OT: Inaugural PGA Championship Contest 15-18 May 2025

[mostonmike]

Time for the Inaugural PGA Championship Contest.

Tournament is at Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

The prize
The winner of this contest gets the honour of being the first one to pick their players for the US Open, which will operate with a draft format, meaning each player will have a unique team. Full details of the US Open to follow in early June when we’ve argued for 5 pages.

How-to-play
* Protagonists to choose 5 players from the list below.
* No replacements after 2 rounds so choose wisely.
* If 3 or more of your players miss the cut, you are eliminated from the contest, thus 3 of your 5 players need to qualify for the final two rounds.
* Spending money is 100 dollar-pounds, no point in retaining money as there are no replacements.

Scoring
* Your best 3 players will count for the first two rounds.
* After 2 rounds and the cut, you must choose which 3 players you are taking through to the weekend.
* Ties will be broken by the guy that picks the highest finisher, and countback to next highest finisher can apply.

Deadlines
* Deadline to select - tee-off on day one (any really, really late players can select from players who have not yet started their first round)
* Deadline to pick final three – first player tee-off on Saturday, if you don’t choose your own final three, you will be given your best 3 at that point as your selection by default.
* Players can change their original selections right up to tee-off on day 1, but please use new posts where possible rather than edit old posts.

Anomalies
* It is possible, but unlikely, that the leader could actually be eliminated from the tournament if they don’t get three players to make the cut. This is to promote protagonists to choose a balanced team rather than just choosing a squad with 2 star players and a pile of pish that miss the cut.
* If you select any players who do not start, you can replace them with someone who hasn't yet teed off otherwise they will be replaced from the same price level using a random algorithm.

Hall of Fame
Masters
1993 baller
2021 Rockycola - 13 entrants
2022 D-train - 15 entrants
2023 D-train - 14 entrants
2024 Coeurd’Alene J - 14 entrants
2025 Bil522 - 10 entrants

PGA Championship
2025 inaugural contest

US Open
2024 TLO Idaho

The Open
2023 Open Walla Walla Dawg II
2024 Open D-train

Other Golf Winners
2024 BMW Championship D-train / Rockycola co-winners
2024 Tour Championship D-train

[mostonmike]

MAIN PLAYER LIST
PICK 5 - Total 100 Dollar-Pounds to spend, at least 3 must qualify to make the cut
90 Rory McIlroy
90 Scottie Scheffler
85 Bryson DeChambeau
70 Ludvig Aberg
70 Xander Schauffele
60 Collin Morikawa
60 Jon Rahm
60 Justin Thomas
55 Brooks Koepka
55 Joaquin Niemann
55 Patrick Cantlay
55 Viktor Hovland
50 Hideki Matsuyama
50 Tommy Fleetwood
45 Jordan Spieth
45 Shane Lowry
45 Tyrrell Hatton
40 Will Zalatoris
30 Cameron Smith
30 Corey Conners
30 Jason Day
30 Justin Rose
30 Russell Henley
25 Min Woo Lee
25 Sahith Theegala
25 Sungjae Im
25 Tony Finau
25 Wyndham Clark
20 Daniel Berger
20 Davis Thompson
20 Matt Fitzpatrick
20 Max Homa
20 Patrick Reed
20 Sam Burns
15 Aaron Rai
15 Adam Scott
15 Akhshay Bhatia
15 Alex Noren
15 Brian Harman
15 Byeong-Hun An
15 Cameron Young
15 Dustin Johnson
15 Harris English
15 Keegan Bradley
15 Maverick McNealy
15 Robert MacIntyre
15 Sepp Straka
15 Si Woo Kim
15 Taylor Pendrith
10 Andrew Novak
10 Cameron Davis
10 Davis Riley
10 Dean Burmester
10 Denny McCarthy
10 Jake Knapp
10 Keith Mitchell
10 Lucas Glover
10 Matt McCarty
10 Nick Taylor
10 Nicolai Hojgaard
10 Rasmus Hojgaard
10 Rickie Fowler
10 Sergio Garcia
10 Stephan Jaeger
10 Thomas Detry
10 Tom Hoge
5 Adam Hadwin
5 Austin Eckroat
5 Beau Hossler
5 Chris Kirk
5 Christiaan Bezuidenhout
5 Eric Cole
5 Erik van Rooyen
5 Eugenio Chacarra
5 Gary Woodland
5 Karl Vilips
5 Keita Nakajima
5 Kevin Yu
5 Kurt Kitayama
5 Lee Hodges
5 Mackenzie Hughes
5 Nick Dunlap
5 Nico Echavarria
5 Patrick Rodgers
5 Taylor Moore
0 Ben Griffin
0 J.T Poston
0 Marco Penge
0 Matt Wallace
0 Matthieu Pavon
0 Padraig Harrington
0 Phil Mickelson
0 Ryo Hisatsune
0 Seamus Power
0 Thorbjorn Olesen
-10 Harry Hall
-10 Jason Dufner
-10 Jhonattan Vegas
-10 Joe Highsmith
-10 Luke Donald
-10 Martin Kaymer
-10 Patton Kizzire
-10 Richard Bland
-20 Jimmy Walker
-20 Shaun Micheel
-30 Wyatt Worthington II
-30 Zac Oakley

[mostonmike]

Two places in the field are being held for the winners of the Truist Championship and ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic at the weekend.

There are other players available to choose including players from the Corebridge FInancial Team (denoted by * ).

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In the event of any errors, or where I might have quoted players duplicated - the higher value price will be used (eg. 5DP and -5DP in error, we will take the 5DP price)

[Bil522]

Does the winner of the Master's get the 2nd pick for the US Open?

[D-train]

You are an absolute Machine, Michael, even more so than Secretariat!

[rockycola]

Incredible effort you put into this. Totally in awe.
Gotta week to gather intel and put our 100 pound/dollars to smart pick.
Thanks for your monumental labor to put this together.

[Juliooooo]

So, the guys in the image you listed you get at -40?

[Seattle or Bust]

Justin Thomas - 60
Akshay Bhatia - 15
Nick Taylor - 10
Jake Knapp - 10
Karl Vilips - 5

[mostonmike]

So, the guys in the image you listed you get at -40?

The left hand side box you do get for minus 40. They are the invites from the PGA and some from the PGA club professional competition. Was it Jimmy Walker who came through that route to win a few years back?

The right hand side of the image have prices but as far as I can see they are not qualified or invited at this time.

Does the winner of the Master's get the 2nd pick for the US Open?

Sounds like we need to introduce an overall ranking system. I might work on that if we want to do a draft for the Open Championship (British Open). It could be based on performance in last 4 majors.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Great job on this MM.
A for effort!!!!