You only count your best 6 players in each round, despite having all 8 available. So you look at each round individually, discard the 2 worst scores in each and then add up the rest.
But if I've done the calc correctly you actually *smile* it in with -84! Helps getting all 8 players through so you've got more choice.
I made this in excel and had nice colours to highlight which rounds weren't counted, but it doesn't copy across to PRE.
So the rounds that I've excluded from the totals at the bottom are:
Round 1 - Scott Ev, Varner +1
Round 2 - Poulter ev, Fleetwood -3
Round 3 - Smith +1, Herbert +1
Round 4 - Scott -1, Poulter 2
Pretty sure I've got this right...
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | TOTAL | |||||
| Shane Lowry | 72 | 0 | 68 | -4 | 69 | -3 | 70 | -2 | 279 |
| Cameron Smith | 67 | -5 | 64 | -8 | 73 | 64 | -8 | 268 | |
| Lucas Herbert | 70 | -2 | 68 | -4 | 73 | 67 | -5 | 278 | |
| Min Woo Lee | 69 | -3 | 69 | -3 | 73 | 1 | 68 | -4 | 279 |
| Adam Scott | 72 | 65 | -7 | 70 | -2 | 71 | 278 | ||
| Harold Varner III | 73 | 67 | -5 | 72 | 0 | 68 | -4 | 280 | |
| Ian Poulter | 69 | -3 | 72 | 70 | -2 | 74 | 285 | ||
| Tommy Fleetwood | 72 | 0 | 69 | 66 | -6 | 67 | -5 | 274 | |
| -13 | -31 | -12 | -28 | -84 |
