Handicapping the U.S. Open Field

Top-20 listed in projected order with last three Open results and comment.


                                2010    2009    2008      Comment



1. Lee Westwood    T16      T23         3         Done everything but win a major

2. Matt Kuchar        T6         Cut       T48       Dude is boring, in good way

3. Phil Mickelson    T4         T2        T18       Five-time runner-up, no wins

4. Luke Donald        T47      Cut        WD       No. 1 only two Open top-20s

5. Hunter Mahan      Cut       T6         T18       Shot 62 at Congressional in 2009

6. Retief Goosen      T58      T16       T14      Six top-20s, two wins

7. Brandt Jobe          DNP    DNP      T18      Has momentum, tools to win

8. Dustin Johnson     T8        T40       T48      Should benefit from major dramas

9. Nick Watney        76        Cut         T60      Eleven starts, seven top-10s in 2011

10. Rory McIlroy     Cut      T10       DNP      Scars from Masters train wreck?

11. Steve Stricker    T58      T23       T29      No-frills style well-suited for Open

12. Jason Day          DNP    DNP      DNP      First Open but T2, T10 last two majors

13. Bubba Watson   DNP     T18       Cut        Hits powerful curve ball

14. Robert Rock      DNP     DNP      DNP     Got first Euro win, scrambled for visa

15. Adam Scott        Cut       T36       T26       Will get boost from Tiger’s caddie

16. K.J. Choi           T47      T47       Cut         Players champ ready for next step

17. Rickie Fowler   DNP    Cut        T60        Ready to become major contender?

18. Martin Kaymer   T8      Cut         T53       Best player with bandana on neck

19. G. McDowell     Win    T18        DNP      Struggled after career-changing win

20. Harrison Frazar   Cut    DNP      DNP     Qualified on another Blue course

IN THE HUNT


Robert Allenby

Aaron Baddeley

Jonathan Byrd

Angel Cabrera

Chad Campbell

Paul Casey

Greg Chalmers

Stewart Cink

Nicolas Colsaerts

Ben Crane

Ernie Els

Harrison Frazar

Jim Furyk

Sergio Garcia

Brian Gay

Lucas Glover

Peter Hanson

Padraig Harrington

Gregory Havret

J.J. Henry

Charley Hoffman

Trevor Immelman

Ryo Ishikawa

Fredrik Jacobson

Miguel Angel Jimenez

Zach Johnson

Robert Karlsson

Anthony Kim

Martin Laird

Matteo Manassero

Edoardo Molinari

Francesco Molinari

Ryan Moore

Nick O'Hern

Geoff Ogilvy

Louis Oosthuizen

Jeff Overton

Ryan Palmer

Ian Poulter

Alvaro Quiros

Alexandre Rocha

Justin Rose

Rory Sabbatini

Charl Schwartzel

John Senden

Webb Simpson

Heath Slocum

Michael Smith

Brandt Snedeker

Kevin Streelman

David Toms

Bo Van Pelt

Camilo Villegas

Michael Whitehead

Gary Woodland

KEEP AN EYE ON

Bud Cauley

Alex Cejka

Kevin Chappell

Robert Dinwiddie

Jason Dufner

Johan Edfors

Hiroyuki Fujita

Fred Funk

Stephen Gallacher

Sergio Garcia

Robert Garrigus

Bill Haas

Todd Hamilton

Scott Hend

Russell Henley

David Howell

Sunghoon Kang

Kyung-Tae Kim

Kenichi Kuboya

Maarten Lafeber

Marc Leishman

Thomas Levet

Brian Locke

Davis Love III

Shane Lowry

Kevin Na

Tim Petrovic

Scott Piercy

D.A. Points

Chez Reavie

Marcel Siem

Henrik Stenson

Kirk Triplett

Marcel Turnesa

Peter Uihlein

Mark Wilson

Y.E. Yang, Korea

IN THE ROUGH

Sang-Moon Bae

Briny Baird

Michael Barbosa

Scott Barr

Brad Benjamin

Bennett Blakeman

Zack Byrd

Michael Campbell

Patrick Cantlay

David Chung

Christopher DeForest

Bubba Dickerson

Matthew Edwards

John Ellis

Elliot Gealy

Andres Gonzales

Christo Greyling

Adam Hadwin

Andreas Harto

Wes Heffernan

Justin Hicks

Beau Hossler

Jesse Hutchins

Steve Irwin

Dae-Hyun Kim

Do-Hoon Kim

Joey Lamielle

Adam Long

David May

Jon Mills

Ryan Nelson

Seung Yul Noh

Alexander Noren

Cheng-Tsung Pan

Brett Patterson

Scott Pinckney

Michael Putnam

Matthew Richardson

Sam Saunders

Geoffrey Sisk

Michael Tobiason

Ty Tryon

Will Wilcox

Chris Williams

Chris Wilson