2019 Barracuda Championship

The year's 73rd major gets underway tomorrow in Reno.

This event uses the modified Stableford system most famously used by the old International tournament.

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Double Eagle 8 points

Eagle 5 points

Birdie 2 points

Par 0 points

Bogey -1 point

Double Bogey or worse -3 points

killing a teenager with your car 40 points (oh wait that's Death Race 2000)

Tee times and the field

https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/barracuda-championship/tee-times.html

Course: Montreux G & CC a Jack Nicklaus design of Par 72 of 7552 high altitude yards

Fed Ex Cup Points: 300 for the opposite field event

Purse: $3,500,000 with $630,000 to the winner

OWGR SoF is 26 with the first place points being the PGA Tour minimum of 24.

The highest ranked players are

Emiliano Grillo #62

Ryan Palmer #73

Andrea Pavan #80 makes the trip over from his usual tour Europe on a Commissioner's Exemption

Martin Kaymer #89

others here

Daniel Berger a two time winner in Memphis did not qualify for the FedEx

Collin Morikawa and Doc Redman looking to close out status for next year and maybe pick up a win

YE Yang and The Man Hosung Choi of South Korea

Last week's winner for an opposite field event Jim Herman, who still needs to pick up points to get into the FedEx Cup Playoffs

Padraig Harrington

Mike Weir

David Duval

and John Daly with a cart

not here is defending champion Andrew Putnam, he made the field in Memphis

And now the tournament anthem

Roster:

https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/barracuda-championship/field.html

How it works: Stableford format

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2015/08/03/stableford-format-barracuda-championship.html

Barracuda Championship

Montreux G & C C -

Reno, Nevada

July 25-28, 2019

ODDS to Win:

Collin Morikawa 10/1

Martin Kaymer 18/1

Daniel Berger 20/1

Martin Laird 20/1

Emiliano Grillo 25/1

Russell Henley 25/1

Ryan Palmer 25/1

Denny McCarthy 30/1

Bill Haas 30/1

Jhonattan Vegas 30/1

Sepp Straka 30/1

Brendan Steele 30/1

Cameron Tringale 30/1

J.J. Spaun 40/1

Andrew Landry 40/1

Sam Ryder 30/1

Pat Perez 50/1

Beau Hossler 50/1

Andrea Pavan 50/1

Sam Saunders 50/1

Chris Stroud 50/1

Roger Sloan 50/1

Wes Roach 50/1

Bronson Burgoon 50/1

Harris English 60/1

Cameron Davis 60/1

Josh Teater 60/1

Carlos Ortiz WD

Richy Werenski 60/1

Sebastian Munoz 60/1

Patrick Rodgers 60/1

Kelly Kraft 60/1

Troy Merritt 60/1

going with Berger this week. I hope HS Choi make to the weekend.

Sepp Straka and Martin Laird have been doing OK lately, not sure if this venue/format suits them but wouldn't be surprised to see either get a win.

who would have guessed that YE Yang is on top of the leaderboard

The NLU podcast with Jason Bohn was hilarious, the fact that his coach was concerned about eligibility over a million dollar payout is comical.

Smart move by Duval, play a tournament where you can pick up after you can't make bogey.

Still in last though.

David Lingmerth leading and, like last week's winner, he still won't make the FedEX Cup Playoffs with a win.

I like the stableford system. I wish a main tournament would use it rather than an alternate event, though.

David Duval really needs to stick with his GC gig. Tony Romo and Steph Curry are more competitive in golf at this point.

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> Smart move by Duval, play a tournament where you can pick up after you can't make bogey.

> Still in last though.

>

> David Lingmerth leading and, like last week's winner, he still won't make the FedEX Cup Playoffs with a win.

Didn't LIngmerth win PGA tournament?

> @flushem said:

> > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > Smart move by Duval, play a tournament where you can pick up after you can't make bogey.

> > Still in last though.

> >

> > David Lingmerth leading and, like last week's winner, he still won't make the FedEX Cup Playoffs with a win.

>

> Didn't LIngmerth win PGA tournament?

He actually won the Memorial in 2015 but has fallen off the cliff since (won't have enough FedEx points to crack the top 125 in the fedex standings this year even if he wins the Barracuda)..

> @snizzle said:

> David Duval really needs to stick with his GC gig. Tony Romo and Steph Curry are more competitive in golf at this point.

In fairness to him, how many reps does he usually get? I don't think he's played all that much and it's no surprise he's rusty and knocking it all over the course. I give him credit for going out there and trying, but really, he should play some Korn Ferry events.

> @OldBridge said:

> > @snizzle said:

> > David Duval really needs to stick with his GC gig. Tony Romo and Steph Curry are more competitive in golf at this point.

>

> In fairness to him, how many reps does he usually get? I don't think he's played all that much and it's no surprise he's rusty and knocking it all over the course. I give him credit for going out there and trying, but really, he should play some Korn Ferry events.

He played the KF event at TPC Colorado two weeks ago.

The HEART song is the highlight of the thread.

Tommy Gainey with the ace in the first round

Great break down Darth! i giggled all the way through

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> killing a teenager with your car 40 points (oh wait that's Death Race 2000)

>

Line of the year!

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> Collin Morikawa and Doc Redman looking to close out status for next year and maybe pick up a win

>

Didn't they already clinch their 2019/2020 PGA Tour cards? Both Redman and Morikawa are at 400+ FEC equivalent points to earn their tour card. Done deal correct?

> @snizzle said:

> David Duval really needs to stick with his GC gig. Tony Romo and Steph Curry are more competitive in golf at this point.

It was clear at The Open he's playing with some sort of injury.

> @grm24 said:

> > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > Collin Morikawa and Doc Redman looking to close out status for next year and maybe pick up a win

> >

> Didn't they already clinch their 2019/2020 PGA Tour cards? Both Redman and Morikawa are at 400+ FEC equivalent points to earn their tour card. Done deal correct?

>

Shhhhhh. I'm trying to shill over here.

Love that course, in great shape this year as well after last year's visit from mother nature.

Course looks dope

Win or lose, Morikawa gets to go home to Katherine Zhu.

John Daly moving near the cut line with a much better performance than yesterday.

> @"Carl Spackler2" said:

> Course looks dope

this is one tough course @142 s/r, play's 150 for this tourney

It's my home course. It's crazy how easy they make this difficult (for most mortals, anyway) course look.

On another note: The rain was crazy last night! My yard is all F'ed up!

> @OldBridge said:

> John Daly moving near the cut line with a much better performance than yesterday.

John Daly makes his first PGA Tour cut since last year in the Dominican Republic.

Hosung Choi misses another cut. David Duval posts a score of 1 point in the second round and does not finish last.

Announcers on TV talking about Golf trending to Bomb & Gouge while taking shot making out of the game. I've said that all along but the top guys on the tour got killer short games as well....they can get it up and down from anywhere....