07 - Mar 10 ___ WGC - Cadillac Championship ____________________ Weighted 2
_______________________________ Doral Golf Resort & Spa (TPC Blue Monster), Doral, Florida, USA

Event #13 _ Mar 14 - Mar 17 ___ Tampa Bay Championship _______________________ Weighted 1
_______________________________ Innisbrook Resort & GC (Copperhead), Palm Harbor, Florida, USA

Event #14 _ Mar 21 - Mar 24 ___ Arnold Palmer Invitational _______________________ Weighted 2
_______________________________ Bay Hill Golf Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida, USA


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RULES

Picking players: Unless stated, pick a total of 6 players as follows:

Pick 2 players from each category, plus a reserve per category.

Event winner: The person with the most total points at the completion of each event will be declared the winner. In case of a tie, those involved will match-off each picks' final position score in descending order. i.e. Player A's best finish vs. Player B's best finish, Player A's 2nd best finish vs. Player B's 2nd best finish, etc... until one's pick finishes better than the other(s).
If there is a tie after all 6 picks have been matched against each other, those involved will be declared co-winners.

Order of Merit: The person with the most total points at the completion of the season will be declared the GolfChatUK Fantasy League Champion. If there is a tie for total points at the completion of the season, those involved will be declared Co-Champions.

Player Withdrawals: If you pick a player who withdraws during a tournament, that player will be treated as nil scoring. If a player withdraws before starting the tournament then your reserve will be put in that player's place. It is up to you to check that your players are in the starting field.

Holidays / Absences: If you will be absent for an upcoming event (e.g holidays) you may post the numbers on the most recent fantasy league event and the respective tournament(s) that apply.
Example: Pick 2 players and 1 reserve from each category and the relative event number or name: Players 4 and 8, reserve 9 from Category A, players 1 and 7, reserve 3 from Category B, players 1 and 2, reserve 12 from Category C, Event #12.

Failure to submit picks: If you do not submit picks you will be awarded zero points.

Deadlines: Picks must ideally be submitted before the first drive is struck on the first day of the tournament. However, late picks submitted after the tournament has begun must be for players who have yet to start (or are not showing a score on europeantour.com, PGATour.com, etc.), and these will not be valid unless they are seconded by any other league member.

All fantasy league disputes and discrepancies will be considered by the League Judge: LadyPutt. All decisions made by the League Judge are final.

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SCORING SYSTEM

______________ Weighted 1 ____ Weighted 2 ___ Weighted 3

Winner ____________ 60 ___________ 120 __________ 180
2nd _______________ 40 ____________ 80 __________ 120
3rd _______________ 30 ____________ 60 ___________ 90
4th _______________ 20 ____________ 40 ___________ 60

5th - 10th ________ 15 ____________ 30 ___________ 45
11th - 15th _______ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
16th - 20th ________ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15

Last Place ________ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30

Low Round * _______ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
Worse Round * _____ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30

Make Cut ___________ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15
All 6 Make Cut ____ 20 ____________ 40 ___________ 60

Round 1 Top 5 * ___ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
Round 3 Top 10 * __ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
* Points awarded for round only

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Grumps - I'll be away on holiday (whoopee ) for Events 13 and 14 so please can you allocate numbers 2 and 7 in each category for me? Can't do any worse than my usual carefully-considered picks . I'll pick for this later.

Certainly LP, I'll make your picks based on those "lucky" numbers for Tampa and Bay Hill. Would you like to add a "luckier" numbered reserve just in case?

No, just move up one (to 1 or 6) if those numbers pull out. Thanks Grumps.

Just checked the qualifying tournament and seen that Laurie Canter has shot an -11, 61 to seal his place in the tournament proper. Looks like -5 or -6 will be the mark. Those at -4 will be in a playoff as it stands.

Going for all Saffers this week - just a hunch!

Cat A: Darren Fichardt, Jaco Van Zyl (res Garth Mulroy)
Cat B: Jbe' Kruger, Trevor Fisher Jnr (res Hennie Otto)
Cat C: Danie Van Tonder, Dean Burmester (res Colin Nel)

There's around 6 groups left out on the course at the moment including Steve's. Qualifying mark looks to be -5 under or better. At the moment 12 players will playoff for 1 spot at -4.

EDIT: -4 is out and anyone posting -5 now will play off.

Unfortunately Steve shot level par and missed out on qualifying for this tournament.

6 guys, at -5, will play off for the 3 remaining spots.

A) Simon Dyson, Danny Willett (Rob Rock)
B) Darren Clarke, Marc Warren (Hennie Otto)
C) Niclas fasth, Mat Nixon (Scott Arnold)

A: G. Mulroy; J. Van Zyl; T. Aiken (r)
B: J. Kingston; T. Fisher Jnr; M. Hoey (r)
C: J. Hugo; J. Kamte; N. Schietekat (r)

Thanks all!


PS Have a break, have Schietekat!

Redrage wrote:PS Have a break, have Schietekat!

Nice one Red

Cat A: Darren Fichardt, Jeev Milkha SINGH (res Joost LUITEN )

Cat B: Jbe' Kruger, David HOWELL (res Doug McGUIGAN)

Cat C: Colin Nel, Dean Burmester (res ) Joakim LAGERGREN

Don't know half of these !!!!

CATEGORY A: Jaco VAN ZYL, Fredrik ANDERSSON HED (res: Joost LUITEN)

CATEGORY B: Peter LAWRIE, Soren KJELDSEN (res: Hennie OTTO)

CATEGORY C: Paul WARING, Richard MCEVOY (res: Martin WIEGELE)

Please note, I'm not the last to pick out of the regular players

CATEGORY A: Jaco VAN ZYL, Garth MULROY (res: Darren Fichardt)

CATEGORY B: Andy SULLIVAN, Trevor FISHER-JR (res: David HOWELL)

CATEGORY C: Niclas FASTH, James KAMTE (res: Neil SCHIETEKAT)

That makes a change!

Here are my picks - no worries about jinxing offspring this week!

Cat A: Steve Webster; Simon Dyson; Res: Jacko Van Zyl

Cat B: David Howell; Michael Campbell; Res: Chris Doak

Cat C: John Parry; Albert Pistorius Res: Lyle Rowe

Cheers GG

Cat A
Thomas AIKEN
Garth MULROY
res: Jaco van Zyl

Cat B
Trevor FISHER Jr
Andy SULLIVAN
res: Hennie Otto

Cat C
Dean BURMESTER
Jean HUGO
res: Louis De Jager

Cheers Grumps

Waiting to the last minute Blue? Hope your not cherry picking

We may have to watch out for Mary's pick, he might blow our picks away!

Rather than cherry picking, Blue's picking from the bottom of the barrel.

Thomas AIKEN +5 so far

1GrumpyGolfer wrote:Waiting to the last minute Blue? Hope your not cherry picking

We may have to watch out for Mary's pick, he might blow our picks away!

With that name, I'm hoping he'll be a good bet to hit the target.

Damn, I've been infected with LPRPitis. Fichardt: -7, van Zyl +3

SetupDeterminestheMotion wrote:Rather than cherry picking, Blue's picking from the bottom of the barrel.

Thomas AIKEN +5 so far

I'm after the bonus points for worse round of the day!

Not looking good for that either Blue, he's just birdied a few holes.

SetupDeterminestheMotion wrote:Cat A: Darren Fichardt, Jeev Milkha SINGH (res Joost LUITEN )

Cat B: Jbe' Kruger, David HOWELL (res Doug McGUIGAN)

Cat C: Colin Nel, Dean Burmester (res ) Joakim LAGERGREN

Don't know half of these !!!!

Well the half you know seem to be doing okay

Carnage today! I only have 1 of my picks under par!

Half in the top 3, no bad !!!??

My pin must have picked some crackers.

Anybody want a loan of my magic pin ?

I've only got 3 above the cut mark at the moment, one of whom is my "Oscar" pick.

GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

Tshwane Open

28 February – 3 March 2013 ___ Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate, Centurion, South Africa

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard - Round 1

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. SetupDetermines ___ XX (X/X) ____ 40 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 40

2. LadyPutt __________ XX (X/X) ____ 20 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 20

3. BlueCoverman ______ XX (X/X) ____ 10 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 10

3. Mary_S ____________ XX (X/X) ____ 10 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 10

3. Redrage ___________ XX (X/X) ____ 10 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 10

6. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ XX (X/X) ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 00

6. Davie _____________ XX (X/X) ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 00

6. Doc _______________ XX (X/X) ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 00


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SetupDetermines confesses to having a magic pin and boy does this work. Half of his picks ended up in the top 3 after round 1 of the Tshwane Open. With the low score and two other low scoring picks he has a 20 point lead over LadyPutt who also picked the lowest scoring player.

BlueCoverman, Mary_S and RedRage rounded out the scoring Fantasy Leaguers as they each had 1 pick shoot low. Davie, Doc and 1GrumpyGolfer have strong shoulders as they hold up the leaderboard. It’s especially distressing for 1GrumpyGolfer as two of his reserves have scored points.

By all accounts the course is a bit of a monster at Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate and the highest ranked players, Simon Dyson, had one of the worse rounds of the day. Fortunately for him but unfortunately for some Fantasy Leaguers it wasn’t the worse. JG Claassen and Tsietsi Chabangu both carded +8, 80s however no one picked them. Darren Fichardt continued his fine form of late shooting the round of the day, a -7, 65. SetupDetermines and LadyPutt chose wisely.

With over half the field under par already there’s work to be done for some in round 2 if they are going to make it to the weekend.

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Round 1 Low Round (10 points)
Darren Fichardt -7
1. LadyPutt
2. SetupDetermines

Round 1 Worse Round (10 points)
JG Claassen +8
1. None

Round 1 Worse Round (10 points)
Tsietsi Chabangu +8
1. None

Round 1 Low Scores (10 points)
-5 or lower

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It doesn't matter how big a lead Setup has, we all know that when the final leaderboard is posted on Sunday it will be the name of Grumps that is at the top of it (allbitterandtwisted)

Who me?

Play suspended due to a dangerous situation. Looks like Oscar is trying to improve his chances of making the cut. Round 2 will resume tomorrow morning at 6:45 local time.

Still carnage for me - think I only got 1 through the cut!

Round Two now completed. All my hopes are riding on Mr Howell, as my other picks crashed and burned.

GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

Tshwane Open

28 February – 3 March 2013 ___ Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate, Centurion, South Africa

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard - Round 2

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. SetupDetermines ___ 25 (5/6) ____ 40 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 65

2. LadyPutt __________ 20 (4/6) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 40

3. Redrage ___________ 20 (4/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 30

4. BlueCoverman ______ 15 (3/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 25

5. Davie _____________ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 20

6. Doc _______________ 20 (4/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 20

7. Mary_S ____________ 05 (1/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 15

8. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX ____ XX _____ XX ______ 10

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Carnage ensued at the Tshwane Open at Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate as play was stopped for a dangerous situation. No it wasn’t a Pistorious trying to get his own way and make the cut but the threat of lightning. The carnage resumed on Saturday morning as round 2 resumed at 6:45am and everyone didn’t return for that early start. Jaco Van Zyl and Simon Dyson were among those taking early baths. Several other GolfChatUK Fantasy League picks didn’t make it either but that didn’t really affect SetupDetermines as he had 5 picks through. The one that didn’t was one of his low scorers from round 1; Jeev Milkha Singh had a bad day at the office missing out by 1 shot ultimately.

RedRage, LadyPutt and Doc had 4 picks make it through to the final rounds. BlueCoverman had 3, Davie and 1GrumpyGolfer both had 2 picks. Mary_S had 1 pick in an old favourite.

There was some good scoring to be had as pros tried to make the cut. The low round was 65 and 5 pros shared that mark. Charl Coetzee, Dawie Van Der Walt, Louis De Jager, Magnus A Carlsson and Paul Waring were the good scorers. Davie earned 10 bonus points from Waring. At the other end of the spectrum Tyrone Ferreira slumped to a +9, 81. No one picked him and those points were left on the table.

Round 3 is already underway and there’s many Fantasy Leaguers hoping for some good scores from their picks so they can get some points on the board.

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Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Paul Waring -7
1. Davie

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Charl Coetzee -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Dawie Van Der Walt -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Louis De Jager -7
1. None

Round 2 Low Round (10 points)
Magnus A Carlsson -7
1. None

Round 2 Worse Round (10 points)
Tyrone Ferreira +9
1. None

Cut Line (5 points)
-2 or lower

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Bjorn Akesson will hope his pattern doesn't continue. 66 in round 1, 75 in round 2 and he followed that with another 66. I'm sure he'll be hoping for better things in round 4.

LPRPitis with a vengence; Fichardt with perhaps another round of the day, a fine round of 64. Tied at the top with Charl Coetzee as he looks to make it back to back wins in South Africa. I don't think even my admin skills can get me off the bottom of this one

GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

Tshwane Open

28 February – 3 March 2013 ___ Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate, Centurion, South Africa

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard - Round 3

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. SetupDetermines ___ 25 (5/6) ____ 40 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____ XX _____ XX ______ 105

2. LadyPutt __________ 20 (4/6) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 30 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 70

3. Redrage ___________ 20 (4/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 30

4. BlueCoverman ______ 15 (3/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 25

4. Mary_S ____________ 05 (1/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 25

6. Davie _____________ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 20

6. Doc _______________ 20 (4/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 20

8. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ XX _____ XX _______ 10

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We may as well call this the SetupDetermines show; another three picks in the scoring positions and a further extension of his lead. LadyPutt is trying valiantly to keep up with him with two scoring picks. Mary_S is making a bit of a charge; her old favourite keeping up the good work and scoring some points too. Everyone else scored a big, fat, lonely, zero.

Darren Fichardt had the low round of the day again so SetupDetermines and LadyPutt have big smiles. Scott Arnold had the worse round but no one had picked him.

Will LadyPutt be able to make one final push or will SetupDetermines hold on for another win?

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Round 3 Low Round (10 points)
Darren Fichardt -8
1. LadyPutt
2. SetupDetermines

Round 3 Worse Round (10 points)
Scott Arnold +6
1. None

Round 3 Low Scores (10 points)
-5 or lower

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1GrumpyGolfer wrote:I don't think even my admin skills can get me off the bottom of this one

I'm sure you will think of a way to tuck us up Grumps

BlueCoverman wrote:

1GrumpyGolfer wrote:I don't think even my admin skills can get me off the bottom of this one

I'm sure you will think of a way to tuck us up Grumps

Not this time, Blue, think I'll have to "fix", I mean recover at, the WGC

GolfChatUK Fantasy League 2012 – Winter/Spring Session - Event #11

Tshwane Open

28 February – 3 March 2013 ___ Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate, Centurion, South Africa

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard – Final Round

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. SetupDetermines ___ 25 (5/6) ____ 40 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____ 00 _____ 55 ______ 160

2. LadyPutt __________ 20 (4/6) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 30 ____ 00 _____ 40 ______ 110

3. Doc _______________ 20 (4/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 _____ 15 _______ 45

4. Redrage ___________ 20 (4/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 15 _______ 45

5. Mary_S ____________ 05 (1/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 _____ 15 _______ 40

6. BlueCoverman ______ 15 (3/6) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 05 _______ 30

7. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 10 _______ 20

8. Davie _____________ 10 (2/6) ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 00 _____ 00 _______ 20

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Darren Fichardt came so close to making it back to back victories on the European Tour but he was ultimately held off by Dawie Van Der Walt and had to settle for second. The other joint leaders after the third round did not have much fun out there sliding down the leaderboard to a tie for fifth and twenty seventh!

SetupDetermines marched on to a comprehensive wire to wire victory aided by two top 10 scoring finishes. LadyPutt was the only real chaser but she slipped further behind after the final round. Everyone else was chasing scraps. RedRage had three of his four picks score finish points but they weren’t enough to stop Doc taking third on countback. Doc’s pick of Danny Willett finished higher than any of RedRage’s picks. 1GrumpyGolfer had all of his picks, all two of them, score points and that was just enough to sneak out of last place and above Davie on countback.

There were bonus points to be had for low round but no one had chosen Desvondes Botes but Doc did chose Matthew Nixon who slumped to a final round 79. Those extra points helped boost Doc to third. There was a tie for last place; Jose Maria Olazabal and Grant Muller finished at +3 just 24 shots behind the winner.

Next week sees the GolfChatUK Fantasy League travel to the Doral Resort in southern Florida for the second of four World Golf Championships. It’s a strong, limited field, no cut event with plenty of points to play for.

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Final Round Low Round (10 points)
Desvonde Botes -8
1. None

Final Round Worse Round (10 points)
Matthew Nixon +7
1. Doc

Last Place (10 points)
Jose Maria Olazabal and Grant Muller +3

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Well done SetUp.

Thanks for the results GG, even though they make depressing reading for some of us!

Although I finished in the bottom half of the table, I do have a present from one of the competitors!

Spoiler:

Bribery to ensure you pick him Mary? I suppose if you exchanged them for a razor it's okay

What no telephone number Mary?

Not that she'll admit here Blue

Actually, I think that it's a bribe NOT to pick him. The curse of Typhoid Mary strikes all too often.

Top 10 finish this week which should get him into the next event if he isn't already qualified for it.

The SETUP show.


Doral next, last place looming.

I was cursing Darren Fichardt all the way in the final round as he contrived to lose me points but well done to Dawie VDW on his first win on the RT.