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The PGA championship at Valhalla. We're here. We're already here for our second major of the year. We apologize in advance, a little bit of a late recording. Kobe had some travel issues yesterday. The benefit of that is we've got much more updated ownership. We've got much more updated course conditions and about five minutes.

Before we went hot, TMZ just reported that Rory McIlroy is getting a divorce from his wife, Erica. So, Kobi, your life reaction? I'm a little bit sad for mom and dad. Mom and dad, a poppy breaking up. It's sad, right? Divorce, part of life.

Hopefully not a part of my life, but it's not a great thing. But, you know, for his golf, it might be. So I'm sad for Rory as a man, right, to see a marriage fall apart. That's no good. But I think Rory plays pretty good golf when he sheds what could be a problematic relationship. You don't get a divorce unless you've had problems. We don't know how deep these problems are, how long they've been going on. We're not going to speculate on a man's marriage. But you don't just file for divorce out of nowhere.

So maybe that could be the root of his problem, some of his problems. He's a head case. We all know that. Last time we just talked about it, he broke up with Caroline Wozniacki, what, May of 2014? Did some pretty good things in the months following that, did he not? I don't know. I think we're spinning this one. We're in the spin zone. We're here. We got the...

The dryer and the washing machine go on. We're in the spin zone. I think we're spinning this one to a positive team. Rory here. We got our man without the chain. That's my take. We just looked it up a minute ago. So he, the engagement with Caroline was, and Jackie was broken off. And what may have 2014 in the preceding months, he won the,

back-to-back majors and, you know, produce one of the greatest stretches of golf of the last decade. Now, you know, again, we can only speculate if it, if a divorce is being announced, uh,

today, the week of PGA Championship Week, that doesn't mean that they got in a fight last night, right? When my parents got divorced, I found out later that they had been planning this for years, you know, and we're just waiting for the right moment when my brother and I were old enough and in college and had moved out of the house to put on a good face for the family. So, you know, who knows? This could have been

part of the calculus for Rory and Erica over a number of years. But the messaging of this getting out now, how it got out, how much Rory had played a hand in when it was getting out,

The week of a major championship is certainly a lot to chew on. Well, I will say TMZ looks like they're reporting that he filed for divorce yesterday in Florida. You know, it's funny. He gave his interview in Charlotte. Of course, a little weird that she's not there, right? I was like, what? Mother's Day? Yeah, see, I didn't pick up on that. I didn't even...

I didn't watch a whole lot of the end of the golf yesterday when Rory took his big lead over the last couple of holes. So I didn't catch like the, the press conference and on the green, but yeah, piecing two and two together, Erica, not being there on mother's day is, is,

retrospectively strange. Yeah. I expected Poppy to be running out on the green and, you know, and they talked to him about his mom and he sent a message to his mom and he even said, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow, mom. So we knew he was flying back to Florida before he went to Mahala. And I guess before he went to see his mom, he stopped by the clerk's office and filed for divorce. Just a little,

Just a little short detour for a big life-altering moment. Pretty weird. So he did file. I don't know. You know, like, I don't think TMZ, like, scans all the national records for all divorce filings of all prominent people. And maybe they do. But I doubt they just randomly found that. I'm assuming...

uh there was probably a good reason why he would have filed um on this day uh and getting out i don't think is a coincidence not that i think he's trying to publicize it or anything but i doubt that just happened i think he probably had some control over it so

Here we are. How does it affect the golf? I don't know. We got Scotty having a baby. We got Rory breaking off a marriage. We got all kinds of family narratives. We got Brooks Koepka. I mean, if he was dating an actual human woman, maybe he would get a divorce, but I don't, I'm not sure we can categorize what he has going on as a functional family. Um,

We'll circle back to Rory and Scotty and Brooks once we get into the top of the board. We get to talk a little bit about this golf course, a little bit off the top. I am happy to be spending this week in Los Angeles. Speaking of divorce, one more golf trip for me and my romantic relationship would probably be over as well. So I got to say, I'm really...

I'm really happy and overjoyed to be spending this major championship weekend in Los Angeles in my own bed. I've spent like seven nights in my own bed in Los Angeles over the last month and a half. And the drawback to that is...

I'm not getting to watch with my own eyes some of the stuff in the practice rounds that you and I were able to observe at the Masters. The benefit of that is I'm not going to be phone-less for nine hours a day. So what I do feel like coming into this podcast, I have a really good sense on is A, ownership, B, my data, and C, I do have a lot of

folks and friends that are on the golf course right now, giving me some fairly useful info.

And I got to say, Kobe, the reports that I'm hearing from the grounds at TPC Craig Holla are fairly concerning. So I will tell you kind of what I've been hearing over the last 24 hours. But let me get your take first in a big picture sense of Valhalla and what you've been hearing, feeling, thinking, seeing over the last 48 hours.

Well, I'll go broader than that. I remember last year I posted on Twitter, you know, they were canceling any event where Donald Trump had had any connection. And so I was begging someone to unearth a picture of Donald Trump at Mahala. So maybe, maybe the PGA could take it. My wish was not granted. I've been to Louisville, as they call it. Recently, right?

I was in Kentucky three weeks ago. I was in Lexington, but we flew in and out of Louisville. I've been there a good bit. So I'm familiar with what goes on up there and how the weather is this time of year, things of that nature. Never played ball. Have obviously watched it on TV just like the rest of you.

Also, our caddy at Streepsunk is a Valhalla guy. So we've been talking to Dylan a little bit. Yeah. He told us... He was talking to us a little bit about the agronomy changes when we were there a few weeks ago. I'm not a Valhalla slanderist because I've come into... I enjoy major golf tournaments on wonderful golf courses, obviously. It's a lot of fun when it's at one of the great, great, great golf courses. But I find...

that I'm so ready and primed for majors and the big storylines and what they all mean that by the end of it,

you know, I'm just as invested in the Valhalla PGA as I would be if it were being played at, you know, one of the great golf courses in the world. So I try to remind myself that. But I don't, there's nothing about this that, this course that interests me a great deal. I know we're going to have lush green grass, I believe. That's what Kentucky is known for. I think we're going to have a big ballpark where people have to bust it around. I talked to my brother-in-law Sunday, who's in Kentucky, and he said it had been

not it fairly dry for the last few weeks leading up to kind of now, but I think they're going to get hit with some weather. Um, so I could see a, I don't think it's going to be a super spongy golf course, but I don't think it's going to be as firm as they'd probably like it. Um,

I don't know. I mean, I'm kind of lukewarm. I know you're out on Valhalla. I'm out on Jack Nicklaus just as a human, generally. And every time I play his golf courses, I find myself, okay, this was fine. Empty calories. Yeah. It's just like, oh, I just hit that drive again. A little cut. It suits my game. Of course, his golf courses, parameters just get super hard at the green. It's like you're in every fairway and somehow shoot 87 just because it's very penal. But at any rate...

The golf course doesn't, that's not what's drawing my interest this week, but maybe it'll surprise me. Yeah. I've used the LACC example before where our qualifications for a great major venue are not architecture, right? And I am the biggest architecture geek that you'll meet. And even I can step outside of myself and say,

that what we should be looking for in a major venue architecture obviously is part of the equation it's a far bigger part of the equation for me than it is for the average fan

But I think what Valhalla lacks in architectural intrigue and strategy, and I will be blunt about it, I think this is the worst major championship venue we've seen since Torrey Pines and Quail Hollow and Belle Reve. I think it's in that category as amongst the worst major venues that we've seen in the last decade. Now, there are a couple of reasons for this. I actually think that this golf course is like

more detrimental to architectural integrity than even a golf course like Torrey Pines. Like I think there are some holes that are objectively really poorly designed, like really poorly thought out. I think six is a mass. I think 13, their signature Island hole is one of the worst signature holes I've ever seen on a golf course. And I think that the decision to,

to utilize a lot of thick rough around the greens as opposed to runoff areas is probably the worst aspect of modern professional golf. And we've seen major venues deviate from that recently in the last couple of years, but like the inverse of this is what makes Augusta so good. Now, like I mentioned,

What Valhalla lacks in its golf course, I think it can make up for in the fact that from a storylines perspective, I think that this is one of the juiciest majors we've seen in a really long time. I mean, every single golf media member has already made the tweet about how Rory Brooks and Scheffler are all coming off of a win.

I think the fact that you have all of seemingly the best players in the world in really good form

And multiple players this week chasing history. Like there are multiple players that if they win this week, if Rory McIlroy or Brooks Koepka win this week, they become a top 15 most accomplished golfer of all time. If Scotty Sheffler wins this week, he is on pace to have maybe the one of the best, if not the best seasons in professional golf history and on Grand Slam watch.

I'm not even really going to mention Jordan Spieth. That's its whole other thing. But it's very rare that you enter a major with this many juicy storylines and this amount of potential for historical context, this type of week, really changing the landscape of modern golf history. And so as I mentioned with LACC, Kobe,

I think LACC is a top five golf course in the country. I think LACC is like an architectural masterpiece.

Doesn't mean it was a great major venue, right? If half the members buy up all of the tickets and 99% of people living in Los Angeles don't even know if a major is happening. I mean, I was on the golf course at LACC four days. People were just walking off into the Century City Mall to go dine at Eataly, right? So Valhalla is selling the most tickets for a PGA Championship ever, right? So-

you know, it could be the inverse of LACC where it's like, okay, what this lacks in intrigue of, of architecture and, and golf course is,

It could make up for that in storylines. It could make up for that in juice. It can make up for that in atmosphere. It can make up for that in, you know, fan interest. So I reserve the right to be, you know, pleasantly surprised with every other aspect of Valhalla other than the pure design point of that, if that makes sense.

It does. And I'll say this. We talk a lot, you and I personally, just when we travel to play golf about golf courses that have a sense of place. And I will tell you, I was when I was in Kentucky three weeks ago and I always notice it when I'm there. One of the things about Kentucky is.

You walk through people's yards. My nephews are playing baseball. You kind of walk through the neighborhoods. It's like crazy thick, these thick lawns, this like grass, this, this is like dark green color is kind of a part of what Kentucky is. The Kentucky bluegrass. Honestly, it's a part of, of what you get there. Um,

Now, does that mean it's good for architecture to have that big, giant, thick grass around every green? No. Could they make this golf course reflect kind of a sense of place and almost tie in Churchill Downs, you know, and this like, you know, this Louisville sort of hilliness and this kind of gateway to the Midwest, southern Midwest vibe without having shit around every green and it kind of being weird and disinteresting? Sure.

And I think this was like a ham-fisted way of creating a sense of place, which is everything's thick. They're shoving the Kentucky down our throats if you look at the marketing of this tournament. Yeah. Well, and Louisville's kind of that way. You fly to the Louisville airport and what do you get? 75 posters of every different bourbon company in the world. Like, there's no subtlety here. This isn't Napa.

Where it's like, you know, this is like the bourbon trail. You're going to fucking drink some bourbon. You know what? They attract...

idiots from Houston who, you know, you and I, we plan our golf trips a year and a half ahead. We go to these beautiful places. He's like 58 year old alcoholic men getting groups of eight. They don't bring their golf clubs. They bring like an extra suitcase to go buy bourbon. I buy bourbon. I drink the shit out of it. You know, I'm not flying to Louisville to go drink at the source. Maybe I should, that could be fun. So they're not a subtle people there in Louisville.

Louisville Cardinals are not a subtle brand. Papa John's Stadium is just kind of right in your face. Everything about Louisville is in your face. So maybe we'll get an in-your-face major. If

I'm kind of out on Louisville as an idea the more I talk about it. As a concept. As a whole concept. I think Lexington's the better city. I think Louisville doesn't know if it's Southern or Midwestern. I think I really despise the football program. They came to Clemson the first time. They had Lamar Jackson, and they'd never beaten us. They've still never beaten us. They came to Clemson expecting to beat us. We had Deshaun Watson. You know, look, our guy, he likes some massages, maybe a little butthole play. But he got the job done that day.

And these people were so obnoxious. So I'm a little bit out on mobile, but maybe I hope they show up and create a good TV product. That'll be the best thing they can do to redeem themselves. And the other aspect of it too, is, and this is why I'm a little biased when it comes to Oak Hill and, and the great people of Rochester. But one of the reasons why Oak Hill, I thought was a great major and why Oak Hill, I think is a great major venue, despite me understanding the,

Also, the architectural concerns of how a golf course like Oak Hill is

test pro golf and homogenized way. And Baha'u'llah is really just like a worse version of Oak Hill in terms of its architecture. Like it is the same concept of Oak Hill, but instead of Donald Ross, Andrew Green, Green Complex, as you have Jack Nicklaus, Green Complex, it's far less undulating. It's we got Oak Hill at home. Right, right, right. Exactly. And, but part of the reason why I thought that Oak Hill was, uh,

a great major venues because a, the club loves hosting majors. I mean, the, the way that the club wraps its arms around hosting a major championship, uh,

I mean, blocky is still, I spend a lot of time at Oak Hill. Like you cannot walk through the hallways of the clubhouse at Oak Hill without hearing a blocky reference. He's, he's getting a plaque on 15 and they are just, everybody at Oak Hill cannot stop buzzing about hosting major golf tournaments and the city of Rochester. Yeah.

Right. Right. And the city of Rochester is a golf, a sports starved town, right? Because if you're living in Rochester, what, what are your sports Syracuse basketball and the bills, maybe if you could, you know, right. Watch the Yankees. And, you know, I know that Kentucky has, it's a big Louisville, big college basketball, big college basketball area. But I do think that like,

folks in Kentucky, folks in Louisville, folks in Lexington are psyched for this one and they're going to, and they're going to step up. Right. And I think the way that a club embraces hosting a major again, LACC being the inverse of this, um, that matters. And I'm pleasantly optimistic about what we could see this week in terms of like the atmosphere at this golf tournament. Now, how,

How this pertains to what types of players we think are going to play well, that kind of takes us back into the architecture conversation. So-

How I've spoken extensively on how I think this golf course is going to play. I have a couple of new opinions or a couple of things I've tweaked in my breakdown after hearing a lot of reports from the grounds, but let's transition into talking about how this is, you know, effectively going to shape what types of players that you're looking for this week. Yeah, no, I think, um,

I mean, I'm looking, obviously it's a PGA championship. It's a tournament lately for big brawny boys. That's just the way it is. And this golf course, I don't think is too different. I do think there is a, there's a bigger, really wide miss penalty. I think there's going to be some gnarly rough, but it's going to be,

I think hitting fairways may be kind of hard, but keeping it within the corridors where you're okay will not be all that hard. The guys who are real wide are going to find a lot of trouble. So I think I'm going to be targeting guys who don't need to be super accurate, but I don't need guys who spray it either. Because from what I'm seeing, I think there's actually going to be trouble that you can find if you hit it 30 yards off line.

You know, which is not always the case, particularly at PG. A lot of times we get this non-graduated rough where you miss the green and you've got 40 more yards and hopefully you're not behind a tree. But if you're not, you've got the same thing. I don't think we're going to see that this week. I think we're going to see bigger consequences for kind of huge misses, which will play a little bit into how I handicap this. I think it's going to play long.

Assuming we get the moisture that I think we're going to get today, tomorrow for this tournament. I think that'll make it play a little bit longer. I'm with you. I've heard you talk about how the greens are kind of simple and flat. It made me think a little bit of Bethpage Black, although I don't know that that's exactly what we have going on here. Those are kind of these weird sort of elevated pedestal kind of

strange little tabletops that are... Dude, I went back and watched the 2018 PGA Final Run at Belle Reve. It's super Belle Reve, dude. Super, super Belle Reve. Yeah. Well, it's kind of point-and-click golf. You know, and...

It tests you in a way like they'll retest your ability to hit that four iron on that par three where Brooks Koepka sticks it right. That's what it's testing there. And that's that's one type of golf test, of course. But I think it's going to be if you drive the ball well and you put yourself in positions and can avoid sort of the tall grass that's way, way, way off these fairways.

Short game is going to be de-emphasized because it's just going to be – and it will, I think, shrink the penalty for misses around the green. You're not going to have balls bounding off 30 or 40 yards. You're going to have a lot of these little –

fluff out you know kind of chop out yeah which you know and that's just that's a type of golf you and i don't exactly prefer it but you know that's that's a skill too yeah victor hovland yeah he might um so this golf course is going to kind of i think what you see is what you get i don't not going to be that much variance it's one of these that the guys who can hit the ball long and keep it in the ballpark are going to have a pretty big advantage in my opinion

The only thing that I would add in terms of like how I feel about this golf course differently, as opposed to the last time I talked about Valhalla on this podcast feed, which is Sunday morning. And now it's Tuesday morning. So I've spoken to a lot of people that have been at Valhalla the last couple of days. The only thing that I am more bullish on is that I actually think that like

the best bet on the board thus far is taking the winning score total over. And when I say over, I mean, like it's going to be easier than whatever the winning score bet is. Yeah. Deeper. Um,

Let's just look at Oak Hill. Oak Hill was one at nine under par. Just on paper, in terms of if this was even under non-soggy conditions, Ball Hall is an easier golf course than Oak Hill. It just is. The green complexes are less complex.

The greens are more flat. There's way more runoff areas around the green at Oak Hill. Oak Hill's a more difficult chipping golf course. Oak Hill has smaller greens. Oak Hill has more narrower fairways and...

Oak Hill, seemingly, at least on Monday and Tuesday of tournament week last year at the PGA, had thicker rough as well. And Oak Hill was one at nine under par. So I don't really see a conceivable scenario where this tournament is one at single digits under par. Now, I reserve the right to change my opinion on this. And if they just continue to let the rough grow out and who knows what the weather could hold. It never happens, Steve.

Yeah, I will. They always chop it down. We get all these reports and then Wednesday they're chopping it down and it's bullshit. Right. So I tell you right now, as it stands on Tuesday afternoon, I'd be fairly shocked at if I'm going to say winning score minus 13, minus 14. I think a couple of guys, one or two, three guys maybe get to minus nine, minus 10, and then

And I think if you're playing good golf, like you could win this golf tournament 15 under par. Like, I think for example, if you're one of the best players in the field, if you're Scotty Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Rory, and your mindset is like, you know, winning this golf tournament, what's the score that I need to win this golf tournament. If you gave those guys nine under par at the start of the week, like, I don't think they would take it this week. I think they would know that they are going to need to go a little bit deeper to win this golf tournament. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think it's a place where all these tournaments we say are easy. It's kind of funny. It's like, oh, it's going to play easier. Minus 13 might win it. And then you're going to look up on Thursday and somebody prominent is going to be plus five through four. Right, which will happen. People play in US Open 4.

course like you're going to look at it and go who what in the world what US Open course is Shane Lowry playing I don't want to bag on Shane Lowry because I kind of like him this week but you know someone in that range will totally eject and you'll go what happened that's the nature of majors which is that there's it's long enough there's enough trouble it is tricky enough that they're not all going to play well but I think ideally you know maybe this course can separate people a little bit which if it does that then maybe it's achieved its purpose maybe not in the most interesting way

But I do think if you're driving the ball well, I think this golf course is going to be pretty scorable, particularly if it's soft. It looks like it's going to rain today and tomorrow.

That's going to add to that. Well, you look at the 2018 PGA championship at Bellary, Brooks won at 16 under par nine guys shot 10 under par, like that golf course played around. I, this is not going to be a psychological examination in the way that, in the way that the masters were, I mean, the cut at Bellary was plus one, but

I think we're looking at, like I gave the course comps of Oak Hill, Muirfield Village, Belle Reve, Olympia Fields.

I think on further thought, I think I'm closer to Bellary than Oak Hill. I think I'm closer. I think I'm closer to quail hollow, how quail hollow plays at the Wells Fargo, as opposed to how played in that 2017 PGA that I am like the gnarly difficult. Mirafield village is such a golf course that, um, test both distance and accuracy and to

to me, I think I'm a little bit lower on like the scale of total driving as opposed to just like, does this guy have plus distance? Is he a great long iron player? And yeah,

I think you're going to have a lot of like 15 footers on this golf course too. So I don't think that it's going to be the total separation of, of ball striking tests that we've seen at previous major venues. I think you're going to have a,

I think you'll have a Denny McCarthy in the top 10, not specifically Denny this week, but a player like Denny McCarthy or a player like Corey Connors in the top 10 this week that gained seven strokes on approach and happens to make a couple of 15-footers. But

Based on this breakdown, should we transition into talking into the top of the board and how this pertains to the top guys like Rory and Brooks and Scheffler? Here's what I'll say, which is great. I really like the pricing this week, Kobe. We have 17 players over 9K. Again, the benefit of recording this a little bit later for us is

is I have a pretty decent sense on ownership right now, as opposed to if we had recorded this on a Monday night. I'm telling you right now, this could change. A lot can change in the next 24 hours and I expect it to change. But as we sit and record this on Tuesday midday, I do not have a single player above 25% in this field. Now I have two players that are very damn close and those are the top two price guys. I think that

scotty and rory will both be between 22 and 26 and i think that 50 of lineups will have either one of scotty and rory but how do you assess the top of the board let's do 10k range yeah so i think what brooks kepka could have been that guy but zander playing so well last week and generally being just

solid rock solid people liking Xander anyway. And then basically being the same price, they're just going to, they're going to split the ownership at that spot. Right. I still think Brooks could come in. He could be a guy that catches steam. I've got an 18. Does that sound right to you? It does sound right, but I could see a scenario where he,

kind of finds himself at 21 or 22. Totally. Totally agree. Kind of a surprising, well, not really surprising. We're talking about it. So how much of a surprise can it be? But a guy who, when you actually start building the lineups, you think, God, I'd love starting at 10-8, right? And I'm getting Brooks and so forth. So Koepka's the only guy there who I think could start scaring up there. I think Scottie's price is,

And some of the question marks about maybe course fit, not that he really ever has big questions on course fit, but it's not perfect for him and being off yada, yada, yada. All the question marks will keep him from being the mega, mega, mega, mega chalk that we've seen him be in the past. Combined with the fact that Rory at $1,200 cheaper coming off of,

I'm going to call it three wins in a row since he gets Shane Lowry's win as well at the Zurich. Coming off three wins in a row, playing great, $1,200 discount, a place he's won. You know, I mean, obviously I'm the biggest Rory Stan in the world, but he will be super popular. Jon Rahm obviously is the forgotten man. If you can –

hit on Jon Rahm this week and you're comfortable doing it, you will own him at very low ownership, I think, because there's just too many. There's five guys around Jon Rahm that everybody wants to play. And why do you want to play Jon Rahm? There's no good reason to play him other than the fact that no one else is going to play him. So forgotten man, Jon Rahm. But those other four kind of all just

eating up each other's ownership interest because there's a good reason to play all of them. Let's talk about the Shafflor piece quickly. I'm playing 0% Shafflor. And do I feel great about that? No. I think that we've had this conversation a million times, the two of us, but it seems necessary to reiterate once again that

So, I'll give you a couple examples of this briefly.

I, the, the way that I generally play DFS is I'm not really, I don't really like to straddle the fence. I'm not really a field player. I'm either going to be two to three X the field on a guy or have 0% of them because I want to pick my guys. And if they play well, I want to know that I have significant leverage over the field. And I have had the shuffle or conversation that has persisted over the last couple of weeks where

I've gone both ways on it. Like I played him in close to 75 to 80% of my lineups at both the players championship and the masters. I played him in 0% of my lineups at the Houston open and the RBC heritage. Now, interestingly enough, the Houston open and the RBC heritage where he finished first and second were two of my best daily fantasy weeks of the season. Um,

When he won the players championship and won the masters and I had Sheffler everywhere, I think I'm in cash. I did. Okay. Now the reason for that is, is that when you build with a 13.2 golfer, that makes it harder for you to build.

lineups. It just does like you have less salary to use. So you are more likely to have to use less good players to fill out your lineups and shout it from the rooftops. Kobe, whether your path to winning money this week is not whether you play Sheffler or how well Sheffler does. It's, it's how the other five players in your lineup do. And so the

My problem with Scheffler this week, and I know that it's a little bit different from the Masters because you have the more dynamic pricing and you have some options in the 5K range. In general, I have had a lot more success this year in daily fantasy building more balanced. And I don't think it's a coincidence. I think one of the DFS mistakes I made at the Masters was I went

I went really stars and scrubs at the masters. And it turns out that like my Scheffler lineups, you know, obviously I had good Scheffler lineups. I just got beat by better Scheffler lineups, but yeah,

It is no foregone conclusion that you're going to be able to build effectively five of sixes and six of sixes, the lineups that you want to make with Scheffler. And the reason why it's a no for me this week on Scheffler is, A, I think the guys right behind him are really, really strong options this week, Rory, Rom, Xander, Brooks.

And C, I think, again, it's all relative, Kobe. Like, we're not talking about we don't think that Scheffler is going to play well this week or we don't think that the advantage that Scheffler has this week is tremendous. We don't think that he is the most likely player to win this tournament.

It will just be objectively harder for Scheffler to separate himself this week from other great players based on the course setup. Now, what does that mean? Okay. Why was Scheffler able to separate so easily at Augusta National? And this is why I said...

you know, the ceiling for Scheffler at Augusta nationals when this tournament by eight strokes. Okay. And the floor for Scheffler at Augusta national on a firm and fast golf course with wind is top five. The reason for that is Augusta was very firm and fast. It had a very low greens and regulation percentage, and it turned into a long iron and chipping contest. And those two specific skills are

are what makes Scheffler the best player in golf. How did Scheffler win the Masters? He gained eight strokes around the green. Now, that path for Scheffler just to be the guy that A, hits the most greens, and B, when he misses the greens, players are struggling so much to get up and down based on the degree of difficulty of the chip shots.

That isn't this tournament, right? It doesn't mean that Sheffler can't win this tournament and that he doesn't have a great path to win this tournament. But the roadmap of winning the Masters by four or five strokes because you lap the field by gaining eight strokes around the green. If Sheffler wins this tournament, he's not going to do it by gaining eight strokes around the greens at Valhalla. He's going to need to do it in a different way.

The more I watch Scheffler, the more it's all, I mean, I hate to say this, but I was thinking he obviously hits the ball fine. That's an understatement, but it's all short game. I mean, it's, and it's amazing. Well, it's brains in short game. It's leaving himself in a great spot. It's decision-making in short game. And this golf course is not going to penalize you for poor decisions. Exactly. But you watch him multiple times a tournament. He turns a bogey into a chip in. I mean, that's not, that's,

A lot of times we just fucking luck box Scottie doing it again. But a lot of times it's because he's, he does get fortunate every now and then, but he leaves himself in good spots and he, he turns difficult up and downs into kick-ins over and over and over and over and over. And it's amazing stuff. Other guys can't do other guys hit it to nine feet. He hits it to three. And that, when you do that 15 or 20 times a tournament, you know, there's your six, seven strokes that you're, you're gaining on people. Um,

And this golf course isn't that. And that to me is the most important thing. I think even the players, the new iteration of the players when they've tried to make it kind of firm and the players are so interesting because if you ever watch the players really closely, you'll understand that there are places that when you get on those greens that you're done, like you're toast around the green. That's the underrated thing about the players is you get short-sighted. You've

You got 20 feet. There's no stopping it. Scotty's very good at not leaving himself in those spots, and then he's really, really, really good at recovering when he does, hitting kind of very simple but also very effective chips. This golf course isn't going to reward that. You're taking his biggest skill out of his arsenal. I also – I've said this. I joke that Scotty is like king of the slap hitters.

He's not that long compared to the really long guys. Rory will hit it far, far past him. So will Xander, by the way. Xander will too.

And it's honestly amazing what Shuffler does given that he's going to give up 20 yards to Rory at some of these major venues. And it doesn't matter because he's so good with long irons and he's hitting in the right spots more often. And when he misses, he, you know, he puts it in the right place and all that. He just plays good golf. But on a golf course like this, where decision-making and short game and all that's kind of not as important and distance is sort of

It almost sets up to put the spotlight on something that isn't his biggest strength and sort of take the spotlight off the things that are his biggest strengths, which, you know, and he's still priced like the guy who wins the Masters by five. So for me, obviously, would I be surprised if he won this tournament? No, but I think there are lots of paths to him finishing a very non-competitive 16th or, you know, or 12th or whatever. I think that can happen in this tournament pretty easily.

For me, I don't love the 5k range, which always affects what I'm going to do up top. Me neither. I also like building these big monster two-headed lineups. I've won tons of money with Rory Zander lineups in some spots. I had Zander, Wyndham Clark at the players just paired up everywhere. I've done this a lot. You can't build big two-headed monster lineups with Scotty. You just can't do it. It takes some of the tools out of your tool belt if you play Scotty up top, but I don't

I don't fault anybody if they think they can build the best Scottie lineup and then he's going to win it four to one. Hey, man, go crazy. Good luck. You know, you're going to be competing with a lot of lineups and you better be the best dumpster diver of all. And I don't like dumpster diving this week because I don't love what's at the bottom of this field. So we'll circle back to Rory at the very end. We always not to trigger people.

Because the biggest criticism of podcasts that we do together is we spend too much time on Rory. So you and I can do the Rory conversation at the end and people can turn it off if they don't want to hear it. Who's your favorite non-Rory play in the 10K range? Because Rory is not going to be in 100% of your lineup. So who's probably your second favorite guy in the 10K range?

The agony of playing John Rahm at low ownership and the high stakes, you know, he's probably going to be six, 7% owned in high stakes. And I'm going to bet John Rahm at 20 to one this week. Yeah. I mean, look, I like John Rahm. He's won in spots like this guy in the masters where he was the forgotten guy. And he, and then he reminds you that he, oops, he is actually good.

I like Rahm just as a pure kind of ownership play. I mean, I'm a little surprised that the ownership numbers on Xander are a little bit higher because I think for DraftKings perspective, do I expect him to hold off somebody good on Sunday? No, that's not Xander. But could he pile up a bunch of birdies and be in the top five and give you everything you need to take down a big tournament? Yeah.

So I'll have Xander and Rom a lot of spots. Brooks, I texted with you, doesn't this just feel like Brooks? Yeah, of course it does. But I will say since he nearly won the Masters and then he went as the PGA, three straight majors where he's been

I won't say not competitive, but he's not Ben Brooks, right? I mean, awful at Augusta. You know, he nearly missed the cut at the Open Championship. He was not good at LACC. I think there's a world. Brooks has clearly the most sort of just flame-out equity to me of these top guys. I wouldn't fault you if you played him because I think he could just do the Brooks thing and win the PGA like he does. But even at, God, at Oak Hill,

He flipped the switch so quick because he was out of that tournament and then he was not. It kind of happened real fast, but he teeters on the edge sometimes. And I think Brooks is going to come in at 20, 21, 22%, particularly the higher stakes. So I'll probably be off Brooks, even though that kind of hurts me because I want to be on Brooks this week. I just don't know if I'll get there. Yeah. I think I'm a lot higher on, on Brooks this week than you are. And I, I'm not really, my baseline on Brooks is not high. Right. So I'm,

I'm just having, he's usually popular when he wins and he's just not, he's not been the contrarian guy all that often. So you start off a little bit higher on Brooks than I do naturally. And I think I'm closer to playing him than I really am often, which, so it makes sense that you'd be higher on him than I would be.

Yeah, I had a lot of difficulty with the Brooks versus Rahm debate in my head this week. And I think the way that I settled on this was I'm going to bet John Rahm at 20 to 1 and play Brooks and DFS as sort of a hedge for myself. Now, you may be saying to yourself, why?

why wouldn't you reverse them? Rom's going to be the one that's lower owned. And my answer to you would be Brooks is 14 to one and 10.8 and Rom is 11.4 and 20 to one. So I'd rather bet the 11.4 guy at 20 to one and play the 10.8 guy who I don't really want to bet at 14 to one. Now I understand that Brooks is going to get ownership. I think things are so spread out this week and I have so much leverage that I'm going to

on a lot of guys that a lot of other people aren't thinking of this week at the bottom of my DraftKings lineups and even in the 8K range that I don't really care to. I'm not really concerned about whether Brooks is 17% or 21%.

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I kind of see it the opposite way, to be honest with you, Kobe. I think that Brooks is going to be very relevant in this tournament. Like, I would be very surprised if Brooks is not relevant in this tournament, if he doesn't finish top 10 in this tournament. And I don't think he's going to win. I think he's going to finish, like, T3 this week. Now...

part of that is like, do I think that Brooks is going to get to six majors this quickly? That can't be a reason not to think that he's going to win. But all of the signs to me point that this is going to be a golf tournament that he shows up in and plays a factor in the course, fat, the Bellary, the Oak Hill, the Beth page, all

All of those golf courses, all of those PGA setups, you know, he just won live Singapore on Zoysia. You look at all of the, um,

You look at all of the previous PGA Championship wins that he's had, he's always coming in with the top five, right? And he does actually tell you, okay, I'm playing well. I'm ready for this golf tournament. We talked about that at the Masters, like how he is not a surprise. He flashes for him. And he was not flashing for him before the Masters, which is why we kind of said, eh.

But he is now, and it's PGA, and it sets up well for him, and it's Bell Reeve, and it's Brooks. I mean, you make a good case. You make me want to have a little piece of him, which, I mean, look, after the heartbreak I have suffered with gutless Xander costing me $100,000 at the players by just totally spitting the bet, it wouldn't be hard to get me on Brooks instead of Xander. The only problem I have, particularly in the high stakes, just that

He makes so much sense that I know all of my competitors will have him too. And do I really want to play five V five or do I want to give myself chances? And that's, I mean, that's all game theory discussion. I am, you know, a lot of times I get pigeonholed with somebody who doesn't like Brooks or doesn't think he's good or whatever. No, I, I,

I understand that if I take a game theory play, I'm, I'm taking a less, a person who is less likely to compete than him, but I'm doing so for the big reward when it happens. Right. I get it. I'm like, I'm totally in on what my decision point is there, but you know, it'll all be a lot of construction for me. I'm kind of the leverage King here. I don't,

I have lineups that show up with everybody's 6% off, which you don't need necessarily. The way I play, I can fit in Brooks and still have all kinds of leverage. Me as well. I'm having to remind myself of that. He may end up on some of my cards. I haven't X'd off Brooks yet. Right. And the way I'm thinking about this is...

50% of my lineups are going to be Rory Neiman or Rory Hovland. And the other 50% of my lineups are going to be Brooks Zander. The Zander piece too. I think this is a pretty generational opportunity on Zander. And the reason why I say that is how often do you get an opportunity where the guy is coming off his best ball striking performance of his career. And yet the narrative coming out of that week is completely negative on the guy. And,

Listen, I have been a Xander defender many times in the past in terms of how his performance stacks up in contention compared to other elite players. Xander is a way better player in contention than a lot of the guys that you would think. I do think a lot of the criticism on him in that final round at Quail Hall was fair. I mean, even if he shot 67 and beat the field by four strokes, he's not beating Rory that day. You just aren't.

But I think the fact that Xander, who was the second highest owned player on the slate at the masters, who probably, if we're being totally honest about things, has the second highest likelihood to top 10, this tournament outside of Scotty Scheffler. The fact that we're getting a sub 15 Scotty Scheffler, because Xander,

People now think that he's even more of a gutless loser than they already did in the past because he couldn't beat Rory having one of the best final rounds of the last five years to get a sub 15 Xander in that spot coming off a week where he hit the ball better than Rory. Like he gained 13 strokes ball striking and didn't make any putts on Sunday. To me, that feels like a pretty damn good spot to utilize a 13% own Xander.

I get it. And that's kind of where I am on the Brooks Zander thing, right? If you're going to tell me in the big steak stuff that you're going to have Brooks at 25 and Zander at 14. Yeah. Okay. And there's a world in which you can use both of them. So I'm...

You know, there's a lot of fun things you can do up top. This is why I really think ROM gets squeezed. Yeah. Here I am telling you I'm going to play ROM and just because ROM is going to be the ownership play. And then all of a sudden you, you start talking about the other guys and you, you go, ah, do I really need to play ROM? You know, eh,

Well, you don't, which is why he's going to come in at 4% or what I, in my contest. In your contest. Yeah. And, but then the other elsewhere, he's eight to 10, 12%, you know, in the big Millie maker. Yeah. But I think in the four, four, four, four. And, and to be honest, don't the higher stakes guys love Xander? Yeah.

I think some of them are kind of off of him. I've played him a lot because he's been leverage in a lot of spots. I think three, four, five years ago, he was the popular chop. Now everybody plays Scotty and Rory is pretty popular in the high stakes too. So, and Brooks as well, just because frankly, he's such a kind of price per dollar, you know, value per dollar kind of play here. I,

I think Xander comes in a little bit lower than he should in the high stakes too. What do you do with Ludwig, Morikawa, and Cantlay? It's a good question. I don't know. I'm playing Cantlay though at what I think is going to be- 5%. Yeah, it's crazy. There's so many guys over 10K. This is why the weird flex pricing down to the fives just kind of disorients us. I like it though. Do you like it? I like it too. Yeah.

I love it, but you're looking at the eighth highest priced guy and he's still in the 10Ks. And that 10K threshold, there's like a psychological thing with that. It's like, I only play a 10K guy if I really think they're going to win. People don't take shots on 10K guys. But when the pricing is like this, 10K is actually like a 9K guy in a normal event, right? It's just, well, 9,200, whatever. It's a little bit different. But I think it throws people's equilibrium off because they're used to this

line of demarcation at $10,000, but that's not really the case. I like Cantlay. I don't love Morcal on this golf course. I'm just not, I'm not a big Morcal guy anyway, but I feel like he, I don't know. He's got the potential to, to play well here and pop. I mean,

Cam Smith, you know, I think is not going to get a lot of love. I think Ludwig question marks with the injury stuff, but, you know, he's played so well. The master's still in everybody's mind. And I think if we get some good news or at least like, ah, he was precautionary, everything looks good with Ludwig. I think he's all systems go. The only problem with him is 10-5 is still kind of expensive considering

considering he's closer in price to Xander and Kapka than he is to Cantlay. So the question is, do people look at him in that top bucket of maybe my first guy in, or do they look at him in sort of the lower bucket where he's caught up with Morikawa and Cantlay? And I think it could go either way, which will probably hold his ownership down a little bit.

Well, the interesting piece, because I'm looking here and this will transition us into the nines, but once you get past Brooks, I'm going to give you the ownership of that. I have on Tuesday afternoon of everyone between Ludwig and the high eights of like Fleetwood and Nadeki Ludwig 11.5 more call with 10 can't lay five camp Smith 7.5 Homa 10.

Bryson, 16, Wyndham, 14, 5, Neiman, 9.5, JT, 8, Hovland, 6.5, Zalatoris, 5, Cam Young, 10, and then Fitz, 7, Spieth, 3, down to Fleetwood at 14. So...

If you're starting with Scottie, which 25% of lineups will do, or if you're starting with Rory, which another close to 25% of lineups will do, who's the consensus second man in? Is it Bryson? Probably. I have him as the highest owned in the nines. Yeah, I think so. At 16%.

Sure. It's narrative. It's a course fit, you know, it's sort of everybody around him. I mean, I personally probably like Wyndham Clark a little bit better, but yeah, I bet Bryson, I'm not playing him in DFS.

Yeah, I just, I mean, but Bryson will be popular, particularly among the people who would play Brooks or Rahm, right? If you are comfortable with live guys, you're kind of comfortable with live guys. I think it's been long enough that people should be out of that and be able to take these guys on their own merit. But, you know, a lot of folks, you know, if you're going to play Brooks, then you're probably going to play Bryson as well, right? Yeah.

But there's nothing obvious down there. Like, everybody's got their problems. Al Torres played awful last week. Cam Young's a middle midget. I mean, I like Cam Young on this golf course, but Victor Hovland seems a little bit broken, although this is a good place for him. It minimizes his weaknesses. Justin Thomas, we've been down that road. I don't need to rehash my thoughts there. You know, Holmup kind of gutless in the majors, but is he? Not the best course fit. You know, it's just there's a lot of –

There's a lot of question marks and Bryson comes with kind of question marks too, in my opinion. But I think people have sort of taught themselves into the idea that he doesn't come with question marks. I think Bryson has become a very consensus bridge the gap play for a lot of people in a bridge the gap pick. I think even a lot of...

And I get it. I picked Bryson at this PGA in December. And part of the reason why I'm not going to be able to do that is because I'm not going to be able to do that.

not playing Bryson and DFS is not because I don't, not because I'm concerned about the 16% ownership, everything's spread out enough this week that that's fine. It's more so that I'm only going to play five guys over 9k and I'm already betting Bryson. So I just want to find a little more exposure to other guys and in my pool above 9k. Cause you,

Can't play him all. I mean, I'm full fade on Cam Smith. I'm full fade on Ludwig. I'm full fade on Morikawa. I'm full fade on Cantlay. I'm full fade on Homa. I'm full fade on Wyndham Clark. I'm full fade on JT. I'm full fade on Zalatoris. I'm full fade on Cam Young. Cantlay, you're a full fade on. I think I heard different things from you on that. I know. I know. I know. What are we doing here? Yeah. I heard some troubling things today from the golf course on him. I also...

I think the can't lay Hovland decision was one that I've been toiling over a lot this week because my picks in December for this tournament where can't lay Hovland and Bryson. Like I thought that Valhalla is the perfect can't lay Hovland Bryson golf course and can't lay and Hovland have ballooned and

in terms of their numbers in the betting market. And I kind of, for peace of mind, was like, I don't care that both of these guys are playing poorly at the moment. Like if I have said for months on end, this is a Cantlay or Hovland golf course, I need to find my way into exposure for one of them. I just picked Hovland. I just trust Hovland's ball. I bet Hovland at 43 to one and I'm playing Hovland at 6.5%.

I just trust Hovland's ball striking a little bit more right now. Hovland led the field and approach play on Sunday at Quail Hollow. And I keep going back to the fact that, you know, if you had told me I was gearing up to bet Hovland at 15,

20 to one at this major. Like that's how strong of a golf course fit. I think this is for Victor Hovland, the Zoysia grass, the thick rough around the greens. I mean, all of his best chipping performances are at golf courses like Mirafield village, Olympia fields. Oh, kill. These are all golf courses where there's a tremendous amount of thick rough around the green and Hovland just knows how to execute that pop out shot. It doesn't take a lot of skill to,

And I just think at 6.5%, 45 to one, like that's, that's the guy I'm going to roll. Not that you can't play both. I kind of the way that I build my pool of playing very aggressively in terms of the leverage that I like to create on my guys and kind of fading everybody else. Hovland at 9.2, I think is better play than can't lay a 10 personally. I do. Yeah.

okay you prefer you prefer can't lie huh to hop into that debate not not really they're both uncomfortable collects like do not get me wrong well

Here's the deal. When we hear bad things and we hear rumblings about Cantlay, they tend to be true. Some of these guys who you hear bad, he's not the Hideki with his injury stuff or, you know, more cowed, the Scottish. Like when you hear that Cantlay isn't quite right, he's not quite right. And you trust it, at least in my view. I mean, obviously he's attractive from a course fit perspective. He's attractive from an ownership perspective. But, you know, some things with Cantlay,

I think he's a middle. There's some, I don't love can't lay sort of middle approach to the game of golf in general. And when he gets a little bit off kilter in his, honestly, if can't lay one, his entire career without competing, really competing in a major, would that surprise anybody? I mean, he doesn't, he does not show up for these events. He just doesn't. So there's a baseline there where I don't, I have no good reason why I should think can't lay should play well in a major. And if he's not his best self,

you know, then what are we doing? So I probably won't have any of them, any of either of those guys. You know, I'd rather take shots. I think Cam Smith is awful. You know, it isn't. So I've, I've turned you, I've turned you on. Can't lay a little bit. Cause,

it. Cause I feel like you were, you were in, you were kind of in on him. He's kind of a Kobe play at this. He's a, he's a Andy lack play too. I just, there's so many of those guys that like, there's not a lot of these weeks, Kobe, there's like two or three guys that are comically low owned for what they should be this week in the nine K range. There's eight of them. Well, I'd rather play Matt Fitzpatrick and more account. Like, I mean, I'd rather,

I'd rather play those two guys. I mean, I'd rather play JT. There's, you know, about JT, but I just think there's more upside with, um, guys that, you know, I mean, Fitzpatrick's played great on golf courses that look like this. He's been great in the tutorial. You know, I mean, I don't, I don't have to, um,

you know i don't have to to find myself with cantley i'm not in love with cantley as a person which makes it very easy for me to kind of go you know what i'll leave that six percent to somebody else right you don't have to just choose low ownership just for the sake of low ownership particularly when you know what if i'm gonna grab you know justin thomas at eight or nine percent okay whatever you know a little bit i'll give it up a little bit of leverage but i'm gaining a lot more upside

So the fun thing about this week is like you go from cam Smith at 9.8 down to speed at 8.8 in that $1,000 range between 9.8 and 8.8 cam Smith, Homa, Neiman, JT, Hovland, Zell, Taurus, cam young fits and speed. That is four, five, six, seven, eight.

eight, nine guys. There's nine guys there that are going to be sub 12.

Well, I think the best thing to think about when you make that observation, though, is what does that do to the rest of the board? Yeah. That's the important thing. I mean, we can sit around and debate, like, which one of these low-owned idiots do we think is going to pop, right? Fun debate. But that's just a guessing game. But what's not a guessing game is that they're all going to be low-owned. So what does that mean for the rest of the board? What does that mean for where everybody else is going? I think it means two things. I think it means that ownership will coalesce around Bryson and Wyndham-Clark.

Cause it has to, or, or, or nobody's going to play the nines and they're going to dip down into the eights, but there's not a lot of super popular guys in the eights. Right. That's the thing. It's like, if you're in your Scheffler lineups, if you're not having Bryson as your second man in is your second man in Leetwood.

Shane Lowry? What are we doing? Is it Shane Lowry? Yeah. So, I mean, of those nine guys, I'm rolling with Neiman and Hovland. Who are your two favorites? Out of the nine Ks? Yeah, out of this low-owned range between Fleetwood and Cantlay. Is it Fetz for you? Can you give me JT? Is he low-owned? Is that a top-down? I have JT at 8%.

Yeah. Okay. Well, that's right around where I see it. I like JT. I don't mind. The only problem with Zalatorris is he looked so bad last week. I love him on this golf course. I love him to elevate these events. But I think PGA, the PGA rewards form. But I think JT and probably Fitzpatrick are the two that I would look at out of that group. Yeah. Those are the two I'll own. It's just a collection of tough clicks, which, hey. Which we love. Yeah.

Yeah, which we love. It's just all. Is speed the toughest click on the board? Is speed like the most uncomfortable click on the board? Because you know that a guy is broken, broken, broken if you're not even considering him. Yeah.

The issue with speed, I'm so confused because he's driving it great. He is driving it great, but he can't hit an iron right now. You know, I'd hit an iron to save his life. I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense. I know those two things aren't always necessarily correlated, but for guys like him, they usually are.

When he's hitting it good, he's hitting it good. But, I mean, look, we're talking about Jordan Spieth who last year misses the cut at Wells Fargo, kind of plays like shit at the PGA, misses the cut at Colonial where he normally plays great, and then spikes and finishes fifth at the Memorial. Gained strokes on approach, gained strokes. I mean, finishes fifth at the Memorial losing strokes putting.

Right. We see a guy who misses the cut of the US Open, misses the cut of the Scottish, and then all of a sudden find himself sixth at the St. Jude a couple of weeks later. He has been able to flash for him out of nowhere, which makes him interesting. It makes him an interesting person. And we are. I mean, the Valero were, you know, a month ago, he gained nine strokes between off the tee and approach. So, you know, what does that mean? That's interesting.

He is a very uncomfortable click. I don't think he's too uncomfortable for me. I think I'll click him. He'll be in the player pool. But, you know, he's going to be in the player pool for two reasons. One, he's pretty cheap. I mean, he's the...

We're talking about the 20th, 15th, 15th highest price guy. He doesn't have to do a ton. I think he can score. We get a deeper cut in this event. It's top 70 in ties. So I could see Spieth as a DraftKings kind of play at an interesting price point. It's super low ownership. He's the kind of guy who I don't expect him to win this major, but who could put together a few days of big

big time birdie scoring streaks, things of that nature. That page 2019, the T3, you're kind of hoping for that. Yeah. Yeah, of course. And I wouldn't bank on it, but you know, honestly, I think if you play him in the four, four, four, four, you might own him at 0.8%. Yeah. You might be the only one.

Which you've done many times in 4-4-4s where you're literally the only player in the entire field that has the guy. Not a fun. My path to a million dollars is unlikely but clear. That's something in your pocket. Because, I mean, look, Michael Block finished 12th in the fucking PGA Championship last year. I mean, let's remember that this is golf. It is golf.

That's a totally sort of weird, random thing, but it's a good reminder that it's golf and shit happens. And guys with talent, the only problem I have with Spieth is that he might be hurt. The wrist thing really concerns me because if I get a guy who's healthy, who's just kind of bouncing around with his form, I don't mind taking shots because these things show up in these pros. But if you're hurt, that's different. That's a different thing.

Well, I mean, the other piece of this too is like, I just want to remind people speaking to the it's golf piece. You got to be willing to make some uncomfortable clicks.

I understand the like, it's a major, you have to be in great form to win a major. I strongly agree with that. There's a massive correlation in terms of the guys that win major championships have form coming in, particularly the PGA. But let's just take us back to the Masters. The people that won all of the money at the Masters-

not the Scotty Zander lineups or the Scotty, whoever the next most chalky guy was. They were the Scotty Homa lineups. They were the Scotty Bryson lineups. They were the Scotty Morikawa lineups and Morikawa Bryson and Homa all had significant questions heading into the master. I didn't play them. I was scared off by, by Homa Bryson and Morikawa Homa balloon to like unbelievable

almost a hundred to one at the masters. So there's going to be a guy in this range. That's going to be the key. I'm not necessarily saying it's speed. Like I think Hovland is way more likely to be that guy than speed, but there's going to be a guy in this range that has significant questions coming in. That's an uncomfortable click, but is objectively a good player. Like that is, that is the thing that you have to keep in mind at these majors is like,

Guys that are in really bad form, but are long-term really good players like Homa, Morikawa, Hovland, Zalatoris, JT, for example, those are the guys that you want to take your chances on because they are good players. And when you're really a weak player, something can click on the range just like that. And it doesn't matter. Have you been playing coming in? I love the lower rates personally. Like,

My guys, the guys that I'm playing in the eights are Lowry, Hatton, Saheth, and maybe DJ. I'll be with you on Lowry. I love, I love, I love Lowry this week. I love Lowry this week. I joked earlier that Rory carried him at Zurich and he did, but you know, if he,

Lowry, obviously, he had to contribute some or they would not have won that golf tournament. He's been playing good. He's sneaky shown up at these big events. Just he just does. He scores pretty well. He's been putting like total shit. But, you know, I like that. It gives us upside. If you can find a little bit of putting. I don't I like having here, too.

I don't play Sahith a lot, and often I wish I did. I think he's kind of a sneaky good fit here. I like him on this golf course a lot. Yeah. Remember, like, super chalky at the Masters, doesn't have that type of buzz coming in. Agreed. He's just kind of there. DJ's interesting. Question marks everywhere, but I think the course fit is good, and I think this golf course is –

I think Oak Hill was the kind of challenge that could kind of eject you. And we saw that on Friday. Like DJ obviously played great early and then finds himself, you know, nowhere to be found. Well, he straight up quit on Friday at the masters too. Like that was, that was really bad. Like real bad. Those golf courses were in tough conditions and have the ability to straight up eject you though. A lot of guys quit on that.

on that right before the cut there on Friday at the Masters. JT Hovland. Yeah, that was a mental examination, which I don't think. You know, Valhalla, I think is a kinder Schindler test. It really, I mean, there's some things about it that are exacting, but I don't expect it to be the sort of, you know, thing that we saw at Oak Hill last year, where some of those guys were just getting mentally beat up and,

uh that's what this golf course is gonna not present it right is that that stern sort of mental beat down over and over and over every hole every hole so this may be a better spot for dj i do like him um quite a bit uh i think he'll be in some of my lineups you know how much he cares is always the handy the the sauce and the handicapping there we can't

We can't really read his mind. If there is one, I'm not even sure there's a line to read there with DJ. DJ, Reed, Finau, Burns are all going to be sub. Hideki are all going to be sub eight. And I think one of those, one of those guys is going to pop. And I think,

I think DJ is my favorite of that group. I don't know what to do with female, man. I really don't. Like I thought he, I thought he was a great play at Wells Fargo last week. Got that one completely wrong. I thought he was a phenomenal play at the masters. Got that one completely wrong. He was the, the key piece and winning all of the money for me at Houston. So I, my radar on him isn't 0%. Like he's had a lot of success for me in the past, but I,

Man, that whiff on Finau for me last week and the Masters actually just really left a strange taste in my mouth where I don't quite know what to do anymore. Yeah. I can't get a feel for Finau. It's hard, man. It's hard with him. He's a hard, it's a tough meat tail. I feel the same way. I feel like there's just a lot of scenarios where he disappoints. I can see a lot of ways toward disappointment. I don't know that he's

I don't know that he putts well enough in a place like this where I think you're going to need to make some putts. I hate to be handicapping putting, but God, when I watch him, it's fucking ridiculous. His putting ceiling, most of the time we're talking about putting, we're talking about guys who, yeah, sure, their putting baseline's not great, but they can pop. He doesn't pop. There's no popping. Like looking back, okay, he won Mexico last year. He gained five strokes putting. All right, other than that, I mean –

You're looking at, okay, he putted great. He gained an eighth of a stroke. Houston Open finishes second, doesn't putt at all. Well, but he doesn't putt. At this point, you have to kind of look at it like Denny McCarthy. You play somebody in head-to-head, they have Denny McCarthy. You're like, fuck, I got luck boxed out of this. Denny McCarthy made a bunch of 10-footers.

Well, no, that's Denny McCarthy. It's what he does. I know putting, we like to think of it as just like a total variable, but it's not a total variable. Tony Finau misses putts because he's got his fucking toe of his putter pointed to the sky. He's putting with the...

literally, he's like shanking putts by design. And I've tweeted about this. And it's like, but it's one thing to do something totally different than what everyone else does and take that stand. Like you're going to, you're going to have a toe hang. You're going to stand your putter up almost perpendicular to the ball. Okay. But you suck at it. Like it's, you, you can't, you can't do something so different when you're terrible at it. You may want to try to do the conventional thing. And somebody said, well, he said it feels better in his hands. I

I don't give a shit. Grow up Peter Pan. Like what are you doing here? You don't make butts. Like he needs somebody to be honest with him and look at him and say, um, Hey bud, like you're, this isn't it. But anyway, and so there's no variance when this guy's missing pots. It is, there's a reason for it. And I think that's going to hold him back this week. 7k range, you know, again, like pretty spread out. The, the chalk in this range is Benny on, uh,

And I have Benny at 13 to 14%. So like, even if you're a big Benny on guy, I think you could feel like pretty comfortable eating that. Talk me through your faves favorites in the second and the seven K range. Do I have any?

I've got a couple. I got some bangers down here. I'm not going to listen to you talk about Dean Vermister so you can take that to a different podcast. Are you on Lost Your Mind? Are we doing Dean Vermister things? There's a lot of Doral in Valhalla. You know what? Long irons. Yeah.

You bet your losers. I'll bet mine. I'm just kidding. You're a play team. If you want, I don't, I might be on Taylor Gooch. Honestly, I think it's interesting. Um,

You know, I can be a Gucci or whatever. Does he have fans? I'll be a Gucci in that ownership percentage. I think Sung Jae is interesting, even though I question whether he's got the dog in him, as they say. Brian Harmon is interesting at no ownership whatsoever. Yeah. Yeah.

at a loss for the fact that the Brian Harmon supernova that was with us is no more, but we are talking about a guy finished second at the players and 12th at API. And, you know, I mean, he's finished 12th at the heritage, which is a great event for him, but yeah,

This isn't the golf course that I would design for Brian Harmon, but there's no such thing as a golf course I would design for Brian Harmon. Zach Blair designs golf courses for Brian Harmon for small hobbit men. The market played well at the Travelers, which has a similar kind of agronomy. Right. You know, kind of a soft place.

there's something to Brian Harmon's upside at really, really low ownership. Like his record at the, you know, in majors is pretty good. He's, he's played okay at Memorial over the course of his career. Like he's, the Travelers record is just interesting to me. I don't think this is any kind of comp course for the Travelers, but I do think it's a similar agronomy and it's, you know,

You know, and he's the kind of guy I think if the conditions do get kind of tough on Friday, which it looks like they might, he can grind it out, you know. So to me, I think I have some interest in Brian Harmon, which, you know, I don't often have interest in Brian Harmon. So this is I think this is growth for me, personal growth.

My favorite plays in this range are Corey Connors and Adam Scott. Yeah. I love this golf course for Adam Scott. 7.3. I have him at 7%. Alex Noren and Akshay eating a little bit into that potential Adam Scott ownership as well as Jaeger. Give me all the Adam Scott, Dean Burmester, J.

Brett Keegan Bradley. And, and I'll have some Jaeger too. Like, I think this is a phenomenal track for Jaeger in terms of his skillset. He just plays well at long iron tests. Yeah. I owned a ton of Adam Scott at Bell Reeve. Actually, it was kind of my first near long,

I was, uh, we looked up on Sunday and we were in second. I had, um, Adam Scott, John Rom. Yeah. I was just watching that final broadcast. They kept going to like Adam Scott's friend died right before Bell or even they, they were playing the hits with that one. They kept jamming that one. Well, he was, you know, it was fabulous. And this was when Adam Scott had kind of fallen out of favor. And of course, he was trying to run down Capco, which good luck with that. But, uh,

uh obviously i think the course fits pretty good there he played pretty well at memorial and all the places we're looking at adam scott's sneaky good at these spots i think he's obviously major pedigree he's adam scott has weird upside

They show him on the broadcast he's making another 12-footer after he's missed the three-footer. He's a strange player, but at these price points, which is pretty doggone low down on the price board here, $7,300. You can do a lot of good with Adam Scott, so I don't mind where you're at on that. But you're going to have to talk me into Burmester. I don't know about that one.

No, I don't feel like strongly enough to like give you a massive sell on Burmester. I just like I've there's a high possibility that I'm overvaluing some live strokes gain stuff that I've been pretty in the weeds with over the past year.

week. And cause I have, I'm taking a pretty heavy live approach this week in general. I hate to just take us down to the six. No, take us down there. Cause we, we need to get there. No, I don't think so for me. I think I don't love the ownership that I'm seeing on him, but because I have so much weird Hovland Lowry, Adam Scott lineups, like I,

The higher owned guy in the sixes that I'm going to eat is Keith Mitchell. I, I, I love Keith Mitchell on this golf course. I know. I understand. Like I, I get it. It's just, he has the prototypical skillset for this golf course. Like in the six K range, he is hands down the best driver of the ball and the best long iron player. Well, the ball striking has been so, so good. It's just Keith Mitchell's kind of your classic, like,

Why, what does Keith Mitchell ever shown me to think he can? Yeah, this, this could end horribly. I understand that for sure. Well, he's got, if we look through his sort of major form, he's got a top 20 at last year's U S open. Obviously he's played well at places like Genesis. He's not API really good at Bay Hill, thick rough, really good at quail hollow. It's the major LACC last year.

But this is the PGA, right? And that's a place where guys kind of cut their teeth in majors and finally show some form when maybe they hadn't before. And I'll say this. You'd be shocked if you go through Keith Mitchell's kind of major records. He hasn't played in a lot of majors. No. I mean, I think it's – you know, he's played in three open championships. He's never made a cut. That makes sense. He's very American. Would not trust him, you know, to know how to order food.

going over to the UK or anything like that. He's made one cut at a US Open, which was his most recent. He's made both cuts at the Masters. But what? He's played in a total of, what, about 10 majors? This would be the major that you would think he'd have a chance in. So I don't hate it. But that ownership just feels kind of raunchy to me. I have...

in the six K range, I have Mitchell Hendrith and Denny all hovering around 10%. Like I have Denny at 11.5 right now. I got to say, I get the Pender thing a lot more than I get the Denny thing. I think that Pender has like the prototypical skillset for a golf course, like the hall. I don't know if I'm going to end up getting there, but Pender,

Pender's been unbelievable at the Barbasol in Kentucky. He's been great on back grass at golf courses like the rocket mortgage. He's been unbelievable on, you know, if your mindset is this turns into just an easy putting and long iron golf course, that's one at 14, 15 under par. I don't think you're going to find a better option than Taylor Pender at six K right. Like

Barbasol, Rocket Mortgage, TPC Craig Ranch is long irons. Torrey Pines is all long irons. This is a very southeastern Torrey Pines in terms of the skill set. I don't really get the Denny thing at all. And I'm a big Muirfield Village guy this week too. Maybe a little bit less over the past 24 hours. I've softened on that a little bit, but I don't really understand for the life of me why Denny's

12% 11% is that a well if you're gonna if you're really that big on mere fill village you're gonna play Denny at 12% why not just play Billy Horschel at 2% yeah really good point really good point one there and he just won two starts ago and or kid or the guy who won Bay Hill at Kitty Yama at 6.5 why not the guy who won Bay Hill and the guy who finished top five at Oak Hill and drives the ball 40 yards longer than Denny like why not just like Kitty Yama

And now that I've talked myself into Billy Horschel somehow, I mean, this is a guy who's got four top 12s in his last seven starts, including a win. Billy was awful at Wells Fargo, but, you know, Billy Horschel can kind of be awful. Just the bigger point is why eat?

Why eat chalk with someone like Denny McCarthy for reasons that would lead you to be on guys who have lower ownership? You talk about guy with API. Well, shoot. Billy Horschel wins the Memorial in 2022, finished second in the API that year, right? Like in 11th at the Farmers. These are...

Kind of places that you would look for guys who could play well in this event. So I, you know, I don't know that I'll end up on Billy Horschel. I'm not saying that, but I certainly would be on Billy Horschel at one and a half percent before I'd be on Diddy at 12%. Right. The only two guys in the fives, there's three guys in the fives. We'll touch on them briefly and then wrap up with Rory and our picks to win.

I think Ekro it's a pretty bad price at 5.7 for, for the guy that he is. I was just surprised to see Ekro like a thousand dollars cheaper than Aaron Rye and Cameron Davis and like all these guys that he's been just as good as if not better than this year. Um,

This might be a really good Matt Wallace spot, like third at Bethpage, 19th at Belle Reve, coming off a fourth at the Byron Nelson, and a 20th at Myrtle Beach at 5.7. You want a guy that top five at Muirfield Village. You want a guy that's randomly popped on longer, difficult golf courses where thick rough. I present you Matt Wallace, T4 at Memorial, T3 at Bethpage, 5.7. I think that's a really sharp play.

And then also terrifies me. Maybe I'm going too much into the 2019 Beth page leaderboard, but Luke list at 5.5, like done a lot of good work on this part of the country winner at Sanderson farms. Like that is just a driver, heavy, long iron test. Lest Acro Wallace are the only three guys in the fives I'm I'm have consideration for.

I have two of those start. Not Ekro, but I've not been a big Ekro guy. I don't know that this is

part of the world where I want to play him. But I mean, you know, down here, you can do worse, right? But I do. I'm with you. I've had Matt Law start since the start of the week, Luke List, for all the reasons that you said. I am also interested, and I don't want to give away all my secrets here, but Victor Perez, I'm telling you, the ball striking stuff has been pretty provocative going back

We've got, well, we've got seven measured events, and he's gained both off the tee and on approach in all seven of those. And then one that's not measured was Puerto Rico, where he finished third. So we can assume, I think, that he gained on both there. And then he didn't play great at Punta Cana, but he did make the cut. So, you know, who knows? I don't have the strokes gained stuff on that. But, you know, 12th last year at the PGA in O'Kill, where he gained five on approach. I mean, I know he putted his face off.

But he does that sometimes. Just a guy who kind of sneaky has popped in some of these events. Finished 22nd at Harding Park. He hasn't played in a ton of majors. He just doesn't get there much. But he's finished top 10 at a players before. I mean, we're talking about –

The guy who, you know, is showing some form, just played pretty well at Houston, which is a long, tough golf course. So I don't hate Victor Perez, but I think he's going to come in kind of under the radar. He'd be my pivot over playing Eckro. But, you know, just some options down there for people.

You got any hot stakes? No, I have no hot stone takes. I didn't realize she was in the field. Did he make the cut at the masters for us? No, he was, he, he spent the bit. He did just finish 13th with the Byron Nelson though. Sweet, sweet, awful, awful at the masters, but you know, hot stone's going to come here.

He's going to win a tournament. Eventually we're going to have a great time with it. I don't think this is the spot for a high stone. All right. So now I'm sorry. I got one more $5,500. Like, are we, are we sure he's a $5,500 guy? We were talking about playing with the bastards. I don't know. I feel like that's not enough. That seems a little low to me. Yeah. Jordan Smith actually to McKenzie Hughes at 5.8. It's actually, it's crazy. It turns out we do like the five Ks. Just kidding. Yeah. So, so,

Pick to win guy that is going to miss the cut above, like, let's say 9.5. Cause there's so many guys in here. I'll go first. Uh, pick to win. I'll stick with Bryson is my pick in December. He's a little, you know, catching a little bit of steam. A lot of, a lot of folks are on him now. I, I, I'm not going to deviate. I still feel pretty strong about Bryson's chances on this golf course. I, I think that, uh,

We're due for a really good Bryson putting performance. I think the thing that people forget about Bryson is that when Bryson's on his a game, he's not just the best driver of the ball in the world. He's the best putter of the ball in the world. And I think if this tournament ends up being one at 15, 16 under, like you could get something similar to caves Valley when Bryson.

lost to can't lay in that playoff. And both of them gained like 10 strokes putting. I think that if this golf tournament is closer to winged foot, that could produce a Bryson winner. And if this golf tournament is closer to caves Valley that could produce a Bryson winner. So I'm going to stick with Bryson as, as my pick to win. I'm going to go with guy who misses the cut.

You know, they're going to be studying Cam Smith's performance at the Masters in labs for the next like 20 years. Like he lost strokes, ball striking and finished top six at the Masters.

But he's going to have to beat me that way again. I think he's going to be pretty behind the eight ball on this golf course. And then we'll do pick to win, guy over 9.5 that misses the cut, and then guy below 7.5 that finishes top 10. I'm going to go Adam Scott top 10, Bryson pick to win, Cam Smith misses the cut. Okay. Well...

The guy below $7,500 who will finish in the top 10? Correct. Is that what I'm being asked to do at this moment? Mm-hmm. Okay.

Well, that's a bit of a challenge because I hate all of these clowns below $7,500. I'm just kidding. No, they're not all clowns. Guy to finish in the top 10 down here. I like Matthew Pavone that we didn't really talk about. But I like Matthew Pavone. Finished 12th at the Masters. Kind of has this weird pedigree about him. Yeah, Torrey Pines. Torrey Pines. So give me Pavone.

If I have to take one of these idiots, I was going to tell you Billy, a guy to miss the cut. Max Homa. Yeah. I almost went there. Good pack. I'm not high on him either this week.

Thank you. And I'm not going to get too cute here at the top. And I'm going to tell you who's going to win this tournament. Well, let's do the Rory thing now. That is the Rory thing. Yeah. Because here I am looking at it and going, oh, well, maybe I shouldn't say Rory because people are going to be mean to me. But I don't care if people are mean to me.

A lot of times when I pick Rory, I shouldn't. And he's not the guy who's going to win the tournament, but I say it anyway because I want it to happen. But Rory is going to win this golf tournament. The markets are telling you that. He's collapsed because people like me are putting all of our money on him. And I have a lot more money that's going to flow on him tomorrow when I head to the –

Don't tell the people at Circa that. If Rory wins this week, you're going to be up well over 100K, I'd imagine, based on all the positions you're adding. I've had some positions. I posted a few on Twitter. I've kind of been consolidating some positions over time. I do think I'm probably going to make a big bet on him at 8-1 or whatever it's going to be, which will bring down my average number I have on him to probably 10 or 11-1. I've been doing some stuff where I've correlated him with some money line stuff and all that.

But, you know, I'll probably be looking at a quarter million dollar win if Rory can take home the title, plus whatever DraftKings thinks happen. But there's a reason for this. I think we're getting...

We're getting Rory in some of the, maybe the best form of his career, which is such a weird thing to say at his age. Yeah. It's up there. It's up there. I mean, he's what he did at quail on Sunday on the back nine was vintage. Yeah. We haven't seen that in a while. It's just stuff. The driver, you know, I heard Sally talking about it. No laying up just how his ball speeds now touching one 88, one 89 pretty regularly. He's taken it to like even another level.

He's taking on bunkers at Quail Hollow that other people weren't even thinking about. And I think on this golf course where it doesn't require him to think, I mean, the divorce that we really wanted to see with Rory was with Harry Diamond, but he's not required to think his way around this place. It's point and click. It's easy. Not easy golf, but easy decision-making. And I think that place in his hands, this might be the best major venue that we've seen for him. He's going to be there alone. Maybe with...

Family, maybe. Who knows? Some friends. I think it's a reinvigorated Rory. He's got to be feeling bold. He's filing for divorces. He's winning tournaments by seven. I think we're going to see a man of the hour. He's going to be there. Whether he can close the deal, I just can't think of a better golf course and setup. It's going to be a little bit soft. I mean, it all sets up for him. Whether he can close the door, the question that we ask every time, but I think he'll be there in the end.

I commend you, man, because I got to say after the masters, I kind of got to a point where I just couldn't, I can't expect it anymore. And that doesn't mean that I don't believe in it, but you know, this is,

LACC and St. Andrews, I think were like the worst sports afternoons of my entire existence. Not just from a financial perspective. I mean, like who cares about the money? Like guys like you and I don't need financial rooting interest in Rory to be happy for him if he wins. But watching him play a practice round at Augusta, and I know you saw a lot of that too. It was even bolstered more for me watching him alone on Sunday play when everyone was at the par three.

Watching how good that he looked, like watching how he was showing Ludwig what to do and how he looked like he was playing a different sport out there in a practice round compared to some of the other guys I watched at Augusta. And then seeing this like metaphysical force take over him and him getting body snatched with like Tom Kim the second it was time to tee off on Thursday morning. Yeah.

I got some scar tissue there, man. Like it was, it was pretty, it was pretty scarring for me, for me to watch that happen. You know, you looked all wrong. And I think there is a, obviously anybody would have to admit Augusta has, there's something you can just tell the minute he hit one bad shot, the anxiety just kicked off. Yeah. Got weird. It got to where he like,

he would miss a wedge and it's like dropping the club over and over and over. Like he, like he could tell the sense of inevitability. I've just blown the masters again that hit him on like the second hole. It felt, it felt super mental. Right. And like maybe spin zone, maybe masters was when he was really going through the drudges of what's going on with this divorce. And now pen to paper, I'm a, I'm a free man. Yeah.

Could be. I think there's just something about the Augusta anxiety where he knows this is the one I've got to get and I've only got so many chances. Agreed. Like that's the more likely outcome is that something metaphysical comes over him at Augusta. And while it does at other majors, it's not the extent that it does at Augusta.

Right. If you don't play well at the – you know, it's like last year. You don't play great at Oak Hill. You just see it at LACC. You turn up and you'll have a chance to win that one. I think he's got less sort of anxiety about these other majors. And he's played well at them. I mean, I want you to know the run of majors has been okay. I mean, even at Oak Hill, he got himself back into the mix on Saturday last week after kind of an ugly start and a weird weather thing that went on. Obviously, he should have won at LACC if he does anything right

There's been two majors, obviously St. Andrews the same way, but he's in the mix. He's in the mix in these other majors. The people who say he will need to win somewhere else before he can win the Masters thing are 100% correct. Now, vote me on that next year in April if he doesn't have a major and see if I'm still betting Rory at the Masters, but I think this is...

As good of a setup for him as you can imagine with how well he's playing, with the golf course setup, with what looks like some freedom personally. And I won't be surprised if he doesn't win because it's golf.

But I think it's what we're seeing out of him golf wise, not the not the magic part, not the oh, my God, what if he gets on a run? What we're seeing out of the driver on a golf course where I think if you can absolutely blast it long and keep it within the corridors, you're going to have a massive edge, a place where you don't have to think about really where to leave it. You know, it's just a place where you're going to need to hit long iron. He's been doing that. You know, if he can get it, it'll come down to the putter.

i think this week which is a little bit scary he didn't putt i mean he put a good last week but it wasn't

It's not like he was making everything he looked at. So I think it'll come down to the putter this week and we'll see where he lands there. But yeah, I'm on Rory again. Yeah. Well, that's what I was going to say. Like, what's your pain tolerance on this guy, man? Like if, if he doesn't do it this week, are you, are you kind of done expecting it? And when I say expecting it, I mean, like I'm at the point with Rory where I'm

I believe that it's going to happen still. I'm just done picking it to happen. Well, part of why I've been building positions slowly and kind of hitting little parlays with NBA props, not little, big ones, is because I do want to be there with a big number in the end. I don't necessarily want to lay down $20,000 on him or whatever, because I'm kind of

I'm afraid to miss out on the sort of spectacle of, oh my God, the redemption. I hear you. It is a little freeing this week. Just being like, hey man, if it happens, like that's sick. I'm still going to have, he's my one and done pick. Like he'll be in 50% of my DFS lineups. But like, it's kind of freeing to just be like, yeah, like,

Sweet. Like, like do it, man. I, I, I don't expect it, but I'll, you know, I'll have exposure to you, but. I look, I don't, you know, I, I love Rory, of course, probably my favorite athlete. I want to be there when he does it. Um, I want to be financially involved when he does it.

but you know, I don't exactly expect him to win this golf tournament, but I do think in terms of just objectively speaking, the number of flex, you're not getting 12 to one Rory like you have at other majors market sees what I think a lot of people are seeing with,

And when I say that he won the Zurich for Shane Lowry, I mean that. Yeah, he did. There were a lot of times where Shane Lowry was missing the five-footer, and they still won. And in order to win a team tournament with your partner not playing very good golf, that means you had to play extraordinary golf, which he did. And now we've seen that two weeks in a row, lapping the field, beating him by a touchdown at a signature event. No Scottie, of course, but, I mean, beat most of the field by 15 times.

I mean, that's, that's really hard to do in today's PGA. So, you know, I think it's the best chance that he's had maybe, you know, maybe in 10 years. So hopefully it gets it done. Yeah. From a strokes game perspective, it was the eighth best performance of the last five years. He gained 20 strokes to the field.

So, okay. Kobe DeBose. I got to get this to my editor. We've, we've sent this a little bit late. Any closing thoughts? I'll see a Pinehurst man. It's kept their bunch together. Like Pinehurst is like three weeks away after this. It's wild. I'm excited. I was going to be there, but it looks like now we're going to go down to Kewa for the week of the U S open. So I'm going to play the ocean course a couple of times, hanging out with the fam. And obviously we will find a good, nice, relaxing time to, uh,

do a podcast. So I'm pumped. Sweet. Good to see you, Kobe DuBose. Talk soon, my friend. All right. That's it for the podcast. Special thanks to Kobe. Special thanks to Rumpier Sports. Special thanks to Betts, Burt's Golf and the Rabbit Hole. And we will be back on this podcast feed later this week, recapping the PGA Championship. Want to give a tremendous thanks once again for all the support on these major weeks like these. It means so much more than you know. Until then...

Best of luck with your bets this weekend, and we will see you next time. Cheers.

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