May 27, 2025 • 28 mins
As the Memorial Tournament approaches, Pat Fitzmaurice and Bo McBrayer recap Ben Griffin's recent triumph at the Charles Schwab Challenge and break down the betting landscape at Muirfield Village. Scottie Scheffler leads the odds, but contenders like Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland are in pursuit.
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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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Betting CROs PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris
along with Bau mcbrair. Big week coming up on the
PGA Tour. It's not a major, but the Memorial Tournament
is one of the most prestigious non majors and Mierfield
Village is one of the better courses on the tour.
Boa will give you a full betting preview of the Memorial.
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We'll discuss the course, the field and the odds. We'll
give you our early betting cards and we'll make our
weekly one and done picks at the end of the show.
But we'll start with a recap of the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Ben Griffin gets his first individual PGA Tour victory. The
twenty nine year old Griffin had teamed with Andrew Novak
to win last month's Zurich Classic of New Orleans, a
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two man team event, but he had won on his
own until he held off Maddy Schmidt Sunday at Colonial.
It was basically a two man battle between Griffin and
Schmidt all weekend. Scotty Scheffler got off to a slow start.
He was one under par after two rounds. Scotty got
going on Saturday at the six under par sixty four,
but couldn't make magic. On Sunday, he shot a one
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under par sixty nine finished in a tie for fourth.
Four shots back. Griffin and Schmid were tied for the
lead at thirteen under par going into the final round.
Griffin had gone sixty six, sixty three, sixty eighth in
his first three rounds, and he got off to a
blistering start on Sunday. He rolled in a fifteen foot
eagle putt on the par five opening hall, then followed
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it up with a birdie on number two, and that
hot start would prove to be big later on, Schmid
struggled at the onset. After a birdie on number one,
he bogie number two, double, bogie number five, bogie number six.
It looked like Griffin might run away with the title,
but then Griffin started leaking oil. He didn't make another
birdie the rest of the way. After his birdie on
number two, Gryffin bogie the sixth and the seventh made
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another bogey in the par three thirteenth, at which point
his lead was down to two shots. Schmid had also
bogie the thirteenth himself, then bogie the fourteenth, but Schmid
got with it one shot when he stiffed his t
shot on the par three sixteenth, hold it within three feet,
sank the birdie pot, then watched Griffin make a sloppy bogie,
but after they both missed the green on the par
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four seventeenth, Griffin hit a great chip to get up
and down for a par while Schmidt failed to get
up and down from a greenside bunker. That gave Griffin
a two shot cushion going into the final hole and
he needed it. Bow. Both players missed the green on
the par four eighteenth, Griffin chipped to about four feet.
Maddy Schmidt then hold a chip from the deep up
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and back of the green to give Griffin the most
pressure packed pot of his career, but Griffin rolled in
the four foot or to earn the trophy. It was
a tough sunday at Colonial Bow. Those little greens were
firm and hard to hold, and it was a windy
day in Fort Worth, Texas. What did you make of
Ben Griffin's win at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He was solid all the way through all four rounds.
He didn't think like he was going to really make
any big mistakes and he didn't. His ball striking was
outstanding and when he was wayward he recovered very well.
This was a very good scrambling week for Ben Griffin
and it was it made all the difference in the world.
He made lots of birdies when they were there, but
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he also put himself in some tough spots and got
out of nearly all of them. So it was a
really strong field there at Colonial. With Scottie Scheffler within
striking distance most of the week, especially after Saturday, we
just didn't see the birdie making from Scheffler. It looked
like he couldn't buy a bucket on Sunday. So it
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was more like, Okay, is Griffin gonna hang on or
is Schmidt gonna continue to make double bogie and then bogie.
Every time Matti Schmidt got a little bit of momentum,
he shot himself in the foot and Griffin just steady ed,
he just kept it going. It was a really good
test of golf. I like Colonial, it's golf how it's
meant to be played. It doesn't You don't need to
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have a eight thousand yard course to challenge these guys.
And again it's a score worse than fifteen hundred. Part
a win a tournament is that's the sweet spot is
if you're looking at fifteen or better under par, then
I think it's too easy for these guys. I think
we're going to get another good one this week.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Scotty shot out of the ditch on Saturday had to
be one of the shots of the air. Scotty messed
way left lucky just to find the ball. Yeah, long grass.
He was probably what twenty feet twenty five feet below
the fairway.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The ball was three feet above is above his feet.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That too, and somehow put it on the greenabout twenty feet.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Away cabbage, and I was amazed he didn't make that
birdie putt. Everyone in the world was like, well, now
he's going to make that twenty footer and make the
best three ever. But a par from that spot. Well,
like you said, I was amazed that they found his
ball down there. I'm sure he gets lots of help
from all the volunteers. Marshall's patrons. We don't get that
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courtesy at our local MUNI do we pat.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, we don't, which is why I spend a lot
of money on go off ballspoe correct. So it's a
line item in the family budget.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's written in pen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
One final word about that tournament. I was wildly entertained
by that big cutter that Ben Griffin was hitting off
the tee, especially on Saturday when he was so dialed
in with that. I mean, that's like friends of mine
bo who have a slice know they're going to slice
off the tee every time, and they, you know, down
the left tree line. Huh. But Ben Griffin was doing
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that planned and to perfection, so and he could win.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's not the longest hitter on tour, but he was
hitting it out there like it was. I was pretty
impressed because Griffin's off the tea game was immaculate.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he was really good off the tee, really good
all around. Big win for him. And now we are
onto the memorial event and we will turn our attention
to the memorial in just a moment.
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Speaker 1 (06:26):
The Memorial Tournament is a signature event, the second to
last signature event of the season, so it's an exclusive
field of about seventy players. I think the official count
is seventy one. There will be a thirty six hole
cut for this one, with the top fifty players plus
ties continuing into the weekend, and any player within ten
shots of the lead after Friday's round will make the cut.
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The Memorial will be played at the Mirfield Village Golf
Club in Dublin, Ohio, the house that Jack belt Golden Bass. Yes, sir,
this Jack Nicholas design is a par seventy two that
will play two seven, five hundred and sixty nine yards.
Course was renovated four years ago and now plays tougher
than ever for the pros. The greens at Merefield Village
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are bent grass. They are firm, and they are lightning fast.
If you want to hit these greens, you best find
the fairway, because it's going to be extremely hard to
keep approach shots on the green if you're hitting from
out of the thick chewy rough at Mirefield Village, and
if you miss the green, it's going to be hard
to get up and down. Mirefield Village has long been
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one of the toughest scrambling courses on tour, probably taking
a backseat only to Augustin National in that department. Fairways
are reasonably generous, although it should be noted that the
twenty twenty one renovation did hinch off some of the
fairways at distances where the pros were likely to be
hitting their drives. Helps to be a big hitter. Seven
of the ten par fours at Merefield Village are longer
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than four hundred and fifty yards, and the two closing
par fours are five hundred and three and four hundred
and eighty yards. The two longest part five are five
hundred and eighty two and five hundred and eighty eight yards.
Since this is a Jack Nicholas design, it should be
no surprise that the course favors players who like to
hit a fade, hit it from left to right, and
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also who hit the ball high as Jack. Did you
know who favors a left to right ball flight and
can hit a pretty high ball? Bo I about number
one player in the world, Scotty Scheffler, He just happens
to be.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I keep hearing that name, bringing like Tonidas in my ears.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And as it turns out, Scotty Scheffler is the Memorials
defending champion. He finished eight under par last year to
beat Colin Morricawa by a stroke. Only eleven players in
the field finished under par last year. Victor Hoblin who
won the Memorial in twenty twenty three, He was seven
under par and beat Danny McCarthy in a playoff. Billy
Horschell was thirteen under par to win. In twenty twenty two.
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He was four shots clear of the field. Patrick Cantley
won here in twenty twenty one he was minus thirteen
and beat Colin Morricaw won a playoff. Some tough luck
for Kalin Morricaw won this event. A Bridesmaid Can'tlay also
won in twenty nineteen, and John Rahm won the Memorial
in twenty twenty. Could be pretty breezy at Mirfield Village
this week. Bo Windsor expected to blow at ten to
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twenty miles per hour on Thursday and Saturday, ten to
fifteen miles per hour Friday and Sunday. Temperature should be
in the seventies for most of the week, and there's
no rain in the forecast. Mirefield Village is going to
be playing firm and fast. What's it going to take
to win the Memorial this week? Bo, And I'm curious
about what you think the winning score at Mirefield Village
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might be.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, I mean, you could probably sense my excitement as
you listed all the things that were going to make
this place more difficult for This field is a stacked field,
so I don't expect the scoring to be too unfavorable,
but I do expect the winning score to be single
digits under par. It's going to take the full bag,
and starting with off the tee, you mentioned distances an
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advantage here. It's an advantage here, but mainly good drives
being able to gain strokes off the tee and find
the fairway in good position for approach. This is still
a second shot golf course, and you're still gonna have
to worry about pretty much any approach shot one seventy
five and above, So long iron play mid iron play
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is going to come into play here. Bogie avoidance and
scrambling are huge here. As you mentioned, the rough is gnarly.
If you find it, you have to be able to
mitigate damage. It is a lot like Colonial in a way,
where you got fast bent grass greens and you have
pinched landing areas and it's going to take playing from
the fairway. You noticed that Colonial if even when Scotti
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Scheffler was in that first cut of intermediate rough, he
wasn't getting spin on those approach shots because there just
wasn't any way to get the grooves on the ball
from those lies. It's going to be more of the
same here at the Memorial. I am a huge fan
of this golf course. I'm a huge fan of this
tournament in general, even though it is a limited field event.
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I'm going to overla all of that and just say
I'm excited to see the carnage. I probably think it's
gonna between five and ten under par, but I don't
have Scottie winning. There's a teaser.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Interesting, Yeah, I'm I always watch in terror when I
see this tournament with the greens, like just imagining what
my horrendous short game would be like at Mirfield Village.
It's just enough to make me lose sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh yeah, at the in these conditions, it would be
one hundred and twenty plus for most amateur golfers.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, sir, and we'll get to the odds for the
Memorial in just a moment.
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
Terms apply now for the odds at the Memorial, we're
recording the show on Sunday night due to the Memorial
Day holiday on Monday, so all odds are courtesy of
DraftKings as of Sunday night. Some of these odds may
have changed by the time you consume this show, Scottie
Scheffler opens as a heavy favorite at plus two seventy
Xanders Schoffley is plus fifteen hundred, Justin Thomas and Colin
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Morricawa are plus eighteen hundred. Patrick Cantley is plus nineteen hundred,
Ludwig Oberg is plus two thousand, Tommy Fleetwood and Corey
Connors are plus three thousand. Victor Hovland, Shane Lowry, Jordan Speith,
and Jadeki mount Siyama are all plus thirty five hundred,
and Seawoo, Kim Sepstraca and Daniel Berger are plus four thousand.
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Once again, Bo, the first question is whether you have
any interest in betting Scotty at such short odds against
the loaded field, But it sounds like you don't.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I thought I was really smart this last week
at Colonial, I was really smart. I was I was
patting myself on the back. I did all the waiting game. Obviously,
there wasn't an opportunity to where we really wanted to
bet Scotti Scheffler on Thursday. Friday came around and he
was pretty far behind. He started off hot on Saturday.
That's when I sprung into action on Saturday Saturday morning
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I found Scotti Scheffler at plus fourteen hundred. It was
right right as he's hitting his Saturday sixty four, and
I mean moving day is Scotti's day, and so I thought, oh,
as long as he's within six or seven strokes going
into Sunday, it won't take much for him to put
some pressure on Griffin and Schmid. Unfortunately, Scotti Scheffler did
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not come through with the plus fourteen hundred because he
shot kind of okay on Sunday. It wasn't great. This
is I'm kind of gonna employ the same strategy here,
but I'm not going to be paying as close attention
to the live odds for Scotty this week as I
would at Colonial, where I think that the field is
strong enough here to where I can look elsewhere and
not have to worry about Scotty. He's not the boogeyman
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here like he was the boogeyman at Colonial. He is
often the boogeyman like he was at Craig Ranch a
few weeks ago. I don't think he wins this week.
Defending champion is a hard thing to come into, especially
when you just want the PGA. He should have put
forth a better opportunity last week at Colonial. I don't
think this is his week. I just don't, And of
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course I could be very wrong, because he's still the
best golfer in the world. But I'm starting my card
with Xander Schoffley because the odds are too amazing. At
plus fifteen hundred, is the second man in. His numbers
are almost a carbon copy of Scotti Scheffler's, with better
scrambling numbers and honestly better off the tegue numbers and
bogey avoidance. This is obviously Scotty Scheffler's going to pop
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up number one in every stat model, but Xander Seffley's
right there next to him in mind.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, and Xander's best finish at the Memorial was eighth
last year. He's had a bunch of top fifteens, but
hasn't really seriously contended. But he's got the game for it.
I mean, we've talked about how Xander is a grinder.
You want him on the tough courses.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is the one. This is the one right here.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
This is a good spot for him. So just to
go back to Scotty for a second, he before winning
last year, had finished third in his two previous Memorials
before finally breaking through, and he is obviously in fine
form of late, with two wins in his last three events,
including the PGA justin Thomas Bo He missed the cut
in the PGA, his last event. Doesn't have a real
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great track record at the Memorial, at least not lately.
He finished fourth back in twenty seventeen and eighth and
twenty eighteen. Hasn't finished it better than eighteenth in any
of his last five appearances, a few missed cuts in there.
He did finish second when they held the Workday Charity
Open at Mirfield Village in twenty twenty. That was a
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much different course set up than we typically get for
the Memorial. So any interest in JT or the odds
just too short.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I just think JT is better on a shorter golf
course where wedge play is a key. His off the
tea game scares me, and off the tee is super
important at Memorial at Mierfield Village, you have to hit fairways,
you have to be more than just a second shot player,
and that's really been JT this season is when he's
found a neutral off the t game and short game.
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He's been really good, but when he's been kind of
struggling with everything except for approach. We haven't really seen
the best Justin Thomas this season, and I think this
course is too long, too demanding for it to be
Justin Thomas's week. It just seems like it's not a
great course fit based on everything I'm looking at, just
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the what's important here is it's kind of what it's
exactly what Justin Thomas has been struggling with this season.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Agreed. Now, Colin Morikawa is a really interesting case. He
didn't win that Workday Charity Open in twenty twenty again
much different set up, bought, and then he had the
two runner up finishes at Mirrfield Village twenty twenty one
and twenty twenty four. But his form has not been
great over the last two months. No top tens in
his last five events. He's outside the top fifty in
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strokes gained, putting outside the top one hundred in scrambling,
outside the top one point fifty in sanse percentage any
interest in Colin Morikawa this week?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Both I went into this expecting to love Colin Morikawa
and I simply don't. I'm looking at something that I
haven't seen from him in his whole career scrambling, namely,
there's seventy one in this field. He's somehow seventy seventh
in scrambling in this field out of seventy one. Not great,
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and honestly, his putting on bent grass is his best surface.
He's twenty six in this field putting on bent grass,
which is a good sign for him, except he's also
near the bottom of this field in both the one
seventy five to two hundred and two hundred plus proximity
buckets on approach, which that's usually the strength of his game.
And Colin more Kava of course amazing off the tee.
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He's one of the best t shot players, one of
the best drivers of the golf ball in the world.
But if his screen, if his approach game is this
bad as it has been the last few weeks and
as well as his natural I mean a version from
it to having a strong short game, it's it's scary
to think that he can get off the tee here
just fine. But we're worried about Colin Moore Rikava on approach.
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That doesn't sit well with me at all.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
No, that's scary. So Ludwig Oberg finished fifth last year
in his memorial debut, but he's been in poor form
in recent months, save for his seventh place finish at
the Masters. We have to talk about Patrick Cantley bo
He seems to love Mirfield Village. He's won here twice.
He's had two other top fives in a top ten.
He missed the cut at the PGA, but finished fourth
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at the Truest Championship the week before that. What about
can't lay at nineteen to one?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
No thanks. I know he's done well here in the past,
but there have been signs that he's turning the tide.
He's the worst putter in this entire field, and that's
not good. We've seen Patrick Cantley struggle with the flat
stick all season. It hasn't been pretty. Everywhere else seems
to be okay. His scrambling's kind of mill the pack.
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His approach game's mill of the pack. He's a really
strong approach player in general, and off the t has
been really good this year. But if you can't make putts,
you're not gonna be able to hold on here. I'm
just I'm afraid of his putting, and I'm afraid of
Oberg's short game in general, just being able to scramble.
It's been ugly for him. When his ball striking struggles
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like it has the last two months, then what does
Oberg really have. He's not gonna be able to rec
with it by way of his short game, and Patrick
Cantley isn't going to be able to bail himself out
with the flat stick because he just hasn't been making
anything this season.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, now, a couple other guys we should probably mention
Corey Connors. With his great ball striking, you'd think he
would maybe be a factor at Mierfield Village. He's finished
top twenty and seven of his last eight events, so
he's been really steady, but he's never seriously contended at
the Memorial. His best finished was the thirteenth Hideki Matsuyama
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got his first PGA Tour win at Mirfield Village back
in twenty fourteen and has since finished top ten at
Mirfield Village three times. But you know, Hedeki's recent form
has been pretty ify. Victor Hovland won here in twenty
twenty three, finished fifteenth last year. His forum has been
a mixed bag in twenty twenty five, more bad than good,
although he did win the vals Bar back in March
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and Seewoo Kim. He's kind of a horse for the course.
He's finished top fifteenth at the Memorial in each of
the last four years. He's also been in pretty decent
form lately, finishing top twenty in four of his last
six events. All right, let's take a look at more
odds unless bo any thoughts on any of those guys
or those guys all passes.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
No, you mentioned two guys that I'm betting on, and
I'll start with Hideki Matsiama. This is exactly the type
of courtse I picture him doing very well on. He's
a grinder, he's got an amazing short game, and as
far as golf courses where we see him excel on approach,
it's when they're longer approach distances. So I do have
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Hideki Matsiyama amazing odds plus thirty five hundred's that's ooh.
I love all of that because Hideki when he struggles,
he's he's almost just catatonic. He's just completely out of it.
But sometimes he feels like he's struggling and he's still
right in this thing, and I think that he could
be a couple strokes back and still be right there
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waiting for somebody to trip up. And we're going to
see some lead changes this week. It's this is the
kind of tournament with a lot of drama, a lot
of guys making mistakes, a lot of guys making amazing
shots to to vault themselves on tough golf conditions. I
think the Hideki Matsiyama is exactly the player that I'm
looking for at plus thirty five hundred, and the other
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one Seewoo Kim. It's it's just a great fit. He's
got lots of great experience here and when it comes
to driving distance, he doesn't have it. But he's a
really accurate player off the tee, and he's a really
good long iron approach player, and he happens to be
riding a pretty hot putter this season. So give me
Seawou on four recent form and past form at this
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golf course at plus four thousand. That's really nice. And
there's no mystery why Corey Connors hasn't done well here.
He has the worst around the green game in this field,
eightieth out of seventy one. Not great, Bob, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Not great. Let's look at more odds. We've got Tony Finow,
Sam Burns and Matt Fitzpatrick at plus forty five hundred,
Sung J Keegan Bradley and Russell Henley are plus five thousand.
Robert McIntyre, Maverick McNeely, Harris English and Ben Griffin are
plus six thousand, Adam Scott is plus seven thousand, and
at plus seventy five hundred, we have a big group
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that includes Aaron Raye, Wyndham Clark, Ricky Fowler, JT. Post In,
JJ Spawn, Ben On and Alex Norin. Anyone you like
from this group, Well, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Not a good group. I do have some interest. I'm
gonna be digging a little deeper at Ricky Fowler because
of what he did this last week in a very
similar setup, just a longer course, which I think plays
better into Ricky Fowler's game. He's not the best wedge player,
but he showed up off the tee at Colonial and
that gave me a lot of confidence that his game
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is starting to turn around. I think Ricky Fowler warrants
a second look and then no. Thanks on Tony fen Now.
I like that he did well last week, but he's
also another guy with no short game to speak of.
And this is not the kind of track I want
to put that to the test. It's you mentioned Matt
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Fitzpatrick's that's an interesting one too. Is the quintessential grinder.
Can he make enough birdies on the par fives? That
worries me because par five scoring is everything. If you
want to break par on this golf course, you have
to do it on those four par fives. It's it's
gonna be interesting to see if Fitzpatrick can make hay
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when he's presented those chances.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, Fitzpatrick's been in pretty good form lately. He's finished
eighth or did finish eighth at the PGA, and he's
finished top ten at the Memorial in each of the
last two years. You mentioned Fouler. His course history at
Mirfield Village has been pretty solid. But I'm with you
on final sung JM as a couple of top tens
here in the last three years, but he ranks one
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hundred and seventy fourth in strokes gain on approach bo
that would seem to not bode well at Mirrorfield Village.
And then I don't know how you feel about debutants
at the Memorial, like Andrew Novak's been hot lately. Just
finished eleventh with the Charles Schwab challenge. I just I
can't take a first time or here ball.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, if I was to take one, it would be
probably Novak or maybe like Harris English or something. But
they've been here before. Yeah, it's really tough for debutantes
here because the speed of those greens is real. If
you thought Colonial was fast, Mirefield Village is even faster,
and their bigger green complexes, so you have to actually
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aim for smaller targets a lot like Augusta National. Big
greens run fast and you just don't want to be
on the wrong side of it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Very true. What about long shots? Anyone at eighty to
one or longer odds who interest you?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I don't like betting long shots here so much, but
I did find a nice line on Taylor Pendrith at
eighty to one. That's a nice one. Very good off
the t player, very good long and mid iron approach
player is scrambling, has been very solid this season. So
I will be taking a stab at Taylor Pendrith again,
despite all the history behind doing that where he just
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never hits for me, I'm gonna do it again. And
then at one hundred to one. I ended up seeing
a very surprising name in the top ten of my model,
and that's Sam Stevens. Sam Stevens is no worse than
fifty first in any category, and it was a lower
weighted category in my model. He's number two in scrambling
in this entire field, number four in bogie avoidance. He's
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a really good par five scorer and top ten in
short game. So I think Sam Stevens warrants one hundred
to one bet probably do a top twenty on that
one as well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All right, both, So who's on your betting card as
of now?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I have Xander Schaffli fifteen to one, Hideki Matsuyama thirty
five to one, Sebu Kim forty to one, Taylor Pendrith
eighty to one, and Sam Stevens at one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I'm keeping a light just because the early odds only
gave us out rights. Really have been making my only
money the last few weeks on top twenties and we
don't get those odds, so I can't hit any of those.
But as of now, Patrick Cantley, I am going to
play him at plus at nineteen to one. I'm gonna
play Hideki right with you, Bo. I love him at
thirty five to one. Now for our one and doune picks.
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At the Charles Schwab Challenge, BO had Michael Kim. He
tied for sixteenth, fueled by a final round sixty seven
that earned BO one hundred and forty one hundred and
twenty five dollars. I had Maverick McNeely. He missed the
cut and earned me a big fat goose egg. BO
continues to throttle me in the one and done. He
has more than doubled me up and keeps adding to
his lead. But I'm up first this week. Bo. The
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thing is so many guys I would like to play
here I have used already, such as Hideki, Matsuyama and
Seawoo Cam. So despite the recent shaky form, I have
to go with Colin Morrikawan. Hope he gets the ball
striking going again this week at a course where he's
fared well in the past. Asked, who are you going
to take? Bo?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm going to take Zanderschoffley to keep his cut streak
alive and to make me a few million dollars this week.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
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Welcome to the Betting CROs PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris
along with Bau mcbrair. Big week coming up on the
PGA Tour. It's not a major, but the Memorial Tournament
is one of the most prestigious non majors and Mierfield
Village is one of the better courses on the tour.
Boa will give you a full betting preview of the Memorial.
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We'll discuss the course, the field and the odds. We'll
give you our early betting cards and we'll make our
weekly one and done picks at the end of the show.
But we'll start with a recap of the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Ben Griffin gets his first individual PGA Tour victory. The
twenty nine year old Griffin had teamed with Andrew Novak
to win last month's Zurich Classic of New Orleans, a
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two man team event, but he had won on his
own until he held off Maddy Schmidt Sunday at Colonial.
It was basically a two man battle between Griffin and
Schmidt all weekend. Scotty Scheffler got off to a slow start.
He was one under par after two rounds. Scotty got
going on Saturday at the six under par sixty four,
but couldn't make magic. On Sunday, he shot a one
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under par sixty nine finished in a tie for fourth.
Four shots back. Griffin and Schmid were tied for the
lead at thirteen under par going into the final round.
Griffin had gone sixty six, sixty three, sixty eighth in
his first three rounds, and he got off to a
blistering start on Sunday. He rolled in a fifteen foot
eagle putt on the par five opening hall, then followed
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it up with a birdie on number two, and that
hot start would prove to be big later on, Schmid
struggled at the onset. After a birdie on number one,
he bogie number two, double, bogie number five, bogie number six.
It looked like Griffin might run away with the title,
but then Griffin started leaking oil. He didn't make another
birdie the rest of the way. After his birdie on
number two, Gryffin bogie the sixth and the seventh made
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another bogey in the par three thirteenth, at which point
his lead was down to two shots. Schmid had also
bogie the thirteenth himself, then bogie the fourteenth, but Schmid
got with it one shot when he stiffed his t
shot on the par three sixteenth, hold it within three feet,
sank the birdie pot, then watched Griffin make a sloppy bogie,
but after they both missed the green on the par
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four seventeenth, Griffin hit a great chip to get up
and down for a par while Schmidt failed to get
up and down from a greenside bunker. That gave Griffin
a two shot cushion going into the final hole and
he needed it. Bow. Both players missed the green on
the par four eighteenth, Griffin chipped to about four feet.
Maddy Schmidt then hold a chip from the deep up
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and back of the green to give Griffin the most
pressure packed pot of his career, but Griffin rolled in
the four foot or to earn the trophy. It was
a tough sunday at Colonial Bow. Those little greens were
firm and hard to hold, and it was a windy
day in Fort Worth, Texas. What did you make of
Ben Griffin's win at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He was solid all the way through all four rounds.
He didn't think like he was going to really make
any big mistakes and he didn't. His ball striking was
outstanding and when he was wayward he recovered very well.
This was a very good scrambling week for Ben Griffin
and it was it made all the difference in the world.
He made lots of birdies when they were there, but
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he also put himself in some tough spots and got
out of nearly all of them. So it was a
really strong field there at Colonial. With Scottie Scheffler within
striking distance most of the week, especially after Saturday, we
just didn't see the birdie making from Scheffler. It looked
like he couldn't buy a bucket on Sunday. So it
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was more like, Okay, is Griffin gonna hang on or
is Schmidt gonna continue to make double bogie and then bogie.
Every time Matti Schmidt got a little bit of momentum,
he shot himself in the foot and Griffin just steady ed,
he just kept it going. It was a really good
test of golf. I like Colonial, it's golf how it's
meant to be played. It doesn't You don't need to
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have a eight thousand yard course to challenge these guys.
And again it's a score worse than fifteen hundred. Part
a win a tournament is that's the sweet spot is
if you're looking at fifteen or better under par, then
I think it's too easy for these guys. I think
we're going to get another good one this week.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Scotty shot out of the ditch on Saturday had to
be one of the shots of the air. Scotty messed
way left lucky just to find the ball. Yeah, long grass.
He was probably what twenty feet twenty five feet below
the fairway.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The ball was three feet above is above his feet.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That too, and somehow put it on the greenabout twenty feet.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Away cabbage, and I was amazed he didn't make that
birdie putt. Everyone in the world was like, well, now
he's going to make that twenty footer and make the
best three ever. But a par from that spot. Well,
like you said, I was amazed that they found his
ball down there. I'm sure he gets lots of help
from all the volunteers. Marshall's patrons. We don't get that
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courtesy at our local MUNI do we pat.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, we don't, which is why I spend a lot
of money on go off ballspoe correct. So it's a
line item in the family budget.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's written in pen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
One final word about that tournament. I was wildly entertained
by that big cutter that Ben Griffin was hitting off
the tee, especially on Saturday when he was so dialed
in with that. I mean, that's like friends of mine
bo who have a slice know they're going to slice
off the tee every time, and they, you know, down
the left tree line. Huh. But Ben Griffin was doing
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that planned and to perfection, so and he could win.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's not the longest hitter on tour, but he was
hitting it out there like it was. I was pretty
impressed because Griffin's off the tea game was immaculate.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, he was really good off the tee, really good
all around. Big win for him. And now we are
onto the memorial event and we will turn our attention
to the memorial in just a moment.
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Speaker 1 (06:26):
The Memorial Tournament is a signature event, the second to
last signature event of the season, so it's an exclusive
field of about seventy players. I think the official count
is seventy one. There will be a thirty six hole
cut for this one, with the top fifty players plus
ties continuing into the weekend, and any player within ten
shots of the lead after Friday's round will make the cut.
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The Memorial will be played at the Mirfield Village Golf
Club in Dublin, Ohio, the house that Jack belt Golden Bass. Yes, sir,
this Jack Nicholas design is a par seventy two that
will play two seven, five hundred and sixty nine yards.
Course was renovated four years ago and now plays tougher
than ever for the pros. The greens at Merefield Village
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are bent grass. They are firm, and they are lightning fast.
If you want to hit these greens, you best find
the fairway, because it's going to be extremely hard to
keep approach shots on the green if you're hitting from
out of the thick chewy rough at Mirefield Village, and
if you miss the green, it's going to be hard
to get up and down. Mirefield Village has long been
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one of the toughest scrambling courses on tour, probably taking
a backseat only to Augustin National in that department. Fairways
are reasonably generous, although it should be noted that the
twenty twenty one renovation did hinch off some of the
fairways at distances where the pros were likely to be
hitting their drives. Helps to be a big hitter. Seven
of the ten par fours at Merefield Village are longer
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than four hundred and fifty yards, and the two closing
par fours are five hundred and three and four hundred
and eighty yards. The two longest part five are five
hundred and eighty two and five hundred and eighty eight yards.
Since this is a Jack Nicholas design, it should be
no surprise that the course favors players who like to
hit a fade, hit it from left to right, and
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also who hit the ball high as Jack. Did you
know who favors a left to right ball flight and
can hit a pretty high ball? Bo I about number
one player in the world, Scotty Scheffler, He just happens
to be.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I keep hearing that name, bringing like Tonidas in my ears.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And as it turns out, Scotty Scheffler is the Memorials
defending champion. He finished eight under par last year to
beat Colin Morricawa by a stroke. Only eleven players in
the field finished under par last year. Victor Hoblin who
won the Memorial in twenty twenty three, He was seven
under par and beat Danny McCarthy in a playoff. Billy
Horschell was thirteen under par to win. In twenty twenty two.
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He was four shots clear of the field. Patrick Cantley
won here in twenty twenty one he was minus thirteen
and beat Colin Morricaw won a playoff. Some tough luck
for Kalin Morricaw won this event. A Bridesmaid Can'tlay also
won in twenty nineteen, and John Rahm won the Memorial
in twenty twenty. Could be pretty breezy at Mirfield Village
this week. Bo Windsor expected to blow at ten to
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twenty miles per hour on Thursday and Saturday, ten to
fifteen miles per hour Friday and Sunday. Temperature should be
in the seventies for most of the week, and there's
no rain in the forecast. Mirefield Village is going to
be playing firm and fast. What's it going to take
to win the Memorial this week? Bo, And I'm curious
about what you think the winning score at Mirefield Village
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might be.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, I mean, you could probably sense my excitement as
you listed all the things that were going to make
this place more difficult for This field is a stacked field,
so I don't expect the scoring to be too unfavorable,
but I do expect the winning score to be single
digits under par. It's going to take the full bag,
and starting with off the tee, you mentioned distances an
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advantage here. It's an advantage here, but mainly good drives
being able to gain strokes off the tee and find
the fairway in good position for approach. This is still
a second shot golf course, and you're still gonna have
to worry about pretty much any approach shot one seventy
five and above, So long iron play mid iron play
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is going to come into play here. Bogie avoidance and
scrambling are huge here. As you mentioned, the rough is gnarly.
If you find it, you have to be able to
mitigate damage. It is a lot like Colonial in a way,
where you got fast bent grass greens and you have
pinched landing areas and it's going to take playing from
the fairway. You noticed that Colonial if even when Scotti
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Scheffler was in that first cut of intermediate rough, he
wasn't getting spin on those approach shots because there just
wasn't any way to get the grooves on the ball
from those lies. It's going to be more of the
same here at the Memorial. I am a huge fan
of this golf course. I'm a huge fan of this
tournament in general, even though it is a limited field event.
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I'm going to overla all of that and just say
I'm excited to see the carnage. I probably think it's
gonna between five and ten under par, but I don't
have Scottie winning. There's a teaser.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Interesting, Yeah, I'm I always watch in terror when I
see this tournament with the greens, like just imagining what
my horrendous short game would be like at Mirfield Village.
It's just enough to make me lose sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh yeah, at the in these conditions, it would be
one hundred and twenty plus for most amateur golfers.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, sir, and we'll get to the odds for the
Memorial in just a moment.
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
Terms apply now for the odds at the Memorial, we're
recording the show on Sunday night due to the Memorial
Day holiday on Monday, so all odds are courtesy of
DraftKings as of Sunday night. Some of these odds may
have changed by the time you consume this show, Scottie
Scheffler opens as a heavy favorite at plus two seventy
Xanders Schoffley is plus fifteen hundred, Justin Thomas and Colin
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Morricawa are plus eighteen hundred. Patrick Cantley is plus nineteen hundred,
Ludwig Oberg is plus two thousand, Tommy Fleetwood and Corey
Connors are plus three thousand. Victor Hovland, Shane Lowry, Jordan Speith,
and Jadeki mount Siyama are all plus thirty five hundred,
and Seawoo, Kim Sepstraca and Daniel Berger are plus four thousand.
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Once again, Bo, the first question is whether you have
any interest in betting Scotty at such short odds against
the loaded field, But it sounds like you don't.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I thought I was really smart this last week
at Colonial, I was really smart. I was I was
patting myself on the back. I did all the waiting game. Obviously,
there wasn't an opportunity to where we really wanted to
bet Scotti Scheffler on Thursday. Friday came around and he
was pretty far behind. He started off hot on Saturday.
That's when I sprung into action on Saturday Saturday morning
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I found Scotti Scheffler at plus fourteen hundred. It was
right right as he's hitting his Saturday sixty four, and
I mean moving day is Scotti's day, and so I thought, oh,
as long as he's within six or seven strokes going
into Sunday, it won't take much for him to put
some pressure on Griffin and Schmid. Unfortunately, Scotti Scheffler did
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not come through with the plus fourteen hundred because he
shot kind of okay on Sunday. It wasn't great. This
is I'm kind of gonna employ the same strategy here,
but I'm not going to be paying as close attention
to the live odds for Scotty this week as I
would at Colonial, where I think that the field is
strong enough here to where I can look elsewhere and
not have to worry about Scotty. He's not the boogeyman
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here like he was the boogeyman at Colonial. He is
often the boogeyman like he was at Craig Ranch a
few weeks ago. I don't think he wins this week.
Defending champion is a hard thing to come into, especially
when you just want the PGA. He should have put
forth a better opportunity last week at Colonial. I don't
think this is his week. I just don't, And of
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course I could be very wrong, because he's still the
best golfer in the world. But I'm starting my card
with Xander Schoffley because the odds are too amazing. At
plus fifteen hundred, is the second man in. His numbers
are almost a carbon copy of Scotti Scheffler's, with better
scrambling numbers and honestly better off the tegue numbers and
bogey avoidance. This is obviously Scotty Scheffler's going to pop
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up number one in every stat model, but Xander Seffley's
right there next to him in mind.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, and Xander's best finish at the Memorial was eighth
last year. He's had a bunch of top fifteens, but
hasn't really seriously contended. But he's got the game for it.
I mean, we've talked about how Xander is a grinder.
You want him on the tough courses.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is the one. This is the one right here.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
This is a good spot for him. So just to
go back to Scotty for a second, he before winning
last year, had finished third in his two previous Memorials
before finally breaking through, and he is obviously in fine
form of late, with two wins in his last three events,
including the PGA justin Thomas Bo He missed the cut
in the PGA, his last event. Doesn't have a real
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great track record at the Memorial, at least not lately.
He finished fourth back in twenty seventeen and eighth and
twenty eighteen. Hasn't finished it better than eighteenth in any
of his last five appearances, a few missed cuts in there.
He did finish second when they held the Workday Charity
Open at Mirfield Village in twenty twenty. That was a
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much different course set up than we typically get for
the Memorial. So any interest in JT or the odds
just too short.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I just think JT is better on a shorter golf
course where wedge play is a key. His off the
tea game scares me, and off the tee is super
important at Memorial at Mierfield Village, you have to hit fairways,
you have to be more than just a second shot player,
and that's really been JT this season is when he's
found a neutral off the t game and short game.
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He's been really good, but when he's been kind of
struggling with everything except for approach. We haven't really seen
the best Justin Thomas this season, and I think this
course is too long, too demanding for it to be
Justin Thomas's week. It just seems like it's not a
great course fit based on everything I'm looking at, just
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the what's important here is it's kind of what it's
exactly what Justin Thomas has been struggling with this season.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Agreed. Now, Colin Morikawa is a really interesting case. He
didn't win that Workday Charity Open in twenty twenty again
much different set up, bought, and then he had the
two runner up finishes at Mirrfield Village twenty twenty one
and twenty twenty four. But his form has not been
great over the last two months. No top tens in
his last five events. He's outside the top fifty in
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strokes gained, putting outside the top one hundred in scrambling,
outside the top one point fifty in sanse percentage any
interest in Colin Morikawa this week?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Both I went into this expecting to love Colin Morikawa
and I simply don't. I'm looking at something that I
haven't seen from him in his whole career scrambling, namely,
there's seventy one in this field. He's somehow seventy seventh
in scrambling in this field out of seventy one. Not great,
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and honestly, his putting on bent grass is his best surface.
He's twenty six in this field putting on bent grass,
which is a good sign for him, except he's also
near the bottom of this field in both the one
seventy five to two hundred and two hundred plus proximity
buckets on approach, which that's usually the strength of his game.
And Colin more Kava of course amazing off the tee.
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He's one of the best t shot players, one of
the best drivers of the golf ball in the world.
But if his screen, if his approach game is this
bad as it has been the last few weeks and
as well as his natural I mean a version from
it to having a strong short game, it's it's scary
to think that he can get off the tee here
just fine. But we're worried about Colin Moore Rikava on approach.
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That doesn't sit well with me at all.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
No, that's scary. So Ludwig Oberg finished fifth last year
in his memorial debut, but he's been in poor form
in recent months, save for his seventh place finish at
the Masters. We have to talk about Patrick Cantley bo
He seems to love Mirfield Village. He's won here twice.
He's had two other top fives in a top ten.
He missed the cut at the PGA, but finished fourth
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at the Truest Championship the week before that. What about
can't lay at nineteen to one?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
No thanks. I know he's done well here in the past,
but there have been signs that he's turning the tide.
He's the worst putter in this entire field, and that's
not good. We've seen Patrick Cantley struggle with the flat
stick all season. It hasn't been pretty. Everywhere else seems
to be okay. His scrambling's kind of mill the pack.
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His approach game's mill of the pack. He's a really
strong approach player in general, and off the t has
been really good this year. But if you can't make putts,
you're not gonna be able to hold on here. I'm
just I'm afraid of his putting, and I'm afraid of
Oberg's short game in general, just being able to scramble.
It's been ugly for him. When his ball striking struggles
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like it has the last two months, then what does
Oberg really have. He's not gonna be able to rec
with it by way of his short game, and Patrick
Cantley isn't going to be able to bail himself out
with the flat stick because he just hasn't been making
anything this season.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, now, a couple other guys we should probably mention
Corey Connors. With his great ball striking, you'd think he
would maybe be a factor at Mierfield Village. He's finished
top twenty and seven of his last eight events, so
he's been really steady, but he's never seriously contended at
the Memorial. His best finished was the thirteenth Hideki Matsuyama
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got his first PGA Tour win at Mirfield Village back
in twenty fourteen and has since finished top ten at
Mirfield Village three times. But you know, Hedeki's recent form
has been pretty ify. Victor Hovland won here in twenty
twenty three, finished fifteenth last year. His forum has been
a mixed bag in twenty twenty five, more bad than good,
although he did win the vals Bar back in March
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and Seewoo Kim. He's kind of a horse for the course.
He's finished top fifteenth at the Memorial in each of
the last four years. He's also been in pretty decent
form lately, finishing top twenty in four of his last
six events. All right, let's take a look at more
odds unless bo any thoughts on any of those guys
or those guys all passes.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
No, you mentioned two guys that I'm betting on, and
I'll start with Hideki Matsiama. This is exactly the type
of courtse I picture him doing very well on. He's
a grinder, he's got an amazing short game, and as
far as golf courses where we see him excel on approach,
it's when they're longer approach distances. So I do have
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Hideki Matsiyama amazing odds plus thirty five hundred's that's ooh.
I love all of that because Hideki when he struggles,
he's he's almost just catatonic. He's just completely out of it.
But sometimes he feels like he's struggling and he's still
right in this thing, and I think that he could
be a couple strokes back and still be right there
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waiting for somebody to trip up. And we're going to
see some lead changes this week. It's this is the
kind of tournament with a lot of drama, a lot
of guys making mistakes, a lot of guys making amazing
shots to to vault themselves on tough golf conditions. I
think the Hideki Matsiyama is exactly the player that I'm
looking for at plus thirty five hundred, and the other
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one Seewoo Kim. It's it's just a great fit. He's
got lots of great experience here and when it comes
to driving distance, he doesn't have it. But he's a
really accurate player off the tee, and he's a really
good long iron approach player, and he happens to be
riding a pretty hot putter this season. So give me
Seawou on four recent form and past form at this
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golf course at plus four thousand. That's really nice. And
there's no mystery why Corey Connors hasn't done well here.
He has the worst around the green game in this field,
eightieth out of seventy one. Not great, Bob, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Not great. Let's look at more odds. We've got Tony Finow,
Sam Burns and Matt Fitzpatrick at plus forty five hundred,
Sung J Keegan Bradley and Russell Henley are plus five thousand.
Robert McIntyre, Maverick McNeely, Harris English and Ben Griffin are
plus six thousand, Adam Scott is plus seven thousand, and
at plus seventy five hundred, we have a big group
(23:12):
that includes Aaron Raye, Wyndham Clark, Ricky Fowler, JT. Post In,
JJ Spawn, Ben On and Alex Norin. Anyone you like
from this group, Well, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Not a good group. I do have some interest. I'm
gonna be digging a little deeper at Ricky Fowler because
of what he did this last week in a very
similar setup, just a longer course, which I think plays
better into Ricky Fowler's game. He's not the best wedge player,
but he showed up off the tee at Colonial and
that gave me a lot of confidence that his game
(23:45):
is starting to turn around. I think Ricky Fowler warrants
a second look and then no. Thanks on Tony fen Now.
I like that he did well last week, but he's
also another guy with no short game to speak of.
And this is not the kind of track I want
to put that to the test. It's you mentioned Matt
(24:07):
Fitzpatrick's that's an interesting one too. Is the quintessential grinder.
Can he make enough birdies on the par fives? That
worries me because par five scoring is everything. If you
want to break par on this golf course, you have
to do it on those four par fives. It's it's
gonna be interesting to see if Fitzpatrick can make hay
(24:29):
when he's presented those chances.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, Fitzpatrick's been in pretty good form lately. He's finished
eighth or did finish eighth at the PGA, and he's
finished top ten at the Memorial in each of the
last two years. You mentioned Fouler. His course history at
Mirfield Village has been pretty solid. But I'm with you
on final sung JM as a couple of top tens
here in the last three years, but he ranks one
(24:53):
hundred and seventy fourth in strokes gain on approach bo
that would seem to not bode well at Mirrorfield Village.
And then I don't know how you feel about debutants
at the Memorial, like Andrew Novak's been hot lately. Just
finished eleventh with the Charles Schwab challenge. I just I
can't take a first time or here ball.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, if I was to take one, it would be
probably Novak or maybe like Harris English or something. But
they've been here before. Yeah, it's really tough for debutantes
here because the speed of those greens is real. If
you thought Colonial was fast, Mirefield Village is even faster,
and their bigger green complexes, so you have to actually
(25:34):
aim for smaller targets a lot like Augusta National. Big
greens run fast and you just don't want to be
on the wrong side of it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Very true. What about long shots? Anyone at eighty to
one or longer odds who interest you?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I don't like betting long shots here so much, but
I did find a nice line on Taylor Pendrith at
eighty to one. That's a nice one. Very good off
the t player, very good long and mid iron approach
player is scrambling, has been very solid this season. So
I will be taking a stab at Taylor Pendrith again,
despite all the history behind doing that where he just
(26:10):
never hits for me, I'm gonna do it again. And
then at one hundred to one. I ended up seeing
a very surprising name in the top ten of my model,
and that's Sam Stevens. Sam Stevens is no worse than
fifty first in any category, and it was a lower
weighted category in my model. He's number two in scrambling
in this entire field, number four in bogie avoidance. He's
(26:32):
a really good par five scorer and top ten in
short game. So I think Sam Stevens warrants one hundred
to one bet probably do a top twenty on that
one as well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All right, both, So who's on your betting card as
of now?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I have Xander Schaffli fifteen to one, Hideki Matsuyama thirty
five to one, Sebu Kim forty to one, Taylor Pendrith
eighty to one, and Sam Stevens at one hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I'm keeping a light just because the early odds only
gave us out rights. Really have been making my only
money the last few weeks on top twenties and we
don't get those odds, so I can't hit any of those.
But as of now, Patrick Cantley, I am going to
play him at plus at nineteen to one. I'm gonna
play Hideki right with you, Bo. I love him at
thirty five to one. Now for our one and doune picks.
(27:19):
At the Charles Schwab Challenge, BO had Michael Kim. He
tied for sixteenth, fueled by a final round sixty seven
that earned BO one hundred and forty one hundred and
twenty five dollars. I had Maverick McNeely. He missed the
cut and earned me a big fat goose egg. BO
continues to throttle me in the one and done. He
has more than doubled me up and keeps adding to
his lead. But I'm up first this week. Bo. The
(27:41):
thing is so many guys I would like to play
here I have used already, such as Hideki, Matsuyama and
Seawoo Cam. So despite the recent shaky form, I have
to go with Colin Morrikawan. Hope he gets the ball
striking going again this week at a course where he's
fared well in the past. Asked, who are you going
to take? Bo?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm going to take Zanderschoffley to keep his cut streak
alive and to make me a few million dollars this week.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And that's all for this week's betting Pros PGA Podcast.
Come join us again next week when we will be
previewing the Canadian Open, the final tune up before the
US Open. Until then, so long everyone.
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