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Uh Keith Stewart PGA read theel line keth Stewart PGA he’s got multiple Twitter accounts and burners right yeah is it uh what what anniversary is it for the players I don’t know I gotta think about it I think I think it might I think it might be the
50th did you get did you get a TI any cuff Lings yet uh I actually I I got something very nice I got a hat with a big 50 on the front so did you I did yeah yeah that’s not bad yeah if any of the media members don’t take theirs off
Of their uh station I’ll uh I’ll bring you one back how about that I love it I love it I give it to you I’ll give it to you when we’re together in Valhalla all right yes and you can play lexon country club with me oh have you played there
Not Lexington no or or Val I’ve never been to uh I’ve only been to Kentucky airports I’ve never been to Kentucky like and and been there well we’ll show you Kentucky I can’t wait and you’ll come out alive God willing God willing um uh first of all so last week here’s
What I wanna I want I want to ask you a question that is going to set the tone for um and by the way rum your sports read the line rum your sports you can join today code rps15 we got a very active Discord in golf They Love Keith
To death I think this is the best internet setup we’ve ever had you look great it’s a great backdrop um you’ve just jinxed it the best internet setup we’ve ever had oh please don’t no I can when you start pixelating I get panicky well um I am actually um I’m out
In the area where they um do the interviews after the rounds and so the Wi-Fi out here if it’s not good they’d have bigger problems so um knock on wood we should we should be fine today we’ll be all right the question is the question is
What I want to do because it’ll set up the tone what I want to talk to the Discord about what they’re listening on is last week you could see the frustration at least I could with some of the players with the quote unfairness of the course and you could literally
See shots that you know can’t lay of course I was tracking him deeply but on approach perfect shot landed four feet from the pin rolls out into you know almost the primary cut a rough deep and he was playing with Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick very frustrated they can’t L
Starts bogey bogy bogy at that point do you believe that some of the poor play was the fact that people were frustrated with the course there are some holes that were unfair the rough was unfair and they just said it we’re on to Pon ofid or what is
It a is it 100% indicator of their form um okay two parts number one those two gentlemen you mentioned um the 69 gentlemen in that field are not the type that would just mail it in whatsoever um now that that being said they may not play better because they’re working on
Something for a AA for the rest of the year um you know Max hom was in the uh you know he didn’t play poorly but you know Max hom was in The Press Room today talking about a grip change he’d be working on on the two weeks uh that he
Had off between West Coast and East Coast so if a guy is working on something and it’s they know it’s just not their weak chances are they’re gonna they’re going to implement it and really try to learn to trust it um In the Heat of battle and the second part of that
Was what was the second part of the question you asked if they give up and then you asked if oh it I do not believe it to be a indicator for um kley or Fitzpatrick this week any more so than any other indicator that we have um
Whether it be you know our own eyes or what we see on paper so I um I I think that in the Modern Age the attitude of these men and the money that’s on the line and the amount of people that are showing that they are ready to come take
Their spot 100 to1 winners 150 to1 winners um that the that these guys understand the seriousness of it all and and really what it comes down to Matt is that they haven’t played a golf course all year I get that they’ve been playing tournaments but you know you go to caloa
And the fairways are wide enough to land a whale on and then you go to w and it’s it’s tight but it’s not hard you know you have the couple birdie fests yeah Farmers it’s long you know it’s but like and then you go to Pebble pebble kind of screwy but
The desert’s not hard Riviera is not hard there’s really no rough you know so this was the first big boy test and it was a measuring stick for Magnolia Lane and some people need to get their act together and that’s in in a lot of ways maybe it’s more motivating than it is
Mailing it in do you did you believe that anyone played better that you saw then their score identified I’ve got one but you tell me if if you tell me if you thought someone played better than their score showed or looked better just a couple of
Bad breaks oh um it 100% first one that pops into my mind now that I kind of got a grasp of the question is uh sewo Kim I that’s my guy SE wo Kim hit the ball he was like fourth best in the field T to green and he lost two strokes
Putting so he was almost kind of like a Scotty and you know when it comes the ball striking and we think about this week if anybody can can keep up with Scotty from a ball striking perspective SEIU is in he’s in that argument right now now right most people would say well
Keith he never putts well but you know what he has here before right he’s got a couple top 10 and six tries and he’s also got that win um so if you know I mean he’s coming in an incredible incredible ball striking form um off the
T and approach so he’s on his seventh cter recently he found something Sunday he was number one t to green going into Sunday he finished fourth overall at the event I watched him every hole and bless you thank you uh you get 49 more sneezes and that’s it I’m hitting the end stream
Button uh but he looked meticulous he looked dialed he came in and won the Players without any form a few years back um I that is that is the one and you what he opened it 70 to1 he was 75 to1 in the weekend and I said guys we need
To hit this uh I think he’s down to 45 now oh yeah he’s he’s one of the drops yeah um well there’s the question about Sheffer then okay because we said last week the first thing we said last week was if sheffler and in my mind I thought
He’s gonna find a putter this week if he finds it he is unbeatable and down the stretch unbeatable I mean we talked about it I said I thought the the stroke still look shaky um I was wrong Andrew putam but you know it happens from time
To time I’m you know I just I just I just don’t like I I I don’t actually get to talk to these guys and ask them what they’re thinking or how they feel about this it’s you know it hey good for him because you know golf needs a superstar
Right now and if he’s the one that wants to step up and be that guy by all means um go for it dude you know um I know he’s kind of boring and everything but the golf he plays is not and uh he won here last year by five just won beill by
Five um you know it’s it uh gez man he he he was impressive last week on a no bad he hadit no bad shots the bad shots he hit that one par five on the back uh bad stance feet almost to the bunker I thought okay maybe we can get a shot
Back here for for chasing zalot toes nope perfect in the Fairway perfect wedge four feet makes putts um sort of like no Miss shot type Tiger Iron play and um you know low Lowry and Lowry and Windam Clark you know you could see they’re playing for second I mean
They’re just I can’t beat this guy yeah go back to your question another guy that played better than his score was zot torus zot Tores took that five shot lead on after 11 on Saturday and he um he hadn’t been there before and and quite frankly we all know that
When he had been there in the past he the putter got really shaky right and it wasn’t the the usual yippy kind of kind of loopy stroke it seems like his speed is a little bit more the problem which is a good thing because he could
Overcome that that you know kind of you know social media tweet stroke that we always see like on Loop um that zator gets into seems to have maybe found its way out and what he’s done to change his golf swing to save his back has made his
Golf swing so much better and it’s made it so much more consistent and I think that he’s going to continue to ball strike like that for a while and this putter he’s gained in three straight events right like to an average of like I don’t know like 1.8 Strokes positive
Per event over the last three so I think that uh you know Willie Z is gonna be out a lot of people’s Radars coming in major season and uh for all intents of purpose this is a major the one that we were really tracking said a Flawless
Game and I think he played better than his score did honestly he had a couple of a iron shots unlucky bounces couldn’t well he put okay statistically but can’t lay what can’t can’t he’s kind of eh I I thought the driver was back to where it was like middle of last year
Where he was you know the most accurate and long driver out like Rory’s a better driver overall but the way kley went for about eight weeks there from about players to through Oak Hill Memorial is you know kley was the best driver on the tour in the world and he needs to get
His head wrapped around that right now the other stuff looks fine it looks fine but he’s got to get the driver going and you know we start talking about uh Stadium Course here at TPC sass um there’s a decent amount of rough they mowed it last night I was out walking
Early this morning um with Denny McCarthy practice round and he you could see um the uh molines from last night and um it was getting a little bit long yesterday and they’ve made it a little bit a little bit more reasonable but that’s the last time they’ll mow it
Before Sunday and um yeah oh yeah and and hitting the Fairway will be a thing but but it’s not API rough but it uh okay so if uh you’re making a scale API being major worthy and cognizant was you know the new tour standard where they like the guys to
Play well right it’s it’s leaning towards API but so say six and a half out of 10 um but it is you know you have to understand something this place is the PGA Tour headquarters backyard I mean literally the their their headquarters building is right behind
The corporate tents on 1617 so like they take care of this place to the nth degree they could do whatever they want with it it’s been dry here right so they watered as much as they want they have sub air under the greens the the greens will be firm the fair ways mysteriously
Are a little soft I know we’ll get into some of the stuff but they’re a little soft and they shouldn’t probably shouldn’t be so kind kind of like at Bay Hill they make the approaches soft like not like in a lift and cheat sort of way
Right they’re not gonna no no no okay no no but what they’re doing is that no but what the always the criticism of this golf course is it’s too short so if at night you turn the sprinklers on and you water the fairways when nobody’s here oh a little longer
You know again not to the point that when you walk on it that you even really feel it but when the ball hits and it dies rather than boom boom boom you know like we see sometimes here out on tour it’s makes the challenge just a little
Bit longer and um that wouldn’t surprise me whatsoever so so you you it’s still the floor to swing you still have a tremendous amount of holes to eject on um and then the the closing stretch one of the toughest especially especially down the stretch par five going to 17
With that crowd um you know a favorite every week is going to be Ben on if you remember 2021 2022 round one at 11 um I think he shot 17 over for the week so the variance here on players is is still in effect right oh I mean chalk
Ownership uh still goes to die iron play is premium here um% can’t can’t get around it and so would you say then that the similar style of golfer that you were talking about last week for Bay Hill probably carries forward this week um in and and will it be the low teens under
Par so let’s talk about the style of golfer first there’s a couple differences here between last week though so the first thing that’s is on point is that everyone’s going to be talking about all the pundits betting guys are going to be talking about how the large the the most approach buckets
You know or shots happen from 75 to 150 yards it’s like 39.7% of approach shots come from that from that area okay well I got news for you folks if you’re on the tour you’re good from that range and if you’re there on Sunday you’ve had a
Great week from that range but these guys are all good from that range when you really look at the fact that over the last four years and and this is a huge PS say for everyone that’s watching we don’t look at anything from May got to remember this event was played in May
From 2007 to 2018 I throw that all out the window because the golf course is a different Agronomy it’s gonna play firman fast it’s a totally different it played harder at that time of year right and then you look at since 2019 on who’s won Rory JT cam Smith Scotty major
Winners real players major major wedge players um right but but no but all those guys are great with their wedges but the they have gained on average those winners 6.8 Strokes on approach against the field and a large majority of that comes from over 175 180 yards yeah that’s where they’re separating
Themselves everybody hits wedges good is my point but where like so if you’re then GNA start to do your modeling or something like that if you’re into that sort of thing you got to look at 200 plus because there’s a long par three eight then you’ve got a couple par fours
That require a 200 yard shot in because you gotta lay up off the te like 14 um and and then the big one is the four par fives where you make your hay those are 200 yard plus attacking shots and that’s how you separate yourself from the field
So it’s really important that you understand similar to beay Hill long iron play here I mean okay two top 10 in the last two years Victor havin at the time was the best long iron player in the game right Scotty sheffler very good long iron player you know I mean and and
We see what what he’s been able to produce here so I mean those are the things that and then what I would flip from beay Hill Bay Hill we were certainly leaning a lot more on off the T I would lean more on around the green here those same winners gain twice as
Much around the green than they are off the T it’s positional golf course it’s one of those things where they’re just going to Dink and dunk it out there if you think that somebody like Rory a bomber is g to help you the golf course kind of mitigates that because there’s
Only so much room and there’s a lot of angles here and yeah there’s there’s several holes less than driver off the te if you look at 18 even um and then and then and then unlike Bay Hill where most people if they missed the green were in a similar situation in a deep
Rough and very frustrating situation here I mean there’s a lot of pot bunkers there’s a lot of bunkering in general yeah uh you got the guys who win seei wo Kim what’s his I mean he’s amazing around the green he an artist cam Smith uh Webb Simpson uh I think it’s a skill
Around the green that you cannot undervalue here uh in terms of the type of course this week especially long iron play we’re not always going to hit a green regulation so um uh okay Carry forward then fieldwise I think that this the biggest question is sheffler if he plays like he did last
Week is he beatable or can even come close to it and if so if he is beatable I mean that was a raised eyebrow like I like you don’t think he is because I I have a I have a very difficult time thinking that I wouldn’t lock sheffler at almost any
Price um so no one’s so at at right he’s 128 right is that right right yeah he’s 128 so at 128 he’s got a win for you and um no one’s ever repeated yeah that’s the one thing okay in 49 editions 50 coming but in 49 editions no one’s
Repeated 50 this year it um I’m so I’m told you know behind you it says I think it says 50 couple times yeah um it uh so I think five guys have repeated well five guys have repeated I know okay and none of them did it even close to one
Another the closest one is seven years apart it’s a very unique thing I mean alington was like 17 years apart Tigers two or 12 years apart so like why is that well it’s a super Elite field forget the whole conversation and everything like this is this is probably
Going to be the best playing field for the year because the Masters has past champions the US Open has amateur qualifiers the PGA has the 20 Pros like me that get in so like I mean this is it right this is this is the the guys that
Are the best players right now you know I mean and it’s ah man it’s It’s just tough to repeat here and and really it has a lot to do and the variant too right I mean you know hits bad shots but you you know you can eject pretty
Quickly on one hole um yeah I I don’t think there’s a go I mean we’ve had some fun with PJ National and Bay Hill but that that’s just a precursor to what’s gonna happen here I mean there is no Golf Course where the eject button is
Closer to the steering wheel in the car you know like it’s it is right there just boom you’re like you’re gone you know and um you got to keep that in mind I mean you look at somebody like Rory won a 19 he missed a cut in 20 how’s that
Happen well Scotty was a 55 miscut win right uh so so okay let’s let’s say let’s let’s be devil’s advocate here and say if if you’re not in this in the Scotty Camp um and let’s say he has a a non-s Scotty week then who can challenge who who are
You seeing right now out in the range or just in general with the bounce in their step that can challenge so um ball striking wise there’s three guys that played very well at beay Hill and um I’m not put seu hit it good but he didn’t putt good enough and these guys
They challenge the top so the the the three guys that I want to talk about there would be Willie z um wam Clark and Hideki okay they all hit it good enough I mean like Windam Clark his weakness is approach and he gained over two strokes
Approach at beay Hill and the guy can go nuclear with the Putter and and that’s what you’re gonna need so to answer your question about beating Scotty someone’s gonna have to like get 80% of the way to ball striking with him and then they’re gonna have to go off the charts and
Probably Willie Z is probably the only one that can comp him in ball striking and then be an average Putter and get the job done but the last six this is a really interesting thing a lot of people talk about you know Trends and everything but this one really to me
Kind of sums it up and that is the last six winners of this event finished t22 or better the week prior well in the event prior but for us it’s going to be the week prior because all the guys we’re talking about were at API so think
About that have to come to this place playing well so of those guys at the top of the leaderboard with their history here or how we feel about them like I think Windam Clark might be the next Brook skpa I don’t think I don’t know that anything catches his attention if
Unless it’s big game situation right two signature wins in a US Open yeah it’s pretty good pretty good right Willie Z ball striking how about Hideki right remember Hideki back in 2020 when he opened up with 6 and we were like man should we happen this tournament and
Then we didn’t right I mean he just blew away well but he blew away the field that day and it’s just all very interesting to me that like those guys are playing very good right now and they’re coming to a place where they have a decided advantage over a large
Majority of the field problem was last week with Hideki was we got wind that there was an injury narrative with him Y and and turned out it either what I mean everyone was saying he was stretching his neck on the on the Range or you saw his wrist was wrapped and
Even late last week which I was kind of concerned about he was digging a ball out of the deep rough hit it about 20 feet and sort of jammed his wrist a little bit I the worst thing that can happen is injury narrative that doesn’t pan out or
Injury narrative that’s not known that does so where where’s your mindset it’s is it gozone for Hideki because I I remember that 63 during Co um you know hideki’s last top 10 before the win of Genesis was right here and he’s had a top 10 two of the last three
Years so you know about this but I’ll I’ll share this with your listeners over since the last show there’s been some big news in my world right and part of that is that read the Line is now partnering with Golf Digest and what that means is you know so so read the
Line will all be maintained the same but what it does is it’s going to amplify my resources to do the things that you love that I do and and why you call me up and say hey Keith come on people want Sammy valaki you know like
So one of the things I’ve always wanted to do but I’ve just needed you know more editorial amplification to get all of this stuff out right and last night I I I love the range at closing time now I’m a golf pro for a long time when did I
Play most of my golf at Sunset right when you could get a couple holes in before you’d go home and you learn a lot in the golden hour so last night I went over to the grou green because I was going to produce some content for GD and
For read the line and I went over and lo and behold who’s practicing their putting so there was a golf cart sitting there so in the shade so I kind of I sat down for a couple minutes and that turned into a while that turned into a
Long time and Hideki was practicing his putting and I believe first of all because he thinks he can win this week and he knows that that’s one of his weaknesses so he was grinding on it I mean we’re talking 6:30 at night he’s doing this and everyone’s gone except for about five
People on property everyone you know everyone’s done their work and they’re gone for the day it’s Tuesday this this is a day and a half before and this guy’s grinded now for the health question if you have a bad neck a bad back or any kind of chronic pain I
Guarantee you the last thing you do is sit stooped over for an hour and hit all different types of putts yes that’s the that’s the last thing that you would be doing all right when you have back pain or you have neck pain or anything like that you do not
Sit that you do not do that type of practice right and he did it and he never flinched once and that to me I wrote a nice little piece about it and that to me was a sign that like maybe some of it’s just melodrama you know last year sure it was
Pain but you know what he knows he could win this thing this week and he knows that he probably could have won it in 2020 and I don’t think that guy’s walking away now I again I could be wrong like Scotty’s putting but this is
What I see right yes this is what I see and I could tell you that people don’t sit there and practice their putting like stooped over like this when they have a bad back or neck they don’t and it’s and and for people new to golf
Because a lot of this goes over their head because they’re just getting into it but Hideki is known for his Elite iron play ball striking but he is lowkey one of the best around the green on the planet on the planet rank number one in the field
His pitching game is why he won the Masters 2021 yeah so I mean this type of place when you have the short par fours you have those four par fives you don’t hit them all in two you have to be able to score you got to be able to score
From short range it’s great that people get up and down when they scramble but don’t forget that you still need those shots right in order to to make birdies right and T green t green which is the most IND of stat of as how you know how
Close you get the ball to the hole versus the rest of the field and a fewer number of shots T green encompasses that skill I mean that’s that’s why he’s a that’s why that’s why these par five specialist TD green guys win win Augusta I mean even will zelot Torres like I was
Very impressed by his his touch out of that rough I mean I thought this is you know some holes that he this is where he would go backwards but he’s got it I mean he’s a great pitcher of the golf ball too there’s no doubt about it yeah
It’s I mean he’s a really good pitcher to the golf ball wam wisey Hideki are guys in the elite class that you believe can challenge right they they are they are the ones in my mind up there at the top I mean Lowry said it himself he goes if he’s playing
Like that I can’t play that good well buddy you gotta be even if you’re lying to yourself you gota you know you got to be able to get you gotta believe right it it looked like Lowry did not believe on Sunday he just is like I’m outclass
So so the or the Monday before yeah so the other part is the other Elite Class bigname golfers morawa not good last week JT late run looked his his his iron his approach came his swing looked so balanced and this is not from a pro but just looking from eyeballing it looks
Really good um and then hom who sneaky top 10 last week conservative golfer hits good sides of the green uh hits Fairways frustrated it seems a little still I know that he was on Twitter sort of Defending comments on his Instagram but what’s that class for you
I mean I’m never more backer typically but okay he’s had two really bad miscuts in the LA his last four starts so that would that would for me I think three of his last four he’s lost Strokes with the driver and two of the last three he’s
Lost Strokes with his irons I mean you’re talking about a year ago this guy’s like up there with Victor number one iron player in the world so those things would cause me to think he I I I would hit the pause button there um JT
This is just a better fit for him it’s not his driver heavy right he could shot shape shots and everything so so his his approach game is great his um around the green game is great you don’t have to be a great cter here so I love a little you
Know I love the fit here for JT versus API and then Max is somebody that I feel very strongly this week um can do very well for sure you know he talked about The Press Room he he made a little grip change that he’s working his way through
He was not satisfied with the West Coast at all he went back he worked really hard for two weeks uh the short game and the putting was was awesome at API and he with with with average ball striking he um he basically came in top 10 right
And so in his presser um if you’re watching on Golf Channel or whatever um then you recognize this voice I asked him a question at the end and I said max I said I’m just curious well I but like the fun part is is like is like I’m just curious because
You know you’re one of four guys over the last two years that has finished in the top 25 of this event there’s only four of them and none of them are Rory and none of them are Scotty yeah okay it’s Adam hadwin Russell H Henley Victor
Hin which are both top 10 and then Max okay which are both top 13s so like I said what is about this place that brings out the best in you and he said well like you know he goes my misses are very small so that’s why I bring up the story
The point of the story is is that you got to get guys like a willly z or Hideki that when they’re playing well their misses are small yeah okay and because the eject button is so close to the throttle that’s my concern JT because he’s so aggressive um and his
Misses seem to be a little larger that’s what Travis Mooney said tough time avoiding the big number sometimes for JT Poss I mean JT’s not gonna be on my outright card but I I if he gets it going and you know he’s familiar it and also his confidence around this place
And the way he’s hitting his irons right now and obviously he’s a world class short game player um live betting him head-to-head or you know where he does one of those back door top 10 or something like that is is very is very uh um on my radar so quick quickly we’ll go
We’ll go um perhaps the inverse of this and not that necessarily that you’ve been seeing people on on the ground struggling or working uh maybe not Hideki understands his his his TD green game is so good he can work on putting for an hour and a half is there anyone
On the opposite end that you say listen this guy is this guy is uh working on things right now probably to his detriment I mean I think there’s a lot of reasons why people are fading Rory um Victor and Xander um they’ve all openly spoken about working with coaches at
This moment whether they’re New or Old coaches or whatever and um when that happens at a test like this I mean two bad swings and you might make the cut but you know you’re 40 40th or worse and at the level you need to invest in
Those people at the top of the board or how short their odds are it’s probably just time to wait and see right you know so um what we saw at API is is probably gonna play out here as well um and then and then the darker
Horses we talked about seu Kim 100% uh probably would be my the the biggest odds player that I had the most investment in again he was 70 to1 75 to1 floated down to 45 he maybe back to 50 I still think it’s a good bet as a former winner who who
Doesn’t really need form because if he turns that putter on which I think he did Sunday um he’s a force but I really give you credit last week because I’m not a Puttin him guy and he was top 10 TD green last week and looked the part I
Made a point of it to watch this guy play golf because I don’t typically yeah puam two two guys puam and Andrew Novak are two guys who are cheap inexpensive and I think puam could put together something good this week reminds me kind of like a yeah yeah I mean
Um I don’t know how cheap he is right like when we’re having this cheap argument putman’s gonna be super cheap right so we get 6300 6,300 which is a bad price all right so so guys down in that line in the 6K range you know Doug
Gim I mean his play’s been great and he’s got like multiple really good finishes here he’s there in the low like in the in the mid sixes um Lucas Glover looked really good I walked with him in the proam last week because a friend of mine was playing with him I watched him
For like six or seven holes and he’s just doing his thing and you don’t have to be a great um putter here right but the ball striking needs to be on point and we know with him it always is um he’s in the low sixes um you want to go
Down in the 5K land and and what we call like uh slaming Sammy salamak world you know bakia world right um Sam ryer 56 your guy that’s a yeah oh yeah for sure um in the 5K land I wouldn’t be surprised if chess and Hadley had a good
Tournament okay um he’s done some really nice things um I haven’t seen him since the desert but um I you know there’s one there um you know Steve Stricker’s playing in this event don’t do it to me I gotta plug my ears here because I’m addicted to Steve
Stricker and um I mean he’s not gonna miss shots he’s he’s just not gonna miss shots you know what I mean so I think for a 5k if you’re going 128 on Scotty you need a five right so here’s a couple names you know and here’s another guy
That’s been played really good lately that I keep believe he’s down in the fives he’s not at least in the low sixes that’s Ben Silverman he hits the ball really good you know and I don’t have I don’t have the the greatest feel for his
Game yet but what I have seen I’ve been like man this guy’s this guy’s good you know like when I was looking at pavon last week I was like man you we gotta pay attention to this guy this guy’s like really good you know and um you
Know the jury’s out of both those guys but these are 5 kers you know conc me because Pavone started out well and I know how good he is ball striking I know how good how how you how you see him as a pro in his iron game as as just
Something extraordinary and he didn’t perform well last week so I was like maybe it’s just the course maybe just a bad week call it in um the other guy who’s never disappointed us I think another top 10 last week or close was hogi hogi yeah but the um you know I’m
Sure the comments all if we say hogi everyone’s gonna you know they’re gonna Jersey mics the hell out of us because they they’re gonna sit there and go you know like you know he had the course record last year Keith everybody knows it his his his ownership’s gonna be up
Blah blah blah blah so I gave you some different names you know is Tom hogi probably gonna be there yeah you know he’s the one guy on approach that can keep up with Scotty and will Hadi when he’s on you know I mean he’s he can gain
Two5 in approach play in a week on the field and that’s or more you know I mean he could on a hard Golf Course like this that’s pretty good um you know we skipped over the middle and there’s one guy that um I feel strongly about in the SEIU area um
His his num started out kind of it’s been going up it’s been going down as as much as I get a chance to monitor it as all this is going on but um over the weekend NBC did their walk and talk and this gentleman was playing the 16th hole
Okay he was playing the 16th hole and they asked him about uh and every time I’ve either bet this guy I put him in a place where I know he’s comfortable or a place where we don’t need the driver that’s his that’s his issue righty right so what happens right he
Starts talking about how much he loves this new squeeze driver fade that he’s teeing it low and he’s hitting it and he’s like I hit it on 11 today I hit it here I hit it there when I have to hit the Fairway I’m just hitting the Fairway
Every single time I got a game plan to use it and like his face just like lit up and from a player’s perspective and the golfers that are watching this would know when you are comfortable with any kind of shot it could be a chip it could
Be a 10- foot putt you know it could be the driver it could be your seven iron whatever it is when you like it you can’t hide it because golf is too damn hard right so like the way he affectionately spoke about that was like
A kid in the candy store you know like I love Swedish fish like man I get in I get in like the bulk aisle at the grocery store and I I start to smell Swedish Fish I am like a rabid animal and like he like sth was like a little
Kid just describing that shot and I was thinking to myself man if that guy with his creativity like a cam Smith around this place was comfortable getting it in the Fairway he would have an edge that Scotty doesn’t have because his short game and his putting is better
Than his right so like yeah toal’s top top five on tour um yeah so he to me was some bu that now he’s sitting right around that like as seiw was dropping thealist sat there and no one’s really thinking about him because you’re like oh you got to get the driver in the
Fairway here and he doesn’t yes historically hasn’t done that right so what’s kind of unique about that also is that the putting surfaces here are poet trivialis and everybody goes POA POA it’s not West Coast POA this version of overseed plays like a bent I’ve talked to the putting coaches and they all
Coach it there is no grain right it is like the smoothest possible service we’ll see it next week at valpar but you know where else we see it we see it at TPC Scottdale how’s the gala’s record at TPC Scottdale win and well you’re gonna give me how Scotty’s record there I know
I know I know well Scotty took him down I mean he it was it was to Gallas to win it was and and what did the gala do right he didn’t hit a good shot off the T but he was there in every other sense so like in that range if we’re talking
About a guy that could do something kind of fun I think I kind of like that story I think tagala is going to be sub 10% own which is you know short owned in that range because everyone’s people still love fow and people still love Henley I will not
Chase Henley um and they love Connors too but tala I’m finally warming up to as someone who can get around tough courses I’m gonna like him at the Masters yeah yeah I think that uh I think if he continues to grow as a player a lot of people forget about this
We go about Hideki losing his opportunity in 2020 and how he’s dealing with that right yeah theala was the college player of the year in 2020 when his season was was paused at pepperine okay that kid could have went on and win an NCA individual championship and he
Still made it on tour he still got to contending and made big mistakes Travelers tpc’s got sale and he still got to his first win yeah Y and he did it at a place where you got to be a good ball Striker you got to be a good ball
Striker in Napa at fortnet and he did it there and he contended at other places um I think that there’s there’s some opportunity there and at a really tough driving place like beay Hill he played that good yeah something to be said there’s something to again again the last six
Winners t22 or better so let’s just go to T30 where sewo sat last week your winners coming out of that group this week and if you’re playing T30 group last week at B at beill yeah T30 and less yeah right so like the winner this week 99% chance is coming out of that
Group okay it’s happened the last six years I’m stretching it a little bit right it’s gonna be one of these guys we’re talking about right I mean I mean it could be a miracle for for morow or something like that but the point being is like the other 99% of guys that are
In this range you know somebody’s like oh well Brian Harman can win Keith well yeah and he also he he also last week finish what 12th you know so like it fits the narrative it fits the narrative well look at this sunji m m course record I mean not course record course
History here right great iron player um great around the green kind of sneaky finding something a little bit on a course you know was windy last week There’s was narrative about him not being a great win player admittedly but he’s got a top 10 here um
18th last week not huge but a lot closer than an 18th would say I would say he’s tremendously trending towards something right because that was the that’s the first building block it’s tough to go from the first floor to the penthouse right but we’re talking about some guys
Today that are living just below the penthouse right and um I don’t know what it is with this Windam Park guy because if you get him in an interview you can get him to say some stupid right like um it was off last week for for a
Guy like that that didn’t players only yeah I mean that that to me was like oh man and then the Rory thing yeah I’m as good as Rory at the at the Ridder cup you know like like like he’s he’s getting like but you know who else said
Things like that because they just didn’t care Brooks Brooks and what does Brooks do he never cared about the regular events and he always showed up and was and was you know like it brought his bazooka to a rock fight I honestly think I was told this that that it’s
Really their Sports psychologist telling them them to do this right you go on camera and you say dumb or you put the spotlight off you or make people hate you get play you play well when you care and play with an edge H when you’re fighting with Dustin Johnson so yeah I
Mean like it has a lot to do with your personality I don’t think Scotty needs that anger Edge but tiger needed it yeah you know back in the day when he would come back to the club after he’ beat somebody or something I mean he’d make a
Comment and you were like whoa that was like jordanes you know that was like wow he’s got he like there’s an edge there right and you know I think that for Windom guys like Brooks or whatever you know maybe that’s why DJ did win more DJ’s so Uber talented he’s like Rory
Talented with a golf club but you don’t you don’t get the idea that he has that like you know step on your neck mentality you know what I mean and if wind’s showing that good for him man three wins You’re Gonna Go You’re Gonna Go signature wait a month when the US
Open now we’re going to go signature wait a month and do what the week right right right right see how I set that up with a narrative right we paying attention in the comments like like and this this is what always happens out here I don’t know yeah um all right Dark Horse
Darkhorse your final Dark Horse you could have already said it already um three guys that are sitting right around depending on the board you’re looking at I gave you a bunch of 6ks and 5 I thought would help your lineups but the three like from a betting perspective or
Guys that you could find them where they are on the value board but um right around 100 to one uh very interested in we talked about this not enough last week and I regret that last week and it kind of eats at me but amelo gillo we
Said it just for like a sentence he’s got good course history here and then we moved on to something else right he’s doing something that he’s never done before in 202 for Grio won his two events because he’s a he was a super ball Striker horrible putter his putting
Is better than almost better than his ball striking this year this season right so he’s the type steeve said this years ago and the quote is out there that the best fast screen putter he’s ever seen is emilano G guo none of us thought none of us
Thought he was being serious but you know that’s that’s stuck in her head ever since then yeah um I saw some nice things out of Cam Davis last week and I don’t know what happened with Adam Scott I don’t know I don’t know but he has all
His Australian boys I saw the I watched him play two or three holes on Tuesday he’s with Mino cooking he’s with you know J day and he’s like the Godfather of that group and he’s H it just as good as those guys and I don’t know what
Happened last week uh bad stake at Ruth Chris on San Lake Road I I don’t know dude um because I loved him there last week I loveed the fit but it’s the 20th anniversary of Scotty’s win here so the world is round so if you you know I at
100 to one you’re talking about guys that would have a chance that have win Equity to do something here me there you know I mean yeah Keith can Cam Davis win probably not you know he’ll probably fold his tents on Sunday if he’s in the is in position but you know these names
Throughout the course of your week if you’re diversifying your card or you’re putting in multiple lineups you know you pop some of these in here and that’s going to be where you get your top you know you get your best six you get you’re going to get six out of
Six and then you’re going to get like a cam Davis like last year where he came in eighth the players and you’re gonna go whoa you know like wo Andrew putam eighth you know like whoa you know so uh I feel I feel obliged to mention those things in
Closing yeah in and and you you you glazed over hadwin his course history here is going to impress people he’s a good long iron player he’s won the V spar again uh you know Sam Burns disappointing last week um but hadwin is someone I may look at Keith Mitchell may
Go unnoticed a little bit I have to look at his ownership um probably the best the best social media video of the year last year what happened happened right here when the horn went off and his ball went in the water right remember recall that oh
My God it’s it was so it was it was so good so he tees off and the horn goes off as as he as he’s hitting it and he blows it way right and it goes It goes the camera has it boom Splash in the
Water and he turns to the caddy and he goes water and the Caddy’s like yeah and he’s like he’s like just lets it rip right and not only not only does that make it great like how pissed he was but he’s got to go into a rain delay now he’s got
To just sit there and think about that right yeah to his credit he came out made Park but that it I mean that the video there go look it up folks a year ago right I do recall that now the other one the greatest one ever was uh I think
It was the Honda with Patton gazy you know with the it’s oh because he’s just so smooth Patton uh that was a very good joke um hanging in the Lou oh yeah yeah Lastly lastly well they get your winner and then not 10 seconds on Oar LV his first time here
Ghost jammed asked uh what’ you think about OB last week do you think do you think this is a course for him right now the state of his game or is it just you know is it too much 22 rookies um you know the panic button will be in full will be we
Be worn out um with those guys it take they’re getting a good year the weather looks really good um the wind looks like it’s going to be down in the um in the low teens all four days so balls in the water hole in one on 17 all that stuff
It’d be the type of year to you know kind of favor good shots on the island green um I it’s a tough spot for a rookie and oar last week um wasn’t he’s just he’s in a dip right now and his game should really it would fit beay
Hill better than it would fit here much like Rory he’s such a great driver of the golf ball I I don’t know that this place helps him and um his iron game could be a little better right now so um there you go there’s there’s other
People that are priced near him and uh rookies are tough for me here rookies I mean there’s guys that have been here five times in a row and then missed a cut there’s guys like Scotty shefford come here and miss the cut Rory windson misses the cut you know I mean okay so
So last week everybody could talk everybody couldn’t talk enough about Harris English Harris English this Harris English this I want Harris English to date my daughter and and have my grandson like I mean all eight Cuts in a row here that’s what I’m saying like how could that be I mean if
Anything he’s a tough course player too and this is just it’s just it’s just a very interesting animal and I think that yeah get something here yeah I mean again like look at those four guys havland Henley hadwin yeah and H right all begin with h and they’ve all that
Those are the four guys so what do those guys all do really really well exactly what I asked Max is it he thinks that his misses are small yeah and he can survive right so if you want to go get on the JT Jordan spe Roller Coaster by
All means right it you could go to the highest of Highs but you might go to the lowest of lows yes and in DFS I don’t home H’s floor is really high he he’s just he’s just very conservative I wouldn’t put him in a birdie Fest but I
Put him at a difficult track like this no which is interesting why he he’s just and he’s just starting to figure out um all of the uh the majors at this point but I mean when you win at Quail hly you win at Riv I
Mean it spe it enough to spe did enough to tease people back in and Xander I I still think did but I’m I’m probably not on either at this point um I need to start I need to stop chasing the ghosts of the past it’s like
My relationship with Webb and now my my rekindled relationship with Steve Stricker thank you Keith Stewart comma PGA yeah all right last who uh it could be a non sheffler but who wins for you right now zor I love it yeah I mean I’m too gutless to say it
We yeah I mean um he had that five shot lead and you could see it he went in panic mode because he hadn’t been there in a long time his health was in question I’m sure it was very emotional for him that he got back that quickly I’m sure he did anticipate
Getting back that quickly but um well how does that Rectify this week I mean how does that how does that change this week at at the at the fifth major oh you he would learn from it okay you know it’s no different than um you know all
Those great finishes and majors and then you know he wins the FedEx Cup event but I mean it’s similar field you know like he he went into a playoff and he beat somebody like he’s he’s got that on his resume now um when you’re like when you give yourself like a an expectation
Schedule when you’re coming back from a massive surgery like that and everything and that’s like that happens that quickly then it’s a an interesting I I I think it I think it got you know be up five at arie’s event he’s a demon Deacon you went to Wake
Forest you went there on the arold Palmer scholarship it’s a lot man I mean golf is you know it’s not like basketball where like you come running at me and I have to react real quick you you got plenty of time to think about the the moment and um you know that one
Swallowed him but I think the next one he won’t look back you know and you know the leaderboard Chaser that probably made him think twice too was Windam Clark’s Eagle right well he started to see a lot of volatility on the on the um on the scoreboard and uh he probably let
His guard down and then you saw what happened on that golf course because it was hard I’m gonna say my winner non non sheffler winner I think that if sheffler plays close to what he did last week I think again he’s probably Untouchable but let’s say difficult field let’s say
The history continues non back-to-back winners um I think keki is the play I think I think I think that 402 he’s 40 to one he’s going to be sub 10% oh um I think I think the injury narrative that was put out by pretty popular sites
I think it scared people off but um he was awesome again last week I mean all I can tell you is what I see and they don’t people don’t hear much from him so they don’t really get his state of mind and I think that’s the problem it’s like
Well I don’t know if he wants to win the players that he was he was running away with it after 18 holes yeah yeah remember who was second that day CZ was second that day everybody had a CZ ticket first first round leader 2020 and then Hadi just went into overdrive he
Was likeand Hood yeah he was like you’re driving a Ford I’m driving a Ferrari buddy see you like good night yeah that was that 2020 and then everyone’s like what are we doing having this golf tournament and the next thing you know like the world had ended oh yeah
Yeah that was the day after Adam Silver came out and announced you know that the NBA was done and we were like yep first round tea times tomorrow morning and and from what I remember just tilting that was I think a lot of people I’m wrong I
Think a lot of people were sneaky on Hideki and we all were like this is because they always put a million up for DK on these on on on the players I’m like this is the week we got it oh sorry National pandemic International pandemic um all right thanks thanks
Brother go go to restaurants and tonight in Incognito and go see what people are eating like see if any G eat the bad sh I I’m gonna go out and I’m gonna uh show off my new cuff links all right see you brother thanks peace Yeah
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