In this episode of the Inside Golf Podcast, Andy provides an in-depth preview of the Bay Current Classic, formerly known as the Zozo Championship. The podcast begins with an apology for previous audio issues and then transitions into detailed insights about the new golf course, Yokohama Country Club. The host discusses the course’s agronomy, architecture, and weather conditions, which are expected to be challenging with high winds and rain. The episode covers significant golfers participating in the event, including Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele, and Collin Morikawa, and provides detailed analysis suitable for betting and DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports). Weather forecasts, historical performance, and course characteristics are all examined to help listeners make informed decisions. The host also reflects on previous experiences and outcomes from the Sanderson Farms Championship while emphasizing the importance of firm and fast conditions for optimal play. The episode concludes with a focus on key players and their potential impact, encouraging listeners to join the Inside Sports Network community for ongoing updates and deeper analysis.
00:00 Introduction and Apology for Audio Issues
00:30 Overview of the Bay Current Classic
03:08 Recap of Sanderson Farms
08:20 Yokohama Country Club Course Details
19:24 Weather Forecast and Its Impact
36:06 Key Players to Watch
42:53 Final Thoughts and Betting Picks
44:05 Conclusion and Call to Action
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Okay, welcome in inside golf podcast Bay current betting and DFS preview. I finally started to get my recording equipment back set up now in my office. So, uh I apologize for the previous podcast where the audio quality wasn’t up to the normal standards. We should be back heading in the right direction with that. And um we have a a brand new golf course for the Bay Current Classic. For those who are unfamiliar what the Bay Current Classic is, it was called the Zozo for a very long time. And the Zozo in the fall swing usually gets a better field comparatively speaking than some of the other fall swing events. Like there’s definitely some more big names in the Zozo this week than what we got at the Sanderson Farms. I can talk a second about the Sanderson Farms, but I know anytime there’s a brand new golf course that we don’t have any data on, people want me to get to the actionable stuff that could help them make bets and play DFS for the Bayer. We have we’ll spend a lot of time on Yokohama. I’ve I’ve gone quite deep on Yokohama over the past couple of days. Uh but this field although the uh television time is not so convenient for somebody on the west coast like myself that generally likes to go to bed pretty early. Xander Hideki always Hideki being a former champion. Colin Marcala, Wendam Clark, Sunjm, Max, Thor is playing again. A lot of the better players from uh Sanderson Farmsfield, Hoey, Grio, Thor, as I mentioned, are all playing this week, as well as a strong contingent from the Japanese golf tour. uh because this is a co-sanction event. It’s 78 players in the field, no cut and uh you know, it’s really more like 68 or 70 because um you know, I think a lot of people in DFS, for example, aren’t even going to mess around with the Japanese players. And I’m not going to say I disagree with that. Um, I do definitely spend some time trying to figure out what’s going on with these guys on the Japanese golf tour because generally every year at this event there is one Japanese player that ends up finishing top 10 or top 15 and could be a huge asset to you in DFS. But for the most part, a lot of those guys are substandard to the average PGA Tour player and are good players to stay away from. So, we’ll talk about the golf course a ton in uh in a second. Recap from Sanderson Farms. I’m recording this at 10:45 a.m. Pacific time. So Garrick Higgo just birdied the first hole and uh he’s he’s at 19 under three shot lead over a number of what I would say are deeply unserious but highly threatening golfers to me in my opinion. Um, based on the fact that Higgo, the question remains how serious he is as well about winning golf tournaments. Although he has won golf tournaments on champion Bermuda in the Southeast at Congere, which was um a part of why myself and Kyle and uh the Discord liked him so much. I think he was a pretty popular bet outside of our community as well. Um, you know, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to pick a guy that has great course history and also contended at the Pro Core and is playing great golf, right? Um, so Higgo getting home as like a just easy let’s get the fall swing, my favorite most profitable time of year. Let’s just get going in the right direction. A nice seven, eight units right off the bat. That would be uh that would be wonderful. But uh as I think many of you have realized from Sanderson Farms and I have realized from a DFS pool that was totally all over the map. Um I mean I had a lot of guys that I thought were great plays just totally missed the I mean highriced oay missed the cut. Topic top chalk ash missed the cut. I played him. Terrible mistake by me. Uh, go missed the cut. I was pretty high on Go, not in DFS, but I bet him as an outright. Hoey missed the cut to, you know, I I I had some I have some bangers in there with uh Stephen Fisk, Eric Cole, uh Raasmus, and obviously a ton of Higgo, but uh crazy amount of uh misses as well where I didn’t have any six of sixes this week. bunch of good fives that will um hopefully maybe get me a min cash, but that’s the difficulty with the Sanderson Farms is um it’s very dependent on putting. And so you can get some some banger plays in there, but uh I had I had a ton of ton of misses that I thought like Smallley I was super high on Smallley this week. He almost finished DFL. Um Thor Thor’s playing well. He’s he’s murdering the ball. My My I thought you know Thor, Hego, Grio, Smallley were kind of my favorite outright bets and very grateful to have Hego in in pole position here. But um Thor is murdering the ball. He is he is putting and chipping terribly right now. And uh you know he’s going to finish like T20 or something like that, but I’m not deterred by this performance in terms of my Thor love. Thor is uh tracked him pretty closely. The guy is talented as hell. I don’t know if he’s going to be my guy at the Bay Current, per se, but um I think when I last checked he was one of the leaders in ball striking and he’s made a ton of uh random weird dumb mistakes. He had a really silly triple yesterday and he just missed a two-footer like 15 20 minutes ago as well. But the matchups continue to be awesome. I really think that market is just kind of soft right now. Like I I made tons of mistakes in terms of the guys that I liked at the Sanderson and still went four and one in in matchups to go to um get to nine and one on the year uh fall swing for matchups. Um, and that is with, you know, tons of tons of misses in the DFS pool as well of guys that just totally flamed out like Smallley, go and Hoey and Au for that matter in DFS. But, uh, all is forgiven if, uh, if Higo can get home. That’ll be a fantastic week and, uh, give us some nice momentum into an event that I’m very, very excited about. So, let’s let’s break it down. Yokohama Country Club, there’s no GS. Uh, let me just do one last double check because I didn’t check this morning, but uh I as of yesterday there was no G uh GSCAA sheet, which is crazy because they did the same thing at the RDER Cup. So, I talked about the uh the sheet that they put out with all the aronomy that people like Steve and I check pretty religiously to make sure that our assumptions about a golf course’s aronomy and its length and its rough height and the speed of its greens is correct with how it’s actually going to be set up in a tournament. Brand new golf course. No sheet. No sheet. Um, I don’t know if the players have gotten a sheet. No sheet on uh Sunday morning of the tournament. Maybe it’ll come out later in the week. Good thing I’m a psychopath who can figure who can do a lot of digging and ask a lot of questions and figure some of this stuff out on my own. But, well, hopefully that’ll be the value of the podcast because there’s there’s nowhere else to get this information unless you really work at it. Um, on the website, if you translate the website from Japanese to English, there’s no scorecard on the website, but they have a little hole description of every hole. And um, if you just add up all of the yardages, you can get the yardage of the golf course in the scorecard. It’s a par 71 measuring 7,315 yards. And by the way, this is a composite routing. Yokohama has two golf courses, an east and a west. The west golf course is considered the better one. That’s the one that got the core crunch restoration. And we’re using 16 holes, one through 16 from the west course and two holes from the east course. So, you know, it’s not even like you can just straight up use west or east. It’s there. It’s a composite routing, but it’s mainly all west course. I’ll talk about why West Course is better. Um, like I said, it it’s gotten a little bit more care. Bank grass greens measuring around 6,500 square ft. Greens on the larger side. That’s I would probably to be fair say medium size. That’s what you’re typically going to expect at a core crunch restoration at least. And then like um like most Japanese golf courses, Zoya Fairways, I’m going to assume I don’t have this confirmed. I can update it when um when we get the GSA the uh the GCSAA sheet if it comes out, if it ever comes out. I can confirm what I believe to be true, which is that the rough length is um or the rough is some sort of Zoya blend. And very short from all the pictures I’ve seen. I spoke to a friend who has played the golf course before and uh I asked him to send me a lot of pictures. He sent me a ton of pictures. I posted them all in the Discord. Um, I’m going to have all of those pictures in my uh extensive article on Yokohama as well at inside sports network.com if you want a deeper dive into this. But let’s go through a lot of the fundamentals of this golf course. So it was founded in 1960 and over the next six years Japanese architect Tikio Ayama built both the east and the west course. The west course which is predominantly what we’re going to see this week hosted the 1978 Japan Open won by none other than Sevie Biseros. Last guy off the card that week. Uh, and the 2018 edition of the Japan Open also went back to Yokohama Country Club except this time it was post a 2014 2015 Cor and Crunchaw restoration. So that Japan Open in 2018 won by Yuki Enam Murray at 14 under par was played on very much the same golf course that we’re going to see this week for the Bay Current Classic. Now, there are no stats available, definitely no strokes gained from the 2018 Japan Open, but I did a little research on Yuki Enamora Enamorei and I can tell you he is an absolute accuracy merchant. Like his data golf profile looks uh excuse Excuse the graphicness. It It looks like a penis. It’s literally just like that with accuracy being on that side. He’s terrible at everything else in golf besides being super accurate. So, if the data golf profile is a circle and you have distance here, uh, putting here, short game here, approach play here, driving accuracy here, it’s just it’s just all driving accuracy. I I I did the uh screenshot of it in in the article uh for for Inside Sports, but um I just thought that was interesting. You know, the guy who generally wins the golf tournament is a bit of a red herring to a lot of things about the golf course. I think people get too caught up in that. But I did find it was interesting. O he won by two strokes over Shawn Norris, a DP guy who’s still out there all the time on the DP. But Uda pretty much both in 2018 and and right now uh just drives the ball in play like crazy. And that was a bit of surprise, a bit of a surprise to me based on what I’m seeing about the course, but not totally. And I and I I will explain why I think even on a core core crunch on golf course that that to architects that tend to prioritize width and give you room and options off the tea. Why I do think this is a tighter, more narrow piece of property than a core crunch shop have had to work with at I don’t know um a Trinity Forest or a a stream song or a Frier’s Head where they there’s just a lot of width going on on that piece of property. So anyway, the West Course, which we’ll see 16 holes from, underwent this major renovation by Bill Core and Ben Krenshaw. Toby Cobb was the construction manager on the project. Um, and it involved reconstructing and raising the height of every T and fairway. The double greens on every hole were replaced by single greens and subair systems um for these bent grass putting surfaces. Double greens is a staple of Japanese architecture and something we saw at Nishino. Um but the core crunch design, this golf course appears to be a lot more open and playable to me. It looks a lot more like Southern Hills than it does Nishino. And additionally, the old par five was converted to a new par 48 and par 3 uh 9th. And the former 13th and 14th were combi combined to form a new fourth hole. 17 and 18 on the east were also renovated because they are going to be used for the Japan Open. So again, you have the same routing that we did in 2018. Um, and that’s going to help with a lot of spectators and such. So, how’s the golf course going to play? I think that’s what most people care about from a gambling and DFS standpoint. And I’m going to run through kind of the main takeaways that I got from running through the golf course and all the research that I’ve done. Architecturally, I think it’s a very strong golf course, far stronger than Nishino in my humble opinion. It just fits my taste more. Um, in terms of playability, I love Core Crunchaw. They’re responsible for designing some of my favorite golf courses that I’ve ever played in my entire life. I mean, we’re talking eights and nines for me in terms of my personal ranking. Bandon Trails, Friars’s Head, top 15 golf courses I’ve ever played in my life. Um, and you know, I actually have reason to believe the golf course may play more challenging than Nishino despite featuring more width off the tea and less rough. Nishino can play tough, but it all just depends on firmness. And that is going to be the story this week as well. Firmness, firmness, firmness. It’s important to remember that conditioning on a golf course is a huge piece of Japanese golf culture, especially at a wellto-do club like Yokohama, Yokohama. Yet, Japanese golf culture is not like Australian golf culture where they really love and prioritize firm and fast. It’s a little bit different than that. It’s not soft. And um the friend that I spoke to that has played Yokohama, you know, said it wasn’t crazy firm and fast, but it wasn’t soft either. It was in perfect condition. Um and it kind of depends on how much rain, like all courses, obviously it gets tournament week. We’ll get to that in a second. Looking at the forecast, four days out from tournament play, and I wrote a lot more about this weather-wise in my article on Inside Sports, but it looks like we are going to see some really crazy spicy weather this week in Yokohama, Japan. Um, so spicy that I think there’s a decent chance we might see delays during this golf tournament. And uh I looked at the weather forecast and I was like, man, this would be perfect for an open championship. I don’t know how I feel about it being the forecast for the Bay Current Classic in Japan and how annoying that’s going to be. Um but I broke down the weather a lot more extensively in my article, but here’s what we’re looking at. Essentially, we’re looking at 30 mph consistent wind speeds on Thursday and um.19 ines of rain at 300 p.m. local. That seems like a a rain out to me. And there’s going to be consistently crazy high winds and rain all day Saturday throughout the night on Saturday and even some on Sunday. So, it’s only Sunday. I’m going to track the weather very closely this week in the Discord because unfortunately it seems like the weather will be a part of the storyline and I would love to see it clear up. I hate weeks when um the weather plays such a role in the outcome of the golf tournament. Not just because it’s a lot more work for myself, but also because, you know, the soft conditions are going to cancel out a lot of maybe some of the best aspects of this golf course architecturally that would have shined a little bit more in firm and fast conditions. Maybe these ridiculous winds keep the scoring average low, but it’s going to be soft and rainy and not, you know, the golf course is not going to have the ability to play firm and fast whatsoever with uh with rain like this. The Japanese Open in 2018, like I mentioned, had a winning score of 14 under par. This is obviously a much stronger field with a few better, you know, some of the better players in the world like Xand or Hideki. So, it’s really hard to say scoring average until we get a little bit closer to the event. Um, so follow along in the Discord for updates on that. But I I as we sit here on Sunday morning, I just really needed to call out the fact that looking at the weather forecast for Yokohama, there’s a lot going on there right now and hopefully it changes. But I think it’s pretty safe to say I broke down the rest of this golf course and adjusted my model and breakdown accordingly that there’s going to be some rain this week at minimum and it’s not going to be a firm and fast golf course by any means. In terms of what I am valuing and what I’ve noticed when going through the golf course, a couple big characteristics jumped out to me. This golf course looks very core crunch shot to me. It has a huge Trinity Forest feel, although again Trinity Forest known for its firmer and faster conditions. Trinity Forest was one at 23 under par in the two years that it hosted the Byron Nelson uh championship. But Trinity Forest is wide, crazy wide, 80% driving accuracy. And this golf course is nowhere near as wide off the tea. There’s room off the tea and a lot of the rough is shaved down, but it’s not Trinity Forest wide where you can just send it with reckless abandon. There does appear to be very little rough on the property. This is a staple at Core Crunch. you know, whether it’s Banded Trails or Frier Set or Stream Song, they generally give you some room to operate off the tea. And what they really love to focus on, at least at the core crunch courses I have played, awesome green complexes and using the natural land to dictate the nature of the hole. Um, and this property actually has a fair amount of elevation change, although I don’t know how well that will show on television. It’s a really great property for golf and I’m I’m really excited to watch it. Um, this does not necessarily mean next week that I believe that you can spray the ball anywhere and it’s very clear that if you are really off the planet this week, you’re going to be in the trees. If we look at a golf course like Trinity Forest, statistically it actually favored distance and accuracy fairly evenly. a little bit more distance and accuracy, but not as much as you would think on a golf course with such wide driving areas despite its width. And Pinehurst is another example of this. Another core and crunch design restoration that was similar as well, where because the green complexes are so beguiling, angles are actually going to tend to matter more on core crunch designs. So there’s still generally a lot of value in being an accurate driver of the ball. While I think this is a second shot golf course, Yokohama feels very similar to Pinehurst in the sense that you either want to be very long or very straight to gain an advantage to really gain an advantage off the tee which kind of leads me to value accuracy and distance evenly as well as overall off the tea play. And then the next thing I want to get to, short grass, short grass, short grass. Uh, this is another thing that I love so much about core crunch courses. I have not played a single one that utilizes thick rough around the greens as a defense mechanism. Bill Cork, Ben Crunch, they truly understand that short grass opens up more recovery option that leads to more engaging and entertaining golf. Um, and I think touch around the greens will be essential this week. And I have a higher than average weight on short game, even if the golf course plays soft and easy with a high greens and regulation percentage. Now, the proximity buckets at Yokohama are extremely flat. In fact, they almost all fall around tour average. I would expect nothing less from a thoughtful core crunch design, but essentially like we’re looking at around tour average for every single proximity bucket. Now, if I had to choose, we are still getting 12 of 18 approach shots from over 150 yards, which is nothing crazy, but that’s going to statistically account for the highest volume. And what is very unique about Yokohama is that there are only two parfives and three par 3s. The back is littered with par4s, many of them on the longer side. So, this leads me to believe that even on a core crunch course where there’s generally space off the tea, there’s just going to be a lot of longer par4s where great driving is going to be accentuated. Again, even if the golf course plays easy because of the softness and players are not having to navigate heavy rain, this will still be far more of a legitimate ball striking golf course than what we saw at both Sanderson Farms and Beth Page Black over the last two weeks. Let’s take a quick break and then I will conclude on um my final thoughts on Yokohama, what it all means and um my early leans for this week. Okay, we are back. So overall kind of my general thoughts on Yokohama, how it’s going to play this week, my betting car or who the players that I’m interested in. Number one, I love golf courses that we don’t have data on. I think this is the most fun part of my job and hopefully where I’m able to provide the most value for people. Uh because I love looking at the architecture, aronomy, and weather. I wish there wasn’t so much weather this week that created this much uncertainty. Trust me, if we didn’t have this weather forecast, I would feel a lot more confident in some of the things that I’m saying. Um, but I I love looking at the architecture of the golf course, the aronomy, and the conditions and kind of predicting what the data is going to look like. And if I had to make a prediction, hoping, you know, assuming that it’s soft, but not that like it’s crazy conditions, but some rain, I would say that this golf course is not one that heavily emphasizes one skill to the extreme. You know, if we look at other golf courses that have been core and crunchified because the the green complexes are so strong. If you know if we look at a Trinity Forest or a redesign like Pinehurst or even a golf course like Southern Hills which was you know a Perry Maxwell and Gil Hans restoration that kind of is playing off some of the same ideas that you see in a lot of Core and Crunchaw designs and visually reminds me somewhat um of Yokohama postcore and Crunchaw. What makes these golf courses great is the balance of skill sets and really great architecture is really great architecture is going to create a higher level of golf IQ required um to perform well at the golf course versus a turn your brain off trackman dumb down version of golf that we’ve seen the past two weeks at Sanderson Farms and Beth Paige. And I think that this is a return to very solid TOG green architecture and great green architecture, great green design. Um and and really truly some some excellent bunkering as well. Now, super super soft conditions can ruin all of that as we saw at Beth Paige, but this this has better greens than Beth Paige by a mile, too. So, you know, I already spoke about how the proximity buckets at this golf course are extremely even. It’s not a wedgefest. It’s not super long iron heavy either. And I think if you’re a balanced overall great approach player across the bag, you’re likely to have the most success. Like I think public sentiment on Colin Morawa is pretty low right now. At least in my corner of the internet and my discord. We hate Colin Morawa at Inside Sports Network. I think he might be the most hated player in our Discord. Um and yet I think this is a pretty damn good bounceback opportunity for him. He’s not going to be in my outright card. Um, but for DFS purposes, off the tea still remains the biggest question mark to me because I still cannot definitively tell you how much rain we’re going to get, if these guys are going to need to play through rain and wind. But from what I’ve heard, I mean, from what I’m seeing and observing, this golf course has very little rough and enough room, but it’s still a lot more narrow than a Trinity Forest. Like you you do have intruding trees that will come in and separate holes from each other that does not allow you to just spray the ball like crazy across the yard. And if you actually applied what a more narrow version of Trinity Forest would look like statistically, that type of profile would likely either favor heavily accurate players or super long players. And the safest bet when there are still question marks off the tea is just to rely on overall recent off the tea form. I will die on this hill. And then when it comes to short game and putting, the skill of chipping off short grass will be highly accentuated here given the fact that there’s very little rough, especially if the turf is wet. You you’re really going to want to have incredible hands around the green regardless of the greens in regulation percentage. you’re you’re just going to want to be a skilled chipper. I’ve never played a core and crunch golf course where there wasn’t a lot of intrigue around the greens. Um it gives a little southern hills to me around the greens. As far as putting goes, like I said, these are way better greens than we’ve seen recently. If the greens and regulation percentage is higher, then putting will still have a high overall correlation with success. I kind of still remain strongly lower on putting than I have been the last two weeks where there was virtually no tea green challenge. I’m optimistic that even with the softness, the elevation changes, the bunkering, and the complexity of the greens will create enough of a tea green challenge sufficient for ball strikers to not be disadvantaged on a golf course like this, which has always been the case at Noshino as well. I do believe Japanese golf culture and this tournament has a lot of pride in their golf courses and there’s many aspects of this golf course that would lead me to believe that it’s harder perhaps than Nishino. We just need the conditions to cooperate. So anyway, um I have my full model up onportsnetwork.com right now. a much more deeper statistical dive into the uh golf course and um we’ll have a lot of weather updates throughout uh in the Discord if you want to join our little community uh inside sportsnetwork.com. But let me run through uh the players that stood out to me in terms of having some potential interest. Okay, notorious number one ball striking king Kurt Kittyama, fresh off an iconic win at the 3M Open. Uh that meant more to me than uh probably most people ever, which uh says a lot about me, unfortunately. I think uh Xander number two. I’ve been like truly idiotic about Xander at this event in the past. I always think that Xander is going to play well here. And he has sometimes he has a ninth and a tenth in five appearances, but he also has like I remember I bet him one year at 8 to1 and he finished T37 in like a 65man field single bullet. One of the worst bets was never never even sniffed the top 10. One of the worst bets I’ve made. I still think about it. It was two years ago. Number three, um ISN’s most hated golfer, Colin Marawa. Number four, my pick to win, Cuim. Number five, Rico Hoey. Six, Gary Woodland, who I love this week, and I’m betting I think this is a great spot for Gary. Seven, Grio. Eight, Hideki. I like Hideki quite a bit here, too. How can you not? Former champion of this event, has had a lot of success playing in front of um his Japanese home crowd fans. This is obviously a big week for him. And there’s been times when he’s disappointed and also times where he’s rose to the occasion and won this event before. And then you have Andrew Putnham, Max Graaserman, Lee Hodes, Alex Norin, Nico Echavaria, Michael Thorb Jordan, Austin Ecro, one of my favorite sleeper plays of the week, Vince Wheard, Keith Mitchell, Billy Horchel, Alex Smallley. So, kind of my Thor of this week that really stands out to me as like this is going to be a bat for me. I’ll give you two or three of them like the, you know, kind of my two or three favorites. I really like Siw Kim and I know he hasn’t won a golf tournament in a while. He’s coming off a fifth at the BMW PGA Championship where he drove the ball great. His approach play was great. The problem for Siw Kim all season, he has been a truly truly horrendous putter. I mean, he has lost strokes putting in 11 straight starts. And that alone, if you don’t want to ride with me on Sewim, I would never blame you. Um, but the putting is at least improving. Um, he barely lost strokes at the BMW PGA Championship. It’s not the type of putting anymore that’s preventing him from playing well in golf tournaments, right? Like he finished off the year with a 14 at the FedEx St. Jude’s, 19th at the BMW Championship, and fifth at the BMW PGA Championship. So, he’s playing great golf. He’s played very well before in Japan. He actually finished sixth at the Zozo Championship at Nerosino last year. So he has, you know, come over to Japan before and played some excellent golf this time of year and he putted great on those Nishino greens. He also has an 18th here in 2022. Also a T32 at Pinehurst as well where he almost gained strokes in all four major categories except slightly losing on approach play. So huge huge fan of Seiw Kim this week. That’s going to be a bet for me. Uh, and then I also think this is a really, really good Woodland spot who’s been playing a lot better recently. I haven’t really been on him all year, talked about him much. He’s, you know, his putter has kind of been in the dumpster for a couple years now. And now Gary Woodland is starting to putt a lot better, which is highly intriguing to me. Uh he’s gained over two strokes putting in three out of his last four events. The ball striking’s been phenomenal. He’s gained strokes in both ball striking categories in each of the last three starts. And he finished off the season with three straight top 25 finishes. And this is an event that he’s played before as well, right? Like he finished fifth at the Zozo last year. So, he’s he’s shown that he can adjust to the the time difference, uh the routine and cultural differences and play well at this event in Japan. I really like to see that even though I think this is a very imperfect comp to Nishino. Gary Woodland is for sure on my radar. And then finally, uh I think this is a really good bounceback spot for Grio. I know he disappointed a lot of people. disappointed me by missing the cut at the Sanderson Farms. I thought he was going to play a lot better at the Sanderson’s Farms. I think anybody who doesn’t punt well at the Sanderson Farms is just going to miss the cut. I’m not super concerned about it. I’m not going to put a ton of weight into it. Um his start prior to that at the Procore, he finished fourth where he gained six strokes on approach. The only reason why he missed the cut at the Sanderson Farms was because he lost five strokes around the green and putting still gained on approach, drove the ball fine. And um he’s another player that has uh played well before at Nishino. He has a fourth and 10th at Nishino before. So, he’s also proven like Woodland that he can come over here to Japan and play well. Um, not necessarily on this type of golf course, but in this type of event with the time difference and everything, he’s done it before. I like that a lot. And, um, he keeps the ball in play off the TE’s, heavily, heavily accurate, and he’s a great overall approach player with some much better putting over the last couple of weeks. He has a similar profile, if not even a little bit more trustable than Gary Woodland. So, those are kind of the three guys that I expect to be in the higher to mid-tier range of the odds board that I think are really excellent course fits and options. See, Kim, Woodland, and Grio, I think all have great opportunities to win this event. Um, and I will talk a lot more about DFS, my betting card, the numbers, um, and and particularly the weather this week, um, in the Inside Sports Network Discord. So, if you want to be part of my, uh, little community, um, we would love to have you. Uh the fall swing is a very uh generally a very good uh time for me and I know we will always lose to football. But uh if you have the time for golf, we try and make it as easy for you as possible um in terms of the thinking and stuff that you have to do if you want to focus more on football. and uh just a fun place to get some really good info uh during a time where there’s not a lot of attention on golf, but in my opinion, a ton of opportunity, particularly in those matchup markets. Um we would love to have you. So, I will go cheer on Garrick Higgo for uh the rest of my afternoon and hope that he gets home for us at the Sanderson Farms. And I hope this episode was informative to all. Even if you don’t want to be part of ISN, I hope that the YouTube stuff that I will always do can give you at least a sense of um sense of what to expect this week in terms of the golf course at um Yokohama. Uh so hit that like and subscribe button as I am told. I have to stop forgetting to save. 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I appreciate the info. Thank you!!