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Speaker 1: This is the Action Network Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Better than most, Better than most, Better than most.

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Speaker 1: Winna took your down. You got real telling. We concentrate

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Speaker 1: on golf.

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Speaker 2: What's up everybody, and welcome once again to the golf

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Speaker 2: edition of the Action Network Podcast, presented by Bet MGM.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jason Sobel from Golf Bet. He is Justin Ray

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Speaker 2: from the twenty first group and this is the one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty first US Open Championship week. Can't wait

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Speaker 2: for this to get started at Tory Pines. I'm excited

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Speaker 2: about this one, Jay Ray, how are you? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm terrific. How can you not be thrilled? Man? The

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Speaker 1: US Open at Tory Pines. So many great storylines coming

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Speaker 1: into the week. We're going to dive into a whole

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Speaker 1: So however long we chat about it, I'm sure we

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Speaker 1: can go on forever. But yeah, doing great and excited

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Speaker 1: to get dive into talk Tory Pines in the US Open.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited for this one. I got on a

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Speaker 2: plane today for the first time in a year and

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Speaker 2: a half. Oh that I'm used to. I mean, in

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Speaker 2: quote unquote normal times. I am going to fifteen eighteen

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Speaker 2: events a year and flying to most of them, and

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Speaker 2: drove to the Masters, drove to Kiowa for the PGA Championship,

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Speaker 2: got on a plane today just I can tell you.

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Speaker 2: I know you're going to the KPMG next week for

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Speaker 2: the LPGA. Airports are interesting right now. The guy in

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Speaker 2: front of me was arguing, I had I believe eight

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Speaker 2: am flight this morning out of Orlando. The guy in

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Speaker 2: front of me didn't understand why he couldn't check in

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Speaker 2: for his seven pm flight that night.

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Speaker 1: Did people just forget the protocols?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's going on. There was a lot

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Speaker 2: of madness at the airport right now.

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Speaker 1: Judging by what we've seen at like professional sports stadiums

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Speaker 1: over the last few months. Just human beings need some

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Speaker 1: time to readapt into society. Apparently nobody to get there.

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Speaker 1: That early man dude.

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Speaker 2: In front of you weird stuff. But I will say

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Speaker 2: that when I land in San Diego, maybe the first

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Speaker 2: time I've ever seen this, and this is one of

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Speaker 2: my biggest pet beaves. I know a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are into this too, but everyone at baggage claim stood

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Speaker 2: like eight steps away from baggage Claim. Then walked up

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Speaker 1: Like maybe we did? This is one of my most

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Speaker 1: significant pet peeves about traveling. I think we've had this

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Speaker 1: conversation at an airport before, you and I maybe Bradley

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Speaker 1: from Golf Channel. He's in the same We branted about this.

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Speaker 1: But you no one can get to you their bag

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Speaker 1: if you're tackling the bags on the conveyor belt. I'm tall.

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Speaker 1: I'm six too, so I'll stand like twenty feet away

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Speaker 1: and just eyeball it and go get it. Why what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Why are you so close to the

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Speaker 1: bat Like, no one's gonna take your bag? It's fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what they have like seminars in

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Speaker 2: About how I'm telling you it might have been a

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Speaker 2: one time deal. Same thing I will say. There are

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Speaker 2: still people, you know, when you're check in for what

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Speaker 2: you're like, hey, you online there, No, I'm group nine,

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Speaker 2: all right, Well why are you standing here? You know

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Speaker 2: a line? Who wants to stand in a line that

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Speaker 2: they're not really online for yet? So I don't quite

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Speaker 2: understand that still. But there's a lot of airport interesting

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Speaker 2: the San Diego Airport.

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Speaker 1: That's good to know. I need that kind of positivity.

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Speaker 1: I got flipped off in the grocery store parking lot today.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea why it's been bothering me for

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Speaker 1: like the last five hours. It wasn't like I was

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Speaker 2: For five Do you have to win last week?

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Speaker 1: Oh see, there you go. That might have been it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just a big I was the one who on

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Speaker 2: So that's like Jonathan Vegas this week.

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Speaker 1: You like him this week?

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Speaker 2: I mean, and you said that on the gimme last week,

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Speaker 2: Is there anything for the Palmetto Championship. I know we've

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Speaker 2: about the US Open and Torrey Pines and the players

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Speaker 2: And we can go up and down this list from

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Speaker 2: Moricow to Hovelin to I think we still throw Matthew

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Speaker 2: sure I'm missing right now, but Garret Igo throw them

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Speaker 1: Apparently absolutely three wins as last six starts. The field's

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Speaker 1: of classes like Colin. Obviously you won the PGA Championship,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, for sure, twenty two years old. First South

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Speaker 1: That was my favorite gym. I dug up Sunday afternoon

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Speaker 1: watching the golf. Brutal finish for Chess and Hadley just absolutely.

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Speaker 1: consoling the loss there. But tough, tough to watch that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was tough to watch Chess and Hadley. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: Garret Higgo looks like he's another if not I hate

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Speaker 2: welcome to the club, Garrick. And let's see what you

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Speaker 2: got coming up this week and beyond. So let's get

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Speaker 2: MGM odds this week. John Rahm is your favorite, and

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Speaker 2: and then withdrawn. I am I safe to go with that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll check on the pandemic statistics from nineteen twenty

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Speaker 1: and see if Harry Varden got pulled off the fifty

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, definitely a straight situation. But every other thing about

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Speaker 1: all the positive tests, He's got the best scored a

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Speaker 1: part at tory Pine since twenty seventeen. He you know,

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Speaker 1: his best career round on the PGA Tour by strokes

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Speaker 1: gain total. I mean he had a six shot lead.

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Speaker 1: He's coming into form. I think he's justifiably a favorite

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Speaker 2: Week and yet a guy who hasn't won since last August.

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Speaker 2: So I mean we're looking at him saying, hey, he's

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Speaker 2: that there's question marks surrounding pretty much every other top player.

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Speaker 2: Dustin Johnson looked like he got it back last week,

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Speaker 2: Koepka is eighteen to one this week, and Keptka's coming

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Speaker 2: off from miss cut but hey, it's not a major

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Speaker 1: But do you think Dustin Johnson talk about it? Not really?

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Speaker 1: You know, he faded on Sunday at Congree. Do you

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Speaker 1: think Dustin Johnson's aware that nobody has ever won the

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Speaker 1: week before the US Open on the PGA Tour and

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Speaker 1: of History and finding that out. I jokingly say that,

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Speaker 1: Haven't not like there's any stress that Dustin Johnson's gonna

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe there's something to be said

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Speaker 2: I don't think he planned it, but look, the best

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Speaker 2: players in the game talk about trying to peak four

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Speaker 2: It's not as if he said, hey, let me take

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Speaker 1: I wasn't suggesting that that's what he was doing. I

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you something in terms of Rom

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Speaker 2: Rom led by six at the Memorial tournament a few

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Speaker 2: weeks ago, got pulled off the golf course, couldn't finish.

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Speaker 2: We get that, looks like he is probably going to

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Speaker 2: for any other major championship, getting out of quarantine earlier

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Speaker 2: than we thought he might have been. You mentioned his

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Speaker 2: into that this week? Because of course, the Farmer's Insurance

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Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the event at least is played

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Speaker 2: on the North course, not the South course, and it's

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Speaker 2: different conditions. It's just a different golf course for that

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Speaker 2: there's something to be said for, hey, guys like this place.

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Speaker 2: Tiger was great at the Farmer's Insurance Open for years

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Speaker 2: and years and years, went to the US Open here

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Speaker 2: and won this golf tournament, So there's something to be

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Speaker 2: said for at least having some success on this golf course.

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Speaker 2: How much weight do we put on having success at

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Speaker 2: Tory Binds in the regular PGA Tour event as opposed

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it's tough to have tiger Woods

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Speaker 1: The significance of approach play compared to you can be

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Speaker 1: So I do see the winner coming out of this group.

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Speaker 2: Some of the guys up near the top I don't

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Speaker 2: quite know what to makeup Bryce, and I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: where his game is right now. We know he can

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Speaker 2: play the US Open really well. Be a delicious piece

468
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Speaker 2: of irony if we go from the last player to

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Speaker 2: win back to back US Opens was Brooks Koepka, now

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Speaker 2: it's Bryce in the Shambo. I believe that because I'm

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Speaker 2: doing post round and uh pre tournament interviews for Serious

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Speaker 2: on US Open Radio this week, and I believe I'm

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Speaker 2: doing the interview with Bryce and the Shambo, and I

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Speaker 2: will absolutely ask him as the first question. Hey, the

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Speaker 2: last guy to go back to back of the US

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Speaker 2: Open is Brooks Koepka. How do you feel about your

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Speaker 2: chances to go back to back and what would that

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Speaker 2: mean to you? And so I can't wait to hear

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Speaker 2: his answer. I'm sure it's not gonna be really Brooks related,

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Speaker 2: but at least you get the name in there. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure about Pricing this week, though. I don't love

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Speaker 2: him as much as I have at other events, and

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Speaker 2: I did like him last year at Wingfoot and Justin

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Speaker 2: Thomas is the guy that I always like and the

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Speaker 2: major championships, I just I'm not quite feeling him right now.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know that his game is necessarily there

487
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Speaker 2: and this of course he's skipped this event I believe

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Speaker 2: a handful of times over the last few years, and

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Speaker 2: it's not really one that I think suits his eye.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Thomas is interesting because all the metrics point towards

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Speaker 1: iron play being unbelievably significant, especially long irons. What's the

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Speaker 1: best part of justin Thomas's game? Those long irons? I

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Speaker 1: will say, in kind of this relative dip he's had

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of months, his te De Green

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Speaker 1: numbers haven't been that bad. It's just been a really

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Speaker 1: tough stretch with his butter. I wouldn't be surprised if

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Speaker 1: he figured that. I remember he came out of the

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Speaker 1: gates blazing hot and wing foot last year and then

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, settlement into the tournament and and

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Speaker 1: you know, lost a little bit of that moment after that.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think anyone would be surprised by that.

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Speaker 1: I think Patrick Cantlay is an interesting character on the

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Speaker 1: board coming off of his win that memorial. Don't I'm kidding,

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I know here. This is an audio platform too.

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Speaker 1: Excellent broadcaster I am. I did air quotes microphone for

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Speaker 1: a podcast, so that would hear the air quotes. He

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Speaker 1: won the tournament based on the base on the roles

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Speaker 1: for everything. Absolutely, it's a victory. You know, where's he

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Speaker 1: at coming off of a win a place where he

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Speaker 1: He's played well in California in his career so far.

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Speaker 1: He's an interesting name. I go a little bit further

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Speaker 1: down and a guy who won on this golf course

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. He was the biggest story

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Speaker 1: at the first major championship of the year through a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. When Justin Rose won this tourna at

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Speaker 1: Tory Pines a few years ago. On approach shots from

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Speaker 1: outside two hundred yards, he was eleven underpar in those situations.

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Speaker 1: That's insane. He was absolutely lighting it up with those

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Speaker 1: long irons. If he's able to bottle a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that up, he's gonna have some good feelings coming

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Speaker 1: back here forty to one for Justin Roach. You can

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Speaker 1: probably find some good action on him to have a

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Speaker 1: top ten finish, maybe even top five. I think you

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Speaker 1: can get some good numbers there.

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Speaker 2: I've already taken him out right. I love Justin Rose.

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Speaker 2: This week filling out the bottom of that sort of

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Speaker 2: top tier. I like Victor Hovland and I like Patrick

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Speaker 2: Reid at least for top five, top ten right around there,

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Speaker 2: I think on my ranking of the entire field, which

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Speaker 2: I'm still working on both of them right I think

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Speaker 2: in the back end of the top ten, I think

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Speaker 2: I've got them somewhere between six and nine. Still working

533
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Speaker 2: on that as we speak right now. But then we

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Speaker 2: move into that next year. And even though Justin Rose

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Speaker 2: doesn't quite fit the profile that we're talking about, big, strong,

536
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Speaker 2: athletic Justin Rose, I spent some time with Justin Rose

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago at the BGA champion Justin

538
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Speaker 2: was a bigger dude than I think most people realize.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's sure, he's tall, he's strong, he's gotten bigger.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't mind Justin Rose whatsoever. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I really like him. Some of the other guys that

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Speaker 2: fit that profile that are in this next year, Scotty Scheffler,

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Speaker 2: who we saw sort of fade down the stretch at

544
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Speaker 2: Mirfield Village a few weeks ago. I'm not sure he's

545
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Speaker 2: necessarily ready to go win for the first time at

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Speaker 2: a major championship, but I think he's going to be

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Speaker 2: right there.

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Speaker 1: The player with the best cumultive scored a part of

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Speaker 1: the Major championship since the beginning of last year Scotti Scheffler.

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Speaker 2: Wow, missed the US Open at wing Foot.

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Speaker 1: By the way, and that helps him. And that's statistic,

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Speaker 1: I will say that. But four straight top twenty finishes

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Speaker 1: in the Major so's he's really got some good form

554
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Speaker 1: and these big events. Likes tough golf courses.

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Speaker 2: A few other big strong guys in that next year,

556
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Speaker 2: Mark Leishman, who is my favorite player at the PGA Championship.

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Speaker 2: He should be crossed off my list for at least

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Speaker 2: the next year. He's on probation, but I still like

559
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Speaker 2: him anyway. He's a really good long iron player. That's

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Speaker 2: gonna be important. Big strong dude. Jason Kokra is completely

561
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Speaker 2: undervalued in the marketplace. Jason Cocrack is being valued as

562
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Speaker 2: a guy who's still like, oh, he's a nice player,

563
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Speaker 2: not as Wow. He's won twice this year on completely

564
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Speaker 2: different golf courses, and he's a stud that knows how

565
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Speaker 2: to close out golf tournaments. Right now, it would not

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Speaker 2: surprise me at all, justin if Jason Kokrak was to

567
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Speaker 2: win this golf tournament.

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Speaker 1: So the only thing that was holding co Crack back

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Speaker 1: from being a perennial winner and a really you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe not elite tier, but a really good player on

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour hutting he was an awful putter. He's

572
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Speaker 1: top ten on the PGA Tour and strokes game putting

573
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Speaker 1: this season. Whatever he figured out, he has completely flipped

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Speaker 1: the script. I'm with you. I think he is totally undervalued.

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Speaker 1: Sixty six to one to win right now. I'm looking

576
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Speaker 1: at MGM. He's got some sneaky good putting numbers even

577
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Speaker 1: before this resurgence. I believe he's second in strokes game

578
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Speaker 1: putting at the US Open of the last four years,

579
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Speaker 1: only guy better than Xander Schoffley. He kind of fits

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Speaker 1: that profile too. Distance. You know, you're not gonna need

581
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Speaker 1: to hit a ton of fairways, you know, And like

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Speaker 1: you said, he went on two very different types of

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Speaker 1: golf courses. He I think there's a I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of value there in Jason Kokrack.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't you see co Crack winning this week and then

586
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Speaker 2: afterwards going how did we all not get on that?

587
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 2: He's got two wins already this year. He's a perfect

588
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Speaker 2: US Open type player that we've seen over the last

589
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Speaker 2: five years, the kind of guy that wins these golf tournaments.

590
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Speaker 2: A couple other sort of big strong guys. Shane Lowry's

591
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Speaker 2: the guy that I like. Gary Woodland again is the

592
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Speaker 2: guy that I like. Charlie Hoffman, who's had more reps

593
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Speaker 2: on this golf course than maybe anybody else in the field,

594
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Speaker 2: maybe other than Phil Nicholson. And then my favorite play

595
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Speaker 2: on the board, and I didn't feel great about it.

596
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Speaker 2: But at some point you're putting together a list of Hey,

597
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Speaker 2: here's one to one fifty six and somebody's got to

598
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Speaker 2: be number one, and I still don't feel great. I'd

599
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Speaker 2: rather take one through six and have them all like

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Speaker 2: T one, But you can't do that. You gotta go

601
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: out and make a pick. And my favorite play on

602
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Speaker 2: the board is a guy with big, strong forearms that

603
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 2: hits the ball really high in the air, that can

604
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Speaker 2: get it out of the rough and has been playing

605
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 2: major championships much better as of late. Paul Casey at

606
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Speaker 2: fifty to one, one of the.

607
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Speaker 1: Best players on a PGA tour on approach shots outside

608
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Speaker 1: two hundred yards, which is what you're going to see

609
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Speaker 1: more often than not. You're going to see a lot

610
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Speaker 1: more of those than normal. That's an interesting call. He'd

611
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Speaker 1: be on the older side for a US Open champion.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, what, Phil Micholson just want a major?

613
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady just wont a Super Bowl? Who cares? At

614
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Speaker 1: this point, Like apparently we're all everyone's eating better in

615
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: training and the aging process has been halted for some

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Speaker 1: of these lead athletes. So you know, I wouldn't put

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Speaker 1: it past Paul Casey there. I think it's a really

618
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: good call. There's some value there. Going a little bit

619
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Speaker 1: further down the board, I thought this guy was really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Played in the final group with Patrick Reid earlier this

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Speaker 1: year at Torrey Pines, and the longer his approach shots

622
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Speaker 1: on the when you look at his rankings page, the

623
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Speaker 1: longer the approach shots, his iron statistic rankings get better

624
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Speaker 1: and better. Carlos Ortiz one twenty five to one. I

625
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Speaker 1: think there's some interesting value there, not necessarily to win.

626
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Speaker 1: We haven't seen him flash in a major championship before,

627
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Speaker 1: but he's got some good vibes on this golf course,

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Speaker 1: and you know he's got kind of that long iron,

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Speaker 1: prolific proficiency. Rather that makes him kind of a I

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Speaker 1: think a little bit of a value play. I'm borant.

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Speaker 2: I would have guessed that one wrong. I didn't remember

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Speaker 2: that Carlos Ortiz played with Reid.

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Speaker 1: I don't played Subday. Well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was leaving another guy who's won twenty five

635
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Speaker 2: to one, that's had some success at Torrey Pines, Ryan Palmer.

636
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Speaker 2: I thought that's where you're going, because Ryan Palmer is

637
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Speaker 2: a guy that likes this golf course. Another guy that

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Speaker 2: I'm not throwing outrights on Ryan Palmer this week necessarily.

639
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Speaker 2: But one twenty five to one is big. I mean,

640
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Speaker 2: you know, top five, top ten, don't completely hate it.

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Speaker 2: I mean we start getting into this, uh, this area

642
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Speaker 2: this you know, one twenty five to one, fifty to one,

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Speaker 2: and I think you look at guys again that fit

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Speaker 2: the profile. Doesn't mean that a Kevin Strilman or a

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Speaker 2: Charles Schwartzel or somebody like that can't go out and

646
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 2: have a good week, because I think that certainly there's

647
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 2: still availability for those guys to just go out and

648
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: hit fairways, hit greens and be able to play some

649
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: solid golf. But I look at the guy we mentioned

650
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 2: right off the top that you said you were gonna

651
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: fade on the Gimme last week, and when you said it,

652
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 2: I didn't want to say anything. But even before his

653
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: T two finished at Palmetto, I really like Jonathan Vegas.

654
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: Throwing the details.

655
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: I always like Jonathan Vegas. I've said this one hundred

656
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: times on this podcast over the last couple of years,

657
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 2: but Jonathan Vegas is a guy that if if you

658
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: went to the range and you didn't know who any

659
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: of the players were, but you knew golf, and you

660
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: watched them all swing, and then you watch him at

661
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 2: chip shots around the greens, you'd go that guy's a

662
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: top twenty, top thirty player. He just looks the part

663
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 2: of it. And so he's had Like you mentioned on

664
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 2: the show last week, he was T three, I believe

665
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: in his debut at Tory Pines years ago. Hasn't done

666
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: much since then, but coming off a good start last week,

667
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 2: I don't mind Jonathan Vegas for some prop plays or

668
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 2: DFS plays at a big number.

669
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Speaker 1: What do we think of the new bomber on the

670
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: block Wilco plus two fifty. I mean, it's kind of no,

671
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: he's not gonna win. I just think the way he

672
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: attacks this golf course is going to be interesting. At

673
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: the very least, is gonna be a fun story line

674
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: to follow, I believe. I saw that he had the

675
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: fourth longest driving distance in a single week in the

676
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: history of the BGA Tour last week, and that was

677
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: a low country South Carolina that wasn't in Vegas or

678
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: someplace with altitude that was, you know, that was. It's

679
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. The other name I have way down the board,

680
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: and this is just kind of a player that I

681
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: wanted to go at the US Open. You know, think

682
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: about Andrew Landry at Oakland a few years ago. Was

683
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: part of the storyline to the very end. There's always

684
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: somebody from way down the board that you don't see coming.

685
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: So this guy, he plays on the corn Ferry Tour,

686
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: absolutely crushes the golf ball. Top five on the corn

687
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: Ferry Tour in driving distance, hitting more than seventy one

688
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: percent of his greens and regulation this season. I love

689
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: that number sixth on the corn Faery Tour and birdie average.

690
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: It's a really interesting statistical profile for the Canadian Taylor Pendrith.

691
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna hear that name anywhere

692
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: else in the scope of all US talking heads blathering

693
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: about numbers and players to pick going into the week.

694
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: But I think he's got a really interesting statistical profile,

695
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: and at four hundred to one, I think, hey, why

696
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: not take a flyer and a guy to contend to

697
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: get the top ten? Finished with numbers?

698
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: Did he? Did he play well last year? You're supposed

699
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: to have that in front of Come on, Jay Ray,

700
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 2: Oh I stumped him. I stumped them. I got him.

701
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: You know, you know what. Taylor Petricks didn't win foot.

702
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't what did he do?

703
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. Oh, well, come on, you can't just

704
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 2: okay from under me there it was good. I'm gonna

705
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: say T. Thirty eight as I look this up right now,

706
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 2: it's the tie for twenty third, tie for twenty third?

707
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: Is that what it was?

708
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: Then? As most do, he went from the US Open

709
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: straight to the Wichita Open, supporting Wichita's youth, and finished second.

710
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: The following week, of course, he turned the momentum from

711
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: wing Foot to Wichita, Kansas nearly won the golf turn.

712
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 2: How many people have been The corn ferry had him

713
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: after that T twenty three in Wichita were like, come on, dude,

714
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: fished in second. All right, he gave me some big

715
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: numbers there. I got three names for you with really

716
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: big numbers next to their names. And again Top ten,

717
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: Top twenty DFS plays Justin Suh who plays really well

718
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 2: on the West Coast. He's a guy that we've been

719
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: waiting for him to jump out and make a big

720
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: name for himself. I really like that kid's game. I

721
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: think he got lost in the mix a little bit

722
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 2: coming turning pro with Marikawa and Hovelin and Wolf, and

723
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 2: he was sort of the lost man in the shuffle.

724
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 2: But he's a really good player. Sahith Thigala, who is

725
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: T thirty two a couple of weeks ago at the Memorial.

726
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: He's a West Coast kid, grew up in California. Again,

727
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: you look at the profile, big strong guy who can

728
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: muscle it out of the rough. I think Thigala is

729
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: going to have a really good week. And one nine

730
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: right Pepperdine. Yes, Pepperdine went and won the championship without

731
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 2: him this year after he turned pro. Then another that

732
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 2: I've been waiting to talk about for so long because

733
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: I remember watching him at the US Open. This had

734
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 2: to be six seven, eight years ago, sitting on the range,

735
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 2: and sometimes a lot of times you sit on the

736
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: range you can't really you know, Okay, they're all really good.

737
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 2: I see their swings, and every once in a while

738
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: you watch a guy in the range, go, who's that guy?

739
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: I remember Cameron Champett, Aaron Hills. I remember watching him

740
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 2: on the range that week and going that, dude, he's good, right,

741
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: Like can I say he's good? And he played really

742
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 2: well that week and was like, oh, okay, like I

743
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 2: got something right, yeah, okay. Chan Kim who played really

744
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 2: well at Qiwa a couple of weeks ago. Another just

745
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: I'm going after this stereotype. But big strong dude plays

746
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: West Coast golf really well, went to Arizona State, absolutely

747
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 2: just crushed the field. I believe in his qualifier after

748
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 2: making the cut and playing well. I believe a top

749
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: thirty at the PGA Championship from remembering correctly. So he's

750
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 2: another guy with another big, big number next to his

751
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: name that I like this week interesting.

752
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: I like that. I think Sefi Gala is a really

753
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: interesting player to follow. I'm more apt to take a

754
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: flyer on a younger guy if he played college golf,

755
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: amateur golf on the West coast. If you're playing a

756
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: US Open in California with the different kind of plotting surfaces,

757
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: the way it's going to change later in the day,

758
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: with the with the growth of the grees, that's an

759
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: interesting thing to keep an eye on. Th Gala, I

760
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: like that.

761
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into some guys. We've kind of gone

762
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 2: down the board very quickly of guys that we really like,

763
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that's going to help some people. But

764
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 2: let's get some guys we don't like, because I think

765
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: that part of this process is the process of elimination

766
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: and trying to look at guys and say, what do

767
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: we think of them? You know, what do we think

768
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: of you know who? Who are we fading at the top?

769
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: I look at the top of the list, I say,

770
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 2: I don't love Jordan Speth, who hasn't played great golf

771
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 2: at Tory Pines over the years. You said, Hey, maybe

772
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: guy like Jordan can spray it here. I just don't

773
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: know that this is his kind of golf course. I

774
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 2: don't like Rory mamcklahurre. I still think that his game

775
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 2: is despite I think what we're gonna find over the

776
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 2: next couple of months is that Quail Hollow was a

777
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 2: complete outlier, and good for him. He was able to

778
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 2: do it while he's still working on his game and

779
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: still trying to find his swing, and that's I actually

780
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: think that's pretty remarkable that he was able to win

781
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: sort of in the midst of making some changes. But

782
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: I don't like Rory right now. Anybody else just from

783
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 2: the top tier that you don't like that you would

784
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: be fading this week.

785
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on Rory. He's had a really

786
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: crazy trend at the major championship since he last won

787
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: at Valhalla at the PGA in twenty fourteen, in round

788
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: one of Majors. Since the beginning of twenty fifteen, Rory

789
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: is a combined thirty five over par rounds two through four.

790
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: He is sixty under par a ninety five shot differential

791
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: in terms of score to par from round one to

792
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: rounds two through four. He's, for whatever reason, had trouble

793
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: getting out of the gates. I'm kind of with you.

794
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be a total aberration,

795
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: but I do see your point that you know he's

796
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: still working on his game at that point, it's not

797
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,479
Speaker 1: the finished product. It's not what we're going to see

798
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: a year or two years from now right in terms

799
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: of Roy McElroy. So I'm kind of, you know, I'm

800
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: leaning away from him. It would be the best story

801
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: in sports. It would be incredible for Phil Mickelson to

802
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: complete the Grand Slam, to get the US Open. I can't, man,

803
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: I just can't. I mean, I know, I know you're

804
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna hear. He's won here three times in his career.

805
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: His last win was twenty years ago. I mean, like

806
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: it was I think it was before I got into

807
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: high school, Like it was a long time ago. You know,

808
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: it would be an incredible story, and I mean it,

809
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: it'd be great if he proved me wrong, you just

810
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: got into the hunt a little bit. It'd be really fun,

811
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 1: be exciting. But I'm off him as well.

812
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, before you go any further, I want to ask

813
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: you this question. I'm not even sure I should be

814
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 2: asking this question. You might you might look at me

815
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: like I'm absolutely crazy. But if Phil wins this week

816
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 2: to complete the career Grand Slam in his hometown of

817
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 2: San Diego at Tory Pines, a place he knows so well,

818
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: does it even come close to measuring up to Tiger Woods?

819
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: Of the twenty nineteen Masters.

820
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: Oh, man, No, it's not a bad question. I definitely

821
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: won't say that. I think that Tiger has different emotive,

822
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: you know, things with people. I think the connection there

823
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: is a little bit different in terms of like Fill's

824
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: an ultra megastar and a legend in the sport. Obviously

825
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: you can't, you know, say enough about what he's done

826
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: in his career. But I think the poll Tiger has,

827
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, just like globally as a famous person, if

828
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Like he's like Phil Michelson is a

829
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: golf superstar, like Tiger is a transcendent sports talent across generations.

830
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of a little bit of a

831
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: different animal. Now does it go into you know, most

832
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: let's say, I think the better question not twenty nineteen Masters,

833
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: how about this versus the two thousand and eight US

834
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: Open at Tory Pikes, And.

835
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: I think how you can compare? But yeah, that's a

836
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: good question.

837
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I think that's more it'd be two different accomplishments. One,

838
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: you know, Phil would be this encapsulation of a guy

839
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: breaking through in a championship that's been his absolute foil

840
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: his whole career, and you know, doing something incredible breaking

841
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: his own record being the oldest major winner, and then

842
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: the individual week of what Tiger did in terms of

843
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: the injury, and you know, I won't rehash all the

844
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: incredible things he did that week on a broken leg

845
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: and a destroyed knee, but I think that might be

846
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: where the comp is a little more interesting because I

847
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: just think the Tiger Master's victory that golf course, that's

848
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: all the symbolism tied to. It's just a little it's

849
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: just a different animal.

850
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: That's where I was going. So a few things coming

851
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 2: off that. First of all, I've done this, done the math.

852
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 2: I've looked at the stats. Phil Nicholson indeed is older

853
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 2: now than he was a month ago, so he would

854
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: become the oldest winner of major championship if he was

855
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 2: to win this week.

856
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: I'll have to verify that once we're off, but I.

857
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: Think that's okay. You can look that one up. I

858
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: know it takes you a while to do the research

859
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: on stuff. U. I think you're absolutely right and that

860
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: it comes down to Tiger a little greater than Phil.

861
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 2: It just is it's Tiger and Augusta National. It's better

862
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: than Tory Pie. It's just it's hard to compare the two.

863
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 2: But I still think that that Tiger the nineteen Masters

864
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: is much bigger. What I will say is that. And

865
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 2: we had Kegan Bradley on our radio show on Hitting

866
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 2: the Green a couple of weeks ago and talk to

867
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: him about Phil winning the PGA Championship, and Keegan obviously

868
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: biased a good friend of Phil and loves the guy.

869
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 2: And Keegan said, in my mind, Phil is the third

870
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: best golfer of all time. We're talking right now about

871
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: is Phil a top ten golfer of all time? I

872
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 2: think he probably is. I would put him in there.

873
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 2: It's probably a big discussion for another time that you

874
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: and I can go through and try to check the

875
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: numbers and get you know, we're looking at guys from

876
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: one hundred years earlier, and how do they compare to

877
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 2: Phil Mickelson in today's age? I will say, by the way,

878
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: total non sequitor. When I was on a golf trip

879
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 2: this past week, it's chessa Creek Club, which is an

880
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 2: amazing place, and we had a great time there, second

881
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: year in a row, the annual boys trip there. But

882
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: in the locker room where we were hanging out, there's

883
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: a big Ryder Cup sort of mounted plaque poster, so

884
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: to speaking. It's got a picture of the entire team.

885
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: And you look at the team and there's Steve Pate,

886
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 2: and there is Hal Sutton, and there's Marco Mira, and

887
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 2: there's Phil. That guy won a major a few weeks ago.

888
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: It's it's amazing, Like just looking at that team and

889
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: you're like, oh my god, Like one of those guys

890
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 2: just won a major champion. The other, like half of

891
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: that team, you haven't even heard their name, Jeff Naggert,

892
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: you haven't heard their name in fifteen years. And Phill's

893
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 2: still out there winning major championships. It just goes to

894
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: show his longevity in any case. Keegan was on our

895
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: show said that Phil is in his mind, the third

896
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 2: best golfer of all time, and we didn't even have

897
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 2: to ask the top two. I would say that if

898
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: Phil wins this week, and I get it, it's a

899
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: big if. I don't think it's gonna happen. I would

900
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: love to see it happen. I root for the story.

901
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: I would be absolutely overjoyed for Phil, who is just

902
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 2: the best. I love just kind of being around Phil

903
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 2: and talking to Phil, and I think it would be tremendous.

904
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: But if Phil wins this week, I might be ready

905
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 2: to elevate him to number three all time.

906
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: Wow, Well, I'm not. I think it's I think I look,

907
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: I I love Phil. Phil's one of my favorite players,

908
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: always has been. But I think that, Look, if you're

909
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: rounding it off in like the last fifty years, then maybe,

910
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: But I can't. I can't put him above I can't

911
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: put him.

912
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: Above Ben Hogan, Hogan. Hogan's a tough one. Hogan and

913
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: Jones have the two tough ones, right.

914
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: Walter Hagen. I can't put him above Hagan. Eleven major championships.

915
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't think I can put him above

916
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: Tom Watson.

917
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 2: Oh oh, come.

918
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: On, Watson has eight majors.

919
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: I get it different eras, I mean what you're.

920
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: Saying, if he completes the slam, right, if he can

921
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: then talking about something, then I mean you got to

922
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: kind of take a twenty thousand foot view.

923
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look at it a little bit different. Yeah.

924
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 2: I'm not saying right now, I'm not agreeing with Keegan

925
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: as he speaks right now that he's the third best

926
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 2: all time. But if he somehow wins this week and Granted,

927
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: it's a huge hypothetical question right now, and who knows

928
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: how we'd feel on Sunday evening after it happens and beyond.

929
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 2: But okay, maybe top five, maybe top three is a

930
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: little much, but maybe in with you know, Tiger, Jack, Hogan, Jones,

931
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: and maybe Phil creeps into that top five at least

932
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: in my mind. And I get it that others have

933
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: more major championship wins, others have more PGA Tour wins,

934
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 2: the longevity of the career, the ups and the downs,

935
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 2: it might be there for me.

936
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could probably move him. I I would have

937
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: told you, let's say a year ago, I probably would

938
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: have had him in like the twelve to fifteen range.

939
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: And I think that now after winning the PGA it

940
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: probably it may be a little recency bias, but I

941
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: could push him into the top now. But I just

942
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of names. Look, if you complete

943
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: the Grand Slam, that's that's a five man club, dude,

944
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: that's a really small small group, and it would be

945
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: you'd have to look at him from a completely different lens.

946
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: But he's a long way away from doing that this week.

947
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: Okay, So we often do on our show the gimme

948
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: buy or sell when we spin our betting wheel. I

949
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 2: am going to not spin a betting wheel, but I'm

950
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: just gonna pick a guy and ask you buy or sell,

951
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: and I'll chime in as well as we get moving

952
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: on this. But I like this mid tier that I'm

953
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: gonna look at right here. So let's first start with

954
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: will Zalaturus. You buy any selling, I'm gonna buy.

955
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy because of how prolific I mean, I

956
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: keep using the wrong word prolific. It's that proficient. How

957
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: good he's been with his iron's the strongest point of

958
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: his game. He's I think it's three consecutive top ten

959
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 1: finishes in the major championships, and his ball striking numbers

960
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: have been outstanding in those starts. I don't see any

961
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: reason for that to change this week. I know he

962
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: hasn't played his best golf since the Masters, but he

963
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: did play pretty well the PGA Championship.

964
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy, Okay, I'm with you. It's a conservative buy.

965
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm putting him I think on

966
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 2: my list. And again, I was doing this on an

967
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: airplane with literal paper, hard copy like writing names down

968
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 2: earlier today. So I don't have the whole list, but

969
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,720
Speaker 2: I've got zalatoris somewhere in the mid to high teens.

970
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 2: So I mean, if you want to play a top

971
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 2: twenty for me, that's my Xalatori's play. I'm not going

972
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 2: too much deeper than that. All right, Let's see Adam

973
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 2: Scott at sixty six to one.

974
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,959
Speaker 1: At sixty six to one, I think I might buy.

975
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: I think because of the success he's had on this

976
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: golf course in the past, contended a few years ago

977
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: when Justin Rose ultimately went on to win. He's a

978
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: guy who, look, the focus is going to be on

979
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: these four tournaments a year, and he's basically said as

980
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: much purbally about the rest of the PGA Tour season

981
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: is that this is what he's gearing up towards with

982
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: that golf swing at sixty six to one, as prolific

983
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: a champion and he's been in his career, I think

984
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: it's a slight buy.

985
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: I'm kind of with you. I kind of like Adam

986
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 2: Scott this week there might be a little too much

987
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: bias just based on two starts at Tory Pines. Has

988
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 2: got to runner up in a tenth place finish. But

989
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: I kind of like Adam Scott this week. All right,

990
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find one that we might actually sell.

991
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do it here, Web Simpson.

992
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: So this was on one of my favorite statistics. You

993
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: did not find one I'd sell, by.

994
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 2: The way, I'm very I think so.

995
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: So I want to go over the stat again because

996
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of complicated, but it's a really good one. Winner,

997
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: is it Tory Pine. Since two thousand and four, fifty

998
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: one percent of their approach shots that they've hit have

999
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: been from one hundred and seventy five yards and out.

1000
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: That's about ten to twelve percent more than the PGA

1001
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: to RA appage. You're going to have more long iron

1002
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: shots than normal on this golf course. Think kind of

1003
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: like you would at bay Hill. The four best players

1004
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: in terms of average score to part from one hundred

1005
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: and seventy five yards and out are Jen ram Xander Schoffley,

1006
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: to Shambeau and Web Simpson. And those are four of

1007
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: the guys who are going to be near the top

1008
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: of a lot of boards for a lot of reasons.

1009
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: But one of the reasons why I kind of like

1010
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: Web Simpson, and maybe we'll find somebody that I'll sell.

1011
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm just just a great mood right now. I think

1012
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: that's I'm just excited about Major Championship Week being here.

1013
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna buy Web Simpson. It's a moderate buy

1014
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: though really strong top of this field obviously, so forty

1015
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: to one. That's a slide buy for me, all right.

1016
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 2: In his last thirteen majors, Sergio Garcia has missed eleven

1017
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 2: cuts and not finished in the top fifty and the

1018
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: other two sell. Can I get you a cell there?

1019
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: That is a cell that is a hard sell. I

1020
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: do not want any part Sergio this week. He gains

1021
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: most of his strokes off the tee. That's not what

1022
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: winners typically do on this golf course. As we talked

1023
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: about earlier, I'm gonna sell Sergio this week.

1024
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: We'll give you a couple more real quick. Bubba Watson.

1025
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: So Bubba's interesting. He's add some decent finishes at Tory

1026
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: Pines over the years. Personally one year a few years back,

1027
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 1: I think that wasn't in the year Phil had bones

1028
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: pulled flagstick from ninety yeah, so why people forget that?

1029
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: I think it was Bubba that won that day. You know, look,

1030
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 1: he hasn't He's not the player he was five six

1031
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: years ago. He's not a guy who's at the top

1032
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: of the sport anymore sneaky, kind of older than people realize.

1033
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: On the other side of forty, but if there's a

1034
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: place where you can gain shots, another guy like Sergeio

1035
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: gains most of his strokes off the tee. That's his strength,

1036
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,439
Speaker 1: not necessarily with his approach play. I'm not too high

1037
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: on Bubba this.

1038
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 2: Week speaking of being on the other side of forty

1039
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 2: Lee Westwood.

1040
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: So I just want to celebrate Lee Westwood in his

1041
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: entire vibe. You know, this is a man who spent

1042
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: the week preparing and really hogan esque fashion Vegas getting married.

1043
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: He's posting ig stories with bottles of champagne. He's at

1044
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 1: the Vegas Knights playoff. The man is winning it life.

1045
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: I believe, I believe Ja Ray, that's more Hagen than

1046
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: Hogan esque.

1047
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what I meant. I was going through

1048
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: the dry sarcasm there. But yes, the second time we

1049
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: mentioned Walter Hagen, that is definitely more Hagan esk than

1050
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: Hogan esk. He was like hanging out with Babe Ruth

1051
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: back in the day. He wasn't a Golden Knight's playoff game.

1052
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: But just celebrate the whole essence of the man, just

1053
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, just absolutely living life to the fullest. Do

1054
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: I want to pick him to win the US Open

1055
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: this week? Absolutely not. He did finish in third place

1056
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: here in two thousand and eight. The rewatch of that

1057
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: a few nights ago on Golf Channel is just a

1058
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: stark reminder of how close he was to being part

1059
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 1: of that playoff, so many opportunities down the stretch. It's

1060
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: really kind of kind of heartrenching to watch it because

1061
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: we've seen it so many times over the years. But

1062
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: I'll buy hanging out with Lee Westwood. I will absolutely

1063
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: buy that. I want all parts of that. But in

1064
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: terms of betting on.

1065
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 2: Him this week, no, no thanks, Okay, I'm with you

1066
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: on that. All right, Let's make a DFS lineup.

1067
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: You're ready, Yeah, let's do it well to be a

1068
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: DFS millionaire, you're just one lineup away. We're gonna go

1069
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,879
Speaker 1: nose to nose with him, and you're gonna play better

1070
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: than you ever dreamed of. God damn it, that's what

1071
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 1: I demand of you. So let's get drafting.

1072
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 2: You can have the first pick.

1073
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: I can have the first pick.

1074
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,879
Speaker 2: Taking all week, I'm thinking for two weeks on this thing.

1075
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna go with a kid. We haven't mentioned

1076
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: this guy really yet, which is kind of surprising.

1077
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 2: We've been doing this for like an hour already.

1078
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,959
Speaker 1: I know we have the name Xander Shaffley yet, which

1079
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: is incredible. I have to give this out my favorite

1080
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: Xander Shaffley. Fact, each of his four US Open starts

1081
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: in his career, he's finished in the top ten. The

1082
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: last man to start his career. The last man started

1083
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: his career with four consecutive top ten finishes in the

1084
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: US Open. Mister Bobby Jones, that's the kind of company

1085
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: he's keptains US Open career. Xander in San Diego, excellent

1086
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: driver of the golf ball, no weaknesses, and a little

1087
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: bit of a value here at ninety three hundred, I'm

1088
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: gonna put Xander Shaffley as.

1089
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 2: Our first pick. Okay, tough not to like Xander. I

1090
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 2: like him, I don't love him this week. He's until

1091
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 2: this past year, I was sort of a backdoor top two,

1092
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 2: and I hate that term because there's no such thing

1093
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 2: as a backdoor. Like he played well in the final

1094
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 2: round to get into second place, Like that's what you're

1095
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 2: supposed to do.

1096
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: Just just the narrative you remember in the tournament says that, oh,

1097
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: he contended and then faded or whatever it was about

1098
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: right now, the tournament's seventy two holes. Yes, you've paid

1099
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: for what you shoot over seventy two.

1100
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 2: Yes, But that said, it was really the only time

1101
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 2: that he's played well in his hometown here at Torry Pines,

1102
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 2: and he plays every year and he loves this golf course.

1103
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 2: So that's backing me off just a little bit on Xander.

1104
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 2: But I'm with it.

1105
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: He's forgiving me the first pick.

1106
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going with if you think he's a

1107
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 2: good value, I'm going with my favorite value out there.

1108
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 2: Jason Kokrat good seventy six hundred Again. I think he's

1109
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: got top five written all over him this week. I've

1110
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 2: been wrong before. I've been wrong a lot. I've been

1111
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 2: wrong so many times, just like Mark Leishman screwed me

1112
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 2: over a few a month ago, Keegan Bradley two weeks

1113
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 2: ago at the Memorial guys where I'm like, he's gonna

1114
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 2: be in a lot of my lineups. Jason Gokrack will

1115
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: be in a lot of my lineups, and by the

1116
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: end of this week I might not like Jason Cokrack anymore.

1117
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 2: He might be on double secret probation for me.

1118
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: So I had already scrolled down to co Crack. So

1119
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: if you weren't going on the screen here in front

1120
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: of me, if you weren't gonna pick him, I was

1121
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: going to. So that's what I feel differently about your

1122
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: selection teammate than you do about mine. But I'm gonna

1123
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: keep it moving.

1124
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,959
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if he doesn't play well, I'm gonna blame

1125
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 2: you for wanting to take him.

1126
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,959
Speaker 1: Then, all right, fuck that makes sense. Okay, I'm gonna

1127
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: go back to a guy I mentioned earlier who played

1128
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: well for three rounds at Tory Pines earlier this year.

1129
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 1: I like his iron statistics profile seventy one hundred dollars

1130
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: For Carlos Ortiz, I think he's gonna make the cut

1131
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: and have a pretty good week.

1132
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: Wow. On my list, I have him right next to

1133
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 2: Alvaro Ortiz, his brother.

1134
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: It's fine.

1135
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 2: They're two Molinari's too. Which Mollinari do you like better

1136
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 2: this week?

1137
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: What's that?

1138
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 2: Which Molinari do you like better this week? I think,

1139
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 2: I think and Lardo's the sneak. Ed Wardo might beat

1140
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 2: Francisco this week. I think he's yeah, somewhere.

1141
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: But permanent American. I'm sure it has nothing to do with it.

1142
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 2: But yeah, all right, let's say we have twenty six lots.

1143
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: Of money left. I wanted to give you. We got

1144
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: a lot left to spend here on a top heavy board.

1145
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take the guy that's gonna win. Paul Casey

1146
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: seventy nine hundred. That was easy.

1147
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: Seventy nine hundred for Paul Casey. That's a good value.

1148
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: Like that, We've got eighteen one left Xander Cocrack Ortiz

1149
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: and Casey. Oh man, I know he missed the cut

1150
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: at Congree, but it's really tough to not take bars Capkin.

1151
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: I mean right, it feels like you're gonna kick yourself

1152
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: if you don't take him. But I'll go a little

1153
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: bit further down. I'll go with another guy played really

1154
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: well early this year at Tory Pines. He's got really

1155
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: good ball striking statistics of Tory Pines South and his

1156
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: limited career there, Victor Hop I wanna go.

1157
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 2: There, Okay, I took no Well, look where you left it.

1158
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna take Tony for now when

1159
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 2: you were leading up to that pick. So guy that's

1160
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 2: got great ball striking at Tory Pine's, guy that's played well.

1161
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 2: There we have eighty nine hundred left Tonys eighty nine hundred.

1162
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 2: I'm taking Tony now and we're gonna spend all our

1163
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 2: money right there. Excellent. I like it, just like you

1164
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 2: drop right there, Casey fen Now, holand Corack or Tees

1165
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 2: Shoffley ship that lineup.

1166
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: That's that's deep. Just as you get a little top

1167
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: twenty four tees. You're making some money there.

1168
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 2: I think with the soft pricing and major championships, every

1169
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: lineup on Monday evening when you tape the podcast looks

1170
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 2: really really good. For the next three day weeks, we're

1171
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: gonna be making a ton of great lineups that can't lose,

1172
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 2: and we're gonna be making a lot of money until

1173
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 2: they actually tee off on Thursday morning.

1174
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: It's part of the fun. Oh, it's a stifle people's

1175
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: people's good vibes here man us open week baby letters.

1176
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 2: I love it. I won't lie a few times when

1177
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: we do the podcast. I don't like some of your picks.

1178
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 2: I don't actually put in the lineup. Boom, I just

1179
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 2: put it in that lineup.

1180
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: Just how much, you know, breaking all kinds of barriers

1181
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: in our relationship here with this truth is being dropped

1182
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: on me right and left. Told you I'm fragile. I

1183
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,760
Speaker 1: had a guy flipped me off of the grocery store

1184
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: parking lot earlier.

1185
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 2: Make better Picks. I'm going to flip you off if

1186
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 2: Carlos Artines doesn't finish top twenty.

1187
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, I mean, I'm just not going

1188
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,240
Speaker 1: to bring up the overall you know, leaderboard, the overall toadboard.

1189
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Since I joined the Gimme, I won't bring that up.

1190
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 2: Is it good?

1191
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: I feel like you've b always got a substantial lead?

1192
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 2: Really?

1193
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?

1194
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's here's the deal with the Gimme for

1195
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 2: those that are watching that show as well. I feel

1196
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 2: like last week for my preview that I write my

1197
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 2: betting guy, that I write first thing Monday morning to

1198
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 2: start off the week, I had hat in top five hit.

1199
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 2: I had Higgo top ten that hit. I had Lipski

1200
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 2: Top twenty that hit. I had Fitzpatrick as my favorite

1201
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 2: DFS play for the Free Bingo Square that I say

1202
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 2: that he that hit. He was, you know, one of

1203
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 2: the better sort of top player options for the gimme.

1204
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 2: When we were making our picks, I didn't have any

1205
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 2: of those. I think i'd hattn't for a top ten.

1206
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 2: But like I'm just picking the wrong guy. I'm picking

1207
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 2: the right guys for the preview, and then I'm just

1208
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 2: kind of like sort of veering in another direction a

1209
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 2: little bit for the gimme, just to sort of spread

1210
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: it out a little bit so I can be maybe

1211
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 2: right somewhere and wrong somewhere else. I've been wrong on

1212
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 2: the gimme more than I've been right on the uh

1213
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 2: in the preview.

1214
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: So Jason, I'm just hearing a lot of excuses, is

1215
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing. I think we're gonna take accountability for

1216
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: our picks. Take it on the chin, and you know,

1217
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,240
Speaker 1: when you're down to your boy, you're down, It's okay,

1218
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: you're gonna come back, It's fine. But you know, this

1219
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,280
Speaker 1: this wishy washy back and forth, it's not doing anybody

1220
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,280
Speaker 1: any good.

1221
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 2: Mark Leishman will have an official apology on the pod

1222
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 2: next week that he's done to Mekegan Bradley will have

1223
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 2: an apology for what he's done to me, and I

1224
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 2: assume that after this week, Paul Casey and Jason Kokrak

1225
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 2: will have an apology for me as well. After I

1226
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 2: think that they're sure fire locks to be in contention

1227
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 2: this week, and we'll see what happens.

1228
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: Look, man bo van Pelt almost won last week at Congaree,

1229
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: and he hasn't contended since the previous like two presidential

1230
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: administrations ago. So it's you know, it's a tough sport

1231
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: to handicap. We're doing our best.

1232
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 2: Here, We're trying. We're trying for you guys out there.

1233
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 2: We're doing our best. We're trying. I'm sure one of

1234
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 2: these names that we have mentioned that we really like

1235
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 2: this week is not going to play well, and someone

1236
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 2: that we haven't mentioned on the bot. We've been sitting

1237
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 2: here for an hour talking all about guys that we like,

1238
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's one name that we haven't mentioned

1239
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 2: that is going to be right there, and you're gonna

1240
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 2: be like, hey, guys, these idiots even talk about him

1241
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 2: on the podcast.

1242
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: How they miss in We haven't said Daniel Berger's name,

1243
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: So he's he's your winner?

1244
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, very possible. Yes, just go through the podcast, Just

1245
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 2: sit there and write down every name listening again, carefully

1246
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 2: write down every name that we have mentioned, and then

1247
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 2: look for the names that we didn't mention. Congratulations Daniel Berger,

1248
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Oh who do I got? Let's see the

1249
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 2: champion you mentioned Terroal Hatton. We didn't mention Hatton at all. No,

1250
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 2: not real Hatton. US Open Champion, the Big Field, Jason

1251
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 2: tough Stas, Matty Connor, Cameron Smith, Corey Connors, Joaquing, Neeman

1252
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: Abraham answer. That's basically that's your Sunday leader board right there,

1253
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 2: all the guys we didn't really get into and mention

1254
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 2: those guys that we love.

1255
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: Pushing people away. At this point, we need to.

1256
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 2: Wrap this up. Okay, guys, stop listening. Thanks so much

1257
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: for being with us for this edition of the Action

1258
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 2: Network Podcast, presented by Bett MGM. He's Justin Ray, I'm

1259
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 2: Jason sobel Enjoy the one hundred and twenty first US

1260
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 2: Open this week. Can't wait for it all to get

1261
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: started here at Tory Vines. Good luck with all your

1262
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 2: bets this week. Here's open you it.

1263
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 3: We're finished talking sh