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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to yet another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Action Network Podcast, the Golf Edition. I'm Jason Soble

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Speaker 1: from Golf Bet alongside as always, my pal Peter Jennings

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Speaker 1: from Fantasy Labs. We will be joined in just a

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Speaker 1: little bit by two times Safeway Open Champion Brendan Steele

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Speaker 1: joining us for a fun interview in just a little while.

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Speaker 1: And guess what, everybody, We were at week one of

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Speaker 1: fifty on the PGA Tour of the last season, and

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Speaker 1: it just the other day. Yes, it ended on Monday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: The next season starts on Thursday morning at the Safeway

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Speaker 1: out in Napa Wine Country. This week we will get

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Speaker 1: to everything going on this week at that event, and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about last week as well

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Speaker 1: as a reminder all odds on the Action Network Podcast

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Speaker 1: courtesy of bet MGM, the official odds provider of the

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Speaker 1: Action Network Podcast and Peter What's going on? Welcome. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big week in sports, and hey, why

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Speaker 1: not throw another sport into there. We've got the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the PGA Tour season. I know it sounds a

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Speaker 1: little bit weird that we're starting off like this, But

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Speaker 1: what do you think about the upcoming season? First of all,

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Speaker 1: and give me a name you're gonna be talking about

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Speaker 1: in a little bit when we get to breaking down

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Speaker 1: the safeway.

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Speaker 2: I'm honestly very excited for the upcoming season. Golf is

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Speaker 2: a sport that I enjoy playing dfs the most and

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Speaker 2: love betting on the most. So Stoke, we have a

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Speaker 2: lot more golf, including the Masters down the road here

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Speaker 2: still in twenty twenty and the US Open obviously in

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Speaker 2: And you know we're interviewing Brendan Steele. He is the

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Speaker 2: top friend of the podcast. He's a guy that I

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Speaker 2: really like this week.

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Speaker 1: First of all, and don't tell him I said this,

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Speaker 1: but really like Brendan Steel this week.

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Speaker 3: Statistically speaking, he's a remarkably average tour player, but it's

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Speaker 3: the steely demeanor and resolve and have laid the foundation

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously he plays well on this golf course.

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Speaker 1: He's been playing well all year. But again, don't want

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Speaker 1: let him know, but really like Brendan Steel. I will

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Speaker 1: be mentioning him probably when we get into our ultimate

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Speaker 1: DFS lineup later in the show. That said, you know

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Speaker 1: you've gone from golf fan to golf better when the

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Speaker 1: Tour Championship, the season finale for the FedEx Cup playoffs

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Speaker 1: with very few top level elite players who are competing.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that, and this is why the

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Speaker 1: PGA Tour, I think sees a lot of value in

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Speaker 1: investing in And you know, there's four now official betting

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Speaker 1: operators of the PGA Tour, all of which have been

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Speaker 1: announced in the last month. We at the Action Network

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Speaker 1: have a partnership with the PGA Tour. We do a show,

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Speaker 1: the Gimme, that is promoted by all the PGA Tour

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Speaker 1: understands and we certainly understand that. You know, there's you know,

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the Tour Championship was great. It was fun.

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Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson blitz the field and played terrific golf over

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Safeway Open. But first at Dustin Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a fun week. And de echo what you

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Speaker 2: just said. I'll have about five x invested what I

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Speaker 2: From a handicapping perspective, I think there's more edges, and

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Speaker 1: One point I'd like to make on DJ before we

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Speaker 2: And he won't be my favorite. I have someone that

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Speaker 1: I think it's the same player who I will have

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Speaker 2: That is correct, mister John M.

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Speaker 1: Surprise, surprise. Peter Jennings loves John Rahm. I've been saying

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Speaker 1: Chambeau is going to be my guy at the US Open.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the recent trend of US Open champions,

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Speaker 1: And Bryson was the guy I was looking at when

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Speaker 1: he was playing better. He's just not in form right now.

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Speaker 1: I get you a favorite based on what DJ just.

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Speaker 2: Did I get it. I'll take I'll take Rom straight

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to Brendan Steele in just a second,

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Speaker 1: one of the favorites this week at the Safe Safeway Open.

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Speaker 1: And joining us now as promised, fresh off a fantasy

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Speaker 1: football draft? Is this how you prep for one of

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Speaker 1: your major chainchampionships? Brendon Steel with a fantasy football draft?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't be as good as the other

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean my league's pretty stacked.

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Speaker 5: You know you are in it, and you were already

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Speaker 5: making fun of me for how poorly I did.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right. We are in the same league, the

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Speaker 1: jail league. By the way, it's called the jail League.

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Speaker 5: it's it's Mike Nicoletti's league, and we call him the

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Speaker 5: warden because he wouldn't let us do anything that we

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Speaker 4: He couldn't do anything you wanted to.

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Speaker 1: It all fits. And not only did I get to

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Speaker 1: then I get to bet on you this week at

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Speaker 1: a place where you've won twice in Nappa at the

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Speaker 1: safe Way Open. And I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: win more than you are when you win the golf tournament.

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Speaker 1: How's that saying?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you were throwing all sorts of shade at me,

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Speaker 5: all sorts of chaos right now. But I am pretty

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Speaker 4: So hopefully the golf goes better. I mean, I.

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Speaker 5: Figure Soble's team is better at the moment, but I

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Speaker 1: You can't sit out. I mean you got to go

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about Phil winning the senior event?

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Speaker 5: People always ask me like why I've been successful here

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Speaker 5: my best year last year, so I'm very excited about that.

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Speaker 5: On the flip side, normally a very good driver of

439
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Speaker 5: the ball, and I haven't been driving it as well.

440
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Speaker 5: But I'm putting a new Wilson driver into play this week.

441
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Speaker 5: I think that's going to help me hit it a

442
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Speaker 5: lot straighter, So I'm hoping that that that helps me out.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go out there tomorrow and work on

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Speaker 5: some fades. I'm struggling a little bit with that. If

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Speaker 5: I can get that together, then I think I have

446
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Speaker 5: a pretty good shot this week. That being said, if

447
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Speaker 5: I'm going to be the favorite, the value is probably

448
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Speaker 5: not there.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you know what Dustin Johnson said he

450
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Speaker 1: was asked about why he went from hitting draws to fades, right, Well,

451
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Speaker 1: what did he say? There's a couple of years ago

452
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Speaker 1: after you won at Bridgestone and they're still playing an

453
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Speaker 1: event there and some of the reporters glommed onto it

454
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Speaker 1: and so, oh you're you're hitting a draw and you

455
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Speaker 1: went to a fade Like what was that?

456
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Speaker 4: Like?

457
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Speaker 1: Well, I was hitting a draw and I wanted to

458
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Speaker 1: hit a fade, So I hit a fade and that

459
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Speaker 1: was So if you like some advice on how to

460
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Speaker 1: hit that fade, DJ is happy to help you out

461
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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you just hit it. It's fine.

463
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Speaker 5: So I was told yesterday that DJ's hot play of

464
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Speaker 5: late hot to be Uh, you know, that's kind of

465
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Speaker 5: a minor way to explain that. He looked at some

466
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Speaker 5: old film of himself from like years ago and saw

467
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Speaker 5: a little thing on his follow through and how.

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Speaker 4: He used to used to go through it.

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Speaker 1: Huh, and just.

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Speaker 4: Went, oh, I used to do that. I should do

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Speaker 4: that again.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I want to go back to nerding out on

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Speaker 2: golf because that's I'm big into the modeling and looking

474
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Speaker 2: at stats, and Britton I did a lot of work.

475
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at your stats and you brought up all

476
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Speaker 2: the things I was going to talk about. Historically, your

477
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Speaker 2: best stat, which is the most predictive stat in the

478
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Speaker 2: PGA Tour, is off the t I think that is

479
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Speaker 2: hands down the most important thing. Putting has a lot

480
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Speaker 2: of variants, but off the tea. You look at the

481
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Speaker 2: best players in the world, they're all amazing off the tea.

482
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Speaker 2: You've been amazing off the tee this year. You're still

483
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Speaker 2: doing well. You're gaining strokes off the tea, but not

484
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Speaker 2: up to the standard of the last couple of years.

485
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Speaker 2: But you've really been great in approach, which you've had

486
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Speaker 2: other years. We've been great approach, but specifically your stroke

487
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Speaker 2: scanined approach have been awesome in the twenty twenty season,

488
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Speaker 2: and the putter heated up. So when you're looking at

489
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Speaker 2: that stuff, obviously you're taking those stats. Do you focus

490
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Speaker 2: on what your best at? Do you try to work

491
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Speaker 2: on the things that you're struggling in. I mean, hutting's

492
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Speaker 2: a really up and down thing regardless of who you are.

493
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Speaker 2: I mean sometimes you guy can be top ten and

494
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Speaker 2: strokes skin putting for a year and then one hundred

495
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Speaker 2: and fiftieth the next year. It's obviously one of the

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Speaker 2: stats with the most short term variants, But how do

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Speaker 2: you evaluate your stats and how do you try to

498
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Speaker 2: improve your game from looking at the stats?

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Speaker 5: We have access to a ton of data, which is

500
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Speaker 5: really cool. Most of the time, it kind of tells

501
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Speaker 5: you what you already know, Like you feel it when

502
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 5: you're out there. You know if you're putting well, if

503
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 5: you're not putting well, you know if you're hitting fairways,

504
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 5: or you know if you're not hitting it close enough.

505
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Speaker 5: For me, with the putting specifically, I had to work

506
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Speaker 5: on technical stuff first and took me a long time

507
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Speaker 5: to get a good understanding of what I was doing

508
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Speaker 5: with my.

509
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Speaker 4: Stroke at why it was happening, and how I could

510
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Speaker 4: fix it.

511
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Speaker 5: My coach kept telling me, this is what you're doing,

512
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Speaker 5: and I kept going, no, I'm not, or I can't

513
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 5: feel that, or I can't certainly it can't be that

514
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 5: far that I have to move the putter and stuff.

515
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Speaker 5: So now I feel like I have that more under control,

516
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Speaker 5: so it's a lot easier. I can get into read

517
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Speaker 5: and speed more, which is obviously the key to putting.

518
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Speaker 5: It's more of an art form that it is a science,

519
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,680
Speaker 5: at least to me. The driving I have gotten a

520
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Speaker 5: little crossed up this year. Last year, I was first

521
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Speaker 5: in total driving last year, and I hit a lot

522
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Speaker 5: of faides, and that was the first year that I

523
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Speaker 5: hit a ton of faids. This year, I've gotten crossed

524
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Speaker 5: up at tournaments like the PGA and at BMW where

525
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Speaker 5: you had to hit some draws off the tee because

526
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Speaker 5: there were trees in the way and things where you

527
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Speaker 5: couldn't just fade it even when the dog legs going

528
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Speaker 5: right to left. A lot of the time I was

529
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Speaker 5: still hitting fades, so I'd be working on my draws

530
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Speaker 5: and then i'd lose my fade, so then I didn't

531
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Speaker 5: know what I was doing when I was out there.

532
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Speaker 5: I'd get out there and maybe hit a good draw,

533
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Speaker 5: but then I'm trying to get three good fades and

534
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Speaker 5: I can't hit any. So the driving just got a

535
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Speaker 5: little crossed up at times this year. Other than that

536
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Speaker 5: I feel like everything's really good. So it's a weird

537
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Speaker 5: time because that's normally, even in the years where I've

538
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Speaker 5: played poorly, that's been the.

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Speaker 4: Best part of my game. It would just kind of

540
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Speaker 4: fall apart after that.

541
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Speaker 5: And now I've got that part kind of sorted out

542
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 5: and I need to get the ball back in the fairway.

543
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Speaker 2: Did anything change in your approach this year? I mean,

544
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 2: you had great approach stats in eighteen, but twenty nineteen

545
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Speaker 2: I was actually a part of the from a statistical standpoint,

546
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Speaker 2: the weak'st part of your game. This year, your approach

547
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 2: game has been incredible. Was there a technical change? Did

548
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: you find something? Because that's normally a pretty in terms

549
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 2: of range of outcomes for golfers, that's normally pretty narrow

550
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Speaker 2: relative to other stats.

551
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Speaker 5: So last year I changed golf balls for the first

552
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Speaker 5: time in eight years or something like that, and it

553
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Speaker 5: was awesome because I hit it high and far and straight,

554
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 5: and then it was terrible because the spin rate wasn't

555
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 5: right and I didn't know how far it was going

556
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Speaker 5: to go. So on paper it looked right because it

557
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 5: goes higher, farther, and straighter, but I couldn't get it

558
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 5: close to the hole, and then I went down a

559
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 5: rabbit hole of let me weaken my irons to try

560
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Speaker 5: to get more spin on it. Let me then change ball. Okay,

561
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Speaker 5: I'm going to strengthen the irons back down and then

562
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Speaker 5: I was just like kind of all over the place

563
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Speaker 5: with it. Last year, in May of last year, I

564
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 5: changed to a ball that spun the right amount with

565
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 5: the specs on my irons that I wanted. When a

566
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Speaker 5: little shorter off the tee, I'm now able to stop

567
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Speaker 5: it a lot faster on the greens, control it a

568
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 5: lot better, get the ball flight that I want. So

569
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Speaker 5: I think the ball's been a big part of it.

570
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 5: And then earlier in my career I could only move

571
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 5: the ball right to left, and now I feel like

572
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 5: I can hit all the shapes.

573
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Speaker 4: That I need going into the greens.

574
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 5: And so if you can only move a right to left,

575
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 5: you can only really get it a few of the

576
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Speaker 5: whole locations in a day, especially on a hard course,

577
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 5: because you might you might have five irons in and

578
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 5: you can't get it close even if you had a

579
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 5: great shot. And then you've got you know, six holes

580
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 5: where the pins on the right, and some guys can

581
00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 5: get it close but I can't get it close. So

582
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Speaker 5: now I've been able to adjust that and kind of

583
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 5: all pins are fair game, you know, at least to

584
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 5: some extent.

585
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: That's awesome, and you almost had. You had probably the

586
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: meanest hole out I've seen on a hole in one

587
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Speaker 2: this year, and I feel like I saw it, Like

588
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Speaker 2: when they panted you on TV, it was always you

589
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: just stuffing pins this year, So kudos to you on

590
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: the improvement on the approach this year.

591
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Speaker 1: I was there for that and as he walked off

592
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: that was was like thirteenth hole at Honda. That's fifteen, okay.

593
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Speaker 1: As he walked off the green, he looks at me

594
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: and says, I hope you didn't have a hole in

595
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Speaker 1: one prop for today. Always thinking about the fans and

596
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: the betters out there. Brendan Steel, by the way, and

597
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: those listening can't see it, of course, but my background,

598
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: which you can see during the Gimme show that we

599
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: always do, is is my my steel Caddy BIB. As

600
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: I tell everyone all the time, my career caddy scoring

601
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Speaker 1: average of sixty eight point zero zero probably conservative estimate,

602
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: probably top ten all time on the PGA tour. I'm available,

603
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm expensive, but I'm available if you ever need me again.

604
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: I don't guarantee sixty eight, but I've been there, done that,

605
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: so you know it's very possible that was in the

606
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Speaker 1: rain too. I'm just throwing it out there. The bib

607
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: can go back on, I can take it off the

608
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Speaker 1: wall at any point.

609
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Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that I'll have to call you in

610
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Speaker 5: at some point because I could use the sixty eight.

611
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Speaker 1: Here there, Brandon Steel, great guy, terrific golfer, one of

612
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Speaker 1: the favorites in the field this week, and absolute loser

613
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Speaker 1: for week one in our jail Fantasy League. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: He's the best beater. He is absolutely the best, and

627
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to beat him by fifty this week

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Speaker 1: in fantasy.

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Speaker 2: I'm ruined for Steelely obviously shares a lot of the

630
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: same passions that we have, and it's fun to see

631
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 2: the stats and the approach thing, to me is really cool.

632
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 2: I mean to hear that he's figured out how to

633
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: you know, especially on the approach move in both directions.

634
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 2: That makes so much sense. Why he's had that huge

635
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 2: jump in his strokes can approach and the strokes gains

636
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Speaker 2: off the tee that historically has been by far the

637
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Speaker 2: strength of his game. I think that's going to come around.

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Speaker 2: And I'm hoping Steely ships this thing.

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Speaker 1: That would be fantastic. I hope so too, for muti

640
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: multitude of reasons this week. And by the way, in

641
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Speaker 1: case the listeners can tell you, yes, Brendan and I

642
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: are are friends. But there are times when you know,

643
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: someone says, oh, did you talk to Steely? Like how's

644
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: the course playing? Does he think of you know? This

645
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: guy or that guy? I don't know. I I texted

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00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: with him and we talked about hockey, then we talked

647
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: about the basketball game. Then we talked about baseball, and

648
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: we talked about some fancy football stuff. You know, we're

649
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: not sitting there talking about golf. The last thing golfer

650
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Speaker 1: wants to do is talk about golf. You're a lawyer,

651
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Speaker 1: you want to come home and text all your buddies about,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the stuff you're working on with your cases.

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Speaker 1: Now you want to talk about everything else. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we just talk sports. And he really is a good dude,

655
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: and he's, like we said, one of the favorites in

656
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: this week's field. Pierre, you want to run down the

657
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: list of odds that bet MGM has up there this

658
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: week for the Safeway Open, because it's it's an eclectic list.

659
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: You start looking at the top and you've got guys

660
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: like Seewu, Kim, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Jordan Speith. I'm

661
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: not sure that we can find a more volatile list

662
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: of potential favorites and contenders at a golf tournament than

663
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: some of these guys, who are guys with incredibly high

664
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: ceilings and incredibly low floors for guys who are favorites

665
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: of the golf tourment. So what do we got there

666
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: on the odds board? This week.

667
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, my friends at MGM, Michelson and Sea Wou is

668
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: the favorites at twenty to one, Brendan Steel front of

669
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: the pod twenty two to one, Harold Varner moved to

670
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: twenty five to one, Joe Damon at twenty five to one,

671
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 2: Sergio twenty to one, and then a slew of guys

672
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 2: at thirty to one Grio, Spieth and Lowry. So I

673
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 2: think there's some really interesting guys obviously at the top,

674
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: with Sea Woo and Mickelson, who are probably the two

675
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: most volatile players you'll ever see as the shortest odds

676
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: you know out there. But yeah, it's a really intriguing

677
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: leaderboard and I'll be betting at MGM for sure, especially

678
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: in the top five, top tens, top twenties. No dead

679
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 2: heat rules on those bets. Ties are paid in full

680
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: and I love that. Especially last week. It was fun

681
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: to have those bets. Although Sung Jay he really stung

682
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: me by finished eleventh. I had him T ten to

683
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: start the week and that looked like a surefire bet.

684
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: Faltered on Sunday and then on Monday, the final day,

685
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: Scheffler made a great birdie on eighteen and you know,

686
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: some j couldn't get it done, finished eleventh. But that

687
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: being said, love betting MGM, especially on the finishing position bets.

688
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: I will say over the last six weeks, I was

689
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: very very close and really nailed most of the top five.

690
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: At the Windham had JT. At the WGC FedEx we

691
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: did okay. At the PGA BMW I had John Rahm

692
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: is my favorite outright, and then a few of them.

693
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: Just Boston absolutely laid an egg and did not touch DJ.

694
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure I talked about him on the

695
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: pot at all and certainly didn't write about him. And

696
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: last week, trying to differentiate, try and be a little contrarian,

697
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: trying to go with all Web Simpson of the week

698
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: off and you know, maybe these guys coming off what

699
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 1: was a major championship venue at Olympia Field, now just

700
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: that didn't work at all. So all I can tell

701
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: you is that based on the trends, based on the patterns,

702
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: with me going one off, one on, I should be

703
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: ready for a good week myself. So let us get

704
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: to our ultimate DFS lineup. We do it every single week.

705
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: We love doing it on the pod where we go

706
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: through and pick our six man DraftKings team for you

707
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: guys to get all sense of where we're looking this week.

708
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: Pete lay it off. Want to be a DFS millionaire.

709
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: You're just one lineup away. We're gonna go with him,

710
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: and you're gonna play better than you ever dreamed of. God,

711
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: that's what I demanded of you. So let's get drafting.

712
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: Well, easiest pick on the board, we're taking. Man. We

713
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: just talked to guys won here twice. Approach game is

714
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: on fire. He's gonna hit the fades well this week.

715
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: Brendan steel we hope is going to be the winner

716
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: of this week. So we're taking him for sure.

717
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: Veto kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not Veto Steeler.

718
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: I will say that as we were in sort of

719
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: the group chat, I said, you know, all the guys

720
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: were kind of giving him some grief, and I said,

721
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, this must be why he plays so well

722
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 1: in NAPA every year, because we just get him so

723
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: pissed off in the fantasy chat and he gets so

724
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: mad about who he's picked and how much he doesn't

725
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: like him. He goes out there and takes it on

726
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: the golf course and takes it out on, everybody else

727
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: in the field goes out and wins that damn thing.

728
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: So yes, I love Steally this week. I think that's

729
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: a strong pick, and I would like to go with

730
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: another high priced guy. I know you've got another high

731
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: price guy that you like. Let's see if we can

732
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: maybe get three of them in the lineup and then

733
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: go kind of stars and what do we call him now?

734
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: Because we don't want to call him stars and scrubs.

735
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: I don't think we ever figured this out.

736
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Stars and non stars. I guess it might be, but

737
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: in any case, I'm looking at Joel Damon at ninety

738
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: five hundred this week. You mentioned he's somewhere between twenty

739
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: five and thirty to one this week, and I know

740
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: where's he at MGM twenty eight twenty all right, So

741
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: I like that number for Damon this week. He's a

742
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: guy that plays really well on the West Coast, tends

743
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: to make birdies and bunches. In fact, are our old buddy.

744
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,719
Speaker 1: Drew Stoltz the Sleeves used to do the pod with

745
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: us on PGA Tour Radio on Sirius XM often talks

746
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: about Joel Damon and says he loves his game because

747
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: he just goes unconscious with making birdies, like a hot

748
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: three point shooter who after a while you just want

749
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: to keep getting him the ball because the guy can't miss.

750
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: The guy just gets on fire. And Joel Damon is

751
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: like that on the golf course. So looking for a

752
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: little heat out of Damon this week. So we've got

753
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: two expensive guys at the top, Steely and Damon. So

754
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: where we going next.

755
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep going expensive and then we're gonna start

756
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: saving some cash. You know, I got the Jordan's in

757
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: the background, best shoot game on tour. And a guy

758
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: really like this week is Harold Barner, who I think

759
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: sets up really well at this golf course, really good

760
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 2: off the tee. Has competed against the best players in

761
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: the world throughout this season, specifically on Thursday and Friday.

762
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: Hasn't had the best weekends, but you know, this is

763
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: obviously a field without anyone from last week, I believe,

764
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: and I think he's set up really well with his game.

765
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: And you know, I think the line movie we've seen

766
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 2: here already on Tuesday is a positive sign for Harol Barner.

767
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: I could have sworn the Jordan's talk, was you setting

768
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: up a Keegan Bradley pick. But I do like the

769
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: Varner pick. I think that's the solid play. We've got

770
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: seventy one to thirty three per player left with three

771
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: guys left to go. I am looking this week, Peter,

772
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of West Coast guys. I think

773
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: you can look at West Coast specialist guys that hut

774
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: better on the poa Anna Greens that they have at Silverado.

775
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: And Maverick McNeely is a guy who was all everything

776
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: at Stanford, grew up on the West Coast. He's he's

777
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: a guy that starting to come into his own on

778
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: the PGA Tour. He's got six finishes of fifteenth or

779
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: better since January and at seventy three hundred, I really

780
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: like that play this.

781
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 2: Week, all right, I like that too. I have two guys.

782
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: I can go a seven thousand or seventy four hundred

783
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: dollars guys.

784
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: So I know you really like the seventy four hundred guys,

785
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 1: so I want you to take him. Don't worry about

786
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: leaving me no money.

787
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 2: Okay, I really like Carlos Artiz this week. Seventy four

788
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: hundred is just simply too cheap, you know, I know

789
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 2: He's not a huge name, but you look at his play.

790
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he is an elite ball striker. The forum

791
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 2: I think is pretty solid right now, and I definitely

792
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 2: want to exposure to him at that price. One of

793
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: the top values on DraftKings for me this week.

794
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. So if you're building a team

795
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: this week where you've got a lot of high priced guys,

796
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: want to sneak in some lower priced guys. There are

797
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: some names out there and maybe names you don't know.

798
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: I really like Bryson Nimmer before he withdrew from this tournament.

799
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: Who's Bryson Nimmer. He's won twice and been runner up

800
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: once in four local IQ Series events, which is basically

801
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: everyone that's part of a PGA Tour sanctioned event below

802
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: the corn Ferry level. Well, he withdrew, But I would

803
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: look at a guy like Sahithigala, who I've talked about

804
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: a few times during this summer. He's back in California

805
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: and other West Coast that might start to play well

806
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: and PJ Tour hasn't done it yet. You can look

807
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: at a guy like Brandon Hagy, who plays well on

808
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: the West Coast, a big hitter, he's got maybe a

809
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: low floor, but he's also got a really high ceiling.

810
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that could pop one of

811
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: these weeks and go out and play really well. MJ. Dafu.

812
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: If I'm even saying his last name right, this guy

813
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: Monday qualifies everywhere. He's a guy that is very cheap

814
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: that you might want to look at and say, hey,

815
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: I'm going to differentiate from a lot of other people.

816
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: At least so I've got sixty seven hundred left to spend.

817
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: And that was me filibustering as I'm looking through all

818
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: the potential options, and I'm going to stick with my

819
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: West Coast theme and I'm going with Joseph Bramlett at

820
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: sixty five hundred. Really good ball striker. He's a guy

821
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: that a lot of people liked over the past year.

822
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: Looking back on recent results, there's not a whole lot.

823
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: Didn't reach the playoffs, missed the cut at the window

824
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: of the week before. He was twelfth at the Barracuda,

825
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: and if you go back and look at some of

826
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: what he did on the West Coast, I think Pebble

827
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: Beach might be as close to a correlating tournament as

828
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: we have on Tour and he was eighteenth at Pebble

829
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: this past year. Like it.

830
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 2: I love that squad. And yeah, the other guy that

831
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: we're always on that I think, you know, we could

832
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: have potentially fit in. I love the lineup. But Johnny Vegas,

833
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: I think is someone we almost always talk about in

834
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: the pod. I would hate if we didn't bring him up.

835
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: I think he has a good week this week.

836
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: I like Vegas as well a couple other names I

837
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: would throw in there. Patrick Rogers I really like a

838
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: lot this week, just couldn't fit them in. And Kevin

839
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: Chapple another cheap guy who for good reason isn't getting

840
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: a lot of love in the betting markets. Is not

841
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: expensive whatsoever in DFS. But remember he's a guy that

842
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: was on the President's Cup team not that long ago,

843
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: so he is a very very talented player. So going

844
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: back looking at that team, it's Brendan Steel, Joel Damon,

845
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: Harold Varner, Maverick McNeely, Carlos Ortiz, Joseph Bramlett. With two

846
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: hundred left on the table, Peter, I kind of love

847
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,479
Speaker 1: that team.

848
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: Actually, I love this team and I love this week.

849
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be firing this week, so I'm excited for it,

850
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: and yeah, fun that Steely came on and we'll see

851
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: who wins this week one fantasy matchup. I can't believe

852
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 2: we have football on the horizon. So a lot to

853
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 2: be excited for as a sports fan right now.

854
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. For as bad as it was being a sports

855
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: fan just a few months ago, it's starting to get really,

856
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: really good. And it's gonna be fun over the next

857
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: few weeks, and it's gonna be fun for the next

858
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: oh fifty one weeks on the PGA Tour with so

859
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: many golf Yeah, PGA Tour is calling it a super season.

860
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: Our our CEO said, well.

861
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 4: You're gonna be busy.

862
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: Patrick Keins told me you're gonna be a busy guy.

863
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: So well, I'm taking off the entire offseason Tuesday and Wednesday.

864
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: Well guess what. That didn't happen. So it's okay. I

865
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: love it. I can't wait to get back into this stuff.

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Speaker 1: So thanks so much to Brendan Steele for joining us

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Speaker 1: once again. A solid play this week for anybody who's

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Speaker 1: looking for a good bet. Peter, thanks so much. Good

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Speaker 1: luck to you. I'm Jason Soble. Thanks everybody for listening.

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Speaker 1: You can catch us on the Gimme this week and

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Speaker 1: every week eight thirty pm Eastern Time on Wednesday evening.

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Speaker 1: Check your local social channels to find out exactly where

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Speaker 1: For Peter Jennings, I'm Jason Soble. Good luck to everybody

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Speaker 1: for this week's Safeway open. Here's hoping you get the green.

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Speaker 1: We're finished talking