(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - E-G-A nation! We are back coming off a huge week at the open, getting right back into things in Minnesota with the 3M open. If we're going to go to Minnesota with a tournament like the 3M open, there's only one way to go. And that's to call in the big guns. - In PGA, Tattoo will be directing with us tonight. John, how are you doing? - Oh yeah, I've never been to Minnesota, but I feel like I've exude Minnesota vibes over here. The 3M open, I've not hit an outright winner here, but I feel like I always have the guy who leads the 3M open in ball striking and isn't the one who randomly has the best punting week of his life that week. So I'm looking to break that trend this week. - That is this tournament. You're going to need to find the random putt here, and then you're going to make a ton of money. And for context, I will add, I never actually put you as a Minnesota guy. I was just obvious that the stakes were high, and you were here because Minnesota was involved. - I didn't say I couldn't get that correlation. That seemed obvious. - Minnesota, it's like the capital of Golf Twitter. Everyone just randomly is from Minnesota out here. I know a lot of people are really jazzed about this tournament. It's not the best spot in the schedule, but actually with so few people making the FedEx playoffs now, a lot of the middle of the road players come here. Not a lot of star power, but actually pretty decently deep field. It's very obvious when you think good golf, you think Minnesota, right? I mean, we're also going to get good. I mean, not Florida or California, like that, definitely Minnesota. David, what are you doing today? - I'm awesome, mate. I'm awesome for many reasons. Firstly, our most profitable week of the year at the Open Championship, we had four guys in the top team within our selections, Russell Kenley, who was available at 241 pre tournament finishing at 5th. We had John Rahm, obviously, came in on the last day and played very well finishing seventh. And then Shane Lowry, heartbreak for him, going into Saturday, playing that extremely tough back nine when you had to drive a driver and still couldn't reach the green. And some of these platforms was pretty tough break on him. And then Matthew Jordan, who came in 10th, was 350 to 1 pre tournament as well. So it was an awesome week. And then in terms of the match ups, we were up several five year as well. Saturday, we went four or five. It was a huge return. And then Sunday, we had a clean sweep, five or five, had a 20 to 1 parlay on those. So never a better time to sign up to win daily than right now. There's promo going on in the description, 50% off. We would be continuing that for much longer after a week like that. I mean, for $7.50 a week on that promo, I mean, you're making up leaps and downs on that and absolutely no time. So, best time to jump in there and get signed up, I'd say. I would agree wholeheartedly. I will add, not only are you coming off one of your hottest weeks of the year, making a ton of money, you also came out with the victory draft, which was long overdue on the draft. And selecting the draft order tonight. Congratulations. Now, if I had to pin one, right, said David, you got to go out there and win. It would have been this tournament. It would have been the opening. You know what? You went out there and did it. You wouldn't got the victory. So congrats to you and letting us one. What did you feel good about last week and two? What's the order tonight? Yeah. Well, look, I do think that having that DP will to acknowledge that I bring is very helpful. I know that there's a lot of guys overstate side that don't maybe follow the DP will tours closely as I do, whereas I cover both those tours very extensively. So I think that is a string to my bow in terms of being able to identify some of the course comps, particularly that those DP will to a players have. Look, it was a really good draft overall. Nearly got stymied at the end with you, Joel, trying to steal from me with Corey Connors at the end. Over then we leave him, we missed the card. Corey Connors made the cut. And so that was a bit of a differentiation. Tommy Fleetwood played like an idiot, which was a bit of a shame because it would have been lovely to have seen him play well. Other than that, I mean, my first pick of the week was Zantashol Flaser. That always helps having the winner with you do first pick the first round. And then I also backed that up with Lowry, Henley, Lauren. So there was a really good kind of core for finishing the week out. So can't say it wasn't trending. I mean, it had five weeks in a row finishing runner up on the PGA draft card. So I was kind of at like really obvious choice that you see in DFS of the guy who's like finished top 10 and the fourth poor tournaments leading up. And he was like, Oh, obviously he won. You know, I kind of feel like that guy this week. Yeah, you were one more week later from becoming re nicknamed the Buffalo Bills, but you saved yourself. You're not going to cut the win. But the first question for him was spend scones was going to make it tonight. Like he said, we got out here. But David, I'm going to turn to you for the course of breakdown this week. What are you looking for on the course at the three able. Yeah, and I think it is a really interesting course to dive into, particularly from a DFS perspective because TPC to in cities. It's a part 71 over 7,400 yards on paper. So it does look fairly long. But bear in mind, it is played at altitude here. So it is going to play a little bit shorter in terms of the carry distance that you're going to find with that thinner ear up at a higher altitude. And it's interesting in the fact that you dive into the statistics. And if you look at the raw data, it's going to suggest that driving accuracy is the biggest predictor of success here. That largely comes down to the fact that there's 18, 18 holes, 15 of them have water on them. And if you're finding water, you're going to find it really difficult to make the cut. You're going to have double bogeys popping up on people's cards all over the place. And that's where the driving accuracy bit comes in. But then you look at the winners. And the winners have been guys like Cameron Champ, Matthew Wolf, Tony Fino. These really long drivers, the bombers. And it kind of suggests to me in terms of if you were looking at that large GPP kind of build, you're going to want to have a mix of both. You're going to want to have some of those driving accuracy cut makers who are going to keep the ball and play and make the cut for you. And then you want to take some risks on some longer drivers who might not be so accurate off the tee but have actually got the ability with that extra driving distance to go out there and get a win for you and give you some leverage in that regard. So it's very quirky in that aspect. Other key thing that really jumped up to me is some of the biggest disparity that we see all season in terms of where the approach shots happen. 40%, that's a huge number. 40% of approach shots happen from 175 to 225 yards. A very small range is accumulating 40% of all approach shots. And 60% of all approach shots come from 150 yards plus. So I really dived into that as well. If you look at PGA National, The Honda Classic, it's another course where long drivers have typically done well. There's a lot of water and play there. That is the top for 175 to 200 yards in terms of approach, TPC twin cities is second and there's a lot of crossover between those two courses. The data byata also again hits those approach ranges might not seem the most obvious correlation, but then you've obviously got Tony Fino, who's one that both and a lot of others players have crossed over those two events. And then Detroit Golf Club, Rocket Mortgage, another booty fest. Again, where there's a lot of approach shots within those key bucket ranges. Again, Tony Fino is one of that event. We've seen a lot of crossovers. So those are the key guides for me this week. And then getting into those approach numbers, who's good from those particular, particularly 100, 75 to 225 yards because you don't often see such a concentrated amount of approach shots for one particular range. And then really strong driving and probably a mix of driving accuracy guys with a few bombers who can go out there and win this tournament. I'll tell you what, that was an extremely thorough breakdown. But before you walk the course break down, John, I love to give anything to anything you're looking for that David didn't mention this week. Yeah, I mean, that covered, that covered really all the important stuff. I guess I would add, there's something about these greens that lack any sort of nuance where it has really opened up the floor for literally anybody to come in here and have the performance of their life. And it happens way too often here, like kind of defies logic, how the literal worst players on the PGA tour on the greens have the best putting performance of their life, whether it's Cameron Chan, Tony Fino, he's an awful form putting before he won here. So guys, and Scott Pearsy dreadful putter, almost one here. You go down, there's just a ton of these like team no put, no put guys who do well so I'm looking for like trending tea to green and just hope that they figure it out on the greens for some of, you know, long purposes and then also just want to give a shout out to the 18th hole, low key, my favorite finishing hole on the PGA tour. I don't know if that's a hot take. It's definitely not the most climactic tournament. But that whole rocks, I mean, you can, you can have a bad shot right into the water. You have a bad shot left into the trees. If you have a good drive, you're on the green into. If you have a mediocre drive, you have to lay up. It's an ego opportunity, but it's also like a bogey or worse opportunity so it's a really good finishing hole where this tournament's really not over if a guy has like a two stroke lead on his playing partner going into the last one. I love that. And before we pull the draft board up and get into the draft and I have one question for you. We know you can see guys pop with their partners, especially guys who don't necessarily come in and form. Is that change your take on guys who are big putters at all? Is it handicap them at all? I mean, they lose a little bit of an edge, or are you kind of feeling if you are a good putter business as usual, but it almost maybe helps out just the bad putters. I think it's like check box number one of all striking and then if you're also a good putter, great. A green without any nuance means that a great putter should step up there and be super confident and not really be challenged by these, you know, a 10 footer or something. It's probably going to be pretty straight. There's not a slope here. So I'm just kind of looking at course history and that's been a pretty decent indicator of how guys put here. But I think the bad putters consistently put well at this course that is less of a concern if you're a good historical putter, but you haven't put it well at this course for any reason. You know, it's all relative so some guys have to not put well here right but, you know, it's not at the top of my list of skill sets I'm looking for but not a detriment either. I'll take that. I froze there for a minute but I am back your back. So David, let's pull the draft board up and let's get right into the draft. Here we go audience you will be going first. Congratulations David very generous with his picks with an offering audience to go first. And then we'll go second I will go third David choosing to select last this week. For anyone that is new to the draft guys as a reminder the way it works is like your typical fantasy football draft. We will do a snake style audience one. So you can't just take all the best players. You do need to ensure that you can afford each pick as you go audience you're on the clock and the first pick is locked in great job being speedy on the first pick actually back to you off the board. They certainly priced him up this week but by all means he deserves it he has been playing great golf. This is what we would consider a watered down field and in this field. I would consider as good you know for certain as the elite go competitively if he was you know top three top five most expensive golfers you know I certainly have no problem with that. John I would love your take are you interested in Batia this week. Yeah I love Batia I think he's my second favorite after Tony I would say he should be the second favorite this week. You see San Antonio lacks the water hazard that this course does but it does kind of bring into play an emphasis on control still with the trees being so claustrophobic there so I think that's actually a very good TPC comp course where he won earlier this year. And just in great ball striking for him obviously that's paramount here. So got a love actually great pick you census. Yeah unanimous consensus pick from the audience. Well I have conflicting information going on in terms of people trying to project your first pick. There's a person in the chat who is insinuating that you might be very interested or might like Nick dumb up. However, you also just mentioned that your favorite is Tony female so in line with your first pick only got to board Batia. Where are you looking to go. I know David drafted the winner with his first pick last last week so I have to pick the winner. So I'm going Kevin you. I'm looking for this week lost with the short game elite with the ball striking his top 10 strokes gain off the tee and strokes gain approach that's exactly what I'm looking for in a player at TPC Twin Cities the challenge is on your first two shots. He gets easier from there that's what Kevin you needs elite talent with the driver and hand he's going to hit bombs he's going to hit fairways. He's going to hit a high ball flight that lands softly on these giant greens. And he's not going to hit all the putts but he's going to avoid the trouble that lurks around with the water everywhere because he's such a reliable ball striker. That is somebody where I look at the bottom of the board this week for my value plays. And there's not a lot of guys in the seven K range that I'm super confident in. Because it's the way that the depth of this field is there's really like a concentration like the top 50 guys are really good and there's like a little bit of a drop off so I'm going to need guys later in this draft to anchor the values so that I can afford to go more top heavy. I love that pick for so many reasons. One, I love that you started with value. You didn't start at the top in the obvious picks. Great strategy at the draft guys shows you're a true draft guys better. But too, I directed Kevin you on the show like two or three weeks ago. I was fairly certain he wasn't going to get drafted again. And then you come with the first thing I thought I was actually going to steal them with like one of my last picks. But no, not much doubt in the draft. No way. I love the pick definitely endorsed by me David would love your take on Kevin you this week. So when I allocated myself the fourth spot in the draft cast this week, it was particularly because I felt that I kind of had a lean of where these first three picks would likely go and I was kind of okay with where they would go. Kevin you certainly wasn't in the frame of their conversation. Kevin you was absolutely on my radar this week he was going to be within my lineup at some point not with my first two picks but the hope was that I could get him in like the third or fourth round. And as I mentioned, there's this huge concentration of approach shots between 175 to 225 yards, who leads the PGA tour this season and Greens regulation between 175 to 200 yards. Kevin you, who's seventh on the PGA tour for approach proximity from 175 to 200 yards. It's Kevin you so absolutely endorsed by me, regretting that we asked PJ Tout on the show because he's already made a steal with just as the first pick of a draft in the second spot there. I love it. I love it. Alright, well, I'm not going to surprise anyone. I'm not I'm going to think the obvious pick here. I'm going to do what I'm supposed to do at the third pick. If you're going to leave me Tony female I will select Tony female. I'm sorry that it's not sexy and exciting, but I took the best golfer at the third pick, but I'm going to do what I feel is right. I mean, probably, you're not watching this show for analysis on Tony female, but I'd love to get your take any reason why you wouldn't play Tony this week. Honestly, I got really excited about, you know, doing my own thing with this with this lineup construction. But Tony dropping to the third slot is a little bit of a steal here. I bet him out right and he's basic what is he 12 to one so like really putting all my eggs in the female basket this week. But what can you say he's been remarkably consistent here he's the best approach player in this field. And the putting barrier doesn't really seem to affect him on the screen so. Yeah, Tony's a great plot and he's not even priced up that much he's like just barely ahead of the gala which he should be significantly higher price than the gala so he says steel price to. I agree and I'll say that if it makes you feel any better. There is no guarantee that if you did take Tony that you would have gotten back to you. So I should pick that you took him first value of the board there's other guys on top you like you can still get him so David you got to you chose to go forth. So my first question is has the draft panda how you wanted to so far and then who you looking to take with those first two things. It has for the most part because I felt that if I took the full spot the two names that would go would be Tony female and actually bits here. And it was just a matter of which was the other selection and John being the very smart man that he is that's why we have him on the show because he's such an excellent player at DFS and great term analyst as well. So I think it takes giving you which was a bit of a steal but the other two were exactly as I kind of thought it would be because for me it I take the point I I particularly like the point about the price on Tony female. Like this isn't the case we've got John John Ram in the field or Scotty Sheffler who's like 12,500 and then it's like 10,500 the next guy like Tony females only $200 more than the person who's who's twice second and in the odds market he's like 10 to 1 versus 21. So he's also twice as short as the next guy on the rank so I do think that you're getting a great salary for someone who should probably be about 11,000 in this field. I do think you're getting a bit of salary saving. I'm quite happy here to go kind of a more balanced build. I feel it's the kind of golf course which is very volatile. We've also seen a lot of upsets here. We've seen some favourites come out. We've seen female obviously come out and play well and do that as well but I feel as a week you can roll the dice and take some risks. So I'm going to go straight out and grab some value here. So I'm going to take Adam Edwin who I really like this week he rents really well within that 175 to 225 yard bracket. He's got very, very good record on all those comp courses that I mentioned, PGA National Detroit Golf Club has played very well at those courses before. The other incentive for Edwin is obviously we've got this President's Cup selection coming up and they're team playing in Montreal. He is desperate to make that squad make no bones about it. This is a great opportunity and a weaker feel for him to really put his name within that mix of selections for Mike Weir. So I do expect him to come out and play really well and I'm going to back that up with Kurt Kediyama. Again, absolutely nails all those approach buckets. He's never played at this tournament before but he is one of the best between 175 to 225 yards ranking in the top 12 for basically every category within those key approach buckets that I'm looking at this week. Again, he's finished top three at the Delta Viata and mixed co-op and he's finished top three at the PGA National. So all the kind of directions and comp courses that I'm seeing point towards this being a really good spot for him. The reason why he's playing this week is he's like 78th in the FedEx Cup rankings. He needs to get into the top 70 to make the playoffs. This is a much better spot for him than say Wyndham is going to be the other opportunity. There's more of a fiddly course whereas we've seen him play well at these driving courses like Willie Wall at Bay Hill with tons of water and play lots of long irons. Drive is really important. He went in and won that tournament in a much better company. So I really like him this week and I'm very happy to start off my draft with a couple of key value selections to form Michael. Like I said before, I think that's a solid, very sound strategy. Get your favorite value plays early. That can be the most difficult thing to do late in these drafts. John, we'd love to get your feedback. Are you interested in Adam Hadland or Kurt Katiama this week? Yeah, I gave Hadland a lot of, a lot of consideration too. He's just good at keeping the ball in play, which is priority number one and two here is having a very underrated season to David's point. He's like on the cusp of being on that President's Cup team. It's hard to say if he's on it right now or not, obviously the Canadian guys are going to get a little bit of an edge benefit of the doubt from their captain being in Montreal. But he needs to prove a little bit more and he's been really good in this like upper Midwest part of the country like Detroit. John, your classic here, this is where he kind of in this part of the season is where he kind of makes his hay. I also like the Amex PJ West is a good comp course here because the stadium course has a lot of water everywhere. A little bit more emphasis, much shorter course and more emphasis on accuracy where the distance might be a little bit to his detriment here. But he shot 59 there. So you know, he can go low. That was several years ago, but he's always played well at the Amex. So I think that's a good comp course Kitty Alma to your point newcomer here, but starting to turn around with the ball striking. And basically the exact kind of player profiles Kevin, you more or less. So I like that play as well. I love it. There you have it. And I'm going to follow that up with if you like that player profile track and you're thinking captain of team no putt is going to have success here. Well, then I'm going to go for the captain. I'm going to go for the headline here. Let's keep Mitchell and I'm going to spend up keep Mitchell certainly can't make a putt, but he knows everything else really well. So if we're neutralizing the part of this week, this does seem like a week that would you get a really good result from Keith Mitchell? He also has some really good course history playing here. So we know he likes this course and he can get you some positive results. I'm okay with taking my two top guys early and then findings of value later in this draft. John, I'll go back to you. Just keep Mitchell to fit that mold of that profile you're talking about. Will you be playing in the ball this week? Yeah, I think I bet him at this tournament every year. Now he's like 30 to one and is terrified of contending on Sundays. So I've outright perspective. I think I'm going to take my medicine and go somewhere else. But DFS, I mean the ball striking is leaps and bounds ahead of most not named Tony Fino at this event. So that brings a pretty good baseline. I think he actually he does not have a great history putting here, but he's turning it around a little bit recently. And like I remember the days two or three years ago when Keith Mitchell was known as a good putter. So something has happened recently that feels like he'll fix it eventually. And if he fixes it this week and he puts positive, he's going to be a real problem. I absolutely agree. David would love your take as well. Are you interested in Keith Mitchell this week? Yeah, I think he's really interesting in large GPP performance as well because you are getting leverage on him compared to others within that range. I mean, getting 14% on, you know, that six K range gets pretty weak, pretty quickly this week. So yeah, there's a few names in that six K range, but other than that, like it's barren. So if you are going to go and get some win equity, going up top is probably going to be your best bet. The fact that he's for me, one of the lowest owned within that top range, that kind of goes south. If the garlic is going to be the lowest owned, then Keegan Bradley, then Keith Mitchell, so you're getting a lot of leverage. And to the point on him putting well, like those stats do come through for sure. Like 2019, he gained six strokes, putting, he gained another six in 2021 when he finished fifth. And then he gained five in 2022 and finished fifth as well. So there's ever a spot he's going to turn around his putter. It could well be here. My minor concern would be he's coming in on two missed cuts, including at the Barracuda, where you would have been expected to play well. And he lost over five strokes approach and two rounds of the Barracuda. So that's kind of a question mark. But as a result of that, you're getting a ton of leverage because his ownership's down. So you've always got to make those considerations. And he's had good success on this course before. Oh, I love it. There you have it. You started with Kevin, you at your first Vicki got some value. You have 8500 average per pick left. Where are you going with your second pick? I'm going back up to the top. I'm going to take Sam Burns here. I've got here. I would rank the contenders this week as female in a class of his own. Akshay right after that. And I've had Sam Burns is the third favorite this week. So I'm going best man available. Obviously for three out of four rounds looked incredible in links conditions, which is not really known for at the open last week. Somebody who if you need to just play aggressively and make a lot of birdies. He can do that. That's what he does best. Obviously we prefer him on Bermuda, but he's had good success on vent too. One of these guys, like you said, like he's a good putter. So is that going to diminish his value here? I still think the ball striking has been very encouraging this year. A lot of just positive signs total driving both, you know, accuracy with the driver and distance and can get streaky on approach. So I think he was top 10 as debut here. Hasn't played this event in a couple of years. Makes sense. It's sort of a tricky spot on the schedule once you can kind of make your own schedule. So I'm not too concerned about that. And he is making the trip back over from from Scotland. But Lee Hodges did that last year. And he won Tony Fino did that the year before. So jet lag less of a concern for me this week. And I'm just going best man available here. Now I agree with that. There does seem to be a tier, you know, above the rest of this week of, you know, a handful of guys. And then, you know, everyone else kind of in a whole nother tier of their own. So you want to get maybe a share or two of that top tier, which you're able to do with that pick. I endorse that there. David, we'd love your take on Sam Burns this week. Yeah, I mean, look, I'll forgive him the final round of the open. I mean, he's never really performed in the majors. Like, and that's been a criticism of Sam Burns across his career. But he was right there for the first three rounds. And T.O. Watt, it was a very, very tough golf course, very, very tiring week with all the weather that we had. But I find himself in position to maybe go home and win a major championship. And you know what, like those kind of days can spiral out of control pretty quickly. We sort of the week prior with Lydvig at the Scottish Open, right? I mean, we don't regard Lydvig any lower because of what he did on the fire in the day of Sunday at the Scottish Open. We still know that he's an elite talent and he'll come out and perform in the future. And he just had a really off day in that last Sunday and kind of same with Sam Burns. You can kind of capitulate in eras, elite in more eras, and you can kind of get on a bit of a negative role at that point, kind of pointing. You do see players check out. So I get an F2 for him in that last round. I like the fact he can make a lot of parts of the obviously key. And yeah, look, he's on the outside looking in at that President's Cup team at the moment, one that he's played on previously. So again, another who would really like to make that squad and represent USA later this year. A little extra incentive. I love it. Audience, great job. Pics are in a timely fashion, solid picks. The audience is going with Clanton and Gim as their next two selections. I love to get your take on that. We'll start with you, David. Are you interested in Doug Gim or Clanton this week? I'm really interested in Doug Gim because, I mean, look, as John said, if there's ever a venue where Team No Part is going to do well, it kind of would be here. And Doug Gim is obviously like a firm member of Team No Part, along with a number of the names that we've already taken on the draft so far. He can absolutely stripe on a approach. We've seen that previously. He's got a very good record of the comp courses as well, and is particularly good in the approach range as I'm looking. So I do think Doug Gim is an interesting name. I think he's underpriced compared to where he's moving in the odds markets. He's only getting shorter and shorter in terms of betting odds. And obviously once the DFS prices are set, they're kind of set and you can't move them. In terms of Luke Clanton, I get all of the hype around him, like he is playing incredibly well. The thing for me that I always struggle with with someone like that is how do you rate someone who's still an amateur who we've had such little time to know what this guy is, what he does, and how he goes about his business. There's a huge talent, yes, like is he going to be a staff when the PGA tour for many years to come? Probably. But we're still finding out what he is, and we're paying a hell of a lot of money at 9300 to find out compared to other kind of household names where there's other options within those markets or even high AKs that I prefer and probably for me have a little bit more winning. Boom, I love it. We love your take as well to any interest this week on Luke Clanton or Doug Gim. Yeah, I always forget Doug Gim is like a, he's a Midwest guy's from Illinois, so it's not really Minnesota, but it's, you know, he's Minnesota adjacent, so he's got that going for him. And accuracy, accuracy here again, something that is valued. With Clanton, interesting prospect, he could be a generational driver. We've only seen a limited sample size from him. He did break out on two of the easier setups you will see on the on the PGA tour and as many birdies are out there at the 3M open like I think there is a benefit to somebody who knows how to navigate a course a little bit. Do a little strategy walking through the grounds knowing where you can and can't miss. You know, I think there's something to that of having a veteran who knows how to navigate a course like this rather than Detroit Golf Club and TBCD or Run where it's really just rip the driver and make a bunch of birdies and don't really worry about the consequence. So I'm a little hesitant on on Clanton here, but he's somebody who is number one in my model and like popping and literally everything I put in, obviously driven by a small sample size on very easy courses. He's not playing the open or the majors that are going to drive down your birdies are better gained and stuff like that. So you have to take some of that with a grain of salt, but a very promising prospect and and hey, Matthew Wolf, not too different from what we're looking at with Luke Clinton when he won here in 2019, basically straight out of college as a bomber. You know, generational ball striker. So I get definitely get in. I'm thinking about him for DFS too. Interesting. I love the insight. I assume you'll be taking a little more experience with your third pick here. You got about 8,200 per pick left. Who are you looking at with your third selection. Alright, so the next guy I'm going to go with is someone who I consider to be a $1,500 discount or so on Luke Clinton and getting all of the exact same attributes. I'm going to go Rico, Hoey, Hoey Chestnut. I like what we're seeing in the game. He's he's on a stretch where his last four weeks have been on the easiest for tournaments you could possibly play in against the softest fields you could possibly play against. So I'm not going to overreact about the three top 10s over his last four starts. They're not as not a bad sign. I still need him to prove it a little bit more, but he's getting it done in the ways that you need to get it done at TBC Twin Cities, which is total driving consistent ball striking and then making a bunch of birdie putts. So that's going to translate here is not a great, you know, around the green guy. That doesn't matter so much at this course. The greens are massive. The green side complexes are not really that nuanced. So I think he can really separate here with his driver. He killed me at the ISCO championship. I had him. He needed to make par from the middle of the fairway with the wedge in hand, hit it into the rock. So I don't love him for that. And it kills me to go back and back again, but he's a tremendous value here. Somebody I would imagine has to be extremely popular for DFS purposes, but leaves a lot of salary on the table for the for the second half of my lineup. It's funny. I was another guy who I thought I was surely going to get at the end of this draft. I didn't think he was going to get taken this early. Good pick. I like him this week as well. Again, it's a small sample size, but he's playing really well. And I think one of the things I'm taking to account right now is because of the whole live job on a lot of these guys kind of not playing on the tour. There's a new normal, and I think we have to adjust a little bit in finding that guys like this can pop more often because the field just aren't as loaded as they used to be. And so that this isn't as abnormal as it may have would have been four years ago when, you know, Ram and Rory and, you know, Joaquin Neiman and those guys are playing in every tournament, but that's just not the case anymore. So I certainly endorsed that pick. Would love to be here. Your take, David, are you interested in Rico? Yeah, and look, I think King Trace is actually a really good comp for what you need this week. I mean, we saw the fact that Rico, he did put it in the water on that 18th year. I was on Rico as well. That week, I had both Rico. He had 50 to one and I had Pearson Kootie at 75 to one who looked like a wide wire victor in the making at the year. So broke my heart as well. They're John in terms of his finish of the year's go, but I think that's a really good comp for what's expected this week. And yeah, he's played very well. The year obviously finished second lost in their playoff in the end eventually. And then he was good at the Detroit golf cup as well, which again, I've mentioned is a good comp course finished sixth year. So look, the approach again, looks like he's really trending. It's a ton of four results now of 26 or better and three of them have been a four beta as well. So it looks like he's trending really nicely. And yeah, thanks to me 500s of good price. I love it. There you have it. I am going to follow that up and continue the theme. You know, Tout, you really just sold me on just leaning into team no putt. Just take them all. You can't putt. This is your week. And another guy who, you know, he's found the ball striking. He's never really been a great putter. But this does feel like the week that this question sued him and that's Jonathan Vegas, who, you know, has been hurt has kind of had been struggling last year earlier this year. But he's found something more recently. The ball striking has looked really good at the John Deere in the Rock and Mortgage. He really couldn't make a pot. He lost over two strokes, putting in each of those tournaments. But he gained over two strokes with the approach of the John Deere. He gained over four strokes at the Rock and Mortgage, and he's been even better with his driver. Really hit in the driver well, being almost five strokes up the tee at the John Deere, three at the Rock and Mortgage, four at the Canadian. If he can find a little edge of that punter and have that the neutral is not positive, I think Jonathan Vegas can compete. They go out there and win if not top 10 this tournament at 7500. I love that value. Tout, I'd love to go to you. Are you interested at all in Vegas this week? Yeah. He was gone for almost a full year with the back surgery or something, and it took him a while to get back to where he was. Whatever guys come back from injury, I look at this with Maverick McNeely, too. I wait to see the distance come back. And once I start to see, okay, this is the guy who used to get him a distance. And now he's doing it again. I'm like, okay, he's fully healthy again. So a healthy Jonathan Vegas always has made a living on these TPC courses. John Deere Classic is another one, which I have started to rename the John Deere Classic because it's his tournament. I think these are the types of events you want to play in this type of part of the season. 7500 for a ball striking specialist who's coming back into form. Pretty good price. I love it. David, we love your take on Jonathan Vegas and then you got to. Well, Joel, you'll see that I've typed into the spreadsheet there that you've definitely not taken Johnny Vegas because that's a direct deal of exactly who I was going to take with my next selection there. It looks like he's healthy, right? And we love Johnny Vegas previously and anyone who's full of the draft cast for the last couple of years will know that. But three consecutive finishes of 27th or better. That's included at 25 at the Rocket Mortgage Detroit Golf Club, which I've said is a very good comp course. He was second here back in 2021. He's had a fourth at the Honda Classic as well. PGA Nationals got very good correlations in terms of leadable crossover between those two events and yeah, look, I do really like him in between in approaches from 175 to 200 yards. Johnny Vegas is second on the tour and top of this field for proximity within that very specific range where you are going to see a large number of shots. On top of that, that stat, by the way, is Nikolay Hoigard, who I'm really surprised to not see play this week. He's outside the top seven. He just and could have made his way into the playoffs. Windham isn't going to suit him in terms of the type of course. He's obviously just stayed in Europe because the open beam in Scotland and then next week he's in the Olympics as well in Paris. It would have been a lot of travel for him to come back, but it would have a shame not to see Nikolay Hoigard play because I think it would have been actually a really interesting spot for him. All right. Well, you can't take Hoigard, but you do have to. So where are you going to go with your next two picks? Yeah, and I can't take Johnny Vegas either since the use of him for me too. So I'll have to go and take. I was going to take Eric Van Royne anyway, so I'll start off with that. Again, the weakness to Eric Van Royne's game is around the green and that's one of the least predictive stats that this course compared to others. Very good on approach. Last time out of the Scottish Open gained six strokes on approach at the Scottish Open. Last time that we saw him at a six-bit Detroit Gold Club as well. So his last three starts on comp courses. He's finished eighth at the data by outer second at the Honda at the Cognizant Classic early this year. Formerly the Honda Classic finish runner up and then he finished six at the Detroit Gold Club. He's got three straight top eight finishes at comp courses. And again, he's just on that kind of fringe of making the top 50. He's 56 at the moment in terms of FedEx Cup ranking. You need to get into the top 50 to make sure that you're in the signature events next year. So I think that he has got a lot of win equity. He really likes these golf courses, which driving is very important, which it is here. He's seen it over in the DP World Tour as well. The Divide Desert Classic is a really strong driver's golf course. Not just because you have to hit it long, but also because there is trouble off the tee that you can find in terms of desert areas and water. And so do like this spot for him. And then I'm going to back that up with Cameron Davis, who I really wanted to bet this week. He opened at 45, so he was very quickly closed into 35s and I couldn't quite take him at that price unfortunately. But otherwise he would have made my betting card. He's a two time winner at Detroit Golf Club. We know that that's got a lot of crossover. He's kind of an outside chance to make the President's Cup. So I think that he's got every sentence come out here and play really well. In terms of his record here, he's finished 12th, 28th, 16th, and his last four starts. So really good record. And then as I mentioned, he's two time winner at the Detroit Golf Club and he's finished eight at the Honda Classic before as well. So I think there's a lot to like about him. I think he's got really a lot of potential to go out and finish in the top 10 again this week. I am shocked Cameron Davis made it this far in the draft. I actually am shocked. You didn't take it with one of your first two picks. I know you love Cameron Davis. This course seems like a really good fit. I had you taking him, but the fact that you got him this late does seem like a steal. Tout, we love your take. Are you interested in Cameron Davis or Eric memory in this week? Yeah, I'm curious if he's stuck with the hypnotherapy that he was crediting to his win at the rocket mortgage because that's one of those things where I'm like, if I'm trying to find somebody who's found something. And they've been terrible. And then all of a sudden, whoa, a top 10 the week before. I'm like, whoa, maybe this guy's doing hypnotherapy too, because Cam Davis is like, I didn't see this coming either guys. I didn't know I could do this. And he like saw some hypnotherapists and then he turned his game around. So I'd like that he's got like spiritually another entity on his side. So it's hard to bet against that. And he has a really, really good track record here like top five in course history. So love the Cam Davis pick. Eric Van Ruyen, the golden gopher, taking the pathway from South Africa by way of Minnesota University. So he will have the home crowd on his side hasn't translated to success here yet, but somebody who you just ride those vibes long enough. They will pay off. And obviously, narratives aside a very good course fit so very good wrap around there for for team David. Boom. There you have it. John, I got a question for you. I got my my nice pick locked in. I'm going to give you a chance to guess who it is and I'm going to give you a big clue. I'm going to take a golfer who has not lost strokes in any category. And David, while you're here, you are this tree is open for you as well. My pick is a golfer who has not lost strokes in any category during the month of July. Who am I getting? There's a good question. I would get what have you got salary? What have you got salary wise? 7500. Okay, probably someone in the seven K range, I would say. I'm hoping from that that is accurate. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Can I, can I take a guess? Is it Mac Meisner? I am looking at him, but no, that is not. That was a great guess. Um, Ben Griffin. It is not. It is Chan Kim. Hi, Jim. He is a dry picket. He is right at the moment. Absolutely striking. It has not lost strokes in any category in July, even if the market mortgage he missed the cup. I suppose he lost five strokes, but he was very good. If Chan Kim continues to make cuts this week, the way he's hitting the ball, he's got a ton of upside. I think the top 10 finishes certainly insight at 7600. I think he's a steal this week. Now, my concern with him is the ownership is a little high and, you know, a highly owned champion is not not something you really love. But he's, he's playing well enough in this watered down field. I think I'm okay with eating some of that ownership. I love to get your take, David. Are you interested in Chan Kim this week? You're, you're on mute. So keep it professional around here. Yeah, look at, as I said, he is absolutely striking at the moment. He is playing. So, well, I mean, the, the approach numbers just speak volumes and that's always something to look for someone who's just suddenly switched around in terms of one facet of their game and they're really nailing it. The other thing that I like is that he is gaining strokes off the tee for the last five tournaments as well. So he's both gaining for driving distance and for driving accuracy. As I mentioned, the ESCO is a really good comp in terms of playing at altitude and we drivers are important. It's finished 10th of the year. He's got an eighth of the Dante Viata as well. But yeah, particularly those approach metrics is, is I catching him. I don't think he's too overly owned for the discount that I'm getting in terms of the value. And it's always a bit of an art form to match up between ownership and who's just like cheap, you know, like, and that's why they're getting ownership and there's a lot of other names that are catching attention down there. A couple of them have already gone. Rico Ho and Johnny Vegas are going to get some attention, Mac Naciner, who I just mentioned as well. It's going to be popular too. So I don't think he's going to be overly chalky because at the end of the day, it's still Chan Kim, right? So like, not everyone's going to necessarily gravitate to that name. But I do think there's a lot of promising signs on his profile. Boom. I love it. Cow. We'd love to get your take on Chan Kim and then you got your fourth pick. Yeah, Chan Kim was the guy I wrote up in my Sleepers article this morning. So I'm definitely on that same wavelength. I actually didn't even realize he was the short game was following how good the ball striking was. Because I think of him as a ball striking specialist, which again, broken record, that's exactly what I'm looking for here and the putting hasn't even been as bad as it had been. So Chan Kim, great pick. And if it's going to happen for Chan Kim, I think this would be the course for him to break there. For my next pick. Yeah, I think he's been getting a lot of chatter in the chat. Somebody who I think was rumored for me to go with the first pick, if not female, if not Kevin you. But obviously somebody I'm very high on this week. I'm going to go with Nick, not done yet done lap. I think he keeps the streak going. It was not one of those like emotionally taxing wins where you're like, Oh, how is he going to respond after such a big win? He's already won before. So it's not the new to this guy is early. He was one twice, 20 years old doesn't know any better. He just shows up to tournaments and wins them. You know, it needed an eagle to get five extra points at Barracuda came from absolutely nowhere. And again, it's not like he was grinding and contention like Mac Meisner is probably exhausted. He was like leading that tournament for like 48 hours. And then all of a sudden this guy gets five points on an eagle and laps him out of nowhere. So emotional hangover, not really feeling it. General jet lag hangover, not a factor. He's coming in from California to Minnesota. That's an easy trip. He's young. He has a really good travel fatigue. None of that matters to him and a ball striker. Like, that's how he won the Barracuda. Very good driver. Really, really good trending irons. I do think, like I said earlier, PJ West, a very good comp course shorter than this, but he has the distance where that should translate across both two. So a lot to like about done lap. I didn't actually end up betting him myself because I wrote him up yesterday morning. And then everything happened. Sorry. I wrote him up on a Sunday morning before the final round of the Barracuda started. Had no idea. He was even contention. He was like, he was like T 20. And then he blew up. And now his odds are kind of corrected. But I still like him a lot. I think he's a great DFS play. I could easily see him following up that win with another T 20. Yeah, well, we teased Dunlop for you earlier in the show. He got back to you with the fourth pick. Feels like a steal to me. Before we go to you, David audience, you got one and you need one more pick. So keep the nominations going for your second pick. But David would love your take on Nick Dunlop this week. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Because everyone's so high on the Luke Planktons and the Neil Shipley's and this kind of like, what seems to be like a really good class of amateurs coming through. And then we've all kind of forgotten a little bit just how good Nick Dunlop's been. And the fact he came out broke that long standing drought with them. No, no amateurs winning PGA Tour events since Phil Mickelson and he's kind of kicked on since then and included within that. I'd add that he was a 12th at the Memorial and a signature event and much stronger field than this. He's had a 10th at the Rocket Mortgage. The Barracuda is kind of a weird event in terms of the, the Stableford scoring format. So I'm not going to read too much into like the actual statistics behind his win and just appreciate the fact that it's an event. It's an event that he went out and won. And I mean, the interesting thing with that Stableford like scoring is it just encourages you to be incredibly aggressive. And that's kind of it. It's like your gain for making an eagle, making a birdie is so much more than making a double bogey. So don't mind it so much in terms of the fact he didn't do that while an approach asked me because you just have no idea how those guys are really kind of targeting that golf course. So a lot going from, I think he has a good value at 8400 and you kind of get this reverse effect where someone wins the tournament and then people decide to go off them because like he won't win two in a row. Whereas like if the guy had finished like second in his last three starts, he was like, oh, he's the next hot thing. So yeah, I like playing that psychological element as well. I love it. There you have it. Audience. Great job getting the second pick in the audience will be going with. It looks like Tom Hoggi and Patrick Fishburn with their next two. I was considering Hoggi there for a minute at 8800. I think that price is fair. Didn't make it to my roster, but would love to get your take. Are you interested in Fishburn or Hoggi this week? Yeah. Hoggi made a nine on the railway hole, which I was tracking diligently because I had him first round leader and he was one off the first round lead. And then I went to get like a cup of coffee and I came back and I went to the leaderboard and I was like, where did he go? What happened to Tom? And I kept scrolling and he dropped down. So if you take that one hole away where he made a quintuple bogey, he probably finishes top 15. So, and that happens on that hole like you're going to blow up on that hole. So wouldn't read too much into that and you actually get a pretty good decent discount had that not happened. So, great course for Hoggi. I like the pick Fishburn a bomber has played well in easier courses, birdie maker. So I like the sensible play as well. I love it. Kyle, you got your fifth figure. You got plenty of money to spend. We're going to go from here. Yeah, there's two ways I can go here. I can go with a star and a scrub or I can play it more balanced. I'm going to go with the former. I'm going to go best man available. I'm going to go to the hit. I'm a little concerned about the course history. However, counterpoint one that's going to be okay for ownership and tournaments because people are going to be scared away by that at that price tag. Not necessarily a decision in a small four person draft like this, but in general, it's a great, great pivot. And you look at the hip this year versus every year prior when he came into this course and he really has dramatically flipped off the tee into, you know, from weakness to strength. And everything we've talked about here is you got to be reliable off the tee. So he's great with that. He's got the driving iron club down when he needs to the driver itself has been more accurate than it definitely has been in the past. And for whatever reason, he's like struggled to gain around the greens, which had been his bread and butter. But if that continues to be a detriment that's not going to kill him here and definitely a streaky birdie maker. So I like that I have ended up with Burns in Thigali, even though I didn't necessarily build it that way originally. So those will be the pillars of this lineup now. There you have it. You got what you want. I like the way your team is rounding out. David, we'd love to get your table. You have any exposure to the hit Thigali. I mean, the main thing that I took from all of that is Royal 82, which is never going to get a cup of coffee when your player is in contention for the first round leader. Obviously, Royal 82, which you all know don't even do that. But Tom Hokey was someone I was going to take. So that is a steal from the audience. He was going to fit him quite nicely with the rest of my lineup. So good one. The audience stealing him from me. You've got the jinx officially applied to you now in terms of Tom Hokey. Definitely got to miss the cut. So if the gala is really interesting because I agree, the course history looks a bit small at this place, but they're not pointed somewhere like TPC sawgrass, right? Like, would you think that TPC sawgrass is the hit the gala golf course? Like probably not. Like, there's a ton of water in play. But he's obviously played well there too previously and showing up on those leaderboards. So he's a better golfer now for me than he ever has been. I like the consistency that he's added to his game. I think he's more sensible in terms of his course management, not just ripping driver blindly every hole. He knows now when he needs to lay back. So I do think that he's an interesting option, especially if the ownership is just so low at 12% compared to everybody else around him. I mean, you've got tiny feet now kind of pushing 32 to 33 right above him there. So do you think that he's an interesting option, particularly for large GPP, wouldn't put him in my cash game or single entry lineups? Obviously, just because of the safety concerns that come with him. I mean, in this field, just the name alone, there's certainly upside in the hit the gala playing in this field. So I am with you there. I am going to go ahead and take Mac Meisner with my fifth pick. I think David, you mentioned a little while ago, he makes a lot of sense on this course. You know, he's accurate off the tee. The ball striking is certainly there. Another player that's on team though, but there's certainly a theme to my team. But he has shown the ability to make some puts and get hot in any given week. It's a small sample size of his success here, but it's a good one. I mean, in July of low, he's got two top 20s. He has a top five at the Charles Slob earlier in the year, so we know there's upside. We'd love your take, David. Will you be playing Mac Meisner this week? Yeah, look, I'll have some exposure. I think my concern comes from the ownership number, the regard that we're still learning about and who has kind of burst down to the scene a little bit this year. He's rated really highly and his metrics do kind of point to an upward trajectory. So I get all those positive sides. I guess my concern comes with the ownership number versus like, say for me, you know, I took a key, for example, he's only 200 more and actually less ownership than Mac Meisner. So these other options I probably go to first before I land on them. But I think he'd certainly be part of my pool for larger GPP contests. There you have it. All right. You got two here. You're rounding out your squad. Plenty of money to spend. Who are you looking forward to your last two picks? Yeah, and it's kind of put me into a bit of a tough position here in terms of how exactly I ran this out, because I would have liked to have gone to Tom Hoege. There's a couple other names. I'll see if they'll come out a bit further down the board. That could have been balanced it out. So I'm just going to go with the bomber narrative here and hope something sticks off the back of it. So I'll take Taylor Penderith at 8,700. I'll take Patrick Rogers at 8,100. Both big bombers with the golf ball, plenty of driving distance. Seems like a spot that they should do well. Taylor Penderith has got the President's Cup in frame of mind as well. And then both can drain lots of parts, which I do think is going to be important this week. I think it's going to be tougher than people maybe think it usually plays. There does look to be a little bit of wind, particularly Friday afternoon and then into the Saturday Sunday kind of weekend if you make it that far. So I do think it's going to be more around that 18-under corner mark and turns the winning score rather than low 20s. But I do think both these guys with their driving distance do have an edge in terms of particularly some of those par-5s, which they'll be able to reach in to. Boom. There you have it. Two solid picks. Before we move off, I get, Jon, I love your take. Are you with David or on Penderith or are you going to Penderith? Yeah, I'm Penderith's one of my favorite plays this week. I think he has a really high floor on a course like this where he has the distance to get to the par-5s. But he has a really good track record on the positional less than driver courses, so you know he's someone who can manage his way around the course. I had him at the Barracuda last week. He actually had an outside chance at winning that before Dunlap made that eagle. It kind of turned everything upside down. But played really well at Barracuda and really, you know, he kind of backed into his win at the Byron Nelson. But he's been putting himself in that position to win these sort of like moderate in between sort of stakes tournaments. So I like Penderith a lot. Rogers is a little bit more of a wild card. You never really know what you're going to get with him. But fits that same profile. And he was also right in the mix of Barracuda last week. So two guys in good form. I love it. There you have it. I'm going to round up my squad with Andrew Novak. I think Andrew Novak is a guy who is just continually getting disrespected, especially in these watered down fields. He has proven to show up this season especially early in the year. He had three top 10s in a row, even more recently since the beginning of June. He's got three top 20s with a top 10 in there. So he's playing really well right now. He's a good ball striker. He didn't get really out of the punter. I wouldn't have been surprised if Novak was priced up in the high 8K range. So to get him here at 7400, to me is a discount. How about you? Are you interested in Andrew Novak? Yeah, Novak, the discount double check. One of my former favorite nicks. There's a Milwaukee connection there with Marquette and Steve Novak in here. So I don't know. There's something to that. I agree. He has disrespect. He's a very good all-around player in the watered down event. So like you said, or where you get the best out of Andrew Novak. So this is the type of event that I would expect him to do well in. Ooh, John agrees. I have the best team. I appreciate that. John, with your last pick. 6,600 to spag. How are you rounding this roster out? All right. So I don't have much budget left, but I did want to make sure I got it. Make sure I got this guy on my roster. You mentioned at the top of this telecast that you want to, you want to anchor your value guys with someone who can just get through the cut. So I'm just going to avoid the trouble of reliable cut baker. How about someone who's played in all five prior 3M opens, made the cut in all of them? I have a long mantra of just saying you don't fade Garnet in Minnesota. You play the big ticket when Garnet comes back to Minnesota. So he hasn't failed here yet, and I'm going back to Bryce Garnet yet again. It's purely a course history play. However, what has he done since the last time he was here and made the cut? He won the Puerto Rico Open, and he has a couple other top 15s this year. Then coming at the team event at TBC Louisiana, which actually is one of my favorite comp courses to TBC Twin Cities in the TPC layout. That's just a softer version of TPC Twin Cities, but other than the softness and the sea level of it. I think the layout and design and the water that comes into play with all the risk reward holes are very similar, and he's played well at that event a lot. So obviously not a sexy pick, a good salary saver though, and somebody who all he's done is make the cut here. And if he makes the cut at 6400, we're looking good. And for those of you that don't know, yes, that is Minnesota Timger wolves and Boston Salt Lake legend Kevin Garnet's cousin. So they're cousins. That's why he made that reference and he does play great at this course. Love that audience. As a reminder, your last pick, you have 7,500 to spend, let's get those nominations in to round out this draft while we wait for those final nominations on the audience last pick. David, we'll love your take on Bryce Garnet this week. Yeah, sexy Bryce Garnet, who I've never heard referred to as that, but we might just call him that nickname for him now, PGA top. Yeah, look, either course history, obviously does look very promising for him. He's got good performances at comp courses as well. The other Minnesota that I kind of like down that range, which I'll mention now because it doesn't seem like the audience will likely take him, given the salary that they're kind of it, is Troy Merritt, who's 6500, obviously went to college in Minnesota. He's spoken recently about this golf course that he's seen it over 20 times. He played a lot as an amateur as well. And then he also moved, when he moved colleges, he moved to Boise, Idaho, so he's had a lot of experience playing at altitude. And yeah, I think that he's an interesting option and team no putts down in that kind of 6500 range. Him and Bryce Garnet would be two of the stronger options if you do find yourself needing to get somebody in that discount kind of range. Now, the audience is going slow, we still need that final nomination in. And if I can give the audience a suggestion, I would be looking at Austin Eckrod here. He didn't get drafted. I think he looks good. That's what I would take, but I know because I've said that you definitely won't take him, which now secured him being safe so that I can come back next week and remind you how you could have taken him in one, but you chose nothing. Even though Albert is on my side looking to get that pick in, we are over time. So we're going to have to just pick one and there's nothing better than a good draft cast controversy, the end of draft and the me just giving the audience Austin Eckrod as a thank you to them not putting the pickings up. We're going to have to do, you guys took too long, didn't get the pick in Austin Eckrod the pick round out the squad. That is a wrap for the draft tonight. I love these teams. I think these two do really well. We will cut them up and post them on Twitter. I would love to get everyone say, let us know which team you think is going to win, but before we let you off of this, smash the like button, give us a follow. It goes a long way. We certainly appreciate all of your support and before we get you out of here tonight, we will drop you with our first round leaders as you pull the board down. David, I would love to start with you in the first round leader market this week. Look, I would have taken Austin and Eckrod if I was the audience here as well. We do love a good controversy though, Joel, and absolutely as soon as the words Austin Eckrod entered your mouth, there was no way the words Eckrod was going to take them. It looks like it was eventually backed out, helping it and being both going for Eckrod there. It is a very good pick and as I mentioned, PGA National is very correlated to what you get here at the 3M Open and he is the winner at the Cognizant Classic early this year. Lots of correlation. I have just got one first round leader and just got to keep it real simple. It is Tony Fino. We have got Tony Fino at the moment, going off in the morning, he is priced as short as 10 to 1 in places to win the tournament and you are getting him at 22s, 23s to be first round leader. He gets an early morning tea time and I think that is very good value so just got to stick with that at the moment. I might add one or two long shots a bit later but at 22s, 23s, I think there is a lot of actually, I have just seen the 25s on them to be first round leader when he is 10 to win in the win market. Why not? Tony Fino comes out and finishes minus 7 on the first day. I don't think that is surprising anyone. At the Open last week he was 18 to the first round and then just got absolutely blown over in the win on the Friday which a lot of the guys did. He will be less jet length than others coming back from Scotland and he didn't play the weekend. At 20s to 1 for the best player in the field, I like that number with you on that. We love to hear from you, Tom, it doesn't have to be a first round leader. If you have a first round leader or a player, we love him. If you have a match up or any bet, you really like this week and liking us. Yeah, first round leaders, I got a bet done lap just because I wrote him up and I didn't bend him out. That's a little bit of a hedge my bet and make sure that I have my exposure there. He does continue this world beating tour. I want to be a part of it. I really like Taylor Pendreth first round leader. He's just playing really good golf right now and I think of course like this, just having that extra distance to your advantage is going to make birdie or eagle in play on a couple extra holes. That's always something I look for in a first round leader. To somebody who is disciplined enough to not make a bogey or double bogey by hitting it in the water, but also has the distance to get scoring opportunities where they are around here. I would say those two and then Kevin Newe too, got to double down and Kevin Newe. That guy is built for first round leads because he's extremely volatile with the putter. I say that not to me that he's bad at putting. He's very hit or miss. If you hit and he's gaining kind of like a poor man's Keith Mitchell, then that is exactly the range that I look for in first round leaders, like a boomer bus, 100 to one guy. Those three guys will be on my first round leader card and then I'll look to round it out with a couple others, but that's all I've got on my prop card so far. I love it. I hope, Kevin, you find the hot part of this week because if he does, watch out. I've got a couple for you. I'll start with Daniel Berger, didn't you mention the show, but 90 to one is a big number. Again, he needs to find a putter, but if he does, I think he can turn up in the first round. Jonathan Biggis at 75 to one, Cam Davis. We see him pop a lot in these first round at 45 to one. My last one, I'm sticking with you, David. I think Tony Fino is a really good number. I think he's the best golfer in this field at 28 to one. I think there is some value to be had. That's a wrap for tonight. Big, big thank you to BGA Taup for coming and drafting with us tonight. You were excellent as you always are. Is there anyone else that the folks can find you this week? Yeah, thank you guys for having me out. I'm always, always having to chop it up with you. Yeah, just find me on the lines.com for my articles. I have my final bets posted article tweeted out sometime midday tomorrow. Otherwise, @pjtout on Twitter or X. As always, we don't follow him already, which I'm sure if you watched this show, you already followed out. But if you don't, he is an excellent follow. Some great information. Check out this page. You will not regret it. I appreciate you all as always. Don't forget to tune back in next week. We will crown a winner from this week draft and we will do it all over again next week. Good luck and did I forget anything? Yeah, no, just shout out PGA Taup. If you're not following him on Twitter, I don't know what you're doing, he's one of the best out there. That's why we love having him on this show. Just such great info and just really appreciate you coming on and being a guest mate, which is, yeah, it's always fantastic. Even if you do steal Kevin Yu from me in the first round. So there you go. We all hope that Kevin Yu has a good putting week, especially John. But of course, as always, sports. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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