2024 American Express Preview

In this episode of the Golf Gambling Podcast on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network, Boston Capper and Steve Schirmer preview the 2024 American Express at PGA West and La Quinta Country Club. Steve pulls up the Google Earth imagery to take you on a tour of all three golf courses of the 2024 American Express and the types of holes each player will face. Then he previews what types of players and skillsets he favors for the 2024 American Express using the tools available on DataGolf.

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Preview uh kind of doing this on a whim I had a little bit of time because the game got cancelled uh between the Steelers and bills so I decid you know what why don’t I just uh record right now Boston keber may join me in a little

Bit apparently he is out running errands with the little ones so right now it’s just me boring old me going over the golf courses for next week’s American Express this is a format that can be kind of challenging just because it’s a multi-course rotation uh East course is

A little different than the last but there’s a lot of similarities between all of them that I’ll go over and um you know it’s always kind of tough especially when two of the courses don’t have strok gain data you know it makes it kind of a little difficult to you

Know figure out what to do how play but I’ll walk you through a little bit of what they are I’ll pull up the Google Maps I’ll show you what they look like maybe that’ll give you a little bit more inspiration about what you want to look

At but um you know so why don’t we first start off with the field next week uh Scotty Sheffer is in the field he’s played this tournament a bunch of times I think he finished third I want to say back in 2020 in his rookie season to

Andrew Landry and ab aner I think and you know this is a really good tournament for for him uh you know there’s a lot of opportunities to score a lot of opportunities to make birdies and you know kind of like at caloa a couple weeks ago um you know if if you

Just give yourself a lot of opportunities to score it comes out with a putter that’s always what happens with Scotty sheffler but you know he has a pretty good track record here we’ll see if maybe he can uh continue it but I you know we get another um another guy who’s

In the field this week that we had a couple guys returning at Sony you will Z hores com back from an injury you had Gary Woodland com back from the brain tour we have another guy coming back who is a big name you haven’t heard for a

While Daniel Burger is going be back this week he is back from a back injury that has kept him out for the entire 20223 season I think he was trying to make a comeback at last year’s US Open through qualifying to not get through I think because he he got injured I

Remember when I was at the Masters a couple years ago you know humble brag a little bit but I was randomly following I think Taylor gu and Daniel burer and Berger was splashing out a bunker out of 10 and he just collapsed right in the

Bunker and I was like what the hell is going on that’s kind of weird and then a little later on it was really cold you know it wasn’t great weather but there was a little bit of a uh delay in play and burger I can see him down the

Fairway just crouching and stretching trying to do something and I speculate that point he must be hurt I mean he was playing like hell at that point and sure enough a couple months later he said he was battle with back injury ends up shutting it down at the end of the year

Gets surgery and then we didn’t see him it all last year so you know it’s good to have him back um you know he’s a very talented player he’s not one of the elite guys but you know he definitely is a threat to win you know if he was in

100% condition he probably would be a threat to win this thing because he makes a lot of birdies and generally pretty good iron player that’s uh pretty valuable here but he’s in the field welcome back hopefully he can uh return to form quickly and some other guys who

Other noals in the field Patrick Klay Tony feno Ricky Fowler Tom Kim Xander shley Justin Thomas makes his first start the 24 24 season Wills Al Horus he’s technically still a notable even though he was terrible last week at Sony he’s still a big name there’s a it’s

Actually a pretty good field I think guys are trying to get uh maybe one start in between kaaloa and the next time uh there’s a signature event which is at Pebble Beach it’s very top heavy it’s kind of like last year there’s probably like 10 to 15 really good names

And then it’s kind of just drops off after that same thing as last year so you know last year we end up getting John Rah as a win you know are we going to get another guy with short odds because they’re just such a small pool of elite guys who are

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In flights with people about that yesterday right okay why don’t we uh fire up Google Earth shall we and let’s actually look at some of these golf courses let’s get over here let’s zoom out okay so we are going to PGA West this week for the American Express uh

This is a three course rotation you will have two rounds at at the stadium course of PGA West that’ll be play everybody will play that at least once over Thursday through Sunday with everybody playing on Sunday and then the other two rounds are going to play the Nicholas

Ter course which also is at PJ West and over at linta Country Club they’re also going to play one round there that is a couple miles away to the Northeast but this is the stadium course here it was built in 1986 by Pete D and it was meant to be a

Sequel to TBC SASS and I’ll show you a couple holes where you can actually see um you know a lot of similarities between um that golf course and this one um but and and it played and it was debuted in 1987 at the Bob H classic uh

Which is what this tournament used to be called but the pros considered way too tough and unfair so they got away from it well over the years though they ended up softening it a little bit making some changes bit make it a little more playable and now we have the golf course

We have here today so you know just kind of looking at it from a high level you can see a lot of Pete die just in the layout here you know Serpentine Fairways you know kind of bottlenecking Fairways here a lot of plotting Target positional

Go like right here off the te here you kind of want to just get your ball about the fat part of the Fairway here with a lesson driver or three-wood sets up kind of a short iron to some of these you know a small green protected live bunker

Angered away from the Fairway so it kind of you know makes you promote hitting the correct side of the Fairway you might have like a random hula hoop size bunker that’s inconvenient you know stuff like that and and that’s you know kind of what Moses Golf Course is a lot

Of water on it too but a couple uh holes I want to show you to really drive home that this is basically a TBC uh Saw Grass clone here is where’s hole number nine okay so the ninth hole here looks exactly like a hole at TBC

Sass this is basically the fifth hole at Saw Grass here both holes are you know midlength par fors both of them have this elongated bunker right here with water over here the primary difference is that there’s also water haer at Saw Grass over here both of them are slight

Doglike rights so the the green angled away from the Fairway protected by bunkers here this is essentially a template of a hole already at sass we can also move over to the 12th Hole uh right here this looks almost exactly like the tenth hole at Saw Grass

So it’s saw the tenth hole at Saw Grass you have some bunkers over here and you have the woods over here and a lot of space to bail out to the right here and you know it’s kind of like a sharp dog like left here with the with the the

Greens over here the difference of the bunkers are flipped over here but this is essentially the same Hole uh as the 10th at sass uh there’s also one that looks exactly like a hole at TVC River Highlands let me find that one I think that’s actually on the Yep this one

Right here so the uh the fifth the par five fifth this is uh one where you basically have to contend with two water hazards on the same hole so at TBC River Highlands I think it’s a 13th hole off the te this water hazards over here and then you have another water hazard

Guarding the green over to the left here this is basically a mirror image of that uh you know the water hazard that you have to avoid off the te here this water hazard is now to the on the other side of the Fairway there so you know you can

See you know pet ey has you know his signature trademark uh you thumb print on H sometimes you can see a lot of that here this one but I mean the biggest copycat of them all with uh the stadium course here is is the 17th um you know obviously the 17th at

Tvz Saw Grass that is one of the most famous holes in golf of the island green and sure enough you have an island green here uh basically a mirror image of this of the 17th of Saw Grass the difference is this bunker over on the left Bas sass

Is over on the right here but you know a shortish uh iron to an island green uh you know there’s Rock outcroppings here that’s a big difference uh between that and sress is just railroad ties but again they essentially wanted to make this place the TVC Saw

Grass of the West and um you know look like it definitely has its similarities obviously I showed a couple holes that look exactly like it but you know it’s not the real thing it’s a little it’s uh definitely been softened and muted over the years

Too it just isn’t it plays a lot easier than this place this is one where you can kind of bomb it everywhere where you can’t really do that at sass there’s a lot more hazards and place you can get in trouble at sass versus this place where you know especially after they did

A h a large tree removal uh project over the last couple years and really the only thing to dissuade you from you know bombing everywhere here is you might have these Mogul Mounds where you might have a little bit of an uneven light otherwise though we’ll top about this

With the agronomy so when they play this tournament this is overseed you’ll have a small patch of one inch Ry grass rough here and then all this because it’s the colder months is dormant Bermuda and it makes hitting the ball really easy Hitting off of it and we’ll talk about a

Little bit how this tournaments kind of changed since they had uh a lot of this tree removal it changed a lot last year but you know that’s you know a lot of times i’ I I fallen into the Trap of saying oh well this is a TBC sass clone

I want to take see sass guys and has hasn’t really worked out a whole lot and vice versa I might look at this ter say okay you must be good for the players and it’s not hello Patrick Klay how are you you’re always good here and you’re

Never good at sass but you know I mean this is the quote unquote toughest of the rotation but as I’ll show you what happened last year it isn’t that uh across the street here you have the Nicholas tournament course this was built in 1987 by sure enough Jack

Nicholas and you know this does try and prevent you know uh offer similar stuff as what the stadium course does but yeah it’s kind of just a water down version of it a lot of holes are just really linear straight out in front of you like you know for example the second right

Here you know whereas whereas um at the stadium course you know you’d have you know like the green sharply angled out this way protected by a bunker you know maybe some B NE in Fairways here this is all this right in front of you you can basically just hit driver straight away

Here as long as you avoid the the bunkers here prish fine and a lot of holes are like that you know at the end of the day this is a resort so you know you don’t want to make it too tough for anybody coming here but it doesn’t have

A whole lot of character in flare it also is funny that in order to get to uh after uh to get from 11 here you have to cross a four-lane highway to get to the 12th green um yeah hopefully there’s not a lot of accidents that go around there but and

Then it just winds through develop you know developments and houses and you know I mean this hole right here this a really bad hole no one goes for it in two just because it’s such a long carry over this water just there’s nowhere to miss unless you want to bail on this

Bunker here everyone usually you know either bails out the bunker or they lay up down here and they set a wedge in you know I mean the whole looks challenging and you know intimidating especially if you’re an amateur but you know these guys kind of eat this place up there’s

Not really a whole lot to say we’ll talk a little bit about the predictive skill sets and what works here a little later on with the Nichol tournament but it’s kind of just a plain Jane Golf Course uh this is usually the second easiest of the three you kind of probably can see

Why it’s just everything’s right in front of you it’s not overly long has the same you know over seated greens as the stadium course which makes you’ll play a little softer you know that’s the Nicholas tournament course right there and then we have K which is uh the

Oldest of the uh the three courses in this rotation uh you can see all the golf course at PJ West you got the Palmer Course you got the wisoff course yeah there’s a lot of golf course all right so this is linta right here and this was built I think in

1959 um it’s received a couple Renovations since then and you know I mean it’s a Charming Country Club apparently the greens roll really good there it’s always in really good condition you know it’s nice to have it kind of like one of these smaller country clubs in the area but this is a

Golf course that these guys just routinely Pummel and just completely overpowered like you know for example you can hit driver pretty much anywhere here there’s not you know there are a couple water hazards but most of them are out of play like for example on the eighth green right here you know most

Guys can carry it over this bunker here and take this water out of play you know it’s it’s very straightforward very linear it’s a little tight but it reminds lot of just like Silverado where you can hit driver without really a whole lot of penalty everywhere and it’s

Really short the greens are small but guys routinely like this place up too so there’s not really a whole lot to it there’s no Str gain at this place you kind of just look at the scorecard and say oh this guy went shot you know 65

There and lost Strokes to the field uh sometimes that actually that never happens usually if you shoot like 60 uh shoot 69 a three under you might lose Strokes of the field actually that’s s many birdies usually at this place but you know I mean it’s it’s a nice golf

Course should it be in the rotation so probably not I think they probably should just cut the crap and just have all four courses at the stadium course maybe they’ll do that once if this thing ever gets a signature event status I know they do the pebble they’re going to

Kick a Monteray peninsulas to the curb and they get rid of the pro format maybe we’ll do the same for this this golf course probably should not host a pj2 event any or um the pg2 guys any it should not be part of the rotation but

It is still and they’ll just end up lighting it up so those are the golf courses and then why don’t we take another break and we’ll start talking about the tournament who’s won here you know and generally how it goes all right so let’s talk about cut

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Great summary of especially Agronomy if you ever about that it’s a good one to use so let’s first start with the stadium course two rounds there uh like I mentioned Pete die design in 1986 this is a par 72 7,187 yards I think this is the longest

Of the three not overly long though you know it’s still a 70 just under 7200 yards the par 72 very short when you have five part or four part fives of that average green sign 5,000 square feet that’s pretty standard for a p Golf Course usually those are pretty small

And they play a lot smaller based on some shelving and some undulation to the golf course too with a lot of Target golf you have to play at a p die design um you know there’s 160 Acres of rough but like I mentioned we’ll talk about

With the turp grass in a little bit some of it’s overseed some of it’s dormans doesn’t really matter uh this week wirs and play on seven holes that’s prettyy standard for a Pete D golf course you know can be a little penal off the tea

If you spray it the wrong area um all right so let’s start about the turf grass this is important because up until a couple years ago people really screwed this up so it doesn’t list it here but when I me when I say overseed what I mean is

This is a Bermuda based golf course but during colder months Bermuda tends to go dormant needs higher soil temperatures in order to grow and flourish and they have that popping green like you see uh every week at like Windom or um you know a couple other Wily you know you need warmer

Temperatures in order to make it grow and be healthy well in the desert where in January where temperatures plumbed to 40 degrees Fahrenheit I think you need soil temperatures consistently about 70 to 75 degrees in order to make it really flourish it goes dormant it turns brown

Now some golf courses you know just let it go dormant others just overseed the [ __ ] out of it in order to make it uh emerald green what I mean to overseed what you do is you basically plant on top well first of all you spray a

Chemical to um either you know kill off any remaining Bermuda that hasn’t gone dormant or just you know prevent it from uh popping up in case soil temperatures do get a little warmer and then over top of it you put down a northern strain of grass that is uh more tolerable to

Cooler climates and that’s what the POA overseed is this is po trivialis careful not to confuse that with po Anna uh there is I think over a thousand different um species of Poa POA Anna is more West Coast that’s your bumpy putting services this is poet trivialis

It’s a weed that oh Boston Capper has joined in and I have to actually put on my headphones now in order so I can hear him uh do you want to join the chat what’s up buddy what’s up man hey bud just we man time about weed how huh I’m talking

About weed no weed oh you’re talking about weed why I’m talking about the overse the sticky icky oh how we were the how we actually changed how people thought about this stuff true remember that it is it is so I’m just explaining to everybody it’s a good field this week I

Was surprised yeah it is a good field you got Scotty sheffler Xander uh kle is probably going to win because this is a soft Golf Course a lot of birdies so there you go uh so this like I was explaining those is the overseed where you basically spray a chemical across

The berm or just goes dormant you put this overseed PO trivialis on top of it it makes it green it makes it healthy that’s what makes the uh uh oh [ __ ] it’s my internet crapping out because you showed up no oh all right all right we’re fine all right so so every Golf

Course here in this rotation has this overseed it just there’s a little sub differences between all of them so at PJ West Stadium Court and linta that’s Tri dwar Berita but it has the overseed on top those are also smaller greens uh at Nicholas terman Tiff Eagle again that’s

Overse it though there was some question when they replaced the Tiff Tri Tri dwarf with Tiff Eagle couple years ago uh at Nicholas whether they would just leave a Berita apparently they just overseed all of it um the entire Golf Course is overseed except for the rough

And that’s where if you turn into this tournament you know that’s where you can see you know the brown BT dor B way off the Fairway there there’s a little patch of overse rough you know to make it look a little Greener but so that is only one

Inch in length and then the dormant Bermuda is usually two but because it’s dormant you know it’s it’s not the same the balls in sync down to the the bottom there so the rough is not very penal here and the same can be said about the Nicholas tourament course too so that is

A par 72 7,147 yards average green size 7,000 so a lot bigger than the greens of linta and uh The Stadium Course again you have the PO overseed over the top there make it look green uh same with the fairways the rough though they do not oversee that that is all just either

Dorm Berita or if it is warm enough you might see some Berita patches um out there we’ve seen that coup you know a couple times over the last few years but usually it’s the brown dor berm only two inches not penal you know it’s it’s very little difference between your score on

A hole which will get to in a little bit from hitting from the Fairway hitting for the rough it just isn’t really a lot of adversity to that rough and then lenta uh this is 7,60 yards par 72 average green sign just 4,773 square feet very precise gcsaa

Thank you for that um technically seven holes have water in it but as I showed you a little bit a lot of them can be just carried with a driver and not really in play uh this one has a PO and Ry overseed everywhere though they don’t

Have any dor Bermuda it is green throughout but the rough is only one and 3/4 inches so not penal it’s basically just kind of blasted everywhere s yourself off from birdies so let’s talk about the uh last couple tournaments so I want to quiz you Boston camper I love

Doing this okay can you name the winners of this event the last couple years so who won last year I don’t remember at all other than isn’t that isn’t last year when um John called it a [ __ ] shitty putting contest he did and he’s right that’s what it kind of turned into but

He but he end up winning oh yeah he did win didn’t he yeah he he beat Davis Thompson after Davis uh almost made a bomb on 17 but he let the pin in and it hit the stick and bounc out that’s right yeah and then uh

Davis Thompson went to a funk for about five straight months after that saying hey right yep all right um who won 2022 bro I have no idea you know you know I’m terrible this Hudson Swafford at 220 to one swad Dad yeah second win there I think he beat Lee Hodges and somebody

Some other scrub thing twice too I’ll get to it 2021 who won that [ __ ] dude just tell me it’s near it’s near and dear our heart man sea one who do we have who was it oh that’s right iory [ __ ] my memory was [ __ ] before the hot attack after the hot attack it’s

Just even worse so all fine 2021 cin went off at 55 to one we got him at 70 though yes uh and then a couple long shots after that 2020 Andrew Landry beat a an and Scotty sheeper 200 to one and 2019 Adam long 300 to1 beat Phil

Nichelson yeah so lots of long shots here we’ll get to a little bit of the reasons why a lot of long shots usually do well here but let’s start with 2020 and I me I may mentioned before that the stadium course is the quote unquote hardest and the

Other two are pretty easy you know so in 2020 the average score um at the same course is minus 1.6 other two were upper twos under par so basically if you were if you shot 69 at either golf course you barely were beating the field essentially those uh couple years and

Then the same can be said the next couple years in 2021 during the co year they only played Stadium and Nicholas um that year for whatever reason I I think the weather was kind of cold and windy so for whatever reason the scoring was a little tougher at Nicholas but 2022 got

Back to normal again minus one and a half at Stadium Course minus one points a little hard or a little easier at Nicholas and then minus two at uh linta but then last year though to my surprise every course played incredibly easy so lenta was actually the toughest

Last year at an average score of 69.5 eight so minus 2.4 next was the stadium course at minus 2.7 which is almost a stroke easier yeah than the a couple years before that and then the Nicholas turn M course played at minus 3.3 I’m struggling to remember why

Exactly it played so much easier I know last year they had that atmospheric River and I’m wondering but it’s the desert though like they never get rain there so I don’t know if they got rain before that it just played softer what I do know is

I mean the the most vexing like Nicholas terit course and Lin playing easy that’s that’s no surprise that always happens at the stadium course though a full stroke easier the only real change they made was They removed a bunch of trees and essentially what that did was it

Deterred pretty much any adversity just bombing it everywhere and because the rough isn’t very penal at all you know they go into the rough you might have to contend with a mogle mound but without any of the trees or bushes or anything outside the fairways and you got rough

That you basically make great contact to it was just bombs away and I think that’s what generally happened last year and when we’ll get to just the what type of pro shots you’re hitting you hit a lot of short irons at that point so lots of drivers that you can basically blast

Anywhere lots of short irons into you know over City greens that had to be kind of soft it turns into the piece of ship hting contest that John essentially uh alluded to so especially with his overseed stuff too like I know you know John ROM said that it just the greens R

Really good on this stuff it rules a lot differently than than on Bermuda you don’t have to worry about green Adam hawin that’s the guy who he lives in Scottsdale and he plays a lot in the overseas stuff and he notoriously just hates putting on Bermuda hates the grain has never really figured

It out but he loves putting in overseas Services because it takes a lot of grain out it’s it’s pretty similar to what he plays in Scots like for example he had a 59 here I think back when Adam long won yeah and then he’s won valpar that’s

Overse the greens too even though that’s a Bermuda base so there is something to a little bit about guys who maybe struggle on Bermuda but when you get them down these overseas Services it kind of levels the playing field a little bit they tend to like

That so do I think he’s gonna play as easy this year I mean I don’t see why not I think the weather is going to be pretty calm and warm again uh they were supposed to do another renovation to all the greens at the stadium course but

That got postponed 2024 so it’s be the same greens as last year same conditions I would probably expect another quotequote piece of ship burning contest again like uh John rum says um let’s go to the course fit tool that this is always a tough one to

Um I get rid of the the marks by the way well yeah so this is the predictive skill set one but it’s tough because you have three golf courses and trying to basically marry all three predictive skill set charts for the entire tournament so we’ll start with the

Stadium course here you a higher correlation of guys who hit it pretty far off the have a lot of length a lower correlation with accuracy maybe it’s just because you kind of can bomb it a little bit all over the place at this tournament now yeah uh slightly lower correlation to

Than the average pg2 sto with iron play but it’s still the most important attribute most predi attribute um pank can be kind of random maybe that’s the overseed where you know kind of levels the playing field a little bit little higher higher correlation in um you know

Guys are pretty good scramblers or not here actually one thing I forgot to mention this in the article too so like this used to be a golf course that where it was actually fairly difficult off the te and you know a little bit with your approach play you

Know so since 2015 off the te it ranks 21st hardest I’m this is a stadium of course it ranks 21st hardest but last year because they removed all the trees for whatever reason it ranks is the fifth easiest off the te Jesus and and

Then um I’m sorry it rank 22nd out of 45 uh last year so a little above average and ease but um with the approach way it ranked it the fifth easiest which when you remove basically any Hazard for the most part that’s not water off the Fairway it just became target practice

For these guys so um but that’s a particular skill set CH for the stadium course here some golf courses they say it’s similar to like K’s Valley and Tory Pine South and Olympic Olympia Fields North Quail VD vayarta corales I mean that makes sense because most guys who tend to be a

Little longer at those places do a little better and when you go to the Nicholas tournament course it’s pretty similar to PJ West here uh or the same course again higher correlation of guys who are pretty you know who are tend to be a little longer a little um the only

Difference is like seems to be a little guys who tend to be a little more accurate pretty well there and put a little better but that might be just a function of just it’s pretty easy it’s pretty straightforward like pretty much any way we can do well there

So it’s probably just I don’t know if there’s really much useful information with that and then lenta this one is a little different this one’s a little more random as far as guys who are longer not can do well there or accurate not can do well there

Probably just function just fact it’s so easy and the types of golf courses the data Compares it to it’s similar to like Port Royal or like Craig Ranch or Silverado like your really easy golf courses so I don’t usually the these predictive skill set charts is something I like to

Lean on I don’t think they’re really all that useful because I think this golf this tournament just turned into such a birdie Fest that it doesn’t really matter at this point and then um why I take one more ad break and then we’ll go over couple

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Heavy with the uh the info so I got well I throw you I’ve been doing what do you do you like anything about this tournament no no it’s one of these ones where I’m like frustrated immediately because my first round leaders are all chopped to Hell uh even

If they get even if they get offered I hate not having data on uh on the courses like I don’t know man like I don’t like them I I hate I don’t like any tournament 90% of the time I could I can’t think one off the top of my head

Where where they rotate courses that I like I just want because it it could be such a Advantage based on like weather if that ever comes into play and things like that and I just I don’t think it’s a I don’t think it’s everybody starting

On the same level yeah I mean and we’ll get to a little bit like just all three courses are really easy yeah so like all the and it’s important to remember too like all these guys are really good even the lowest ranked players on pg2 are they can go out and

Shoot a 60 you know at any given moment so yeah so kind of like with the the predictive skill set uh charts like this I always like looking at like you know what during the tournament tends to separate you more and last year there was a big jump

With how your irons did like basically the better iron week you had the the better overall you did now this is just at the stadium course though that’s another tricky thing is we only have two rounds essentially to look at I don’t know what really separat you out at

Lanta or the Nicholas storm of course so there’s a little bit of guesswork there and then the approach shot distribution chart so this is again only the stadium course but there really isn’t a high proximity like like Coral like a concentrated bucket like anything like last we at wly everything was was

Like 125 and 200 here there’s a little bit higher rate of shots like um under 125 yards but some makes up like 20% of your shots there’s a lot lower between 125 and 200 but it’s that’s the most number of shots you hit there’s I guess

More shots over 250 than the average PG course so it’s probably because of the four par five so it’s it’s not an easy Court uh turnament the handicap this probably why this is not one of my most successful ones especially positionals it’s yeah I hit SEI woo but like there’s

Just nothing really to get go on like this is basically the dated boys uh nightmare this week yeah so I guess what am I just GNA look for honestly I don’t think there’s much of a penalty to blast it everywhere at this place I think driving just doesn’t

Matter anymore yeah at any of the golf courses um around the green it’s one of the easiest on the PJ tour and it might be just because maybe you can putt a little bit more there maybe just because the green regulation rates getting a a lot higher now and it’s not like where

At Saw Grass like really tricky green size surrounds these have been a lot more muted and watered down here so not as not as to get up down there’s also no rough really at all around the green so really just if you know I think the

Bunkers might be if you’re in the wrong way may be a little difficult but otherwise getting up and down not bunch of challenge here for me I’m just going to look at this I’m just going to look at your scoring clubs I’m going to look at I’m gonna probably favor better iron

Players especially ones from under 175 yards you know your shorter irons or so and can you make a lot of birdies and are you relatively decent putter y that’s really it yeah that’s really it like I know I just spent 40 minutes kind of boiling it down like that but I think I

I think the point of this was maybe just don’t over complicate it this week your adventure week basically like this is gonna be 25 under wins again so yeah you know it’s just GNA come down to basically was the hottest Putter and gives themselves the most opportunities

To score and is Denny playing this week uh I don’t know but like that’s probably why like a guy like Patrick kley always does well here because just a lot of shorter irons and he’s a good putter yeah it’s really he just getes himself a lot of opportunities to score here so

That’s really about it like I got really nothing else you got anything no I mean we got the Keegan sweat coming up uh you mean the Keegan funeral coming up yeah exactly exactly and Cam’s gonna be [ __ ] fired right do you already go over this I did not go over this do you

Want to lay it out okay yeah go ahead lay it out for him cam I hope you’re listening um we he’s not here so I don’t think he is but uh so all of us the entire staff uh I’m no I think to all of us right

Land on Keegan this week even Matt ganon’s on Keegan and our producer not on ke he’s on benan who’s a chaser and if it happens to be that benan ends up winning uh we might have uh some staff uh changes not M might cam is fired of

Benan wins and G oh oh you’re just gonna lay it out directly okay okay all especially with the he’s he’s daning around the mush he’s getting his closest [ __ ] [ __ ] humanly possible and I don’t even like that it’s [ __ ] very annoying and he knows what he’s doing

Because he knows how much it triggers me yeah anytime I I think anytime just he even says the word in a text message you just get immediately triggered sure uh you got any you got anything else you want to add for any of the games today we’re both on Dallas at

Seven you taught me in the line three one under dog one yesterday so I’m fine with that there you go uh I ended up getting out of the Miami bet mid game because I realized this is going horribly I don’t feel quite as good

About Dallas as I did I think back in on uh Thursday I still feel pretty good about the Lions though there’s a lot of smoke getting blown up the Rams asses for tonight oh and every analyst on the NFL Network picked the Rams oh did they

Yes you want to double down yeah I saw I think Kramer retweeted that okay yeah I I feel I feel pretty the Rams props I don’t know I’ll take a look after this all right so I got Montgomery under one and a half receptions that’s

For tonight and then I got uh I got Wicks over two and a half uh receptions for because Watson’s testing out his hamstring so stop playing if if anything maybe he’s just gonna be a [ __ ] decoy Le pora over 30 and a half I think that number is super

Low I know he’s bulky but that’s why we’re getting the 30 and a half so hopefully he’s [ __ ] healthy enough to catch a few balls and then uh I got I found this one I don’t know if most books probably don’t have this piece of [ __ ] but Patrick Taylor under nine and a

Half R yards that’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel there it is it is love it baby all right well uh we’ll be back on Tuesday for betting show tomorrow you will hear Matt Ganon with the DFS show uh yeah another jam-packed week of uh content at golf ging podcast so please

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