Farmer’s Insurance Open 340


                    This Week The Farmer’s Insurance Open

 

Held at Torrey Pines Golf Course

Par 72  7765 yards

 

San Diego

 

 

The Defending Champion is Max Homa

 

 

 

 

In the TH Last Year the Winner was Hedge

 

 

 

We join the West Coast swing already in progress.  Played at the iconic Torrey Pines golf resort, which has been the venue for two U.S. Opens . . . you remember, Tiger won on a broken leg.  (He loves this course, besides the Open he has won this event 7 times . . .  four in a row.)

 

 

 

 

This was first played in 1952 as the San Diego Open held at the San Diego Country Club.  The first champion was Ted Kroll.  This was Ted’s first of eight wins on the PGA tour.  It netted him a winners check of $2,000.  Something of a hero in WWII, he received three purple hearts for wounds received in battle.  He was leading money winner on the tour in 1956 and played on three Ryder Cups . . . his record was 3-1.

 

 

 

 

FUN FACT:  After he used his considerable celebrity to conduct a public campaign about professional golf being the last major sport to explicitly bar golfers of color . . . Boxer Joe Louis received a sponsor’s exemption to the inaugural event in 1952.

 

Yes . . .  Joe Louis was the first black man to play in a PGA sponsored event . . .

 

 

 

 

 

He missed the cut but still . . . it took the heavyweight champion to shame the PGA???

Things that make you go hmmmm

 

 

 

Star Trek Hmm GIF - StarTrek Star Trek - Discover & Share GIFs

 

 

 

 

The first two days are split between the North and South courses.  After the cut, the final two days are played on the South Course.

 

Wednesday Start . . . Get Those Picks In !!!

Four and an Alt

 

 

SlingerPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4AlternateTOTAL
ScrumsHoma -8FInau -10Schauffele -9Morikawa MC2ABERG -9-25
RadarMorikawa MC2Aberg -9Schauffele -9Homa -8CANTLAY -1-24
PhilSchauffele -9Homa -8Aberg -9 Morikawa MC2CANTLAY -1-24
HedgeFinau -10Homa -8Matsuyama -8Morikawa MC2SCHAUFFELE -9-24
MetroAberg -9ROSE -1Matsuyama -8 MW Lee -3 Meronk DNS-21
TafHoma -8Im MC2Cantlay -1Højgaard N -12BRADLEY -3-19
JJSchauffele -9Homa -8 Cantlay -1Morikawa MC2ABERG-9-16
ChevyIm MC2Theegala 0Schauffele -9Lee M -3HØJGAARD N -12-10
MX2Morikawa MC2Theegala 0Cantlay -1Schauffele -9BRADLEY -3-8
EMCCink MC2 ECKROAT (3) -4Pendrith -9Buckley MC2Cole MC2-6
WendySchauffele -9Day MC2MORIKAWA (3) MC2Theegala 0Bradley -3-5
MaxCantlay -1Im -MC2Day MC2MW Lee -3STRAKA MC20

 

 

 

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving faster than you is a maniac

and anyone going slower than you is a moron?”

~ George Carlin