Draft Format
3 Groups - pick one from each in draft order - do all three picks at once
Each protagonist will then be allocated a further two players to give us all a unique squad of 6.
Groups
I hope this is the masterpiece of the draft. I went through the various qualification criteria and came across this
* Group A - red group, The original list of the top players from the World Rankings. Still 17 players in this list.
* Group B - blue group, the players who were given exemptions based on various performance criteria
* Group C - green group, those who didn't have a specific exemption but qualified based on being in top 60 of world rankings.
Order of picks (first selection in parentheses)
1 D-Train (Scottie Scheffler)
2 mostonmike (Rory McIlroy)
3 Juliooooo (Bryson DeChambeau)
4 Walla Walla Dawg II (Ludvig Åberg)
5 rockycola (Xander Schauffele)
6 desbcoach (Collin Morikawa)
7 TLO Idaho (Justin Thomas)
8 Seattle or Bust (Hideki Matsuyama)
9 baller (John Rahm)
10 maoling (Russell Henley)
11 Bil522 (Keegan Bradley) *** picked at the end of the draft to compensate missing the original draft ***
Expanded details
* After we have made our picks, I will then put all remaining players back into ranking order and allocate each protagonist two further players - but in reverse draft order. So maoling will get the two highest remaining players, then baller the 3rd & 4th remaining player and so on.
* Top 3 players across the whole weekend count.
* In the event of a protagonist not getting 3 players through, they will be allocated a player from the bottom of the leaderboard for the final two rounds. (maoling could get the player in position 60, baller 59th on leaderboard and so on - I will expand on this in a later post when we get to that point)
Deadlines
* Most of us tune in here during the Ms games, so if we can get through 2 protagonists choices per Mariners game that will bring us in line. As with the first round, lets adopt a sensible approach again.
World Rankings
References to World Rankings are mentioned throughout the thread, I believe it was rankings as per 19th May which I believe was the cut-off point for entry to the event.
Clear and obvious A.W.O.L
As per the previous round, If there is a clear and obvious issue where we have to bypass someone in the draft, then you will be allocated the highest ranked player available player from each group. SoB & maoling missed the deadlines, so we will take that into account when deciding to bypass
Changing players
Happy for changes to be made - HOWEVER, you have to be aware its going to confuse the next picker. So, to try and keep it all on track - can we do any changes and requests during UK daytime hours approx 12pm to 10pm BST (up to 2pm PDT) please? If you have a player who is scratched, please pick again from the same group as soon as you can (don't have to wait until tea and crumpet time over here
)Group A - top remaining players from Official World Golf Rankings, Pick 1
WR9 Sepp Straka - TLO Idaho
WR11 Maverick McNealy - desbcoach
WR12 Tommy Fleetwood - D-Train
WR13 Viktor Hovland - Juliooooo
WR14 Shane Lowry - mostonmike
WR15 Patrick Cantlay - rockycola
WR16 Harris English - Seattle or.Bust (allocated)
WR17 Justin Rose - Walla Walla Dawg II
WR18 Keegan Bradley - Bil522
WR19 Robert MacIntyre
WR20 Corey Conners
WR21 Sungjae Im
WR22 Wyndham Clark - maoling
WR23 Tyrrell Hatton - baller
WR24 Ben Griffin
WR25 J.J. Spaun
WRLIV1 Joaquin Niemann - Bil522
Group B - mostly players with qualifying exemptions, Pick 1
Finished Top 10 Last Year
Davis Thompson
Matthieu Pavon
Sam Burns - mostonmike
Tony Finau - D-Train
Qualfiied for 2024 End of Season Tour Championship
Aaron Rai
Adam Scott - Juliooooo
Akshay Bhatia - maoling
An Byeong-hun
Chris Kirk
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Sahith Theegala - desbcoach / WITHDRAWN
Taylor Pendrith
Tom Hoge
Qualified based on current FedEx standings
Brian Campbell
Cameron Davis - rockycola
Jacob Bridgeman
Ryan Gerard
Sam Stevens
Qualified based on current Development tour and Race to Dubai standings
Laurie Canter
Matt McCarty
Rasmus Højgaard
Thriston Lawrence
Qualified based on winning recent major championships
Brian Harman - Seattle or Bust (allocated)
Brooks Koepka - TLO Idaho
Cameron Smith - Bil522
Dustin Johnson - desbcoach
Gary Woodland
Jordan Spieth - Walla Walla Dawg II
Matt Fitzpatrick - baller
Phil Mickelson
Richard Bland (* seniors)
Group C - players ranked in Top 60 of Official Golf World Rankings who are not already exempt (alphabetical order)
Andrew Novak
Daniel Berger - Juliooooo
Davis Riley- Bil522
Denny McCarthy - mostonmike
J. T. Poston
Jason Day - Walla Walla Dawg II
Jhonattan Vegas
Joe Highsmith
Kim Si-woo / Si Woo Kim - rockycola
Lucas Glover
Mackenzie Hughes
Max Greyserman
Michael Kim - maoling
Min Woo Lee - desbcoach
Nick Dunlap
Nick Taylor
Nico Echavarría
Patrick Reed - D-Train
Stephan Jäger
Thomas Detry - Seattle or Bust (allocated)
Tom Kim / Kim Joo-hyung- baller
Qualifiers
Cameron Young - TLO Idaho
If anyone wants them - feel free to pick anyone from here in place of anyone from the groups above, Cameron Young might be the biggest name who had to go through qualifying. (L) = local qualifying
Sam Bairstow, Jacques Kruyswijk, Frédéric Lacroix, Joakim Lagergren, Guido Migliozzi, Edoardo Molinari, Andrea Pavan, Jordan Smith, Jinichiro Kozuma, Yuta Sugiura, Scott Vincent, James Hahn, Johnny Keefer, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Carlos Ortiz, Adam Schenk, Lance Simpson (a), Cameron Tankersley (a), Emiliano Grillo, Mark Hubbard, Niklas Nørgaard, Thorbjørn Olesen, Victor Perez, Kevin Velo, Matt Wallace
Joey Herrera (L), Riley Lewis (L), Zach Pollo (a,L), Preston Summerhays, Philip Barbaree (L), Frankie Harris (a,L), Justin Hicks, Austen Truslow (L)
Jackson Buchanan (L), Will Chandler, Mason Howell (a,L), Jackson Koivun (a), Tyler Weaver (a), Trevor Cone, Bryan Lee (a), Marc Leishman, Ryan McCormick, Roberto Díaz, Chris Gotterup, Ben James (a), James Nicholas (L), Zach Bauchou, Chandler Blanchet, Alistair Docherty, Emilio González, George Kneiser (L), Álvaro Ortiz, Trent Phillips, Bud Cauley, Lanto Griffin, Justin Lower, Harrison Ott (L), Erik van Rooyen, Cameron Young, Zac Blair, George Duangmanee (L), Grant Haefner (L), Maxwell Moldovan (L), Brady Calkins (L), Matt Vogt (a,L)
