I’m going out on a bit of a limb and including the AT&T in the Tour schedule. It’s a fairly small field, but about half the squads already qualify and a few changes should bring that figure up.

KJ Choi is the defending champ. Stricker, Perez, Furyk and Appleby were the runners up.

Here’s the field…
2008 AT&T National

You must have your ISG Tipping entry in before the first tee time to be eligible for scores for this tournament. Cutoff time for new entries and changes to existing squads is Thu 10 PM (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

Please post your entries here: Entries

Full rules, comments and questions here: Main Competition Thread

New entrants are always welcome. Unfortunately the Boz won’t be able to sponsor this event, but there are some noises about another high profile sponsor in the wings – watch this space.

You must choose 4 players – with at least one Australian, one American and one from another country. The 4 players current World Golf Ranking points (see latest table here) must not total > 10.00… sadly this excludes Tiger and Lefty.

Existing Squad Changes

Squad players not in the field to date:

AU: Ogilvy, R Green, Flanagan
US: Bubba Watson, Zach Johnson, Leonard, Slocum, Toms, Perry, Boo Weekley, Cink, Kelly, Campbell, Wetterich, Micheel, Toms, Austin
World: Goosen, Singh, Chopra, Jiminez, Pettersson, Poulter, Montgomerie, Donald, Casey, Garcia, Harrington, Ames, Dougherty

Squads with two players:
Bunny dougie1 glenn_18 RSG Aussie_Bomber have_clubs hozel kyle live4golf oforpar ParMaster AndyHammers brentp bucks05 Danz davego MegaWatty rebjon Sidman bossofthemoss1 kevvy

Squads with one player:
chris9485 Beno chris81 pom Andre_W heybrew GoonerAl sarg

Can I leave my squad as it is (they are all qualified for The Open) and just change my alternate to give me 3 starters

Can I leave my squad as it is (they are all qualified for The Open) and just change my alternate to give me 3 starters?

Yep.

AT & T National – First Round Update

-5 Steve Marino
-4 Jeff Overton, Frank Lickliter, Rod Pampling, Bob Estes

The leaderboard isn’t exactly littered with big name players so far. This is only the second time Steve Marino has finished a round on top of a PGA leaderboard, although he’s in a respectable 50th on the FedEx standings coming into this event. Overton hasn’t had a top 10 this year, Lickliter hasn’t had one since 2006. Rod Pampling is probably the best credentialled of the leaders, with 2 PGA titles, and four top 10s this year.

A few more familiar players are one shot back: Anthony Kim, Appleby, Allenby and Jacobson.

AT & T National – First Round Leaders

A few of the heavy hitters on the ISG Tour are on top after the 1st Round. dougie is 3rd on the money list with $2.68 mil in earnings this year, and could certainly use a win here to challenge davego in the runup to the British Open. dougie has benefited from a useful choice of alternate, Rich Beem, who had a solid 71 to start. And Styles seems to be enjoying his new fatherhood, also posting a four under opening round. He’s 10th on the money list overall.

dougie1: Appleby -3 J Parnevik -2 R Beem +1 S Verplank DNP J Leonard DNP = -4
Styles: R Allenby -2 A Kim -3 D.J. Trahan +1 D Chopra DNP = -4

AlexMc is 4th on the money list, and shares 3rd with MegaWatty, a recent entrant who missed the cut in his first event. His alternate (John Senden) is keeping him in the hunt for a big cheque to get him started.

AlexMc: S Appleby -3 H Mahan -1 C Villegas +1 B Snedeker +2 = -3
MegaWatty: S Appleby -3 J Senden Ev J.B. Holmes Ev B Weekley DNP D Chopra DNP = -3

AT & T National – First Round Leaderboard

About half of the squads are DQs, although a few would have been right had they named an alternate. So that means everyone here except one will get a cheque this weekend.

-4 dougie1 Styles
-3 AlexMc MegaWatty
-2 charlie27
-1 barryl Lintz MrConsistency suspect Toto
Ev brettmaverick Topdog
+1 Neumie
+2 Bundy_Bear davego jb_ Muntz
+4 leighdog
+5 adlo1980 AlexM angler rebjon terrys
+6 ANDYHAMMERS have_clubs
+7 bucks05
$$ Projected Cut $$
+12 kyle
DQ Sidman hozel kevvy tdoddsy bossofthemoss1 Sonab glenn_18 live4golf brentp MJT ParMaster Aussie_Bomber GoonerAl heybrew Beno sarg Danz Dowls Andre_W chris81 pom Bunny chris9485 RSG oforpar

Lol so here’s to not being the one who misses out!

I didn’ t miss out and i only chucked up 3

why am i dqed?
i thought i had villeges holms and pampers

why am i dqed?
i thought i had villeges holms and pampers

Right you are, I’ve checked the rest and they are right.

Probably won’t make much difference to your result, Sonab… ;)

AT & T National – Second Round Update

Scoring at the top was pretty hot, with Tom Pernice shooting a 63 to take a share of the lead:

-9 Jeff Overton, Tom Pernice, Jr.
-6 Anthony Kim, Cliff Kresge

The cut was drawn at +3, and some players bounced out in fine style. My man Bart Bryant shot 73 77, Goggin shot 73 76, Mike Weir posted 72 76.

yep my luck usually kicks in in the 4th round tho

AT & T National – Second Round Leaderboard

Sonab has had his disqualification overturned, and managed to keep his composure throughout to post -3 through two rounds. But it’s the Styles show at the moment – seven strokes clear. He was the only to post red numbers for the second round. AndyHammers and Muntz both shot +27 to crash almost all the way down.

-10 Styles
-3 Sonab
-1 dougie1
Ev charlie27
+1 suspect MegaWatty
+3 AlexMc
+4 Bundy_Bear
+8 terrys jb_ Toto
+10 have_clubs rebjon brettmaverick Topdog barryl
+11 Lintz
+12 angler Neumie
+14 davego
+17 bucks05
+18 adlo1980 MrConsistency
+23 leighdog
+29 AlexM Muntz
$$ Projected Cut $$
+33 ANDYHAMMERS
+34 kyle

AT & T National – Third Round Update

Scoring slowed down a bit, but it’s still 47 year old Tom Pernice who is heading the field. A few Aussies are in contention though, O’Hern T3 after shooting 70 65 67, and Allenby T9 after 68 89 67. Senden and Pampling are both T16.

Hunter Mahan and Vaughn Taylor both shot 64s.

-10 Pernice
-9 Stricker
-8 Armour O’Hern Overton
-7 Herron Kim Kresge
-6 Allenby D Wilson

AT & T National – Third Round Leaderboard

Squad scoring picked up in the third round with lots of entries breaking par. Best results for the 3rd round:

63 AlexMc
64 Bundy_Bear charlie27 MegaWatty

Those scores have lifted those four squads into the spots where the bigger cheques live, but it’s still Styles streeting the field by a big margin.

-12 Styles
-5 charlie27 Sonab
-4 AlexMc MegaWatty
-1 Bundy_Bear
+2 suspect dougie1
+5 Toto
+8 barryl
+9 Neumie brettmaverick have_clubs rebjon Topdog
+10 Lintz
+11 jb_
+14 terrys
+15 bucks05
+16 MrConsistency davego angler
+19 adlo1980
+21 leighdog
+29 Muntz
+30 ANDYHAMMERS AlexM
$$ Projected Cut $$
+34 kyle

Out: Ian Poulter (ROW)
In: Sean O’Hair (ROW)

Squad:
Paul Casey (ROW) 2.44
Stuart Appleby (AUS) 2.72
Sean O’Hair (US) 2.69
Chad Campbell (US) 1.98

Total: 9.83

Alternate: Charles Howell III (US) 1.96

Hey Muntz,

Appleby, O’Hair and Howell III were all in the field. How come I was a DQ?

Al

Hey Muntz,

Appleby, O’Hair and Howell III were all in the field. How come I was a DQ?

I mispelt O’Hair. (This is harder than it looks.) But nice pickup, you are back in it… ;0)

Hey Muntz,

Appleby, O’Hair and Howell III were all in the field. How come I was a DQ?

I mispelt O’Hair. (This is harder than it looks.) But nice pickup, you are back in it… ;0)

Reverse every natural instinct you have and do just the opposite of what you are inclined to do and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. – BEN HOGAN, POWER GOLF

Thanks. I bet it’s not easy, but I (and many others) do appreciate your efforts!

Maybe I shouldn’t have bothered as O’Hair missed the final day!

AT & T National – Final Update

The cream finally rose to the top of the AT&T bucket, with familiar names dominating the leaderboard by the end of Sunday. Anthony Kim shot 65 to finish 2 shots clear and take his second PGA event for the season. He had good solid numbers across the board – 306 yards driving, 75% GIR and 1.72 putts per GIR. Jacobson and Pampling also finished with 65s to finish 2 and T3. Allenby and O’Hern also finished T3 for the tournament after shooting 67 and 69.

Tom Pernice shot 72 to fall out of contention after shooting an excellent 63 in the second round.

-12 A Kim
-10 F Jacobson
-9 R Pampling J Furyk R Allenby D Wilson N O’Hern T Armour III

AT & T National – Tournament Podium

We’ve had some tough tournaments this season, with red numbers hard to come by. This weekend we have witnessed one of the all-time scoring blitzes by a squad from our UK getting-to-scratch golfer Styles. He had the winner and one of the T3 Aussies as well, as well as a pretty respectable score from his Septic as well. This year Styles has been Mister Consistency (no offence MrC) only missing one cut at the Masters. He hasn’t had a podium finish though, finishing 4th on a few occasions. This win will lift him from 10th on the money list to 6th (it’s a tough gig at the top.)

Styles: Allenby -9 Kim -12 Trahan -5 Chopra DNP = -26 !!

Sonab has had a tough season, enduring a long string of missed cuts before coming 19th at the Players and 9th at the Memorial. This cheque will bounce him up over 10 places, nice !

Sonab: Pampling -9 Holmes Ev Villegas -2 Z Johnson DNP = -11

One of the top squads finished third. AlexMc was ranked 4th coming into this event, but will move up a spot or two with another podium finish (he finished 2nd at the Masters, and 3rd at the US Open.)

AlexMc: S Appleby +2 H Mahan -7 C Villegas -2 B Snedeker +4 = -7

Congratulations to these top squads. Unfortunately this wasn’t a sponsored event, but maybe the Admins may find something lying around the office to give away…?

Thanks muntz – unfortunately we literally have nothing here to giveaway unless someone wants an a copy of an Arnold Palmer book we have left over. As the biggest golf site in Australia you would think we would be sent things all the time but alas we don’t.

However, we ‘re very close to securing a ball sponsor for the tipping so we’ll keep you posted.

Muntz – we’ll let you know directly by email as soon as anything is confirmed.

AT & T National – Final Leaderboard

Best rounds for Sunday ?

56 Styles
62 adlo1980 have_clubs
63 suspect
64 Sonab
65 TerryS

Worst round? Leighdog with 76.

-26 Styles
-11 Sonab
-7 AlexMc
-5 charlie27 suspect
-4 MegaWatty
-1 Bundy_Bear
+1 have_clubs
+3 dougie1
+4 GoonerAl Toto
+7 Lintz
+8 brettmaverick Neumie rebjon Topdog
+9 terrys
+10 barryl
+11 adlo1980
+12 jb_
+16 bucks05
+17 angler davego
+18 MrConsistency
+27 leighdog
+30 AlexM Muntz
$$ Money List Cut $$
+31 ANDYHAMMERS
+34 kyle

unless someone wants an a copy of an Arnold Palmer book we have left over…

How about it Styles? ;0) Maybe Guru can take it over with him…