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Football Cheers: First Guinness in Dublin

Touched down at 6am and had a breakfast Guinness to start the day (hey, it’s 2am Tally time).
Seminoles on the flight. Seminoles in the breakfast pub.
Looking forward to a fun week.
1. Remember to change your phone service plan
2. Buy some euros.
3. Taxi from airport to center of Dublin is normally $25-30 euro but they can add $30 if you choose the M50 highway rather than the neighborhood. My driver asked what I preferred but didn’t tell me it would be an extra $30. I’m told travel time is equal one way or the other.
4. It is a grey flannel sky over Ireland. Drizzly with temp in the 50s, a welcome relief fro 93 in Tally. Pack accordingly. Layers and dry shoes. FSU managers need to plan for wet ball and field.
5. Locals say Temple Bar area is touristy and expensive, fine by day, but at night Grafton Street and Smithfield are where the locals prefer. They report all of Dublin is safe.
6. When asked biggest problem the response is immigration from Ukraine and African continent. Claims there is homeless as a result. Haven’t seen it yet.
7. Unless you are an FSU lineman you can split the full Irish breakfast… with your Guinness.
8. Train trip to Galway impressions. Green pastures cover slightly rolling hills similar to Tallahassee) but dotted by sheep everywhere. Very few people anywhere but in Dublin, causing me to Google it:
5.1 million people
4.7 million sheep
6.6 million cows
Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have more population (6.3 million)
Feel smarter?

Golf PGSF FedEx Cup Week 34 The BMW Championship

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Todd Kelly

August 18, 2024 6:32 pm ET

It’s the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and there’s now just 50 golfers still alive in the PGA Tour’s 2024 season.
The were 70 Tour pros who made the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis to kick off the postseason and a few big names failed to advance to the next round.
Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, Colorado, about 27 miles south of Denver, is hosting the PGA Tour for the first time since the 2006 International. Jason Day is the lone golfer in the 2024 BMW field who competed in that 2006 event.
Among the biggest movers up Sunday:
  • Viktor Hovland (up 41 spots to No. 16)
  • Sam Burns (up 11 to No. 18)
  • Denny McCarthy (up 15 to No. 30)
  • Will Zalatoris (up 12 to No. 37)
  • Eric Cole (up 8 to No. 46)
  • Nick Dunlap (up 19 to No. 48)
Hovland, Cole and Dunlap were the three to come from outside the top 50 when the week started to make the field next week.
On the flip side, that meant three golfers slid out and there were Tom Kim (down 8 to No. 51), Mackenzie Hughes (down 4 to No. 52) and Jake Knapp (down 9 to No. 59).
The total purse for the BMW will be $20 million with $4 million going to the winner. It’s the last tournament of the season that offers official prize money. The Tour Championship at East Lake doles out what the Tour considers “bonus” money.
Here’s the 50 golfers advancing to the 2024 BMW Championship, including the U.S. Ryder Cup captain for 2025 who made it in right on the number:
Pos.Player
1Scottie Scheffler
2Xander Schauffele
3Hideki Matsuyama
4Collin Morikawa
5Rory McIlroy
6Wyndham Clark
7Ludvig Aberg
8Sahith Theegala
9Patrick Cantlay
10Sungjae Im
11Shane Lowry
12Robert MacIntyre
13Akshay Bhatia
14Tony Finau
15Byeong Hun An
16Viktor Hovland
17Russell Henley
18Sam Burns
19Billy Horschel
20Matthieu Pavon
21Aaron Rai
22Justin Thomas
23Christiaan Bezuidenhout
24Sepp Straka
25Jason Day
26Davis Thompson
27Taylor Pendrith
28Tom Hoge
29Brian Harman
30Denny McCarthy
31Tommy Fleetwood
32Chris Kirk
33Corey Conners
34J.T. Poston
35Stephan Jaeger
36Matt Fitzpatrick
37Will Zalatoris
38Austin Eckroat
39Cameron Young
40Thomas Detry
41Adam Scott
42Adam Hadwin
43Max Homa
44Si Woo Kim
45Alex Noren
46Eric Cole
47Max Greyserman
48Nick Dunlap
49Cam Davis
50Keegan Bradley
Here’s a look at the next 10 who just missed out:
Pos.Player
51Tom Kim
52Mackenzie Hughes
53Maverick McNealy
54Patrick Rodgers
55Justin Rose
56Seamus Power
57Harris English
58Nick Taylor
59Jake Knapp
60Min Woo Lee



Congratulations again to last week's winner @SeaPA

Mrs BFT maintains the lead going into the last event of the regular season.

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Good Luck to everyone this week



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Great week, SeaPa. Congrats.
Nice par on last for Dunlap to stay in Top 50. Thought Rose may sneak in earlier in week. No Speith either.
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