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

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Speaker 1: joined by mister bau mcbrair. The PGA Tour heads to

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Speaker 1: one of its classic courses this week, making a stop

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Speaker 1: at Tory Pines in La Jolla, California, just north of

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Speaker 1: San Diego for the Farmers Insurance Open. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we'll start with a quick recap of the American Express,

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Speaker 1: then we'll serve up a full betting preview of the

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Speaker 1: Farmer's Insurance Open, and we'll tell you who we're betting,

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

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Speaker 1: the week. At the end of the show, we'll keep

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Speaker 1: the recap of last week's tournament especially brief because there

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Speaker 1: was not a whole lot of drama. Sepstraca, the Big

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Speaker 1: Austrian is your American Express Champion. Straka got off to

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Speaker 1: a flying start with rounds of sixty five, sixty four

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Speaker 1: and sixty four. He didn't exactly stop the accelerator on

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Speaker 1: Sunday with his two under par seventy at the pet

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Speaker 1: die Stadium course, but he really didn't need a lights

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Speaker 1: out round. So big was his cushion going into that

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Speaker 1: final round. It was Straca's third career win on the

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Speaker 1: PGA Tour, his first since the John Deer Classic in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Justin Thomas finished second, two shots behind

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Speaker 1: Straka and Jason Day, and Justin Lower finished tied for third.

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Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the MX.

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Speaker 2: BO good old fashioned putting contests, and Sepstraca was red hot.

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Speaker 2: Sepstraca came in hot. He showed well at the Sony,

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Speaker 2: so it's it's no wonder that we said the hot

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Speaker 2: golfer was probably going to do well at the MX

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Speaker 2: and we were right. We just didn't know that that

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Speaker 2: was going to be Sepstraca, so congrats to him, but

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Speaker 2: we're moving on. It's a that was That tournament is

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Speaker 2: not the favorite of most golf betters.

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Speaker 1: No, definitely not. It's always kind of a hard one

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Speaker 1: to peg. The chalk just doesn't show up very often

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Speaker 1: other than that John Rahm victory a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: But now we are onto a course that often proves

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Speaker 1: to be worthy of betting chalk. It's on to the

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Speaker 1: second stop of the PGA Tours, California Swing the Farmers

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Speaker 1: Insurance Open. The first thing we need to mention about

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Speaker 1: this event. It starts on Wednesday instead of Thursday. The

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Speaker 1: PGA Tour does not want to butt up against the

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Speaker 1: NFL's Championship Sunday, so this will be a Wednesday to

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Speaker 1: Saturday tournament. Do not procrastinate in getting your bets in

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Speaker 1: for the farmers. This event will be played at Tory

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Speaker 1: Pines and the South Course at Tory Pines is an

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Speaker 1: iconic American course. It has hosted majors before, just an

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Speaker 1: outstanding test of golf, but one of the first two

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Speaker 1: rounds will be played at the Tory Pines North Course,

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Speaker 1: which is not an iconic American course. The North Course

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Speaker 1: typically plays about one and a half to two shots

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Speaker 1: easier than the South course, although last year it played

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Speaker 1: almost three shots easier. The North Course is a par

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Speaker 1: seventy two measuring and fifty eight yards. It plays easy

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Speaker 1: because of the par fives, all of which are very

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Speaker 1: reachable and two the longest of the par fives, only

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty six yards, the other three five

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Speaker 1: point thirty six or shorter. We'll see pros hitting irons

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Speaker 1: into these par fives for their second shots, maybe middle irons.

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Speaker 1: In some cases. The par threes are tougher. All four

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Speaker 1: of them are longer than two hundred yards, and there

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Speaker 1: are three par fours shorter than four hundred yards here

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Speaker 1: two of them are under three p fifty and potentially drivable.

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Speaker 1: But I went back and looked at what the last

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Speaker 1: five Farmers Insurance Open winners shot on the North Course

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Speaker 1: sixty nine, sixty eight, sixty seven, sixty four and sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: So the last five winners were at least three hunder

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Speaker 1: par on the North course. If you want to make

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Speaker 1: any noise at the Farmers, you had best have a

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Speaker 1: good round on the North Course. As for the South Course,

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Speaker 1: it is a brute. It is a par seventy two

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Speaker 1: measuring seven seven hundred and sixty five yards. It's the

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Speaker 1: course that obviously favors the big hitters. Are also narrow.

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Speaker 1: I believe that are the third narrowest fairways of any

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Speaker 1: tour course. But the rough, at least the rough off

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Speaker 1: the fairways not overly penal. You can miss fairways and

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Speaker 1: still hit greens on this course. Last week in our

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Speaker 1: American Express preview, we talked about the importance of wedge

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Speaker 1: and short iron play because players would be hitting so

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Speaker 1: many of their approaches from one hundred and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: and in this week most of the approachots are going

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Speaker 1: to be from more than one hundred and fifty yards out.

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Speaker 1: Middle iron and long iron play will be critical at

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Speaker 1: the Farmer's Insurance Open. The greens of tory Pines are

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Speaker 1: poa anua poa greens tend to roll inconsistently at times.

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Speaker 1: I believe tory Pine's South has been one of the

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Speaker 1: hardest courses on tour in the Strokes game putting category.

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Speaker 1: And if you miss these greens, good luck. There are

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Speaker 1: some thick, chewy rough surrounding these greens. Bottom line, tory

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Speaker 1: Pine South is a stern test. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: we learned earlier today that tory Pines is also going

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Speaker 1: to be hosting the Genesis and Vatitional in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: They're moving the Genesis from Riviera Country Club in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles because of the fires, so we are going to

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Speaker 1: get a big helping of this great course over the

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Speaker 1: next month. The defending Farmers Insurance Open champion is Matthew Pavallon.

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Speaker 1: The Frenchman was a surprise winner last year, finishing thirteen

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Speaker 1: under par and making a dramatic birdie from out of

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Speaker 1: a fairway bunker on the seventy second hole to beat

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Speaker 1: Nikolai Hoygard by one stroke. Max Homo won here in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three after finishing minus thirteen, winning by two

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Speaker 1: strokes over Keegan Bradley. Luke Liszt won the Farmers in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, finishing minus fifteen and beating will Zala

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Speaker 1: Tauris in a playoff. Patrick Reid shot minus fourteen to

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Speaker 1: win his win by five strokes in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and Mark Leishman won here in twenty twenty with the

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Speaker 1: score of minus fifteen. The forecast bow calls for a

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Speaker 1: hive sixty seven on Wednesday and a high seventy seven

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, with wins ranging from five to fifteen miles

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Speaker 1: an hour. Then it gets chillier on the weekend with

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Speaker 1: highs in the upper fifties on Friday and Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: we could have some wind on the final day with

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Speaker 1: a breeze expected to be ten to twenty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Bowe your thoughts on Tory Pines.

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Speaker 2: Just an iconic track. It's the south course being with

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Speaker 2: three of the four rounds is the main focus. But

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Speaker 2: like you said, you can't ignore the one round that

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Speaker 2: they're all going to play on the north course. That's

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Speaker 2: where you have to make your hay. At least gives

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Speaker 2: you a really good head start into the weekend if

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Speaker 2: you can put together a really solid sub seventy round

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Speaker 2: at the north course. Because the South course is going

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Speaker 2: to push every button that you have, You're going to

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Speaker 2: have to hit the wall well off the tee. Driving

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Speaker 2: distances a plus here, but we've seen guys play lights

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Speaker 2: out on approach and in short game and win despite

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Speaker 2: not being long hitters. Patrick Reid and Matthew Pavon both

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Speaker 2: were absolutely stellar over the last couple of years on

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Speaker 2: short game and approach game. So yes, it does help

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Speaker 2: to hit the ball along ways on a course that's

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Speaker 2: pushing seventy eight hundred yards. But the short game is

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Speaker 2: the most important part. Because you said the green side

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Speaker 2: ruff is nasty, the greens are hard to hold, which

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Speaker 2: I do think lends to a little bit more penal

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Speaker 2: fairway rough. It might not be very long and it

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Speaker 2: might not prevent you from reaching the green, but holdingen

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Speaker 2: the poana greens and then putting out on those greens

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Speaker 2: that's where the challenge really is. So one third plus

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Speaker 2: of these approach shots are for more than two hundred yards,

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Speaker 2: So that's a bucket that I'm interested in. Stark contrasts

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Speaker 2: to last week where you have a whole different demographic

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Speaker 2: of golfers who are in play this week because the

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Speaker 2: course is so different from what we've seen over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good point about the rough off. Maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: as daunting as US Open rof, but you do want

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Speaker 1: to be able to spin it off the fairway to

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Speaker 1: hold these greens. We will get to the odds in

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Speaker 1: Now for the Farmer's Insurance Open odds. All odds are

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Speaker 1: courtesy of DraftKings as of Monday morning. We will start

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Speaker 1: with the favorites still know Scottie Scheffler because of his

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Speaker 1: hand injury, his return is approaching. However, Colin Morrikawa has

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Speaker 1: also pulled out this event, So the co favorites are

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Speaker 1: Hideki Matsuyama and lidveg Oberg at ten to one. Tony

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Speaker 1: Finow and Sung J. M are twenty to one. Keegan

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Speaker 1: Bradley is twenty two to one. Will Zalatorus and Max

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Speaker 1: Grazerman are twenty five to one. Jason Day is twenty

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Speaker 1: eight to one. Shane Lowry, Sahith Thagala and Maverick McNeely

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Speaker 1: are thirty to one, Taylor Pendrith, Max Homa and Kurt

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Speaker 1: Kidiyama are thirty five to one, and Seewhoo Kim and

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Speaker 1: Luke Clanton are forty to one. Who do you like

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Speaker 1: from among the favorites?

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Speaker 2: Baul And this is a favorites front runner type of event.

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Speaker 2: I am also I wanted to little add a little

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Speaker 2: to the Tory Pines hosting the Genesis as well. Is

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Speaker 2: I think with a tournament having four rounds at the

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Speaker 2: South Course, they might even make it a little tougher

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Speaker 2: because the Genesis is one of those signature events, so

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Speaker 2: we might see a whole different animal in the South

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Speaker 2: course for the Genesis this week, it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: little bit more manageable. The favorites are still there. I

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Speaker 2: had a hard time picking between Ludwig Oberg and Hideki

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Speaker 2: Matziyama as who I would favor as a chalk pick.

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Speaker 2: I landed on Oberg, but I still might get some

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Speaker 2: action on Hideki with how well he's playing, and especially

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Speaker 2: how well he's played the Southern California courses over his career.

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Speaker 2: This one, notwithstanding the long iron approach, is obviously Hideki's wheelhouse.

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Speaker 2: Oberg has been streaky and he hasn't been the best scrambler,

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Speaker 2: but everywhere else in his game is just so like

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Speaker 2: just Sterling Silver, He's just so, He's almost perfect, and

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Speaker 2: Hideki has just got all the firepower in the world.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to lean Oberg for now. But I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't fault anybody if they wanted to throw ten to

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Speaker 2: one odds on Hideki Matziama to win this thing outright,

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Speaker 2: they're both absolute locks for top five bets in my

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Speaker 2: on my card that that's really where I'm starting. And

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Speaker 2: then I was able to find Wills Ala Taurus at

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Speaker 2: twenty eight to one, and I really love that, especially

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Speaker 2: with how his game has lined up with Tory Pines

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Speaker 2: in the past.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hydeki is in fine form. Won the Century, was

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Speaker 1: sixteenth at the Sony. He's finished ninth and thirteenth in

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Speaker 1: his last two appearances at the Farmers, and was third

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Speaker 1: here in twenty nineteen. Oberg brief track record on tour,

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Speaker 1: but he did finish ninth in his debut here last year,

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Speaker 1: just a terrific ball striker. His last four Farmers Insurance

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Speaker 1: Tony Finow loves Tory Pines. He's finished top ten in

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Speaker 1: six of his last eight appearances at the Farmers Insurance Open,

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Speaker 2: That's just a misprice that I'm going to take advantage

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Speaker 2: So I will have ludvig Olberg at ten to one.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably end up adding some Hideki just to feel something,

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Speaker 2: because every time I've refused to bet Hideki, he burns

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Speaker 1: So for me. As of right now, I have got

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Speaker 2: That's funny you should say that. But Grazerman was solo

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Speaker 2: I'm going with will Zlaturus, the ultimate horse for the course,

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Speaker 1: It's a good call, and maybe I'll have to take

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Speaker 1: Willie Z when we come back here for the Genesis

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Speaker 1: for sure in a few weeks. That's all for this

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