Yep, killed any chance. Fair play to Rose, -21 round here is quality playing. One of the great sporting days next Monday, Phoenix last round into Superbowl

Pretty impressive from Rose this week. 21 under around Torrey Pines not to be sniffed at even better when you consider he dunked three shots on Saturday and missed half a dozen or so putts on the weekend that could have dropped.

A worthy number one at the moment tee to green he is superb.

BIT OF FUN from Rickie...

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/rickie-fowler-goes-undercover-as-a-caddie-fools-everyone-with-zach-galifianakis-beard?mbid=social_twitter

OUT Troy Merritt.....IN John Senden (alternate) Field of 156 • 2 sponsor exemptions TBD • 4 open qualifiers TBD.

Keegan, Dahmen, Day, English, Finau, Gooch, Lanto, Charles111, Marc L, Hideki, Rory, Palmer, Rahmbo, Rose, Reed, Smith, Sneds, Straka, Bubba, Woodland & TIGER (course horses).

RORY can reclaim World Number #1 this week.

The South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Course will play 7,765 yards.....while the North Course will play 7,258 yards (averaging almost 3 shots less in the opening round last year).

NEED TO study the TEE/COURSE draw....WHO STARTS WHERE ?

17:10 North    Byeong-Hun An Joel Dahmen Charley Hoffman 16/11    28/15    3/1
17:20 South    Tonney Finau Dylan Frittelli Ted Potter Jr 21/20    2/1    4/1
17:20 South    Lando Griffo Francesco Moliwood Martin Trainer 15/13    27/20    11/2
17:20 North    Pat Reed Billy Horschite Sebastian Munoz 16/11    2/1    52/19
17:30 North    RORY McIlroy Cam Smith Brandt Sneds 1/1    11/4    10/3
17:30 South    Matthew Wolff Ryan Palmer Jim Herman 7/5    7/5    4/1
17:30 South    Hideki Jason Dufner Max Homa 7/8    7/2    7/2
17:40 South    Russell Knox CT Pan Keith Mitchell 7/5    33/16    12/5
17:40 North    Jonny Rahmbo TIGER Woods Collin Morikawa 7/5    9/5    7/2
18:20 North    Bud Cauley Jimmy Walker Bill Haas 5/4    13/8    11/4
18:20 North    Sungjae Im Jason Kokrak Denny McCarthy 11/8    19/10    13/5
18:30 South    Gary Woodland Bubba Watson K J Choi 1/1    2/1    96/19
18:30 South    Justin Rose Jason Day Jordan Spieth 7/5    39/19    5/2
18:30 North    Marc Leishman Pat Perez Jimmy Walker 11/8    21/10    58/19
18:40 South    JB Slow Austin Cook Steve Stricker 8/5    9/4    5/2
18:40 North    Joaquin Niemann Keegan Bradley Lucas Glover 8/5    2/1    68/29
18:40 South    Xander Schauffele Rickie Fowler Phil Mickelson 7/5    13/8    41/13


Since 2011, every single winner has started out their tournament on the South Course.

8 of last 9 winners of the Farmers Insurance Open started the week on the South Course.
Over the last 2 years at this event, 15 of the 23 golfers that finished T10 or better played round 1 on the South.
In 2018, all 3 players in the playoff (Day, Noren, Palmer) played R1 on the South.
Over the past 7 years at this event, 33 of the 81 golfers that finished between T17 and T43 played Round 2 on South, including 17 starting on the back tees
Before Justin Rose won last year, Ben Crane (2010) was the last winner to start play on the North Course.

Will that trend continue this year?

...just saying

Not normally a player in this tournament early as /I find it hard to get a feel off but I am hearinf good things coming out of Wee Rory's camp and have bet him accordingly this week.

and Rambo as well why not have 3 in the team

Tiger & youngster Morikawa (born 6th Feb.1997) are grouped together today.
First time in Woods' career that he's been grouped with a player born after he turned pro in August 1996.

Like Westwood last week, with 11 players in that field who weren’t born when he won his first ET event.

Xander Schauffele thought he played better than the scorecard showed. But is confident he can turn things around after a +2 opening round... "If I could go play 18 right now I think I'd love to because I'm sure I'd make six or seven birdies."

Still a chance to see Tiger/Rory Sunday pairing

SUNDAY EVENING VIEWING.....
16:15    Russell Knox Jason Dufner Zack Sucher 11/10    9/4    58/19
16:25    Cameron Tringale Jhonattan Vegas Will Gordon 11/8    13/8    10/3
16:35    Jason Day Jason Kokrak Aaron Baddeley 13/10    17/10    16/5
16:45    Joel Dahmen Max Homa Joseph Bramlett 7/5    20/11    13/5
16:55    Keegan Bradley Beau Hossler Patrick Rodgers 7/5    11/5    23/10
17:05    Sungjae Im Maverick McNealy Kevin Streelman 21/20    5/2    3/1
17:15    Joaquin Niemann Brandon Wu Ben Taylor 1/1    5/2    9/2
17:25    Cameron Davis Jimmy Walker Zac Blair 13/8    15/8    5/2
17:35    Bubba Watson Jamie Lovemark Mark Anderson 6/5    3/1    3/1
17:45    TIGER Woods JB Holmes Tom Hoge 4/5    3/1    10/3
17:55    Pat Reed Brandt Snedeker Sebastian Cappelen 13/10    17/11    7/2
18:05    Tonne Finau Marc Leishman Tyler McCumber    6/5    13/8    9/2
18:15    Cameron CHAMP Harry Higgs Sung Kang 27/20    13/5    27/10
18:25    RORY McIlroy Jonny Rahmbo Ryan Palmer 27/20    6/4    4/1

BREAKING: NBA legend Kobe Bryant and four others have been killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California

Will put a big downer on any other sporting news RIP

KOBE is to Basketball what TIGER is to Golf..... Federer/Tennis, Ronaldo/Messi/Football..... Iconic on so many levels....so sad.

Tiger most likely probably doesn’t know..... this could be rattling....hope he finishes the round.

...bigger than any golf thingy going on today.....Tiger is aware of the death of Kobe Bryant. He was informed by his caddie Joe LaCava.

The Grammys tonite too in CAL - shocking news.

possibly worst coverage of a golf tournament ever

Catch Me ifyoucan • January 26, 2020 8:39 PM GMT
Just give it to Marc Leishman ffs and finish this thing now.

YET another AUSSIE WIN (and on 'Australia Day' too)
SCOTT wins OZ PGA, WADE Ormsby wins in HK, Super SONY CAM Smith in Hawaii.
..... could this spark another ‘shark attack’ era..... should lift their fiery spirits atm

Lucas HERBERT in Dubai (ODDC) earlier, and a Marc LEISHMAN - EUROPEAN / PGA TOUR Aussie double (for the both Victorians).

The last time two Aussies won concurrent events on golf’s two largest tours was August 25, 2002.....On that day, a precocious 22-year-old talent by the name of Adam Scott claimed his third European Tour title at the Diageo Scottish PGA Championship, while veteran Craig Parry shot 65 on the final day to take out the WGC-NEC Invitational at Sahalee Country Club in Washington.

There is a history of Aussies winning in bunches.....In 2016, four Aussie men won six tournaments in the space of six weeks, starting with Marcus Fraser’s victory at the Maybank Championship in Malaysia on February 21...a week later Adam Scott secured the first of back-to-back wins at The Honda Classic, Scott Hend won ET’s True or False Thailand Classic on March 13 and Jason Day then got in on the action, winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational and WGC-Dell Match Play in consecutive weeks.
And it didn’t end there, Minjee Lee claiming her second LPGA Tour title at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii three weeks later.

Two years earlier John Senden (Valspar Championship), Karrie Webb (JTBC Founders Cup), Steven Bowditch (Valero Texas Open) and Matt Jones (Shell Houston Open) delivered Aussie victories in four straight weeks, while in 2010 Fraser sparked another flood of Aussie success when he claimed the Ballantine’s Championship in Korea on April 25, Scott and Day winning the Valero Texas Open and Byron Nelson Invitational in successive weeks from May 16.

“I saw Lucas won this morning when I woke up. Really happy for him, he’s a great player and I’m sure he’ll be over here soon,” said Leishman, recording his first win since the CIMB Classic in October 2018. “Obviously excited for myself, it’s a tournament I’ve wanted to win for a lot of years. There are so many great names on that trophy and I’m pretty proud to be one of those now. “I’m great friends with both of them (Adam Scott and Cameron Smith). Seeing them lift a trophy, it makes you want to work harder and have it be you.
“Glad it’s two weeks later after Cam and I’m sure this will give him some motivation to want to do it again too.
“Hopefully we can drag each other along this year and win a few more.” Thanks, PGA Oz