Top 3 in the World - 2016 Win Predictions

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Thought this would be fun. Make your predictions and we'll circle back at the end of the season.

1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016:
Majors in 2016:
Olympic Medal(?):
Final World Ranking:

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016:
Majors in 2016:
Olympic Medal(?):
Final World Ranking:

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016:
Majors in 2016:
Olympic Medal(?):
Final World Ranking:
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 4

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking:2
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 2

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): None
Final World Ranking: 5

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 1
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1 - The Open
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 2
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 2
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 4

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 2
 
I like this a lot. Let's see...

1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 6 globally. 3 PGA tour, 3 Euro.
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): None
Final World Ranking: 2
 
As a follow up, Rory is competing for Ireland in the Olympics, correct? Not UK?
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): None
Final World Ranking:3
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Yes
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 4

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Yes
Final World Ranking: ​2
 
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1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 7
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): yes
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 3

Kind of a boring bunch of predictions for me, but I think they all exceed expectations. At least I hope.
 
As a follow up, Rory is competing for Ireland in the Olympics, correct? Not UK?

Correct. He's from Northern Ireland, which is part of GB, but as youngsters they all play under the Ireland banner, so he's keeping that going.
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 2

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): bronze
Final World Ranking: 1

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 3
 
Here's mine...

1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Yes
Final World Ranking: 2

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: Top 5

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 1

I hope I'm wrong and Jordan does what he does last year but a healthy Rory playing at the top of his game would be a scary sight even for Jordan.
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 4
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Yes
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Yes
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 2
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): None
Final World Ranking: 4
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): gold
Final World Ranking: 2

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): silver
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 1
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 7
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): yes
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): no
Final World Ranking: 3

Kind of a boring bunch of predictions for me, but I think they all exceed expectations. At least I hope.
thats an awful lot of wins for just those three. Gotta think theyll cut back their schedule this year with the Ryder Cup and Olympics on the schedule. But then again, these guys are playing on a whole other level
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): 0
Final World Ranking: 2

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 3
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): 0
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): 1
Final World Ranking: 1
 
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thats an awful lot of wins for just those three. Gotta think theyll cut back their schedule this year with the Ryder Cup and Olympics on the schedule. But then again, these guys are playing on a whole other level

I said the same thing while I posted it, however I think Rory gets a couple wins away from the PGA tour, and I'm optimistic that both Spieth and Day will continue their great play.

Time will tell. It's more what I want than anything else.
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): None
Final World Ranking:4

I just hope for exciting golf in the majors and see Spieth finish off the career slam
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 3
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): Bronze
Final World Ranking: 2

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking:3
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): YES
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 5
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): YES
Final World Ranking: 3

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 4
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): NO
Final World Ranking: ​4
 
1 - Jordan Spieth
Wins in 2016: 7
Majors in 2016: 1
Olympic Medal(?): Silver
Final World Ranking: 1

2 - Jason Day
Wins in 2016: 2
Majors in 2016: 0
Olympic Medal(?): No
Final World Ranking: 4

3 - Rory McIlroy
Wins in 2016: 6
Majors in 2016: 2
Olympic Medal(?): Gold
Final World Ranking: 2
 
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