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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Frida Egg Podcast with US Open week. Here, I am
Speaker 1: joined by our resident Fantasy Golf betting and TIS expert,
Speaker 1: Polly Polly. Welcome on.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up Andy?
Speaker 1: Not much, just getting primed for a big week. What
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 2: No, this is definitely one of my more favorite weeks
Speaker 2: of the year, so I'm definitely looking.
Speaker 3: Forward to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be a should be an interesting week.
Speaker 1: I'm I think it's it'll be a fun US Open.
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of attention on the course, lots of
Speaker 1: attention on Tiger and DJ. What have you been seeing
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks leading up to this? What
Speaker 1: are you looking out for?
Speaker 2: It's just nice to see the fact that we have
Speaker 2: so many players in golf right now that are not
Speaker 2: necessarily firing all cylinders but playing well coming into the major,
Speaker 2: to where we have fifteen or twenty guys that I
Speaker 2: think have a legitimate chance at winning this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree in the sense of I think once
Speaker 1: you hit about twenty in the world rankings, that's when
Speaker 1: the you know, the chance of winning. I think we're
Speaker 1: going to see a premier player win this week. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to see a surprise winner in
Speaker 1: the sense of a you know you're going to It's
Speaker 1: going to be a pedigreed guy, one of the most
Speaker 1: talented players on tour will win this week because my.
Speaker 2: Guess Yeah, I would echo that sentiment as.
Speaker 1: Well, having checked out the golf course. I think it
Speaker 1: just is it's such a good overall test of players games.
Speaker 1: I think you've got to do everything well. I think
Speaker 1: that's the case with most US Open venues, but more
Speaker 1: so at Shinnakok, where you've got elements that can possibly
Speaker 1: come into play with the wind and being such an
Speaker 1: exposed site, I think you'll see a little bit of
Speaker 1: the Augusta National effect where approach play is going to
Speaker 1: be really important because we there's a you know, good
Speaker 1: movement in the fairways, so you're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, uneven lies, and you couple that
Speaker 1: with wind uphill, downhill and side hill lies in repelling
Speaker 1: greens and all of a sudden, that approach play is
Speaker 1: going to be really important and the elite players in
Speaker 1: that category are going to separate themselves. And then I
Speaker 1: think also, you know, with the with the changes, I
Speaker 1: think from two thousand and four, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things is going to be the green surround so the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, they have short grass everywhere out there, and
Speaker 1: the ball will tumble away. You know, the margin for
Speaker 1: error will be small, so you know, you could see
Speaker 1: a shot that just trickles off the green and ends
Speaker 1: up rolling thirty forty yards away on some in some
Speaker 1: cases a little bit wider fairways. So driving, I think
Speaker 1: it gives everybody a chance. It's not going to take
Speaker 1: the driver out of play. So if one of those
Speaker 1: big hitters gets hot with the driver, they could have
Speaker 1: a really big advantage in the sense of, you know,
Speaker 1: they can hit driver everywhere and really shorten the golf course.
Speaker 1: But at the same token, the shorter hitters can you know,
Speaker 1: compete because they have the ability to play to angles
Speaker 1: and use their accuracy because you know, it's not that traditional,
Speaker 1: really narrow US Open setup where everybody misses fairways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with most of those sentiments. As well.
Speaker 2: I mean what I'm looking at for this week is
Speaker 2: definitely approach game, strokes stained around the green, a little
Speaker 2: bit of driving distance, and strokes gained off the tea
Speaker 2: as well. Again as you mentioned, if one of the guys,
Speaker 2: one of the bombers gets hot, and then also looking
Speaker 2: at bogie avoidance for you know, some of the shorter
Speaker 2: hitters that are kind of able to plod their way
Speaker 2: around and have more queens good guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think unlike last year, par is a good
Speaker 1: score at Shinnecock. I with the way the weather shaping up,
Speaker 1: assuming that the wind stays down like they're forecasting, I
Speaker 1: think the winner is going to be between you know,
Speaker 1: four and seven under par So. I think you know,
Speaker 1: rounds of seventy two don't really hurt you. Assuming you
Speaker 1: get one one good one in you or two good
Speaker 1: ones in you, you can you can be in the
Speaker 1: hunt if you shoot around par Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think one thing for people to realize is
Speaker 2: that maybe to check the weather forecast on Wednesday just
Speaker 2: to see if there's any advantage for the early late
Speaker 2: wave or the late early wave for Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: because if there is wind forecast, did anything about fifteen
Speaker 2: miles an hour.
Speaker 3: That drastic would change that golf course.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: want to look at at players that you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: with the waves being different, morning would be an advantage
Speaker 1: in most cases. But sometimes you know it's windy in
Speaker 1: the morning and call them in the afternoon. But then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, you look at those
Speaker 1: guys that play a little bit better in the wind
Speaker 1: that have had success. It's it's not a links golf
Speaker 1: course in the sense of you see at the British Open.
Speaker 1: It's more aerial than that. But you know you need
Speaker 1: to control your ballflight really well because it can get
Speaker 1: really windy out there. Let's start with kind of one
Speaker 1: and done and and the favorites, and you know we
Speaker 1: mentioned we're looking at top twenty real pedigreed players. Who
Speaker 1: are you looking at from a one and done perspective?
Speaker 2: So from a one and done perspective, I'm thinking a
Speaker 2: lot of people are going to be taking Dustin Johnson
Speaker 2: this week if they still have him available, after seeing him,
Speaker 2: you know, rate the field Memphis, and knowing that his
Speaker 2: game usually suits us Open styles very well, so that
Speaker 2: that's gonna make me want to not use him this
Speaker 2: week because I typically don't want to play somebody that
Speaker 2: maybe twenty or thirty percent own in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and this is even more of the case
Speaker 1: for people that are looking to make up ground later
Speaker 1: in the season, people that are down in the in
Speaker 1: the bottom. You can't can't, can't roll with a favorite
Speaker 1: this week, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of other options that could win. I mean,
Speaker 2: one of the guys that I'm probably most heavily in,
Speaker 2: you know, favor, would be Justin Thomas. I think he's
Speaker 2: a good other option instead of Dustin Johnson to where
Speaker 2: Thomas pretty much has the exact same game as DJ,
Speaker 2: except you he's maybe only be five or ten percent
Speaker 2: home this week in your league. So I'd much likely
Speaker 2: probably pick Thomas instead of DJ.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you could even go further down. I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, we saw a resurgent Hideki Matsiyama last or
Speaker 1: two weeks ago at Memorial and look to have his
Speaker 1: game back. And he's, you know, last year in the
Speaker 1: US Open, he's t second, he plays well at Augusta,
Speaker 1: one of the best players approach into the Green, and
Speaker 1: he's top ten and strokes gained around the Green this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's actually just you know, mentioned one of my
Speaker 2: favorite players of the week. So he's actually the only
Speaker 2: guy in the field that has finished in the top
Speaker 2: twenty in the last six majors. And if we kind
Speaker 2: of look at some of his stats over over the
Speaker 2: long term, I mean, like about over the last fifty
Speaker 2: rounds in the field, he's nineteenth, approach, twelfth, around the Green,
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, and driving business in twenty and Bogey Awards.
Speaker 2: So you know, some people, you know, may shy away
Speaker 2: from him because his name hasn't been around the tour
Speaker 2: that much this year because he was injured for a
Speaker 2: little bit. So you may you may get him at
Speaker 2: a very low ownership in your league this week.
Speaker 1: You know, Matciama has been injured and last year's champion
Speaker 1: Kopka has been injured, and he's shown some pretty strong
Speaker 1: forms since he's come back from that injury the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. He you got any chance of a
Speaker 1: Curtis Strange like repeat champion this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Brooks just seems to you know, tailored
Speaker 2: his game towards the majors. He's top fifteen in his
Speaker 2: last five majors that he's played, he's trending in the
Speaker 2: right direction, and his last three events, you know, he
Speaker 2: finished thirtieth last week in Memphis, but before that he
Speaker 2: was second and eleventh, And to me, his game just
Speaker 2: suits us open. He's basically Dustin Johnson White.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he fits this golf course really well.
Speaker 1: And he's a perfect example of a guy that if
Speaker 1: his driver gets hot, you look out well.
Speaker 2: He also has a very underrated short game as well.
Speaker 2: He's very good around the greens in a really good putter.
Speaker 1: Great putter. I mean, he's one of the best putters,
Speaker 1: and everybody always talks about the distance like I just
Speaker 1: alluded to, you know, lazy writer here. So I think
Speaker 1: think another guy that will be very, very highly owned
Speaker 1: is Justin Rose. I think the golf course will fit
Speaker 1: his game well and aren't many players in the world
Speaker 1: in better form than him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. He's gonna be very
Speaker 3: popular option in all formats this week.
Speaker 1: So getting into DraftKings, it's the Millionaire Maker this week,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have a lot of people in DraftKings
Speaker 1: and lots of people picking the big names. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: with so many people in there. As you alluded to
Speaker 1: in the Masters podcast, we did you got to get
Speaker 1: go a little bit against the grain in order to
Speaker 1: win big in this week's in a big contests. So
Speaker 1: with that, looking at the top tier players ten thousand
Speaker 1: or more, you know you got Ricky Followers at the
Speaker 1: bottom at ten thousand, two hundred, and then you roll
Speaker 1: up to Dustin Johnson at eleven to seven. You got
Speaker 1: Rory JT. Speith day in between there, who of this
Speaker 1: top tier do you really like?
Speaker 2: Just on a pure ownership perspective, I'm probably gonna go
Speaker 2: with Jordan Spief there because I think so many people
Speaker 2: have seen him struggle with the putter this year, and
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have so many people hop on
Speaker 2: DJ or Justin Thomas or even Ricky Fowler becoming a
Speaker 2: popular name, or even slay below bit at Justin Rose
Speaker 2: at ninete hundred, that it's gonna be tough to have
Speaker 2: more than two of these guys on your team, and
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Speak it's overlooked.
Speaker 2: And one thing to mention is that he actually gain
Speaker 2: strokes putting a memorial even though he missed the cut there,
Speaker 2: So maybe it's a little bit of a turn around
Speaker 2: with the putter.
Speaker 1: He I mean, he's been absolutely exceptional from tee to
Speaker 1: green this year, and I mean he's been unbelievable with
Speaker 1: the driver, which has usually been one of his cruxes,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that gets him in
Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble, and it's been really odd
Speaker 1: to see him with putting. But putting is so fickle
Speaker 1: in the sense that he can you could be struggling
Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and then one week later it
Speaker 1: just turns around. And the ball striking has much more longevity.
Speaker 1: So you know, given that he's hit the ball so
Speaker 1: well and in his track record as a putter, he's
Speaker 1: bound to break out of the putting slump.
Speaker 2: And he's also a really good fit here in terms
Speaker 2: of all the shaves surrounds able to show off his
Speaker 2: short game, and also the uneven lies in the ferry
Speaker 2: are very ugustled like you mentioned, or even like cap
Speaker 2: Lure where he's played well as Also.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it's a what do you think about Rory?
Speaker 2: Rory, I'm just afraid that he's gonna have one of
Speaker 2: his four rounds be a blow up run where he
Speaker 2: shoot seventy six or seventy seven this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just seems to be what it has been
Speaker 1: the problem with him in majors recently is just he
Speaker 1: just can't seem to put four rounds together.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and we also look at Rory, is that
Speaker 2: most of the events that he's one have actually been
Speaker 2: when you know, a lot of birdies have been made
Speaker 2: in the scoring has been lower. If the scoring, you know,
Speaker 2: gets closer to part in this event, I definitely don't
Speaker 2: think Rory's an option this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's been a resurgent ear for Jason Day in
Speaker 1: the sense I mean he's been spectacular around the greens.
Speaker 1: Does he drive it well enough from an accuracy standpoint
Speaker 1: for you at at a US Open, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he would drive it well enough. The issue
Speaker 2: I have with Jason Days actually with his approach game.
Speaker 2: His iron's going to be pretty poor. I mean, even
Speaker 2: when he won at the Wells Fargo, he was right
Speaker 2: at field average on approach. When he was put the players,
Speaker 2: he was field average on approach. When he wanted the Farmers,
Speaker 2: he was below average the field and approach. And like,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're able to get away with that
Speaker 2: at Shinnecock because if you miss it your irons, you're
Speaker 2: going to be You're gonna have very difficult up and downs.
Speaker 2: Even though he may have the best short game in
Speaker 2: this field, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I could see that. I mean, I think he's he's
Speaker 1: close to a good fit if he has like you
Speaker 1: said that, if he if he's good te de Green,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's he might not be stoppable, but that's
Speaker 1: always the big question. We get down in here and
Speaker 1: and you know, for the second major in a row,
Speaker 1: I just feel like nobody's talking about John Rahm, and
Speaker 1: he's the fourth ranked player in the world. You know,
Speaker 1: got all the skill, I mean, fifth ranked player in
Speaker 1: the world. He's got all the skills you could possibly
Speaker 1: want from, you know a golf standpoint. Is it a
Speaker 1: patience thing? Is it just something that he just goes overlooked.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's a combination of patients and
Speaker 2: the fact that I think the weak part of his
Speaker 2: game is his iron game. He's actually lost strokes on
Speaker 2: approaching five of his last six events. And if that's
Speaker 2: gonna be one of the you know, defining characteristics we're
Speaker 2: looking for a champion this week, it's pretty hard to
Speaker 2: be looking towards.
Speaker 1: John rom mm hm. It's uh, you know, then we
Speaker 1: get down and we got Tiger Phil. Obviously they're going
Speaker 1: to dominate the storylines. You know, Phil's at eighty five hundred,
Speaker 1: He's in this group kind of when you get Tigers
Speaker 1: at ninety two and you get down to like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of this is this is where you could get
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of these players. Do you like
Speaker 1: that strategy of going after a bunch of guys in
Speaker 1: the eight thousand range and bypassing the bigger guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would definitely go with a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys from you know, that seventy nine to nine thousand range,
Speaker 2: from you know Adam Scott up to Brooks Koepka. You
Speaker 2: have about fifteen guys in that range and pretty much
Speaker 2: anybody in that range. I would not be surprised if
Speaker 2: they were in contention comes Unday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brendan Grace could be a good one in there.
Speaker 1: He's been playing really well and especially if the wind
Speaker 1: kicks up.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah.
Speaker 2: And he's also played well on some other links like
Speaker 2: golf courses such as Chambers Bay or if you look
Speaker 2: at the aerial links like Royal Birkdale to where you know,
Speaker 2: he had the course record last year, and he also
Speaker 2: has three top sixes in his last eight majors, and
Speaker 2: he hasn't missed the cut since the Fetics got playoffs
Speaker 2: last year on the PGA Tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about you know, one of the biggest I saw,
Speaker 1: he's like in the top three of official World Golf
Speaker 1: Rankings points earned this year, Bubba Watson.
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna not be playing Bubba Watson anywhere this
Speaker 2: week just because of the patients and frustration level of
Speaker 2: the US Open to where if he you know, he
Speaker 2: hits an iron shot twenty feet away from a hole,
Speaker 2: hits a slope and runs down, you know, he kind
Speaker 2: of gets in that pouty mood. I don't think that's
Speaker 2: the mood you're gonna need as a champion. You need
Speaker 2: to have the unflappable mood, kind of like how Brooks
Speaker 2: Cup they had last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bubba, obviously it has a huge advantage with the distance,
Speaker 1: and I love his creativity, but I mean, the US
Speaker 1: Opens never been kind of his cup of tea.
Speaker 2: No, it definitely has, and he's very he's very subpar
Speaker 2: when it comes to around the greens. I think he's
Speaker 2: lost lost strokes around the green, I want to say,
Speaker 2: in eight of his last eleven events. So if you're
Speaker 2: gonna be missing greens, I don't know. He has a
Speaker 2: short game to recover from those mistakes.
Speaker 1: So as we drop down below eight thousand, below, you know,
Speaker 1: Adam Scott at seventy nine, he got Oustasen. Who's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's always a good pick for majors. Seemingly you
Speaker 1: get down and you've got this interesting kind of hodgepodge
Speaker 1: of veterans and younger players down into the seven thousand range.
Speaker 1: What are the names that kind of stick out here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So another one of my favorite plays of the
Speaker 2: week is Adam Scott at seventy nine hundred. So he
Speaker 2: actually split with his caddy the past week and this
Speaker 2: week he has a local caddy, Lenny Bimello from Shinnikok Hills,
Speaker 2: So I think that's going to give him an advantage
Speaker 2: on the greens this week, which is where he's been
Speaker 2: you were here. He's been struggling the last you know,
Speaker 2: the last couple of months. And he also he also
Speaker 2: kind of fits the course very well. Eighteenth and driving
Speaker 2: distance twelfth in approach and fifteen off the tee. If
Speaker 2: we're looking over last fifty rounds, and he's gained a
Speaker 2: massive sixteen shots on approach and twelve shots off the
Speaker 2: team in his last four events.
Speaker 1: So I kind of like Australian players in general this week.
Speaker 1: The course is going to play really firm and fast.
Speaker 1: And someone who I know, you know, having talked to
Speaker 1: Caddy and him, that loves firm and fast setups as
Speaker 1: Mark Leishman, obviously a great approach player, has has finished
Speaker 1: i think top five in every major championship. You like Leishman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Leifman will definitely be among my players that I
Speaker 2: consider this week. He's a very very good win player
Speaker 2: and if you look at you know, his best result
Speaker 2: recently was at Trinity Forrest, which was, you know, a
Speaker 2: link style golf course that's not necessarily to be the
Speaker 2: same as this, but it's gonna play firm and fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that he just he They they love
Speaker 1: Furman fast setups, and I kind of like And we
Speaker 1: saw last time the US Open was played at Shinnecock,
Speaker 1: South Africans did well with Goosen winning El's was in
Speaker 1: the hunt. I think, you know, in terms of Internet
Speaker 1: it might skew a little internationally. Do you feel that
Speaker 1: way a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling the exact same thing. And I'm also
Speaker 2: looking for some guys that, you know, another example would
Speaker 2: be a guy like Shane Lowry, another international player who
Speaker 2: can just kind of grind it out there if the scores,
Speaker 2: if it gets windy and the score is going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit closer to par.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had he was. I mean, he was in
Speaker 1: the thick of it at Oakmont until the end, and
Speaker 1: you know that was you know, obviously DJ finished what
Speaker 1: did he finished five under or that one? And but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean tough golf course, and he tends to play
Speaker 1: really well at difficult golf courses. So then we we
Speaker 1: get in here. I like, Can'tley, despite him being just
Speaker 1: an absolute horrible golfer to watch from the slow play perspective,
Speaker 1: get down in here and what I mean. Cam Smith's
Speaker 1: been kind of in bad form, but he's another guy
Speaker 1: that kind of pops out to me with his performance
Speaker 1: at Chambers Bay, T third and T fifth this year
Speaker 1: at the Masters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I if I didn't see his form over the
Speaker 2: last month, I'd be in on Cam Smith. But he's
Speaker 2: lost fourteen shots on approach in his last four events.
Speaker 2: So it's made me think that he's really starting with
Speaker 2: his iron game, which is it is gonna be causing
Speaker 2: some big numbers this week in Hinnacock.
Speaker 3: I would expect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not good. We get down in here. Bennett
Speaker 1: on was obviously came out a playoff loss last two
Speaker 1: weeks ago at the Memorial. Is he a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's you know, at the tops of europe
Speaker 1: European Tour and strokes gained approach, He's near the top there.
Speaker 1: Always been known as a great iron player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely a good fit.
Speaker 2: This week, He's gain strokes off the tea in twelve
Speaker 2: straight events, and he's over you know, in the last
Speaker 2: five events, he's gained over ten shots around the green
Speaker 2: and in his last seven events he's gained strokes on
Speaker 2: approaching six of those. So he's really, you know, hitting
Speaker 2: all the check marks for what we would expect to
Speaker 2: be a player to potentially contend and had a very
Speaker 2: cheap salary for draft wings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh, he's in the value bucket and we're
Speaker 1: kind of down in there. I know Andrew Beef Johnson obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he gets a lot of uh kind
Speaker 1: of a claim just for his name. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: always been a great te degreen guy. Do you like
Speaker 1: him this week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a guy that plays very well on difficult
Speaker 2: golf courses. So he saw him pop up on the
Speaker 2: US Open a few years back, and then he's some
Speaker 2: of the events that he's played well in Europe such
Speaker 2: as the bald Rama.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Over, but you know, been.
Speaker 2: On tracks to where a real previum has been placed
Speaker 2: on ball striking end, where you know, cars an ok score.
Speaker 1: I think he's a He's at the top of all
Speaker 1: the ball striking stats on the European Tour too, a
Speaker 1: guy that I like as well. And we get down
Speaker 1: in here. Do you like any kind of ams or
Speaker 1: younger guys that sectional qualified in Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's there's a feat down here there. Like one is
Speaker 2: the Sun jaym who played well on the Asian Tour
Speaker 2: in the fall and then has played really well on
Speaker 2: the Web dot Com Tour this year with one win
Speaker 2: in two seconds. So he's a potential option down there
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a big flyer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's leading the moneyless by like a huge, huge margin.
Speaker 1: You got the timeless Steve Stricker, which you know he
Speaker 1: played well again last week. I mean, this guy just
Speaker 1: has such steady game and he's what is it. He
Speaker 1: hasn't missed a cut at a major and how many events.
Speaker 2: It's been twenty seven straight majors that he has made
Speaker 2: the cut.
Speaker 1: That's out of this world.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the record maybe thirty nine. So he's still
Speaker 2: a little bit aways from that. But you know, if
Speaker 2: you're looking for somebody in your roster just to make
Speaker 2: the cut, put it.
Speaker 3: Plug him in at six not a bad option, you know.
Speaker 1: I saw McDowell made some comments about he felt like
Speaker 1: this was the first US Open he had a chance
Speaker 1: because of the golf course in a while. You read
Speaker 1: anything into that? Do you like him at sixty eight? Former?
Speaker 2: I think he's another viable option because it kind of
Speaker 2: reminds him pretty much a little bit of Pebble Beach
Speaker 2: to where he's not gonna have to take it super low.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be firm and fast, and it's gonna put
Speaker 2: a big emphasis on short game, and that's his strong suit.
Speaker 1: I kind of like mullin Axe as a flyer play
Speaker 1: maybe like a top ten. He's coming off of T.
Speaker 1: Six he had, he had his second place finish at Valero,
Speaker 1: and we saw last year at Aaron Hills. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can contend in a US Open. He's obviously prodigious
Speaker 1: off the tee, but he's just got kind of that
Speaker 1: game that you look at and you always say, man,
Speaker 1: this guy can really play golf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he can.
Speaker 2: Keep it in playoff the tea, I think he had
Speaker 2: have a tremendous advantage this week, and then that's what
Speaker 2: happened last year Aaron Hills.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's a little bit more narrow than Aaron Hill,
Speaker 1: so in the greens are a little bit tougher. But
Speaker 1: given his form, and I know he switched teachers this year,
Speaker 1: you know, he's the consistency. He's definitely improved significantly from
Speaker 1: the year before, so it could be a good pick.
Speaker 1: So getting down, we kind of are at the very bottom.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody really cheap that you like outside.
Speaker 2: That they're really I'm not gonna be playing any of
Speaker 2: the ams or any of the you know, additional professionals
Speaker 2: are qualified down at the bottom. I'm I'm mostly gonna
Speaker 2: let other people choose those And just because not many
Speaker 2: of those guys into making the cut around the chance
Speaker 2: to finish in the top twenty, which is what you
Speaker 2: need if you want to, you know, win the million
Speaker 2: dollars on draftings.
Speaker 1: So in terms of strategy, is there anything you're doing
Speaker 1: You say you're doing a couple of different lineups, How
Speaker 1: are you you? How do you put together you know,
Speaker 1: let's say you want to do three or four lineups
Speaker 1: for this thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if I want to do three or four lineups,
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to make sure that my whole
Speaker 2: entire lineup isn't full of chalckey players, meaning players who
Speaker 2: I think are going to be highly owned. So if
Speaker 2: I wanted to play somebody such as DJ or Justin Thomas,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna want to make sure I choose somebody who
Speaker 2: may be a little bit less owned in conjunction with them.
Speaker 2: So that may be picking somebody like a Shane Lowry
Speaker 2: at the bottom or at Graham McDowell, somebody who may
Speaker 2: only be a few percent down, just to distinguish my lineups.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's something that people often forget, is
Speaker 1: that you've got to have some people that other people
Speaker 1: aren't thinking about in there. In terms of salary, are
Speaker 1: you in the Master's pot. You mentioned you're try and
Speaker 1: stay away from, you know, spending your full dollar, right,
Speaker 1: you can do that.
Speaker 2: As the potential option for the US as well. It
Speaker 2: was more of a strategy to use for the Masters,
Speaker 2: considering the field is a lot smaller, okay, with only
Speaker 2: ninety such guys we're here, you have one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty six. You have a little bit larger field where
Speaker 2: I don't think you necessarily have to do it, but
Speaker 2: it's definitely an option. I would just try to make
Speaker 2: sure that you have one or two guys that you
Speaker 2: would pick on your team who you think maybe five
Speaker 2: percent own your left and if you do that, you
Speaker 2: have a pretty good chance of your line of being unique.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving towards the long shots, you're making any
Speaker 1: plays for whether it be long shots to win or
Speaker 1: long shots for top ten.
Speaker 2: One good long shot I think is Luke List. He's
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty to one to win, and he's
Speaker 2: a really good course fit. So if you look over
Speaker 2: his last fifty rounds, he's third, strokes gained off the t,
Speaker 2: fourth and strokes gained around the green, third and driving
Speaker 2: distance twenty eighth in approach and sixteenth and bogie avoidance.
Speaker 2: He he's gained strokes around the green ten of his
Speaker 2: last thirteen starts off the team, seventeen of his last
Speaker 2: team eighteen, and game strokes that approaching eight of his
Speaker 2: last ten. So that's you know, that's a lot of
Speaker 2: blocks checked like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty good golf if you're if you're into
Speaker 1: those kind of stats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's due for a win.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's gonna win this week, but I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised that he's he's up there because he
Speaker 2: plays difficult courses very well, kind of like how he played.
Speaker 3: The Honda this year.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that's just really improved his game over
Speaker 1: the last like four years. It's been fun to watch,
Speaker 1: Like the case, he went from a guy that you wondered,
Speaker 1: you know, did he have everything he needed to be
Speaker 1: to one of the more consistent players on tour. And
Speaker 1: you know, from from being volatile to consistent. It's pretty
Speaker 1: cool thing to watch. And he's gonna win one of
Speaker 1: these days, you know, it's uh. And he's got a
Speaker 1: ton of talent and uh, I mean that the recent
Speaker 1: recent results have been spectacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: All right, So you got any anything else for the people?
Speaker 2: No, just one thing before you set your lineups going
Speaker 2: into Thursdays is check the weather forecast Wednesday, Wednesday afternoon
Speaker 2: or evening, just to make sure that one of the
Speaker 2: waves doesn't seem to have a big advantage or disadvantage
Speaker 2: in terms of the win.
Speaker 1: So what's your what's your winning score prediction? And winner?
Speaker 3: I would go with four under par and Hideki Matsuyama.
Speaker 1: Wow, you are answering the question, can Hideki win?
Speaker 3: I am answering that question. Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 3: I like it.
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