2025 Scottish Open Betting & DFS Preview

In this episode of the Inside Golf Podcast, Andy discusses various topics related to the Genesis Scottish Open Betting and DFS preview, while also reflecting on the 4th of July weekend experiences in the Hamptons. The segment includes insights into the ongoing success of the Inside Sports Network (ISN) in tennis and golf DFS, emphasizing the growing tennis market and the benefits of joining ISN’s community for better betting opportunities. A deep dive into the Renaissance Club, Tom Doak’s design philosophy, and the nuances of playing in Scottish conditions provides a comprehensive analysis for DFS players. The weather’s impact on gameplay and the importance of putting skills on slower, bumpy greens are also discussed. The episode ends with a detailed examination of top players and potential predictions for the Scottish Open, with a particular focus on betting strategies and player picks.

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00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Message
00:27 Host Introduction and Initial Banter
01:15 4th of July Weekend in the Hamptons
02:07 Excitement for the US Open at Shinnecock
03:56 Podcast Housekeeping and Apologies
05:01 Inside Sports Network and Tennis Product
08:08 DFS Strategy and Community Engagement
11:50 Marketing and Free Week for Open Championship
24:17 John Deere Classic Recap and DFS Insights
41:13 Scottish Open Preview
43:45 Analyzing Recent Winners and Data Trends
44:25 The Impact of Weather on Golf Performance
46:36 Course Design and Architecture Insights
49:37 Challenges of Putting at the Renaissance Club
56:37 Weather Forecast and Its Implications
01:04:31 Key Player Profiles and Predictions
01:14:30 Top Picks and Final Thoughts

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I love Brian Harmon at 3 and 12% this week. All right, welcome in inside golf podcast Genesis Scottish Open betting and DFS preview. H happy 4th of July. Um I am here in the Hamptons for Fourth of July weekend. Uh what has happened to the place that I know and love? Fourth of July weekend in the Hamptons might as well be renamed sit in your car in traffic weekend. If you want to spend Fourth of July in the Hamptons now, which is appears to be one of the more desirable places to spend Fourth of July in America, uh something I’ve been doing for a large portion of my life, you are not celebrating America anymore on this weekend. You are celebrating traffic and long lines to get anything. If you want a coffee, a pastry, a reservation at a nice dinner restaurant, it is a absolute zoo here. Um, but it’s also beautiful weather and a beautiful setting and I can’t wait for so many more wonderful people to encroach upon this beautiful place for the US Open next year at Shinok. I drove right by Shinikok yesterday. They’re having their member member this weekend. And let me tell you, the US Open next year here is going to [ __ ] rule. I’m actually going to lay down a I I just love Shinikok. Um I’m laying down a marker that I think it has Pinehurst, Kiwa Island potential. I think those were two of like the better major championship venues that I remember over the last 5 to 10 years. Of course, um part of that was who won and the leaderboard, but I’m not as leaderboard heavy as some others are in terms of my criteria for what makes a major championship. Like there are a lot of people that looked at Oakmont and were like, I’m just out on Oakmont because it didn’t produce the leaderboard that I was looking for. That was not my opinion of Oakmont. I I think Oakmont was tremendous, but I don’t think it’s as good as Shinikok. I think Shikok’s going to be better. Um, and I think people are really going to love it. I mean, it it’s not like people aren’t familiar with it. 2018 wasn’t that long ago when Brooks won. Um, but anyway, I just got reminded of how excited I am for next year’s US Open. Uh, because we don’t have a lot. It’s time to start looking ahead and forward because there not a lot more golf tournaments to get excited about in the year of 2025. In fact, I would argue there’s two more of them the next two weeks. Um, but anyway, that’s a podcast for another day. Quick couple of items of business here before we dive into the Scottish Open. Number one, I apologize again that I don’t have my sound mixer and microphone. This will be my last podcast that you will have to suffer through lower than you deserve audio quality. My sound mixer broke when I got to New York last week. It was due for a replacement. Anyway, I travel a lot and I bring my recording equipment with me and just after just after a lot of travel, you know, it just kind of gets worn down and pushed around in luggage and um but my new sound mixer has arrived and so I’m recording like four podcasts tomorrow. Um, we will have my regular sound mixer uh up for those, including a great podcast with Joseph Lammana in preparation for the Open Championship as well as the Monday DFS show. I’ll be back to using my microphone for all of that. Uh, so apologies again, but number two podcast is obviously presented by Inside Sports Network. If you didn’t sign up to get in on the tennis winnings last week, we just had a member, shout out Jake, win $20,000, a tennis GPP. And our tennis discord right now for Wimbledon is probably just as active as our golf discord right now. So, there’s still time to hop in. We are only in round four of Wimbledon. There’s still a lot of tennis left. And this is a really good time to get inundated with our tennis product. Um because and then before you know it, you will be a tennis sharp by the US Open. Um and and I I think that’s what I would recommend the most about our tennis product is that you can join and you really don’t have to know anything about tennis to win money and tennis TFS and gambling. It’s not like football where you are competing against so many people that know a lot about football and have great projections and have been watching football for dozens of years and playing football DFS for D. It’s not like that. It is a completely wide openen brand new unsaturated underdeveloped market. And that’s why we said to ourselves, let’s take advantage here. um let’s be the tennis people. Let’s be the place where if you want to win money in tennis, we are providing the best information for that. Um that has been my business model that I you know I have a lot of confidence in and has worked out quite well for us. But um I would say like you know reaches just does a really incredible job teaching like it’s a it’s a it’s a place where you can kind of come in without really too much knowledge of tennis at all and you will pick it up very very quickly. And again the reason why we’ve invested more time and energy into our tennis product is mainly two reasons. I mean, number one, like I said, no one else is doing this. There’s no competition. I mean, we we kind of feel that way in golf as well because no other place is even like attempting to talk about golf courses or break down golf courses in the way that we are at Inside Sports Network. But tennis is even tennis is even more um and and it’s such an kind of a like I said underdeveloped uh DFS product that there’s such a huge edge in this because the market for tennis is so niche that you know you can pretty much just hop in and follow somebody like Rishi who really knows what he’s doing and has won now hundreds of thousands of dollars betting and playing tennis DFS that you know it’s the type of uh contests that you can actually come in and be like, “Wow, you know, with Rishi’s information and cores, like I actually have a real chance um real chance to win here.” Uh unlike something, say football that I think is a little bit more intimidating and has like a higher barrier for entry for new players. Um and I think a lot of what we’re trying to do at ISN is we know that, you know, there’s a lot of high stakes, really sharp players in our Discord. Um, but we’re really also trying to have it be like super approachable and a place for people that are just trying to learn uh golf and tennis DFS. Um, and um, we’re going to spend a lot of time during the off season. We can’t do it right now because every week I’m so focused on putting out good content for the golf tournament that’s about to happen. But during the off season, because I am not really much of a football or a basketball player, um we will have a lot of football and basketball content from other members of our team. But for me, what I’m going to spend a lot of the off season doing is like um a lot of just general DFS strategy content um and trying to help people just become better DFS players and learn some of the big macro concepts of how I break down golf courses and handicapping and golf course architecture and stuff like that. um as oo you know there’s not going to be as tournament so I can talk about some of those higher level concepts that my hope is my goal in doing that is that a lot of new people will just get better at DFS and get excited about playing golf DFS and betting golf um if they have kind of a stronger base knowledge of how the sport totally works because once we’re in the middle of the season. I understand how it can be kind of like, you know, intimidating and difficult to just like jump right in when all I’m talking about on these podcasts are like the aronomy and strokes gained and stuff like that. And if you’re just a beginner playing DFS for the first time, it can be intimidating to jump right into such a high level of analysis. Um, I’m gonna switch things up over the fall swing and cater to I think a different type of player. Uh, but the other the other aspect why I I really think the tennis stuff is great for us is there’s no other sports going on right now. So, if you’re just looking for something to sweat, and I know I’m speaking to a bunch of degenerates out there watching this podcast, you know, you you just need something to gamble on over the next two months because there’s no football, there’s no basketball. Even golf is big time slowing down after the British Open. So, I’m telling you, after the British Open, the best thing to gamble on over the next month and a half is the tennis US Open. you know, um, and if you want to be the best prepared to win money at the Tennis US Open, then I promise you, you should join Inside Sports Network because we have the best tennis info. Rishi actually breaks things down tennis-wise the way I do with golf. And, you know, if you want to have a real chance at winning money like so many of our other members, hop in that tennis discord. It is zero more dollars to get all of our tennis stuff. We didn’t price it as an add-on. So, for $40 a month, you are essentially getting what I believe is the best and most informative golf product. Um, as well as really the only tennis product around, you can ask any of our members. You don’t have to listen to me. Um, ask pretty much anyone in our tennis discord. They will tell you themselves. Okay, last thing on is as well. One last item of business. One thing we have been discussing behind the scenes a lot is the idea of moving this Sunday golf course preview podcast to behind the payw wall. Um because you know a lot of the members feel like I might be giving too much away in this Sunday preview and there are a lot of moochers that like to listen to the Sunday preview. Figure out how the course is going to play. Use that predominant narrative in their podcasts or in their tweeting. um use that predominant narrative about how the golf course is going to play and then that affects ownership and you get so many of all of the best plays at inflated ownership. And even though all of the really good stuff is in the Discord and on the Wednesday premium show when I really solidify my opinion on the golf course and my player pool. Um, and every single week there is a ton that changes on my opinion of the players and the golf course between Monday and Wednesday once the weather updates and I see ownership and see how the industry is building this week and what other narratives pop up. But there’s still objectively a lot of great stuff on the Sunday show. So the down, you know, so again, like you can still, I think, get a lot of great stuff on this Sunday show every single week. The downside of putting um it behind the payw wall, however, is that the Sunday show is really the only way that we market the company. So I know, you know, if some people are like, “Oh, bummed out that I talk about the company a little bit on the Sunday show.” I’m sorry. It’s our It’s our entire marketing. That’s the only, you know, I don’t ask anyone else on my team to, you know, go out of their way to really market the company. We don’t do Google ads or anything. We don’t tweet a bunch of stuff. We don’t run big advertising campaigns or anything like that. The entire marketing for this for ISN and the entire way that people find out about our product is me talking about and sometimes tweeting the company for about 15 to 20 minutes sometimes on my Sunday show. That’s our entire marketing for the company and and I’m fine with that. We’ve saved a lot of money that way because it works. Um uh but you know if we were to put the Sunday podcasts behind the payw wall then we would lose pretty much our entire marketing department. How would people find out about the company? Um and that is the double-edged sword aspect of it. But I think a good solution that we have been thinking about and also something that I think a lot of listeners are going to be super excited about and hopefully appreciate for the open championship next week. This is important. We are going to put the pod behind the payw wall, but it’s going to be free to sign up uh for a week. Okay? So, if you want to listen to the pod next week, as well as Hold the Green with Stephven Kapper’s breakdown of Royal Port Rush, which I’m not going to sit here and tell you to listen to like hours of all of our ISN content, but if you do have the time, I couldn’t recommend Stephen Kapper on Hold the Green any higher. I mean, obviously, because I hired them and gave them both ownership in my company, I believe deeply in what they provide as well. Um, and so if I’m going behind the payw wall, they’re going behind the payw wall as well. Um, but we are making the week free. So, you know, you have to sign up for ISN for a week if you want. Uh, but we’re giving you a promo code where it’s free, so you don’t pay any money. Um, so not only for free will you get all of the podcasts, but you also get my ownership for next week. That’s huge for a major championship. Plus my 30,000word plus article on Royal Port Rush. My core and my player pool. By the way, this week at the John Deere, probably one of my best player pools of the season entering today. I’m leading a big contest by 10 points. Um, actually not really that much. I mean, the contest, we’ll talk about it later in in the pod, but hopefully I can get that first GPP win of the season um this week. and access to the Wednesday premium show also for free. Um, which in my humble opinion is the best DFS show that does the best job of really actually talking about and breaking down the weather, the golf course, the ownership building strategy. And the reason why I think that DFS show is so amazing is because you get the three of us. And between Rishi, Kyle, and I, I can tell you right now, say it with my full chest, every single week between the three of us, you’re going to get the nuts. It it sometimes it may, you know, we switch up. Like for example, I had a terrible week at the Rocket and Kyle is out there, you know, hitting Potguer, first round leader, 3X in DFS, Potguer, um, uh, win outright, and he had Graser men, too. And then Rishi casually finishes second in a big contest and wins $50,000 this week. I don’t know how Kyle and Rishi are doing in DFS. Um, I think they’re doing okay. maybe not as well as me, but I say to them, “Okay, you guys picked up the slack for me last week. It’s my turn now, and I have now my best player, one of my best player pools of the season.” So, you know, between the three of us, you’re just always going to get some really, really great stuff. Um, and uh, you know, we actually just we we really try and do a a good job of of putting you in the best position to win and covering every base. So that means spending time on weather, spending time on ownership, spending time on building strategy, actually answering questions to people with trying to give like it really informed answers and giving people the time of day. Um, so anyway, point being, if you sign up for ISN next week, you’re getting a ton of amazing content for the British Open. The only thing that you won’t be able to do is message in the Discord. And we are doing that for one very obvious main reason, and that is to protect our monthly and yearly members that talk golf in our Discord every single week. Um, and frankly we are going to do that going forward where there’s no longer I mean it’s getting too big where there’s no longer if you’re signing up for the weekly at ISN. No, we’re we’re that’s going to be a separate category in our Discord where you can’t message in the Discord if you’re only on a weekly subscription. You can still observe in the Discord and see everything. But the reason why we’re do and and and you know the real reason why we’re doing is that the real conversation um once you start to get bigger and stuff, I really want to make an effort to prioritize the people that have supported us for day one and are willing to give a longer commitment to us, whether that’s a month or a year or whatever, at least a month. I think the people that should have the ability to control the conversation in the discord, I want to prioritize the people that are really true to isn and and have been supporting us from day one and are willing to, you know, give us a longer commitment than just a weekly subscription. Um because once you get to a certain uh amount of members, I don’t want for the open championship week next week, all these people join for the free week for the open championship and start clogging up the discord with all of their questions and comments and opinions and then the regular members that have been here, you know, messaging in the Discord and we all at isn have a real relationship to and talk golf with every week. Them being like, “What the [ __ ] I can’t even get my messages out because there are a bunch of new people in there just spewing all of their shit.” Don’t worry about that. Regular ISN members, anybody who joins for the week at the open championship, if they want to message in the Discord, they’re going to have to sign up for a longer commitment like you guys did. With that being said, if you want to sign up for the week, you’re not going to be able to message in the Discord. But if you wanna uh ask me a question or ask anyone else on our team a question, you can still DM us and guess what? We’ll answer it. Um uh I’m very busy for the next two weeks with Open Championship. But if you sign up and ask me a question, we’ll answer it. Or you can always join us on one of the live shows in the chat. Ask the question in the chat and we’ll cover it on the show. Uh I think that’s it. Um, I think that’s it. So hopefully I mean um the hope is you see how good the content is behind the payw wall and you see how fun our Discord channel is and you say to yourself, “Okay, I got a taste of what it is like and how essential this tool is to have. If I’m playing golf DFS, I want to be part of this community. I want to post in the Discord and sweat with these guys and ask questions and make fun of dumb golfers and irrationally overreact to every golf shot. I’m going to make a longer commitment to these guys. Or not. You could also literally just get all of our content for the Open Championship for free uh and then cancel your membership before the weekends and you’re not going to be charged a single thing. Um we of course hope you won’t do that. Uh but we know that some people will no matter what even if we absolutely murder the content and get absolutely every take correct um and have just insane call after insane call. People will still just never want to give a longer term commitment and pay. And that’s totally fine with us too. That’s still why we will always have a plethora of free stuff. Um, and if you want to just watch the free stuff, hopefully you appreciate that we always have a commitment to having at least some modicum of free content. I personally think that the stuff that we put out for free is, you know, still really good. Um, as well, and I don’t say this a lot enough, but it always means a lot to us if you can shoot us a thumbs up on this video if the stuff that I’m about to tell you on the Scottish Open is helpful. Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Retweet the podcast if you are on Twitter or leave a comment. That stuff matters more than you know. In fact, um comment on this YouTube video. Who um let’s do winner of the Scottish Open. Okay, I don’t even need winning score because we’re going to learn about the weather. But just comment your winner of the Scottish Open and I will go back on this Sunday pod next week and um anybody who got the winner correctly. Um I’ll give you something. I’m trying to think what people might want. I’ll give a um a gift card a gift card for anybody that gets the winner right. I’ll give a uh gift card to our ISN store um for like $50 at least. Um okay. Uh so winner comment the winner of the Scottish Open uh on this YouTube video. Okay. Finally, John Deere. I’m going to talk about more on Monday, but I’ve got it covered this week, guys. I had a really poor half-ass week for the Rocket Mortgage where I was on a golf trip till Tuesday night. I didn’t really do any of my regular weekly research and I put together like a halfass pool and betting card and I got crushed. It was my worst week of the season. So, I came back this week and I said, “Well, I had one of my best weeks of the season at the Travelers. I almost gave all of it back at the Rocket. I want to get through this three tournament stretch of Bent Grass Birdie Fest season with a big W. So, I have to have a good week at the John Deere.” So, I really walked in and grinded and what do you know? 60% of my pool right now currently sits in the top 30 of the golf tournament. As soon as Ben Griffin missed that cut, we you know, we warned you about the Ben Griffin thing that this guy was like getting the Scotty treatment on ownership and you cannot play Ben Griffin at 35% repeat after me. You have got to take your projection goggles off and realize that if you Well, listen, I’m not there’s many people that play very differently and win at DFS. So, I’m not going to put a blanket statement on that, but in my opinion of the best way to win at PGA, DFS, you cannot ever be playing Ben Griffin at 35%. Never. No, no, no. or JT Poston or Jason Day at over $10,000. I think all three guys in the 10K range missed the cut and I went insanely heavy on Denny McCarthy, Davis Thompson, who hopefully wins for me. Chris Got up and Lucas Glover and then of course we did well at the bottom with Nate Lashley being our six big sixk sleeper. A [ __ ] ton of Kirk Kittyama. Shout out Ragger at the Kittyama place. Our members know what I’m talking about there with that little bit. Rico Hoey, Doug Gim, Kevin Roy, Eric Cole. Put it this way. Anytime you see Kurt Kittyama, Rico Hoey, and Doug Gim having a good week, you can pretty much know that I’m having a great week. Although those guys are still [ __ ] hilarious to me. They’re such idiots. And and and particularly Rico Hoey and Doug Gim. I don’t know if those guys will ever win a golf tournament despite being one of the best flushers on the PG. Like you don’t understand, I track Doug Gim and Rico Hoey every week. And this is an easy thing that you’ll miss if you’re not paying attention to those losers. They hit so many iron shots that like do not leave the pen and just like are just straight dead at the pen and they stop at six or seven feet and they miss putt. Rico Hoey is the worst. I mean literally statistically he ranks 145th out of 148 players in putting from 5 to 15 feet. He misses so many 5 to8footers. So many five to eight footers. And same thing with Doug Gim who I have at 100 to one this week. The same thing happened at the Honda Classic is sometimes maybe two or three times a year and he’s been a bat for me every so I I have like the best Doug Gim radar. I just know that two or three times a Well, listen, I play him a lot no matter what, but you can count on Doug Gim two or three times a year he is just going to flush like crazy. And he’s, you know, he was in first place of this tournament. He had a bad round on Saturday, but he was in first place at the [ __ ] John Deere a putting contest, losing strokes putting, okay? And obviously over time, over the course of the tournament, if you can’t make a putt at the [ __ ] John Deere Classic, that’s going to catch up with you, Doug Gim. But Doug Gim’s ball striking in round one where he gained over five strokes on approach. One of the best approach rounds I’ve seen in a long time since Doug Gim did the exact same thing at the Honda Classic. So anyway, you know, it’s a great week for my guys. I made a huge mistake though. Usually what I play in DFS for a normal week is I usually do the $100 single entry, the $10 18 max. I love that contest. I will always ride for the $10 18 max. Although I wish they just made it a 20 max like because that’s the perfect contest that I’m looking for where you know the investment and entry fee is around $200 and you get to build 20 lineups. Anyway, I love that contest. I’ll play in the $33 single entry, the $320 max. I usually invest around $350 in entry fees in DFSU. Some people will say that’s really Well, I have a take on unit shaming. I have a take on um on that stuff. I I may not do it in this podcast because let’s get to the genesis and stuff. But anyway, point being, um, you know, I usually invest around between $250 to $400, $500 for the majors in DFS every week, plus about $1,000 in betting every week. Um, uh, sometimes less in DFS actually, where sometimes instead of playing like the $10, 18 max, I’ll just throw 20 handbuilt lineups in the big $5 if the accounts a little bit lower on DraftKings. Um and and anyway, for these bankrass birdie fests where I actually feel like I have a little bit less of an edge this week because it’s harder predict strokes game putting on this golf course. But like for this week instead of playing in the regular $18 20 max um or or the $10 18 max or you know the $320 max. I played in the $420 max, which I kind of said to myself, “Okay, good. I want a little bit of a bigger investment, but I kind of mindlessly just clicked on this new contest because usually there isn’t a $420 max.” Usually, it’s just the $3 20 max because I always look at things that are 20 max because I like to hand build about 20 lineups. Um, and so I’m always searching for contests that I could kind of max out and get the most bang for my buck with the talent that I have of making 20 handbuilt lineups. Because, as you know, if you put 20 handbuilt lineups in the big $5, you’re competing against guys that have 150 lineups. And so my win equity with those 20 hand belt lineups is not going to be as much if I put them in the big $5 compared to if I put them in a 20 max and I’m competing against guys that can only make the same amount of lineups as me. Um but so anyway, I put these lineups in the $4 20 max. Um and uh it’s a much smaller uh prize pool. There’s only about 2,200 lineups in that contest where if you come in first place against 2,200 lineups, it’s a good job. You know, it’s a good lineup. Like I, you know, I I uh um it’s a contest win. It’s kind of a mini barely a GPP. Um but it’s a contest win. I’ll say this, if the lineup was in the $320 max with, you know, a h 100,000 entries, it’d be winning that, too. Um it’d be winning the $100 single entry by 30 points. Um I don’t know how it would be doing in the $5. But anyway, um you know, if I run away with this contest and win this contest or even finish second or third, like run walk away with uh like 600 bucks, 400 bucks um for second or third place. Um and when you have the nuts like this, you know, it’s not going to happen every week. like you’re going to have a, you know, you look to have a player pull this good a couple times a season and you really have to cash in on it, you know, and win thousand, you know, you want to win a contest or come in top five or 10 in a contest because a lot of weeks in in DFS, you’re kind of the game is just set up for you to lose. So, I think a mindful and very self-aware DFS player, and you know, we were talking about this in the Discord earlier this weekend with Rick, who’s like a great highstakes DFS player. Um he’s an awesome member of our discord and um you know he was talking about he has played DFS 24 weeks this season and he has only been profitable in seven out of the 24 weeks. So 17 out of the 24 weeks he’s he’s lost his money and but you know he has two contest wins and he’s having one of the best DFS seasons he’s ever had. And so I think that should kind of be a lesson for your expectations in DFS is that what you’re really looking for is that even the best DFS players in the world are going to lose a lot more weeks that they’re going to win. What DFS is really all about is when you have those good weeks, maximizing the most that you can get out of those good weeks because they’re only going to come a couple times a season. even if you’re a really really good DFS player. And let me tell you, I do not think that I did the best job of maximizing um maximizing a week where I totally had the nuts. Um, but the last thing I’ll say on this and then trust me, we’ll get to the Scottish Open is so sometimes I’ll get uh not really crit I mean not really it’s not it’s not really criticism or or seriously but like um I I to answer the question of why I don’t invest more money in DFS every week when I realistic ically could um what I try and do my my philosophy for this and this is just what works for me not financial advice anyone’s welcome to do whatever they want but how I look at golf betting and DFS because it’s my job to teach and create content around um golf betting and golf DFS what I love what I’m passionate about is teaching ing other people and talking about golf courses and breaking down slates and the and creating content around it and talking to people and and um and you know again like breaking down golf courses and and analyzing golf courses and analyzing players and picking players. Um, if I wanted to like be a professional DFS player and not give any of my information away, that’s a different route that I could go down. But the route that I specifically chose of wanting to go down is, you know, creating content around PGA DFS slates and creating content around breaking down golf courses. So for PGA DFS, the DFS that I actually play, I try and put myself because it’s not a big part of my life really in terms of like the things that I care about. I care so much more about the company doing well and people in the company making money than I do personally. And what I try and do every week is I say to myself, okay, if everything goes wrong, if I lose everything, what is the amount? And this is a good example of this because this happened at the rocket mortgage where I basically like profited barely any money, 50 bucks or something like that. Um, I try and figure out what is the number where if I lost everything on a given week, it would not affect my mood one bit. It would not affect how I go about my day. It would not make me grumpy and have me take it out on my girlfriend. It would not make me be upset or angry or uh, you know, what’s that number? And for me, it’s about $1,500. So, you know, if I lost $1,500 in a week, um, I don’t care at all. Like, it doesn’t affect anything about me. But if I was to invest more, it would probably start getting to the point where if I lost all of my money in that week, I’d be upset. I’d be upset, right? Um, and does that lower my upside, right? Does it put me in a position where on the good weeks maybe I’m winning a couple thousand dollars as opposed to the payoff if I have a really good week winning tens of thousands of dollars? Yes, for sure. But again, I’m not trying to have my entire have any of my income really be being a gambler or a DFS player. What I’m trying to make money off of is the company. um and having other people do join the company and do well in betting in DFS. And so, you know, I definitely see people get angry really really angry in in uh PG DFS, you know, and and that’s totally fine. Um but I just put myself because I’m not a big tilter, you know, I just don’t get angry. And a lot of the reason why I don’t get angry is because I’m not investing a lot of money. And if you’re investing a lot of money, I totally get it why you would tilt. I would tilt really hard too if the stakes were higher for me. But the reason why I keep the stakes a little bit lower for me is just because I don’t want to put myself in a position where if things go wrong, it really affects my mood. Because I’ve seen, you know, if people lose a lot of money, they get really angry and upset and it can affect their mood. Um, and it could make them, you know, struggle and bleed into other aspects of their life. And I I I I don’t want to put myself in in that position where if I if things went horribly wrong and I started losing and went on a losing streak and golf’s a really volatile sport that could happen, you know, where you have a stretch where it, you know, the board feels like it’s in Latin because it’s now things are coming very clearly to me. But I I had stretches even this year a couple months ago where I had two or three weeks in a row where, you know, I lost most of my money and it, you know, it felt it felt bad, but financially for me, it was never um it never affected my my uh my day-to-day the money that I was losing is is not enough for me ever to it affect um my ability to do the things that I love, which is, you know, spending time with my girlfriend, traveling with my girlfriend, and traveling to play great golf courses, um, with my best golf buddies. And I always try and put myself in a position with gambling and DFS where if I go through a cold stretch or if things go horribly wrong, it has no other impact on the rest of my life. So, uh, and you know, I think that’s like a good barometer maybe to get the most enjoyment out of PGA DFS, but that’s just what, uh, what works for me. Um, uh, okay, let’s talk about the Scottish Open. So, you know, um we’re going across the pond and um this is the only co-sanctioned event between the PGA and DP World Tour. Um so, you’re going to get some DP World Tour players in there. Let me just say, I’m so fired up for this. I know we’ve the first 40 minutes of this pod was like all this other housekeeping stuff, but the content this week for the Scottish Open is going to be amazing. Um, and I’m going to use the last 20 minutes to um give you a bunch of stuff on this golf course and some early leans of the players that I really like. But um you know this is the uh the one golf tournament that they have before the open championship next week and um Steve Bamford will come on the podcast and we’ll do our regular Royal Port Rush big deep dive on Friday morning. Um and the Scottish Open has an amazing field this year. Scotty Sheffller is playing. Rory Moy is playing. Col Morawa’s in the field. Tommy Fleetwood, of course, who has been tremendous at the Renaissance Club, is playing uh Justin Thomas. Levig Ober, who I really like this week as kind of I don’t know if he’s forgotten a lead, but Levig Ober, Xander Schoffley, Victor Havland, um Sam Burns, who’s playing some great golf. It’s just a great field. Robert McIntyre, my guy, my I Bobby Mack is like slowly becoming my favorite. if he won the US Open, my oh my, that would have been really cool. Um, but uh, you know, so Robert McIntyre one year at 18 underpar. Rory the year before won at 15 underpar over Bob McIntyre. Xander won at 7 underpar in 2022 over my guy Kurt Kittyama. And uh then those were the three years where it was a PGA Tour and DP World Tour co-sanctioned event. So those were the three years. These last three years are the years that we have a lot more data on and where PGA Tour players were playing in the field as well. Prior to that, this was an event on the DP World Tour as well, which Min Woo Lee won in 2021, Aaron Ry won in 2020, and Bert Weisberger won in 2019. But the vast majority, just because we have a lot more data on these last three years, the context that I’m going to talk about the golf course in is generally with the data of the last three years. And what’s interesting about the data from the last three years is that you do have a pretty wide scoring spectrum. And so I’m going to say this once for the people in the back and you know again um this is going to be applicable for Royal Port Rush next week as well. These two weeks I’m sorry but you have to pay attention to the weather. Okay? you know, if the weather switches and you get screwed by the weather, of course that’s going to happen sometimes. But if you want to really do your best job handicapping these events, you can’t just say, “Oh, I’m betting futures and picking these players and if I get screwed by the weather, then it’s not my fault.” Yes, it is your fault. You’re competing against people like at ISN. We are going to pay attention to the weather and make our decisions about how the golf course is going to play based on the weather. And this week is a golf course where you are never going to see more scoring variance on a course in America based on wind. I mean, the difference between the scoring average in the Robert McIntyre year last year when it was pretty calm and not that Wendy and the Xander year in 2022 where it was brutal over the weekend is three strokes per round. Three strokes per round is huge. That changes like the player profile that you’re looking for. A lot of the times on these PGA Tour golf courses, if you get some wind, if you don’t get some wind, the difference in scoring average is a half a stroke, a quarter of a stroke. It doesn’t change the player profile that you’re looking for. If this golf course is calm and has no wind versus if this golf course is brutal and it’s gusting like crazy, that changes like the player the skill profile that changes the percentage of the strokes gained pie. So, let me talk about what the weather’s going to be this week and how we break down the golf course if it’s windy versus if it’s um versus if it’s calm because it’s it, you know, it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a different golf course when it’s windy versus when it’s calm. And again, the scoring profile is going to change. Just a couple loose ends to tie up. Designed. It’s in North Barrack, Scotland. designed by Tom Do in 2008. Par 70, 7,293 yards. It doesn’t always play that way. Um, fairways, fescue grass, rough fescue grass, green fescue grass, and just actually I’m going to take a quick break and then we’re going to dive right into the golf course. So, this is a modern Tom Doed golf course in 2008. And this golf course, I’ve never played it before, but in the architecture community, it actually takes a lot of heat despite the fact that Tom Do is widely recognized as a genius in the golf course architecture community. And you know, just along with Bill Core and Ben Crunchaw, Gil Hans, the best modern architect doing it. I mean post golden age, Tom Do I would say is the preeminent like uh master of golf course architecture in the post golden age era and his writing on golf course architecture is the most important and influential um golf course writing um and golf course design in the world. Um, so I can’t say enough good things about Tom Do in terms of his mind and his impact on the architecture community and his golf courses as well. I’ve never there’s certain people that don’t like Tom Do golf courses because they can be too hard and kind of quirky and difficult around the greens. And um I’m not one of those people. That’s never been my experience with Tom Doe golf courses. I I absolutely love every Tom Do golf course that I’ve played and and most of his redesigns as well. Um, but this golf course in terms of Tom Do’s resume is not considered one of his finest golf courses. Um, I still think there’s cool elements of it and if I went to Scotland, I would 100% prioritize going to see it, but you know, it doesn’t have the charm of a North Barrack or Mirfield, which, you know, it gets compared to geographically because it’s very close to North Barrack and Mirfield. A golf course designed in 2008 is never going to be able to replicate the charm of, you know, golf courses like Mirfield and North Barrack, which are considered two of the most beloved golf courses on the planet. But, um, any dope golf course in my opinion, and you will see in the putting numbers, because you know, this is, um, a lot of the similarities in my breakdown of Renaissance Club, you’re going to hear me say the same. you you would have heard me say the same thing about Memorial Park. Um, and this is why I believe that any dope golf course is better than 90% of the golf courses that we see week to week on the PGA Tour. Um, and this statistically has been the hardest golf course. You know, it’s been in the top 10 kind of averaged around the toughest golf course to gain strokes putting on on the PGA Tour um over the last three years. And that is really generally because a couple of factors. First of all, it’s really tough to putt in the wind. Everybody talks about how ball striking gets affected in the wind. And of course, ball striking gets tremendously affected in the wind. But putting gets a lot harder in the wind as well. Like if you’ve ever played golf overseas, there’s nothing more difficult than, you know, trying to make a 5 to 10footer when the wind is blowing like crazy and you’re kind of on a slower, bumpier green where it’s not like a true back grass green where you know, you kind of just hit your line and the ball’s going to run true. You know, it’s more like putting on Panua. you you sometimes for a 5-footer, you’re going to have to step up there and make a confident stroke because the greens are a little bit slower. And so the combination of the fact that Tom Dope just designs golf courses with a lot of internal contouring um and a lot of um just really interesting slopes and breaks and attention to detail on his greens combined with the fact that these greens are slower and bumpier and and you’re going to have to deal with some wind. It’s like you know the toughest one of the toughest putting courses that you’re going to see on the PGA Tour. that has been impact that’s played a big impact on on strokes gained over the last three years. I think people are going to look at the data. If you are a data nerd, you’re going to look at the data and be like this is one of the biggest putting contests on the PGA Tour. Putting has played such a massive role out of the strokes gamepie. And I would say yes, that’s true. And putting is very important this week, especially if you get calmer conditions. But I would say be careful with just labeling this as a big-time putting contest. Despite the data showing that over the last three years, you really need at least a 5 to 10 year sample size to get a great picture of how the golf course is going to um have a relationship with strokes gained. And so I would think over the next couple of years that we see the Renaissance Club, the percentage of the strokes gained pie that is putting will slightly go down whether it’s windy or it’s not. It’s just we’ve had only three years of this full data and it’s happened to produce like just big time putters have gone out there and separated. Um, and I I I I don’t think if we look at this golf course 5 to 10 years from now, it’s going to be quite that putting dependent. Um, so again, putting is a big big aspect of this golf course, but not quite the way in my opinion that the data would frame it, at least over um over the last three years. And a little bit more about the golf course. the the the site was an old pine forest. And I think that’s why some people may look at it as a a little bit manufactured and contrived. It doesn’t feel natural the way some of the greatest lynx golf courses do. Like I imagine I’ve never played golf in Scotland, so I’m going off of what people have told me, but one of the things that people tell me about some of the great golf courses in Scotland is they feel so natural to the land, right? where you just feel like uh the architect at the time, which is true, you know, an old Tom Morris or or a Harry Colt or whatever, they didn’t have um the tools that Tom Do had in 2008 to build a golf course and move a whole bunch of earth. So at a golf course like Mirfield or North Bareric, you get that incredibly natural feel where the golf course feels like it fits the land perfectly and the greens and the bunkers are kind of perfectly molded into the land. Whereas the Renaissance Club, it feels like a lot of dirt was moved to create this golf course. And it’s interesting. It’s an interesting dichconomy because Tom Do is a very minimalist designer, but based on this site, it it he had to move dirt to really make it a golf course. So, it is one of his more manufactured and unnatural golf courses, but I don’t think that’s a a fault of Tom Do a great golf course with a bunch of great pop bunkers and a bunch of humps and hollows based on the site. You know, he had to use modern technology to do that. And what he produced was a 7,300 yard course, but it typically gets set up differently from day to day. So, I would not get overly wrapped up with specific yardages, but it’s got five par threes and three par fives. Two of the par threes are quite short, 147 yards and 161 yards, while the other three all measure over 200 yards. So, you know, and depending on the wind, all three of the par five should be reachable. None of them are short, but none of them are two true three shot holes unless played straight into the wind. Seven of the par4s measure over 445 yards, which is a fairly large number. Um, it’s kind it’s a long golf course. Like, if if all conditions are equal and you get no wind, guys are going to score easily, like it it’s it’s very similar to Memorial Park, right? where the golf course is meant to be played firm and fast and you’re going to get the best version and the true realization of how great Tom Do’s greens are if the golf course plays firm and fast. But if the golf course doesn’t play firm and fast, then what happens on Tom Do courses are driver putter. And that’s exactly what you saw at the Houston Open this year. And that is somewhat what you’ve seen at the Renaissance Club last year when it played easier. The year that Bob McIntyre won, um the golf course played 1.3 strokes under par. He won at 18 under par. So not a true birdief fest. Um, but you know, it is a it it the it’s a driver at that tom do golf courses. Um, when they’re not super super firm and fast, driver putter, it’s power putter. And I’ll talk about um I’ll talk about the weather this week and why the weather of course is so important this week is because the nature of the golf course and the required skill set that we really want changes based on how windy and difficult it is. And when the golf course is easy like last year and I’m looking at the weather for this week and it looks pretty easy again. Like if you if you uh look at uh the windfinder forecast for North Barrack where the golf course is, you’re not getting much rain. So it is at least going to be firm and fast. But Thursday going to be kind of a tougher day. You know, the scoring average should be around even par on Thursday when you have wind gusts around 20 miles per hour. But Friday, the maximum wind gust you’re going to get is 9 mph. It’s completely calm. So Friday should be a day where they go out and the scoring average is minus 1.75 or two strokes under par. And then the same deal Saturday and Sunday, barely any wind. So Thursday is the day that as of right now in North Barrack, a lot can change. And that’s why, you know, hopefully you join the Discord so you get day-to-day updates on the weather. But looking at it right now, I think it’s going to be quite easy. I think the scoring average is going to be around what we saw last year, maybe a little bit even easier than last year. That could change in a second, so don’t hold me to that. I’m recording this at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, okay? and and I could look at the weather in Scotland and and it it could change. That’s what I’m saying. You got to be with us on Wednesday night for these next two weeks. Um how I feel about the golf course, my breakdowns, um my pool could change dramatically over the next three days. But as we sit here on Sunday morning, I think that it’s going to be easy. I just think you have one hard day. So, don’t freak out if the scores are high on Thursday. But the way that I’m looking at it, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, there’s barely any wind. We are talking maximum wind gusts of like 12 miles hour. Barely any wind. And so, as it sits here on Sunday morning, my scoring average prediction would be at least to what Bobby Mack got to, which is 18 under par. I’m going to say I mean the the lowest that min the lowest um scoring average that we’ve ever had on this golf course is 18 under par which was a Minwe playoff with Thomas Dietri and Matt Fitzpatrick. I’m going to say just because the golf course plays firm and fast. Um, and you know, even in calm conditions, this is not a golf course that I think would get completely torn to shreds just because Tom Do’s architecture is so interesting and difficult around the greens. And even though there’s not much of a missed fairway penalty here and you can still kind of bomb away and putt it, the golf course is long. It’s a long iron intensive golf course. The proximity buckets that you want to be looking at this week, and my whole model is up on batsgolf.com. But the proximity buckets that you want to be looking at this week are 175 to 200, you know, 200 yards plus is accounting for around 57 60% of approach shots. So, I’m going to say as it stands now, scoring average of minus 1.5 and winner at 19 underpar u or excuse me, I’m going to say winner at 20 underpar because actually the lowest that they’ve ever got to, I’m mistaken. I wasn’t looking at 2019 when Burnt Weberger won at 22 underpar in a playoff over Benjamin Abear. When you get no conditions and it’s completely calm, guys can get to 22 under par on this golf course. And I’m going to say if all four days were no wind, then I would predict the winning score 22 under par. Thursday is still going to be difficult. So I’m going to say 20 under par because of the difficulty of Thursday. But the way that I’m looking at this golf course um is it is a driver putter golf course that is going to break down in these conditions very much like a Scottish aesthetic version of Memorial Park. Okay? Like you look at Memorial Park and that is Tom Do’s augustified um you know golf course and this is Tom Do’s Lynxy golf course but the questions being asked are very much the same. Okay, between Memorial Park and the Renaissance Club under these conditions. Obviously, it’s different if you get a ton of crazy wind. That changes a lot of stuff and fairways become impossible to hit and then that changes the way that you want to look about drive look at driving. But under these conditions, the rough penalty is relatively low. Um, and there is a bit of a luck component with the driving here where you really just need to stay out of the pot bunkers. Um, but it’s a distance over accuracy golf course when thei when the conditions are like this. This is a driverheavy golf course where you can kind of bomb away with reckless abandon. And the way that I would recommend playing this golf course strategically if I was, you know, if I was advising a PGA Tour player is I would say, listen, if you try and like perfectly avoid the pot bunkers, I don’t think that’s a recipe for success here. I think you can gain a real advantage by hitting the ball long on this golf course because, you know, you’re going to get a lot of run out and it’s a long enough golf course where, you know, if you can if you can um if you can take advantage and be able to reach these parfives in two strokes, then, you know, you’re going to have a real leg up on the field. And you know, if you get if you drive it into a pot bunker or you get a terrible lie in the rough, that’s just rub of the green. That’s just Lynx golf. And that’s going to happen to some players on this golf course, which may make predicting strokes gained off the tea at this golf course a little bit more difficult and unpredictable. But I’m favoring distance over accuracy here. Although it is a golf like it is the type of golf course as well where if you are insanely accurate and I talked about this, it happens every year at Memorial Park and Oakmont was another good example of this where even on a distance biased golf course, there’s still about three players on the PGA Tour that are so freaking accurate. that they can even show up to driver heavy distancebased golf courses and gain significantly off the te with their accuracy. If you’re a longtime listener to this podcast, you probably know the three guys I’m talking about already. But it’s Colin Morawa, it’s Aaron Ry, it’s Cory Connors. I’d also throw Russell Henley into that bucket as well, but he’s not in the field this week. And unsurprisingly, Colin Marcawa, Corey Connors, and Aaron Ry have all had success at the Scottish Open before. So if you are an ins I’m still just for the broader field I’m still taking distance over accuracy but there are a couple guys where you know they are so freaking accurate um that they’re totally viable to win this event. Um but uh you know again 70% greens in regulation percentage when it’s easier and last year and I think it is even going to play easier than last year. It was the 14th easiest course on the PGA Tour and strokes gain putting and strokes gain off the tea were the only positive correlations. And that leaderboard last year under easy conditions was a lot of driver putter. Bob Mack ultimate driver putter guy although he’s a phenomenal long iron player as well. And long iron play is important this week. Adam Scott, this current version of Adam Scott, big driver putter guy. What do you know? A little uh a little Oakmont correlation as well. Another golf course that I talked about in a lot of ways is like a big a big driver. And and the reason why I don’t think Oakmont is a perfect comp, but the reason why you could somewhat maybe see a similar weerboard or the same guys playing well at Oakmont as you do at a golf course like the Renaissance Club is because it’s super driver heavy and the putting is so hard. Like the putting at Oakmont is so freaking difficult and impossible that you are going to see on that leaderboard both at the Renaissance Club and at Oakmont a lot of guys that murder the ball off the tea like Bob Mack and Adam Scott still has a ton of distance and are great putters and can navigate really tricky difficult greens. That’s Bob Mack and Adam Scott. You know who else it is? Windham Clark who’s played great here. Big driver putter guy. Sunjm this version of Sunjm huge driver putter guy where you know he’s super accurate off the tea as well. He’s not quite as accurate as Morocawa Ry um Morokawa Ry or Connors but he is quite accurate as well. Levig, Sahith, Dagala. Um, and then you still do have the traditional like hyper accurate off the tea and good iron players like Morocawa and Aaron Ry when the golf course has been more difficult in the past and again I will just say as a misnomer. If you start to look at the weather forecast and you start to see crazy wind and the conditions are changing and and it’s not going to be 20 underpar and you’re not going to get a greens and regulation percentage at 70% then obviously the breakdown of the golf course changes and the types of players that you want to be looking for is going to change. it’s going to place more of an emphasis on total driving and accuracy as opposed to just pure distance. Um, it’s going to place take a little bit off of just pure putting with a lower greens and regulation percentage and you’re going to have to look at guys that are better scramblers um and a little bit more around the green. Uh, but the way that it stands now with these conditions I am looking for this week, the three main things, if I’m going to dumb this down to a very elementary level, I’m actually going to say there are four things that are really important this week. And then we’ll get out of here with our early leans. Power off the tea. Very important in these conditions. You can gain a reel. You don’t have to be, but you can gain because you know it’s like if you’re short and inaccurate, you you’re not going to get totally screwed on this golf course with the missed fairway penalty, but you can gain a real edge from being long. putting. Okay. And there are a lot of ways that I would measure putting this week. Okay. The and my model is posted to Batsburgs Golf so you can you can see it and use it. But like you want to look at guys who’ve puted well in the UK and Ireland in the past. Okay. So we do have some data at some of these open championships and Scottish Opens where you can identify who are the guys that have putted well on these slow bumpy greens across the pond. I’ll give them to you right now on the podcast. These are the best. These guys over the last couple of years have been the best putters. And again, it’s like a 20 round sample size, so you’re not going to get a crazy amount here. But the guys that have putted the best, minimum four rounds on um you know, these slow bumpy greens across the pond. It’s interesting. It’s like a lot of these names putt amazingly well on the east co or in America as well because you know when you get to Scotland it’s like you have to put a bigger stroke on the ball sometimes. So yeah, there’s going to be some random guys that just randomly putt better across the pond on slower greens. But like if you’re a good really good putter and have a really good stroke in America, I mean that should translate generally to being a good putter across the pond as well. Max Graserman, Sam Burns, Harry Hall, Jacob Bergman, Denny McCarthy, those are the top five putters in UK and Ireland. Um, at least over a four round sample size before at an Open Championship the Renaissance Club. And guess what? If you were telling me to give you the five best putters on the PGA Tour, I would probably say Graserman, Burns, Harry Hall, Bridgemond, Denny McCarthy. So sometimes the data actually does make sense. But like for example, Corey Connors has putted really well across the pond. And Cory Connor is actually an underrated putter just in general, but he’s Cory Connor has putted well on these greens before um in the past, ironically enough. So anyway, um I would look at how players have putted in UK, Ireland, even though it’s a small sample size. I would look at how guys have putted on difficult greens. Like how do guys putt on greens that are just really hard to gain strokes putting on? And they may be for different reasons. It may be because they’re super fast or it may be because they’re bumpy pelanua, but this is just a go. It’s the number one golf course in terms of difficulty of putting inside 5 feet. And so I just want to identify guys that on really tough pana greens um can still gain a bunch of strokes with the putter. I’ll give you those guys as well. These have been the best These are the best guys um putting on difficult greens. Oh, actually I apologize guys. I made a mistake. The guys that I just gave you for UK and Ireland, that’s this category. That’s difficult greens. So you know those guys, Graserman, Burns, Hall, Bridgemond, Denny McCarthy, those are the guys that have been best. anytime you go to like golf courses where it’s difficult to gain strokes putting like you know a good example of this is uh a lot of the West Coast golf courses the putters that have actually been the best across the pond again over a limited sample size you’re going to get some overlap Sam Burns Matt Fitzpatrick who I think may win the golf tournament Harris English Adam Scott Tom Kim Brian Harmon, McKenzie Hughes, Harry Hall. So again, a lot of overlap, but guys like Matt Fitzpatrick and Brian Harmon, part of the reason why they play well at the Scottish Open and in the UK I because they’re, you know, great putters. They great putters on these slow bumpy greens. Um so putting um power off the tea, long iron play like proximity 175 yards plus and then obviously you know the most experience that you can get being comfortable playing across the pond. So, in terms of comp courses this week, the comps that you really want to look at are um just for American golf courses, just Memorial Park really. I mean, you Memorial Park is the one architecture- wise that’s going to have the most in common with the Renaissance Club in terms of the architecture and and the required skill set. And then the the other golf carts that you want to look at, and not because every um open championship venue is anywhere remotely like this in terms of required skill set, um a lot of open championship venues, although I think St. Andrews is a decent comp because that’s really driver putter, but a lot of open championship venues aren’t um driver putter golf courses. But just getting that comfortability across the pond um you know with these playing conditions in the wind, you want to find guys that have that have been great at open championships. So anyway, to finish it off, I will give you uh my model. Um the top 20 guys. Here we go. Okay, number one, Scotty Sheffller. And I just want to say one thing about Scotty Sheffler as it pertains to these next two weeks. I because I dove into this a little bit. I I think that um the narrative that Scotty Sheffller has a lot to prove and is a bad player across the pond um is a little bit overrated. Okay. Um if you are comparing Scotty Sheffller to, you know, if you’re comparing Scottish Sheffller’s performance in the Open Championship compared to his performance at the Masters. Yeah. Okay. of course, um he’s doesn’t, you know, he hasn’t had the success that he has at the Masters, nor now at the PGA Championship or US Open either, but um Scotty Sheffller’s played in four open championships and he has uh an eighth, a 21st, a 23rd, and a seventh. Um, he’s actually hit the ball insanely well across the pond. Scotty Shuffler’s ball striking at Trun last year was insane. He just didn’t make any putts. Scotty Shuffler’s ball striking at St. Andrews, insane. He just didn’t make any putts. Okay. So, I think like there’s not some type of thing that is like preventing Scotty Sheffler from being able to have success across the pond. Other than his putter, he’s still brought his ball striking over. Um, you know, like in terms of his ball striking off of this turf and in the wind, he’s been an unbelievable ball striker. The question worth interrogating for Scotty Sheffller is, do these Greens [ __ ] with him because he hasn’t really shown at the Scottish Open yet or um the Open Championship yet. He hasn’t putted well across the pond. The ball striking’s been fine. the ball striking, there’s nothing to be concerned about in terms of like his ball striking being up to Scotty Sheffller’s standards. Um, but the question that I think we will find out a lot to over the next two weeks because Scotty Sheffller is now having his best putting season of his career. This is the best that Scotty Sheffller has evolved this season as a putter and we are getting the best putting version of Scotty Sheffller than we have seen thus far in his short career. How is he going to putt the next two weeks on these slower bumpier greens in the wind? That’s going to be the answer of whether or not you know he wins this tournament in the Scottish Open is how does he putt? But if you’re looking for a [ __ ] in the armor with Scotty Sheoffller, I’m going to give you the the the two-pronged answer of it because I do think both things can be true at the same time. I think it’s a bad uninformed nonball knowing take to say that Scotty Sheffller has some like crazy uh UK Ireland lengths thing that’s preventing him from playing well on this golf on these golf courses across the pond from a ball striking perspective. But if you’re looking for a reason to fade him in DFS, and I don’t know what his ownership will be compared to Rory Mroy, who’s a great Open Championship player and has had tons of and I mean I mean the ultimate driver putter guy. I know Rory’s not typically thought of as an elite putter, but Rory Maroy can putt great at times. um and has had tremendous amounts of success on driver putter golf courses and obviously he has a win at the Scottish Open and another fourth at the Scottish Open. Very curious to see whether people but but he hasn’t been playing as well as Scotty Sher. So I’m very curious to see whether people um are interested in Rory or Scotty Moore this week. I’d give the edge to Scotty. think they both finished six at the Travelers. I think Scotty looked a little better than Rory at the Travelers. Um Rory Iron play is still a little uh untrustable for me. But then um let’s go 3 through 20. Cory Connor who just kind of like breaks everything by his accuracy. Like how is Cory Connor finishing third in my model on a driver putter course? Well, he skains tons of strokes off the tea on driver heavy driver putter golf courses and he actually has is a really underrated putter. Cory Connor has been putting pretty good this season and he’s a great iron player, a great long iron player. Um, obviously I was really heavy on Oakmont and I haven’t I haven’t he has a h he suffered a hand injury at Oakmont that’s forced him to withdraw and um he didn’t play in the Travelers. So, I’m probably not going to bet him coming off a hand injury like that. But based on course fet and the way that Cory Connor can still hit a million fairways on this golf course and gain strokes off the tea with his accuracy and um continue to gain strokes putting on these greens and his long iron upside like I’m don’t care whether he withdrew last week. If he’s in the field and giving it a go, I’m gonna play Cory Connors on this golf course. I just don’t think I’m going to bet him. four, five, six really interesting players because they’re going to be priced the same way and you’re going to have to choose in DFS between these three players who you think is the best option. Um, one of them I think could contend and win the golf tournament. The other is going to kind of be whatever maybe and I think another one might be a disappointment, but I’m talking about Xander, Colin, Fleetwood. Those are the three guys that are going to be right behind Rory and Scotty at the top of the odds board. I love this odds board this week also because it’s like there’s maybe a [ __ ] in the armor with Scotty Sheffir where you don’t a lot of events with Scotty Sheffer it’s like a [ __ ] this Scotty’s just going to win. We have some hope on the West Coast or in Scotland because he hasn’t totally putted well here. Um, so you know, um, it’s just a great board. Like I actually don’t get the sense that Rory, either Rory or Scotty are going to win this event. So if you don’t think that Rory and Scott are going to be able to win, you should be able to get some really great numbers on some other guys a little farther down the board. And Xander, Morawa, and Fleetwood. I’m running short on time, so I’m not going to dive into the nuances of, you know, why uh one might play better than the other, but those three guys very interesting this week. Number seven, Ryan Fox. Number eight, Bobby Mack, my hero. I do I think Bobby Mack can almost win this event three years in a row. I I don’t know, but it’s a tremendous golf course for me. He’s playing great golf. Nine, Victor Hofflin, 10 Math McNeely, who I love. Shout out BK. 11, Nico Hoygard, who I love this week. I like both Hoygard brothers this week. It’s a great spot for the Hoy Guards. Um 12, Thorbjorn Olison. 13, Sam Burns, best putter in the world pretty much right now. Uh 14, Victor Perez. He was huge for us at the US Open at Oakmont. He’s played well at the Genesis before. That’s a great sleeper play for you. 15, Levig. I think two guys that I’m kind of buying on over the last five, six weeks of the season are Levig and Xander. I think Levig and Xander, you may not hear from them this week, you may not hear from them at the Open Championship, but I think both Levig and Xander are going to have a really good FedEx Cup playoffs and finish the season on a high note for a year that for both of them has been somewhat disappointing in my eyes. I think is a tremendous golf course for Levig and I think he’s playing better than his numbers and results would suggest. I may bet Levig this week. Um 16 Adam Scott, 17 Thomas Dietri. I love Thomas Dri. He’s played great at this golf course before. Ideal driver putter guy. 18 Fitzpatrick your winner. 19 Alex Smallley 20 Max Gaserman. Um, I don’t want to, you know, pump him up or glaze him too much because, you know, we’re all gonna bet him in our Discord on Sunday evening. So, if you agree with us on this Matt Fitzpatrick thing, then I would suggest just join is so you can figure out what we’re talking about and how we’re betting it um in the Discord. But Fitz, I love Fitz this week. I love Fitz this week. Um he’s played great here. He’s played here six times. Um he’s got a six miscut 39th, 42nd, and 14th and and runner up. So, you know, out of the six times he plays, here’s three top 15s, a playoff loss in the sixth. The Irons are coming around. The Irons are coming around with Fitz finally. Um he’s had a pretty disappointment disappointing season, but there’s been absolutely some flashes of brilliance in there. And I think when Fitz gets going and starts to find I mean he’s won a lot on Lynx Golf Course in the past. He’s won you know the Johnny Walker before at St. Andrews, a big-time driver putter golf course, and he’s coming off a 17th at the Travelers where he gained significantly approach off the tee. Eighth at the Rocket Markets where he gained significantly approach off the tee. He just hasn’t totally found that putter yet, but the putter was amazing for him at the US Open. Another golf course with incredibly difficult greens. Oh, let’s also go to another somewhat driver putter golf course. the last driver putter golf course that we played, Quail Hollow T8 at Quail Hollow, where he was an awesome middle to long iron player, awesome putter as well. Um, he’s got the Lynx resume. He’s got the Renaissance Club resume. He’s starting to flush the irons. He’s driving the ball well. There’s been a ton of putting upside recently where he led the field in putting at the US Open. Fitz is winning the Genesis Scottish Open. And that’s going to be it for me on this podcast. We obviously went 90 minutes today because I did like a 30 40 30ish minute intro on what we got cooking going ahead at um at ISN. But I need to get out of here. Um, I’m gonna sit in uh my car and write my Renaissance Club article for the next next two or three hours with some Hampton’s traffic back to New York City. But good luck um to your lineups at the John Deere. I’m certainly will have a lot to root for this afternoon. If you want to be part of the party um and win some more money over these next couple of weeks, both in tennis and in golf, insideportsnetwork.com is where you want to join. And remember, if you want to sign up just for a week next week, um we will do a free uh we’ll do a free uh free week um at ISM. So, you know, great opportunity to get your foot in the door and see what uh see what we’re about. Um cheers. Happy 4th of July.