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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Betting pros PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris,

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Speaker 1: joined as always by my colleague Bo mcbrair. We are

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Speaker 1: here to give you a betting preview of the Travelers Championship,

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Speaker 1: which te's off Thursday in Connecticut's We'll also recap a

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Speaker 1: memorable US Open, and at the end of the show,

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Speaker 1: we'll give you our one and done picks for the week.

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Speaker 1: Bryce and d Schambeau is your twenty twenty four US

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Speaker 1: Open champion. It's d Chambeau's second US Open win, his

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Speaker 1: second win in a major. D Chambeau also won the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty US Open at winged Foot, but that one

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Speaker 1: was a cake walk for Bryson. He was the only

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Speaker 1: player to finish under par at wing Foot and won

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Speaker 1: by six shots. This year's US Open at Pinehurst far

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Speaker 1: more dramatic. D Chambeau took a three shot lead into

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Speaker 1: the final round, gave up the lead, and then outdueled

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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy down the stretch to win by a shot,

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Speaker 1: capped off by what was undoubtedly the most clutch up

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Speaker 1: and down of Bryson's career. After pulling his t shot

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Speaker 1: left on the eighteenth hole Sunday, d schambaud a difficult

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Speaker 1: second shot with a small tree preventing a full backswing

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Speaker 1: and a tree root positioned right by his ball, all

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Speaker 1: he could do was skitter it into a fairway bunker

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Speaker 1: some fifty yard short of the whole bunker. Shots of

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Speaker 1: that length bow so difficult, and yeah, Bryson blasted it

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Speaker 1: out to four feet and then rolled in the winning parpots.

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Speaker 1: D Schambeau finished six under par, one shot better than

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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, whose ten year drought in majors continued. This

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Speaker 1: one had to be the most painful of Rory's near misses. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: Rory was deeply stung by this one. He had one

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Speaker 1: hand on the trophy but let it slip from his

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Speaker 1: grasp and then quickly left Pinehurst without talking to the media,

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Speaker 1: and he has already withdrawn from this week's Travelers Championship

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Speaker 1: after initially being entered. Rory had caught fire midway through

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Speaker 1: the final round, birdied nine, ten, twelve and thirteen to

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Speaker 1: get to eight under par for the tournament. At that point,

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Speaker 1: he was minus four on the day and he was

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Speaker 1: on fire with his potter. McElroy had made well over

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Speaker 1: one hundred feet worth of putts to that point, but

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Speaker 1: then things started to come apart. He had his tea

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Speaker 1: and made bogie. Next hole, Rory was inside thirty feet

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Speaker 1: with his birdie putt and missed the three foot comebacker.

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Speaker 1: Another bogie, and then on the eighteenth Rory hit one

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Speaker 1: of the green, chipped it within four feet, but then

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Speaker 1: missed another bunny. Meaning Bryson needed only to par the

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Speaker 1: final hole to win the tournament, and that he did

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Speaker 1: in dramatic fashion. One tough break for Rory Bow that

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Speaker 1: just I can't stop thinking about. On the par five

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Speaker 1: fifth hole, Rory hit a terrific drive and had a

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Speaker 1: five iron to try to get home in two. The

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Speaker 1: fifth green has a false front and Rory hit what

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Speaker 1: looked like a terrific approach ball, came up just a

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Speaker 1: level part of the green, and then started trickling backward. Now,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Cantlay's approachhot had done the same thing a minute

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Speaker 1: Mceilroy's ball tight roped that bunker, went past it, and

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Speaker 1: an almost impossible third shots. Mckilroy wound up making birdie

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Speaker 1: after being very close to having an eagle Potts and

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Speaker 1: break for him. Patrick Kntlan and Tony Fenow finished tied

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Speaker 1: for third to minus four. Can't Lay didn't play well

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Speaker 1: on Saturday that just put him too far back. Even

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Speaker 1: too late for him to make up ground. And Scotty

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Speaker 1: Scheffler played his worst tournament of the year by far.

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Speaker 1: He was five over after his first two rounds and

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Speaker 1: That's pretty odd for Scotti. The Pineers Greens really vexed him.

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Speaker 1: Scotti has been hot with the putter all season, but

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Speaker 1: the seven to fifteen foot putt range. So what were

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on Bryson's win, Rory's meltdown, Pinehurst itself, anything

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Speaker 1: else that stood out to you about the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: It was perfect.

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Speaker 3: It was a perfect display of what golf is. Championship

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Speaker 3: golf isn't fair, and that was about as fair as

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Speaker 3: golf gets is. Rory started off probably hotter than he

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Speaker 3: probably had even the gumption to do on that golf

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Speaker 3: it was gonna come back one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately for him, it came back in a really rude

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Speaker 3: way with I mean, his put on sixteen that he

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Speaker 3: missed for Parr was way worse. The put on eighteen

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Speaker 3: Bermuda greens, they were crusty. Bryson just did enough to

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Speaker 3: a great start and he just couldn't finish. And that's golf.

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Speaker 3: That is golf in a nutshell, and Pinehurst was the

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Speaker 3: perfect host golf course. I am so glad it's an

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Speaker 3: anchor US Open golf course because they did a flawless

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Speaker 3: job of putting on that championship. Kudos to everybody involved

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Speaker 3: with that tournament because even though the golfer that I

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Speaker 2: It could have gone any number.

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Speaker 3: Of ways that final day, and it was riveting television.

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Speaker 3: It was the perfect display of what can happen on

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Speaker 3: a golf course with all these different variables. That shot

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Speaker 3: you have to be perfect at Pinehurst, and that's just

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Speaker 3: how it goes. It's just you get bad breaks, you

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Speaker 3: Bryson shout out Norcoal, Modesto native, give me another championship, Bryson.

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Speaker 3: Bryson's become a fan favorite, and a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: lot of people. He was immature, He went through a

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Speaker 3: fitting in on a father's day to have a guy

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Speaker 3: who had completely changed his entire way of living since

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Speaker 3: the things stacked against him, That's what I want to see.

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Speaker 3: Even if it wasn't my golfer that I bet on,

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Speaker 3: that was magical.

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Speaker 2: I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Look, I was cheering for Rory, I mean, the Northern irishman.

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Speaker 1: I really want to see him break this terrible run.

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Speaker 1: He's having a majors but he will, he will, And

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Speaker 1: Bryson has just gotten so much more likable than he

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Speaker 1: was a few years ago. I feel like it's genuine

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Speaker 1: coming off the green and signing the cap of a

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Speaker 1: and sitting amicably with Smiley Kaufman after Saturdays round and

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Speaker 3: Half an hour, signed autographs for two and a half

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and like he really seems to be savoring maybe

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yes, well earned and bo he battled his

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Speaker 1: his driver. He was blown everything right, And sure he

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Speaker 1: But you know, for like Brandal shambled to suggests that

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Speaker 1: he got extremely lucky. I mean, there was one of

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Speaker 3: So half truths in hyperbole do do make the media

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Speaker 3: go round. So I mean, it was partially true he

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Speaker 3: he overcame. And and you can't hate Bryson for doing

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Speaker 3: what he did. Like it's just like you can't have

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Speaker 3: he just didn't get it. He was immature, He didn't

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Speaker 3: it's like that's what he relishes. He relishes the opportunity

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Speaker 3: probably ten to twelve years old, like, hey, if you

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Speaker 2: Can stop you.

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Speaker 3: And two years ago, who knows, Bryson might have blown

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Speaker 3: have been the Rory McElroy who who didn't even shake

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's just okay.

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Speaker 3: There's snake bit and there's losing, and there's beating yourself,

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Speaker 3: and then there's Bryson who was gracious in defeat and

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Speaker 3: even more gracious in victory. And that's why he's so beloved.

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Speaker 2: Now. It's like you can't hate a guy who does

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Speaker 2: the right thing.

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Speaker 1: And he is the number one reason I am now,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I've always helped for reconciliation between Live

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Speaker 1: Golf and the PGA Tour. I'd love to see Bryce

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Speaker 1: and get out there and competing again. And yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: some other guys I missed too, Cam Smith, John Rahm, Brooks,

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Speaker 3: Birdie makers, we're kind of flipping it on its head.

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Speaker 3: going to come with accurate tea to greenplay. It's almost

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Speaker 1: Yeah, par Is seventy. If you shoot seventy in any

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can squeeze out of top ten if you're

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Speaker 1: at the odds for the travelers. These are all courtesy

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Speaker 1: of Draft Kings as of Monday night. Scotty Scheffler will

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Speaker 1: He's the favorite at plus three sixty. Xander Schoffley is

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Speaker 1: Sam Burns, see Heath Thgala and Russell Henley are all

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Speaker 3: Bo?

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Speaker 1: And how do you feel about Scotty at plus three sixty?

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Speaker 1: Are you at all worried that his putter remains balky

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Speaker 3: Yes, and no, I'm not really worried about him in

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Speaker 3: the long term at all. Like, you can't just fade

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Speaker 3: if he starts off a little sluggish, he's still within

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Speaker 3: to one. Hopefully he'll go to eight to ten to

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Speaker 3: Plus thirty sixties is too short. This is a good feel.

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Speaker 3: That's an elevated event. Again, Xander Schoffley is also a

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Speaker 3: watch going too. Even though he's not the prototype for

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Speaker 3: making birdies necessarily, I still like his fit with this

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Speaker 3: but it's a little short for my liking. I'm starting

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Speaker 3: perfectly suited to take this place and just obliterate it.

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Speaker 3: I think that he's got the birdie making, he's got

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Speaker 3: degreen game being so straight and accurate and consistent. He's

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Speaker 3: We've seen it at all the majors, We've seen it

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Speaker 3: in most of the tour events. Ludwig Oberg is the

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Speaker 3: next He is a prodigy. He is the next guy

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Speaker 3: And fourteen to one it's a little short, but it's

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Speaker 3: also this is the kind of place where I expect

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Speaker 1: He's totally unflappable, and so with the rowdy gallery like,

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Speaker 3: I also like Patrick Cantlay, another icewater guy who's got

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Speaker 3: that's a really solid number for him, and another guy

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Speaker 3: one for Justin Thomas in this field is insane to me.

430
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Speaker 3: I think that he's number one in my model. I

431
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Speaker 3: ran my model three different ways already, he's number one

432
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 3: in all three of them. It's it's for me, it's

433
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Speaker 3: a no brainer to take advantage of that line. When

434
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Speaker 3: nobody expects Justin Thomas to perform well, that seems to

435
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Speaker 3: be when he kind of comes out of nowhere and

436
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Speaker 3: does it again.

437
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Speaker 1: To your comment about Patrick Cantley's strong history in this tournament,

438
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: he has played this tournament six times, has never finished

439
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Speaker 1: out of the top fifteen, it seems good. That does

440
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: seem good, bo And that included a best personal best

441
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: fourth place finish last year. And yeah, after really kind

442
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: of struggling through May and June of this year, got

443
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Speaker 1: it together nicely at the US Open, so he comes

444
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Speaker 1: in on a high note. Scotty. I bet Scotti for

445
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 1: the first time all year before tournament at the US

446
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: Open Bow, so I thoroughly cursed him. I'm not doing

447
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: that this week, so everyone can feel safe to bet

448
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: him again. Scotty was fourth here last year, thirteenth here

449
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Let's see Hideki Matsuyama finished thirteenth

450
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,479
Speaker 1: last year in his traveler's debut and played well at

451
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Speaker 1: the US Open, finishing sixth. Like him at all this week?

452
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Speaker 3: I want to, but I just don't think his numbers

453
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 3: that good. Like I just I want to see Hideki.

454
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 3: This course doesn't exactly fit. He's another guy that does

455
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Speaker 3: better on longer courses with more of a grinder mentality.

456
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 3: He's not exactly a high volume birdie maker, so he

457
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Speaker 3: doesn't pop up very highly on my list. He's not bad,

458
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Speaker 3: though I'm not gonna scoff it. Hideki Matsiami came in

459
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Speaker 3: twelfth in my model. His obvious strength is off the

460
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Speaker 3: tee and his short game has been immaculate this season,

461
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Speaker 3: fifteenth in this field in a short game. His approach

462
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Speaker 3: game is a little squarely, and that's kind of what

463
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Speaker 3: knocks him down a peg in my book, a little

464
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Speaker 3: short for my liking, with the way he's played on approach,

465
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Speaker 3: which is a very key metric here.

466
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna mention three other guys from this group.

467
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Speaker 1: You can tell me at the end whether you like

468
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Speaker 1: any of them. See Heath the Gala finished second here

469
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, fifty second last year. Just been

470
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Speaker 1: really inconsistent of late. Brian Harmon has a terrific track

471
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: record at the Travelers. In his six last six appearances

472
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Speaker 1: here he has finished sixth eighth. He did miss the

473
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Speaker 1: cut in twenty twenty, but then fifth, eighth and second,

474
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Speaker 1: so top eight in five of the last six years.

475
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Speaker 1: Course does seem to suit him. Corey Connor's finished ninth

476
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Speaker 1: at the US Open and has been top twenty in

477
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Speaker 1: five of his last six events. He was ninth at

478
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Speaker 1: the Travelers last year. To any of the Gala, Harmon

479
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Speaker 1: or Connor, tickle your fancy.

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00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 3: Ball the latter two more than thia. I think Thigala

481
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 3: is too much, too erratic off the tee. His approach

482
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 3: game has been pretty bad. His short game's amazing, but

483
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 3: this is another course where it's not really grinding it out,

484
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 3: it's about making birdies. Brian Harmon fits this course really well,

485
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Speaker 3: and he just hasn't played well lately. We haven't seen

486
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Speaker 3: the peak Brian Harmon, which was obviously last year's Open championship.

487
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Speaker 3: That last guy he mentioned is the birdie making extraordinaire

488
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 3: with no short game. Corey Connors from Te de Green

489
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 3: is as good as it gets. He makes tons of

490
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: birdies and honestly was impressive. A short game was pretty

491
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: polished at Pinehurst under the most insanely difficult conditions where

492
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 3: I didn't think he had any chance at all to

493
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Speaker 3: compete in on Pinehurst. At the US Open he did

494
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: really well. So I think out of those three, I

495
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Speaker 3: like Corey Connors the most.

496
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Speaker 1: I would agree with that let's go to the mid

497
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Speaker 1: range option. We've got Seawu Kim and Sepstraka at plus

498
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: four thousand, Sung JM, Matt Fitzpatrick and Jordan Speith plus

499
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: forty five hundred, Wyndham Clark, Maxhoma and defending champ Keegan

500
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: Bradley plus five thousand, Ben On, Adam Scott, Shane Lowry

501
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: and Cameron Young are plus six thousand. Harris English, Danny McCarthy,

502
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: Billy Horschell and Christian bazun Nahout are plus seven thousand,

503
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: and Will Zelatorus and Jason Day plus seventy five hundred.

504
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: Are you anxious to invest in any of the mid

505
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: range options?

506
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: Just one, and it's our defending champion, Keegan Bradley. Yes, sir,

507
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: let's go.

508
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: You mentioned he's gonna have the crowd behind him.

509
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely will, and he loves playing here. Typically

510
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 3: not your birdie making machine that he usually requires, but

511
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 3: last year he was so good. He really rode that

512
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 3: support to a really impressive performance. I think that that

513
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 3: carries him where. He played well last week, He's played

514
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 3: well in the last month and a half.

515
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: I think he Bradley's.

516
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 3: Rounding into a really good form where his weaknesses have

517
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: kind of moderated themselves and his strengths of really shining through.

518
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 3: I love kicking Bradley this week. Fifty to one is

519
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 3: a great number for a defending champion at any event,

520
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 3: especially one that's right in his backyard.

521
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and last year not an anomaly. He also finished

522
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: second in the twenty nineteen Travelers, And as you said,

523
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: he's played well lately, had a second at the Charles

524
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: Schwab last month, So I'm with you. Yeah, Like Max Homa,

525
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: the number is nicer than we normally get on Max Hooma,

526
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: but he has not made a cut here in four tries. Yeah,

527
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: this course just does not seem to suit him. Sepstraca

528
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: finished fifty sixth that the US Open, but like in

529
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: his last seven events, he has three top fives and

530
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: five top elevens. Yeah, played pretty well here. And Denny

531
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: McCarthy seventh here a year ago. One of the best

532
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: putters in the world. He's kind of intriguing. What about

533
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: long shots bo eighty to one or longer.

534
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: We're going right back to the well.

535
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: The approach buckets are between one hundred and twenty five

536
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 3: and one hundred and seventy five yards. That means we

537
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 3: are firing up Ak Shebatilla again. And and it's really

538
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: it's really perfect because he's a good distance player off

539
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 3: the tee. He's he's been driving the ball a lot

540
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 3: better lately. He showed up with his short game and

541
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 3: as good as he is on approach, for him to

542
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: find such a great short game this season is very refreshing.

543
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: And he opened at ninety to one. He's already at

544
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 3: eighty to one on Monday afternoon here. I expect his

545
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 3: odds to get shorter as the week progresses because it's

546
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 3: simply a mispriced ak she Batilla is just as talented

547
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 3: as anybody else in this field, and he's playing great golf.

548
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 3: This course fits even though it's his debut at TPC

549
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 3: River Highlands. I think this course fits him incredibly well.

550
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 3: Eighty to one right now in Ax Shebatilla, I'd go

551
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 3: as short as sixty to one one on a Shabatia

552
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: with pretty good confidence that he's gonna contend here. And

553
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: my long long shot is actually not that deep considering

554
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 3: it is an elevated event, so there's not too many

555
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 3: really deep shots.

556
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: Uh.

557
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 3: The one guy that I have my eye on is

558
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 3: making his PGA Tour debut and it's the number one

559
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 3: college player, Michael Thorbjornsen. He's coming in at one hundred

560
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 3: and fifty to one in his PGA Tour debut. He

561
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 3: earned his PGA Tour card via the PGAU standings being

562
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: number one college player in all the land. Let's go

563
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 3: Michael Thorbjornsen.

564
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Speaker 1: Interesting, yeah, okha, I don't love taking first timers in

565
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: this event since it seems like, you know, kind of

566
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: a course that is a course for horses, like you

567
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: have good track records, seem to repeat at this this course.

568
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: But like you said, he fits it well.

569
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: If second is a future horse for this course.

570
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: There you go. He got to start somewhere twenty second

571
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: at the Memorial sixteenth at the US Open. He's playing well.

572
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: I'm only intrigued by Thomas Dtree, Yeah, fourteenth at the

573
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: US Open and seems like kind of a value at

574
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: a price of one hundred to one. And Taylor Pendrith, Yeah,

575
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: missed the cut last year in his Traveler's debut, but

576
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: he's finished twenty first or better in six of his

577
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: last eight events. So I just I don't know if

578
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: I like him outright, but maybe for a top ten

579
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: or top three.

580
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: He just scares me.

581
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: He scared Yeah, I understand that. What do you have

582
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: on your betting card as an out ball?

583
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 2: All right?

584
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 3: So as of now I have Ludwig Oberg at fourteen

585
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 3: to one, Patrick Can't Lay at twenty, Justin Thomas at

586
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 3: thirty five, Keegan Bradley at fifty, ok Shabatia at eighty

587
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: to one, and rookie making his debut Michael Thorbjornsen at

588
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty to one.

589
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: Nice. We have a lot of crossover on this even

590
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: though I'm keeping my card kind of light this week,

591
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm betting Patrick can't lay outright at twenty to one

592
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: and top ten at plus ninety. He's second in the

593
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: field in strokes gain on pete die courses over his

594
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: last thirty six rounds, trailing only Xander Shoftley in the field.

595
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 3: On that.

596
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: I've got Corey Connors at thirty five to one, I've

597
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: got Keegan outright at fifty to one and top five

598
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: at nine to one, and I've got Ac Shay at

599
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: eighty to one outright. So yeah, definitely a lot of

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00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,920
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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: last week, disappointing tie for thirty first, good for one

619
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six nine hundred and one dollars. But

620
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: mister Bo mcbrair shrewdly pulled Bryson d Chambeau last week.

621
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: Bryson's win was good for four point three million, and

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00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,120
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00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: Clutch after landing that haymaker on my jaw. Well done bow.

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00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: It wasn't just Bryson that was clutched this week that

626
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 3: last week.

627
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: And not only that, but Bo gets to pick first

628
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: in the travelers this week. Who are you taking?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take Ludwig Oberg Oberg, all.

630
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: Right, taking a big swing. Since you're very high on

631
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: him this week, it's only fitting. I'm gonna take Xander Schaffley,

632
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: not betting him, but yeah, he's uh. I've got him

633
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: available and it seems like this is a good time

634
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,520
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