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Furyk among 11 to book Masters trip; Ishikawa misses out

Sports Dec. 20, 2011 - 05:31AM JST ( 8 )

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lostrune2Dec. 20, 2011 - 06:35PM JST

Heh, the title is a bit misleading because it should be:

"Furyk among 50 to book Masters trip"

Because the top 50 players in the year-end World Golf Rankings are all invited, not just 11 of them.
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hoserfellaDec. 20, 2011 - 09:52PM JST

lostrune - wrong. The top 50 are automatically qualified.
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lostrune2Dec. 20, 2011 - 10:38PM JST

hoserfella,

I said: "Because the top 50 players in the year-end World Golf Rankings are all invited."
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hoserfellaDec. 22, 2011 - 10:53AM JST

lostrune - The story refers to 11 golfers who were on the bubble. The other 39 were already confirmed as qualified.
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lostrune2Dec. 22, 2011 - 08:04PM JST

England’s Ian Poulter, coming off a victory on Sunday at the Australian Masters, qualified at 16th in the rankings, as did his countrymen Simon Dyson, who was 28th on the final list for 2011, and Paul Casey, who was 20th.

Others adding the Masters to their 2012 travel plans included South Koreans Kim Kyung-Tae at 25th and Bae Sang-Moon at 30th, Spain’s Alvaro Quiros at 22nd and Miguel Angel Jimenez at 44th, American Rickie Fowler at 32nd and Italian Francesco Molinari at 41st.

A bunch of those 11 golfers discussed are hardly on the bubble.
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hoserfellaDec. 22, 2011 - 10:39PM JST

lostrune - A big guess would be that Poulter et al were on the bubble BEFORE their last tournament. Holy crow....
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lostrune2Dec. 27, 2011 - 10:02AM JST

hoserfella,

Since Xmas break gave me some time to look at it, if you look at the rankings previous to the last one, your guess would be wrong.

Besides, a reader should not have to guess what the sports news is talking about. If a reader has to resort to guessing, then obviously the article wasn't written well. So you just helped prove my point, heh.
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hoserfellaJan. 04, 2012 - 11:56AM JST

lostrune2 - Since Xmas break gave me a break from this as well, im late in telling you my statement (not a guess. That was a plea for you to put 2 abd 2 together) is right. Masters qualifying has a unique formula you obviously aren't familiar with;

Former winners of The Masters Winners of the last five U.S. Opens Winners of the last five British Opens Winners of the last five PGA Championships Winners of the last three Players Championships Winner and runner-up from the last U.S. Amateur Championship Winner of the last British Amateur Championship Winner of the last Asian Amateur Championship Winner of the last U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship Winner of the last U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship The top 16 finishers (including ties) from last year's Masters tournament The top 8 finishers (including ties), from last year's U.S. Open The top 4 finishers (including ties) from last year's British Open The top 4 finishers (including ties) from last year's PGA Championship The top 30 finishers on last year's PGA Tour money list Winners of PGA Tour events from the previous Masters through this year's Masters, providing those tournaments award full FedEx Cup points (no opposite-field tournaments qualify) All players who qualified for last year's Tour Championship The Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of the previous year The Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking published in the week prior to this year's Masters

If a reader has to resort to guessing, then obviously he shouldn't pontificate. You just proved my point. heh.