Wyndham Hotels, after years of doing nothing, decides to win another US Open. All I can figure is it’s the new management. Congrats to Paul and Monica on another outstanding weekend. 32 points and the sidebet win. On a course to be a historic FGL season. When it all comes together, guys like Keith Mitchell open with a 40 on his opening nine holes yet somehow ends up in the top 10. The current second, third and fourth top ranked players are all on a certain someone’s team. See how their salary has increased since that infamous TopGolf Draft night:
Player Draft Night 6/21
Rory McIlroy $8.70 $9.57
Cameron Young $3.18 $7.28
Matt Fitzpatrick $3.07 $6.82
Jake Knapp $2.11 $2.50
Wyndham Clark $1.72 $5.05
Keith Mitchell $1.11 $1.74
TOTAL $19.89 $32.96
Defending Tommy O Champion - negative two points for the weekend. Tsk tsk tsk.
Jim and I picked up 14 points. Not much to brag about there.
Big J’s favorite Jason Day played a few holes Thursday and then decided to go home. He pulled a Morikawa with a sore back.
We’re going to the Travelers next. It’s a Signature event which means: limited field, all make the cut, top names are expected to compete (except Rory who has decided he just doesn’t care about those events) I would guess a few of the guys that gutted it out for four rounds at the US Open would not be too upset if they missed the cut. But there’s no cut. So they’re playing all four rounds. I expect some tournament schedule changes next year!
Manager Golfers expected to play
B.T.O. Hideki Matsuyama, Harris English, Akshay Bhatia, lil Rickie Fowler, Daniel HamBerger
Jim Fleetwood Mac, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas, Maverick McNealy
Jaustin Xander, Alex Noren, Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im
Doug Chris Gotterup, Shane Lowry, Gary Woodland, Si Woo Kim, J.J. Spaun, Min Woo Lee
PAK-Mon Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jake Knapp, Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell
Commish Don Henley, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Sam Burns, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Nicolai Hojgaard,
Big J Bob MacIntyre, Viktor Hovland, Jacob Bridgeman, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa
Kevin Scottie, Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau