Northern Trust Early Picks...?

Yeah that round was vintage DJ, brilliant and rubbish at the same time.

turned on the golf - never saw DJ make a birdie

Wonder what they do with the course tomorrow. Saturday at most tour stops traditionally they bring out the easy pins and move the tees up for an exciting moving day. Might not be a good idea here unless they want the course humiliated. Easy setup tomorrow and perfect conditions early on could see some more stupid charges on the front side.

what a shame for DJ to miss out on 59

Couldve seen him throw in a DB and miss out,
But 7 pars ffs.

No way.

Clever miss at the last from Rory: get out as early as possible and rip it round in 56.

59 and 60 rds pairing up tomorrow

Some huge names not found it so easy....

Sad to see Day struggle again,injury no doubt. Thought he was back.

7/4 got to be too short with 36 to play hasn't it?? yeah it was all exciting with his start yesterday but as far as golf goes scottie's round was more than the one shot better as a full round imo, 12 birdies in ridiculously good...

plus historically it's likely neither will score particularly low today after such rounds

Always questioned this hard to follow a good round theory.
Would be interesting to see if there where any stats to prove it.

Didn't stop Jimmy Herman

cos i am a complete saddo i have got you them stats...

since 2000 theres been 36 rounds 60 or better, think best next round was 4 shots worse...

Player ^v	Tournament ^v	1st rnd	2nd rnd	3rd rnd	4th rnd
Adam Hadwin	CareerBuilder Challenge	71	69 (-1)	59 (-3)	70 (-13)
Arron Oberholser	EDS Byron Nelson Classic	74	60 (+4)	72 (-10)	68 (+2)
Bart Bryant	Valero Texas Open	67	67 (-3)	60 (-3)	67 (-10)
Brandt Snedeker	RBC Canadian Open	69	60 (-1)	69 (-10)	69 (-1)
Brandt Snedeker	Wyndham Championship	59	67 (-11)	68 (-3)	65 (-2)
Carl Pettersson	RBC Canadian Open	71	68 (E)	60 (-3)	67 (-11)
Chad Collins	Barbasol Championship	67	60 (-4)	69 (-11)	68 (-2)
J.B. Holmes	The Greenbrier Classic	69	69 (-1)	60 (-1)	69 (-10)
J.J. Henry	Shriners Hospitals for Children Open	60	71 (-11)	70 (E)	70 (-1)
Jhonattan Vegas	Barbasol Championship	65	60 (-6)	72 (-11)	72 (+1)
Jim Furyk	Travelers Championship	73	66 (+3)	72 (-4)	58 (+2)
Jim Furyk	BMW Championship	72	59 (+1)	69 (-12)	71 (-2)
Justin Rose	Children's Miracle Network Classic	60	67 (-12)	72 (-5)	69 (E)
Justin Thomas	Sony Open in Hawaii	59	64 (-11)	65 (-6)	65 (-5)
Keegan Bradley	HP Byron Nelson Championship	60	69 (-10)	68 (-1)	72 (-2)
Kevin Chappell	A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier	71	59 (+1)	73 (-11)	72 (+3)
Kevin Kisner	Sony Open in Hawaii	70	67 (E)	60 (-3)	65 (-10)
Mackenzie Hughes	Travelers Championship	60	68 (-10)	68 (-2)	67 (-2)
Mark Calcavecchia	FBR Open	65	60 (-6)	64 (-11)	67 (-7)
Pat Perez	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	60	73 (-12)	70 (+1)	75 (-2)
Patrick Cantlay	Travelers Championship	67	60 (-3)	72 (-10)	70 (+2)
Paul Goydos	John Deere Classic	59	68 (-12)	67 (-3)	66 (-4)
Phil Mickelson	FBR Open	73	60 (+2)	66 (-11)	68 (-5)
Phil Mickelson	Waste Management Phoenix Open	60	65 (-11)	64 (-6)	67 (-7)
Phil Mickelson	Desert Classic	60	68 (-12)	66 (-4)	69 (-6)
Robert Gamez	Bob Hope Chrysler Classic	71	69 (-1)	60 (-3)	69 (-12)
Rod Pampling	Shriners Hospitals for Children Open	60	68 (-11)	71 (-3)	65 (E)
Scott Stallings	Barbasol Championship	69	65 (-2)	60 (-6)	71 (-11)
Si Woo Kim	Wyndham Championship	68	60 (-2)	64 (-10)	67 (-6)
Steve Stricker	John Deere Classic	60	66 (-11)	62 (-5)	70 (-9)
Stuart Appleby	The Greenbrier Classic	66	68 (-4)	65 (-2)	59 (-5)
Sung Kang	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	72	60 (+0.25)	70 (-11.75)	77 (-1.75)
Tommy Gainey	McGladrey Classic	69	67 (-1)	68 (-3)	60 (-2)
Zach Johnson	Tour Championship	71	66 (+1)	60 (-4)	68 (-10)
Zach Johnson	Valero Texas Open	68	67 (-2)	60 (-3)	70 (-10)

lol eoey WTF...

Shot 7 in the hole
Shot 6 putt 13 ft 6 in., 20 in. to hole
Shot 5 42 ft 9 in. to green, 12 ft 2 in. to hole
Shot 4 38 yds to left fairway, 30 ft 4 in. to hole
Shot 3 16 ft 7 in. to native area, 83 ft 9 in. to hole
Shot 2 174 yds to native area, 97 ft 5 in. to hole
Shot 1 295 yds to native area, 151 yds to hole

rory*

If Rory could only keep the triples off the card.

Rahm 3 under thru 3 - his day for the crazy score maybe?

Doesn't seem like we have the really big runs happening we did yesterday.

Fair play to Wolff, it's not easy to be +3 through the first 5 holes here.

Wolff want's to get on S99's list......he's going for a 95

Scottie would want to get a wriggle on here.

Agree rhino....DJ could get away here. I'm not laying him this time, but I'm not backing him either

He could fairbet, potential for a runaway here

"You don't want the course to soften otherwise it becomes target golf" is quite a quote from Ewen Murray there, as -17 leads after 6 holes of the third round and we come off the back of a 59 and a 60.

Yeah it's a bit late. Since the redesign this place has played much tougher than it used to, copping an absolute hiding this week.

Are we going to get a weather break?

time for dusty's customary stall, few guys with half the course left, 4 under more than doable, at least then theres a match left for tomorrow

Indeed we are. At least the course will be playing a bit easier for them after some rain, been brutal the first 2 1/2 days.

If the rain helps anyone you'd think DJ. He gets more soft(er) holes than the rest and the length off the tee becomes a bigger advantage.

Here we go again.......only DJ can beat DJ now

radar shows it should be a short break - hopefully

Awfully close to holing out straight out the gate.

Course is cherry ripe for a proper thrashing at the minute.

can't wait for a winning 30 under tomorrow

Been a while since we had a -30

scottie is such a smooth putters - love watching him

Shot DJ.

some shot by DJ, but English hanging around

oosty is the world's best at getting in contention and never really troubling the winners cheque - at least on the PGA

Oosty is just a massive disappointment imo Hank. Take away his one great week at St Andrews and his biggest win as far as I can make out is the Malaysian Open. Considering the talent we are talking about, one of the greatest non-winners to ever walk the fairways.

yep, there is something not right upstairs, cos we all know about the swing etc, but he somehow always managed to fk a really easy but important hole or something before falling away

hmm interesting from English

Here comes dustybin

great shot

yep quality, but you can see he's leaking right on a few

can't tell how tricky that is for English

thought he'd make the par there after the chip - DJ back in the lead then

ooh expensive triple for Davis

English plays like a world beater, joins the lead and immediately goes bogey-bogey on two holes that really aren't hard.

Golf...

hey rhino you still have lockdown?

he might possibly mug the 18th too!

yep, just a par and in at 17

big putt from DJ and back to a 3 shot lead

Proper lockdown Hank. 8pm curfew, not allowed more than 5kms from home except for work. Absolute joke.

8pm curfew?! fk me that's harsh. Hang in there mate

I was wondering whether it had made the news in the UK? ALL shops are shut that don't sell groceries. Only one person per household can do food shopping. Restaurants take away only. All pubs shut. Can't play golf. Limited to one hour exercise per day outside of your own but you can't drive to where you are exercising.

It is madness and so many people think the nutjob making these decisions is doing an impeccable job because he holds a press conference every day.

so much for Johnson having a let down after the 60

yeah, and Scottie not playing bad after a 59 either. I'm torn on the whole thing rhino - I can see arguments from both sides, but with my lad having medical issues I personally am pretty cautious, but as to what is best for everyone - I have no idea!

fantastic roll from Scottie again ul lad

Game over after that

how much would DJ give for that eagle to have been yday!

I understand that Hank. I don't see how isolating everyone to such an extent is the solution, the vulnerable can isolate themselves. Lucky it's winter here, when the weather gets nice if these conditions are still imposed I would certainly hope we have an uprising, pitchforks and all. Of course, I can't buya pitchfork because all the bloody shops are shut

Meanwhile, DJ

lol rhino

The Sky crew seem to have gone a bit quiet after sticking the boot in after yesterday's 60+

In the end only one guy in the field went lower than DJ today, impressive stuff.

well then!!  proper screwed the pooch this week!!

After thinking i'd made some great pre off picks and having a good chance of a payday, ends up that my best result this week was that scottie and dusty were in the same group yesterday so i couldn't lay them in their 2 balls!!!

Profit
Dustin Johnson
27
£10.00
£260.00

27s for player of DJs calibre was just too good to miss

well, my chase get outa jail bets are

without dusty market, ew 3 places

Hoffman 100/1
Davis 125/1
Hughs 300/1

longshots but chances with it being a course they could shoot any number...

Has anyone told DJ he's winning?

If Rahmbo can shoot 55 he might put up a total here.

Normally I would say this isn't over with a DJ lead, but he can shoot 67 round here carrying 3 clubs. Be nice of him to be understanding about it and have a steady par start for the first few so we have some interest

You look at what Wolff shot yesterday and I guess anything's possible. DJ is a momentum guy and we've seen him have some absolute shockers, but it's hard to have too much hope. The most likely scenario for an upset is DJ getting a bit defensive and shooting a mediocre 2 or 3 under and one of the chasers shoots the lights out. Something very low out there again today.

Yep, there could be a few threatening a 59 again

I'm normally a live in hope type, but DJ ain't losing this ...

noticed then bubba seemed to have his right heel raised while putting, is that something people are trying when putting?

Evening all. I pive in hope of a Harris English miracle, but reallistically probably writing this off and concentrating on the footie.

However, granted it is a huge longshot, but if DJ  did reprise SW Kim's collapse, this would be wide open.  Here's hoping.

Evening muse. Bubba been doing it for a while now S99 - weight distribution.

Presumably stops the face opening too much.  I am not a fan, but whatever works I guess.

cheers  fairbet, something  New for me to try/fail/forget in my 20 handicap golf game

Grillo been swinging well for a couple of weeks now.  Not sure he is that far off it all clicking.

One foot off the ground and a Hubbard putter....will take 3 shots off your round

Oh and the Michelle Wie stance of course

thinking i may struggle struggle with that, think higg's 50 year Old tubbier brother, ain't touched my toes in the last decade

Well that's it then. Game over

Wonder if there's any football on.

I'll give it 20 minutes. They'll probably be passing it around the back for 16 of those

I shall be cheering for Bayern TB

this is why the without market was created geniuses

I really shouldn't bet the w/o market as I always lose on them, but I know I'm going to lol

Would have gone with Scottie rather than English, but he's had an average start

and 2 ball multiples of course

lol this is ridiculous by DJ - may well get to 30!

He's obliged to have a 59 watch so anyone's got a reason to watch.

No denying DJ is playing well but -27 and holes to play....these are supposed to be the tour's marquee events. Really need to think seriously about whether they come back here

well, they shouldn't but...

Never seen a caddie down before

Scottie wasn't having a great day anyway and then off goes the caddie

Just as the suspense was building.

Looks like I made the correct decision staying in bed this morning