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Speaker 1: This is the Action Network Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's good.

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Speaker 3: Winna tak your down. You got real telling, don't concentrate

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Speaker 3: on golf.

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Speaker 2: Lots up everybody, and thanks once again for joining the

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Speaker 2: Action Network Podcast, the Golf Edition. I'm Jason solwolfrom Golf Bet,

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Speaker 2: along with as always, my friend Justin Ray, the head

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Speaker 2: of content from the Fifteenth Club, and we've got so

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Speaker 2: much to talk about. We're gonna break down this week's

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Speaker 2: Players Championship, which I know Justin feels this way and

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Speaker 2: I thought this for years. It is the hardest tournament

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Speaker 2: to break down on the annual schedule. So we're gonna

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Speaker 2: try our best to help you make some money this week,

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna make our DFS lineup. We're gonna go

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Speaker 2: through all the tiers of players that we like and

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Speaker 2: dislike this week. But first let's get we'll review back

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Speaker 2: to this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational and Jay Ray thanks

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Speaker 2: again as always for joining me on here. And what's

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Speaker 2: going on? How are you and would you think of

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Speaker 2: this weekend?

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Speaker 3: Well, one of us picked Bryson Shambo to win on

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Speaker 3: the gimme.

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Speaker 2: I won't let uh, I.

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Speaker 4: Won't tell the folks who it was, but one of

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Speaker 4: us had him as the winner. Honestly, that was a

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Speaker 4: little bit grudgingly though, because I like Fitzpatrick a lot,

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Speaker 4: just like you and Amanda Rose did.

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Speaker 3: But I pinned myself into it and ended up working out.

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Speaker 2: So come on, there's an asterisk next to this because

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Speaker 2: on the show you said, you know, I don't really know.

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Speaker 3: If I love him.

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Speaker 2: I just want to be a little different, so I'll

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Speaker 2: take him here, and you took him and it worked out.

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Speaker 3: So is there mere details? Jason?

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Speaker 2: The History Books.

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Speaker 4: Show, you go to the window, you get a ticket,

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Speaker 4: and you cash it in.

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Speaker 3: You don't need to give them your reasoning mind.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have to show my work like it's

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Speaker 4: sixth grade math Glass. No congratulations, Oh thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: So I really enjoyed the week Bryson is. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's very polarizing. Obviously, there's people who find it kind

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Speaker 4: of agitating, people who don't like his style play. I

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Speaker 4: think it's endlessly fascinating. I think anytime he's in contention.

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Speaker 4: He did a lot of things at API last week.

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Speaker 4: It really were reminiscent of what he did at Wingfoot,

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Speaker 4: where entering the tournament he might not be the first

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Speaker 4: name you have on your radar, But when you think

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Speaker 4: about the golf course, you're like, all right, the roff's

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Speaker 4: going to be long and penalizing. Bryson can you know,

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Speaker 4: hit his sand wedge out of the rough closer than

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Speaker 4: a lot of guys can hit seven and six irons

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Speaker 4: out of the fairway.

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Speaker 3: It kind of makes sense when you can reverse engineer it.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I just thought it was just the

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Speaker 4: way he went about attacking the course was fascinating.

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Speaker 3: He was absolutely nails on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Only one bogie, the fewest with anybody in the field,

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Speaker 4: made those two really long putts to really get him going.

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Speaker 4: As much as I would have wanted to see Lee

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Speaker 4: West would win, I think I wanted to see my

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Speaker 4: ticket cash a little bit a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, congratulations to you. That is good play, And yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe we should have seen it coming. Very much like

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Speaker 2: a US Open, where basically the theory is not everyone's

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Speaker 2: going to be in the fairway the entire day, and

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Speaker 2: so if you're going to hit in the rough, give

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Speaker 2: me the big, strong guy. He's able to muscle something

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Speaker 2: out of the rough. And we saw that on nine

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, where he almost us that Arnie like kick

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Speaker 2: short game was very good. His putting is way better

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Speaker 2: than he gets credit for. And the fact that he

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Speaker 2: works at it so much. And two things I will

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Speaker 2: I will mention about Bryson. And first of all, we're

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Speaker 2: recording this Monday evening earlier today on Hitting the Green,

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Speaker 2: the series XMPGA Tour Channel radio show that I co

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Speaker 2: host with Michael Collins. Michael was out at TVC sawgrass Worth.

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Speaker 2: Three minutes into the show, Bryson goes walking past on

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Speaker 3: All I hear Michael say, as we're on air, is yo,

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Speaker 2: Man? Come on over here here, grab a headset. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: who is Like? It could have been a million different

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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, Bryson walks over and Bryson

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Speaker 2: is great. And I have never had a bad interaction

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Speaker 2: I don't like that guy. I'm not going to tell

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Speaker 2: you that as someone who's dealt with him on many occasions.

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Speaker 2: I've always felt that he is open, he's honest, he's loquacious,

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Speaker 2: He's very good in front of a camera and microphone,

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Speaker 2: and he was once again today when we had him.

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Speaker 2: And two other things that I really like about Bryson.

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Speaker 2: The first is the physical part is something we talk

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Speaker 2: about in regard to Bryson a lot. What doesn't get

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Speaker 2: mentioned is the mental energy that he puts into every shot,

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Speaker 2: every round, every event. There is stuff swirling around Bryson

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Speaker 2: him to play that way, not only play that way,

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Speaker 2: testament to his mental fortitude. And I would say the

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Speaker 2: same exact thing about Jordan Speith, who's got a lot

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Speaker 2: piece that Bryson helped me with last year for the

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Speaker 2: Action Network, and our motto is sort of bet on yourself.

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Speaker 2: At some point, all of us, in our careers and

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Speaker 2: our personal lives, we bet on ourselves and take a

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Speaker 2: little risk, a little gamble, and I thought that no

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Speaker 2: one personified that more ENGLF than Bryce and the fact

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Speaker 2: that he was a top ten player in the world

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Speaker 2: and decided, you know, if I'm going to improve, I

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Speaker 2: have to change my body. I have to change my swing,

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Speaker 2: change everything I'm doing. And it was a massive risk.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was a really really good, world class

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Speaker 2: lost his career. Maybe he never gets it back, there's

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Speaker 2: absolutely crushing that bet, just like you crushed your bet

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Speaker 2: on him this week.

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Speaker 4: Think about all the players over the years who have

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Speaker 4: changed their bodies. Countless ones tried to change their golf

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Speaker 4: And this guy did it and not only paid off,

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Speaker 4: US Amateur champion, NCAA champion, all that to a guy

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Speaker 4: who could be the next World number one and it

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Speaker 4: all completely paid off. I'm with you one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: of that betting on yourself.

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Speaker 3: Like you, if you're.

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Speaker 4: Somebody who's a proponent of rolling back the equipment, he's

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Speaker 4: like case study number one for why you don't find

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Speaker 4: the modern pro games entertaining or something. I'm not part

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Speaker 4: of that group per se in terms of who thinks

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Speaker 4: it's a problem. The way he attacks a course, you

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Speaker 4: have got to respect everything he's put himself through and

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Speaker 4: done to get to this point in his career. Look,

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Speaker 4: you may be tired of hearing about all his irons

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Speaker 4: being the same length, but look, he's still the only

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Speaker 4: dude out there doing that. From that to the bulking

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Speaker 4: up and the distance, to the advanced approach to analytics

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Speaker 4: at a very young part in his career, to I mean,

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Speaker 4: all the different things that he's taken on, I mean,

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Speaker 4: playing within the rules of the game, and you know,

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Speaker 4: doing it in a completely kind of unprecedented different way,

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Speaker 4: and it's just all kudos to him. And hey, I'm

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Speaker 4: like you, Like Bryson, I'm someone who's bet on himself too.

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Speaker 3: And taking a few risks along my career paths.

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Speaker 4: So I'm you know, I admire that immensely in him,

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Speaker 4: what he's accomplished so far in his career.

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Speaker 2: I always think it's a little strange that he doesn't

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Speaker 2: get more respect for it. I mean, Frank Sinatra saying

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Speaker 2: I did it my way, and people will go to

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Speaker 2: karaoke bar zone bellow it thinking like that's me. I

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Speaker 2: do it in my way. And people admire others who

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Speaker 2: go off the beaten path a little bit and think

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Speaker 2: outside the box and live their lives a little bit differently.

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Speaker 2: And Bryson does that in our game of golf, and

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Speaker 2: maybe it speaks volumes about golf itself and the people

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Speaker 2: of a different path and everyone goes, ooh, I don't

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Speaker 2: like that. That's not the same way everybody else does it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to work for him, you

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Speaker 2: know what it's working. And I guarantee that right now

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Speaker 2: Bryson has more influence over what the twelve year old

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Speaker 2: over the next ten years than anybody else out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 4: I mean I don't I was among the skeptical people

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Speaker 4: because of just all the evidence you have throughout just

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Speaker 4: and years of guys who have tried to find distance,

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Speaker 4: And it just I mean, the first one that comes

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Speaker 4: to my mind Martin Kimer trying to change his shot shape.

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Speaker 4: The competed Augustin National and he hasn't won since he

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Speaker 4: won at Pinehurst. I mean, just just one. I not

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Speaker 4: to pick on Martin Kimer. He's had a great career.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying the history is littered with examples of

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Speaker 3: Like that and it not paying off.

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Speaker 4: And I mean he's He's taken huge gambles in terms

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Speaker 4: And I mean, if I'm him, I don't care if

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Speaker 4: anybody doesn't like it, because guess what, I just got

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Speaker 4: another winner's check.

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Speaker 3: I'm holding the trophy on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Even absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to our five questions. I think this is

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Speaker 2: a good way to lead into some players Championship talk.

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Speaker 1: Five minutes, five questions you never asked.

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Speaker 3: I gotta be honest with you.

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Speaker 4: I get a little irritated when somebody called me away

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Speaker 4: from my golf.

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Speaker 2: This is five under I've got five questions for you.

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Speaker 2: It's my turn this week, and started off they're all

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Speaker 2: players Championship related, So I'll starry you with an easy one.

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Speaker 2: What is your personal favorite players championship moment?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I mean better than most.

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Speaker 6: The call one of the most famous in golf history,

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Speaker 6: sixty feet downhill triple breaker. I'm the most infamous green

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Speaker 3: That's better than most. How about him?

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Speaker 2: That is better than most, better than most.

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Speaker 3: Better than most.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know it's probably the easiest go to

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Speaker 4: answer there, But that putt and then you know what,

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Speaker 4: we don't see that putt one hundred times a year

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Speaker 4: watching golf if he doesn't win the.

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Speaker 3: Tournament the next day. And he did point I mean the.

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Speaker 4: Tiger Woods putt, and that call the Gary Coche called

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Speaker 4: it was so natural, I mean it was. That's my

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Speaker 4: favorite moment. I don't know if it can be top

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Speaker 4: being able to being fortunate enough to go cover.

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Speaker 3: It for years. Web Simpson after he won the Players

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Speaker 4: Kind of an unforgettable Sunday because he hit the gas

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Speaker 4: pedal and just blew people away. It wasn't real super competitive,

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Speaker 4: but he was so reflective on his journey, as with

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Speaker 3: To being an elite player again.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was that was a really cool you know,

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Speaker 4: it was just so just so often you get canned

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Speaker 4: me a pretty big Web Simpson fan at that moment.

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Speaker 3: I was kind of kind of.

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Speaker 4: Ambiguous towards him for years, and then you know, you

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Speaker 2: So but you know all time, Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: I would go. And this is obviously like no one

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Speaker 2: at the Players Championship, a lot of history at TVC's progress.

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Speaker 2: Back in twenty twelve, when Matt Kocher won. In his

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Speaker 2: press conference afterwards, it was like the second question, like

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Speaker 2: prefacing a question to Matt with hey, You've come close

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Speaker 2: But now you're a chance, and he goes, yeah, well

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Speaker 2: now I'm a winner, so go suck it soable and

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Speaker 2: everyone laughs, and I'm basically like, I'm not even sure

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Speaker 2: what question I'm supposed to ask you now, because it's

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Speaker 2: not going to be any better than what you just said.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations on your win.

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Speaker 4: That's an unexpected guy to get that retort from, too,

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Speaker 4: you know what it is.

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Speaker 2: But years later I got mentioned on a Charida episode

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Speaker 2: with Matt GUCHERI. He told that story and I got mentioned,

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Speaker 2: so you know it was worth it.

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Speaker 3: All good work. You made a little history.

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Speaker 2: Question number two, I guess there's two different questions. But

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Speaker 2: will or should the Players Championship ever become the fifth major?

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Speaker 2: And if so, does somebody and I don't even know

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Speaker 2: who does this, who makes this decree? But are those

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Speaker 3: Is Tim Clark a major champion? As Craig Perk key champion?

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Speaker 3: That kind of thing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ricky, So this is this is my immediate retort

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Speaker 4: anytime that I'm asked this question. The term major championships

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Speaker 4: didn't even exist in golf. For the first one hundred

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Speaker 4: years of professional golf. It wasn't a thing talked about,

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Speaker 4: you know, they didn't first of all, the Masters that

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Speaker 4: exists in nineteen thirty four.

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Speaker 3: The first Open Championship was in eighteen sixty.

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Speaker 4: Our modern framing of what the major champion championships are

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Speaker 4: the sixties is where it really became solidified.

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Speaker 2: As Drum the writer with Arnold Palmer, sure on the

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Speaker 4: The major championships, so that we, you know, look to

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Speaker 4: every year before that, in the era of like Walter Hagen,

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Speaker 4: believe pretty much every year. I mean there was. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's ridiculous, It's always been this way like now. Actually

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Speaker 4: for the entirety of Jack Nicholas's career, his the major

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Speaker 4: I mean he was. It was a big deal when

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Speaker 4: Jack beat Bob Jones record for major championships, and it

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Speaker 4: wasn't the four tournaments we're talking about. So the history

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Speaker 4: of it is completely all over the place.

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Speaker 3: Now we go back.

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Speaker 4: Retroactively and give guys who won, you know, give Jim

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Speaker 4: Barnes winning the PGA Championship in the nineteen tens. You know,

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Speaker 4: historically we call him a major champion, but in that

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Speaker 4: time it wasn't necessay, they didn't have a label called

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Speaker 3: It was you know.

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Speaker 4: So my opinion is just let it happen. If it happens,

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Speaker 4: it happens. I mean, we don't need to have a

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Speaker 4: you know, an executive board make the decision or whatever

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Speaker 4: it might be. I think you can win different championships

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Speaker 4: it has value and you know, these are different things

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Speaker 3: If that makes any sense.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what your thoughts are on it, but

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Speaker 4: I just know that historically, if you look at the

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Speaker 4: it's not just set and stone.

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Speaker 3: Hagen had eleven majors. He wouldn't even know what that was.

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Speaker 4: You know, if you if you woke about, you wouldn't

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Speaker 4: have any idea what are you talking about? I won

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Speaker 4: the Western of the North and South and all these

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Speaker 3: Like, I don't know. I'm interested with your take is

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Speaker 2: I would like to see a skit with like, you know,

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Speaker 2: waking up Walter Hagen, like asking him, like, you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: what about all those majors you want? He's like, what

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Speaker 2: the hell are you talking about?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 4: Have Hagen meet Bryson to Shambeau. Yeah, Hagan might be

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Speaker 4: able to eve as much steak as Bryson, but he

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Speaker 4: Gler had some stories.

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Speaker 2: Man. I would for sure Hagen back in the day

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Speaker 2: spend some time.

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Speaker 3: On Google if you want to and learn some things

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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am going to uh be much less voluminous

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Speaker 2: on this subject. Than you and just say no, it's

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Speaker 2: not a major.

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Speaker 3: All right, you got me wound up?

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Speaker 2: Apologies, Yes, no, I know I did, and I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the history lesson for a lot of people that don't know.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's not a major, it's it's the best

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Speaker 2: of the other ones. I don't like, we've been doing

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Speaker 2: this for twenty years now, like I just know. It's

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Speaker 2: not doesn't mean it's bad, doesn't doesn't mean there's anything

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Speaker 3: It's an awesome event, great event.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know why you need that tally like

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Speaker 3: Okay, the EVON Championship is a major.

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Speaker 4: Like okay, so I guess it means something like we

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Speaker 4: I think a tournament builds its own reputation over time

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Speaker 4: I think that's what the players is gradually building towards,

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Speaker 4: if that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Instead of just saying.

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Speaker 4: Like, okay, we have a corporate sponsor and this is

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Speaker 4: a major, like it just doesn't you know?

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Speaker 3: That doesn't really do it for me.

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Speaker 2: I agree, all right. Question number three seventeenth hole that

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Speaker 3: Both I think it's both. I think it is.

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Speaker 4: You look, you may say it's it's kind of like

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Speaker 4: But if a guy's leading by one going to that

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Speaker 4: little bit gimmicky, Yeah, but sometimes gimmicks are fun and

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Speaker 4: sometimes there's ways to it can add value. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: I think it's a funhole. I think it's really unique.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it still has maintained its unique qualities forout

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Speaker 4: jail answer is that it's both.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair. You can hedge. We appreciate hedges. Here,

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Speaker 2: I will say that professional golf is entertainment. Professional golf

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Speaker 2: for fifteen million dollars this week, and it's not just

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Speaker 2: because they're really good at golf. They could be really

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Speaker 2: because it is entertainment, we're in the entertainment industry. Look,

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Speaker 2: it's fun. It's fun as a fan when they get

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Speaker 2: on Sunday and says, let me flip over and see

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Speaker 2: what's going on the hockey game. You're like, cool, they're

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Speaker 2: I mean I get what you're saying, and yes it

439
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Speaker 2: can be gimmicky, but it's also great. It's I think

440
00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:57,400
Speaker 2: it's cool.

441
00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 3: Really cool environment.

442
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Speaker 4: If you ever get to go to the player, it's

443
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,720
Speaker 4: not just sitting there and watching the seventeenth hole, but

444
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 4: you see guys coming up sixteen as well.

445
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Speaker 3: Depending on where your angle is.

446
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 4: It's a great spot to camp out and just post

447
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,840
Speaker 4: up for several hours.

448
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:10,800
Speaker 3: You know, a couple of.

449
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,760
Speaker 4: Cold drinks with your buddies that on closest to the whole,

450
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Speaker 4: you know, on seventeenth grade.

451
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a great spot.

452
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Speaker 4: It's just there's a really fun ambiance there and I'm

453
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Speaker 4: glad there's gonna be some kind of fan presence that's

454
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Speaker 4: gonna be It's gonna be fun to see.

455
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,880
Speaker 2: I mean, as long as it stayway this past weekend.

456
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,640
Speaker 2: Can you imagine like the lack of drama as opposed

457
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 2: to what we had for Jordan's ace on number two

458
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 2: on Saturday and then Bryce and driving it over the

459
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 2: water on six. In each instance, those were magnified ten

460
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 2: times because of a fan presence as opposed to just hey,

461
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 2: they did it and there was no one else there watching.

462
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's the same thing I felt after Jordan went

463
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 4: nuts Saturday in Phoenix. Just the fans were so additive

464
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 4: to that entire day and experience. It Just it was

465
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,479
Speaker 4: such a jolt because we've been so used to watching

466
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 4: empty stadiums and empty go golf courses for a year now.

467
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 4: It's crazy that it's been a year at this point.

468
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, definitely enhanced the entire thing, especially Bryson with

469
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Speaker 4: the reaction at six on Saturday and on Sunday.

470
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Speaker 2: Just and Westwood too on Sunday was just oh, yeah,

471
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 2: he's the best. He's so good. By the way, speaking

472
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Speaker 2: of our friend Bryson, question number four, he's alluded to

473
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Speaker 2: this already, But will Bryson drive it over the water

474
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: on eighteen left onto this little landing area on nine

475
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 2: and have a better angle? I will tell you justin

476
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 2: that I have suggested this to other golf writers when

477
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 2: standing on eighteen before saying, everyone says, what a tough

478
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 2: t shot it is going, you know, with a little

479
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 2: draw down the right side of the eighteenth fairway, only

480
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 2: just blow it way left and then they've got a

481
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Speaker 2: shot over and it's like, yeah, it's not the best

482
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 2: angle over there, and you've got to be very precise

483
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Speaker 2: with it. But and you kind of leave yourself if

484
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 2: it's not perfect. You've got sort of a side hill

485
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Speaker 2: left to right. Live going to come out a little squirrely.

486
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 2: But I don't think it's the worst idea. Do you

487
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 2: think Bryson will do it? And by the way, last

488
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: week on the Gimme you and I had a side

489
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Speaker 2: action bet on whether Bryson would try to drive the

490
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Speaker 2: green on saying I'm saying no action on that bet

491
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 2: because he didn't drive the green, but he did driving.

492
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Speaker 4: It's kind of like ten at Riviera, where it's classified

493
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Speaker 4: statistically as going for the green, but really you're just

494
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Speaker 4: hitting it into that big pit to the lat not pit,

495
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 4: but that landing area to the left kind of close

496
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Speaker 4: to the green.

497
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Speaker 3: So yeah, i'll take that. I'm with you. It's kind

498
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Speaker 3: he was.

499
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 4: More aggressive than normal with his line, but he's still

500
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:37,880
Speaker 4: eighty yards back.

501
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 3: He's not really going for the green.

502
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Speaker 4: You can't land your t shot on that trajectory and

503
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Speaker 4: have it stopped. And that's my question because I don't

504
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Speaker 4: personally remember ever. I'm sure I've walked over there before

505
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 4: at Sawgrass, but is there is the landing area? Because

506
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Speaker 4: Aaron Oberholz are buddy and former colleague.

507
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Speaker 3: Of mine, he texted out a photo of it and he.

508
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Speaker 4: Said the landing area is like twelve feet by twelve feet,

509
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 4: And I mean, if you've got Tiger Woods thirteen for

510
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 4: PlayStation three or something like that, you can have a

511
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 4: little you know, you can stick it there. But I

512
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 4: don't know if a player can actually do that. I

513
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 4: don't know what that landing area really looks like.

514
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 2: I believe there's some bleachers over there, some sort of

515
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 2: signage or something that you could maybe just blow it

516
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Speaker 2: into the bleachers. I get a drop, get a drop there.

517
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: But the problem is, like if you don't hit it,

518
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 2: basically you can't push it right. But anything left, I mean,

519
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 2: the whole world is to the left. So you pull

520
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 2: it left at all and you're over there, you're going

521
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 2: to have some sort of shot to the eighteenth grade.

522
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Speaker 3: Yeah, why not? Price sure, Bryce is going to go

523
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Speaker 3: for it.

524
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 4: Just free range, free world golf, you know, wherever you want.

525
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Speaker 3: You know, I love it.

526
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Speaker 2: I think it's fun. I mean, grant, I will give

527
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 2: the purest this that if we get to a point

528
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 2: where one hundred people are doing are driving it over

529
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Speaker 2: six at Bayhill and driving it left of the water

530
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Speaker 2: on a eighteen at Sawgrass, like, we might have an issue.

531
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Speaker 2: But if it's one guy doing it, I think it's

532
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 2: wildly entertaining.

533
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and honestly that is That's one of the toughest

534
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 4: closing TA shot and one of the toughest t shots

535
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 4: period on the PGA tour, that narrow strip at eighteen.

536
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 3: And if you miss it left, obviously you're dead in

537
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 3: the water.

538
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 4: And you miss it right you're in that native area

539
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 4: over there, and you're basically guarantee bogie too. So hey,

540
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 4: especially let's say he has a bad first round and.

541
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Speaker 3: I'm going to miss the cut. Well you know why not?

542
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 3: All right?

543
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: Question number five? And you've covered this event five or

544
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 2: six times? You said, I've Oh god, I'm so old.

545
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 2: I've probably covered this event.

546
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 3: I've covered six times.

547
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: Yes, in person. What I'm saying, all right? Favorite hang

548
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 2: in Panavidra Beach slash slash Jackspeach.

549
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good question. You know, we had a

550
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 4: great our hotel with golf channel was great right on

551
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 4: the water for years. And there's a nice strip of

552
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 4: restaurants within walking distance back at the well for COVID

553
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 4: when you can go enjoy things like that. And I mean,

554
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 4: I don't think I had a favorite spot, but there

555
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: was like a within walking distance. There's like a strip

556
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 4: of four or five bars right there. I'm sure you

557
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 4: know what I'm talking about, But I mean that was

558
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 4: go to every night. You know, it's a pretty good spot.

559
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, I will go. I mean our the usual

560
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 2: Wednesday tradition is knockoff early, go play golf at San Jose,

561
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: which is about thirty thirty five minutes away, really cool

562
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 2: classic course. Rocky is the GM over there, always takes

563
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 2: care of us. Have a great time over there. Head

564
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 2: over to Taco Lou, where we've got some connections. Over

565
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: at Taco Lou, that's where we all were last year

566
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 2: when basically the world shut down. I was sitting with

567
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Speaker 2: five other golf writers at Taco Lou having tacos and beers,

568
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, like the entire world is like, Nope,

569
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Speaker 2: ain't going to happen. So I can get to the

570
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 2: third leg of the journey. Last year, but unusual times

571
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Speaker 2: I would go straight from Taco Lou over to Lynch's Pub,

572
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: which I believe is one of the places that you

573
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 2: were mentioning down there on Jack'speach. Then stumble back to

574
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Speaker 2: the courtyard at the end of the night and you've

575
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 2: had yourself attle night.

576
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Speaker 3: Man. I got to be I got to just be

577
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Speaker 3: a golf writer.

578
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,479
Speaker 4: I've spent too many hours in the you know, media,

579
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 4: dining in the TV.

580
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: No, that's definitely not the way to do it. Yeah,

581
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Speaker 2: So those are five questions, and let's let's get to

582
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 2: this field a little bit. I feel like we need

583
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,479
Speaker 2: to get and get digging into this. So all our

584
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Speaker 2: odds as always presented by Bett MGM here on the podcast,

585
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 2: and I'll go through it real quickly. Dustin Johnson opens

586
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 2: up in eleven to one, Bryson and John Ram and

587
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 2: Rory mcelroyal at fourteen to one. These numbers are very fluid.

588
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of movement already here early in

589
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: the week. Justin Thomas Xanders Shaffley at twenty, Colin Morrikowa,

590
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 2: Patrick Cantley, Webb Simpson at twenty two, Tony Final, Victor

591
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 2: Hobland at twenty five, and Jordan Speith at twenty eight

592
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 2: to one. So I'll start it off Justin by asking you,

593
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Speaker 2: is there one main stat main fact, main something that

594
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 2: you look at this week, Because we started off the

595
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: podcast tonight saying hey, this is a really really hard

596
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: one to brognosticate. How do you figure it out? Where

597
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: do you start the week?

598
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 4: So, for TPC Saugarass, your short answer is absolutely not.

599
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 4: There is no one statistic that can give you a

600
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 4: crystal ball into what's going to happen. Since two thousand,

601
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 4: there have been seven players ranked fortieth or lower in

602
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 4: the world ranking to win here and seven players in the.

603
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 3: Top ten who have won here.

604
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 4: Cool I was doing some research for the work I

605
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 4: do for Sky Sports and the strokes game. Tea to

606
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 4: green leaders per round at the Players since twenty thirteen

607
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 4: is an amazing eclectic list. So these are the guys

608
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 4: best tea green at the same golf course since twenty thirteen,

609
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: among guys at least twelve rounds. Rory's first boo weekly

610
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 4: is second, Tommy Fleetwood third, Adam Scott is fourth, and

611
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 4: that's followed by Jerry Kelly. So you're throwing darts at

612
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 4: aboard here with a blindfold on man like it is.

613
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: So this course demands so many different things, so many

614
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 4: different types of shots. It doesn't particularly favor one kind

615
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 4: of player, which is why within the span of a

616
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 4: couple of years Sergio Garcia and Tim Clark were your winners.

617
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's so, you.

618
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 4: Know, it's really difficult to pin down any specific traits

619
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 4: that are really significant here. The average ranking of winners

620
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 4: in terms of strokes game the last ten years at

621
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 4: the Players Championship basically the average number is worse than

622
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 4: the tour average across the board, meaning that you've just

623
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 4: got a big kind of hodgepodge of performances that have

624
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 4: ended up with the winning score here.

625
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: So it's really difficult to do. I'm sorry.

626
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 4: I know this is supposed to this is supposed to be

627
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 4: a podcast. It gives people hope and reasons to make picks.

628
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 4: So with confidence, it's just not gonna happen here.

629
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Speaker 3: Man.

630
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, Seewoo Kim was like last

631
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 4: in every statistic on the PGA Tour for the season

632
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 4: going into the players any one. I mean, it is

633
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 4: so difficult to predict this golf urn. I think it's

634
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 4: the toughest one in the world to nail down.

635
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: I do too, So all of that set. First of all,

636
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 2: this is what makes a tournament, and of course great

637
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: is the fact that, Hey, you can be a big

638
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 2: bomber or a short knocker. You can be an old

639
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: guy or a young guy. You can be an absolute

640
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: legend of the game or a one hit wonder. Those

641
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: guys have all won here over the last fifteen to

642
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 2: twenty years, and so it is a hodgepodge of winners.

643
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: The one constant that I found, and I was doing

644
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: a little research on my own, You're not the only

645
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 2: guy that does research around here. I was looking into

646
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: some numbers and in the past decade, which of course

647
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: past decade only includes nine editions of this event, not ten,

648
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: because I felt like going back to twenty eleven because

649
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 2: that's where my numbers worked, you know how that stuff happens.

650
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: And so of the past nine winners, they had all

651
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: finished twenty second or better in their most recent start

652
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: going into that edition of the players. And so I think,

653
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: very much like we often say it a gus, but

654
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: you'd better have your game when you get to TPC Sawgrass,

655
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: because if you're trying to find it on that big

656
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: old range there, that's probably not a good formula for

657
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: having success that week.

658
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 4: One other anecdote about how unpredictable this place is in

659
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: back to back days in twenty sixteen, Peak Jason Day

660
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 4: shot sixty three and the next day Cult No shot

661
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 4: sixty three.

662
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 3: Those are two very very different skill sets. Colt.

663
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: There will be no Cult no slander on this podcast, nor.

664
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: Should there be.

665
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 4: But I'm saying is that Peak Jason Day bomb the

666
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 4: hell out of the ball and Colt did not hit

667
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 4: it very far. And yet those two men shot sixty

668
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 4: three in consecutive days on the same golf course. I

669
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 4: mean that just tells you how tough it is. No

670
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 4: Colt nos slander, absolutely not, would not do that.

671
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 2: I only slander cult when I text them, which is

672
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: and there's plenty of slander going on when we do that.

673
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: Great dude. But all right, so let's start with the

674
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: top of this field, and I will be completely fading everybody.

675
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: But quite honestly, Jay Ray, I the top of it.

676
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 2: Dustin Johnson coming off a very iffy performance with the

677
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: final round seventy eight. I believe at the Concession a

678
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, Fish fifty fourth Bryceton Deshambo just won.

679
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: But this is a very different golf course that shouldn't

680
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: suit him. John Rama, I'm very kind of wishy wash.

681
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 2: I could rom win. Yes, the last time he played here,

682
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 2: he became very frustrated down the stretch. I can see

683
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: this place frustrating him once again. Rory sounded not just dejected,

684
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: but like despondent after his final round at API. And

685
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: so I get down to Justin Thomas, and that's the

686
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: first guy on the board that I actually like.

687
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 3: Okay, that's actually the first name on my list. I

688
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: wrote is interesting.

689
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 4: Since twenty fifteen when JT made his debut here, he

690
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 4: has more birdies than any player in this golf tournament.

691
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: The problem is.

692
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 4: He also has the second most bogies of any player. Yes,

693
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 4: so definitely has the potential to go low, just needs.

694
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 3: To avoid some of those mistakes.

695
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 4: I was looking into it and when he said positive

696
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 4: strokes gained off the tee at the Players Champion his

697
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 4: scoring average is around like sixty nine point five and

698
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,239
Speaker 4: he's over par when he has negative strokes gained off

699
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 4: the tea. So if he's feeling good with his driver,

700
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 4: and that doesn't always correlate with JT, he's normally you know,

701
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 4: he's looked at statistically as the best.

702
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: One of the best approach players in the world.

703
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 4: So I think that that's one to keep an eye on.

704
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 4: Another guy towards the top of the board that I

705
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 4: thought was really interesting one here a few years ago.

706
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 3: I talked about a minute ago.

707
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 4: Positive strokes gained in every category this season. So far,

708
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 4: Web Simpson does not have a score worse than seventy

709
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 4: three in thirty six rounds this season on the PGA Tour.

710
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's going to break through and

711
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 4: get another Players Championship win. That's a really small group

712
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 4: of guys who've done that and won multiple times at

713
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 4: TPC Sawgrass. But he seems as safe as anybody in

714
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 4: that collection of players in terms of I don't think

715
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 4: he's going to go out and put out a stinker

716
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 4: because he basically doesn't have a bad round a really

717
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 4: bad round this season and even going back to last year.

718
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 4: My favorite guy at the top of the board. Though

719
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 4: this hurts because I wrote it last week and it worked.

720
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 4: But he did everything well last.

721
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 3: Week at Bayhill.

722
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 4: He only had one bow game in the final round

723
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 4: Sunday at bay Hill, first and strokes get off the tee,

724
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 4: ninth and approach, but more important to me tenth and

725
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 4: scrambling twenty first and strokes game putting at Bayhill. He's

726
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 4: won back to back events before on the PGA Tour.

727
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 4: Bryson to Shamba is my favorite pick towards the top

728
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: of the board.

729
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: I think I just called.

730
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 4: Everybody player a player, B player ceed he just took

731
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 4: the names off and looked at all the different facts

732
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 4: by each guy. That's who I would pick in eight

733
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: career rounds at TBC Sawgrass. He's never shot worse than

734
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 4: seventy three, and this is before Bryce and game the

735
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 4: extra gear in terms.

736
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: Of his distance.

737
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 4: So if I'm just looking at all those names for

738
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 4: a guy at the top of the board to pick

739
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 4: to win, I'm picking Bryson to win for a second

740
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 4: week in a rown.

741
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: Okay. I look, I was not on him last week,

742
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: and I feel like all the signs were pointing toward

743
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: him and we should have been on him. He had

744
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: two top four finishes at API in the last three years,

745
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: and I don't think we should certainly write him off.

746
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I will say that you can't at

747
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: least convince me to like him. I'm not sure you

748
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: can convince me to love him this week, but I

749
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 2: con sider Arion okay.

750
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 4: Well, on the first two playoff events of twenty eighteen,

751
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 4: he can hit on a total heater, and I just

752
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 4: think he did everything so well at bay Hill, and

753
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 4: you know, look, his strokes gained, putting was his best

754
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 4: since the US opened, just across the board. It's just

755
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 4: really encouraging trends and hey, let's see if he can

756
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 4: keep it going. I mean, in his brief history at

757
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 4: TPC Sawgrass, he doesn't have a really bad round.

758
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 3: That's something I'm really interested in looking at. Guys. This week,

759
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 3: let's go. I'm gonna roll with it again.

760
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah again. You can convince me with some of that.

761
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 2: I'm not totally all in, but I get where you're

762
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: going with that. By the way, you use the perfect

763
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 2: adjective for web Simpson, which is safe. Web Simpson's ceiling

764
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: is high, but his floor is also very high. This week,

765
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: like I can absolutely see him playing, saying, four rounds

766
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: of pretty good golf. We never really see much of him.

767
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: And he finishes T seven and you're like, wait, where

768
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 2: did web Simpson come from? And he just he plays well.

769
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 2: If you're in like a one and done pool, and

770
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 2: you're like, you know, I want to use up like

771
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: one of the very best players, but I want to

772
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: use it guy. I think web Simpson'll and I think

773
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 2: he'll probably be a very popular one and done type

774
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: player this.

775
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 3: Week played really well.

776
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 4: A concession too, a tough golf course. I mean he

777
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: was right there on the weekend, had had a bad Sunday.

778
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 4: But yeah, now I'm with you on web Simpson. The

779
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 4: floor is very high.

780
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: We have not mentioned my two favorite players in this

781
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 2: top tier guys under forty to one this week. Patrick

782
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: Cantley is just due to win something big. I picked

783
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 2: him last year, which is very funny because I was

784
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 2: picking him this year and I just happened to last

785
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: night go through some of my stuff from last year

786
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: and just say like, oh, you know, they never played

787
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: the event, so I wonder if there's any kind of

788
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: corollaries that still work. And I clicked out my preview

789
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: and I say pick to win favorite out right, Patrick Cantley,

790
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 2: And I go all right, well, I can you know,

791
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 2: plagiarize myself then? Because I had him last year and

792
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: I like him again this year. I just think it

793
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 2: all kind of correlates really well, then, do you know?

794
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 2: And you probably do. You're probably the one person I

795
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: could ask this question too that does know the answer

796
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: to this. But the player who has gained the most

797
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 2: official World Golf Ranking points so far in twenty twenty

798
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: one is.

799
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 3: Did I stump you Tony?

800
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 2: Yes?

801
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: Tony now.

802
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 2: Seventeen more points than Colin Moricow, who's second.

803
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 4: This man contends so often he's going to get to

804
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 4: world number one and still only have one win. I

805
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 4: thought about that a few because in mind works. This

806
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 4: is these are the things I think about. By the way,

807
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: I was like, is there a way for him mathematically

808
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 4: to climb? Probably not, But I'm just it's just the

809
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 4: fact that you're even thinking about it is just a

810
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 4: testamental consistently is.

811
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: It's certainly possible. I remember going through the scenarios a

812
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 2: few years ago where Paul Casey and I think there

813
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 2: are a few other players over the years that could

814
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: have done it, but I specifically remember Paul Casey could

815
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 2: have finished second at the Tour Championship one year, not

816
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 2: one on the PGA Tour all year, and won the

817
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: FedEx Cup, which the greatest thing ever was.

818
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 4: I think that might have been the year Horsefull One,

819
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 4: possibly maybe the year after. Yeah, no, it look, you

820
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 4: got to be incredibly consistent to do that. I mean,

821
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 4: Tony's game travels everywhere as ball striking numbers are through

822
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 4: the roof, and we're all just kind of waiting with baited.

823
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 3: Breath to see him finally getting done on a Sunday.

824
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 4: And you were saying a few weeks ago that when

825
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: he does win, he's probably gonna win by like six.

826
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: It's very possible.

827
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 4: I think it's just a floodgates type situation where he

828
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 4: runs away with one one of these weeks.

829
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 2: Would it sort of feel like Ricky's win back here?

830
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: What was it fifteen?

831
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 3: I believe fifteen. That was six years ago.

832
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: I know Ricky won. It was like, we he's good,

833
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: we all know he's good, we all know he's gonna

834
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 2: win something at some point, he just hasn't really done

835
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: it yet. And all of a sudden where Ricky breaks there.

836
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 2: It wasn't a six shot win. It was a playoff.

837
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: It went to a sudden death playoff.

838
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 4: Right, great finishes in the last ten years, Ricky Kissner and.

839
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 3: See I was going to give you a kissner. I

840
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 3: forget the third David Lingmerth.

841
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 4: Maybe possibly maybe I'm not gonna cheat and look it up.

842
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 3: But it was definitely a three person playoff.

843
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 2: It was it was It would.

844
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 3: Kind of feel similar to that, right, like where you're

845
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: throwing darts. Yeah, if he.

846
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 4: Were to win, it would kind of feel that way where, Yeah,

847
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 4: it would also be an incredibly popular victory, you know,

848
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 4: really popular victory, not just with fans but with guys

849
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 4: on the tour too.

850
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So I went and looked and so over

851
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 2: the last nine editions of the Players Championship. On five

852
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 2: of those occasions, the winner from the forty to one

853
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 2: to sixty to one range pre tournament, which means that

854
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of value in that range

855
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 2: and real quick looking at bet MGM, I'll just go

856
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: through the names without the numbers, because they're all pretty

857
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: close to each other. Daniel Berger, Jadeki Matsuyama, Patrick Reid,

858
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: Scottie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrell Hatton, Jason Day, Matthew Fitzpatrick,

859
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 2: Paul Casey, s JM, Joaquin Neeman, Louis Hu's dayson. That's

860
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: a lot of guys to rip through right there, and

861
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 2: you know, right on the heels of them or some

862
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 2: good players as well. Anybody's sticking out to you in

863
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: that we'll call them the mid tier of players that

864
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 2: it's been a sweet spot at this tournament over the years.

865
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 4: I'll tell you one guy I'll cross out in that group,

866
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 4: which seems mean to do that, but a guy who

867
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 4: is really he's performed great and basically every event except

868
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 4: the players in the major championships last two years, and

869
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 4: it's Tyroll Hatton.

870
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 3: So he was wildly inconsistent at Bayhill.

871
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 4: Bookend, Crazy Week seventy seven, sixty seven, sixty six, seventy seven.

872
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 3: Clearly he's working.

873
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 4: On something with his golf swing, because that that's he

874
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 4: found it in Spurts, but didn't quite have it. He

875
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 4: hasn't had great success to the Players Championship in his

876
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 4: short career there. Looking through the list, I mean Patrick

877
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: Gree's short game is going to travel everywhere.

878
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 3: Didn't have a good week at bay Hill though, so good.

879
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 2: Week, plus there has no track record whatsoever at Sawgress.

880
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 4: So I will say Tommy Fleetwood is among the leaders

881
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,879
Speaker 4: and a lot of key statistics at the Players.

882
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 3: Championship the last few years stropsk and tea green, He's

883
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 3: up there. Birdie average is very high.

884
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 4: The problem is that course history doesn't really correlate at

885
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 4: all at the Players Championship, as we were talking about.

886
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 4: So but I think if I've got to pick one guy,

887
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 4: Jason Day has been kind of encouraging recently.

888
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 3: He feels like he might be finally getting healthy. But

889
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 3: I think I'll pick Fleetwood out of that group.

890
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: I like Fleetwood a lot. Oh by the way, Fleetwood

891
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 2: was six over when this tournament was suspended after one

892
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 2: round last year, so that that gives you the willies.

893
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: Like Fleetwood a lot last year.

894
00:40:58,239 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.

895
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, I should have gone back and looked at

896
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 2: those scores from round one because they're probably going to

897
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: going to unnaturally sort of help shape opinions. But I

898
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: do like Fleetwood, I like Jason Day from there. I

899
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 2: like Joaquin Neeman a lot. I think Joaquin Neman could

900
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: show up this week a ball striker on a ball

901
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: Striker's Course. And Scotti Scheffler is another guy that coming

902
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: off finishes a fifth, twentieth and seventh kind of fits

903
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: the profile for where guys usually are trending in the

904
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 2: right direction at this one. Let's go just a little

905
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 2: bit lower before we get to our DFS lineup this week.

906
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 2: I think there's a ton of value down the board.

907
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: Look at the guys outside sixty one. I'm just gonna

908
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 2: I'm a real off couple of names that I like.

909
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 2: Will Zlatoras shows up every single week again a ball

910
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 2: Striker's Course. This one could be better than most of

911
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 2: the other ones. Most of the other ones have been

912
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 2: pretty good for him. Justin Rose is going to scare

913
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 2: some people off after that withdrawal on Saturday, this past week.

914
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 2: As long as he's healthy, he is trending in the

915
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: right direction. One hundred to one for him at bed

916
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: M G. Russell Henley at one hundred to one. I

917
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: like that. I sort of missed him in a lot

918
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: of things that I wrote this week. But Cameron Trengali

919
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 2: at one twenty five to one, that's a first round leader,

920
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 2: kind of early pick. Chris Kirk sort of the same way.

921
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: I like Chris Kirk a lot this week. That's kind

922
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 2: of about it. You get down to the one fifty

923
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 2: to one. I mean, you've got the Gary Woodlands and

924
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 2: Brandon Grace's and Sebastian Muno's. I mean there it is

925
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 2: not a total a total lark that you know, one

926
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 2: of these guys could show up this week and very

927
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 2: much like Seawoo Kim who's four hundred to one a

928
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: few years ago and actually win this thing.

929
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 4: It's a great week to find value way down the board.

930
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 4: For all the reasons we've been talking about that this

931
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 4: course has to particularly favor one type of skill set.

932
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 4: It's not the weekend week out where a guy who

933
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 4: bombs it is going to have a big, big advantage

934
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 4: over folks.

935
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 3: You mentioned one of the names that I like, and that's.

936
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 4: Russell Henley player who in the fall was really among

937
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 4: just the best players of PGA Tour in terms of

938
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 4: iron play.

939
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 3: Over the last six to nine months.

940
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 4: Positive strokes gained in every discipline again, so nothing overly

941
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 4: bad that's gonna scare you away. Fifth and strokes gained

942
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 4: approach the season thirteenth and tea green. Second year in

943
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 4: a row he's been in the top ten on the

944
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 4: PGA Tour in greeds. In regulation, he's made eight out

945
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 4: of ten cuts this season so far. Mentioned the good

946
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 4: play in the fall, he had a pair of top

947
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 4: five finishes. I think he's interesting. I'm gonna even further

948
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 4: down the board for another guy who I think is

949
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 4: interesting too. He's fourth and birdie average at tpc sawgrass

950
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 4: among all players the last ten years, Harold Varner Eryld

951
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 4: Varner finished tied for seventh here a couple of years ago.

952
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 4: Positive strokes gained again in every.

953
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 3: Discipline which you think of.

954
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 4: HB three is a better ball striker than he is

955
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 4: around the greens, but he's positive in strokes gained putting,

956
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 4: positive and strokes gained around the green around thirtieth and

957
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 4: both approach and strokes gained around the green this year.

958
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 3: Didn't shoot higher than seventy three. Last week, A bay

959
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 3: Hill finished twenty first. I see him.

960
00:43:58,800 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: Plus twenty two thousand.

961
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 3: I mean that's some good I think that's some good value.

962
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 3: And it look guys have got their first PGA Tour

963
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 3: win before Tim Clark did, Craig Parks did way back

964
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 3: in the day. It's not completely unfounded.

965
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 4: That a guy could break through with his first win

966
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 4: here and he's got the ball striking chocks. I think

967
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 4: to do it that past success here with the ty

968
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 4: for seventh place.

969
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 3: A few years ago, you.

970
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 2: Talk about popular potential winners. You mentioned that in relation

971
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 2: to Tony That is the.

972
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 4: Number one note I wrote down too, is I don't

973
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 4: know if I'm just in a feel good kind of

974
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 4: mood with fans coming back and golf kind of being

975
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 4: on fire right now, but it would be really popular.

976
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 3: You're right.

977
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: You can tell with PGA Tour players now, with social

978
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: media and things like that, where you can tell when

979
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 2: a popular guy, when everyone's happy for a guy who wins,

980
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 2: like the players themselves, forget about the fans. The players

981
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 2: themselves might blow up social media. If Harold Varner is

982
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 2: able to not just win for the first time, but

983
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 2: win a big one like this, and yeah, I like it.

984
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: I think it's worth throwing a few darts at some

985
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: big numbers this week because there is some.

986
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 3: Value out there.

987
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 2: We're gonna make our dfs lineup in just a second.

988
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 2: But before we move on, here want to paint a

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Speaker 2: made a long shot bet. Let's say, I bet Lee

993
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Speaker 2: Westwoods win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And after all it

994
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,640
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995
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996
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998
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1025
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1026
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1028
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1029
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1030
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1031
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1036
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Speaker 2: you know, not alcoholics by the way to go. I'm

1037
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: just gonna say, play it safe.

1038
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 4: So I'm about to be a dad for the first time,

1039
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 4: and I'm on high alert here in the next six

1040
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,520
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1041
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1042
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Speaker 4: me here, and.

1043
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Speaker 2: We will get you some. And the ironic part is

1044
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1045
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 2: much alcoholic beer as you can get.

1046
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 3: So we'll mix in the real ones here and there too.

1047
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.

1048
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: I want to be a DFS millionaire. You're just one

1049
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: lineup away.

1050
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 2: We're gonna go with him, and you're gonna play better

1051
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: than you ever dreamed of.

1052
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: Goddamn it, that's what I am, what you So let's

1053
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: get drafting, all right, Let's.

1054
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: Get to our DFS lineup. As always, we go through

1055
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: DraftKings and we pick out six players, going back and forth.

1056
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: I'll give you the first pick, justin where do you

1057
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 2: want to go with your pick?

1058
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 3: First pick? I will go.

1059
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 4: I'll go with the guy I picked to win again

1060
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 4: and at ninety seven hundred down on the board a

1061
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 4: little bit, you know, you'd expect Bryson to shambo. I

1062
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 4: think he's among the He's either second favorite or co

1063
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 4: favorite with DJ going into the week, ninety seven hundred

1064
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 4: is a great number for me for Bryson to shambo.

1065
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna put him as our first pick, all right.

1066
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 4: I like that.

1067
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 2: I think we can go deep. Like there. There are

1068
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 2: gonna be some lineups that people make this week. I've

1069
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 2: already made a few on DraftKings and FanDuel. By the way,

1070
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 2: where you look at the lineup afterwards, You're like, I

1071
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 2: just won, right, Like I know it's Monday, but like,

1072
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 2: hand me the money. This thing is so good. Yeah,

1073
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 2: got because of the pricing.

1074
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 3: Got to go deep.

1075
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just you just there's so much value

1076
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 4: down on the board because of the total randomness seemingly

1077
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 4: of the winners of this tournament.

1078
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 3: It's not right. I don't say it's not randomness. It's

1079
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 3: just varied types of players who could win. I'll say. So,

1080
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 3: I'm with you. You got to I gotta go come deep here.

1081
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm going to spend some money to

1082
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 2: start because there is some value down the board, and

1083
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 2: I know my favorite play out there, Patrick Cantley. This

1084
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: week ninety two hundred.

1085
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 4: Okay, ninety two hundred added to my roster here, all right,

1086
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 4: I'm going to go back to the guy who I

1087
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 4: said positive strokes gained and all the different disciplines twenty

1088
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 4: first last week at Bayhill, a top ten finish a

1089
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 4: couple of years ago at the Players would be a

1090
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 4: super popular win. Gim me Harold Varner sixty seven hundred.

1091
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 4: That's some value lower on the board and give us

1092
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 4: some more money to play with here with these next

1093
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 4: three picks.

1094
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 2: That's a good one. I like that. I'm going to

1095
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 2: take some value as well. Another guy who played really

1096
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: well tied for eighth last week. And also i'd be

1097
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 2: a great story. And I feel like sometimes the players Championship,

1098
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 2: because it is the championship of the players, it's PGA

1099
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 2: Tours flagship event, sometimes these stories kind of come out

1100
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: at this event. And Chris Kirk has a nice track

1101
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 2: record at this one, and his ball striking has been

1102
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 2: solid lately. I think there's a little weight lifted off

1103
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,280
Speaker 2: his shoulders after he got his full status at the Sony.

1104
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 2: And for those who don't know, the Chris Kirk story

1105
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 2: dealt with sobriety issues, deal with some depression. He's kind

1106
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 2: of been there and back and now in in theoretically

1107
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: a very good spot from everything we know and everything

1108
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 2: he's told us. And so at seven thousand this week,

1109
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 2: I think Chris Kirk is a very nice play.

1110
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 4: Okay, I like that, And We've got some got some

1111
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 4: change left over, and I'm gonna leave you, sir, with

1112
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 4: a big amount of money because I really like Russell

1113
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 4: Henley going into this week. I think that I think

1114
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 4: that his ball striking numbers is the fact that I

1115
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 4: keep saying, the positive strokes came across the board, nothing's

1116
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 4: going to particularly kill you. Russell Henley would fit in

1117
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 4: terms of form this season, not being overwhelming per se,

1118
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 4: but he's had some good finishes, played pretty consistent in

1119
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 4: the fall, really good ball striking numbers.

1120
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 3: That's gonna leave you with ten thousand dollars left. My friend, Well,

1121
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 3: just as.

1122
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 2: We said last week, I think we were in the

1123
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 2: same predicament last week, where it's like you left me

1124
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 2: a perfect number with a guy I really like, so

1125
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: I might as well just not overthink it and just

1126
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 2: take them. I've got ten thousand left. This guy sitting

1127
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 2: at ninety nine hundred named Justin Thomas, who I think

1128
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 2: plays really well on this golf course and has a

1129
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 2: really good chance of winning this week, and I am

1130
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 2: taking him. I think I think Justin Thomas playing a

1131
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 2: little fiery this week. I think Justin Thomas is he

1132
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 2: ain't happy about the way things have gone so far

1133
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: this year. He's had a couple of chances I didn't

1134
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 2: close anything out. I think that he's getting a little

1135
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: frustrated with himself, and I think he's going to take

1136
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 2: it out on a field at some point very soon.

1137
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: It could be this week.

1138
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 4: I think he knows the statistic I said earlier, the

1139
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 4: most birdies of anybody, but the most bogies. The second

1140
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 4: most bogies are worse. Says He made his debut here

1141
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen. He's a guy who's great at making

1142
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 4: corrections in his game. It's what the best players in

1143
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 4: the world do. I think maybe changes a little bit

1144
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 4: of his strategy on some of these holes this week.

1145
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 3: And I like him a lot. I like him a lot,

1146
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 3: like him to find that elite iron form to put

1147
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 3: him at the top of the world rankings. I think

1148
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 3: once again we got another winning lineup.

1149
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 2: I mean, how good is the wild look? Patrick Cantley,

1150
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 2: Bryson De Shamba, Russell Henley, Chris Kirk, Justin Thomas, Harold

1151
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 2: Varner the third send it I really shut everywhere, Yeah,

1152
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: before we go, just because we barely mentioned his name

1153
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 2: and I want to get him in here, and he's

1154
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: so polarizing right now. But what do we make of

1155
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 2: Jordan's speed right now? And what do we make of

1156
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: him this week? Where if he wasn't as much of

1157
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 2: an enigma wrapped up in a riddle already, he comes

1158
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 2: to TBC Sawgrass, where he was fourth in his debut

1159
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 2: back in I believe fifteen, played really really well, and

1160
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 2: ever since then, even when he was playing his best golf,

1161
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 2: never could figure.

1162
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 4: Out this place. Twenty fourteen was he made his debut.

1163
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 4: He was right after he nearly won the Masters. He

1164
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 4: might have still been a teenager at that point. Maybe

1165
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 4: he was twenty years old. Bogie free through the first

1166
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 4: three rounds. I mean he I didn't think, it looked

1167
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 4: like he wasn't going to make a mistake in his

1168
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 4: debut with the Players Championship, and I think since then

1169
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 4: he's bogeie like twenty percent of the holes he's played

1170
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 4: since that point at the Players. So my favorite Jordan

1171
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 4: Speed stat right now three top fives in his last

1172
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 4: four starts. He had three top fives in his previous

1173
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 4: seventy starts before that. So one thing to hang your

1174
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 4: hat on if you're a speed fan and you want

1175
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 4: to see him succeed going forward. His last four tournaments,

1176
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 4: he's averaging more than a full stroke game on approach

1177
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 4: per round, and entering this stretch he was losing more

1178
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 4: than half a shot. So when he was at his best,

1179
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 4: I know we always with Jordan, it was always talking

1180
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 4: about his putting and all the incredible putts he would make,

1181
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 4: his great short game. Truth of the matter was he

1182
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 4: was among the five best iron players in the world

1183
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 4: when he was at his absolute pinnacle. So I think

1184
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 4: he's getting there. He's getting better. This is a really

1185
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 4: tough place to break through.

1186
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 3: Man.

1187
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is going to be the week.

1188
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 4: But if you've got some low handing stock on Jordan

1189
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 4: Speed at Augusta National, the only player in the history

1190
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 4: of the Masters with a better strokes gain total average,

1191
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 4: then Jordan speeds Ben Hogan. So if he peaking right

1192
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 4: for the right time, and guys who are in that

1193
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,800
Speaker 4: category where he is three time major champions are always

1194
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 4: trying to peek at the big events, that might be something.

1195
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 3: You look at.

1196
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 2: Ben Ogan ain't.

1197
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 3: Walking through that door, no, sir.

1198
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 2: And so if you're looking for somebody for a gust

1199
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 2: the next month, the odds have changed massively in Jordan Speed.

1200
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 2: I believe he was eighty eighty five to one just

1201
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 2: a month ago and he's now somewhere in the twenties,

1202
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 2: maybe even just twenty to one to win the Masters.

1203
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 2: But for good reason, because he is certainly trending in

1204
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: that direction. Cannot wait for this week's Players Championship. The

1205
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 2: best field in golf, and we've broken it all down.

1206
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 2: He's justin right from the fifteenth Club. I'm Jason Sobel

1207
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 2: from golf Be. Thanks to everybody out there for listening

1208
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: once again, good luck with all your bets for this

1209
00:54:53,120 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 2: week's players, and here's hoping you hit the green. We're

1210
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 2: finished talking