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Post by GPB Mon 03 Aug 2015, 12:35 am

First topic message reminder :

I think it is time for an update and new thread.  The OWGR Top 100 should all be invited to play the PGA Championship tomorrow.

Nice playing from Troy Merritt for winning the Quicken Loans to get an 11th invite to B-Stone.  Also Marc Warren got a 11th hour invite for his 4th place finish in Scotland.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat did not get an invite for winning the Paul Lawrie Match Play but is 14th in the Int'l Prez Cup standings.

This is what the top 100 should look like tomorrow morning

 
 
1Rory McIlroy12.485
2Jordan Spieth11.415
3Bubba Watson7.541
4Jason Day6.916
5Rickie Fowler6.674
6Jim Furyk6.578
7Dustin Johnson6.551
8Justin Rose6.422
9Henrik Stenson6.069
10Sergio Garcia5.614
11Adam Scott5.192
12Zach Johnson4.975
13Louis Oosthuizen4.960
14Jimmy Walker4.765
15Hideki Matsuyama4.298
16Matt Kuchar4.218
17J.B. Holmes4.170
18Patrick Reed4.009
19Martin Kaymer3.822
20Phil Mickelson3.745
21Billy Horschel3.725
22Chris Kirk3.685
23Brooks Koepka3.663
24Danny Willett3.563
25Bernd Wiesberger3.301
26Paul Casey3.194
27Bill Haas3.182
28Branden Grace3.162
29Brandt Snedeker3.105
30Marc Leishman3.104
31Kevin Na3.022
32Ryan Palmer2.970
33Ian Poulter2.945
34Kevin Kisner2.842
35Gary Woodland2.840
36Lee Westwood2.808
37Jamie Donaldson2.780
38Thongchai Jaidee2.771
39Ryan Moore2.662
40Charl Schwartzel2.569
41Victor Dubuisson2.567
42Francesco Molinari2.565
43Charley Hoffman2.563
44Brendon Todd2.550
45Hunter Mahan2.545
46Keegan Bradley2.514
47Webb Simpson2.495
48Shane Lowry2.477
49Marc Warren2.448
50Robert Streb2.431
51Russell Henley2.398
52Anirban Lahiri2.398
53Tommy Fleetwood2.395
54John Senden2.388
55Joost Luiten2.371
56Miguel A Jimenez2.360
57Andy Sullivan2.356
58Byeong Hun An2.338
59David Lingmerth2.294
60Graeme McDowell2.285
61Ben Martin2.281
62Luke Donald2.235
63Steven Bowditch2.206
64Matt Every2.132
65Alexander Levy2.130
66Danny Lee2.127
67Kiradech Aphibarnrat2.092
68George Coetzee2.033
69Cameron Tringale2.006
70Stephen Gallacher1.970
71Scott Piercy1.964
72Matt Jones1.918
73Alexander Noren1.902
74Richie Ramsay1.883
75Brian Harman1.876
76Russell Knox1.862
77Chris Wood1.818
78Pablo Larrazabal1.813
79Soren Kjeldsen1.782
80Tim Clark1.776
81Harris English1.776
82Daniel Berger1.768
83Justin Thomas1.766
84Rafael Cabrera Bello1.762
85James Morrison1.759
86David Howell1.747
87Jason Dufner1.738
88Eddie Pepperell1.725
89Shawn Stefani1.699
90George McNeill1.698
91Graham Delaet1.694
92Kevin Streelman1.673
93Jason Bohn1.670
94Ross Fisher1.669
95Tyrrell Hatton1.668
96Emiliano Grillo1.639
97Morgan Hoffmann1.627
98James Hahn1.623
99Troy Merritt1.618
100Hiroshi Iwata1.616
101Brendan Steele1.612
102Padraig Harrington1.612
103Cameron Smith1.602

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Post by super_realist Thu 15 Oct 2015, 6:46 am

GPB wrote:In college, I was good friends with a guy named Elvis Moses O'Leary.  


Moses is a common Jewish name



LadyPutt wrote:I think you'll find that some of the names you find ridiculous are simply cultural differences.

BINGO!!!

An oxymoron, surely.

Reminds me of the line from The Last Crusade, "Indiana? We named the dog Indiana"

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Post by pedro Thu 15 Oct 2015, 12:25 pm

Or perhaps just a moron..

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Post by GPB Sat 17 Oct 2015, 7:10 pm

Possible the Poulter falls out of the Top 50, which might mean his spot in the HSBC tournament is at risk.  (not sure of deadlines.

Both Mahan and Schwartzel made the cut at Frys and all they need to pass IJP is a 49th and 37th respectively.

Henley needs a solo 9th or better and he is currently 6th.

Aphibarnrat is playing in Macau, and he is currently 7th but all he needs is a 14th.

Sullivan will pass Poulter if he wins in Portugal, which is looking likely

Steele would also pass him should he win the Frys.

Thomas needs to win or solo 2nd to pass IJP.

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Going into the Frys, Rory is about 70 pts behind Day/Spieth

Here is OWGR's explanation on why Day is overtaking Spieth this week in the OWGR

Jason Day will return to World Number One this week following Jordan Spieth’s 3 week spell at the top since his win at the Tour Championship by Coca-Cola.

Neither player has played in an OWGR qualifying tournament since East Lake but players lose OWGR points every week irrespective of whether they play or not.

The system works such that all points wins at tournaments played within the last 13 weeks (3 months) count at their full value. Points wins from tournaments played more than 13 weeks ago are reduced by a weighting relative to how long ago the tournament was played.

The table below shows the Top 10 total points winners for the last 13 weeks only. This shows that 2/3rds of Jason Day’s total points (333.38/ 501.28) have been earned in the last 13 weeks. Accordingly Jason is losing less points each week at the moment than Jordan and explains why for the last two weeks the gap has closed between the two and why Jason will go ahead of Jordan in the Week 42 OWGR.

Jason Day333.38
Jordan Spieth161.71
Zach Johnson142.33
Henrik Stenson141.76
Rickie Fowler134.57
Bubba Watson127.85
Justin Rose117.91
Shane Lowry92.30
Brooks Koepka86.04
Matthew Fitzpatrick71.82

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Post by GPB Sun 18 Oct 2015, 12:02 pm

Congratz to the winners in Asia.

Matt Kuchar wins in Fiji Open, VJ finishes T3.  (He could climb two spots to #13)
Satoshi Kodaira win the Japan Open, Adam Scott finishes 7th. (he gets close to the Top 100)
Hend wins the Macau tournament, Lahiri finishes T2. Hend moves to to about 132nd.

Poulter can take up to four bullets to stay in Top 50.  Already taken one bullet from Aphibarnrat who finished 6th to pass him.

Sullivan is looking more and more like he is going to win in Portugal.  7 shot lead with 12 holes.  A Sullivan win would be another bullet.  Doesn't look like there are any other threats in Portugal

Mahan (T49th or better) Schwartzel (37th or better) would be the third and fourth bullet.  They are T27 and T20th going into Round 4.

Other threats to Poulter are

Steele (has to win)  Currently 1st
Thomas (has to win or solo 2nd), Currently 12th
Grillo (Has to win or solo 2nd), Currently T4th
Henley (Finish solo 9th or better), Currently T20th

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Post by kwinigolfer Sun 18 Oct 2015, 1:21 pm

GPB,
OWGR cut-off is Monday, Oct 19th. Poulter sweating bullets! Looks like two have already hit him.

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Post by I'm never wrong Sun 18 Oct 2015, 4:17 pm

Poulter has another possibility. If he earns enough from the Hong Kong Open, he could jump into the top 30 R2D.
The cutoff for this category in the HSBC WGC is the 26th October.
I don't know how the $2 million prize fund breaks down, but I expect he would have to finish very near, if not in first place to get enough.


...........that's if he's playing of course..... Doh

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Post by kwinigolfer Sun 18 Oct 2015, 4:30 pm

Not entered, not so far anyway.

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Post by I'm never wrong Mon 19 Oct 2015, 11:09 am

Poulter has slipped to 51 in the OWGR. Doesn't look like he is playing Hong Kong.
My (extremely) rough calculations show that there could be over 78 players eligible for the HSBC and that is the line before reserves are accepted. But he will be 1st reserve due to his ranking.

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Post by GPB Mon 19 Oct 2015, 2:50 pm

I'm never wrong wrote:Poulter has slipped to 51 in the OWGR. Doesn't look like he is playing Hong Kong.
My (extremely) rough calculations show that there could be over 78 players eligible for the HSBC and that is the line before reserves are accepted. But he will be 1st reserve due to his ranking.

???  reserves comes from the money lists of the minor tours.

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Reserve priority


Reserves
If there are less than 78 players entered through Categories (1 – 10) above, then further players who are not otherwise exempt will be selected in order from the “RESERVE” Category below.


The first four reserves will consist of the next highest ranked player not otherwise exempt on each of the Orders of Merit specified in (6 – 9) above. The order of these 4 reserves will be determined by their OWGR ranking as of Monday 19th October 2015.
The next highest ranked player from the Race to Dubai Rankings as of 26th October 2015.
The next highest ranked player from the OWGR as of 19th October 2015.
The next highest ranked player from the final 2014/2015 Fedex Cup Points list.


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https://www.hsbcgolf.com/who-is-qualifying/


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Post by I'm never wrong Mon 19 Oct 2015, 4:35 pm

Hmm, I might have read that wrong then. Poulter could be as low as 6th reserve then.

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Post by GPB Mon 19 Oct 2015, 8:12 pm

As of this morning, I am counting 80 players that are exempt for the HSBC.  

Besides the OWGR Top 50

FEX 4-1SangMoonBae
FEX 4-2StevenBowditch
RTD 5-1Ben An
RTD 5-2George Coetzee
RTD 5-3Luke Donald
RTD 5-4Ross Fisher
RTD 5-5MattFitzpatrick
RTD 5-6TommyFleetwood
RTD 5-7DavidHowell
RTD 5-8James Morrison
RTD 5-9AlexNoren
RTD 5-10ThorbjornOleson
RTD 5-11MarcWarren
RTD 5-12MiguelJimenez
Asian 6-1ScottHend
Asian 6-2AndrewDodt
Asian 6-3SSPChawrasia
Asian 6-4Richard TLee
Japan 7-1K.T. Kim
Japan 7-2YutaIkeda
AUS 8-1Greg Chalmers
AUS 8-2Steven Jeffress
SUN 9-1ThomasAiken
SUN 9-2DanieVon Tonder
CHI 10-Chinese #1
CHI 10-Chinese #2
CHI 10-Chinese #3
CHI 10-Chinese #4
CHI 10-Chinese #5
CHI 10-Chinese #6

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Post by GPB Mon 19 Oct 2015, 8:15 pm

Players I don't expect to see playing the HSBC

Jason Day, Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, SangMoon Bae

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Post by GPB Mon 19 Oct 2015, 11:24 pm

Upon further review:

Didn't read the print of the FEDEX Top 30 exemption.  They are taking 5 players from this criteria so it looks like there are 83 exempt players to the HSBC.

So even though IJP is the 6th alternate, it is going to take 11 WDs for him to get in the field.  IMO, the alternate list goes at least 6 players, but not to 11

Incidentally the top five players from the FEX criteria will be Bowditch, Summerhays, Thomas, Jones, Knox.

Bowditch and SM Bae were the only players in the Tour Championship that are not in the OWGR Top 50.

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Post by I'm never wrong Mon 19 Oct 2015, 11:48 pm

GPB - can you have a look at section 12 of the eligibility criteria?


Reserve Policy:

Any withdrawal from Categories (3 – 10) will be replaced by the next eligible and available Player within that Category up until the publication of the first round draw on Tuesday of the tournament week. After this time any withdrawals will be replaced by the next eligible and available Player from within the reserve Category.


Does that mean if someone in Cat 3 (Top 50 OWGR) drops out before Tuesday, Poulter is in?

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Post by GPB Tue 20 Oct 2015, 1:15 am

The way I interpret that policy is that the reserves are prioritize as detailed in section 11 until Tuesday of Tournament week.

Then if someone WDs after the Tuesday of Tournament week, then it goes to the player that is on-site and listed as an alternate.

That's my interpretation, for what it is worth.

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Post by sirbenson Tue 20 Oct 2015, 12:20 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/rydercup/11942494/Ian-Poulter-dashes-from-Florida-home-to-Hong-Kong-Open-to-ensure-he-is-eligible-to-play-in-2016-Ryder-Cup.html

Regarding Ian Poulter...

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Post by kwinigolfer Tue 20 Oct 2015, 1:24 pm

Sure Beemer made more out of that little transaction than he ever would in prizemoney . . . . .

Only a matter of time before lw1 joins Poults, and Donald, and McDool outside the Top 50. Inevitable unless he has a good result at HSBC. Changing of the guard.

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Post by GPB Tue 20 Oct 2015, 2:41 pm

For sure.  Quid Pro Quo arrangement between Beem and IJP.

No way this would happen on the PGATour for anyone.  An fully exempt player has to register for the tournament by Friday before tournament week.

This is probably a harbinger for Poulter.  Falling out the Top 50 means that he is going to have a play a lot more tournaments to maintain status on the PGAT and EuroTour.  Assuming he falls out of Top 64, he is not exempt for any WGC's and probably only exempt for the PGA for majors.

He will no longer be able to play an elite schedule.

Edt:  Poulter is exempt for the Masters by finishing T6 last year.

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Post by super_realist Tue 20 Oct 2015, 2:51 pm

kwinigolfer wrote:Sure Beemer made more out of that little transaction than he ever would in prizemoney . . . . .

Only a matter of time before lw1 joins Poults, and Donald, and McDool outside the Top 50. Inevitable unless he has a good result at HSBC. Changing of the guard.

European Ryder Cup could contain a lot of rookies with all of those out.

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Post by McLaren Tue 20 Oct 2015, 4:47 pm

GPB

As per my post on Kwini's thread Poulter looks like the latest casualty of double dipping. You need to play extremely well every time you tee it up or a play lots of events in a pretty average manner.

Poulter and many others are currently unable to do either with the double dipping schedules they have chosen.


I will say it again as it has failed to sink in for many on this board. The Days of double dipping for those not called McIlroy could be over.
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Post by kwinigolfer Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:21 pm

If you "play lots of events in a pretty average manner" you shouldn't be d/d'ing.
But Poulter's problem has been spending more time on his Ferraris than the golfcourse.

Mac,
Imagine you'd be in deep weeds at work if you didn't show up for months on end - same with Golf; pity Poults didn't realise that.

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Post by McLaren Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:25 pm

Kwini

Why are you loathe to admit that there are no examples of successful (be our previously agreed definition) double dipping for at least 2-3 years? (excluding McIlroy)
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Post by kwinigolfer Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:35 pm

Are you excluding Rose and Garcia also? And Koepka and Oosthuizen? And Stenson and Schwartzel?

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Post by super_realist Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:42 pm

or Luke Donald.

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Post by McLaren Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:44 pm

Rose and Garcia have been double dipping since before McIlroy (and possibly Stenson)

Oostie and Schwartzel have suffered terrible drops in the OWGR since embarking on double dipping.


Good shout on Koepka, for the moment he is doing ok. Will he be able to keep it up next year?
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Post by McLaren Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:45 pm

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We are looking for examples where the player has maintained or improved their OWGR while double dipping? Not sure that applies to Donald in the last 3+ years.
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Post by SmithersJones Tue 20 Oct 2015, 5:46 pm

So, apart from irrigation, sanitation, roads, medicine and democracy, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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Post by kwinigolfer Tue 20 Oct 2015, 6:11 pm

King Louis is ranked #14 in the owgr's, despite injuries. Where do you expect him to be? He's only ever finished one year ranked better than 20th.

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Post by robopz Tue 20 Oct 2015, 8:11 pm

Poluter's situation is probably more arrogance or overconfidence in his game (like Kaymer) instead of just dumb.  But yeah... when a plan don't work out... in 20-20 hindsight it sure as heck looks dumb.

Bottom line is the OWGR situation obviously caught him and his team off guard. Going into the British Masters he was #42 and would have had to have known THEN he was in OWGR trouble for the WGC  (ET entry close date is 2 weeks before the event compared to only 5 days before on the PGAT).  Heck, even our resident OWGR expert didn't realize it until a few days ago either.  My guess is TeamPoults 1) didn't think he could fall that far in 2 weeks and 2) expected to play well in the British Masters at one of his favorite venues.  And thus by the time he realized he was up s**t-creek, deadline for Hong Kong was past.  Oh well...

And in that regard... I have to at least mostly agree with GPB on this dual tour thing.  IMO Rory's recent comments about RC qualification and Casey's recent actions illustrate what a big problem this dual-touring thing is starting to be for the top Euro players.  Then we have Kaymer's situation  not meeting his PGAT minimum, and now this.   Since I had a chance a few years ago to really sit down and study it...  its been my opinion that except for the best of the best, the dual touring deal causes most players to under-perform on TWO tours at once.  Those who don't play enough on the PGAT have a lot harder time advancing to the FedEx Cup finals... and those who don't play enough on the ET put themselves behind the 8-ball in the R2D.   It's not just a matter of qualifying for the 8 big co-sanctions (even though that's a huge part of it)... it's also unless these guys have STELLAR play in the 8 co-sanctions... they're under way too much pressure to play extra well in the other limited starts they have on each tour.  This year only 5 dual tour guys making the FECup is evidence of that (2 of them Rose & Koepka who play a lot more heavily on the PGAT over the ET)

I think it's getting to the point that unless you're a really, really top-dog... a player needs to be thinking in terms of a roughly 30 event schedule to give himself a reasonably fair shot at performing well on either or both tours.   Even trying to play 24-25 events (like Poulter was trying to do and  only gets them 4-5 total events over both minimums), is cutting it too close.

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Post by GPB Tue 20 Oct 2015, 9:34 pm

Robo:  To be honest, I knew Poulter could be in trouble after the British Masters.  I just didn't want to be Chicken Little on a British-centric forum (or in other places).

It was pretty obvious that Charl, Hunter, and Barnrat were going to pass him after two rounds.  Then after Sullivan had a big lead after Round 3 that the perfect storm could be aligning.

When you are tight-rope walking like Poulter has been doing, you need to be watching everything that can knock you off your perch.

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Post by kwinigolfer Tue 20 Oct 2015, 10:57 pm

I agree with GPB also; thing with Poulter is that he's always been at least one step ahead "of the law", but now his complacency has caught up with him.
He always used to be known as the guy who calculated his owgr currency from his smart phone on the course; strange that he should have been caught out like this.
Somewhere, Tim Finchem is smiling . . . . . . .

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Post by I'm never wrong Tue 20 Oct 2015, 11:19 pm

I stand to be corrected as usual, but I think the only way for Poulter to qualify for the HSBC is to win in Hong Kong. As GPB mentioned 11 people dropping out for him to get on as a reserve is stretching it.

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Post by GPB Tue 20 Oct 2015, 11:47 pm

Euro officials woke Beem after his flight from Texas and asked him to give up his spot.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c9e3b398baef48e48c98154e1c4c5d05/beems-decision-allows-poulter-keep-european-tour-card

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Post by robopz Wed 21 Oct 2015, 6:16 am

GPB wrote:Robo:  To be honest, I knew Poulter could be in trouble after the British Masters.  I just didn't want to be Chicken Little on a British-centric forum (or in other places).

It was pretty obvious that Charl, Hunter, and Barnrat were going to pass him after two rounds.  Then after Sullivan had a big lead after Round 3 that the perfect storm could be aligning.

When you are tight-rope walking like Poulter has been doing, you need to be watching everything that can knock you off your perch.
i get that. But the problem was Poulter had already missed the Hong Kong deadline before he ever teed it up at the British Masters. And like you said... it was kind of a perfect storm that caught up with him... and by the time he realized it, it was too late to do anything about it.

And I agree with the other comments in this thread about "walking the tightrope".... but in the end... that's exactly what a lot of the dual tour guys are doing... anything goes wrong along the way and they got issues. This season... we got guys like Westwood, Poulter, Franny, Luke & G-Mack all with potential BIG issues looming. New member Lahiri is running some risks himself.

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Post by super_realist Wed 21 Oct 2015, 8:15 am

Very decent of Beem.

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Post by incontinentia Wed 21 Oct 2015, 10:38 am

super_realist wrote:Very decent of Beem.
Indeed clap
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Post by McLaren Wed 21 Oct 2015, 11:17 am

Inco I think (hope) Super was being sarcastic. In what way would it be considered a decent thing to do?

Beem should have questioned why the European tour wasn't bending what would be considered fair for all the other players not quite in the field?
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Post by kwinigolfer Wed 21 Oct 2015, 12:14 pm

robo,
Westwood is clearly walking the owgr tightrope but playing both Tours no longer. Just European Tour.

The others badly need a good win, and soon!

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Post by incontinentia Wed 21 Oct 2015, 12:25 pm

McLaren wrote:Inco I think (hope) Super was being sarcastic.  In what way would it be considered a decent thing to do?

Beem should have questioned why the European tour wasn't bending what would be considered fair for all the other players not quite in the field?
I would have thought that was obvious Mac. Beem is not a policeman for the Euro tour, on his actions alone it was clearly decent of him to help out a fellow player. I'm not sure if any of the other players on the bubble faced the same consequences Poulter did, but considering that Beem is American, and that he could potentially have refused and kept one of Europe's best match players out of the Ryder Cup next year, I think he is to be applauded for being so sporting about it.
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Post by SmithersJones Wed 21 Oct 2015, 2:05 pm

I think it's extremely good of Beem, and I don't know why he feels meeting Poulter would be awkward. I'm sure Poulter will be extremely grateful, and whilst a Ferrari might be pushing it I'm sure Poulter will make sure his trip is fully paid for etc
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Post by GPB Wed 21 Oct 2015, 2:43 pm

robopz wrote:But the problem was Poulter had already missed the Hong Kong deadline before he ever teed it up at the British Masters.




Deadline to enter the Hong Kong tournament was on or before October 7th?

And even if it was, obviously there are ways to get around that deadline as the last two days exhibit.  When he nearly whiffied on OWGR points he and his team should have realized he was vulnerable.

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Post by incontinentia Wed 21 Oct 2015, 3:33 pm

Mac- may I take from your non-response that you have conceded the argument, and that Rich Beem's actions were indeed decent?
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Post by super_realist Wed 21 Oct 2015, 4:18 pm

Mac, you only have to read the article to see that Beem did a quite noble act and the context of how it occurred.

Well done Beem, I don't think it will make a difference to Poulter being in the Ryder Cup as his form is woeful, but it was nice of Beem to stand aside.

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Post by McLaren Wed 21 Oct 2015, 4:21 pm

Inco

No, it was an unnecessary act and it is slightly worrying how easily Poulter circumvented the normal rules of entry.


Super

I agree, Poulter will be out of, or very close to being out of, the world top 100 by the time the Ryder cup comes around.
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Post by super_realist Wed 21 Oct 2015, 4:24 pm

Mac, sometimes people just do nice things whether they are necessary or not.
It's called empathy. You should try it some time.

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Post by McLaren Wed 21 Oct 2015, 6:07 pm

Super

Are you kidding me? I am surprised you even know about the concept of empathy?
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Post by robopz Wed 21 Oct 2015, 9:50 pm

kwinigolfer wrote:robo,
Westwood is clearly walking the owgr tightrope but playing both Tours no longer. Just European Tour.

The others badly need a good win, and soon!
Thanks on the Westwood deal... I hadn't see where he'd formally given up membership. IMO wise move in his situation. Lee's done quite well in his career feasting on lesser events... especially in Asia... He needs to be playing where he can rack up points to stay OWGR eligible for the biggies... and that's obviously not the U.S. right now for whatever reasons... gamewise or personal.

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Post by robopz Wed 21 Oct 2015, 11:52 pm

If nothing else through all this deal... Rich Beem shows me that he "gets it". He knows who and what he is and isn't as a professional golfer these days. Why play when in some meaningless tournament for him when it can be so important for someone else.

And I've been a bit critical of the ET management of late... but despite the criticism Pelly is getting from some quarters (like Yelling for example), IMO ET's support of Rory and Poulter in these recent situations is EXACTLY what they should have done.

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Post by GPB Sun 25 Oct 2015, 1:52 pm

Rose goes to 5th in the rankings, at least temporarily.  Fowler needs a top 40 finish to stay at the #5 spot.

At worst, Rose rises to 6th.

Fitzpatrick should either 56th or 57th.

FWIW, Poulter rises 50th, also temporarily.  Henley and Moore have a legit chance to pass him.

Stegmaier would get inside the top 150, Hoffmann inside the top 60.

Walker as high as 12th.
Na as high as 15th.
Campbell into the Top 100.

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