June 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Pat Fitzmaurice and Bo McBrayer recap the Memorial Tournament before exploring the top betting strategies for the Canadian Open
We dive into the betting odds, analyze the favorites and long shots, and reveal our top betting card selections. Plus, we reveal our one-and-done picks to help you maximize your winnings for the PGA season!
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The Memorial Recap - 0:00:30
BettingPros App - 0:04:28
Canadian Open Preview - 0:05:02
Novig - 0:11:19
Betting Favorites - 0:12:19
Mid-Range Favorites - 0:20:15
Long-Shot Odds - 0:23:33
Our Betting Cards - 0:25:50
One & Done Selections - 0:26:56
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Betting Pros PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris.
That's Bo mcbrair. The PGA Tour heads north of the
border this week for the RBC Canadian Open. We'll give
you a full betting preview. We'll talk about TPC Toronto
at Osprey Valley. Of course it's hosting a PGA Tour
event for the first time. We'll tell you who we
are betting on this week, and then we will make
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our one and done picks at the end of the show.
But let's start with a quick recap of the Memorial.
Scotty Scheffler does it again. Scheffler wins the Memorial, conquering
not only in elite field in the PGA tours second
to last signature event of the season, also a brutally
difficult Mirrorfield Village course. Jack Nicholas's Place played a lot
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like a US Open course all week, with thick, gnarly
rouff and greens so fast that it looked like the
players were putting on marble. We saw players make a
lot of big numbers, but Scotty's scorecards were remarkably clean,
considering just how tough Mirrorfield Village was. Playing god. He
finished ten under power for the tournament with three rounds
of seventy and then a sixty eight on Saturday. Scotty
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made only four bogies and one double bogie all week.
It was a remarkable display of golf and I'm not
sure anyone other than maybe vintage Tiger Woods could have
taken down Scotty this week. But the red hot Ben
Griffin did do his best. Fresh off his win at
the Charles Schwab Challenge, Griffin stayed hot and opened with
a sixty five on Thursday to take an early lead,
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then managed to grind out a couple of even part
rounds Friday and Saturday that put Griffin one shot behind
Scheffler going into the final round, and those two were
paired together on Sunday. Griffin acquitted himself really well in
the final round, and for a moment he made us
wonder if he was capable of pulling off a miracle
by chasing down Scotti. Griffin was four shots behind going
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into the par five to fifteenth hole. He and Scotti
both on the fairway with their drives. Griffin hit a
terrific fairway metal approach that stopped just fourteen feet from
the hole well. Scheffler answered with an approach shot that
nearly hit the pin and stopped just outside Griffin's ball.
Scotty just barely missed his eagle pot. Griffin rolled his
in to cut Scotty's lead to three. Then on the
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long part three sixteenth hole, Griffin rolled in a twenty
seven foot birdie Pott and Scotty's lead was down to
two with two holes to play, But then Griffin pulled
his drive left on the seventeenth hole, couldn't hit the
green with his approach shot, wound up taking a double bogie,
and Scotty finished with a couple of routine pars to
win his third event of the season. He didn't win
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any of his first eight tournaments this year, but Scotty
has now won three of his last four. He's gonna
skip the Canadian Open this week to prepare for next
week's US Open. BO What did you think about Scotty's
victory at the Memorial?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Inevitable?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
He's just inevitable, and that's what it comes down to.
His consistency. We saw everybody else in that field have
an off day or Ben Griffin was the most steady
besides Scotty. Even he was wayward off the tee and
on approach, his short game is so immaculate that he
was still in it making birdies with a lot less
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than Scotty Scheffler is working with. Scotty Scheffler's working with
a full deck of cards this season. He's in the
top twenty and putting this season, which after last year
when he won eight times despite a bad putter, now
he's putting the lights out and the whole world's on notice.
This is a legendary run that we're witnessing, and it
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was inevitable that he was going to win with the game.
That he showed up to that golf course with ten
hunder par for four days at that golf course in
those conditions is silly. It's just sillying. There's nothing anybody
can do about it, because that guy is always going
to find the middle of the club face. He's always
going to be consistent. He's not going to beat himself.
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So unless you plan on going just as low all
four days as he is, you got none chance. So
take a hat tip to Scottie Scheffler. Again, We're gonna
really have to quit meeting up like this on a
weekly basis where we lament his victory despite despite the
short odds.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, remember when putting with Scotti's achilles HaLow, it's how
he don't have one. Yeah, that's that's scary. For the
rest of the PGA tour, We'll get to the Canadian
Open in just a moment, but first.
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Speaker 1 (05:02):
Now. After a signature event with a limited field last week,
we're back to a full field this week with the
RBC Canadian Open. It's a tournament that's been around since
nineteen oh four. It's a tournament that moves around from
year to year and this year's Canadian Open will be
played at TPC Toronto at Osprey Village for the first time.
It's also going to host the RBC Canadian Open next year.
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And although it's called TPC Toronto, it's actually about forty
five minutes northwest of Toronto in a town called Caledon.
It's a par seventy that will play two seven, three
hundred and eighty nine yards. As the name suggests, TPC
Toronto at Osprey Valley is a stadium style course, so
won't throw anything real unfamiliar at the players. Maybe the
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most interesting thing about the course is that the opening
hole is a par five, the finishing hole is a
par five, and those are the only two power fives
on the course. So in the first two rounds, when
half the field starts the round hole number ten, those
players will play the two par fives back to back. Now,
number one is only five hundred and forty one yards,
so players get a nice birdy opportunity right away. Number
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eighteen is five hundred and eighty one yards and it's
kind of reminiscent of the eighteenth holl a Tory Pine
south with water in front of a green that's sloped
towards the front and will funnel approach shots that land
in the front part of the green back down toward
the water. TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley has some long
par fours. Six of them are longer than four hundred
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and eighty yards. Four of them are longer than five
hundred yards or I should say five hundred yards or longer.
I think one is exactly five hundred including the sixteenth
and seventeenth holes. The seventeenth that's a five hundred and
thirty yard brute. There are also a couple of short
par fours under four hundred yards. Big hitters might be
able to have a go at the green on number six,
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which is only three point fifty and unlike some of
the other Canadian Open venues, there isn't all that much
tree trouble at Tea Toronto. Seems like the big hitters
may have at least a slight edge on this course. Now,
the par threes are kind of an interesting mixture of
short and long. TPC Toronto has a two hundred and
twenty five yard par three two hundred and thirty seven yarder,
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but it also is a one hundred and fifty eight
yarder and one hundred and forty four yarder. The rough
is going to be moderately difficult, certainly nothing like the
heavy stuff we saw at Mierfield Village last week. Greens
are average sized by tour standards, their mixture of ben
grass and poa. Robert McIntyre is the defending Canadian Open champ.
He wanted the Hamilton Golf and Country Club last year
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with a score of minus sixteen, beating Ben Griffin by
a shot. Native Canadian Nick Taylor won in twenty twenty three,
a memorable win. He made a lengthy pot in a
playoff to beat Tommy Fleetwood at Oakdale Golf and Country Club,
and he ended a long victory drought for Canadian golfers
in their national championship. Rory McElroy won the Canadian Open
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in twenty twenty two at Saint George's. He also won
at Hamilton in twenty nineteen. There was a two year
gap in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one when the
Canadian Open was canceled due to COVID. Now the forecast
for this week looks pretty good. The highs will be
in the upper sixties and lower seventies for most of
the week with cool Canadian air. We'll have to see
if the Canadian wildfires affect the air quality. Winds are
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expected to be on the lighter side for most of
the week, five to ten miles per hour most days,
a little breezier Saturday, and the forecast is mostly dry
other than some possible showers Thursday morning. Bo, What does
your early research tell you about TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There's not a lot to go off, but honestly, none
of this course hasn't seen a professional event yet. But
it also does have some comp courses based on the region,
based on the layout and the way it's routed. The
comp courses here are Detroit Golf Club in Detroit and
Philly Cricket Club, which we just saw at the PGA
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in Philly, of course, and those two courses kind of
a little quirky. They have the challenging par fours, quite
a few of them actually, and then the bookend, the
par five bookends. That's really interesting. I don't think I've
ever seen that on another course. So, like you said,
to the people teeing off on ten and then teeing
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off on one, they're gonna get the bookend par five's
back to back for a nice little scoring burst, hopefully
if they're playing well. What I've gathered from the comp
courses as well as the expected conditions, this is going
to be a second shot golf course. It's going to
be very, very heavily favoring decent driving but mostly good
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iron play. And so I'm going to be looking at
guys who are hot right now playing great golf as well,
especially when it comes to ball striking and putting themselves
in birdie making opportunities. I don't think they're gonna make
a lot of double bogies like we saw last week
me or Field Village, but bogey avoidance is obviously key.
But I'm gonna be heavily waiting birdier better percentage, especially
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over the last twenty four rounds. I'm really gonna be
looking for guys who a are gonna give themselves lots
of scoring chances and be the guys that are hot
right now at cashing the in on those opportunities.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And it's a really good field.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I mean, obviously we have Rory McElroy here because he
decided that was way more important than playing last week
at Memorial and much to the chagrin of Jack Nicholas himself.
But it's exciting. It's it's cool because the Canadians really
come out like the You don't know how much the
Canadians love golf until you host a podcast, the Golf Podcast,
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which is mostly Canadian fans. That's a I know exactly
how passionate Canadian golf fans are, and they are raucous,
they are rowdy, they got They're gonna have the rink
set up out there just like they do.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Internally box right.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're gonna have all the They're gonna have all the
loonies out there, all the Canucks, They're all going to
be ready to go. They love their golf, especially when
the weather warms up. It's gonna be a fun one
and it's gonna be a lot of fun to bet
this tournament.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
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Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes he is. Now, let's get to the RBC Canadian
Open odds. All odds are courtesy of DraftKings as of
Monday morning. Some of these odds may have changed by
the time you consume this show. As mentioned earlier, Scottie
Shuffler is sitting this one out. Rory McElroy is teeing
it up this week after skipping the Memorial, Rory opens
as the favorite at plus four point fifty. Ludwig Olberg
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is plus fourteen hundred, Canada native Corey Connors is plus
two thousand, Shane Lowry is plus twenty two hundred, Sam
Burns and defending Canadian Open champ Robert McIntyre ore plus
three thousand. Harry Hall, Sung jm Luke Clinton and Taylor
Pendrith are both plus three thirty five hundred, and Torborne Olison,
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Mackenzie Hughes, Keith Mitchell there at plus four thousand. Wyndham
Clark is at plus forty five hundred. Well let's start
with Rory. What do you think about the value proposition
at plus four fifty's.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He's the guy to beat here.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
His driving's amazing, his approach game is really strong, and
his short game has been really good this year. He's
another one of those multi time winners on the PGA
Tour the season, including the green jacket that sewed together
the Grand Slam. He pretty much loves playing in Canada
more than anywhere else because he's won this event twice
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at two different courses, and I bet you he wants
to win a third one at a third different course
this year. I still don't like the plus four fifty
because it doesn't pay off very much, but I will
be hunting those live odds, much like I do with
Scotti Scheffler when he's at super short odds. I think
that if you're looking like Rory's still within striking distance
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and you're not seeing any of your other that's kind
of rise to the top of the leaderboard, it might
be time to just drop a live bet on Rory
at decent odds, just in case he blows up. Because
if he is on his game, there's nobody's in this
field that's going to beat him. I still will have
some action on Ludwig Oberg at plus fourteen hundred because
of that ball striking. His short game hasn't been great
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this last couple months, but his iron play is so good,
and we saw some really good shots from him. Despite
a poor finish at Memorial, he was hitting some really
good iron shots on that course, making it look easy
at times and overly difficult at others. I think that
that talent there from Oberg is well worth the plus
fourteen hundred, and then I'll take some shots on the
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Canadian that I think has the best chance to win
here with his bag, and that's Corey Connors getting plus
two thousand and Corey Connors in his national championship. It
was only I think the Nick Taylor breaking the drought
kind of cracked the seal for Canadians because there's so
many great Canadians on the PGA Tour right now. There
was like six or seven of them in the field
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last week in a signature event. There's even more this week.
I think that a Canadian has a very good chance
to win this event, especially if Rory doesn't quite come
out in the light.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The course up it does seem like TPC Toronto could
be a second shot course, which would certainly favor Connors.
He's finished top twenty five in nine of his last
ten events. He has been mister steady, but we know
the short game is an achilles heel and he hasn't
won on tour since the twenty twenty three Valero Texas Open.
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Connor's just really needs some puts to drop this week
and then he's got a great chance. But let me
make the case for Rory McElroy betting him not waiting
for the live odds in tournament odds, like when I
was guessing what his odds were going to be here
with no Scottie Scheffler. I guessed plus three point fifty,
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and then remember that he had won this twice and
I thought maybe plus three hundred. When I saw plus
four to fifty, I was pretty surprised. And I actually
think that's a value. Like the field's good, but it's
not great. I mean there's no Scotti, there's no Xander,
like it's a really solid field, but like I think
plus four to fifty is pretty good value quite honestly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, he is the class of this field, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, So let's talk about a few more of these guys.
So defending champion Robert McIntyre, he's starting to heat up.
He was sixth at the Charles Schwab Challenge two weeks ago,
twentieth at the Memorial last week. His strokes gain numbers
have been pretty good lately. Ranks outside the top one
hundred in strokes game putting this season, but he's inside
the top twenty five in strokes gained, total strokes gained
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off the tee, and strokes gained on approach. Sam Burns
has finished top twenty in four of his last five events,
and the one miss was a thirtieth. He just finished
twelfth at the Memorial. Burns leads the tour in strokes
gained putting. That's the good news, but he is ninety
first in strokes gained off the t in one hundred
fifty seventh in strokes gained on approach. Harry Hallbow has
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quietly strung together three straight top twenties. He wasn't in
the field at the Memorial, but he finished sixth at
the Charles Schwab two weeks ago, and hall is tied
for fourth in par four scoring this season could be
important on of course, with a dozen par fours. What
about Luke Clinton Bow and he interested him. We have
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not seen him in a tour event since the Valspar
in March, but talented young player at a big hitter.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I was gonna hold him for the mid price. But
since we're going to talk about him right now, Yes,
Luke Clinton is absolutely in play this week plus thirty
five hundred. I've seen him as long as plus four thousand.
Either way, I'm betting him. This guy's extremely talented, he's
extremely aggressive, and he's great on approach, which is what
we're looking for on this type of event where you
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have to go low. I don't think that they're going
to go necessarily twenty under or better, but you're gonna
have to together's four rounds in the sixties to win here,
four rounds in the mid sixties to win here. I
think sixty six sixty seven, four days.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
In a row will do it.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Luke Clanton is the kind of guy who can go
sixty three sixty four on a course like this a
couple of times. Very volatile, but also the upside is
too good to ignore. One of the most talented players
in this field. I will go back to Harry Hall.
Those approach numbers. I like those a lot. I don't
like his odds right now, but I will be paying
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close attention as we get closer to Thursday on Harry Hall,
because that's a name that I was looking for to
see when his odds came out. At this point, I'd
rather play Clanton at the in that tier, but it's
really hard to ignore what Harry Hall's done this season.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, so I think his odds actually may have drifted
over the course of the day and DraftKings. I looked
right before the show, and I think Hall might have
been one of the guys who was off to from
thirty plus thirty five hundred to plus four thousand and Clanton.
I was really excited to see his name in the
field this week, but I was not so excited to
see plus thirty five hundred odds. I was hoping they'd
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be a little bit longer if they drift.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
If they drift were going full ladder.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We are definitely jumping on board if he drifts a
little bit. Taylor Penrith, another Canadian, might come in with
the best recent form of any of the Canadian players.
He was fifth at the PGA, twelfth at the Memorial.
He's fourth in strokes gained off the tee and thirty
first in strokes gained unapproach the bad news, say Achilles
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Corey Connors has I don't know why they can't put
in Canada.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Bo, but well, the green's only green for like six
weeks a year, so.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That could be yeah. Taylor Penrith is one hundred and
forty fourth in strokes gain putting. And then there's Keith Mitchell.
He was riding a streak of five straight top twenties
before missing the cut at the PGA and finishing thirty
sixth that the Charles Schwab Mitchell always seems to get
off to blazing starts in his Thursday rounds, and you know,
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always an intriguing option for our first round leader bats.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
We just need to tell him it's Thursday every day
and Keith Mitchell might win again. Kasmir Keith loves him
some Thursdays.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He might be the new Scottie Scheffler he played if
he could play four straight Thursday rounds ball. Yeah, all right,
let's look at some more odds. We've got Nick Taylor,
Alex Norin and Kurt Kitty Yama at plus five thousand,
Chris Gotterup and Max Homa at plus six thousand, Justin Rose,
Jake Knapp, Eric Cole, Thomas Deetrie and Davis Riley at
plus sixty five hundred. At plus seven thousand are Johnny Keefer,
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Gary Woodland, Rasmus Hoyguard, Matt Wallace and Kevin You those
guys are all plus seven thousand, and at plus seventy
five hundred, saheitha Gala, Cameron Young, Nicholas Norgard and Matty Schmidt.
Who stands out from this group.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bo the only guy that's worse than the Canadians at
putting is Kirk Kittyama, but he's also an amazing off
the t player and a very good iron player. This
par four scoring is important. Kurt kitty Yama is doing
a great job this year ball striking and scoring on
part fours. If he can see some more putts going
in like he did a couple of weeks ago at
the Charles Schwab, I'm playing at plus five thousand. He's
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got the upside, especially if I did see some rain
in the forecast for the first three days of this tournament.
It's forty to fifty percent chance of rain in the
Toronto area. So if this place softens up, seventy four
hundred yards in a par seventy is not going to
be easy for the shorter hitters. Kittyama's top ten and
driving distance on tour. He's a bomber out there and
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he can definitely take advantage of softer conditions if they arise.
So I'm going to take the shot on the North
kal King Kirk Kittiam at plus five thousand. I'm also
in on Thomas Dtree at plus sixty five hundred. Those
odds are too good for his skill level. Another great
iron player who can score in bunches.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
When Thomas D.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Tree out there with his green glove on the Belgian
he knows how to score. He can score in bunches.
One of the best birdie makers on tour, and I
will be paying attention to that number. Plus sixty five
hundred is extremely long for somebody of Dtre's caliber.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
One guy really wanted to jump on bow was twenty
twenty three Canadian Open winner Nick Taylor. He just finished
fourth at the Memorial.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
He was top twenty at He looked so good last week.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Really good. He was top twenty at the Truest Championship
last month. And you know that there have been comparisons
to as you mentioned, the Philly Cricket Club and this course.
So Taylor's not a big hitter. That's kind of what
scares me with all these long par fours, although he
does rank thirteenth and strokes gain on approach, So I
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don't know if I'm going to bet him just yet,
but he is on my watch list for later in
the week. John Keefer is a name some people might
not recognize. He's mostly played on the Corn Ferry Tour.
This year he won a Corn Ferry event in April
and finished second and one in mayke For also finished
third in a PGA Tour America's event. They played on
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TPC Toronto last year, so that might explain and why
he is on the radar. And speaking of good players
BO at intriguing price points, Gary Woodland seems close to
regaining its old form. He finished eleventh with the Charles
Schwab a couple of weeks ago, and you know, seems
like a pretty good value at what did I say?
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Plus seven thousand? No, he's shorter than that. Did I
mention Gary Woodland?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I did not mention Gary Woodland. Okay, I might have
to save him for the long shots, So let's talk
long shots, bo. Who are the sneaky betting values this week?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I am just a sucker for the two guys who
have spent a lot of time in Norcol playing golf.
First one is a NorCal native, Isaiah Solinda. Great ball striker,
great birdie maker. We've seen him in Spurts this year,
just light up all types of golf courses. In the
team challenge with Kevin Vello, he was they were electric together,
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but it was Celinda's ball striking that put them in
position that iron play is gonna carry him through a
great career plus one hundred and ten or one hundred
and ten to one plus eleven thousand for Isaiah Solinda.
That's great for a guy with his upside. And they
keep giving me triple digit odds on PG Tour winner
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and very close to a top ten at the Charles Schwab,
Carl Phillips, the Aussi by way of Stanford, Sunday Red
all the things Tigers, Tigers like Disciple is going to
be at one hundred and fifty to one. Every week,
we get triple digit odds on Carl Phillips and we're
up one hundred and ten units on this season just
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betting Carl Phillips. So keep betting Carl Phillips because he
keeps paying us. So that's that's where I'm gonna end
my card, because I don't think anybody longer has any
chance to win or even crack the top twenty. But
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some other names
out there like Quaid Cummins, David Ford, the u NC
guy who just won PG Tour. You next up and
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coming name him? And Johnny Kiefer are gonna be names
to watch over the next few years. I like Keifer,
but his odds are way too short. But David Ford
from North Carolina is a name to watch.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All right. Gary Woodland, for the record, is plus seventy
five hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
He's a tweener, so he could have gone either way.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm in on Rio Hassatsine at eighty.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
To one, and he's been doing well.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah. In his last nine events, he has three top
tens and five top twenties and he is twenty fifth
in strokes gained total this season, so pretty good value
on him. And Ryan Fox is also eighty to one.
He won the one flight Myrtle Beach Classic last month
and was twentieth at the Memorial. He ranks thirty first
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in strokes gain total.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Another long hitter, really long hitter.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Big hitter. All right, Poe, So who's on your early
betting card.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm gonna go Ludwig Oberg plus fourteen hundred, Corey Connors
plus two thousand. Then I'm going full ladder on Luke
Clinton plus thirty five hundred, Kurt Kittayama plus five thousand,
Thomas Dietree plus sixty five hundred and I'll throw it
a little bit on Isaiah Celinda one hundred and ten
to one and Carl Phillips hundred and fifty to one.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So you are not even waiting for the odds to drift.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No, No, I'm after Tomas Clanton. Clanton.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, Clanton's the one guy in this field that if
he was anything longer than thirty, I was going to
bet him to win because he's got that upside.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yes, indeed, so I am going to bet Rory McElroy
at plus four fifty. I'm betting Robert McIntyre at plus
three thousand. I see that Thomas Dietree has drifted to
plus seventy five hundred now, so I'm going to take him.
I want Nick Taylor for a top five at plus
eight hundred, and uh, I'm torn between Rio Hussatine and
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Ryan Fox both eighty to one. I might put a
couple of bucks on each outright, Yeah, why not? Now
for our one and done picks, I took Colin Morikawa
last week at the Memorial. He finished in a high
for twentieth, good for two hundred and fifty thousand, six
hundred and sixty six dollars. BO took Xander Shoffley. He
finished tied for twenty fifth, good for one hundred and
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fifty nine thousand, not ideal results for a couple of
top players. I do make up a little bit of
ground on bow, but I think it's the first time
I've made up ground in like two months. He still
has a big lead on me. At this rate, I'll
catch up by twenty twenty eight or so. And bo
was up first this week.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Who you got, bo Oh Canada, we stand on guard
for the I'm going Corey Connors.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Corey Connors, it is I'm gonna take. I hate to
go with defending champs and tournaments and you know you
don't even get course familiarity here since it was on
a different course last year. I'm taking Robert McIntyre. He's
been in good form and I like how he.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Fits probably mac Scott's Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
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Welcome to the Betting Pros PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris.
That's Bo mcbrair. The PGA Tour heads north of the
border this week for the RBC Canadian Open. We'll give
you a full betting preview. We'll talk about TPC Toronto
at Osprey Valley. Of course it's hosting a PGA Tour
event for the first time. We'll tell you who we
are betting on this week, and then we will make
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our one and done picks at the end of the show.
But let's start with a quick recap of the Memorial.
Scotty Scheffler does it again. Scheffler wins the Memorial, conquering
not only in elite field in the PGA tours second
to last signature event of the season, also a brutally
difficult Mirrorfield Village course. Jack Nicholas's Place played a lot
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like a US Open course all week, with thick, gnarly
rouff and greens so fast that it looked like the
players were putting on marble. We saw players make a
lot of big numbers, but Scotty's scorecards were remarkably clean,
considering just how tough Mirrorfield Village was. Playing god. He
finished ten under power for the tournament with three rounds
of seventy and then a sixty eight on Saturday. Scotty
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made only four bogies and one double bogie all week.
It was a remarkable display of golf and I'm not
sure anyone other than maybe vintage Tiger Woods could have
taken down Scotty this week. But the red hot Ben
Griffin did do his best. Fresh off his win at
the Charles Schwab Challenge, Griffin stayed hot and opened with
a sixty five on Thursday to take an early lead,
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then managed to grind out a couple of even part
rounds Friday and Saturday that put Griffin one shot behind
Scheffler going into the final round, and those two were
paired together on Sunday. Griffin acquitted himself really well in
the final round, and for a moment he made us
wonder if he was capable of pulling off a miracle
by chasing down Scotti. Griffin was four shots behind going
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into the par five to fifteenth hole. He and Scotti
both on the fairway with their drives. Griffin hit a
terrific fairway metal approach that stopped just fourteen feet from
the hole well. Scheffler answered with an approach shot that
nearly hit the pin and stopped just outside Griffin's ball.
Scotty just barely missed his eagle pot. Griffin rolled his
in to cut Scotty's lead to three. Then on the
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long part three sixteenth hole, Griffin rolled in a twenty
seven foot birdie Pott and Scotty's lead was down to
two with two holes to play, But then Griffin pulled
his drive left on the seventeenth hole, couldn't hit the
green with his approach shot, wound up taking a double bogie,
and Scotty finished with a couple of routine pars to
win his third event of the season. He didn't win
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any of his first eight tournaments this year, but Scotty
has now won three of his last four. He's gonna
skip the Canadian Open this week to prepare for next
week's US Open. BO What did you think about Scotty's
victory at the Memorial?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Inevitable?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
He's just inevitable, and that's what it comes down to.
His consistency. We saw everybody else in that field have
an off day or Ben Griffin was the most steady
besides Scotty. Even he was wayward off the tee and
on approach, his short game is so immaculate that he
was still in it making birdies with a lot less
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than Scotty Scheffler is working with. Scotty Scheffler's working with
a full deck of cards this season. He's in the
top twenty and putting this season, which after last year
when he won eight times despite a bad putter, now
he's putting the lights out and the whole world's on notice.
This is a legendary run that we're witnessing, and it
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was inevitable that he was going to win with the game.
That he showed up to that golf course with ten
hunder par for four days at that golf course in
those conditions is silly. It's just sillying. There's nothing anybody
can do about it, because that guy is always going
to find the middle of the club face. He's always
going to be consistent. He's not going to beat himself.
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So unless you plan on going just as low all
four days as he is, you got none chance. So
take a hat tip to Scottie Scheffler. Again, We're gonna
really have to quit meeting up like this on a
weekly basis where we lament his victory despite despite the
short odds.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, remember when putting with Scotti's achilles HaLow, it's how
he don't have one. Yeah, that's that's scary. For the
rest of the PGA tour, We'll get to the Canadian
Open in just a moment, but first.
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Now. After a signature event with a limited field last week,
we're back to a full field this week with the
RBC Canadian Open. It's a tournament that's been around since
nineteen oh four. It's a tournament that moves around from
year to year and this year's Canadian Open will be
played at TPC Toronto at Osprey Village for the first time.
It's also going to host the RBC Canadian Open next year.
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And although it's called TPC Toronto, it's actually about forty
five minutes northwest of Toronto in a town called Caledon.
It's a par seventy that will play two seven, three
hundred and eighty nine yards. As the name suggests, TPC
Toronto at Osprey Valley is a stadium style course, so
won't throw anything real unfamiliar at the players. Maybe the
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most interesting thing about the course is that the opening
hole is a par five, the finishing hole is a
par five, and those are the only two power fives
on the course. So in the first two rounds, when
half the field starts the round hole number ten, those
players will play the two par fives back to back. Now,
number one is only five hundred and forty one yards,
so players get a nice birdy opportunity right away. Number
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eighteen is five hundred and eighty one yards and it's
kind of reminiscent of the eighteenth holl a Tory Pine
south with water in front of a green that's sloped
towards the front and will funnel approach shots that land
in the front part of the green back down toward
the water. TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley has some long
par fours. Six of them are longer than four hundred
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and eighty yards. Four of them are longer than five
hundred yards or I should say five hundred yards or longer.
I think one is exactly five hundred including the sixteenth
and seventeenth holes. The seventeenth that's a five hundred and
thirty yard brute. There are also a couple of short
par fours under four hundred yards. Big hitters might be
able to have a go at the green on number six,
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which is only three point fifty and unlike some of
the other Canadian Open venues, there isn't all that much
tree trouble at Tea Toronto. Seems like the big hitters
may have at least a slight edge on this course. Now,
the par threes are kind of an interesting mixture of
short and long. TPC Toronto has a two hundred and
twenty five yard par three two hundred and thirty seven yarder,
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but it also is a one hundred and fifty eight
yarder and one hundred and forty four yarder. The rough
is going to be moderately difficult, certainly nothing like the
heavy stuff we saw at Mierfield Village last week. Greens
are average sized by tour standards, their mixture of ben
grass and poa. Robert McIntyre is the defending Canadian Open champ.
He wanted the Hamilton Golf and Country Club last year
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with a score of minus sixteen, beating Ben Griffin by
a shot. Native Canadian Nick Taylor won in twenty twenty three,
a memorable win. He made a lengthy pot in a
playoff to beat Tommy Fleetwood at Oakdale Golf and Country Club,
and he ended a long victory drought for Canadian golfers
in their national championship. Rory McElroy won the Canadian Open
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in twenty twenty two at Saint George's. He also won
at Hamilton in twenty nineteen. There was a two year
gap in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one when the
Canadian Open was canceled due to COVID. Now the forecast
for this week looks pretty good. The highs will be
in the upper sixties and lower seventies for most of
the week with cool Canadian air. We'll have to see
if the Canadian wildfires affect the air quality. Winds are
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expected to be on the lighter side for most of
the week, five to ten miles per hour most days,
a little breezier Saturday, and the forecast is mostly dry
other than some possible showers Thursday morning. Bo, What does
your early research tell you about TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There's not a lot to go off, but honestly, none
of this course hasn't seen a professional event yet. But
it also does have some comp courses based on the region,
based on the layout and the way it's routed. The
comp courses here are Detroit Golf Club in Detroit and
Philly Cricket Club, which we just saw at the PGA
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in Philly, of course, and those two courses kind of
a little quirky. They have the challenging par fours, quite
a few of them actually, and then the bookend, the
par five bookends. That's really interesting. I don't think I've
ever seen that on another course. So, like you said,
to the people teeing off on ten and then teeing
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off on one, they're gonna get the bookend par five's
back to back for a nice little scoring burst, hopefully
if they're playing well. What I've gathered from the comp
courses as well as the expected conditions, this is going
to be a second shot golf course. It's going to
be very, very heavily favoring decent driving but mostly good
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iron play. And so I'm going to be looking at
guys who are hot right now playing great golf as well,
especially when it comes to ball striking and putting themselves
in birdie making opportunities. I don't think they're gonna make
a lot of double bogies like we saw last week
me or Field Village, but bogey avoidance is obviously key.
But I'm gonna be heavily waiting birdier better percentage, especially
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over the last twenty four rounds. I'm really gonna be
looking for guys who a are gonna give themselves lots
of scoring chances and be the guys that are hot
right now at cashing the in on those opportunities.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And it's a really good field.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I mean, obviously we have Rory McElroy here because he
decided that was way more important than playing last week
at Memorial and much to the chagrin of Jack Nicholas himself.
But it's exciting. It's it's cool because the Canadians really
come out like the You don't know how much the
Canadians love golf until you host a podcast, the Golf Podcast,
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which is mostly Canadian fans. That's a I know exactly
how passionate Canadian golf fans are, and they are raucous,
they are rowdy, they got They're gonna have the rink
set up out there just like they do.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Internally box right.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're gonna have all the They're gonna have all the
loonies out there, all the Canucks, They're all going to
be ready to go. They love their golf, especially when
the weather warms up. It's gonna be a fun one
and it's gonna be a lot of fun to bet
this tournament.
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Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes he is. Now, let's get to the RBC Canadian
Open odds. All odds are courtesy of DraftKings as of
Monday morning. Some of these odds may have changed by
the time you consume this show. As mentioned earlier, Scottie
Shuffler is sitting this one out. Rory McElroy is teeing
it up this week after skipping the Memorial, Rory opens
as the favorite at plus four point fifty. Ludwig Olberg
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is plus fourteen hundred, Canada native Corey Connors is plus
two thousand, Shane Lowry is plus twenty two hundred, Sam
Burns and defending Canadian Open champ Robert McIntyre ore plus
three thousand. Harry Hall, Sung jm Luke Clinton and Taylor
Pendrith are both plus three thirty five hundred, and Torborne Olison,
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Mackenzie Hughes, Keith Mitchell there at plus four thousand. Wyndham
Clark is at plus forty five hundred. Well let's start
with Rory. What do you think about the value proposition
at plus four fifty's.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
He's the guy to beat here.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
His driving's amazing, his approach game is really strong, and
his short game has been really good this year. He's
another one of those multi time winners on the PGA
Tour the season, including the green jacket that sewed together
the Grand Slam. He pretty much loves playing in Canada
more than anywhere else because he's won this event twice
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at two different courses, and I bet you he wants
to win a third one at a third different course
this year. I still don't like the plus four fifty
because it doesn't pay off very much, but I will
be hunting those live odds, much like I do with
Scotti Scheffler when he's at super short odds. I think
that if you're looking like Rory's still within striking distance
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and you're not seeing any of your other that's kind
of rise to the top of the leaderboard, it might
be time to just drop a live bet on Rory
at decent odds, just in case he blows up. Because
if he is on his game, there's nobody's in this
field that's going to beat him. I still will have
some action on Ludwig Oberg at plus fourteen hundred because
of that ball striking. His short game hasn't been great
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this last couple months, but his iron play is so good,
and we saw some really good shots from him. Despite
a poor finish at Memorial, he was hitting some really
good iron shots on that course, making it look easy
at times and overly difficult at others. I think that
that talent there from Oberg is well worth the plus
fourteen hundred, and then I'll take some shots on the
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Canadian that I think has the best chance to win
here with his bag, and that's Corey Connors getting plus
two thousand and Corey Connors in his national championship. It
was only I think the Nick Taylor breaking the drought
kind of cracked the seal for Canadians because there's so
many great Canadians on the PGA Tour right now. There
was like six or seven of them in the field
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last week in a signature event. There's even more this week.
I think that a Canadian has a very good chance
to win this event, especially if Rory doesn't quite come
out in the light.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
The course up it does seem like TPC Toronto could
be a second shot course, which would certainly favor Connors.
He's finished top twenty five in nine of his last
ten events. He has been mister steady, but we know
the short game is an achilles heel and he hasn't
won on tour since the twenty twenty three Valero Texas Open.
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Connor's just really needs some puts to drop this week
and then he's got a great chance. But let me
make the case for Rory McElroy betting him not waiting
for the live odds in tournament odds, like when I
was guessing what his odds were going to be here
with no Scottie Scheffler. I guessed plus three point fifty,
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and then remember that he had won this twice and
I thought maybe plus three hundred. When I saw plus
four to fifty, I was pretty surprised. And I actually
think that's a value. Like the field's good, but it's
not great. I mean there's no Scotti, there's no Xander,
like it's a really solid field, but like I think
plus four to fifty is pretty good value quite honestly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, he is the class of this field, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, So let's talk about a few more of these guys.
So defending champion Robert McIntyre, he's starting to heat up.
He was sixth at the Charles Schwab Challenge two weeks ago,
twentieth at the Memorial last week. His strokes gain numbers
have been pretty good lately. Ranks outside the top one
hundred in strokes game putting this season, but he's inside
the top twenty five in strokes gained, total strokes gained
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off the tee, and strokes gained on approach. Sam Burns
has finished top twenty in four of his last five events,
and the one miss was a thirtieth. He just finished
twelfth at the Memorial. Burns leads the tour in strokes
gained putting. That's the good news, but he is ninety
first in strokes gained off the t in one hundred
fifty seventh in strokes gained on approach. Harry Hallbow has
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quietly strung together three straight top twenties. He wasn't in
the field at the Memorial, but he finished sixth at
the Charles Schwab two weeks ago, and hall is tied
for fourth in par four scoring this season could be
important on of course, with a dozen par fours. What
about Luke Clinton Bow and he interested him. We have
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not seen him in a tour event since the Valspar
in March, but talented young player at a big hitter.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I was gonna hold him for the mid price. But
since we're going to talk about him right now, Yes,
Luke Clinton is absolutely in play this week plus thirty
five hundred. I've seen him as long as plus four thousand.
Either way, I'm betting him. This guy's extremely talented, he's
extremely aggressive, and he's great on approach, which is what
we're looking for on this type of event where you
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have to go low. I don't think that they're going
to go necessarily twenty under or better, but you're gonna
have to together's four rounds in the sixties to win here,
four rounds in the mid sixties to win here. I
think sixty six sixty seven, four days.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
In a row will do it.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Luke Clanton is the kind of guy who can go
sixty three sixty four on a course like this a
couple of times. Very volatile, but also the upside is
too good to ignore. One of the most talented players
in this field. I will go back to Harry Hall.
Those approach numbers. I like those a lot. I don't
like his odds right now, but I will be paying
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close attention as we get closer to Thursday on Harry Hall,
because that's a name that I was looking for to
see when his odds came out. At this point, I'd
rather play Clanton at the in that tier, but it's
really hard to ignore what Harry Hall's done this season.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, so I think his odds actually may have drifted
over the course of the day and DraftKings. I looked
right before the show, and I think Hall might have
been one of the guys who was off to from
thirty plus thirty five hundred to plus four thousand and Clanton.
I was really excited to see his name in the
field this week, but I was not so excited to
see plus thirty five hundred odds. I was hoping they'd
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be a little bit longer if they drift.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
If they drift were going full ladder.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We are definitely jumping on board if he drifts a
little bit. Taylor Penrith, another Canadian, might come in with
the best recent form of any of the Canadian players.
He was fifth at the PGA, twelfth at the Memorial.
He's fourth in strokes gained off the tee and thirty
first in strokes gained unapproach the bad news, say Achilles
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Corey Connors has I don't know why they can't put
in Canada.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Bo, but well, the green's only green for like six
weeks a year, so.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That could be yeah. Taylor Penrith is one hundred and
forty fourth in strokes gain putting. And then there's Keith Mitchell.
He was riding a streak of five straight top twenties
before missing the cut at the PGA and finishing thirty
sixth that the Charles Schwab Mitchell always seems to get
off to blazing starts in his Thursday rounds, and you know,
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always an intriguing option for our first round leader bats.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
We just need to tell him it's Thursday every day
and Keith Mitchell might win again. Kasmir Keith loves him
some Thursdays.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He might be the new Scottie Scheffler he played if
he could play four straight Thursday rounds ball. Yeah, all right,
let's look at some more odds. We've got Nick Taylor,
Alex Norin and Kurt Kitty Yama at plus five thousand,
Chris Gotterup and Max Homa at plus six thousand, Justin Rose,
Jake Knapp, Eric Cole, Thomas Deetrie and Davis Riley at
plus sixty five hundred. At plus seven thousand are Johnny Keefer,
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Gary Woodland, Rasmus Hoyguard, Matt Wallace and Kevin You those
guys are all plus seven thousand, and at plus seventy
five hundred, saheitha Gala, Cameron Young, Nicholas Norgard and Matty Schmidt.
Who stands out from this group.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bo the only guy that's worse than the Canadians at
putting is Kirk Kittyama, but he's also an amazing off
the t player and a very good iron player. This
par four scoring is important. Kurt kitty Yama is doing
a great job this year ball striking and scoring on
part fours. If he can see some more putts going
in like he did a couple of weeks ago at
the Charles Schwab, I'm playing at plus five thousand. He's
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got the upside, especially if I did see some rain
in the forecast for the first three days of this tournament.
It's forty to fifty percent chance of rain in the
Toronto area. So if this place softens up, seventy four
hundred yards in a par seventy is not going to
be easy for the shorter hitters. Kittyama's top ten and
driving distance on tour. He's a bomber out there and
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he can definitely take advantage of softer conditions if they arise.
So I'm going to take the shot on the North
kal King Kirk Kittiam at plus five thousand. I'm also
in on Thomas Dtree at plus sixty five hundred. Those
odds are too good for his skill level. Another great
iron player who can score in bunches.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
When Thomas D.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Tree out there with his green glove on the Belgian
he knows how to score. He can score in bunches.
One of the best birdie makers on tour, and I
will be paying attention to that number. Plus sixty five
hundred is extremely long for somebody of Dtre's caliber.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
One guy really wanted to jump on bow was twenty
twenty three Canadian Open winner Nick Taylor. He just finished
fourth at the Memorial.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
He was top twenty at He looked so good last week.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Really good. He was top twenty at the Truest Championship
last month. And you know that there have been comparisons
to as you mentioned, the Philly Cricket Club and this course.
So Taylor's not a big hitter. That's kind of what
scares me with all these long par fours, although he
does rank thirteenth and strokes gain on approach, So I
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don't know if I'm going to bet him just yet,
but he is on my watch list for later in
the week. John Keefer is a name some people might
not recognize. He's mostly played on the Corn Ferry Tour.
This year he won a Corn Ferry event in April
and finished second and one in mayke For also finished
third in a PGA Tour America's event. They played on
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TPC Toronto last year, so that might explain and why
he is on the radar. And speaking of good players
BO at intriguing price points, Gary Woodland seems close to
regaining its old form. He finished eleventh with the Charles
Schwab a couple of weeks ago, and you know, seems
like a pretty good value at what did I say?
(23:17):
Plus seven thousand? No, he's shorter than that. Did I
mention Gary Woodland?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I did not mention Gary Woodland. Okay, I might have
to save him for the long shots, So let's talk
long shots, bo. Who are the sneaky betting values this week?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I am just a sucker for the two guys who
have spent a lot of time in Norcol playing golf.
First one is a NorCal native, Isaiah Solinda. Great ball striker,
great birdie maker. We've seen him in Spurts this year,
just light up all types of golf courses. In the
team challenge with Kevin Vello, he was they were electric together,
(23:55):
but it was Celinda's ball striking that put them in
position that iron play is gonna carry him through a
great career plus one hundred and ten or one hundred
and ten to one plus eleven thousand for Isaiah Solinda.
That's great for a guy with his upside. And they
keep giving me triple digit odds on PG Tour winner
(24:15):
and very close to a top ten at the Charles Schwab,
Carl Phillips, the Aussi by way of Stanford, Sunday Red
all the things Tigers, Tigers like Disciple is going to
be at one hundred and fifty to one. Every week,
we get triple digit odds on Carl Phillips and we're
up one hundred and ten units on this season just
(24:37):
betting Carl Phillips. So keep betting Carl Phillips because he
keeps paying us. So that's that's where I'm gonna end
my card, because I don't think anybody longer has any
chance to win or even crack the top twenty. But
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some other names
out there like Quaid Cummins, David Ford, the u NC
guy who just won PG Tour. You next up and
(25:00):
coming name him? And Johnny Kiefer are gonna be names
to watch over the next few years. I like Keifer,
but his odds are way too short. But David Ford
from North Carolina is a name to watch.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All right. Gary Woodland, for the record, is plus seventy
five hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
He's a tweener, so he could have gone either way.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'm in on Rio Hassatsine at eighty.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
To one, and he's been doing well.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah. In his last nine events, he has three top
tens and five top twenties and he is twenty fifth
in strokes gained total this season, so pretty good value
on him. And Ryan Fox is also eighty to one.
He won the one flight Myrtle Beach Classic last month
and was twentieth at the Memorial. He ranks thirty first
(25:45):
in strokes gain total.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Another long hitter, really long hitter.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Big hitter. All right, Poe, So who's on your early
betting card.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm gonna go Ludwig Oberg plus fourteen hundred, Corey Connors
plus two thousand. Then I'm going full ladder on Luke
Clinton plus thirty five hundred, Kurt Kittayama plus five thousand,
Thomas Dietree plus sixty five hundred and I'll throw it
a little bit on Isaiah Celinda one hundred and ten
to one and Carl Phillips hundred and fifty to one.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So you are not even waiting for the odds to drift.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No, No, I'm after Tomas Clanton. Clanton.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, Clanton's the one guy in this field that if
he was anything longer than thirty, I was going to
bet him to win because he's got that upside.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yes, indeed, so I am going to bet Rory McElroy
at plus four fifty. I'm betting Robert McIntyre at plus
three thousand. I see that Thomas Dietree has drifted to
plus seventy five hundred now, so I'm going to take him.
I want Nick Taylor for a top five at plus
eight hundred, and uh, I'm torn between Rio Hussatine and
(26:48):
Ryan Fox both eighty to one. I might put a
couple of bucks on each outright, Yeah, why not? Now
for our one and done picks, I took Colin Morikawa
last week at the Memorial. He finished in a high
for twentieth, good for two hundred and fifty thousand, six
hundred and sixty six dollars. BO took Xander Shoffley. He
finished tied for twenty fifth, good for one hundred and
(27:09):
fifty nine thousand, not ideal results for a couple of
top players. I do make up a little bit of
ground on bow, but I think it's the first time
I've made up ground in like two months. He still
has a big lead on me. At this rate, I'll
catch up by twenty twenty eight or so. And bo
was up first this week.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Who you got, bo Oh Canada, we stand on guard
for the I'm going Corey Connors.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Corey Connors, it is I'm gonna take. I hate to
go with defending champs and tournaments and you know you
don't even get course familiarity here since it was on
a different course last year. I'm taking Robert McIntyre. He's
been in good form and I like how he.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Fits probably mac Scott's Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's all for this week's Betting Pros PGA podcast. Come
join us again next week when we will be previewing
the third major of the year, the US Open, and
a class at US Open venue Oakmont Country Club in
western Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Carnal En.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
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