U.S. Open Darkhorse Contest and Bitch Session

Alright, don't have any prizes in mind but perhaps we can come up with something.  Pick a player who is not ranked in the top 100 in the world to win the U.S. Open.  Posts must be submitted and not modified before first tee time Thursday morning.  Ties will be broken by something entirely whimsical and decidedly unfair.  I'll work on that.  If none of our picks win then we'll just throw a kegger with the entry fees.

I pick [edit: Errrrmmm, he's not in the field.  I'll have to work on this.  Might be a slim selction pool.  Stay tuned.  LOL.]

Official World Golf Ranking for Week 23 - June 10th 2007

1. Tiger Woods,  USA 
2. Phil Mickelson,  USA 
3. Jim Furyk,  USA 
4. Adam Scott,  Aus 
5. Ernie Els,  Zaf 
6. Henrik Stenson,  Swe 
7. Vijay Singh,  Fji 
8. Geoff Ogilvy,  Aus 
9. Luke Donald,  Eng 
10. Retief Goosen,  Zaf 
11. Padraig Harrington,  Irl 
12. Sergio Garcia,  Esp 
13. Zach Johnson,  USA 
14. Rory Sabbatini,  Zaf 
15. Trevor Immelman,  Zaf 
16. Paul Casey,  Eng 
17. Choi Kyung-Ju,  Kor 
18. Stewart Cink,  USA 
19. Justin Rose,  Eng 
20. Charles Howell-III,  USA 
21. David Toms,  USA 
22. Steve Stricker,  USA 
23. Nick O'Hern,  Aus 
24. Aaron Baddeley,  Aus 
25. Robert Allenby,  Aus 
26. Stuart Appleby,  Aus 
27. Brett Wetterich,  USA 
28. Scott Verplank,  USA 
29. Rod Pampling,  Aus 
30. Ian Poulter,  Eng 
31. Davis Love-III,  USA 
32. Jose M Olazabal,  Esp 
33. Robert Karlsson,  Swe 
34. Richard Sterne,  Zaf 
35. David Howell,  Eng 
36. Stephen Ames,  Can 
37. Richard Green,  Aus 
38. Arron Oberholser,  USA 
39. Niclas Fasth,  Swe 
40. Colin Montgomerie,  Sco 
41. Angel Cabrera,  Arg 
42. Vaughn Taylor,  USA 
43. Chad Campbell,  USA 
44. Carl Pettersson,  Swe 
45. John Rollins,  USA 
46. Charl Schwartzel,  Zaf 
47. Lee Westwood,  Eng 
48. Chris DiMarco,  USA 
49. Anders Hansen,  Dnk 
50. Joe Durant,  USA 
51. Mike Weir,  Can 
52. Bradley Dredge,  Wal 
53. Shingo Katayama,  Jpn 
54. Boo Weekley,  USA 
55. Tim Clark,  Zaf 
56. Lucas Glover,  USA 
57. Jeev Milkha Singh,  Ind 
58. Miguel A Jimenez,  Esp 
59. Ryan Moore,  USA 
60. Mark Calcavecchia,  USA 
61. Raphael Jacquelin,  Fra 
62. John Senden,  Aus 
63. Paul Goydos,  USA 
64. Jerry Kelly,  USA 
65. Yang Yong-Eun,  Kor 
66. Shaun Micheel,  USA 
67. Johan Edfors,  Swe 
68. Bart Bryant,  USA 
69. Sean O'Hair,  USA 
70. Tom Lehman,  USA 
71. Ben Curtis,  USA 
72. Dean Wilson,  USA 
73. Brett Quigley,  USA 
74. J.J. Henry,  USA 
75. Thomas Bjorn,  Dnk 
76. Tom Pernice-Jr,  USA 
77. Heath Slocum,  USA 
78. Anthony Kim,  USA 
79. Simon Dyson,  Eng 
80. Jose Coceres,  Arg 
81. Woody Austin,  USA 
82. Liang Wen-Chong,  Chn 
83. Michael Campbell,  NZl 
84. Jyoti Randhawa,  Ind 
85. Thongchai Jaidee,  Tha 
86. J.B. Holmes,  USA 
87. Ben Crane,  USA 
88. Bernhard Langer,  Deu 
89. Nathan Green,  Aus 
90. Toru Taniguchi,  Jpn 
91. Troy Matteson,  USA 
92. Jonathan Byrd,  USA 
93. Anthony Wall,  Eng 
94. Jeff Quinney,  USA 
95. Camilo Villegas,  Col 
96. Rocco Mediate,  USA 
97. Peter Lonard,  Aus 
98. Markus Brier,  Aut 
99. Tim Herron,  USA 
100. Fred Funk,  USA

I still have plenty of golf balls to give away.  I found even more today when I was cleaning my closet.

Hows 'bout a bakers dozen to the winner?

Cool Seamie.  Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.

I'll take Nathan Green.

Dys, I'll defer to you on the rules.  I barely was able to come up with the contest and I bollixed that up.   

I'll go with Jeff Sluman.

Sounds great.  I'll dig around the place a bit and see if I can find something to toss in the pool.

We still might have ties.  Maybe a scorecard tie-breaker if it comes to it?  Sunday score... Sat... Fri... Thurs.

I have a couple of different brands of golf balls to choose from, winner can pick 'em.

Put me down for Justin Leonard.

hmmm...

I'll pick Ken Duke.