Friends in fore,

The bucket hat. THE BUCKET HAT!!

Commish figured it was yet another case of crickets when asking "who had Peter Malnati on your bingo board". AND YET...

@ContrarianDFS was really out here giving his username WAY more street cred with a Peter "Bucket Hat" Malnati selection and our 2nd YEYPO skin of the 2024 Golf SZN.

On the flip side, Sam Burns just crushed us. Commish's sentiments go out to all Burns pickers (including a whopping 45% in Survivor #1).

You know what they say - golf is a four-letter word. And I'm sure a ton of us paired some four-letter words with "Burns" as one of the year's hottest golfers missed the cut by a single shot.

Meanwhile, cyborg Scheff is back in the field this week. Will be interesting to see if any of us pick him in a smaller purse event, even if we think he'll win by 12.

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

What happened, in one paragraph

A TON of us were left wishing the PGA Tour had more LIV-style rules, as the cut line ended up being just 6 shots off the lead. After two rounds, the lead was 6-under, and a bunch of big name guys at 1-over got cut, including Burns, Spieth, Keegan, and Jimmy Stanger. That crushed us in most pools, with both Survivors losing more than half the field. Cam Young (a top 5 pick for us) and Peter Malnati were tied with two holes left; Malnati birdied 17 and Cam bogeyed 18, leading to a 2-shot Malnati win.

One-and-Done ("YEYPO")

• Avg earnings: $83,574 (0.99% of purse). Quite literally our worst event in Golf SZN history.
• Winner picks: 1. Skin! See opening section.
• Overall leader: @MPSTEELE13 at $9,571,679. They missed the cut and it didn't matter (see: worst week in Golf SZN history). 
• Interval 2 leader: @Bukjuan at $6,866,281. Last week's leader, @Uscbiggie, missed the cut and it allowed @Bukjuan (Cam Young, $916K) to grab a $150K lead. (Interval 2 is weeks 7-12.)
• Best Squad: PGA (Pure Golf Addiction) at $21.5M. They added exactly $0 to their total. But, same story for 2nd place Swingline. 

Survivor #1

• Damage done: 119 down. Burns (86 picks) crushed us. Harman (17 picks) also missed the cut. 
• Survivors: 72 are on to Week 11. 
• Best Squad: Shotgun Beers, Not Starts. The ONLY squad with 3 survivors standing! 

Survivor #2

• Damage done: 764 down. The cruelest of opening weeks for this pool. 
• Survivors: 522 are on to Week 11. 
• Best Squad: 26 Squads left with at least 3 survivors. 

Top 10s

• Avg points earned: 1.23. We did OK here because 42% of us had Xander (worth 2 points). Beyond that, it was bleak. 
• Top 10s actually picked: 5 of 10. We missed Malnati (1st), Chandler Phillips (T3), Carl Yuan (T5), Ryan Moore (T5), and K.H. Lee (T9).
• Best weekly score: 5 (7 people). A lot of Xander (2 points) paired with Bezuidenhout (3).
• Overall leader: @tmirrione (27 points). They bagged a 3-pointer on Bezuidenhout, and lead by 1 over @yjcc. 
• Best Squad: Nigel Honoring TigersGreatness (63 pts). Unofficial 401k remains in 2nd. 

"All 30" One-and-Done

• Last week was a bye. This pool is only active in "big money" weeks. 

100 Tier One-and-Done

• Avg earnings: $77,963 (0.93% of purse). We were less heavy on Burns and somehow still did worse than YEYPO. 
• Winner picks: 0. The SIXTH time in 10 events we haven't picked the winner in 100 Tier.
• Overall leader: @CinkHole at $8,906,692. They added $17,388 (lol) on a Doug Ghim pick, but there wasn't much movement behind them. 
• Interval 1 leader: @CinkHole. We do 3 intervals in 100 Tier: First half (W1-15), Second half (W16-31) and Majors Only. $400, $200, $150 to the top 3 in each interval. 

Yours in metal stick swinging,
The Commish