Genesis Scottish Open Mega Preview | Picks, Storylines, Best Bets

The boys are back to preview the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. It’s news, it’s storylines, it’s best bets!

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SHOW INDEX
0:00 – Scottish Open Mega Preview Intro
0:19 – Mark’s UK Visa Saga
1:16 – Why Mark Doesn’t Check Emails
2:01 – New Visa Requirements for UK Travel
2:44 – Greg’s Thoughts on Tightening Travel Rules
3:39 – Scottish Open Co-Sanctioned Event Explained
4:22 – Field Strength and Weather Forecast
5:52 – Mark Rooting for Bad Weather
6:31 – Importance of Playing Lynx Golf Before The Open
7:22 – What Makes Lynx Golf Unique
9:37 – Renaissance Club Course Breakdown
10:08 – Renaissance is Manufactured, Not Traditional Links
11:19 – Wide Range of Winning Scores at Scottish Open
13:33 – Mark’s Favorite Scottish Courses
17:05 – Collin Morikawa and Billy Foster Partnership
19:13 – Rory McIlroy Outlook for Scottish and The Open
20:48 – Mark on Rory’s Shot at Renaissance in 2023
23:08 – Does Lynx Golf Help Rory?
25:57 – How Links Golf Challenges Players Mentally
27:05 – Patreon Question: Notes in Phones
28:39 – Mark’s Collection of Words and Phrases
31:13 – Rick’s Google Maps Power User Habits
33:05 – Betting Grid: Matchups
33:39 – Greg Picks Nikolai over Rasmus Højgaard
35:48 – Mark Shares Nikolai Højgaard Story
37:05 – Rick Picks Robert MacIntyre over Justin Thomas
37:28 – Mark Picks Adam Scott over Sepp Straka
37:56 – Betting Grid: Finishing Positions
38:15 – Mark Picks Tommy Fleetwood Top 10
38:55 – Rick Picks Aldrich Potgieter Top 20
39:27 – Greg Picks Matt Fitzpatrick Top 20
40:17 – Betting Grid: Outright Winners
40:39 – Mark Picks Rory McIlroy & Robert MacIntyre
41:21 – Rick Picks Collin Morikawa
41:58 – Greg Picks Viktor Hovland Without Top 3
43:04 – Greg Picks Nick Taylor Without Top 3
44:48 – Mark’s Favorite Scottish Open Memories
47:20 – Mark Signs Off
48:05 – Fantasy Breakdown Starts
48:40 – Greg’s ‘Can’t Live Without’ Pick: Matt Fitzpatrick
50:03 – Discussing Scottie Scheffler at Scottish Open
53:35 – Victor Hovland Outlook
54:36 – Collin Morikawa Fantasy Outlook
57:35 – Robert MacIntyre Profile & Stats
58:53 – Adam Scott Trending Up
1:00:18 – Ben An as a Lynx Play Value
1:01:25 – Jordan Smith DP World Tour Success
1:03:38 – Sleeper: Kristoffer Reitan Profile
1:05:17 – Sleeper: Francesco Laporta Profile
1:07:31 – Final Thoughts and Outro

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The Second Cut gets you everything you need in the world of golf on the PGA Tour and more! Tournament previews, storylines for each week, and in-depth players reviews. Hosted by Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood). Joined by Greg DuCharme (@therealGFD), Mark Immelman (mark_immelman), and Patrick McDonald (@pmcdonaldCBS).

[Music] Welcome in. This is the Second Cut podcast. I’m Rick Gaming and today we are mega preview potting the Scottish Open. The first of two consecutive weeks across the pond. We’ve got your storylines. We’ve got your best bets. We’ve got your shenanigans. Mark Illeman is here. Hello, Mark. Speaking of shenanigans, I realized this morning I need a visa to get into the United Kingdom. Thankfully, I did the application and then I get uh your application will be reviewed in 1 to three business days. I’m like, oh shucks, I travel tomorrow. Well, thanks to the good folks there in the United Kingdom, I just got my visa, so I’m good to go tomorrow. Good news. Wow, you’ve got a lot of you’ve got a lot of pool in the in the UK. You didn’t even know it. They think I’m Trevor. There you go. Sometimes that comes in handy. Greg Ducharm is here. Hello, Greg. It’s like we’re sitting here with royalty. I mean, is that like a common thing? People know they need a visa or is it because you’re going there to work? Like if I went to if I wanted to go to Scotland tomorrow to play golf, I’d need more than a passport. You need a visa now. Yeah, it’s new rules. That’s what that’s what caught me unawares. Um and and we we got an email, but I as you guys know, I’m notoriously bad at checking emails. Mark is the absolute worst at checking emails. and he and he insists that Gmail is conspiring against him. It is Gmail doesn’t work. Um anyhow, so Craig Capano, if you’re listening, thank you. He said to me, “Have you got the app?” I’m like, “What app?” He said, “There’s an app uh to enter the United Kingdom.” So we’re on the golf course at the John Deere. He goes, “Yeah.” And he helps me download the thing, you know, cuz I’m old school that way. And um and so I download the thing. So I’m like, “Oh, shucks. I got to do this.” So I do it this morning and you got to take a picture and passport and the whole thing and then I get one to three business days. So thankfully we’re here. I was I was preparing to watch the Scottish Open from my couch in Columbus, Georgia. Uh yeah, that is that is I guess it is relatively new, Greg. So you know we needed a visa when we went to Australia just I don’t know I don’t know what it is like it’s like a like a tourism visa. I think it’s just a way to get 25 extra bucks out of you or something like that. But yeah, you need like visas. I don’t know if that’s every country, but yeah, it’s a thing. That’s crazy. That’s why I stayed right here in the US. I mean, it used to be I used to be able to get in the car, drive up to Canada. I didn’t I mean, a driver’s license was recommended. You didn’t need a passport. Uh, that’s for sure. Now, you you need a just to get on an airplane and fly domestically, you need a special star on your license. Things are tightening down and I don’t like it. Are you Are you doing some Illuminati thing by having a clock directly over your head? Are you making a time zone statement in this in this frame right now? Well, you can make it that whatever you will. Uh, but I don’t mind it. I I like the background. Okay. The time is the time. This time is wrong. I’ll do it is wrong. It says it’s uh well I guess I don’t know what time zone you’re in but 11:08 I don’t think it’s 11:08 wherever you’re at. I am in the Eastern time zone. So it’s 503. That is way off. The cool thing I thought this was marketing because you know every watch company or clock company when they market themselves the the hands are 10 and two for the smile. Yes face. And when Greg clicked on it was 10 and two. I mean look at this guy. I mean this is a professional at work. That’s exactly what he is. This ain’t no hobby. Yeah, exactly. That’s it’s that’s that’s amazing. So, well well done, gentlemen. Well, listen. I’m about to get my, you know, my sleep schedule in order. We’re going overseas for two consecutive weeks. We’re going to start with the Scottish. This is a co-sanction event. So, there’s actually two co-sanctioned events this year between the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour. This event, the Scottish Open, and then the Isco Championship. And Mark, we’ll start here. I find it interest, you know, this is this is a cool field because you get like a lot of guys from both of these tours. I feel like there should be more of these. I I like the co sanctioned nature of this. It’s almost like having a world tour but still being on their own separate circuits. Well, yeah. I mean, these opposite field events and the co-sanction stuff. Uh, look at the opposite field just from a little while ago. Ryan Fox gets a win. and now all of a sudden he’s a two-time winner in the PGA Tour. So, so for the guys playing in the ESCO, it’s great news. But for this event this week at the Renaissance um for the Genesis Scottish Open, it is deep and it is strong. I mean, the the the strength of this field is way up there from what I’ve seen. And I’m super excited because um Carl Pollson yesterday morning on the trip home from John Deere, we’re in the airport for the 6 a.m. flight and I was like, um, you going to Scotland? And he goes, “No, home.” Then Port Rush the next week cuz he’s doing a call for SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. And so I’m like, “Ah, cool.” He goes, “Are you going to the Open?” I’m like, “No, no, just Scotland then back home.” And my hope is that I will be switching on the TV early in the morning with my coffee and all I’m going to see is rain coming in sideways and I’m going to be on the couch under a blanket with coffee and you out there in the rain. And he laughs. I’m like, “No, I’m serious.” Right? So he clicks open his phone and he shows me the forecast for Port Rush, which is straight rain for like six days. And I’m like, “You’re joking.” He goes, “No, for real. Look here.” Then he goes over to Scotland and no lie, it was like 5 days of straight sunshine. And he goes, “That might be the best weather that Scotland might have ever had in all of their history.” And we seem to be getting it this week. So it’s going to be a great event. It just is. There’s something a little nefarious about Mark always rooting for bad weather when he’s not there. Playoffs, nine whole playoffs when he’s not there. We just had two in a row, man. Come on. Give me a break. We have had we have had two in a row. The field is unbelievable, Greg. It’s uh as far as the the OGR strength of field goes, it’s going to be the second strongest field behind just the players championship. So, everybody um using it and I shouldn’t even say using it as an opportunity for a tuneup. think that is downgrading what this event is and how cool and a national championship is. But they are they’ve gotten everybody over there and it makes a lot of sense, right? It makes a ton of sense to go spend a little time over there, get acclimated to the uh to the time zone, no pun intended. You go get go get acclimated to all that stuff. get used to the the food and where you’re going to go eat and um and and the grasses, the turf conditions, you know, are you going to need some new wedges to put in play? Um are are is there any kind of grind you got to do with your irons? Like that happened to Colin Morawa a couple years ago before he won the Open Championship. It’s a it’s a really important trip. um not just to get ready for the open, but it’s an opportunity to play Lynx golf, which it does seem like most of the American players really appreciate Lynx golf. Uh not all of them do very well on Lynx golf, but they certainly appreciate it. Uh let’s talk links, Mark. This is a different style of golf. America plays golf in the air. Most of the rest of the world plays golf on the ground. that that when when I say link style golf or when people tune in at 2:00 a.m. on I guess that would be Thursday morning, Wednesday night into Thursday morning, what are they going to see that is so different than golf courses here in America? Well, all the lynx purists will tell you that the Renaissance Club is not a true Lynx. It’s just up the way from Mirfield, which is probably one of the greatest links there is in all the world. But um it sort of feels like Renaissance was built where a lot of the original links courses just wandered between sand dunes and stuff that were right adjacent to the water. But that being said about the Renaissance, I think it’s great. There a couple seaside holes down the cliffs which are beautiful. Then the rest of it is parkland with a links field with fescue and such. But if you’re looking for an examination, I would say the main thing around Lynx Golf is rarely striking the ball solid or very tight fairways. The fairways aren’t necessarily manicured like the golf courses in the United States, but they’re tight. The it’s almost fesco fescue grass is cut down real low. You got to strike the ball really well. You got to control distance. In fact, at times when the wind blows because it’s always heavy, um, yardage books go out the window. I’ve seen guys hit five irons from 140 yards and I’ve seen guys hit pitching wedges from 200 downwind because you’re landing at 40 yards short when the conditions are firm. The last couple years um at this Scottish Open uh Renaissance has been sort of softish because it’s been wet, but this year it’s been very dry from the reports I’m getting on the ground there. They say the golf course is in sensational shape. The weather’s supposed to be good. So, you’re going to see a place where it’s kind of, you know, brownish in spots. Frank Nobel calls it biscuit color. Um, sort of imagine your biscuit there for breakfast. That sort of look. Um, and you know, big greens, natural undulation, slower greens. It’s just all about hitting the ball solid and being able to to kind of play golf and not play numbers. That’s what it is. Yes. Not a Trackman competition. You’ve got to worry about what the ball’s going to do when it’s on the ground. And I can’t believe I’m going to say this, Greg, but in defense of the Twitter purists, uh, this was a manufactured golf course. 2008, Tom Duke opened this thing up. So, it is not the, like Mark said, um, mother nature has crafted a lot of the Lynx golf courses in the UK after centuries of erosion and wind movement, all that false th this was manufactured within the last couple of decades. Yes. Which is a rare thing, right? you know, you know, there’s not a lot of new golf courses going on in that area of the world. Um, there are so many already, but you know, I still think that it provides a really nice test for the PGA Tour. Um, we’ve seen just like any Lynx golf course pretty much uh in the open roa or in the Irish Open ROA, as long as it’s links, you’re going to see a wide range of scores based on the weather conditions. I mean, since they’ve been at the Renaissance Club, whether it was PGA Tour or DP World Tour since 2019. Um, so you’re talking about six years and winning scores have been between seven under and 22 under, right? So, a really wide range of potential winning scores. Um, it can play very getable and it can play brutally difficult. So much of it just depends on that weather. I think this year it’s looking like we’re going to have a little more of the uh a little more scorable because it is going to be dry to Mark’s point. At least it looks that way now. Winds aside from Thursday look to be very calm uh kind of freakishly calm for that area of the world. So we may see some low scores this week. Yeah, with that wind just wait 15 minutes. It’ll be like the John Deere last week where I got drenched then dry then drenched then dry all in one afternoon in 3 hours. Um, that’s sort of the thing. And I do want to say this real fast because I’m kind of glancing at the chats. The east coast of Scotland, like if you want to go on a boys trip for golf, you know, we stay in North Beric, which is the coolest little town. The golf course North Ber is sensational. I mean, in terms of links, that’s one you got to play. The greens are look like they’re straight off Mars. It’s crazy. They It’s It’s like mother nature designed those. Then just up the way is Mirfield. Then you got Kil Spindy and all these cool places around there. And then up the coastline you got St. Andrews and you’ve got Carni. So it’s just a wonderful spot for golf. And I I almost get the sense that the golf course is going to show off its true colors a little bit. Pun intended here because when it gets firm to Rick’s point, Bulgus to moving on the ground and this links as far as I’ve seen I’ve been to Royal St. George’s. I’ve been to St. Andrews. I’ve been to Kusti. I’ve been to Trun. I’ve been to Burkdale. I’ve not seen um uh Port Rush. I’ve not seen H Royal Liverpool. Um this one has more elevation change than most. Like I say, most of them are quite lowlying between um big sand dunes where over here like a whole like number eight, the shortish path four. It’s got this big hill you climb and then um 11 sort of goes up this long slow hill and then you go down into like a cliff seaside and you climb up a big hill another way to play another downhill path three 14 which has got a wall right between it and the 12th green. So it sort of feels like like North Beric in a way, but there’s a lot of undulation change. So as a result, when you’re playing from high ground to low ground, the wind’s pumping 40, you know, that’s what makes it really hard. But to your point, Greg, um even though the ball’s moving on the ground with the undulation, I’d feel like it’ll be kind of the the the fangs will be dulled a little bit and and and scoring should be pretty good. the venues or at least some of the venues that uh Mark rattled off obviously part of the open roa one of the others part of the open roa there is Royal St. Georgees. That’s where Colin Morawa Greg got his victory. Colin Morawa back in the news. He has a way of uh doing this recently. This time positive, I would say. Him and Billy Foster linking up for the next two weeks. Billy Foster was on Matt Fitzpatrick’s bag most recently. They won the US Open together. Billy Foster’s been around a long time. He’s been on a lot of great bags. He is going to try to shepherd Colin Morawa around the UK. Yes. And um look, I it’s at least at the very least an experienced caddy for him. Um it’s like a two-eek trial. I’m not sure if that’s a an awkward kind of thing or a positive thing, but um but look, it is more positive news that we’ve had in the past couple weeks with K Morawa. And I, you know, I heard something really interesting from Morawa at the Rocket. It was at the Rocket Classic. I think he said it to Amanda Valionis. You know, I feel like I’m hitting a draw right now, but you got to play with what you got. And I’m kind of like, all right, maybe he’s figuring out that he just needs to play cuz he’s even if he’s not feeling good enough, he is playing good enough to beat everybody. So perhaps I that gave me a hint of optimism with Colin Moraua going forward. I like the way he’s played here before. So yeah, I’m I’m more optimistic this week than I’ve been. I uh I don’t know Billy Foster, Mark. I can tell you what I think of him as an outsider. I think he is a rugged burly man, old school caddyy who might slap Colin Morawa around a little bit. I don’t know. Am I heading down the right path here? He pretty much hit that on the the nail on the head. I know Billy Foster well. Um I know Billy Foster when he was like a teenager cing for Sevy by Aysteros. So he’s seen the comingings and the goings, man. And and he’s gristled. He’s typically English. He’s sort of, you know, Midland Englishman who um calls a spade a spade. And he suffers doesn’t suffer fools lightly. And and I feel like for Colin, this may be exactly what he needs. You know, when it gets a bit pouty or whatever the case might be, just get a little sn slap around the gills and say, “Shine, let’s just go and play golf a little bit and let’s see what’s happening.” So, it could be good. The word from inside the camp that we’ve gotten is this is a twoe deal. It’s not necessarily like a a trial period or whatever you want to call it is two weeks. Now look, if Colin plays well and maybe contends or wins one of these next two events, it could turn longer, but as far as I knew, Billy was kind of done with golf. You know, it’s been a long career and there’s a lot of miles on those tires. So, um, I think it’ll be a fun trip. It’ll be fun to watch. I’ve seen Billy Foster with Matt Fitzpatrick at times when Matt been standing there with arms waving in the air and Billy would just pick up the bag and walk, not even listen to the guy. So, um, it’s going to be a fascinating watch and I’m actually kind of hoping I have Morawa in one of the next two rounds so I can see actually what’s going to transpire on the golf course because Billy is he’s a great caddy. He’s a grizzled guy and he’s a he’s he’s from the old school. He’s tough. One of my favorite Billy Foster clips is uh him and Matt Fitzpatrick are discussing a shot. Uh, Matt Matt’s getting ready to go. Matt asks another question and Billy just goes, “Okay, now on with it.” Like, and Matt’s like, “Oh, sorry. I like I apologize. I was gonna ask you one more question, but I guess I’ll just go now.” So, that that that is going to be different than some of the other voices Colin Haden is here. Greg, let me jump in here real fast. That is so accurate. And I will say this, you know, everyone talks about the pace of play on the PGA Tour. The pace they move and stuff. I’ve said this is fast. Some of the deliberation over golf shots is ridiculous. And and any single one of these guys, and I’ve maintained this, you could give Jordan Smith half a set of clubs and he’d shoot lower than what he does in PGA Tour events. You catch him at his home course when he’s got a rangefinder, a golf cart, and his clubs, he’s going to shoot 65 on you every single time. Then when you get to the PGA Tour event, it’s all this back and forth and deliberation and stuff where it’s like 175. It can’t go more than 185. It’s got to go 170. Hit the 7 iron. I don’t care if the wind’s up and down. Hit the seven iron. You got a range to hit to where these guys are making too much of it. And maybe, just maybe, with Colin, who likes to talk between shots or before shots where Billy’s like, “Hit it. Let’s go. I’ll see you on the green.” Yeah, it’ll it’ll be interesting to see how those two interact. Let’s get them in feature groups. Let’s get them all miked up. Let’s let’s do all the fun stuff so we can we can see it. Uh Rory Mroy Gregors. Uh all right. So we’ve been following obviously Rory very closely here in 2025. Last time we saw him was a travelers championship. He finished T6 that week. Uh we are now in the stretch of golf that if motivation was a problem for Rory, if it was, no more excuses now. Get to play the Scottish Open. You get to play uh Royal Port Rush at home. This is the time where we should be expecting, am I right? An absolutely engaged Rory Mroy. Yeah. This should be as engaged as before the Masters should be. Um I don’t know if I I don’t know if you can just flip on flip that switch. Uh I don’t know if that’s possible. And that’s the one thing that’s given me a little concern. if if it is possible, then Rory will have that switch flipped because it does on paper mean a lot and and there’s no doubt he wants to perform well next week in Northern Ireland. Um, but look, it it’s a it’s a hard thing to do, right? You got to go in what he did last off season was go into a simulator, lock himself indoors, and go hit balls without even seeing the ball flight for 3 weeks. Um, is he doing that in the middle of the summer after winning the Masters? I I would say probably not. So, I’m very curious to see what we get. I’m I’m optimistic because I do think we saw a better performance at Aori um at, believe it or not, the US Open and the Travelers after the after an abysmal Canadian Open. So, maybe things are turning in the right direction for Rory. Well, the last two years here, Mark, if uh or if those are any indication, it’s going to be a lot of Rory Mroy in contention. Remember, he nabbed this from Robert McIntyre two years ago in 2023, steals it late with one of the best shots you’ve ever seen and wins that golf tournament, finishes T4 last year. Your expectations for Rory Mroy over the course of the next week or two are what? First off, I got to see that two irony and he hit with my own two eyes. It was one of the best shots I might have ever seen. And that came right after Bob McIntyre hit a 3-wood from the left rough to about 5T for Bernie, which which was about the second best shot you’ve ever seen. Yeah, I was on the call for that. Um to Rory though, just to backtrack a little bit and set it up, I had him in the final round at the Travelers. And there were one or two sort of sillyish mistakes, but pretty much by and by I thought the game was trending in the right direction. And he shot some run in the mid60s and ostensibly had a chance to win with a quick finish, which he didn’t get. and um down 18 he’s had a T-shot way left and they’re waiting for a ruling both him and Harris English and they had a scoreboard in the way and he’s just standing there kind of leaning against the like the whipping from one of the like gallery um stand or whatever and he’s sort of just gazing at me and I smile. I’m like what’s your plan next few weeks? He goes flying out tonight um going to the going to London they got a new place over there. He goes, “I’m going to take some time off, kind of rest a little bit, and then start preparing.” And that’s exactly how he said it. He goes, “I’m going to rest and then start preparing.” So, I think I’m expecting a rested Rory. I I think I saw I Well, I don’t think I saw Rory who got looked like he got the bit between his teeth at the Travelers in the final round when he got a sniff of the lead. You know, Rory battling cuts was like, I don’t need this kind of deal. But when he was in contention, you could see the juices started going. So now he knows what was going on under pressure when he was in contention. He’s he’s worked on that. Greg, I’d love to see him go back into his room and just hit balls without seeing where the ball goes and just tighten up the golf swing. But I feel like he’s going to be ready because the one thing about Lynx golf, it doesn’t you don’t play golf swing there. You you just don’t because you got to create shots all the time. It’s very it’s rare that you will have like the stock seven iron or it’s rare that you can just step up there and blast one off the tea. There’s always something you got to make even though the conditions are nice. So I think he’s rested, he’s ready and I feel like a place where he’s been somewhat successful, pretty successful, I think it’s going to be a good week. Is that a is that a benefit, Greg? The idea that you have to kind of engage more on every shot and there is not just a stock seven iron sitting out there can be. Yeah, it can be very helpful. Um I I think it’s brought a lot of guys. Look, I I mean I I was looking at guys that are the best lynx players in this field when I was doing my preparation for this and I was looking at guys that um you know who were the best performers at the Open and at the Scottish Open. I left out the Irish and and the DP World Tour events on links just to keep it to kind of PGA Tour guys and and there’s some shot makers in here, right? The the best Lynx players know how to work the ball around. They they know how to kind of see it and play that style like Mark’s talking about. So, I think it can go one of two ways. It can be harmful if if that’s not your style, if that doesn’t work for you. It could be very helpful if um especially if you’re someone like Rory Mroy who you know gets the air quotes national talent uh natural talent kind of deal. I’m not sure how there’s obviously some natural talent there. Obviously a lot of effort as well, but I think for someone like Rory Mroy that thing plays play seeing visualizing playing shots is a really good thing for him rather than 175 here’s your eight iron hit hit a stock shot. Greg, I want to add to that real fast too. Why I think it’s Well, look, you know, Jordan Spe will shine in this sort of stuff. Ricky Fowler, you know, he’s a bit of a mutter that way. he loves to start creating and that sort of deal. Um, but it asks you to sort of be a little gritty. It’s not pretty golf length golf. It really isn’t. I mean, you’re not seeing full flowing followroughs and stuff like that. There’s a lot of chippy looking shots at times and and you’re playing and you’re playing with a mindset where somewhere in the back of your mind you got to have the right attitude because you can drive the ball straight down the middle of the fairway, get on the wrong side of one of those sort of ripply moguls in the fairway, kick into the fescue and then you’re cooked. So you you got to sort of be very accepting of everything that’s happening. And so as a result for someone like a Mroy who plays a real pretty game of golf, he gets back to the kind of, you know, dollars and cents of it, like the X’s and O’s of golf a little bit, and then is when he starts to get really good because he used to hate Lynx golf by his own admission. But he’s learned to love it because I think he started to realize that, you know, I’m not going to, you know, outshine everyone. I’m going to have to outplay everyone. and outplaying people is being prepared to hit from some bad lies at times and get some bad bounces. I love it. I love it. I think about the shots that he had to work at Augusta National around trees and different. It’s just like, hey, give me give me a challenge. Let me let me have at it. Um, I’m going to pot us through here for a second. I’ve got a couple of questions from our Patreon, which is linked in the description below. People are starting to get their merchandise. actually just got a photo on Twitter about an hour ago from Jock in Manchester rocking his brand new second cut hoodie. It looks very good on him. You can go check that out as well. Um, let’s go with this question here, gentlemen. It is from Ryan, and it’s in regards to Mark’s note that he had in his phone, the underrated flushers note, and he’s curious about anything else that we might keep in our phones. Um, whether it is food spots, whether it is thoughts or ideas. Uh, I’ll start with you, Greg, because I think Mark’s already chomping at the bit here, but Greg, do you have keep anything in your phone? Try to keep track of anything like that? passwords. Yeah, that’s really it. I I really don’t keep anything in there. I keep passwords. If I book a flight, uh I’ll keep that in my notes, any kind of travel like that. Um but no, I don’t I don’t keep anything in my phone. Maybe I should. I really like that idea, Mark’s idea. But I have I carry around multiple notebooks and I write stuff on paper. All kinds. You were like an 80 year old man. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Keeping passwords and my notes on my phone and writing down notes on paper, even scrap paper, which you’ve seen, Rick. I have seen. It’s It’s a sight to behold. He just has loose leaf everywhere and he’s got notes and he makes they’re not even like lined in the way that he always uses them. He’ll do the lines himself and make the tables and the grits. It’s insanity is what it is. Yeah. Yeah, I have some. I look I’ll show you right here. This is like a sheet. I don’t know if you There you go. I got a couple on that. There you go. Um Yep. So, that’s like what one of my sheets. And look, this one’s not scrap paper, so it’s double-sided. Normally, it can’t be double. That one’s double-sided. The reason I do that is uh I like to spread single sheets across a desk and and then I I there I have access to all of them. So, but no, nothing goes in my phone. I’m I’m a little envious of Mark though. Mark, I imagine that underrated flushers is not the only thing that lives in there. I do have You know me, I like good words. I I like people with choice vernacular and um there’s yeah when when you hear a great announcer or you hear a very smart person speak um not too much of it you know not like certain folks we kind of know on other golf stations uh TV stations where it seems like they’ve read the the the thesaurus and and just want to get all these words out but I think the choice use of words at times is really attractive to me and so when I hear something I I notoriize And there’s one that I heard like way back at a Lynx golf event by Peter Ellis who is like the doen of golf announcing legend and he described one green one time as if there were he said there are all manner of nooks and crannies around the place and I was like yes I’m going to use nooks and crannies when I get the chance over the weekend in Scotland. So yeah, I’ve got a lot of um terms that I feel like are very cool sounding, you know, might be on a matipa or like alliteration and stuff, but nooks and crannies and that sort of stuff stuff I keep notes on that. Wow, that is that’s good. That’s really good. Your word dextrous like dextrous. Yeah. As opposed to ambidextrous. Yeah. Dex. Well, if you’re dextrous, you got you’re tactile. You got a great use of your hands and a lot of skill. Dextrous is a good word. That is a good word. Uh well, you’re you calling a shot malnourished has made its way uh into people’s brains for sure. I did that. There was one time uh I talked about a shot being sautéed. It became a meme. Um there’s one you could use this in the United Kingdom. He’s in a bit of a quandery. Oh, bit of a quandery. I’ve heard I think I’ve heard you say that before. He has a cool sounding one. Bamboozled. Just like to say that. That is good. Don’t Don’t Don’t spoil all of these. Save some of these so that you can, you know, surprise us with them on the on the We’ll be We’ll be listening and uh I’ll People I bet will ask you, is that in the notes? Is that from the notes? Yeah, that’s good. The only thing I do if you want to see Can you see? Can you see it? Hold on. No, you can’t see this. Well, forget it. Well, there we go. It’s too bright. No, too bright. White screen. Uh, the only thing that I have is I’m a I’m a Google Maps power user. So, like I I save tons of locations. So, like really? Yes. Places that I’ve been to, places that I want to go every city. So, like before I go to like before I go to Florida for PJ Tour Studios or whatever, I’ll go and I’ll find like the best restaurants or places that I want to see and I’ll put that in there so that when I get there, I have it. So now, like when I zoom out, I’ve got like like you can see every city, all my little markings on there. That’s insane. Add to your list for Pontedra. Go down the road a little bit down A1A. Go to Pacific Asian Beastro. If you like sushi, that place is sensational. It’s on my list of places to stop. Okay. Uh, I got it. See all? Okay, I got it. I just saved it. It’s in It’s now on my list of my Paneavidra list and I Okay. So then I do this. So then I cross it over to my sushi list. So I’ve got like location and then category. So you can be in two places at once. So you could fall on the sushi list. So, if I’m looking for sushi, I can see all the sushi spots. Or you can just be on my what city am I in list and then just see all my spots. Okay. Well, then you must make a list now of what you have at said places. And there’s a thing called the green river roll. Do it. You’re welcome. I see the green river roll. Yes, it is. It is in the Yes, someone has posted it in a photo of it and yes, it is highly rated and it looks very good. Okay. You are welcome. Thank you very much. I will mark that as well. See, it’s it’s helpful, Greg. You just have access to all this, you know. I get it. I get it. I don’t know how to do it. Um, but maybe it’s something I should look into. Uh, we got time. We got time. All right, gents. Let’s talk some more names. Let’s talk about the Scottish Open. We have the grid for this week. If you’ve never seen the grid before, you’re you’re crazy. But welcome. This is our matchup, our finishing position, and two separate outrights for this week. and I will bring it up on the screen right now. There it is in all its glory. Uh, Gregor, you have gone brother on brother. Uh, what is your selection for your matchup, please? That is sinful that pick. That is terrible. I cannot I cannot be with that. It’s sinful. Okay. Sinful. This is Nikolai Hoygard over Rasmus Hoygard. Now Rasmus is the favorite. Mark thinks that should that he should be. Um, but I have Nikolai preferred one. I think these guys are just I think they’re a lot closer than it seems. Uh, when it comes to their abil to their ability level and and ability level here specifically. Uh, Nikolai I think hits his driver extremely well. I think I value distance pretty high. Rasmus has that too. Um, but Nikolai is extremely extremely good from outside of 200 yards. Um, in fact, checking my notes. He is Well, I believe it was 13th. Are you having trouble locating it on your piece of paper? Yeah. Which piece of paper is it on? Rick, Greg, while you while you’re looking, I want to share something about this because both those brothers are stars and they both better be on the Ryder Cup team. Rasmus is in. Nikolai’s got to earn his way in. Nikolai is good. Rasmus is good but talented. Nikolai is a better pitcher and chipper of the ball than his brother is. I I don’t know if that is in your notes. I’ll say this though. You talk about caddies like Billy Foster. Well, Gareth Lord goes by Lordy has been around the European tour like forever and he has worked for a number of stars. Henrik Stenson, Justin Rose and stuff. Now he’s on Nikolai’s Bag and down in Louisiana. The two brothers are out there together and I’ve got the group and Rasmus hits Nikolai in his bunker down the left side of 12 up against the lip. He’s got like 190 yards to the flag and he’s got the lip like six feet in front of him and it’s high. Nikolai gets in there and whips an eight iron off the sand up over the lip flag. He flew it like 190 in the air out of bunker and I’m like, “Holy cow.” And Lordy picks up the club and he’s raking the bunker and I’m like, “Man, that was good.” And he goes, “This is the best kid I’ve ever ced for.” He goes, “This child is what?” He He goes, “He brought me back to cadding Nikolai Horod, but still I’m a Rasmus fan.” This child, he said, “This child.” Well, they’re young, man. What What’s their age? They’re like early 20s. Uh, Nikolai is 24. Yeah, they’re I guess they’re both 24 then. People don’t realize how young they are. I I have Nikolai as 17th on tour from outside of 200 yards. proximity number. Very important number this week. Very good. Very good. Yeah. Uh Rasp is like 23rd. So, you know, I give Nikolai the edge. They’re not going to have many of those shots around the Genesis. They’re going to pitch more. Who’s Who’s better around the greens, Rick? Uh well, standby. Well, do you have that, Rick? Uh no. These are things that I just look up on.com. You should last last uh 36 rounds. Rasmus is a small loser around the greens. Nikolai is uh ABCDE E FG H I JK. Probably a bigger probably a bigger loser. He is a bigger loser. Yeah. Quarter of a stroke per round. That’s pretty bad. Yeah. It’s recent though. Yeah. By my eye test by my eye test, I thought he was better than Rasmus pitching and chipping. Well, you’ll see. You’ll see that this week, too. Okay, cool. Uh, I’m going with Robert McIntyre. Uh, fully engaged Scott uh over Justin Thomas. I’m laying a little bit of juice on this minus 120. I am a bit dubious of Justin Thomas’s uh Lynxish style golf and I I know I’m going to get four very very engaged rounds from Robert McIntyre this week. Uh, Mr. Mark, what was your matchup please? I’m going with Adam Scott over Seb Strucker plus 100. Um, Scotty is the ultimate lynx player. He should have a clar jug on his mantle piece, but for falling down at litham. Oh, I’ve been there, too. Royal lithm. Um, and se just hasn’t been awfully um convincing of late to be honest with you. So, I’m taking Adam over Se. Um, and I’m I’m pretty confident with that bet. Finishing positions are any finishing positions that we want. We’ve got two top 20s and a top 10. Mark, I’m gonna bounce this back to you and let you know that when you texted these in, Armina said, should like, should I keep it says Fairway Jesus? Should I keep that in there? And I said, yeah, yeah, just keep that in there. Fairway Jesus. Uh, people in the comments, who is Fairway Jesus? Um, and it’s funny story because he should have won at the Travelers. And the joke with me and my own course crew was look Tommy just back door to top five cuz they’re always like well there’s Fleetwood showing up in the final round to back door another top 10. His record around this golf course is impeccable. I’m going to pick him to win at Port Rush. He he’s my pick to win next week. Uh this week I feel like it’s good prep. He’s playing beautifully. He’s swinging incredibly well. He has not finished outside the top 10 at this golf course. He’s been in a runner up before and so I feel like a top 10 is easy pickings at plus 240. That’s Tommy Fleetwood. Fairway Jesus top 10 plus 240. I went with Aldrick Puck Gater top 20 plus 330. Um T6 win was playing well before a very bad Saturday with Drew. Golf course I think helps with distance. I think we got I think we got him ready to rock and roll here. Chance to buy a little bit low at plus 330. Mr. Greg. Oh, this is a name that has not appeared quite often on the grid. What’d you find? I don’t think it’s appeared all year. Um, but it’s Matt Fitzpatrick for a top 20 at uh at plus 190. I think Matt Fitzpatrick’s found something with his golf swing. Uh, he finished tied 17th at the Travelers, tied eighth at the Rocket. His his performance off the tea has been much better the last couple weeks. And also with his iron play, you know, going back into probably April, he’s had some really nice weeks with his iron play. And um this is a play lost in a playoff to I believe it was Min Wu Lee on the BP World Tour. He finished tied six here the next year. He’s a he’s a a pretty good pretty good Lynx player as well. So I I like what I’m seeing out of Matt Fitzpatrick. I think we’re trending in the right direction and this is a way to almost buy early. Yeah, getting in on uh Matt as he’s on the way up here. Um winners, two separate winners. We’ve got both the with and without market. The without market is not just Scotty this week. We’ll get there in just one second. Uh Mark, your two outrights, please. I picked these because I’m not very imaginative, honestly. Um but rarely both of them have won this event in recent years. I’m going with Rory and I’m going with Bobby McIntyre. Um, first off, McIntyre in Scotland is a force. He truly is. Um, something about him, it’s like he channels that in a brave heart and just finds a way to play well. So, I know he’s going to be a factor. Uh Rory, I saw enough at the Travelers in the Final round to believe that he’s got stuff organized and with some time off and with some time to work on the game and stuff. Um sort of uninterrupted, I’m sure, you know, in of his own time, I feel like he’ll be ready. So Mroy and Bob McIntyre for me. Yeah, I love that. Getting uh access to both of those guys in the outright market. 8 to1 for Rory, 30 to1 for Robert McIntyre. I am going with the Billy Foster boost. Colin Moricawa at plus 2500. He’s been playing well enough. He’s puted well here in the past. I think he needs a new voice and I think Billy Foster might be the voice that he needs. 25 to1. Uh Greg, you and I have the same golfer here. We have taken him in two different markets. I took him straight up 40 to1. You took him without Scotty, without Xander, without Rory. Tell the people who our pick is. Yeah, Scotty always makes you worry. And when you add Rory and Xander in there, it’s that’s a nice that’s nice. And I think it really increases the the probability of this happening. So I went with Victor Havlin like you, Rick. Um without Scott, Xander, and Rory. I’m comfortable with leaving those guys off the table, too, like you did. But Victor Havlin’s iron play has been absolutely spectacular lately. um really for the last 12 weeks, but he’s shown us some really big spike weeks in the last five. I like that. The other thing I really like is when it comes to the short game, although the lies, like Mark was saying in the fairway are even tighter than normal, you don’t see a lot of guys pitching with a 60deree wedge off of that stuff. There are a lot more options in Lynx golf like Victor Havlin utilized at uh at St. Andrews for the Open Championship. So I I think his strengths are magnified and his weaknesses are uh minimized which is a really good combination in my opinion. Very good indeed. And then deeper down the board also without Scotty Xander. Also without you’re nervous about those guys. Uh yes. Yes. I’m nervous about them. Uh, I so I went down to Nick Taylor, who I think is just starting to hit the ball really well. I like his style. U, I I think he could work really well on Lynx golf, although we haven’t seen a whole lot of it. Um, I I like what he’s done with his um shotmaking ability. I I like the way that, like I said, he’s hit his iron and his driver. In his last three events, he’s got three straight top 25 finishes. Uh the putter has started to spike a little bit. Everything seems to bubble seems to be bubbling up to the top. And all I want to see is him get himself into contention. And if he does, I’ll be very happy to have this ticket. If he misses the cut, he misses the cut. And that’s very possible. But if he smells that lead, uh watch out for Nick Taylor. Nick Taylor 60 to1. Roy Mroy 8 to1. Robert McIntyre 30 to1. Colin Morau with 25 to1. Victor Havland straight up 40 to1. Victor Havland without Scotty without Xander without Rory 28 to1. Those are the picks for the week and we have concluded the segment with Mark. We’re going to Greg and I are going to continue for fantasy, but Mark uh I’ll open this up to you. First off, we’re excited to get you out there. We’re wishing you all the all the best, all safe travels, getting over there and experiencing what’s going to be a great week. And I’m glad that it seems like your visa sit visa situation has been rectified. Yeah, me too. I’ll sign off with this. There was Yeah, really. Me too. Um, I’ll sign off with this. Uh, someone Caleb asks, “What’s my best Scottish Open memory?” Um, lots uh, look, the Rory shot to win was incredible. Last year I was waiting with Adam Scott to do the loser interview. You know, I do that stuff. And we were standing by scoring and Bob McIntyre made the putt on 18 green and the place erupted and and I get goosebumps now just cuz all of Scotland was there it felt like and when he knocked that putt in it was just you could hear it like everywhere and then right there after as they’re exiting the green then this uh bagpipe band shows up and starts walking down 18 fairway. Man, I had tears in my eyes. It was like it was heavenly because it was a beautiful evening. So that was great. But then of course we on the air local time there from like 5 to 8:00 p.m. or something like that, maybe even later. So during the day you can do whatever. And so my be really best memory is Saturday morning last year going to Gullen, which is right up the road. Three golf courses there. The Gullen number one has hosted the Scottish before. Who won there? Question. Anyone? Oh, um I just saw this. Oh my god. I was just on their profile page like like two hours ago. Ricky Ker. Oh, okay. Ah, that’s where I wasn’t I wasn’t going to. And Gullen is so cool. It’s this quaint little town and the 18th green plays right into the middle of the town almost. So my daughter Izzy and I go to Gullen. She’s never played Lynx Golf before. We played Gullen number three. Just the two of us. It was sensational. And she start then started hitting in the fescue all over the show because we were up on the hill in the wind. And so I nicknamed her fescue. So later that afternoon, uh, preparing for the round, Mroyy’s on the range, says he’s like, “So, what have you been up to?” So I said, “I played golf with Izzy this morning.” He goes, “How’d you play?” So I’m like, “Well, pretty well for a while.” Then start hitting the bush, so I called her fescue. So Mroy is like, “Okay, if I see her, I’m going to I’m going to call her fescue and see what she does.” He never did, but that was a pretty cool memory, too, because she went the color of a beat when I told her the story. Yeah. I I mean, listen, I would go the color of a beat if you told me that story. So imagine Malor coming to you and go, “Yo, Fesy, what’s going on?” I would pass out is what I would do. Anyway, I will try and call in and catch you guys from over there in Scotland. Okay. If I don’t, it’s because I’m probably in one of other pub having a beer. So, peace. We’re not going to blame you for that. Mark, safe travels. We’ll see you soon, brother. Safe travels, Mark. See you guys. Take care. All right. Woof. Man, I gotta I gotta start. Man, I love this week. I love the next couple weeks. There’s a great novelty to it. The golf’s on in the middle of the night. It’s on in the morning. It’s, you know, you’re seeing these little towns all over the place. Oh, it’s so good, dude. I can’t wait. It’s It’s really good time because like you don’t have to watch the morning wave, you know? You don’t have to get up at 2:00 in the morning. You get up whenever and uh and you watch all morning. There is nothing better. Um, so I’m really fired up and looking forward to watching some solid coffee golf this week. Yeah, it’s going to be awesome. It’s going to be awesome. Okay, if you haven’t seen this before, uh, Greg and I continue to roll on from a little bit more of a fantasy perspective here. So, we go through just a handful of golfers that Greg has picked out that we want to have a conversation about. We want to um, share some more details with. And, uh, we start with the guy that Greg cannot live without. Uh, I came up with this and every week I make them I put them on the spot and I say, “Greg, doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. Just got to give me a name. You got to give me the name.” And this week, Greg, you have decided on who? Matt Fitzpatrick. I feel uh very strongly about that. So, I I’m really looking forward to it. I like his record here at the Scottish Open. Uh, it was it tied sixth in 2022, was tied second in 2021, like we mentioned. uh six straight years here at the Renaissance Club. He’s gained strokes putting in all of them. And I really have a feeling that this golf swing is coming together. We’ve seen it improve uh from struggles to to having two really good weeks in a row with it. I think it all comes together this week for Matt Fitzpatrick in Scotland. He really has been putting it together. Um you know, he gained eight strokes from Ter Green at the PGA Championship. He finished T7 at the Travelers. picked up five strokes from Tita Green there. Nearly 12 in Detroit. Th this is clearly uh him plugging. There were a lot of leaks. There was uh just a Hoover Dam level of leakage and he has started to plug those uh significantly and and I’m with you here. This is this is a pretty interesting spot for Fitzy. Yeah. And um I also I don’t think he’s going to be overly popular. Um I I don’t think that he’s going to be a chalky play at all. So, you know, building a lineup around him. I’m totally fine with. Now, uh this is a name that I believe we have just set the record on. 50 minutes and 43 seconds. And I’m not sure there was a real mention of this player. We mentioned him in passing because of the one of the outright markets, but this has got to be a record where we have not discussed Scotty Sheffller, the number one player in the world and the man closest to Tiger Woods uh in my in my lifetime. We have not talked about him for 51 minutes. Would you like to talk about him now? Well, it’s uh there’s not a lot to say. It’s just that good. It’s like he he’s just that good. That’s why both of my, you know, both of my outrights were without Scotty. I I think that if there’s ever a time where you can kind of get away with fading him, it’s at it’s in Lynx Golf. I I think it randomizes things a little more and some of his advantages may be taken away. Yet, I ran those numbers like I was telling you about and and Scotty’s still fourth, right? Since 2019, the Scottish Open and the Open Championship, he’s fourth in this field. That’s behind Xander, Tommy Fleetwood, Colin Morawa. So, it hasn’t been his it hasn’t been the best for him, but it’s still been better than pretty much everybody else. Uh, and he’s got all the shots. what whatever it takes, Scotty’s got it. So, from a fantasy perspective, it’s really hard to go away from him. So, he has not uh he I’m sorry, he did not play here last year. He played here the year before, T3, missed the cut in 2022, and finished T12 in 2021. One of the things that I was looking at, Greg, because there’s not a lot of places that Scotty hasn’t played in two years is I was looking at basically the type of player that he was prior to his last time at the Scottish Open and now. And he is somehow even like he’s even better now. You know, he he does he putts a lot better than he’s putted at the Renaissance Club before. He’s he’s just he’s just a better player now. And I’m I’m scared for everyone. Yeah. Yeah, me too. Me too. So, because we haven’t seen him in a little while, I I’m not like It’s hard for me to be bullish on Scotty and put him on my outright card. It’s not hard for me to play him in a fantasy lineup at all, but he’s still scary enough where I don’t want to bet against him in any way. So, I if I could leave him out like the outright markets, I’ll do that. He’s that scary. He is that scary. Couple of golfers in the 9K range that I want to dive into uh more here and we’ll we’ll start with Victor Hoffland. And what you were mentioning about him earlier uh certainly makes sense to me. Uh the approach play has been unbelievable all year long. The eight strokes that he gained at the Travelers before through three rounds before WDing was like four shots better than anybody else in the field that week. Uh, from everything I understand, that was a one-time neck thing that he’s just completely fine with now. So, I don’t have any reservations with Victor Hofflin. How about you? None. Absolutely none. This is like a you get a knot in your neck right before you go play. It’s a terrible situation. It’s not a lingering issue. Not a lingering issue at all. So, um, I I love Victor Havlin on Lynx Golf. I think there’s, you know, my research on the Renaissance club says a lot of shots from outside of 200 yards. Mark was saying it’s been really wet in the past. Um, which I remember some wet. I remember some dry as well. I don’t think we’re going to have as nice of weather as we as we’re going to get this week. I don’t think we’ve had that before. But a lot of long irons. And if that’s the case, you know, Victor Havlin’s 10th on tour from outside of 200 yards. But if it’s not the case, he’s pretty darn good as we get closer and closer to the hole as well. Um, you know, shorter approach, shorter proximity buckets are just fine for him. So, I think Victor Havlin has everything that it takes to go and really contend this week. Uh, one of the most talked about men in golf is Colin Morawa. He’s $9,600 on DraftKings. He has done everything but win. The putter was miserable at the US Open. It was not great at the Travelers. It was slightly below average at the Rocket. Uh and now he’s going to get a chance maybe some slower greens. Greg, a new voice in the ear. Uh you and I are also sympatico here. It’s it’s it’s Colin Orical season. He finished tied fourth here last year. He also played in 2022 uh and 2021. He putted terribly in 2021, but in but the last two trips he gained at least two shots putting here at the Renaissance Club. So I I think a new voice, a new ear, uh perhaps the Mallet putter. Look, I I think that what I heard from him in speaking to Amanda after the um after the Rocket Mortgage Classic, heading into the fourth round or after the third round, it’s like you kind of got to play with what you got. Uh, that’s what I want to see from Colin Morau because whether he likes it or not, it’s good enough to win uh from a TA Green standpoint. Okay, that should be the message. Like whether you like it or not, you can win golf tournaments. So, shut up and just like go win golf tournaments. Whether you like it or not, and it might not look pretty, you can beat these bozos. Yes. And it it’s it’s distracting to be like unsatisfied, right, with a great shot. You’re you’re projecting that something’s going to go wrong in the future. And yeah, I just I I just don’t think that’s the case. So, but I like that comment. It led me to believe that he kind of understood that a little bit. It’s like, you know, I I don’t need to try to hit shots with my glove off like I did at the Traveler. We’re not in that kind of situation here. We’re not trying to like we didn’t catch a disease and we’re trying to get rid of it. Things are fine. So, I’m thinking he’s got that under control. Last six rounds uh at the Renaissance Club. Seven strokes gained with the putter, more than one per round. We’ll finish off this 9K tier here with our defending champion. And low key, this stat profile uh is very good. I don’t think people would have realized this. It’s been a very good run of golf from Robert McIntyre since the Masters. Missed the cut at the Masters and has not missed a cut since. Starting to put together some really high-end finishes. A T6 at the Charles Schwab, a runner-up finish at the US Open, played well enough at the Travelers. And of course, we know um you know this is his his major championship. This is his national championship. This is the event that he’s finished inside the top 18 four out of the last five years, including a victory and a runner up. This is it. This is This is This is Roberts. Yes. It’s a great spot for him. He knows how to play this kind of golf. I love the fact that he he answered his runner up to Rory last year with a win. Uh I’m sorry, two years ago with a win last year. That that just it spoke so much to me. I love the form that he’s in. The performance has been spectacular. He’s a surprisingly good long iron player, too. Um, you know, the last three winners when we’ve had, you know, was a PGA Tour event, Xander, McIntyre, and Rory were all inside the top 22 entering from outside of 200 yards. It’s another reason I really like it. Bobby Mack this year is 53rd. He was much better last year. He was uh second on the PGA Tour last year, entering uh entering this week. So, I think it’s another area where there’s like kind of an underrated strong suit of his that gets put on display at the Renaissance Club. Uh, you identified two golfers in a stout $8,000 range. One was Matt Fitzpatrick, who we’ve talked at length about, so I will not ask you more about that, but I will ask you about Adam Scott, who’s $8600, is coming off a T30 at the Travelers the last time we saw him. What do you see in this profile that sparks your interest? Yeah, I’m seeing a guy that’s starting to hit the ball like Adam Scott’s capable of hitting the ball. Um, which is just fascinating to me. Um, you see the the performance with the driver really starting to come around, right? Ever since the truest championship, he’s gained over a shot and a half in every tournament off the tea. And now the last two week two starts for him, the US Open and the Travelers, you see him gain about three and a half shots or or more approaching the green. the the golf swing is starting to come together and it’s starting to produce results. The putter has been a little bit hit or miss here and there. He’s had great putting weeks and poor putting weeks, but here at the Scottish Open the last two years, he has gained strokes putting in that second place finish last year, he gained five strokes putting. So, I think things are trended in the right direction. I I tend to agree with Mark here. I love Adam Scott in Lynx Golf. the seven and the $6,000 tiers are starting to get to some more potentially unfamiliar names, but I’m not going to go there just yet. We’ve spoke about Nick Taylor, who was one of your outright wagers. You had him 60 to1 in the without Scotty Xander Rory market. So, let me pull up Ben an’s profile here. And admittedly, Greg, Ben has not been on my radar at this point in the week. So, uh why should I add him to my radar? Well, I think that distance is definitely an advantage. Um, on this golf course, not all Lynx golf, but on this golf course for sure. I I also ran kind of the, like I said, the Lynx test. Who are the best Lynx players over the last five years? And Ben Odd’s name popped up. He was one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh best player over the last five years at the Open and Scottish combined for strokes gained. that surprised me. Um, so then I started looking more into into Benny on and and I I think that the uh driving distance is a big factor in this. His ability off the tea is a big factor. He’s been hitting the ball really nicely with his irons, which I’m a fan of. So things um tend to click here. And he of course it was the the tied third in 2023 that that really helped all of his links numbers. But uh but I I like the way he’s playing right now, too. Oh, mute. Now, we start to get into some names that people may be unfamiliar with. And I want to go to Jordan Smith. You might see him listed as Jordan L. Smith. He’s $7,300. He’s an Englishman. Uh he plays a primarily PGA, excuse me, DP World Tour schedule, Greg, and I’ve got his results up here. Talk to me about Mr. Smith. Yeah, these have been pretty good. Um in his last what, six events, he’s got three top seven finishes. Uh and and in those his iron play has been really strong. His ball striking has been really strong. Um, with the exception of a US Open where he still made the cut and the Austrian Open where he missed the cut, his game has been really solid, really well-rounded with really high upside on the DP World Tour. I also think that Jordan Smith’s a guy who has played uh in enough majors and enough really big time events to be not necessarily intimidated. You know, just it was a co-sanction event in 2023. he finished tied 12th and also in 2022 he finished tied 24th. I think he believes that he can compete with these players and for the price of 7300 I’m in. Yeah, it’s it is a really good this is kind of that convergence of, you know, the DP guys who play against each other all the time and the PGA Tour guys who play against each other all the time coming together and, you know, Jordan Smith has been so successful on the DP World Tour and you’re getting a, you know, fairly generous price, just $7,300 to try to see if he can continue that for this week. Two more names. They’re both in the 6K range and they are both probably names that most people have not heard of. Uh, and that’s certainly not a knock. They’re $6,000 golfers in a field that is um co-sanctioned. I’m going to start with this guy. His name, if I pronounce this correctly, is Christopher Wrightton. Rei Tan. He’s a Norwegian. Uh, he made it to your list here, Greg. Yes. This is a a difficult profile to ignore. He won the Sudal Open. He finished tied second at the Austrian Open the very next week. Then a tied 13th, a tied 46. And at the BMW International, he finished tied fourth. And he’s done it with great driving of the golf ball. Uh some really solid ball striking as well. The putter has been really hot. uh four of the last seven weeks he’s gained over five strokes putting on the DP World Tour, right? This is this is just really impressive stuff to me. I also was looking at your course key stats on your website and his name he was like the first or second course fit. Um gets a really big bump for his skill sets. Yeah. Yeah. So, I you know, I don’t put too much into into that, but I saw it. I saw the profile. I said that this makes sense. Yeah. So, $6,900. I’ll have to get him a head shot here shortly. Uh, and then finally, I just like saying this name. Uh, Francesco Laora rounds out your picks. He is $6,800. He is from Italy and he has that similar you see a lot of these guys who have that similar stretch of tournaments. Sodal Austrian either the KM or some other event in there the Italian Open and then the most recent was the BMW international open that was just last week. So you see a lot of guys who have that five or six tournament stretch in common and Leaporta has been shining. Yes. Uh he’s finished inside the top 30 in all of them. um inside the top 11 and four out of the last five. Also in that stretch, he’s gained over six strokes approaching the green in three out of his last five. You’re talking about seven over seven shots ball striking in three out of his last five events. Uh it’s and and the not only has he been phenomenal T Green, but the results have been showing as well. So, I I think that there’s a very good chance with this level of confidence that it carries over into uh into a PGA Tour, DP World Tour co-sanctioned event. It’s uh impressive to say the least. Love how much green is in there. Yes, there are certainly some I don’t want to call them sample size issues. They’re not sample size issues. I guess they’re strength of field issues. Yes. Right. But but again, it’s not like they’re the only golfers coming over. Like half the field is basically guys that play on the DP World Tour all the time. And if guys like Leapora are are beating them up, they’re beating them up and and they’re priced accordingly in this in this new in this new field. So, yeah, I I’ve started making a lot of lineups this week and I am generously firing in a lot of the guys that we’ve discussed and other guys that have uh a lot of success in the in the on the World Tour. And I’m more willing to take a chance on these guys because you use the word coming over. They’re not coming over like to the PGA tour like you normally see, right? They’re in Europe where they’re more comfortable. I I think that’s going to make a I think that makes a big difference and opens up the field for most when the European guys come to the US. There’s a a legitimate question that you don’t know the answer to from looking at a spreadsheet, which is, you know, are will they acclimate to American life, you know, and if not, will it affect their play? And those are kind of complicated, difficult issues, but it’s had an effect on a lot of European players in the past. That’s not the story this week. I think we’ve reached the end of the story for this week, or at least I’ve reached the end of my outline. Greg, have we missed anything? I I don’t think so. Um, unless you got anything to add on Scotty Sheffler. I something something tells me we’re going to be talking about him plenty in our round recaps this week. Yeah, same stuff I always have to say about Scotty, I’ve got to say this week as well. All right. Well, uh Friday and Sunday for this week and then of course uh round by round next week for the open championship. Um I’m trying to think if there’s anything else. I don’t think there is. Check out all the links in the description. Everything you need is in there. Big thanks Mark Ilman. Big thanks Greg Ducharm. Big thanks to me. I’m Rick Gaming. This has been the second cut. We’ll catch you next time. [Music]