I'm feeling quite properly about my selections right now. While Olympic has been host to 4 upsets -- which I'll sincerely define as "the chief going into the very last round did not win" -- I suppose DL3 at 10 is simply too far again to discern in today's play, and Justin Rose at five is borderline at first-class. The Weather Channel's forecast for today (which may be a bad hyperlink by the point you test it -- it has "day after today" as a part of the url, but which you could still test from a link on the U.S. Open leaderboard web page), says the final spherical can be pretty similar to all of the others -- 71 degrees F, sixty four% humidity, 13mph SW winds.
I've been looking at players no more than four strokes back -- you could do not forget I used the equal measure after the first round -- which means players at three or better. Jason Dufner still sits at that quantity, along with beginner Beau Hossler, Webb Simpson, and numerous others. I might not disregard any of them as a opportunity.
Likewise, both Ernie Els and Lee Westwood are at 2. Lee (my choose to win at the beginning of the week) has redeemed himself quite properly considering the fact that his seventy three-72 commencing rounds. Can he submit another 67 today and get returned to even? I don't know, however that is probably enough.
Colin Montgomerie picked Ernie Els to win, and I wouldn't be surprised if he did either. He's doing just what I expected -- make up floor with his ball placing. With rounds of seventy five-sixty nine-68, a sixty seven could additionally get him back to even.
Do I really think even par will win this Open? To be honest, no. I don't think the "Olympic Curse" will hold this time -- at least, not as long as the USGA doesn't let the course get out of control where good shots don't fare any better than bad shots. But I don't suspect they'll let the greens be as receptive as they were yesterday either. In the end, I think either Jim Furyk or Graeme McDowell will manage to post a -1 round, which will probably put the tournament out of everybody's reach...
Except for maybe Fredrik Jacobson's, who occurs to be sittiing all with the aid of his lonesome at 1 and coming off a seventy two-seventy one-sixty eight match. I need to admit, I certainly like Freddie's possibilities now that he's gotten himself into position.
Wouldn't or not it's a hoot if the Olympus Curse held real... And the Junkman hauled off the heavy steel? Well, after he won his first PGA Tour event closing 12 months, he said every of his children became going to need a trophy. I'd hate to be inside the middle of the fight over this one!
At any charge, I'll be looking this one carefully. Although I picked Luke Donald to win the Masters and he failed to, I did select each Louis Oosthuizen and Bubba Watson as players to observe there. With three of my five players to watch at this Open still viable, I simply might have a danger on the Grand Slam this 12 months!
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