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Bettor's Guide to The Masters · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: and Chad Nollman, Cheap Content Officer of the Action Network
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  Speaker 1: Massive Massive Sports Week. You think, coming out of March Madness,
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  Speaker 1: we slow down a little bit, but the bang never
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  Speaker 1: stops at the Action Network. We've got Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: opening days this week. You could argue that people are
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  Speaker 1: even more excited about The Masters Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Simon Hunter, Professional Bidder, my bff, my companion Michael Padre
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  Speaker 1: joining me always my co host. Dude, Masters is sneaky
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  Speaker 1: big in the betting world. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Duke fan. I'm still dead inside a little.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say I'm not. It's over Coach k the
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  Speaker 1: worst way it could possibly end the u n C.
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  Speaker 1: But a really smart friend of mine, a fellow gambler,
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  Speaker 1: he sent me something that Buddhist said, in this universe,
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  Speaker 1: the only way to create is with destruction. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. We got destroyed, but something maybe beautiful will
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  Speaker 1: come from it. I can tell you I haven't moved on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not moved on yet. But thank God for the Masters.
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  Speaker 1: I can talk about Tiger all week with other betters.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a fun week. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: why you just said people are more excited for the
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  Speaker 1: Masters and baseball right now is just because we all
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  Speaker 1: kind of see it, right, We all see this might
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  Speaker 1: be the end for Tigers. So this is how we
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  Speaker 1: know the spring times here, right, bro? It is great
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  Speaker 1: and you're right. Jason Syllable the pre eminent golf betting
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  Speaker 1: journalist of his generation. He also happens to be an
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  Speaker 1: Action Network senior writer. He's got the Links and Locks podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the Gimme our Live show that will preview
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  Speaker 1: the Master uh this upcoming Wednesday night. The one thing
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, even though Duke lost, that was
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  Speaker 1: an epic college basketball game. Holy crap, that was just
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  Speaker 1: so much fun to watch. Do you have a take
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  Speaker 1: on the Duke players walking off the court without shaking hands.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Duke fan, but I was rooting for
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  Speaker 1: Duke to win it all because I'm sentimental. I like closure,
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  Speaker 1: I like the idea of them winning it for Coach K,
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  Speaker 1: even though so many people I know hate Coach K.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a take. It's like the old Jason
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey sand in Philadelphia. Nobody likes us, we don't care.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is with Duke. You're a coward kind
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  Speaker 1: of piece of ship if you don't shake the other
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  Speaker 1: team's hand when you after a game like that, like
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  Speaker 1: that is a great game, was a clean game. I love.
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  Speaker 1: Just hit a clutch three at the most important time.
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  Speaker 1: That's why U n c one. So I hated that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't shake hands, But who knows what was said, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's why I never tried a rush to judgment. To
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  Speaker 1: me though, that's the lowest form of just being a
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  Speaker 1: howard like them in the eyes shake their hand after
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  Speaker 1: you lose, like no one likes to lose. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you play the game. Though, So I hated that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't shake their hands. I noticed the players walking off
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  Speaker 1: the court and they hadn't shaken hands. But I also
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  Speaker 1: thought it was like North Carolina immediately went into celebration mode,
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  Speaker 1: right and players, the North Carolina players weren't lining up
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  Speaker 1: to shake hands. They were sort of all celebrating and hogging,
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  Speaker 1: and they were in the corner. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: Duke players, I don't know. I'm maybe I'm giving them
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt because coach k and the
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  Speaker 1: coaches stuck around. I think that the Duke players were
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  Speaker 1: like games over there celebrating. I guess we're not doing it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we're gonna leave. Maybe I'm being completely naive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you're just a nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were just embarrassed, Like lost to him
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  Speaker 1: twice in a row. That's that was embarrassing. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why you and I are ying and Yang. We complement
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  Speaker 1: each other so well. You bring you bring the cynicism,
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  Speaker 1: I bring the optimism. I bring the benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 1: You bring that everybody's evil. That's totally cool. East and
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  Speaker 1: so well. I feel like he lives in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of this world. Right now, you're Augusta. Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: list of you. You would have the greatest job in
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  Speaker 1: sports journalism. I thank all the people that have have
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  Speaker 1: helped pay the way to to get me to this job.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe you guys are talking about other sports
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  Speaker 1: during Master's Week. That's sort of sacrilegious. I've been watching
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  Speaker 1: March Madness hoops the entire time. I will give up
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  Speaker 1: now uh and not watch Kansas U n C. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's a golf week. It's all golf all the time
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  Speaker 1: this week. And I hope you guys are on board
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  Speaker 1: with that. I'm a hundred percent on board with that.
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  Speaker 1: As the kids say, I'm here for that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we should lead Dally. I think we should get
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  Speaker 1: right into it. We're gonna talk about Tiger. He has
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  Speaker 1: had a Kobe esque ability to reclaim the narrative about
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  Speaker 1: who he is, and it shows you that time heals
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  Speaker 1: all wounds and he has sort of become again is
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  Speaker 1: beloved figure in the golf work. But listen, you've wrote
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  Speaker 1: a great column, your Master's Preview on Action network dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and the Action Network Gap down Lift for Free is
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  Speaker 1: always like I must read. You start off with a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting premise that there are stats that matter and
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  Speaker 1: stats that are essentially stupid. You run down the elimination factors,
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  Speaker 1: which everybody always does for the masters. Take out people
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  Speaker 1: who haven't one who have done this, take out people
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  Speaker 1: who haven't want to have done this, and you can
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  Speaker 1: narrow down the field because it's always so hard to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Talk to me about your elimination factors right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So I think we look chat as the last ten
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  Speaker 1: years here at Augustin National, Uh, no player who's been
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  Speaker 1: ranked outside the top thirty has won this tournament. I think, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's something to that. Does that mean the player who's
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  Speaker 1: ranked thirty first in the world right now can't win
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  Speaker 1: this week and has no chance? Of course not. I
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  Speaker 1: think we have to open up some common sense when
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  Speaker 1: we do these eliminators. This is a a popular little
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  Speaker 1: internet gimmick. I'm I'm all for internet gimmicks as far
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  Speaker 1: as especially as far as golf prognostication is concerned, and
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out a cutezy way of you know,
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  Speaker 1: who can win this tournament? And I like the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you know, you can look at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: It you don't necessarily eliminate anyone. You just say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a much better chance that we will have
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  Speaker 1: a world class player winning this as opposed to a
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  Speaker 1: player who's ranked somewhere after the top thirty in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You can similarly look at form everyone going back to
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  Speaker 1: Adam Scott back and I believe it was thirteen has
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  Speaker 1: at least three top twenty five finishes in that year
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  Speaker 1: prior to winning the Masters, And so it tells you
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  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have to be winning at a Scottie
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  Speaker 1: Scheffler like Clip who's won three of his last five starts,
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  Speaker 1: but you at least have to have played pretty well
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  Speaker 1: in the three months leading up to the Masters to
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  Speaker 1: come out and play well. And I think that's something
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  Speaker 1: that should stand. Does that mean if you've only got
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  Speaker 1: two top twenty five finishes, you're out. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Fee now uh fits that profile this year. Does
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  Speaker 1: that mean he can't win? No, but it means, look,
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  Speaker 1: we should probably give more credence to those who have
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  Speaker 1: played well so far in the first three months. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the kind of up that I'm looking at things
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  Speaker 1: that are um more than just coincidences that have been
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  Speaker 1: trends here over the last decade plus that we've seen
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  Speaker 1: from the winners. Alright, so I should set the odds,
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  Speaker 1: set the table before I ask you right off the
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  Speaker 1: top who your pick is going to be. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, I don't want to delay. Uh
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  Speaker 1: genrom right now, leader leading the field at eleven and one,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Thomas twelve to Cameron Smith fourteen, Dustin Johnson sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Scottie Scheffler sixteen, Jordan's Speed eighteen, Rory eighteen, Victor holand
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  Speaker 1: also eighteen. Before I give you my pick, I wanna
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  Speaker 1: go through these odds just a little bit. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: all those instead of you know, having one dominant player,
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  Speaker 1: instead of you know, we for so long come to
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  Speaker 1: August every year and Tiger Woods the prohibitive favorite, and
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  Speaker 1: anyone else who's out there, you can get a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good price on them because because Tiger was such a favorite,
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  Speaker 1: he was so dominant at this golf course. Now we've
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  Speaker 1: essentially got I think there are twelve players right now.
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  Speaker 1: I believe a dozen players depending on the book you
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  Speaker 1: look at. Chop around, of course, but I believe twelve
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  Speaker 1: players who are twenty to one or shorter this week,
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  Speaker 1: which makes it, first of all, really tough. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of parody out there, but secondly, it gives you
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  Speaker 1: a lot of decent options, I think, so you can
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  Speaker 1: look around. My favorite of that bunch this week is
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  Speaker 1: brooks kept. I was not a believer Chad after his
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  Speaker 1: first major Championship that he could just go out and
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  Speaker 1: and play his best golf of the Major. That was
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  Speaker 1: back in almost five full years ago. Um I just thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well he had a good week, you want a Major.
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  Speaker 1: And then he did twice and finally after the third Bison,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, this guy's got a lot of ego,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hubrists, a lot of confidence, maybe even cockiness,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he can just show a bit Major's kind
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  Speaker 1: of flip the switch and say all right, I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to go play some some great golf right now. And
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  Speaker 1: he does it, and so you know he he is
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  Speaker 1: essentially the opiti me of what Tiger Woods has said
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  Speaker 1: for years, which is I want my game to peak
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  Speaker 1: four times per year. And I've spent the last ten
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years asking world class players about how do you
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  Speaker 1: get your game to peak? My favorite answer was Jason
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  Speaker 1: Day was, I don't know. It's kind of shrugged at
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  Speaker 1: me because you know, it's not like if I'm playing
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  Speaker 1: really well in my last event before the Masters, that
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  Speaker 1: I try to play worse so that I can play
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  Speaker 1: better two weeks later. It doesn't really work that way.
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  Speaker 1: So um brooks Kept has figured out a way to
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  Speaker 1: get his game to peak for major championships. I look
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  Speaker 1: at a week that we're gonna have where it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be warm, then it's gonna be wet, then it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be windy, that's gonna be cold Mother Nature, bringing in
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  Speaker 1: all different kinds of elements. He deals with those elements really,
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  Speaker 1: really well, just sort of shrugs them off. I like
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  Speaker 1: kept if you'd asked me a few weeks ago, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people did. Patrick Cantley was the top by list.
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  Speaker 1: Recent form is not quite where I want it to be.
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  Speaker 1: That said, I've only him to number two in my ranking,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to Kepka and then can't Ley for
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  Speaker 1: my favorite two players this week. So why does form
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  Speaker 1: not matter for Kepta? But it does matter for can't Ley.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, it does matter for Kepta a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: He's played well this year, reach the quarterfinals of the
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  Speaker 1: match play in his most recent starts a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. But he's shown that he doesn't need any
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  Speaker 1: form at these things. So I like the fact that,
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  Speaker 1: all right, first of all, he doesn't need for him,
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  Speaker 1: he can show up and essentially played his best golf,
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  Speaker 1: which I've spoken with him about over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, well, he's very contruting when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. You know, we'll say, uh, you know, man,
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  Speaker 1: you must be working at home or now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: work when I'm at home. You guys don't know this.
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll say, well, you don't work very much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how how do you get prepared for the men?
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I'm working so much at home. You guys
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. He's sort of a walking contrary. And yet, um,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. Look whatever works for him. He builds up
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  Speaker 1: this chip on his shoulder, whether he thinks everyone's doubting him,
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  Speaker 1: whether he thinks people can't do it. He's not on
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  Speaker 1: the interview schedule this week, uh here at Augusta National.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's going to post that interview schedule
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  Speaker 1: on his rental house refrigerator and keep referring back to it,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's being overlooked or overshadowed or something
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  Speaker 1: by the people that run this tournament. So um, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's bad for him, but he doesn't necessarily need that
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  Speaker 1: good form. Patrick can't Ley is a guy where again
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see some sort of form um. He's
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  Speaker 1: been thirty three. Miscut then didn't reach the weekend at
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  Speaker 1: the match play in his last three starts. That said,
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  Speaker 1: his last two wins have come on the heels of
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  Speaker 1: not great play either, both of the Memorial last year
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  Speaker 1: and the Zozo Championship the year before. And so excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: not his last two, but two of his last a
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  Speaker 1: belief four wins um have come after he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: great form, and so, uh, you can't he's I'd just
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  Speaker 1: like to see something a little more. He started the
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  Speaker 1: year with four straight top tens uh restarts. Since then,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, not great, but I still like it's
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  Speaker 1: not like I'm moving him down to thirty on my list.
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  Speaker 1: I've just got him. Just blow kept it number two.
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  Speaker 1: Now you talk a little bit about the weather. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wondering, is there a way to handicap that with golfing?
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  Speaker 1: Like I know in football, for me, I can find
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  Speaker 1: an edge when there's a weather for certain teams. There's
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  Speaker 1: certain players you look at where it's like, Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: this guy is a good day one when it's nice out,
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  Speaker 1: he's really gonna blow away when the weather gets better.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just impossible to really quantifying golf? Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: no real stats. So it's hard when you don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have the analytics to back it up because quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: wind changes, so we don't have stats. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see it advanced analytics sign and someday On Brooks
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  Speaker 1: kept hitting shots in ten to fifteen miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: and then you know what, where does he rank approach
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  Speaker 1: shots from one fifty to one seventy five and ten
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen miles an hour. I mean, that would be
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  Speaker 1: great to be able to look at that stuff. We
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have that, and so we're basically using the
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  Speaker 1: old eyeball test, and uh, we can look at players.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it. Mark Leishman is a guy whenever it's
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  Speaker 1: really windy, he's the guy that look at it. He
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  Speaker 1: hits a low ball flight and so when it's windy,
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  Speaker 1: he's not getting swirling up there on the winds. He
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  Speaker 1: keeps it underneath it. And that's the kind of kind
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  Speaker 1: of ball flight. I like, Now we're gonna get the
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  Speaker 1: combination this week. It looks like of what we had
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  Speaker 1: at the Players Championship a month ago, which is it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna rain a whole lot and then it's gonna get windy,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a weird combination. Usually when it's windy, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's dry, and so it gets firm and the ball
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  Speaker 1: is gonna blow all over the place. When it's wet
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  Speaker 1: and then it's windy, you almost lose that combination of Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well hit it low, keep it under the wind. If
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  Speaker 1: you hit it low and it's wet, the ball roll
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  Speaker 1: out as much. Now I'm looking at the big hitters.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the big hitters are also high ball hitters,
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  Speaker 1: and they kind of cancel each other out. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a whole long, roundabout answer of yeah. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can look at these things a little bit. Essentially, want
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  Speaker 1: guys who just aren't unnerved by the conditions. And that
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  Speaker 1: brings me back to a kept it who's just gonna go, yeah, whatever, man,
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  Speaker 1: let's go play golf. We'll see what happens. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: and he isn't going to be affected by it too much.
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  Speaker 1: But I might want to look at the Players Championship
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  Speaker 1: last month is at least a decent barometer for who
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  Speaker 1: dealt with the conditions pretty well, who didn't mind it,
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  Speaker 1: who relished that challenge, and who's sort of scared off
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  Speaker 1: by a little bit and just you know, once it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't perfect out for them, Um didn't have their best stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love a good weather golf, especially
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  Speaker 1: like makes some think of the British Open every time
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  Speaker 1: they play over there. It seems like it's twenty degrees out,
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  Speaker 1: super windy on the coast next to the ocean. The
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  Speaker 1: ball is blown all over the place in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: But I would love to hear what the Tiger factor
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  Speaker 1: is for this Am I getting a bump in a
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  Speaker 1: number and a value because people are betting on Tiger
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  Speaker 1: right now? Where again, who knows what that's gonna be. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just a fandom where he's getting the
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  Speaker 1: most of the bets, most of the money's coming on Tiger.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a Tiger factor in the Masters where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that's not a dumb bet because he
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  Speaker 1: does have an edge on this course? Yeah, I think so, Simon.
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  Speaker 1: I think that we can look at Tiger. I wrote
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: him up my preview and again all of this has
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: to come with an asterisk. We're speaking right now late
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Monday morning. He said he's a game time decision. He's
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: here in practicing augusta National he's on the interview schedule
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: for Tuesday. I can't imagine that he's going to go
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: through with all this and then not play the event.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: And what we've heard from Tiger over the last handful
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: of months is that he's not coming out to be
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a ceremonial golfer. So if indeed he does deem himself
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: healthy enough to play, and I think he play, then
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: we should expect him to play pretty well. He's not
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: just gonna come out and knocket around for two rounds,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: get on the jet and be home for dinner Friday night.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go out there trying to play well. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: so what I'm looking at and I'm that's not necessarily
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: gonna suggest that Tiger Woods can go from not hitting
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a single shot in individual competition for more than sixteen
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: months and all of a sudden show up at Augusta
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: National and win the Masters again. Might be the greatest
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: sports story of all time after he authored one of
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the greatest sports stories just three years ago. We thought
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: back surgery, multiple back surgeries. Coming back from that was
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: a lot coming back from a near fatal car accident,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: almost losing a right leg, to when the Masters would
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: be unbelievable. But I do think there's some value in Tiger.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And I get it. This is gonna sound strange because
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: we never would have said this about Tiger back in
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the day. Hey, there's value on Tiger for a top forty.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, no kidding. But Tiger Woods at minus one seventy,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I believe for a top forty play this week in
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: twenty one career starts as a professional at this event.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: He's never finished outside the top forty, So I think that's, uh,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that's a very low bar to start with. Uh. If
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you want some sort of Tiger Woods investment and you said, look,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I'm a better but I'm also a fan. I want
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to have a Tiger ticket. I want to be able
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to root for him. I want my money on Tiger somewhere.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I think top forty is a nice place to start.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I've got him, uh in my final rankings, which I'm
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: still working on right now as we speak, but somewhere
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: in the twenty to twenty five range. I really do
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: think it'll be a very and I consider that a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: huge success four Tiger. I think that's a major success
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: week for him, coming back from, like I said, not
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: having played in sixteen months and being able to return
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to competition and not just not just play without extreme pain,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: not just find his swing, but to be able to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: beat a lot of the world's best golfers right now,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: guys who are half his age, would be really, really impressive.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: All of that said, I don't know where there's value
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in bets for him further up down the board, further
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: up the board, because if you look for a top twenty, well,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm saying right now, I think somewhere in the you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: load of mid twenties is where I've got him in
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: my ranking. So I don't think a top twenty players
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: value top thirty. Okay, sure you can, uh, you can
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: try that. I just think top forty is probably the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: best value that. The part of this is that his odds,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: quite frankly, are just so short across the board because
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: he's the as you guys know, the New York Yankees,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: he's the Dallas Cowboys, he's the Los Angeles Lakers, he's uh,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the popular play that everybody wants to have a ticket
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: on just in case, and that's what keeps his number
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: so low. Well, look, you're I want to remind everybody
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you're gonna go much deeper on betting and dfs with
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: links and locks are podcast. Uh that'll be out probably
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Um again, we're recording this Monday mid morning.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: The Tiger thing, I do want to dig in on
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that just for one more second, because look, in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: middle of this tournament, in the middle of this hype,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: like everyone is anxious for Tiger to come back, Everyone
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: is rooting for him to come back from this leg
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: injury and the trajectory of him in public life. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: feel like there is just so much warmth and love
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and sentimentality for Tiger because of the way he's managed
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: his career later in life. Um, what do you see
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: from him personally that helps contribute to this change in
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: sort of attitude towards him? You know, as with a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: bunch of colleagues last night chat and we were all
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: talking about we're actually talking about Phil Mickelson, and I said,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I think society has changed a lot. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: there's a bigger a bigger question, a bigger topic than
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: just Tiger and just golf. But I think society has
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: changed a lot over the last forty years. That we
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: used to root for our heroes, We used to cheer
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: for our heroes. I think there's this shed and freud
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: is stick, uh opinion now of people that you know, hey,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you're you're rich, you're famous, You've had a great life,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and in society almost wants to bring you down a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: little bit. You guys were talking about Coach K earlier
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and how many people dislike Coach K and they wanted
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: him to lose the Final Four before we retired. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like a generation, two generations ago,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: people would root for the legends of whatever sport they
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: were into have more success. And so the fact that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Tiger has gone from absolute hero, absolute legend, to having
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a personal downfall to being very mortal in the eyes
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of a lot of people and having faults and not
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: being infallible by any means two going back to okay,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: well now he's a legend again. And and I don't
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: know that you can find a person who isn't rooting
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: for Tiger Woods. I mean, this is uh, this is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a person who's been very, very mortal over the years, uh,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: you know, off of the golf course, and we've sort
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of lived through everything with Tiger a little bit. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: what we find from now is that he's more human,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it's more personal. He's a father now. He takes that role, uh,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: at least from an outsider's perspective, as seriously as any
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: role that he's taken on the golf course. And so
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: we look at him and go, you know what, Uh,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: we see a little bit of ourselves in him. Hey,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we've all grown a little older, we've all gone through
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a metamorphosis in our lives, we've all gone through changes,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We've all done stuff that, uh that we've regretted, We've
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: done stuff that has been stupid. And then we kind
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of come back and say, boy, I'd like to see
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: him have success. And so I guess the main point
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: here is that we don't always these days in society
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: root for those heroes, those legends to continue to have
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that type of success. The fact that Tiger is essentially
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you know, if he's in contention, if he could somehow
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: win this tournament or any tournament again, we tug on
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the heartstrings of uh nearly everybody out there watching. It
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: would be pretty remarkable if you did. Yeah, there's just um,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it feels like there's a lot more humility with him,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and he talks much more openly about the challenges coming back. Specifically,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I think seeing him breakdown a little bit um has
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: helped reframe people's opinions to him to be honest uh.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And then the flip side of that, as you opened
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the door on Michelson UH, and I do want us
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to run down like top five, top ten, top twenty
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: long shots, but you open the door on Michelson And
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: obviously he's a guy who has had nothing but goodwill
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: his entire career. This is the first major, the first
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: huge event UH in golf since his the way he
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: handled the Saudi tour and the comments he made to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Alan schipnuk Um about sort of Saudi politics they're human
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: rights abuses and why he can dismiss all that. What
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is the reaction right now is all of you gather
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: in Augusta to the film narrative bewilderment. I think is
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: maybe the most characterizing way that I can put it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure his fellow players understand. I spoke with
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the player recently who is friends with Phil, plays a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: lot of golf with Phil at text, and Chill said, hey,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: how you doing everything okay? So essentially broke back yep,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: good and so I don't know that anyone knows what
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to think right now. I mean, you know, I was
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: sitting at dinner last night with a lot of colleagues
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: who have a lot of inside knowledge. We have no
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: idea if he's suspended from the PGA Tour or not.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: We have no idea if you might play the p
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: G A Championship and defend his title next month or not.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We have no idea if Augustin National suggested that he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: not played this week or not. I don't know exactly
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what Phil, what's going on with Phil right now. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: have a feeling that whatever is out there is probably
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: only the tip of the iceberg, and that there might
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: be more coming out. And he suggested as much when
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: he wrote up his quote unquote apology, which didn't really
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: quite apologize for anything. But uh, you know, quite frankly,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to think with Phil right now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I'd assume that at some point he comes back and
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: we look at we got all right luck you sort
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of stage to coup against the PGA two. You sort of,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you know, tried to to bring all your fellow elite
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: level players to uh a government backed Saudi based league
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that uh you know, has has done some some heinous,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: uh heinous things, as as a terrible human rights record,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and so you know, it's a lot of it's being
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: done for money, even though Phil says, you know, look,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: we're trying to um tell the p G A tour,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you know, how things can be done a little bit better,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and we're trying to have our own rights and things
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: like that. But I quite honestly, Chad, I have no
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: idea what to think of where Phil is right now,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: what Phil's doing, What's what's he thinking? Is he is
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: he planning a return, a comeback to professional golf soon?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Is he out for the rest of the year. Is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he out for the rest of forever? I mean, will
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he ever tee it up on on the PGA Tour again?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Will we see him in a study league event in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a couple of months. I don't know the answers to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: any of those questions. I don't think anyone does, except
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: for him and maybe only Chad. Let's go with something
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a little softer here, Jason, what's your top five, top ten,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: top twenty, Like Chad was talking about some good long shot, Yeah,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: top five. I don't have a great long shot for you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Probably the biggest long shot I've got is Wills Alataurus,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and I look at him very much the same vein
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that I look at Jordan's speed through Um, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: we always have a narrative. You need to have experience
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: in Augustin National is a place where you've you've got
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to play the Masters six, seven, eight times before we
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: really figure out this golf course in this tournament. Uh,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Jordan's speed figured out pretty early. And I feel like
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Wills Alatorius and his first start last year runner up
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to Dicki matsu Yama, he's sort of figured it out
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit too, and doesn't mean that he's going
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to finish right up there every single year, but he's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a tremendous ball striker. And I look at him and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot of long shots in
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that top five right now, So I'm not gonna give
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you guys too far down the board. But I do
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: think that's Salatorus, the guy that can that can back
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: last year's runner up finished with another title contention this
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: year as far as top ten, Look you guys who
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and Simon I want to speak to you, But Chad,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I know, isn't paying tremendous attention to golf on a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: regular basis. I know he's a he's a golf fan,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: but I know he's not a golf nut studying and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: researching every single week. And so those of us who do,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: we're almost a disadvantage for this one because we'll look
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: at Tony Finale this year ago. Well, his best finish
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: is a share of nineteenth place, and that was three
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: months ago at a shortened field, and the ball striking
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: numbers are okay, but they're not great, and he really
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: hasn't done much since that win uh in the FedEx
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Cup playoffs last year, and it's been a while now.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And those who sort of helicopter in and only pay
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: attention to the majors will look at a big number
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: next to Tony Finale's name, go, he's good. I like him.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick him, and I think that works out
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: this week. I think you forget everything that you've learned
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: over the last three months, and I think there's almost
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: an advantage and having less knowledge about what's going on
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with his Game's got three top tens and four career
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: starts at this event, and I do like him this week.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I think he's the kind of guy that can turn
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: his game on when he needs to, and it hasn't
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: been terrible. It's not like he's playing terrible golf coming
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: into this. Uh finished the top thirty last week at
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the Valero Texas Open. Okay, that's not saying a whole lot,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: but at least it's not like he's missing cuts every
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: week and then for a top twenty. If I was
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to tell you, guys, the best ball striker, the best
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: iron player on the PGA Tour so far this season
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: is not Colin Morricawa, It's not Justin Thomas, not Wills Altoris.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: It's Russell Henley. And Russell Henley is a guy who's
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: due for uh, what a lot of people call the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the positive regression, sort of the oxymoronic term that always
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: comes out in um in the analytics world, which is
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: essentially I look at him like a major League baseball
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: pitcher who's seven and twelve with the two seventy e
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: r A and you say, at some point, look, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: numbers are there, he's pitching. Well, he's just not getting
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the help. He's not getting the luck. I mean, Henley
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is a guy who last year at the Window Championship
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: led for three and a half rounds, wound up missing
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a putt to get into a playoff and finished in
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: te seven. That's never happened before in the last twenty years. Uh,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the fact that you could lose by one and not
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: cash the top five ticket. Henley has had a whole
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: lot of bad luck like that over the last couple
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: of years. I think that he's due for some good luck.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I've got him just for a top twenty this week,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: but top ten wouldn't surprise me whatsoever. For the record,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you nailed it. I'm not. I'm not, you know, going
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: back to it. I'm not digging into the golf stats
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: week to week because we have you, and we have
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: like Josh Perry, and we've got an entire team of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: people that are doing it. All I have to do
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: is read what you guys right, watch the guinea, listen
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to links and locks, and I'm done. That's that's all
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I have to do. That's why we hired a great team.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Jesson Sobel, I appreciate you hiring it. They really do.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: First round leader, give me a first round leader, Okay,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: so I will start my first round leader played by
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: telling you that I like everything about Sam Burns this week,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I like Sam Burns for second round leader, third round leader,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and maybe even final round leader, which is also called
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: called the Masters Champion. He is in a marketplace where
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it just seemed like almost everybody's too short. Sam Burns
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: number is twice as much as it should be this week,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: at least from an outright perspective. He is fifty to one.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I saw this morning. Uh, he is the eleventh ranked
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: player in the world right now. He wont in his
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: last start of the valvest Bar Championship to start before
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that at the Players he was right there in contention,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: played in the final group or second to lass group
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: on that Monday afternoon before shooting a final round seventy.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: The kid is really really talented twenty five years old.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: The only thing I can find in that why he is,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: why is are as long as they are, is the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: fact that he hasn't played this event before in the past. So, um,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: we all know, no Masters rookie has won this event
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: since Fuzzy Zeller back in nineteen seventy nine. It's been
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: an awfully long time. It doesn't mean they can't do it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Though I mentioned Wills Alatoris earlier. I mentioned Jordan's speed,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: who took to this event very quickly. I can see
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Sam Burns uh jumping out there, uh, playing really well
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, and then playing well throughout the weekend. So
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I like him for outrights. I've bet him already for
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: out rights. I really like him for first round leader though,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because he's a quick starter. Finished sixteen on the PGA
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Tour last season in round one story average, he's twelve
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: already this season. Plays well on Thursdays, plays well usually
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays as well. So he's a
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: guy that I like for full tournament, but especially first
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: round leader. Bets and what player are you avoiding? Like?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Are there a couple of guys you're avoiding in this tournament?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: You know it's funny, Simon. I just saw a colleague
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a few minutes before we start talking and he said,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: any you like this week? And I gave him a
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: couple of names and about you, who do you like?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And he gave me a name that I had mentioned.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And so you know, there's really not many players in
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the top thirty, top forty that you look at this
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: week and go, oh my god, I can't believe you're
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: picking him he's terrible. There are a lot of really
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: good players, and you can make a case for most
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of them. Bryson the Shambo for me, is a very
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: easy fade. I think it's an easy fade for most people,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: which is why his number is drifted so much. I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: believe he was twenty one at this time last week
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: following another miscut at the Valerio, Texasopians now as high
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: as forty two one, and so I think some people
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: might look at that and say, Okay, I'm getting a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: little bargain now on on Bryson. You know, I'm I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: essentially getting half off on my Bryson ticket. Why don't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I go out there and have a little investment on
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Bryson the Shambo this week? Um, where I look at,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll bash it around and maybe no one expects
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: him to play well. I just don't see it happening.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's more injured than he's letting on. I
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  Speaker 1: think that he's got all these other things. He just
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  Speaker 1: filmed the dude perfect video around Amen Corner, which just
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  Speaker 1: blows my mind for about twenty different reasons. But um,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's just not in any sort of form.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a hundred percent health Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: staying away from Bryson, but there are very few players
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  Speaker 1: in that top thirty. Like I said, where if you
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  Speaker 1: brought up their name right now, I'd say, no, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: I can see it. I can see the pros. May
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  Speaker 1: there's some cons, but I can see the pros on
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of players. All right, So is there
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  Speaker 1: long shot we should be thinking about. There's a guy
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  Speaker 1: and I talked about this being a ball striker's golf course.
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  Speaker 1: There's a guy who's third on the PGA Tour this
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  Speaker 1: Luke List can go win this golf tournament. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I want bet him out right. He's got
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year. Like I said, he's a good ball striker.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing the verbill sleeping in his own bed this week,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got a little narrative street there, and I
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  Speaker 1: think he can have a really good week. He hasn't
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  Speaker 1: played his best golf since that victory back in January.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're looking for a guy who's completely off
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  Speaker 1: You want to play a DFS lineup and need a
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  Speaker 1: and you've mentioned a couple of times, you know, having
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  Speaker 1: to chats with your friends in the golf media world.
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  Speaker 1: M h Tonight, Tomorrow night, Wednesday night. M hm. You
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  Speaker 1: guys just all like go to some dinner and some
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  Speaker 1: restaurant that every year you go to the same place
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  Speaker 1: in Augusta, get to gossip about stuff in golf, like
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: who do you go out with, where do you go,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? Tell me? I need some use
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  Speaker 1: so as you know, Chad, I'm also doing Masters Radio
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  Speaker 1: this week, which is going to be on Sirius xm
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour Radios usual channel as I always do, hosting
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  Speaker 1: my Hitting the Green show on Monday Day and Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: and Wednesday, and then started on Thursday, I'll be doing
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  Speaker 1: reports during our pregame show. I'll be doing player interviews,
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  Speaker 1: post round interviews. During the live broadcast coverage. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Mike Riko hosting the play by play, and UH and
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Strangers our analysts in the booth. And then I
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  Speaker 1: will be hosting the postgame show on Masters Radio with
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  Speaker 1: our buddy Drew Stoltz the sleeves and so in any case,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with that whole crew all week. We
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  Speaker 1: have a few houses all the houses are nearby. We'll
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: hang out uh somebody's house each night and maybe have
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  Speaker 1: have some dinner. I believe we've got catering this year,
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  Speaker 1: which we haven't had in the past, so we don't
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: have to go find a busy restaurant. We went out
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to a Buffalo Wild Wings last night. It took an
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: hour to get a seat, and that was only a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night in AUGUSTUS. So you can just imagine how
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  Speaker 1: busy it is trying to get out somewhere else on
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  Speaker 1: any other night past that. So I believe we'll have
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  Speaker 1: catering this year. I can tell you I've I've come
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  Speaker 1: a long way from I believe the first Masters I covered.
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  Speaker 1: I say, the comfort in there was three and a
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  Speaker 1: half miles down the road, and I walked to and
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  Speaker 1: from the golf course and every night and grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: couple of green Rapports sandwiches on my way out the door,
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  Speaker 1: and like eight sandwiches in this dirty hotel room. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm now staying in nice houses with friends and colleagues
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  Speaker 1: and eating catered food. So um, that to me is
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: is a Master's victory. Chad, you know what, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know we were going to get that story outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a Jason Sobel victory, right there, Jason Sobel.
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• 38:42
  Speaker 1: was very enlightening for someone who's only going to dip
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  Speaker 1: into golf. As you casually blame me of doing, this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly why I do it, because I have anything
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  Speaker 1: I need. So you're welcome, have fun helicoptering in those
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: of us who do this on a weekly basis, we
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  Speaker 1: invite you to come join us every single week, but
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  Speaker 1: the year, it really is. That's kind of how I
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