SO YOU THINK you know your golf?
Here’s your chance to prove it and win a goody bag packed full of not-available-in-the-shops The42 gear… including the much-sought-after hip flash?
All you need to do is pick a winning team of three players for this week’s Open Championship at Carnoustie.
To enter, post your team in the comments section before the deadline of midnight tonight.
Entry is free but limited to one per reader.
Here’s how it works:
- Pick three players from the list below. The sum total of your three players’ odds must be at least 120/1.
- For example: Patrick Reed (33) plus Adam Scott (70) plus Paul Casey (30) = 133/1.
- The person whose team has the lowest combined score at the end of the tournament is the winner.
- Importantly… if any of your three players do not make the 36-hole cut, you are eliminated from the competition. All three players must finish the tournament for your team score to be valid.
- If your player does not make the first tee, you will be given an alternative player at those odds (or the next highest) in alphabetical order. Once that player tees off, he is part of your team for the duration of the tournament.
- In the event of a tie, the winner will be drawn at random.
Here are the odds:
- Dustin Johnson 10/1
- Justin Rose 14/1
- Rickie Fowler 16/1
- Rory McIlroy 16/1
- Jordan Spieth 18/1
- Tommy Fleetwood 18/1
- Brooks Koepka 18/1
- Jon Rahm 20/1
- Alex Noren 22/1
- Justin Thomas 22/1
- Francesco Molinari 25/1
- Tiger Woods 25/1
- Sergio Garcia 25/1
- Henrik Stenson 25/1
- Paul Casey 30/1
- Branden Grace 33/1
- Jason Day 33/1
- Patrick Reed 33/1
- Tyrrell Hatton 33/1
- Marc Leishman 35/1
- Hideki Matsuyama 40/1
- Matthew Fitzpatrick 45/1
- Phil Mickelson 50/1
- Russell Knox 55/1
- Louis Oosthuizen 55/1
- Ian Poulter 60/1
- Matt Kuchar 60/1
- Zach Johnson 60/1
- Tony Finau 66/1
- Bryson Dechambeau 66/1
- Adam Scott 70/1
- Thomas Pieters 70/1
- Bubba Watson 70/1
- Ryan Fox 80/1
- Lee Westwood 80/1
- Rafael Cabrera-Bello 80/1
- Andy Sullivan 90/1
- Brandt Snedeker 90/1
- Matthew Southgate 90/1
- Chris Wood 90/1
- Webb Simpson 90/1
- Patrick Cantlay 90/1
- Xander Schauffele 90/1
- Thorbjorn Olesen 90/1
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat 100/1
- Luke List 100/1
- Danny Willett 100/1
- Russell Henley 100/1
- Shane Lowry 100/1
- Paul Dunne 100/1
- Emiliano Grillo 100/1
- Eddie Pepperell 125/1
- Martin Kaymer 125/1
- Alexander Bjork 125/1
- Byeong Hun An 125/1
- Ross Fisher 125/1
- Ryan Moore 125/1
- Kevin Na 125/1
- Stewart Cink 125/1
- Brian Harman 125/1
- Haotong Li 125/1
- Daniel Berger 125/1
- Dylan Frittelli 125/1
- Charley Hoffman 125/1
- Charl Schwartzel 125/1
- Keegan Bradley 150/1
- Jason Dufner 150/1
- Beau Hossler 150/1
- Gary Woodland 150/1
- Pádraig Harrington 150/1
- Peter Uihlein 150/1
- Brandon Stone 175/1
- Kyle Stanley 175/1
- Cameron Smith 175/1
- Jimmy Walker 175/1
- Austin Cook 200/1
- Julian Suri 200/1
- Kevin Chappell 200/1
- Erik Van Rooyen 200/1
- Jorge Campillo 200/1
- Charles Howell 200/1
- Si Woo Kim 200/1
- Matt Wallace 200/1
- Chesson Hadley 200/1
- Brendan Steele 200/1
- Pat Perez 200/1
- George Coetzee 200/1
- Anirban Lahiri 200/1
- Kevin Kisner 200/1
- Chez Reavie 250/1
- Adam Hadwin 250/1
- Shubhankar Sharma 250/1
- Hideto Tanihara 250/1
- Alexander Levy 250/1
- Jordan Smith 250/1
- Andrew Landry 250/1
- Michael Kim 300/1
- Marcus Kinhult 300/1
- Jason Kokrak 300/1
- Retief Goosen 300/1
- Fabrizio Zanotti 300/1
- Sung Hoon Kang 300/1
- Yuta Ikeda 300/1
- Satoshi Kodaira 300/1
- Yusaku Miyazato 300/1
- Nicolas Colsaerts 300/1
- Shaun Norris 300/1
- Matt Jones 300/1
- Jonas Blixt 300/1
- Ernie Els 400/1
- Patton Kizzire 400/1
- Zander Lombard 400/1
- Grant Forrest 400/1
- Kelly Kraft 400/1
- Jhonattan Vegas 400/1
- Jens Dantorp 400/1
- Abraham Ancer 400/1
- Tom Lewis 400/1
- Ryan Armour 400/1
- Bronson Burgoon 400/1
- Scott Jamieson 400/1
- Bernhard Langer 400/1
- Cameron Davis 400/1
- Oliver Wilson 500/1
- Lin Yuxin 500/1
- Sanghyun Park 500/1
- Marcus Armitage 500/1
- Masahiro Kawamura 500/1
- Jack Senior 500/1
- Ryuko Tokimatsu 500/1
- Brady Schnell 500/1
- Michael Hendry 500/1
- Lucas Herbert 500/1
- Kodai Ichihara 500/1
- Danthai Boonma 500/1
- Darren Clarke 500/1
- Gavin Green 500/1
- Shota Akiyoshi 500/1
- Sean Crocker 500/1
- Masanori Kobayashi 500/1
- Jazz Janewattananond 500/1
- Brett Rumford 500/1
- Sam Locke 1000/1
- James Robinson 1000/1
- Thomas Curtis 1000/1
- Ashton Turner 1000/1
- David Duval 1000/1
- Jovan Rebula 1000/1
- Mark Calcavecchia 1000/1
- Haraldur Magnus 1000/1
- Minchel Choi 1000/1
- Sandy Lyle 1000/1
- Rhys Enoch 1000/1
- Nicolaj Hojgaard 1000/1
- Tom Lehman 1000/1
- Todd Hamilton 1000/1
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From the group of death to the first English team to win 6 group games. NICE.
@Paul Gorry: plus shout out to them young liverpool players tonight.
@Paul Gorry: Fair play to Ajax as well. Should be a good draw on Monday.
@Paul Gorry: I hate it when you’re happy. Don’t forget about covid and the storm
@Hugh Morris: I love it when you’re sad hugh. Not forgetting how could I?
@Paul Gorry: you’re old and senile
@Hugh Morris: fair point hugh I’ll give you that one. I think.
Everton have 18 points in PL.
Liverpool have 18 points in the CL.
@kenny mcgrath: your observational skills are impeccable, may I suggest a career as a statistician?
@kenny mcgrath: Looking at those figures people might think Liverpool were the Merseyside team spending like drunken sailors on shore leave.
Well done Conor bradley making his champions League debut #UPTYRONE
Not to put a downer on Liverpool’s win be jasus I was disappointed with AC, was expecting them to really go for it especially with the Liverpool line-up but they actually couldn’t get near Liverpool for long periods of that game. They look a very average side and yet they top Serie A…
@Ottomaaan: award two assists to that goalkeeper
@Ottomaaan: Commentators on both BT & RTE made the same point. Didn’t really seem that interested till about the 85th minute. Winning Serie A their main target or manager reckoned Athletico would find a way to win?
@Ottomaaan: Kind of all reverts back to the main issue in football. Money. The CL has become a competition where only those with the strongest financial backing will win it. Gone are the days of a Porto, Ajax, Marseille or Dortmund winning it against the odds. The past 2 decades of it comfirm only City, Chelsea, Liverpool, United, Bayern, PSG (and usually Barca, Real, Juve too despite being poor now) contest the semis onwards – the commonality being big financial backing. No hate either to any side, just reality.
@Ultan Corcoran: To be fair, the teams you mentioned are always there or thereabouts with regards to the last stages of the competition and money plays a big part of that. Over the last 2 decades though, 11 of the 20 finals in question have featured teams outside of the ones you mentioned.
@Ultan Corcoran: history or finances of the clubs winning or being in the final doesn’t back your statement.
@Ultan Corcoran: maybe surpass sporting Lisbon before you start with the finances of teams ahead of you
Konate is one cool customer…class act tonite!
@Hear me now: deffo he looked huge in that defence. At the same time I love Phillips nuff said lol.
@Paul Gorry: Phillips muff?
@Paul Gorry: nothing but love for this group of players
@Hugh Morris: whaaa?
@Hear me now: Everyone of them on the same page. A joy to watch isn’t it.?
@Hear me now: Said from Day 1 he was and is the better option to buy than Upamecano. Underrated > Overrated.
@Hear me now: Jesus he was marking a 40 year old steady on!
@Philip Mckenna: That 40 year old has 6 goals in 9 games for AC at the top of Serie A
Record makers record brokers…Up the Mighty Reds…Keep it going lads!!!
The quality around Europe is dropping on previous years.
@ChadChaderson: Agreed and have done for some time now, but one has to remember the financial backing isn’t the same as it is for the top 6 odd sides in the competition.
@ChadChaderson: The Italian teams are mostly gone to feic.
I know most people in Ireland love English teams and the premier league but money is really talking here. European competitions were great before where anyone could win. Aberdeen, Malmo, Red Star, then we had an era where is was predominantly fought our between the English, Spanish, Italians and Germans. The richest leagues. Still a degree a number of teams with genuine ambitions of winning the competition though.
The English premier league is now streets ahead of the other three financially and we are starting to see that on the pitch. Of course there will be the odd maga rich continental club like PSG who may intervene from time to time but the falling away of the Spanish and Italians is not a good thing for the game. I suppose a lot of people here will hardly notice given their primary focus is who ends up champions of England.
The only blot on an otherwise perfect night was that dreadful away kit. It looks like a McDonalds outfit…