2010 Honda Thailand Contest

xman5 · 02-15-2010, 09:24 AM

Here is the first contest of the year. Contest instructions and info below.
Pairings for the Honda will follow shortly.

How to Play

I. Overview

There will be a contest each week that an official LPGA Tour tournament takes place.

In order to play, you ("contestant") must be a registered member of myLPGA and follow all the rules of that site.
Play takes places on mylpga.com.

Contestants can join at anytime during the LPGA season.

II. How to Play Each Week

Pairings for each weeks's contest will be posted on mylpga.com, typically on Tuesday or Wednesday before the tournament starts.
From each pairing of two, or group of three, please select the player you think will have the lowest score for that round.

At the end of each round, the scores will be tabulated.

Pairings will be posted for each round and you will have to pick for each round. When possible we'll post pairings in advance for both rounds 1 and 2.

The contestant with the lowest overall score for the entire tournament wins that tournament.

III. Weird Conditions.

If a contestant makes a mistake in his/her pairings, for example selecting a player who is not in a specific pairing, if the error is noticed in time, one of the Contest Statisticians will do their best to contact the contestant before play begins to fix the error. If the contestant does not correct the error, the contestant will automatically be assigned the score from the highest-scoring player in the group in which the error was made.

If a player voluntarily withdrawals after the game starts, she and all her playing partners are withdrawn from the contest. If she withdrawals in the middle of a round, no points will be earned from that round. Points earned from previous rounds will still be counted.

If a contestant drops out part-way through the tournament, they will receive the same score as the highest scoring contestant who completes the entire tournament. [note: Rule change April 29, 2008]. This is considered a voluntary withdrawal.

If a contestant is unable to post picks for any round in the tournament due to a technical problem with the mylpga.com site or because of a problem with the posting of pairings, they will be given an involuntary withdrawal for the entire tournament. This will be treated as if they never played in that week's contest. [note: Rule clarified August 2, 20o8]

IV. Optional Bonus Game-Within-A-Game

Completely as a option, a contestant may pick, at the time he or she submits their first round picks, the name of the player they think will win the entire tournaments.
Points will be rewarded as follows:
1st place finish: 20 points deducted from final score, 30 points for major tournaments

2nd-5th place finish: 10 points deducted from final score, 20 points for major tournaments

6th-10th place finish: 5 points deducted from final score

11th place and over but made cut: 1 point added to final score
missed cut: 5 points added to final score, 10 points for major tournaments

However, if more than one contestant picks the same winner, and that winner finishes 1st through 10th, the points will be split among all contestants who picked her. Splitting will go no lower than 1 point. There is no splitting for placements below 10 or missed cut. So if a bonus picks misses the cut, every contestant who picked that player to win gets 5 points added to his or her final score that week.

V. Arbitatraion/Mediation/Appealing of Rules
All decision on the rules are final.

Just a few notes not mentioned from the "Official" Rules above.

Generally when possible the first round is the actual pairings. Since the second round is generally the same as the first, the person running the contest will make up pairings that they feel are interesting. Third and Fourth rounds are actual pairings (or groups of 3 in order of standing). This makes watching the tournament realative to our pairings more interesting, and gives you a harder decision to make ( a top player vs streaking lesser player).

Also many a bonus pick has decided a winner. Remember you can also lose points.

Sometimes a person running the contest, may have a problem getting pairings posted. Say it is Friday or Sat night and it is getting late say 9:30, 10 and pairings have not been posted and the person has not said anything, please fell free to make up pairings. The contest man may have internet problems or an emergency. This has happened several times in the past, and someone had to make the pairings.

We should have a year end champ for lowest scoring avg and POY bassed on points ( for 1'st, 2nd, 3rd finishes) Min of 50% play to qualify.

I certainly will not be able to do it every week. I will let you know what weeks so that we can have volunteers for that week. Just a note to those volunteers that have not done it before, it is a lot of work to tabulate the scores and get them out timely. Be prepared to spend 2-4 hours.

I think that this is the best format for a contest (then any other that I have seen out there). It really involves you in the actual tournament as it is going on.

To all that are playing good luck. Lets make this the best season possible.

xman5 · 02-15-2010, 09:45 AM

2010 Honda Tournament Feb 18-21. Thailand. 4 Rounds Limited Field 60, No cut. Extended Local Weather Forcast Sunny High 90 everyday.

Thailand is 12 hrs ahead of NY EST Time.
We will assume the Following, 2nd round to end ~6PM local time 2/19 Fri, which will be ~ 6 AM 2/19 Fri NY EST Time, So Round 3 groupings will be posted early Friday Morning NY EST.

Final Round Pairings will be posted early Saturday morning.

This year we will be using 10 groups of 3.

Round 1
1 Paula Creamer
Brittnay Lincicome
Ai Miyazato

2 Katherine Hull
Vicky Hurst
Christina Kim

3 Seon Hwa Lee
Inbee Park
Stacy Prammanasudh

4 Suzann Pettersen
Lorena Ochoa
In-Kyung Kim

5 Brittany Lang
Sophie Gustafson
Na Yeon Choi

6 Amanda Blumenherst
Helen Alfredsson
Cristie Kerr

7 Yani Tseng
Jiyai Shin
Anna Nordqvist

8 Song-Hee Kim
Eun-Hee Ji
Juli Inkster

9 Hee-Won Han
Natalie Gulbis
Angela Stanford

10 Morgan Pressel
Stacy Lewis
Michelle Wie

Round 2

1 Michelle Wie
Yani Tseng
Lorena Ochoa

2 Jiyai Shin
Paula Creamer
Ai Miyazato

3 Christina Kim
Eun-Hee Ji
Na Yeon Choi

4 Vicky Hurst
Stacy Lewis
Morgan Pressel

5 Meena Lee
Hee Young Park
Maria Hjorth

6 Anna Nordqvist
Amanda Blumenherst
Natalie Gulbis

7 Cristie Kerr
Suzann Pettersen
Kristy McPherson

8 Candie Kung
Angela Stanford
Brittany Lang

9 Catriona Matthew
Mika Miyazato*
Sandra Gal

10 Virada Nirapathpongporn
Seon Hwa Lee
Sophie Gustafson

xman5 · 02-15-2010, 09:48 AM

Round 1

1 Paula Creamer
2 Vicky Hurst
3 Seon Hwa Lee
4 Suzann Pettersen
5 Na Yeon Choi
6 Cristie Kerr
7 Yani Tseng
8 Eun-Hee Ji
9 Angela Stanford
10 Michelle Wie

Round 2

1 Lorena Ochoa
2 Ai Miyazato
3 Na Yeon Choi
4 Morgan Pressel
5 Maria Hjorth
6 Anna Nordqvist
7 Cristie Kerr
8 Candie Kung
9 Catriona Matthew
10 Seon Hwa Lee

Winner Morgan Pressel

Saint-Just X · 02-15-2010, 02:28 PM

Round 1

1. Ai Miyazato
2. Vicky Hurst
3. Inbee Park
4. In-Kyung Kim
5. Na Yeon Choi
6. Cristie Kerr
7. Jiyai Shin
8. Eun-Hee Ji
9. Angela Stanford
10. Morgan Pressel

Round 2

1. Lorena Ochoa
2. Ai Miyazato
3. Na Yeon Choi
4. Vicky Hurst
5. Hee Young Park
6. Anna Nordqvist
7. Cristie Kerr
8. Angela Stanford
9. Mika Miyazato
10. Seon Hwa Lee

Winner : Hee Young Park ...

Pax Vobiscum
Saint-Just X

loochag · 02-15-2010, 03:08 PM

Hello again everyone!

Round 1
1 Paula Creamer
2 Vicky Hurst
3 Seon Hwa Lee
4 Lorena Ochoa
5 Na Yeon Choi
6 Cristie Kerr
7 Yani Tseng
8 Song-Hee Kim
9 Angela Stanford
10 Michelle Wie

Round 2
1 Lorena Ochoa
2 Jiyai Shin
3 Na Yeon Choi
4 Vicky Hurst
5 Maria Hjorth
6 Anna Nordqvist
7 Suzann Pettersen
8 Angela Stanford
9 Mika Miyazato
10 Seon Hwa Lee

WINNER: Lorena Ochoa

dangerbob · 02-15-2010, 07:18 PM

The Danger's picks that'll send the former Judge and the Marine to the basement!

Round 1:

1 Brittnay Lincicome
2 Katherine Hull
3 Seon Hwa Lee
4 Lorena Ochoa
5 Sophie Gustafson
6 Amanda Blumenherst
7 Anna Nordqvist
8 Song-Hee Kim
9 Natalie Gulbis
10 Morgan Pressel

Round 2:

1 Michelle Wie
2 Paula Creamer
3 Na Yeon Choi
4 Morgan Pressel
5 Meena Lee
6 Natalie Gulbis
7 Suzann Pettersen
8 Candie Kung
9 Sandra Gal
10 Seon Hwa Lee

And the Winner is: Morgan Pressel

xman5 · 02-16-2010, 01:11 PM

Bump

RainDelay · 02-16-2010, 02:08 PM

The 2010 LPGA Season....Let's get it started!

Round 1:
1. Paula Creamer
2. Katherine Hull
3. Seon Hwa Lee
4. Suzann Pettersen
5. Sophie Gustafson
6. Cristie Kerr
7. Jiyai Shin
8. Song-Hee Kim
9. Angela Stanford
10. Michelle Wie

Round 2:
1. Lorena Ochoa
2. Jiyai Shin
3. Na Yeon Choi
4. Vicky Hurst
5. Hee Young Park
6. Amanda Blumenherst
7. Suzann Pettersen
8. Angela Stanford
9. Catriona Matthew
10. Sophie Gustafson

Winner: Suzann Pettersen

The future is looking much brighter for the LPGA as the new 2010 season begins. I really like what Mike Whan has been doing as the new commisioner. This year seems to be, for the most part, positive, positive, positive. As opposed to the middle/end of last season in which the vibe was negative, negative, negative. Good luck to all of the players. Here's to an enjoyable 2010 season on the LPGA tour!!!

Mr.JRo · 02-16-2010, 06:10 PM

Hello everyone, good luck to all.

Tournament winner is in kyung kim

round #1

1.) paula creamer
2.) katherine hull
3.) seon hwa lee
4.) in kyung kim
5.) na yeon choi
6.) cristie kerr
7.) yani tseng
8.) eun hee ji
9.) angela stanford
10.) michelle wie

round #2

1.) yani tseng
2.) jiyai shin
3.) na yeon choi
4.) morgan pressel
5.) hee young park
6.) anna nordqvist
7.) cristie kerr
8.) angela stanford
9.) catriona matthew
10.) sophie gustafson

Rusty · 02-16-2010, 06:58 PM

Hi all
To make things even more interesting the overall top 3 winners of this year's tournaments contests will win a prize. Cougar has kindly said he will get the LPGA players to sign some gear for me. So the prize lineup will hopefully look something like this...

1st place an autographed shirt signed by LPGA players
2st place an autographed hat signed by LPGA players
3rd place an autographed golf ball signed by LPGA players

I'll defiantly let you know a little later in the year what the prizes are once we get them. Every member except myself will be eligible for the prizes including the contest runners and moderators. If you would like to donate towards the prize lineup you can do so here. Even a little donation would be great will help me buy better prizes.

Donations for next years contests

I'll be resetting the player trophies tonight and adding a little something for last years winners.

02-15-2010, 02:28 PM	#4
Saint-Just X Senior Member Contests: Joint 3nd place overall winner 2010 Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,675	Round 1 1. Ai Miyazato 2. Vicky Hurst 3. Inbee Park 4. In-Kyung Kim 5. Na Yeon Choi 6. Cristie Kerr 7. Jiyai Shin 8. Eun-Hee Ji 9. Angela Stanford 10. Morgan Pressel Round 2 1. Lorena Ochoa 2. Ai Miyazato 3. Na Yeon Choi 4. Vicky Hurst 5. Hee Young Park 6. Anna Nordqvist 7. Cristie Kerr 8. Angela Stanford 9. Mika Miyazato 10. Seon Hwa Lee Winner : Hee Young Park ... Pax Vobiscum Saint-Just X __________________ I have sent the most relevant posts you made about Paula Creamer to her lawyers. Hope they take action against your statements - Elf

02-15-2010, 07:18 PM	#6
dangerbob Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 4,872	The Danger's picks that'll send the former Judge and the Marine to the basement! Round 1: 1 Brittnay Lincicome 2 Katherine Hull 3 Seon Hwa Lee 4 Lorena Ochoa 5 Sophie Gustafson 6 Amanda Blumenherst 7 Anna Nordqvist 8 Song-Hee Kim 9 Natalie Gulbis 10 Morgan Pressel Round 2: 1 Michelle Wie 2 Paula Creamer 3 Na Yeon Choi 4 Morgan Pressel 5 Meena Lee 6 Natalie Gulbis 7 Suzann Pettersen 8 Candie Kung 9 Sandra Gal 10 Seon Hwa Lee And the Winner is: Morgan Pressel __________________ "On this hapless EARTH There's small SINCERITY of mirth And LAUGHTER oft is but an ART To drown the outcry of the HEART!"

02-16-2010, 06:10 PM	#9
Mr.JRo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 219	Honda ptt lpga thailand Hello everyone, good luck to all. Tournament winner is in kyung kim round #1 1.) paula creamer 2.) katherine hull 3.) seon hwa lee 4.) in kyung kim 5.) na yeon choi 6.) cristie kerr 7.) yani tseng 8.) eun hee ji 9.) angela stanford 10.) michelle wie round #2 1.) yani tseng 2.) jiyai shin 3.) na yeon choi 4.) morgan pressel 5.) hee young park 6.) anna nordqvist 7.) cristie kerr 8.) angela stanford 9.) catriona matthew 10.) sophie gustafson

02-16-2010, 06:58 PM	#10
Rusty Administrator Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Northern Territory Posts: 905 Images: 79	Hi all To make things even more interesting the overall top 3 winners of this year's tournaments contests will win a prize. Cougar has kindly said he will get the LPGA players to sign some gear for me. So the prize lineup will hopefully look something like this... 1st place an autographed shirt signed by LPGA players 2st place an autographed hat signed by LPGA players 3rd place an autographed golf ball signed by LPGA players I'll defiantly let you know a little later in the year what the prizes are once we get them. Every member except myself will be eligible for the prizes including the contest runners and moderators. If you would like to donate towards the prize lineup you can do so here. Even a little donation would be great will help me buy better prizes. Donations for next years contests I'll be resetting the player trophies tonight and adding a little something for last years winners. Last edited by Rusty; 02-17-2010 at 07:41 AM.

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02-15-2010, 09:24 AM	#1
xman5 Contest Statistician Join Date: May 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 3,903	2010 Honda Thailand Contest Here is the first contest of the year. Contest instructions and info below. Pairings for the Honda will follow shortly. How to Play I. Overview There will be a contest each week that an official LPGA Tour tournament takes place. In order to play, you ("contestant") must be a registered member of myLPGA and follow all the rules of that site. Play takes places on mylpga.com. Contestants can join at anytime during the LPGA season. II. How to Play Each Week Pairings for each weeks's contest will be posted on mylpga.com, typically on Tuesday or Wednesday before the tournament starts. From each pairing of two, or group of three, please select the player you think will have the lowest score for that round. At the end of each round, the scores will be tabulated. Pairings will be posted for each round and you will have to pick for each round. When possible we'll post pairings in advance for both rounds 1 and 2. The contestant with the lowest overall score for the entire tournament wins that tournament. III. Weird Conditions. If a contestant makes a mistake in his/her pairings, for example selecting a player who is not in a specific pairing, if the error is noticed in time, one of the Contest Statisticians will do their best to contact the contestant before play begins to fix the error. If the contestant does not correct the error, the contestant will automatically be assigned the score from the highest-scoring player in the group in which the error was made. If a player voluntarily withdrawals after the game starts, she and all her playing partners are withdrawn from the contest. If she withdrawals in the middle of a round, no points will be earned from that round. Points earned from previous rounds will still be counted. If a contestant drops out part-way through the tournament, they will receive the same score as the highest scoring contestant who completes the entire tournament. [note: Rule change April 29, 2008]. This is considered a voluntary withdrawal. If a contestant is unable to post picks for any round in the tournament due to a technical problem with the mylpga.com site or because of a problem with the posting of pairings, they will be given an involuntary withdrawal for the entire tournament. This will be treated as if they never played in that week's contest. [note: Rule clarified August 2, 20o8] IV. Optional Bonus Game-Within-A-Game Completely as a option, a contestant may pick, at the time he or she submits their first round picks, the name of the player they think will win the entire tournaments. Points will be rewarded as follows: 1st place finish: 20 points deducted from final score, 30 points for major tournaments 2nd-5th place finish: 10 points deducted from final score, 20 points for major tournaments 6th-10th place finish: 5 points deducted from final score 11th place and over but made cut: 1 point added to final score missed cut: 5 points added to final score, 10 points for major tournaments However, if more than one contestant picks the same winner, and that winner finishes 1st through 10th, the points will be split among all contestants who picked her. Splitting will go no lower than 1 point. There is no splitting for placements below 10 or missed cut. So if a bonus picks misses the cut, every contestant who picked that player to win gets 5 points added to his or her final score that week. V. Arbitatraion/Mediation/Appealing of Rules All decision on the rules are final. Just a few notes not mentioned from the "Official" Rules above. Generally when possible the first round is the actual pairings. Since the second round is generally the same as the first, the person running the contest will make up pairings that they feel are interesting. Third and Fourth rounds are actual pairings (or groups of 3 in order of standing). This makes watching the tournament realative to our pairings more interesting, and gives you a harder decision to make ( a top player vs streaking lesser player). Also many a bonus pick has decided a winner. Remember you can also lose points. Sometimes a person running the contest, may have a problem getting pairings posted. Say it is Friday or Sat night and it is getting late say 9:30, 10 and pairings have not been posted and the person has not said anything, please fell free to make up pairings. The contest man may have internet problems or an emergency. This has happened several times in the past, and someone had to make the pairings. We should have a year end champ for lowest scoring avg and POY bassed on points ( for 1'st, 2nd, 3rd finishes) Min of 50% play to qualify. I certainly will not be able to do it every week. I will let you know what weeks so that we can have volunteers for that week. Just a note to those volunteers that have not done it before, it is a lot of work to tabulate the scores and get them out timely. Be prepared to spend 2-4 hours. I think that this is the best format for a contest (then any other that I have seen out there). It really involves you in the actual tournament as it is going on. To all that are playing good luck. Lets make this the best season possible.

02-15-2010, 09:45 AM	#2
xman5 Contest Statistician Join Date: May 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 3,903	2010 Honda Tournament Feb 18-21. Thailand. 4 Rounds Limited Field 60, No cut. Extended Local Weather Forcast Sunny High 90 everyday. Thailand is 12 hrs ahead of NY EST Time. We will assume the Following, 2nd round to end ~6PM local time 2/19 Fri, which will be ~ 6 AM 2/19 Fri NY EST Time, So Round 3 groupings will be posted early Friday Morning NY EST. Final Round Pairings will be posted early Saturday morning. This year we will be using 10 groups of 3. Round 1 1 Paula Creamer Brittnay Lincicome Ai Miyazato 2 Katherine Hull Vicky Hurst Christina Kim 3 Seon Hwa Lee Inbee Park Stacy Prammanasudh 4 Suzann Pettersen Lorena Ochoa In-Kyung Kim 5 Brittany Lang Sophie Gustafson Na Yeon Choi 6 Amanda Blumenherst Helen Alfredsson Cristie Kerr 7 Yani Tseng Jiyai Shin Anna Nordqvist 8 Song-Hee Kim Eun-Hee Ji Juli Inkster 9 Hee-Won Han Natalie Gulbis Angela Stanford 10 Morgan Pressel Stacy Lewis Michelle Wie Round 2 1 Michelle Wie Yani Tseng Lorena Ochoa 2 Jiyai Shin Paula Creamer Ai Miyazato 3 Christina Kim Eun-Hee Ji Na Yeon Choi 4 Vicky Hurst Stacy Lewis Morgan Pressel 5 Meena Lee Hee Young Park Maria Hjorth 6 Anna Nordqvist Amanda Blumenherst Natalie Gulbis 7 Cristie Kerr Suzann Pettersen Kristy McPherson 8 Candie Kung Angela Stanford Brittany Lang 9 Catriona Matthew Mika Miyazato* Sandra Gal 10 Virada Nirapathpongporn Seon Hwa Lee Sophie Gustafson

02-15-2010, 09:48 AM	#3
xman5 Contest Statistician Join Date: May 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 3,903	Round 1 1 Paula Creamer 2 Vicky Hurst 3 Seon Hwa Lee 4 Suzann Pettersen 5 Na Yeon Choi 6 Cristie Kerr 7 Yani Tseng 8 Eun-Hee Ji 9 Angela Stanford 10 Michelle Wie Round 2 1 Lorena Ochoa 2 Ai Miyazato 3 Na Yeon Choi 4 Morgan Pressel 5 Maria Hjorth 6 Anna Nordqvist 7 Cristie Kerr 8 Candie Kung 9 Catriona Matthew 10 Seon Hwa Lee Winner Morgan Pressel

02-15-2010, 03:08 PM	#5
loochag Senior Member Contests: 2nd place overall winner 2010 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Aguascalientes, Mexico Posts: 273	Hello again everyone! Round 1 1 Paula Creamer 2 Vicky Hurst 3 Seon Hwa Lee 4 Lorena Ochoa 5 Na Yeon Choi 6 Cristie Kerr 7 Yani Tseng 8 Song-Hee Kim 9 Angela Stanford 10 Michelle Wie Round 2 1 Lorena Ochoa 2 Jiyai Shin 3 Na Yeon Choi 4 Vicky Hurst 5 Maria Hjorth 6 Anna Nordqvist 7 Suzann Pettersen 8 Angela Stanford 9 Mika Miyazato 10 Seon Hwa Lee WINNER: Lorena Ochoa

02-16-2010, 01:11 PM	#7
xman5 Contest Statistician Join Date: May 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 3,903	Bump

02-16-2010, 02:08 PM	#8
RainDelay Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: United States Posts: 151	The 2010 LPGA Season....Let's get it started! Round 1: 1. Paula Creamer 2. Katherine Hull 3. Seon Hwa Lee 4. Suzann Pettersen 5. Sophie Gustafson 6. Cristie Kerr 7. Jiyai Shin 8. Song-Hee Kim 9. Angela Stanford 10. Michelle Wie Round 2: 1. Lorena Ochoa 2. Jiyai Shin 3. Na Yeon Choi 4. Vicky Hurst 5. Hee Young Park 6. Amanda Blumenherst 7. Suzann Pettersen 8. Angela Stanford 9. Catriona Matthew 10. Sophie Gustafson Winner: Suzann Pettersen The future is looking much brighter for the LPGA as the new 2010 season begins. I really like what Mike Whan has been doing as the new commisioner. This year seems to be, for the most part, positive, positive, positive. As opposed to the middle/end of last season in which the vibe was negative, negative, negative. Good luck to all of the players. Here's to an enjoyable 2010 season on the LPGA tour!!!