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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: I am Schad Millman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.

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Speaker 1: It's US Open week. Obviously a lot of conversations happening

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Speaker 1: in Brookline, where the U s Open is being held.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in a quarter century. Live golf

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Speaker 1: started last week. We're gonna have Jason Sobel come on.

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Speaker 1: He's at Brookline. He's gonna talk about handicap in the

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Speaker 1: US Open. He's going to talk about the scuttle butt

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Speaker 1: on the tour, generally about live golf, how players are

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Speaker 1: reacting to it, our personal interpretations of everything. Before we

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Speaker 1: get to that, my bff, my companion, Mike and Padre

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Speaker 1: professional Better Simon Hunter. Hello, Siman, what's going on? Brother? Dude?

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Speaker 1: You and I were together on Friday night. Facts. You

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Speaker 1: picked me up in your slamming convertible beamer in front

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Speaker 1: it was. It couldn't have been a more perfect night. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: are not a rowdy fan base either. No, we never

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Speaker 1: felt threatened. You know, we got a bad rap here

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Speaker 1: We had ridiculously good seats, fourth row behind along the

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Speaker 1: if anyone's ever seen the movie Slap Shot, and you

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Speaker 1: know the triplets in that movie, the three Triplets, that's

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Speaker 1: literally what was sitting right behind me and chat the

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Speaker 1: entire game. It was great. These guys are described These

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Speaker 1: guys have not missed the game ever. Someone walked, someone

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Speaker 1: like that. It was truly incredible how these guys were

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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Bryce Harper starting to get warm. It's getting

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Speaker 1: ice cream. Great night, great to hang with you. Philly

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Speaker 1: Let's bring in Jason Sobel live on the scene from Brookline,

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Speaker 1: Let's start with let's start with top tens. Who you're

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Speaker 1: seeing best odds, best value for top ten? Right now? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned Tony Finales named a minute ago. Tony figure

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Speaker 1: for Tony to become a superstar. Didn't happen afterwards, but

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Speaker 1: in his last five starts, he's got three top five finishes,

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Speaker 1: including a runner to Rory back Roy this past weekend.

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Speaker 1: I like Tony a lot for a US Open type

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Speaker 1: of setup. He's got the right attitude. Like I was

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Speaker 1: just saying, I think he's a good play Max Homa.

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Speaker 1: Here's a guy who hasn't played major as well in

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Speaker 1: the past, but he's he's literally getting better every single

497
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Speaker 1: week and you can tell the confidence on his face,

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Speaker 1: like this is a guy that's improving right before our eyes.

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Speaker 1: He won the Wells Fargo Championship about a month ago,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's a nice little correlation. That was

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Speaker 1: a tough Northeast golf course. I think you can look

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Speaker 1: at that one and say, I think some players from

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Speaker 1: that league aboard will show up on this one. Maximas

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Speaker 1: guy who was thirteen of the PGA Championship last month,

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Speaker 1: that's his best career major finish. I like. I like

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Speaker 1: him a few notches higher for a top ten this week,

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Speaker 1: and then Matt Fitzpatrick is a great player this week.

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Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick won the two thousand thirteen US Amateur right

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Speaker 1: here at the country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Plays his

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Speaker 1: best golf on tougher golf courses when the winning score

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Speaker 1: is closer in relationship part. Oh, by the way, he's

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Speaker 1: number two. He was number one for most of the

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Speaker 1: season in total strokes gained on the PGA Tour. Rory

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Speaker 1: mclory just went past him this past weekend, but he's

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Speaker 1: a close second. Essentially, that measures who's playing the best golf.

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Speaker 1: I know Fitzpatrick hasn't won anything this season, but he's

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Speaker 1: been very, very good. Just to give people in some context, uh,

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Speaker 1: Matt Fitzpatrick to one outright about plus two ten two

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Speaker 1: to one for top ten, Tony Fine thirty five to one,

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Speaker 1: plus three twenty for top ten. Uh, Maxima to one

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Speaker 1: plus four twenty for top ten. Simon, I want you

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Speaker 1: to follow up in a second, but I do have

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Speaker 1: one re quire and everything I've read this week, everyone

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Speaker 1: keeps talking about Maxima. Why are maximas odds so long

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Speaker 1: if everyone seems to like him so much? Twitter? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people. Look, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are blinded by what's right in front of them.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people look at social media. Look, I'm

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Speaker 1: out here all the time. I'm talking to players, I'm

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Speaker 1: around the game. I see things that other people aren't

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Speaker 1: necessarily seeing. When you're sitting at home and you're trying

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00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: to figure out who's gonna win the golf tournament, you're like, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's go on Twitter and let's click around. You're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: there he is again. It's just it's front and center

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Speaker 1: in your mind. That's it. He is a very good player. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's a very popular pick. Look, Fitzpatrick is gonna be

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Speaker 1: an extremely popular pick this week as well. But um

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Speaker 1: are these are the guys that I think should play well.

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Speaker 1: Their their games should suit this golf course this week.

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Speaker 1: I know Chad want to hold off on if I

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Speaker 1: gotta hear him long shots give it to you. I

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Speaker 1: know he wants to do favorite picks, but I wanted

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Speaker 1: to hear the long shots. I love the long shots,

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Speaker 1: all right, So what kind of long shots do you want?

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Speaker 1: We're talking like super random dudes for top forties, or

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Speaker 1: you're talking like, hey, guy with a big number that

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Speaker 1: has a chance of winning, big number, chance of winning always. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I would started off with I I told you guys,

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Speaker 1: I took a little spin around this golf course yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find like a great comparison golf course.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me to what this looks like. And the best

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Speaker 1: I can come up with is Marrying Marrying golf Club,

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Speaker 1: a famous course, Ben Hogan's one Iron. We all know

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Speaker 1: the story last l the US Open. The guy who

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Speaker 1: won that week just happened to shoot sixty a couple

556
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Speaker 1: of days ago. Probably should have shot a fifty seventy,

557
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Speaker 1: made three bogies and shot sixty in Canada, that's justin Rose.

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Speaker 1: The number has moved. I think you could have gotten

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Speaker 1: him before that sixty at right around eighty or maybe

560
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Speaker 1: even a hundred to one in some books. I think

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Speaker 1: roses down to to one in a lot of places

562
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Speaker 1: right now. I still like the number. I still think

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Speaker 1: there's some win equity there. He's playing some very good golf. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not the same player in his prime as he

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Speaker 1: was at marrying uh back nine years ago. But I

566
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Speaker 1: do think you can go out and still win this

567
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Speaker 1: golf tournament. You know what's interesting You mentioned guys like speed,

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Speaker 1: If you mentioned guys like Justin Rose, I feel like

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Speaker 1: their moment came and went so quickly. You know, like

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Speaker 1: you just sort of think, Okay, he's in his prime

571
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Speaker 1: as a golfer. He should get a good six, seven, eight,

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Speaker 1: nine years in that prime, given sort of how your

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Speaker 1: game evolves, how sometimes you can get better as you

574
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Speaker 1: get older. Players are starting to play a little bit earlier. Um,

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Speaker 1: the way to extay in shape sort of fitnesses is better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: These guys like they came and went so quickly. Some yes,

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Speaker 1: some now. I mean, look, Justin Rose has been out

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Speaker 1: there for twenty years doing this and he's still a

579
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Speaker 1: very good player. I mean, it's still a guy who

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Speaker 1: on it on again. We can choose sixty in the

581
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Speaker 1: final round. I mean, he's still still good. He's not

582
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Speaker 1: gonna do it every single week. I think it's a

583
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Speaker 1: combination of Look, you do it for a long time,

584
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Speaker 1: you just get injured, you kind of lose maybe little

585
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Speaker 1: desire and motivation for especially non major championships. Some of

586
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Speaker 1: these guys, I mean, you mentioned Jordan speaking, he's still

587
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Speaker 1: very much in his prime. He's still one of the

588
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Speaker 1: top ten golfers in the world. I like him this

589
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Speaker 1: week as well. Then you look at look how many

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Speaker 1: good young players there are. I mean, we were just

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Speaker 1: talking a few years ago about Hey, Colin Morricala and

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Speaker 1: Victor Hoblin, they're gonna be really good. Those guys have

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Speaker 1: been top five players in the game, and now they're

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Speaker 1: getting pushed by the Wills alaturus Is and Cameron Young

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Speaker 1: and Mito Pereira and Davis Riley, and there's more and

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Speaker 1: more coming up on a regular basis. So it's really

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Speaker 1: hard to be a thirty eight, thirty nine, forty year

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Speaker 1: old golfer and trying to compete with these kids who

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Speaker 1: are twenty two and twenty three and feel like they're

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Speaker 1: they've got all the confidence in the world. It goes

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Speaker 1: back to the live golf situation where a lot of

602
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Speaker 1: these guys who are going over to live they're late

603
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Speaker 1: thirties early forties, and they see the writing on the wall,

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Speaker 1: and they're saying, Look, I'm in the back nine of

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Speaker 1: my career. Anyway, these kids are pushing me out. I

606
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Speaker 1: may never win anything of substance again. Why not take

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Speaker 1: my knocking figure payout and go play fifty four whole

608
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Speaker 1: events and not have to deal with these kids were

609
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Speaker 1: beating my butt every week. Jordan's to one match, Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: to one. I mentioned before, Kylin Morracylo Hugh just mentioned

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Speaker 1: to one, all right, we did top ten, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do top five, and then Simon is going to ask

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Speaker 1: you for your outrights after I give everybody the right

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Speaker 1: context for who's got the shortest odds, right now, give

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Speaker 1: me your top five. Okay, so guys, the top five,

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Speaker 1: they're like, now giving up my my favorite outright play. Look,

617
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Speaker 1: a couple of them are very choky. I've got Justin

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Speaker 1: Thomas Mori McElroy. They're both right at the top of

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Speaker 1: the leaderboard. This past weekend, Wory wound up winning. Good

620
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Speaker 1: for golf, good for the PGA Tour. Everyone celebrates. Look,

621
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Speaker 1: Rory's playing some of the best golf that we've seen

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Speaker 1: him play in an awful long time. We talked about confidence,

623
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Speaker 1: we talk about let's look beyond the analytical models and

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Speaker 1: let's look at the guy and and and understand what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing from him. Rory is absolutely brimming with confidence

626
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Speaker 1: right now, both on and off the golf course. He

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Speaker 1: is a must watch golfer on the course. He's a

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Speaker 1: much watch, must watch interview. Off the golf course. He's

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Speaker 1: just he's fired at all cylinders and all facets of

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Speaker 1: what his job is right now. And so love Rory

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Speaker 1: this week. Love Justin Thomas. I was uh coming to

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Speaker 1: the course today with a couple of p g A

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Speaker 1: tour pros who um who were working on the radio

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Speaker 1: side US Open Championship radio with me this week, and

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Speaker 1: they were talking about Justin Thomas, who has every shot

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Speaker 1: in the bag. They said, no other player in the

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Speaker 1: world right now can flight the ball however they want,

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Speaker 1: Like Justin Thomas, he wants to hit a low cutty.

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Speaker 1: It's a low cut you want to say to high

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Speaker 1: draw high drug. You can do it from sixty yards,

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Speaker 1: you can do it from two and thirty yards. He's

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Speaker 1: got this variety of shots that's gonna work really well

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Speaker 1: for him. So again, those aren't names from off the board.

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Speaker 1: They haven't heard. Daniel Berger isn't getting enough love in

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Speaker 1: the marketplace yet this week. Daniel Berger is a guy

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Speaker 1: who often comes up to New England the summer. He's

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Speaker 1: sort of as de facto New England or his old

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Speaker 1: bro Matt Doyle's at the Msquamaket Club in Rhode Islands.

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Speaker 1: He goes up there and practices. He's playing ball at

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Speaker 1: the Travelers Championship, just a couple of miles or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours down the road in Connecticut. And

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Speaker 1: so I think it's gonna be a good week for Burger.

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Speaker 1: I might not have said that a few weeks ago

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Speaker 1: because he was dealing with some injuries, some inconsistencies. But

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Speaker 1: he finished the sheriff fifth place at the Memorial Tournament.

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Speaker 1: That's a really tough one. This is gonna be tough

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Speaker 1: as well. I think his game really suits his golf course.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Burger eight to one for a top five rory

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Speaker 1: plus two Justin Thomas plus two seventy five the Travelers

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Speaker 1: mere minutes from West Hartford. I'll be there in a

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Speaker 1: few days. I know. I'm looking forward to me all

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Speaker 1: right outright winners right now, Rory's attend to one and

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Speaker 1: dropping justin Thomas eleven and one, John Ram defending fourteen

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Speaker 1: to one, Scottie Scheffler fourteen to one, Cam Smith one,

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Speaker 1: Xander Schoffley one. Then Can't Lay, Patrick can't one. Simon

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Speaker 1: ask you a question, here's your favorite bet? Alright? So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, those names mentioned, Xander Shaffley and Patrick

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Speaker 1: Cantley at those numbers are very very intrigued. I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good week for both of them.

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Speaker 1: Can't Lay has played some of his worst golf in

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Speaker 1: the Majors over the last year or so. I think

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Speaker 1: people are gonna be scared off. I think that's kept

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Speaker 1: his number from being too short. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: really good number for him. He's better than where he's

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Speaker 1: being priced at. That said, you didn't mention my guy

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Speaker 1: who's a little bit lower down the board. Shane Lowry

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Speaker 1: is playing some of the best golf of his life

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Speaker 1: so far this year. Twelve starts in two, nothing worse

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Speaker 1: than thirty five, and really it's this all around game.

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Speaker 1: He eats driving it well. The irons are solid soft

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Speaker 1: fans around the greens. He makes some butts he's got

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Speaker 1: the right attitude for US Open. He was runner up

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Speaker 1: to Dustin Johnson at Oakmont back in and so I like,

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Speaker 1: but irishman in Boston, who would think that that can

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Speaker 1: ever go well? But I really do think Shane Lowry

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Speaker 1: can h can go and take this thing this week.

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Speaker 1: Even though he won the Open Championship a few years

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Speaker 1: ago at Royal part Wich, I've always thought he's probably

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Speaker 1: got a better chance of winning a US Open. I

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Speaker 1: think he's better US Open player than even the Open

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Speaker 1: Championship where he's from. And quite frankly, guys, maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: just rooting for it, not only for my own personal benefit,

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Speaker 1: but that's celebration for Shane Lowry here in Boston Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: That could be a pretty damn good party. Shane Lowry

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Speaker 1: currently thirty one to win the US Open. Jason Silbell,

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