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Speaker 1: Welcome to the cut Line twenty twenty six, breaking down

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at the Sony Open. I'm your host, Andy, and we

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are joined by my new co host who will be

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with me every week. You know him as the Cricket Department.

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Welcoming Jan who is my new cohort Yan, Welcome. Excited

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to have you here. How are you, my friend?

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Speaker 2: I'm all good. It's not just it's not just cricket.

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We do around here, the boxing apartment, the boxing, the

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rugby and now golf. Let's go. Obviously super excited to

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make my Wager Talk debut. That's it's been a long

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time coming.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, How can you not.

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Speaker 2: Be excited about this year in golf with everything that

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happened last year, so looking forward to this is going

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to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Yep, we got live drama, We've got TGL Tonight we

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get to bet against Kevin Kissner. But first we go

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to the one and Done. We have a fantasy golf league.

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By the way, if you guys want to join, leave

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a comment below, I'll send you an email. It's very simple.

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One and Done's one hundred dollars to enter. You just

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pick one guy each week. You can use them once

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throughout the year and you get their prize money. So

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Yan and I are gonna start of the show by

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sharing with what with what our one and dons are.

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Then we'll go over course previews, total strokes gained, players

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that can trip you up, DraftKings, darlings. We're gonna add

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a lot more bets this year. We're each gonna pick

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ahead to head, We're each gonna pick our favorite top finishes,

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and we're each gonna try and do some outright. So Yan,

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get us started before we recorded. You're like, it's week

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one and I already hate my one and done. Who

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are you going with?

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Speaker 2: It's an insane thing to be emotionally hedging in week one.

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But Corey Connors is a guy that in six months

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time I'm gonna be so bullish about and then he's

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gonna go and shoot a seven on a par three

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and miss the cut. I'm avoiding that early. This is

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a guy who's had four top twelves here in his

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last seven visits. Putting isn't ideal, but good enough. I

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am player to I'm just hoping and praying the guy

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top thirty finish will do me this week onto the

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next week. Already.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the thing we have to We're

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gonna have to use him, yeah, yeah, because we run.

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Speaker 2: Out of I wanted to break my heart early. I

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can't be doing this in six months time when I'm

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sort of in contention.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, so it's a really smart way to attack it.

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I'm going with, Oh, captain, my captain, Keegan Bradley. Let's

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hope that he plays better than he captained. I can't

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ignore sixth place in second place the last two years here.

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So his game, for whatever reason, is really good. And

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don't forget this guy was almost in the running to

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pick himself as a member of the Ryder Cup team.

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He played really, really good last year. So I'll use

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my Keegan Bradley this week. So coming out of the

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gates hop with Keegan Bradley and Corey Connors for one

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and dones, let's move to the course preview Wilei Country Club.

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It's a pretty basic course, par seventy seven thousand yards.

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It's it really comes down to the conditions here, is

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really all I can say. The fairways do have some

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runoff like this. As easy as this course is, there

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are going to be times when the course is super dry,

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and when it's windy, where the ball just rolls right

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through the fairway into the rough. So you see a

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lot of driving accuracy issues with this course. But the

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rough is not that hard. It's shorter and length, it's

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pretty flat. There are some kind of you got to

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move the ball to the left and right. But the

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thing here is rain is expected this week and it's

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gonna make the fairways and the greens really soft, and

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this is going to reduce the rolloff and Yan what

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did Justin Thomas tell us a while back. If the

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greens are receptive, we are going to tear the course up.

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I expect this to be really really low scoring with

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the with the fairways being wet because they're the driver's

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just gonna land and it's probably not going to have

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that much roll off. So I don't have a whole

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lot on this course. It's fairly basic. It's a pretty

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good kind of ease into the season. What's your take

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on why they got a country club?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, sort of similar, Like there's just no real consequences.

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penalty areas. Like you say, I think it's it's a

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wind and rain thing. If that's that's where the trouble

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is going to be. And I don't see much of that.

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putting contest. I mean, approach play does matter. But easy

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ish off the tee, easy ish around the greens. I

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don't see any problems for these guys either. I'm expecting

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low scores.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the ball rolls off into the fairway,

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a lot of times you're behind a tree. But again

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you're gonna have to spray the ball to get behind

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those trees. Like, it's not gonna be where you hit

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the fairway and run off. So we expect it to

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be really, really low scoring. So should be should be

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fun week if you like a lot of birdies. We

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move on to total strokes gained and uh we say

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hi to our good friends at Dada Golf. You guys

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probably know Dada Golf if you if you UH follow

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like us. So we're looking at the stats from the

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last we'll take the last six months. We've got Ben Griffin,

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Russell Henley, JJ Spahn, Robert McIntyre, Kirk Kitty Yama. This

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guy shows up every once in a while Yon, I

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would not be surprised for Kirk Kittyama on the leader

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board on Saturday or Sunday. Chris Kirk, my guy, Harry Hall,

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who was a cash cow for me last year, and

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we are going to get into him because I think

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there's a betable number there. Maverick McNeely, Hedeki Matsuyama, Seawu Kim,

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Chris got her up. I've watched Chris got her up

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on TGL, and I got high hopes for Chris go

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okay good, Yeah, I mean just the energy he's been

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play well on on TGL and I know, I know

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it's different, but you like to have a good attitude

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coming into the season. So he's gonna be one that

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we're looking at. Matt McCarty. You see Keegan Bradley there,

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so Mac Meisner, that's an interesting one. Brian Harmon is

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this course may set up really well for Brian Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Brian like, he's just got that iron play and it's

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so appealing.

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Speaker 1: It's just so short off the tee, but on this course,

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not gonna matter at all. If he gets the potter going,

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you know, he's gonna be good. Aaron Raye, I'd like

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to see him be good. And there's your boy, Corey

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Connors and uh so we'll get to uh, we'll get

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to some of these other names as the show moves on. Here.

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All right, let's go to players that can trip you up?

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Yeah on, this is my segment where we always talk

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about guys you can bet on. I think it's good

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to identify players that I think can trip you up.

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And these are players that I just think are big names.

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These are players that I think people might be using.

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And I'll start with he's basically lived on this one

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for the last season. It's Colin Morikawa. He's just getting

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too much respect in the market. Like he's I know,

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he's a big name and that's why he's priced near

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the top to win. But he's losing zero it might

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have zero point sixty strokes putting over the last six months.

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Like it's it's putrid. It's really really bad. It's one

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of the worst marks in this entire field. That's a

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non starter on a course where everyone should hit the fairways,

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everyone should hit the greens. Since March, he has one

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top ten finish one and his priced is the fifth

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highest favorite ball striking name value is there, But the

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results putter no way, not at this number. I don't

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trust Robert McIntyre. I know he looked at him in

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total strokes gained sitting top twenty there. He's just not

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been good here fifty second and fifty third the last

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two years. At a guy price that high, I just

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can't pull the trigger on him. The biggest concern is

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the approach play hasn't been that strong over the last

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twelve months, and that's going to be an issue where

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iron play is really key. So Bobby Mack, love you,

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but you're not going to be in any of my lineups.

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And then Hideki Matsuyama being priced as a top three

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favorite is insane. I know he won here before those

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twenty twenty two feels like one hundred years ago, one

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top ten finish at this event in his entire career

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and it happened to be a win. That's crazy. So

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he won the hero World Challenge in December, but his

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only other top ten came at the Century on January fifth.

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neck and back issues. You're going to see a lot

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of inconsistency. You're going to see like a third place

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finish and then a couple of miss cuts. So not

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Nothdeki Matsuyama is just not going to be in any

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of my lineups or any of my bets of anything.

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He's a fade. Any comments on either either of those guys.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Hadeki, I'm totally with you. And obviously Collins

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isn't it.

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Speaker 1: So yes, we love betting against him. So all right,

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let's move on to head to heads. This is where

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Jan and I pick a head to head. At the

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time of recording this, they don't see the head to

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heads on DraftKings, but the global markets have something young

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coming to you. First, what's a head to head that

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you like.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned Harry Hall because I've got Harry

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Hall over Jordan's spief. Now all I want is we

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like fading Jordan. I just need a continuation of those

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injuries and recovering from surgery. And you've got the safest

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pair of hands in Harry Hall. Like that. That is

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a guy who's an iron play god. Really, he was

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super consistent last year and he can part. I love

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this matchup. I actually think it's probably my best bet

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Speaker 1: To be honest, I love Harry Hall. I'm going to

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betting on him, and I'll tell you why in just

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a bit. I'm going to go with JJ Spahn over

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Colin mari Kawa pretty much any of these bigger name guys.

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I'm going against Colin Morikawa. So JJ spawn, you know,

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plus one point ninety three total strokes gained. His putting

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isn't isn't great, but it's light years ahead of where

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going to be my head head this week. Now we

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This is just any top ten, top five, top twenty,

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top forty, wherever you want to go. Yeah, give me

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your first one. What's your top finish top twenty.

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Speaker 2: I've got JJ spawn, which is really good timing. As

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far as I'm concerned, JJ spawn is the best ball

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striker in this field. He's got major contender pedigree. And

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when I look at a field like this, how does

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he not finish top twenty? The price doesn't make sense

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around even money. He was third in this last year.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, that's a pretty good pick. I'm

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gonna throw Russell Henley into the top twenty. I know

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he's the betting favorite, and I know you don't need

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me to tell you that the betting favorite should finish

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in the top twenty, but he should. He's gonna hit

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his fairways, he's gonna hit his greens, he's gonna have

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a ton of pars, and then he's gonna somehow have

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like three or four birdies and then all of a

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sudden he's gonna be eighth. This guy's finished tenth, four

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to thirty, second, second, eleventh the last four years. Here,

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he's going to be a round score player. I'll play

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his over pars. That's what Russell Henley did. He just

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hits fairways, hit greens, and he'll take advantage every once

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in a while and grab a birdie. He's just steady, Eddie.

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to bet on consistency. So what's your next one that

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Speaker 2: Going a bit left field here, I've got how tong

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Lee top forty, So any opportunity I get to talk

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about the d well tour. I'm gonna be taking it.

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bit about him, and I think top forty's actually quite

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a safe safety net. Also plus money around plus one

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ten ions putting health.

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Speaker 1: Only, I'm gonna go with my guy, Harry Hall. It's

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minus one eighty five and I don't care. This was

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one of the bets of the year, was just taking

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Harry Hall to finish in the top forty. He finished

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tenth here last year. And he's very Russell Henley esque

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as well. Just off the t he's going in his

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fair way. He's good scrambling, but I don't think you're

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gonna need to be a good scrambler here. And when

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I look at him, I believe he's eight in the

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field in total strokes game lights out with the putter

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plus one point eight strokes gained last six months. That's

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a that's a recipe for a top forty. I would

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even look maybe look at him for Top twenty. There's

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no reason why he shouldn't be cashing a pretty good

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ticket here. So yeah, we're all over Harry Hall. It's

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definitely on lockstep. So let's go to outright winners. I

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am We'll just say, this is not my specialty. I

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am horrible at picking outright winners. But people ask, hey,

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can you pick who wins? When we bet on things

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and we have official client plays at wager Talk, We're

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just not gonna do outrights. I'm of the opinion on

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that outright winners for the most part have lost all

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value in the number like these guys. These guys should

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be forty and fifty to one, not ten to one.

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The books are not giving you any discounts on them.

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But people want to know who's gonna win, So I'll

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let you go first. Do you want to pick a winner?

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I'm sorry? Do you want to pick a favorite? Do

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you want to pick an underdog who you like?

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Speaker 2: Well? Talking about prices, I am actually going a bit

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further down the board with you know, first first week variants.

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I'm taking Nico ecche area as my outright winner. I

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saw thirty three to one. I think it was he

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had such a good year last year and he improved

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in every aspect of his game. Once again, it's a

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guy who can hit irons and compart he was he

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lost last year in a playoff in this tournament. I

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don't see why he isn't there or thereabouts again being

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a better player twelve months on. So it's Nico Eccha

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area for me.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned him earlier in I think I think my

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pick is going to be Kirk Kiddyama. He doesn't have

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great history here, but at nine to one, this just

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feels like, randomly the kind of tournament that this guy

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shows up with. You look his stats, putting's not great,

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but Tita greens really really good off the tea's great

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approach is great. It's really his putting that's kind of

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the weak spot. But just there's nothing. There's nothing to

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these greens. This is not a difficult, you know, green

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setup to read. So someone that is going to be

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hitting a lot of fairways and a lot of greens

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is going to be in contention. I think we have

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a pretty I think we have a pretty cluttered leader

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board this week. I just think there's gonna be a

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lot of Berdieze in this one. So kirk kittyam at nine.

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He should be twenty to one, though, Kirk Kitty, he

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should be nine to one. So let's go to We'll

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do Draft Kings Darlings and I'll get Young's thoughts on this,

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and then we got to talk a little bit about live.

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So DraftKings Darlings. These are guys that you can use

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in your DraftKings itis, but also kind of underdog picks,

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kind of long shots. So I'll start here with John

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Perry at seventy two hundred and uh yeah, And I

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had my best year in DraftKings by far last year.

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I think I cashed in over sixty five percent of tournaments,

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so it was a really really good year of that.

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So I'm really looking forward to momentum this year. So

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John Perry really good value play at seventy two hundred.

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He's been competitive in December, which I like. He's got

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some reps on the World Tour or DP World Tour,

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finishes a fifth, seventh, and eighteenth. That's kind of the

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sharpness that I like. He's played three big PGA Tour

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events and he got better in each start, putting clear

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week spot but very accurate off the tee. Just hit greens,

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get through the weekend and give me some weekend points.

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John Perry. I'll go to Adam spenceon ugly putting numbers

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over the last twelve months, but it really hasn't mattered

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at this event. He's made the cut in all five

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times and he's only sixty seven hundred, So back to

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back thirtieth place finishes. If I can get a thirtieth

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place finish out of Adam Spenson, I'm ahead of the

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field in this category. And then Zach Blair sixty eight hundred.

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This guy's really motivated. He is teetering on not being

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losing his full time status, so he's really really motivated.

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Good ball striking coming into this week. He's made to

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cut the last two times he's played here. Tea green

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approach numbers have been really strong. Around the green is

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his weak spot. But again, I just don't think he's

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gonna need to do that. If you're hitting your fairways

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in your greens, grinded out in a lower tier PGA event,

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PGA Tour, Q School, this guy needs strong finishes. So

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he's weirdly one of the more motivated guys in this

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field to keep his full time status. So I start

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off my lineup with John Perry, Adam Spenceon and Zach Blair,

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and my article is up on my page w t

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up buzz slash al All of Yan and I's golf

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picks are going to be up on that page. But

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players that can trip you up, DraftKings, darlings, all of

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that is going to be available for free. It's a

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free digital download w t UP buzzl real quick. We're

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recording this on Tuesday TGL. If you watch TGL, it's

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pretty hard to bet. It's more of a novelty than anything.

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But anytime we get a chance to bet against Kevin

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Kisner and TGL, it kind of has to be done.

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Cameron Young is minus two ten head to head against

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Kevin Kissner and it's just a play. Kevin Kisner, he

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didn't he didn't take it serious. I don't think he would.

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He's gonna take it serious this year. He didn't quite

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get it. He was so uncomfortable. This is a guy

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that sculled one out of the bunker about about nuke

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to the audience and his fellow players, and Cam Young,

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he's got experience on TGL. So that'll be my only

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recommendation for for TGL. Do you watch TGL Young.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've watched it every week so far. I really

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enjoy it as a product. I enjoy it a lot

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more than I thought I ever would. But like you say,

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it's not really a betting thing, but as just a

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general punter, it's it's a great waltz.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's an unbelievable product. They have one gigantic

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weak spot and that's that fricking hammer. They can't get

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the rules of the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you are right.

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Speaker 1: When they throw the hammer down, the other team shouldn't

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get a chance to accept it. It should just throw

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the hammer down. That holds worth two points. I never

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heard of this where you can accept it or not

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accept it. It's the one thing they're missing on that

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on that show. And then I got to get your thoughts.

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So Brooks Koepka is back in our PGA Tour Lives.

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PGA comes out with this reinstatement program, and what they

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did to Phil Mickelson is truly hilarious. They basically made

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these parameters that are aimed at Bryson, John Ram and

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Cam Smith coming back the best was they said, you

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have to win. You had to win this, you had

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to win this. You could win the players in twenty

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twenty two, twenty three, twenty f or we'll fill one

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in twenty twenty one. So just absolutely hilarious. So Ay,

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what are your thoughts on Brooks coming back? And B

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do you think rom Brayson and Cam Smith follow, because

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I gotta believe they all follow or none of them follow.

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Speaker 2: Uh So on the Brooks thing, I think he was

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always gonna be. They were always gonna move the goalpost

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to get him back, just because he's Rory's boy, he's

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friends with Rory. I think that was that's more than enough,

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just to be like, oh, just for Rory's sake, we'll

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bring your best friend back. That's fine. In terms of

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the other guys, I don't see how they don't bring

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those guys back. I mean, Ram has to.

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Speaker 1: I think of all the guys that left, Ram was

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the one that I was most stunned by. And you

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just when he laughs like there's no way he's gonna

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like it over there, and he just looks miserable over there,

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like I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, playing golf with Taral Hotton will do that to you.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget Terrel Hatton's first time over it lived

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and he was caught on Mike saying where are all

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the fans? And it was in that moment that you

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knew that they had regretted this. I still don't know

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what Rom's plan was. I don't know if it was

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really just a money grab or if he really thought

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he could unite golf or something. But I think he's

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looking for any reason to get back. Listen. Rom definitely,

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you know, moves the needle a little bit. It just

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be nice. I said it last year. Why like, it's

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such a bummer. We can't have Scotti s Sheffler versus

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John Rahm. I would love to get that back. Talk

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about a guy that doesn't move the needle at all.

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Cam Smith has completely fallen apart.

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Speaker 2: He's not the same player he was at all.

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Speaker 1: So I don't really I don't really need Cam Smith

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in my life. I would love to have John Rahm

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in my life. But big Fish is clearly Bryson. Bryson

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holds so many cards right now, So what's your play

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if you're Bryson right now?

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I mean that's the thing. It's it's

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It's just not about the money for these guys, now,

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is it. It's it's just a case of legacy, I guess.

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I mean, Bryson still could still compete at every single

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major if playing on the PGA tool. I think that's

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that would be his motivation.

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Speaker 1: He could also come over to the PGA and well,

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first off, he can go to live and name his number.

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Because when I went to a live event, I'm telling

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every single person was there following Bryson. Nobody's following anybody else.

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They were at the party hall and they were following

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Bryson and they lose Bryson. That's that. That spells doom man,

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That that spells the end. I don't know who would

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pay attention to that one. But Bryson also could come

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to the PGA and say, hey, lift these financial sanctions

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off of me, or name a schedule like no, I'm

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not playing, I'm not not playing in to some of

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these I bring so many you know, I have how

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many millions of YouTube followers that I bring in, So

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it'll be interesting, and they got to make this decision

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by February. Second, like, I like this version of the PGA.

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They get some leadership in there. And all of a

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sudden they're reship. Yeah. Yeah, it would have been nice

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to have this a while ago, so uh, stay tuned.

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It'll be interesting. But I have to say, after marinating

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on it, it's nice to have Brooks back in our lives.

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I will be fascinated to see what head to head

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matchups are and what his prices are on some of

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these events, so it should be really interesting. So all right,

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this is our first episode of the Cut Line. Any

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plays that we have up will be over at WT

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dot buzz slash al and we are going to be

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here for every single tournament this year. So John, thank

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you very much for joining us, and please guys help

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us out and hit the like button, leave us comment,

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tell us who you like. Tell us who you like

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in one and done. Let's see let's tell us who

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you like in one and done.

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Speaker 2: See if you can have a worst pick than Corey Connors.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad pick, but you just know that

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whenever you pick him, you're just terrified that this is

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the week he misses the cut. Like there's some guys

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who are like, I'm not worried about Tommy Fleetwood missing

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the cut, but then Corey Connors you're just always terrified

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about it. So thank you very much. Guys. It's going

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to be a huge twenty twenty six and we're going

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to be here every week. Thank you very much for

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joining us, and don't forget to check in it next

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week when we break down. Was it the American Express? Yeah,

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American Express would be next week, so we'll see you

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next week. Guys, good luck and all your bets. Take care,