July 29, 2025 • 28 mins
Pat Fitzmaurice and Bo McBrayer recap The 3M Open before exploring the top betting strategies for The Wyndham Championship!
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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Intro - 0:00:00
The 3M Open Recap - 0:00:15
BettingPros App - 0:04:38
The Wyndham Championship Preview - 0:05:10
Novig App - 0:09:50
The Favorites - 0:10:49
Mid-Range Options - 0:17:39
The Long Shots - 0:21:18
Betting Cards - 0:25:06
One-and-Done Picks - 0:25:56
Outro - 0:27:20
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Betting Pros PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris,
joined by my tag team partner Bau mcbrear. One more
week before the FedEx Cup playoffs and today we'll be
giving you a betting preview for the PGA Tours regular
season finale, the Windham Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The first a quick recap of the three m open.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Bo mcbrear favorite Kurt kitty Yama gets a big win
in Minnesota. Kittiyama is pretty far down the leaderboard after
two rounds, sitting at six under par when the cut
line was five under par. But then Kitty Yama went
nuclear on the weekend. He carted twelve birdies on Saturday
and route to a round of sixty. Kitty Yama could
at a fifty nine if not for a bogie in
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the par three seventeenth That put Kittyama into a tie
for the lead going into the final round, and he
kept the momentum going. Kittiyama birdied six of his first
eight holes on Sunday to build a sizeable lead. Jake
Knapp and Sam Stevens actually had a chance to tie
Kitti Yama if they could have birdied the par five
eighteenth hole, but Stevens got a bad lie after just
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missing the fairway, had to scramble just to get his par,
and Nap dumped his second shot into the pond in
front of the green, eventually making bogie. Kitty Yama made
things a little uncomfortable with the boge on seventeen, and
then his second shot on eighteen landed in a greenside
bunker and gave him sort of an awkward lie on
a down slope, and Kitty Yama answered with a nice
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bunker shot that set up an easy two pot par
for the win and a big win it was. It
vaulted Kitty Yama into fifty third place in the FedEx
Cup standings, with the top seventy qualifying for the playoffs,
which begin next week. Sam Stevens finished solo second at
the three M Open, one shot behind the winner Jake Knapp,
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Matt Wallace, David Lipski, and Pearson Coody finished tied for third,
three shots back bo The NorCal Guy came through your
thoughts on your thoughts on Kurt Kittiyama's big win at
the three M Open.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What a great story, by the way, even if you're
not a NorCal fanatic with Chico t is like me.
It was a really good win for Kurt Kittiama. It
was exciting because he hadn't won since the twenty twenty
two Arnold Palmer Invitational. He's been struggling with his putting, especially,
and he's kind of been making the transition this season
from more of a grinded out type into a guy
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who can go low at these types of tournaments where
birdies are at a premium enter. His older brother, Daniel Kittiyama,
who I competed against back in high school days eons ago,
and I ran into both of them. He was obviously
on the bag at the Barracuda a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to chat it up with him and
reminisce about the Northern Athletic League days back in those
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back in five six or four oh five, and they
got a good laugh out of that, and apparently it's
it's working. They've always been really close as brothers, and
it's it's just really cool to see those two guys
really feed off each other. The energy that Daniel gives Kurt,
and then of course Kurt knows his game pretty well.
But I think Daniel knows Kurt's game really well too,
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because it was a really good performance, starting on Saturday
when he barely made the cut because he couldn't make
any birdies on Friday, and turning that into a court
tide course record sixty eleven under par on Saturday to
seize the lead and then to come out hot on
Sunday and finish the job. I couldn't be proud of
my guy from Chico and his brother who's going to
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be on the bag the rest of the season, which
has obviously been extended to at least the first round
of the playoffs. He'll also be in the field this
week at the window. So shout out to both of
the Kittyama brothers, and shout out to the Kittiyama family
because that is a golf family. They always have been
and there it's just a really exciting time for the
Northern California golf fans who have been following him his
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entire career.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Very cool story, indeed, and six under after two rounds.
You would have thought that was too far back at
a birdie fest like this, but you texted me on
Saturday and said the Kidiyama was on watch man If
if not for seventeen, which kind of vexed him on
both of the weekend days, he would.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Have had it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But still a team is playing tough. It was It
was cool though, because I did get a plus eight
fifty on him after his round Saturday, before the leader
for the guys who played in front of him had finished.
I got plus eight fifties. So even though I didn't
bet along with a lot of people who got him
at forty to one earlier in the week, I'll take
I'll take a w and a victory lap for knowing
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the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Very nice. Now it's onto the Windom Championship.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
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Speaker 1 (05:10):
Since the Windom Championship is the final event before the
FedEx Cup playoffs, a lot of the big guns are
taking one last week off before the home stretch. No
Scotty or Rory this week, No Xander, no Ludwig. But
we do have a pretty deep field with the PGA
Tour's middle class training to either solidify their spot in
the top seventy for the playoffs or trying to work
their way in. The Windom Championship will be hosted by
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Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North North Carolina. Designed by
Donald Ross, Sedgefield is a par seventy measuring seven and
thirty one yards. It's a short course. They're only two
par fives and they'll both be two shotters, measuring less
than five hundred and fifty yards. Two of the part
threes are about one hundred and seventy five yards, and
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eight of the twelve par fours at Sedgefield range from
four hundred and five four forty two yards, so one
of the other power fours is only three hundred and
seventy four yards. Players are going to be leaving the
driver in the bag.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This week.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You'll see a lot of players hitting three woods or
hybrids off the tee and still hitting wedges into these greens.
Driving accuracy far more important than driving distance this week.
There's a heavy incentive to hit fairways because Sedgefield has
Bermuda rough, and that rough gets real chewy with all
the heat and humidity in North Carolina this time of year.
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There's also incentive to line your t shots and spots
that give you an optimal angle of attack into these greens.
Putting is going to be really important this week. Sedgefield
has Bermuda greens and they are tricky, heavily undulated greens.
I think we want to look for players who have
shown an aptitude for putting on Bermuda.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Aaron Rise the defending champ.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He was eighteen under power last year, two shots better
than Max Grazerman. Lucas Glover finished twenty under part to
win the wind him in twenty twenty three. Tom Kim
won in twenty with the score of minus twenty and
Kevin Kisner won in twenty twenty one, finishing fifteen under
par and winning a.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wild six man playoff.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Believe it or not, it shouldn't be oppressively hot in
North Carolina this week. High temperatures will reach the upper
eighties on Thursday, but after that it's all low eighties
and upper seventies. Wind should be like to moderate and
their scattered thunderstorm chances the first two days bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What do you make of Sedgefield Country Club.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Just the more challenging version of last week's golf course
TPC Twin Cities. Obviously, the rough was up last week,
but the fairways were a lot wider and the course
had a little bit more distance. This course is tighter,
the rough is even more penal. It's still going to
be a birdie making type of paradise, especially with the
weather not really being overly hot, which hot and human
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in North Carolina's got to be really tough to grind
through four rounds of golf. One round might be okay,
but four rounds in a row in the humidity would
wear on you. The weather not being factor other than
some gusts of wind over twenty miles an hour, and
the first three days of the tournament, I still think
this is gonna be between fifteen to twenty two under par.
The field is going to be gunning for those last
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couple precious playoff spots. It's all gonna be about finding
the fairway with whatever club you can find the fairway with,
because if you're off the fairway, you're not going to
hit these greens in any position to make the birdies
that will be necessary. And of course putting on these
very severely sloped and undulated greens. They're not overly fast,
but they are tough, they are tricky. That's the biggest
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difference between this week and last week is last week
is one of the easiest putting weeks of the whole season,
and this is one of the more challenging ones because
of the nuance of the bermuda as well as the grain.
You're gonna hear the word grain a million times this
week when you're watching the broadcast. It's all real, it's
all valid. So yes, putting on bermuda is going to
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be extremely important. But also you have a very concentrated
three buckets of approach proximity between one twenty five and
one seventy five is going to be about thirty percent
of the approach shots on this golf course. That's a
big carryover stat that is very sticky. We can definitely
predict who's going to do well with that because we
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have a whole season of stats. We have pass stats
from the same tournament that's always at Sedgefield. This is
one of the times where we can actually dig into
the data figure out who's going to do well based
on all the shots that everybody's going to hit, who's
better at those approach shots, who's better at finding fairwayes,
and who's better at putting on Bermuda. Seems to be
a pretty good windfall going into the playoffs every year
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because we can really sink our teeth into the real
data from this whole season and the fact that this
golf course is so predictable.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm anxious to see who you are dialed into after
going over the data, and we will get into the
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Speaker 1 (10:50):
Let's get into the Window Championship odds. All odds are
courtesy of DraftKings. As of Monday afternoon, Matt Fitzpatrick has
been in fine form. He opens as the favorite at
plus two thousand. Ben Griffin and Keegan Bradley are plus
twenty five hundred. Robert McIntyres plus twenty eight hundred. Jordan Speith,
Hedeki Matsuyama, Akshay Battia and Aaron Rye are plus three thousand.
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Jake Knapp, Harry holl And Kirk Kitty Yama plus thirty
five hundred See Who, Kim, Luke Clanton and Lucas Glover
are plus four thousand. Adam Scott is plus forty five hundred,
and at plus five thousand are Sam Stevens, Ricky Fowler,
Michael Thorbjornsen, Max Grazerman and Cameron Young. Anyone here who
interests you.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Bo, Yeah, there's a couple. The favorites aren't really favorites
this week. For me, I was handicapping it to where
I wanted to like our favorite here, Fitzpatrick. But I
keep scrolling down and down and down to find him
in my model, and he's still going, still going. Even
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though he's been playing well lately, it hasn't been on
courses like this. There he is fought all the way
down in the middle of pack. It's not good enough
for me to be betting a favorite with short odds,
especially for somebody who hasn't won in a very long time.
I'm going to start my card to a guy who
has won the season, who is Captain America, and who
is going to be a very popular choice in DFS tournaments.
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Keegan Bradley twenty five to one odds to win this thing.
He is the class of this field as far as
recent success, recent form, and just ball striking in general.
This guy is te Degreen number two in this field.
He's number two on that short one twenty five to
one fifty approach bucket. He's number twelve an overall approach
and sixth and par four scoring. This is exactly who
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I want to start with at twenty five to one.
Just an amazing ball striker having a great season, and
it's going to be more fuel for the for the
conversation of whether or not Keegan Bradley will be a
playing captain at the Ryder Cup in September.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, he's interesting for sure. I think among the favorites,
he is probably the most appealing. Matt Fitzpatrick hasn't played
this event since twenty eighteen. He has been hot lately though,
with the top ten finish in each of his last
three events, including a fourth at the Open Championship. I
would to like Ben Griffin Moore like he had been
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on fire throughout the late spring and early summer. But
I wonder bo has he run out of gas?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's missed the cut in his last two events, the
John Deere and the Open Championship. But Griffin has finished
top ten at the win him in two of the
last three years, so he has shown some aptitude for
this course. Robert McIntyre finished second at the US Open,
seventh at the Open Championship, but the Windham hasn't really
been a good event for him. He missed the cut
last year, finished sixty fifth in his only other appearance.
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Let's talk about Akha Batilla for a second bow like
he's really interesting. It's been kind of a disappointing season
for Akshay hasn't seriously contended anywhere since the Players Championship,
where I believe he was third.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He did play fairly well at the.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Three m last week, finishing twenty fifth, and he is
a really pealing statistical profile for the Windom. Not long,
but pretty straight off the tee, good on approach, pretty
good wedge game, good on Bermuda greens. But he's missed
the cut in all four of his Windham appearances.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, that's true, but I'm betting on Oxbata thirty to
one for him. It's not fair. It's it's not fair
that we get thirty to one odds on the guy
who's probably gonna win this tournament. Oxbatia is all the firepower,
He's all the all the everything you want in this tournament.
Accuracy off the TA is great, especially when less than driver.
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He got in trouble last on Sunday because he was
top five all the way through that tournament and then
fell apart because he couldn't he couldn't afford to miss
left off the tee at TPC Twin Cities and as
that was his horrible miss all day Sunday and it
knocked him all the way down to the twenty fifth finish,
where he was top five all week long until that happened.
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I don't think that left miss is going to be
in his bag this week because he won't be hit
driver very often. It is a lot of drivers last week,
very few this week. Akshay's wedge game, his approach game
from one twenty five to one seventy five is not
just best in this field, it's best in the world.
Better than Scotti Scheffler, better than everybody, And so if
you're going to put a birdie maker like ax Shavatia
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in this field where he's fourth and overall ball striking,
his worst stat category is putting at forty ninth, and
that's better. That's up from his previous years where he
was outside of the top one hundred in putting and
Bermuda happens to be his weakest surface. But I still
think that this guy is going to light up the
scoreboard year. He's in different form this year than he
has in years past coming into the windhom Championship, So
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I will be betting very aggressive on a good Aux
Shavati at thirty to one.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
All right, let's talk about another bow mcbeer favorite. Harry Hall.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The Englishman is pretty interesting. Has a streak of seven
straight top twenty fives. While he did have that streak
and it was snapped with a mere twenty eighth place
finish at the three m o Ben Haul's an excellent potter,
fares pretty well on Bermuda greens, but he's missed the
cut at the wind in the last two years, which
were his first two appearances here.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, he struggles off the tee Fairway's gained he's ninety
third in this field, and strokes gained approach he's ninety
second in this field. So as great as his short
game is, I think he's a little short this week.
I do understand he makes more birdies than just about anybody,
but the fairways gained and the accuracy on approach, it's
got to be better than what Harry Hall has shown us.
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Bogey avoidance is good, strokes gained part four is good.
It all checks out. I just would like to see
a little bit more value on the books for Harry
Hall because he really hasn't chased any wins recently, especially
on a full field event like this. So I think
I'll skip Harry Hall this week, even though I do
really enjoy watching him play.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, the top twenty bet might be in play for
Harry Hall, but I agree he doesn't look like a
great value to win out right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't know if there's much else to see here
from this group.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Decki Matciama he's missed the cut here in his last
three appearances. Aaron Raye won here last year, but he
had finished seventy first and missed the cut in his
two previous wind Him appearances, and hasn't really contended seriously
in any tournament since February. Your guy Kurkidiamobo just doesn't
seem like a good fit for Sedgwick. Not that accurate
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off the team is putting hasn't been all that sharp
until last.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Week, and sudding has been bad, been bad.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And Seawoo Kim also not real sharp lately. He did
win this event in twenty sixteen, has had three other
top five finishes here in the last six years, but
based on recent form, doesn't look like a great play.
Let's get to some more of the odds. Danny McCarthy, JT.
Post and Ryan Gerard, Nikolai Hoigard and Matt Wallace are
all plus fifty five hundred Thorbiorn Olison, Sung, J M. Pearson,
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Cootie and Kevin Yu are plus six thousand, Yes, Perspens
and Tony Finow, Davis Thompson and Maxhoma are plus sixty
five hundred, Andrew Novak, Tom Kim, Bud Cowley, Ryan Fox
and Keith Mitchell are plus seven thousand, and at plus
seventy five hundred are Jackson Coyven, Alex Smalley, Emiliano Grio,
Rico Hooye, and Michael Kim what about the mid range
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options bow? Is there anyone worth an investment here?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I'm gonna be monitoring Luke Clanton, who's currently at
forty to one, but is very likely to slip here
with the field kind of moving away from him as
a popular choice after last week. If he slips to
that fifty range, I'll be all over Luke Clanton because
he's at fifth in my model, sixth in my model
ball striking extraordinaire, Bertie making extraordinaire. He has struggled at
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avoiding bogies, which doesn't seem to be too big of
a deal here. He's a good enough putter middle of
the packing of putting there. But I'm going to really
be looking at You're gonna love this. Ryan Gerard, the
winner of the Barracuda. He was another guy that I
chatted up on the practice screen before his Saturday round
a couple weeks ago. This guy's dialed in, and Ryan
Gerard when he he's dialed in, he's really tough to
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beat because he is absolutely nails with the irons and
he's very accurate off the tee. He's he's really kind
of only struggled with the shortest approach bucket. But he's
been so good at the one twenty five to one
fifty and the one fifty to one seventy five buckets
that I'm not too worried about that. He's seventh in
overall approach in this field and the hot putter recently
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with the win at the Barracuda, that's going to help
him here. I really like Ryan jard at fifty five
to one and at seventy to one Bud Collie. Every
time there's a short golf course with birdies that need
to be made, we're gonna have Bud colly go scoop
up those birdies for us, because this guy is a
machine on these shorter courses. Would I like to play
him at any any place over seventy four hundred yards, Nope,
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But it's it's the short golf courses with wedge play
that's required. Bud Callie is the best par four golfer
in this field. Number one on strokes gain par four,
He's he's pretty much in the top half of the
field and every other statistic category thirteenth and putting, eighteenth
and birdies and fourth and bogie avoidance. He's he's a
really solid player that shakes advantage of bermudas surfaces. I
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think Bud Colly is the one to bet it's seventy
to one, seventy five to one depending on the books.
That's a green light right there.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
There are a couple others in this group who kind of
interest me. Denny McCarthy, great potter. He's had two top
fifteen's here in the last five years and the lack
of distance off the tea won't kill him at this course.
And Ryan Fox, who missed the cut last year in
his Wyndham debut bought. He's won twice this year and
has been pretty good putting on Bermuda's surfaces. Then there's
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some guys who they've been horses for the course maybe,
but I just don't know if the form justifies a
JT post in poor form of late. Did win this
event in twenty nineteen and has had some other good showings.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Sung j M be interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
If Sedgefield can perk him up because he has either
missed the cut or finished outside the top fifteen it's
last seven than events, but he's had three top tens
and five top twenty fives at the wind him in
just the last six years, and Tom Kim seems like
he's slowly but surely getting his act together after mostly
disappointing season. He won this event in his only other
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appearance here in twenty twenty two. What about long shots
of eighty to one or longer boa does anyone stand out?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, this guy has been playing great the last few weeks,
including a win at the ISCO, which I did shout
out beforehand. William Mao eighty to one, That's exactly what
we're looking for. The ISCO in Louisville was a seven
thousand yard course much like this one with Actually I
think the ISCO Championship course was tougher than Sedgefield. Is
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so William Mao on these shorter golf courses. Another guy
that really ups the updy ante when it comes to
wedge approach game. Makes a ton of birdies, pretty strong
putter as well. I'll be betting him at eighty to one.
Patrick Fishburne. I've thrown out a couple bets for him
this season, one hundred and twenty to one. Another guy
who makes a lot of birdies, not necessarily good at
avoiding the big numbers, but Fishburne young player he'll keep
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getting better. And these are the types of events where
we see the Tom Kims at twenty years old a
couple of years ago win this tournament. These are this
is the opportunity where if you're not pushing for a
playoff spot, you're looking for prize money of course, and
you're looking to keep your status. Some of these guys
are coming up on conditional status. They're trying to get
the lock up the top one hundred to keep their
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card next season. That's both of Mao and Fishburn are
both looking to keep their card through twenty twenty six,
and so I expect strong performances there. And then at
two hundred to one, Jackson Suber. Suber is coming in
really strong in my model at number twenty two on
the strength of number two in this entire field and
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Birdier better percentage. That's great well, he's also number three
in bogie avoidance. Ironically it's because of his short game,
especially hutting. He's also a really good approach player at
thirtieth in this field. The one thing I worry about
with Suber is off the tee. He's number one twenty
two and fairways gained, but at two hundred and one.
I think that's baked in. I think that he's got
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the firepower to make some noise at two hundred and one.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Some of the names I'll mention as compelling long shots
Christian Bazutenhout eighty to one, shortened, straight off the t
in ranks twelfth in strokes gained putting. He's finished top
twenty and two of his last three events and was
twenty second at the Windham last year. Nico Etriveria has
kind of a similar profile to Bizutenhout short and straight
off the tee. Very good putter. Nico is ninety to one.
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Kevin Royd one hundred to one, has played pretty well
of late, straight driver, pretty solid potter. Adam Spencon one
hundred and fifty to one. He's finished seventh here in
each of the last two years and is coming off
a fourteenth place finish at the three M Open. Although
Man Svenson ranks one hundred and sixty eighth in strokes
gained putting. That's the BlimE the profile there and both
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a favorite of mine this season. Sammy Vallamaki one hundred
and seventy to one. Excellent potter and I love the price.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yes, yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm going to give a little comment on Niko Echavaria,
since he seems to be the darling of the entire
golf betting industry today. I am going to be completely
fading Niko Echevarria because even though he is number one
in putting in this field, which is a very valuable
stat at Sedgefield, he's outside the top one hundred and
five of the other categories here, including off the te ball,
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striking and proximity on approach, outside the top one hundred
in this field. So even though he's ninety to one,
I think that's still not a value for Nico because
if he can't find the fair way here, it won't
matter if he's putting for birdie bogie parr. He's he's
not going to be looking at enough bogies to keep
pace here. I am completely off of Niko Echeveria, and
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I'm I'm kind of surprised to see that everybody seems
to putting all their eggs in his putting ability when
it takes two or three shots to get into a
putting situation.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Good points.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, Let's compare the early betting cards. Bo who
is on yours.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So starting off, I have Keegan Bradley at twenty five
to one. Ok Sha Batia thirty to one. That ox
shay bed is going to be a full ladder. I
got Luke Clanton at forty to one, but I'm going
to be looking to invest more if he slips to
deeper odds. Ryan Gerard fifty five to one, Bud Caley
seventy to one, William Mout eighty to one, Patrick Fishburne
hundred and twenty and Jackson Super two hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I too, am betting Aksha Batilla at thirty to one.
I've got Danny McCarthy at fifty five to one. I
think I've let you talk me into Bud Cauley Baul.
What is Bud seventy to one?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yep. I'm also going to go with Christian Zudenhout.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
At eighty to one, and a little something on Sammy
Vallamaki at one hundred and seventy to one. Now for
a one and done competition, pretty good week for both
both of us. At the three I'm open BO had
Jake Knapp. He tied for third and earned four hundred
and ten thousand and twenty five dollars. Could have been
better if he hadn't splashed down on number eighteen on Sunday,
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could have at least had that solo third and goten
you a few one hundred thousand dollars more.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But one hurt a little bit. That one hurt a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, I had Chris got her up.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He tied for tenth fell off a little bit on
the weekend after contending for the first two days, but
his tie for tenth was good for two hundred and
sixty three nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And so, yeah, I'm a million on you.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I got a million.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Bo was banked about eight point seven million for the season.
I'm about a million behind at seven point seven million.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Your honors this week? Bo, who you got?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So I'll just say it now. I did have Kurt
Kitty I'm a fourth in my model last week, but
because of his putting form which showed the first two days,
I didn't pick him in the one and done, and
I'm also not going to pick him this week. But
I was kicking myself because he should have been my
pick last week and that would have been great. But
this week I'm going to go with Kegan Bradley.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Captain America is I'm gonna go with Akha Batiya. I mean,
after the way you've talked him up, all I need
not go with young Aksha.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I think you're gonna need all million dollars from the
prize money to catch up.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's all for this week's Betting Pros PJA podcast. Please
come join us again next week when we'll be previewing
the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the FedEx
Saint Jue Championship.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
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Welcome to the Betting Pros PGA Podcast. I'm Pat Fitzmorris,
joined by my tag team partner Bau mcbrear. One more
week before the FedEx Cup playoffs and today we'll be
giving you a betting preview for the PGA Tours regular
season finale, the Windham Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The first a quick recap of the three m open.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Bo mcbrear favorite Kurt kitty Yama gets a big win
in Minnesota. Kittiyama is pretty far down the leaderboard after
two rounds, sitting at six under par when the cut
line was five under par. But then Kitty Yama went
nuclear on the weekend. He carted twelve birdies on Saturday
and route to a round of sixty. Kitty Yama could
at a fifty nine if not for a bogie in
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the par three seventeenth That put Kittyama into a tie
for the lead going into the final round, and he
kept the momentum going. Kittiyama birdied six of his first
eight holes on Sunday to build a sizeable lead. Jake
Knapp and Sam Stevens actually had a chance to tie
Kitti Yama if they could have birdied the par five
eighteenth hole, but Stevens got a bad lie after just
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missing the fairway, had to scramble just to get his par,
and Nap dumped his second shot into the pond in
front of the green, eventually making bogie. Kitty Yama made
things a little uncomfortable with the boge on seventeen, and
then his second shot on eighteen landed in a greenside
bunker and gave him sort of an awkward lie on
a down slope, and Kitty Yama answered with a nice
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bunker shot that set up an easy two pot par
for the win and a big win it was. It
vaulted Kitty Yama into fifty third place in the FedEx
Cup standings, with the top seventy qualifying for the playoffs,
which begin next week. Sam Stevens finished solo second at
the three M Open, one shot behind the winner Jake Knapp,
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Matt Wallace, David Lipski, and Pearson Coody finished tied for third,
three shots back bo The NorCal Guy came through your
thoughts on your thoughts on Kurt Kittiyama's big win at
the three M Open.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What a great story, by the way, even if you're
not a NorCal fanatic with Chico t is like me.
It was a really good win for Kurt Kittiama. It
was exciting because he hadn't won since the twenty twenty
two Arnold Palmer Invitational. He's been struggling with his putting, especially,
and he's kind of been making the transition this season
from more of a grinded out type into a guy
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who can go low at these types of tournaments where
birdies are at a premium enter. His older brother, Daniel Kittiyama,
who I competed against back in high school days eons ago,
and I ran into both of them. He was obviously
on the bag at the Barracuda a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to chat it up with him and
reminisce about the Northern Athletic League days back in those
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back in five six or four oh five, and they
got a good laugh out of that, and apparently it's
it's working. They've always been really close as brothers, and
it's it's just really cool to see those two guys
really feed off each other. The energy that Daniel gives Kurt,
and then of course Kurt knows his game pretty well.
But I think Daniel knows Kurt's game really well too,
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because it was a really good performance, starting on Saturday
when he barely made the cut because he couldn't make
any birdies on Friday, and turning that into a court
tide course record sixty eleven under par on Saturday to
seize the lead and then to come out hot on
Sunday and finish the job. I couldn't be proud of
my guy from Chico and his brother who's going to
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be on the bag the rest of the season, which
has obviously been extended to at least the first round
of the playoffs. He'll also be in the field this
week at the window. So shout out to both of
the Kittyama brothers, and shout out to the Kittiyama family
because that is a golf family. They always have been
and there it's just a really exciting time for the
Northern California golf fans who have been following him his
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entire career.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Very cool story, indeed, and six under after two rounds.
You would have thought that was too far back at
a birdie fest like this, but you texted me on
Saturday and said the Kidiyama was on watch man If
if not for seventeen, which kind of vexed him on
both of the weekend days, he would.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Have had it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But still a team is playing tough. It was It
was cool though, because I did get a plus eight
fifty on him after his round Saturday, before the leader
for the guys who played in front of him had finished.
I got plus eight fifties. So even though I didn't
bet along with a lot of people who got him
at forty to one earlier in the week, I'll take
I'll take a w and a victory lap for knowing
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the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Very nice. Now it's onto the Windom Championship.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
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Speaker 1 (05:10):
Since the Windom Championship is the final event before the
FedEx Cup playoffs, a lot of the big guns are
taking one last week off before the home stretch. No
Scotty or Rory this week, No Xander, no Ludwig. But
we do have a pretty deep field with the PGA
Tour's middle class training to either solidify their spot in
the top seventy for the playoffs or trying to work
their way in. The Windom Championship will be hosted by
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Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North North Carolina. Designed by
Donald Ross, Sedgefield is a par seventy measuring seven and
thirty one yards. It's a short course. They're only two
par fives and they'll both be two shotters, measuring less
than five hundred and fifty yards. Two of the part
threes are about one hundred and seventy five yards, and
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eight of the twelve par fours at Sedgefield range from
four hundred and five four forty two yards, so one
of the other power fours is only three hundred and
seventy four yards. Players are going to be leaving the
driver in the bag.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This week.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You'll see a lot of players hitting three woods or
hybrids off the tee and still hitting wedges into these greens.
Driving accuracy far more important than driving distance this week.
There's a heavy incentive to hit fairways because Sedgefield has
Bermuda rough, and that rough gets real chewy with all
the heat and humidity in North Carolina this time of year.
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There's also incentive to line your t shots and spots
that give you an optimal angle of attack into these greens.
Putting is going to be really important this week. Sedgefield
has Bermuda greens and they are tricky, heavily undulated greens.
I think we want to look for players who have
shown an aptitude for putting on Bermuda.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Aaron Rise the defending champ.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He was eighteen under power last year, two shots better
than Max Grazerman. Lucas Glover finished twenty under part to
win the wind him in twenty twenty three. Tom Kim
won in twenty with the score of minus twenty and
Kevin Kisner won in twenty twenty one, finishing fifteen under
par and winning a.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wild six man playoff.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Believe it or not, it shouldn't be oppressively hot in
North Carolina this week. High temperatures will reach the upper
eighties on Thursday, but after that it's all low eighties
and upper seventies. Wind should be like to moderate and
their scattered thunderstorm chances the first two days bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What do you make of Sedgefield Country Club.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Just the more challenging version of last week's golf course
TPC Twin Cities. Obviously, the rough was up last week,
but the fairways were a lot wider and the course
had a little bit more distance. This course is tighter,
the rough is even more penal. It's still going to
be a birdie making type of paradise, especially with the
weather not really being overly hot, which hot and human
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in North Carolina's got to be really tough to grind
through four rounds of golf. One round might be okay,
but four rounds in a row in the humidity would
wear on you. The weather not being factor other than
some gusts of wind over twenty miles an hour, and
the first three days of the tournament, I still think
this is gonna be between fifteen to twenty two under par.
The field is going to be gunning for those last
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couple precious playoff spots. It's all gonna be about finding
the fairway with whatever club you can find the fairway with,
because if you're off the fairway, you're not going to
hit these greens in any position to make the birdies
that will be necessary. And of course putting on these
very severely sloped and undulated greens. They're not overly fast,
but they are tough, they are tricky. That's the biggest
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difference between this week and last week is last week
is one of the easiest putting weeks of the whole season,
and this is one of the more challenging ones because
of the nuance of the bermuda as well as the grain.
You're gonna hear the word grain a million times this
week when you're watching the broadcast. It's all real, it's
all valid. So yes, putting on bermuda is going to
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be extremely important. But also you have a very concentrated
three buckets of approach proximity between one twenty five and
one seventy five is going to be about thirty percent
of the approach shots on this golf course. That's a
big carryover stat that is very sticky. We can definitely
predict who's going to do well with that because we
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have a whole season of stats. We have pass stats
from the same tournament that's always at Sedgefield. This is
one of the times where we can actually dig into
the data figure out who's going to do well based
on all the shots that everybody's going to hit, who's
better at those approach shots, who's better at finding fairwayes,
and who's better at putting on Bermuda. Seems to be
a pretty good windfall going into the playoffs every year
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because we can really sink our teeth into the real
data from this whole season and the fact that this
golf course is so predictable.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I'm anxious to see who you are dialed into after
going over the data, and we will get into the
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Speaker 1 (10:50):
Let's get into the Window Championship odds. All odds are
courtesy of DraftKings. As of Monday afternoon, Matt Fitzpatrick has
been in fine form. He opens as the favorite at
plus two thousand. Ben Griffin and Keegan Bradley are plus
twenty five hundred. Robert McIntyres plus twenty eight hundred. Jordan Speith,
Hedeki Matsuyama, Akshay Battia and Aaron Rye are plus three thousand.
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Jake Knapp, Harry holl And Kirk Kitty Yama plus thirty
five hundred See Who, Kim, Luke Clanton and Lucas Glover
are plus four thousand. Adam Scott is plus forty five hundred,
and at plus five thousand are Sam Stevens, Ricky Fowler,
Michael Thorbjornsen, Max Grazerman and Cameron Young. Anyone here who
interests you.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Bo, Yeah, there's a couple. The favorites aren't really favorites
this week. For me, I was handicapping it to where
I wanted to like our favorite here, Fitzpatrick. But I
keep scrolling down and down and down to find him
in my model, and he's still going, still going. Even
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though he's been playing well lately, it hasn't been on
courses like this. There he is fought all the way
down in the middle of pack. It's not good enough
for me to be betting a favorite with short odds,
especially for somebody who hasn't won in a very long time.
I'm going to start my card to a guy who
has won the season, who is Captain America, and who
is going to be a very popular choice in DFS tournaments.
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Keegan Bradley twenty five to one odds to win this thing.
He is the class of this field as far as
recent success, recent form, and just ball striking in general.
This guy is te Degreen number two in this field.
He's number two on that short one twenty five to
one fifty approach bucket. He's number twelve an overall approach
and sixth and par four scoring. This is exactly who
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I want to start with at twenty five to one.
Just an amazing ball striker having a great season, and
it's going to be more fuel for the for the
conversation of whether or not Keegan Bradley will be a
playing captain at the Ryder Cup in September.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, he's interesting for sure. I think among the favorites,
he is probably the most appealing. Matt Fitzpatrick hasn't played
this event since twenty eighteen. He has been hot lately though,
with the top ten finish in each of his last
three events, including a fourth at the Open Championship. I
would to like Ben Griffin Moore like he had been
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on fire throughout the late spring and early summer. But
I wonder bo has he run out of gas?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's missed the cut in his last two events, the
John Deere and the Open Championship. But Griffin has finished
top ten at the win him in two of the
last three years, so he has shown some aptitude for
this course. Robert McIntyre finished second at the US Open,
seventh at the Open Championship, but the Windham hasn't really
been a good event for him. He missed the cut
last year, finished sixty fifth in his only other appearance.
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Let's talk about Akha Batilla for a second bow like
he's really interesting. It's been kind of a disappointing season
for Akshay hasn't seriously contended anywhere since the Players Championship,
where I believe he was third.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He did play fairly well at the.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Three m last week, finishing twenty fifth, and he is
a really pealing statistical profile for the Windom. Not long,
but pretty straight off the tee, good on approach, pretty
good wedge game, good on Bermuda greens. But he's missed
the cut in all four of his Windham appearances.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, that's true, but I'm betting on Oxbata thirty to
one for him. It's not fair. It's it's not fair
that we get thirty to one odds on the guy
who's probably gonna win this tournament. Oxbatia is all the firepower,
He's all the all the everything you want in this tournament.
Accuracy off the TA is great, especially when less than driver.
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He got in trouble last on Sunday because he was
top five all the way through that tournament and then
fell apart because he couldn't he couldn't afford to miss
left off the tee at TPC Twin Cities and as
that was his horrible miss all day Sunday and it
knocked him all the way down to the twenty fifth finish,
where he was top five all week long until that happened.
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I don't think that left miss is going to be
in his bag this week because he won't be hit
driver very often. It is a lot of drivers last week,
very few this week. Akshay's wedge game, his approach game
from one twenty five to one seventy five is not
just best in this field, it's best in the world.
Better than Scotti Scheffler, better than everybody, And so if
you're going to put a birdie maker like ax Shavatia
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in this field where he's fourth and overall ball striking,
his worst stat category is putting at forty ninth, and
that's better. That's up from his previous years where he
was outside of the top one hundred in putting and
Bermuda happens to be his weakest surface. But I still
think that this guy is going to light up the
scoreboard year. He's in different form this year than he
has in years past coming into the windhom Championship, So
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I will be betting very aggressive on a good Aux
Shavati at thirty to one.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
All right, let's talk about another bow mcbeer favorite. Harry Hall.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The Englishman is pretty interesting. Has a streak of seven
straight top twenty fives. While he did have that streak
and it was snapped with a mere twenty eighth place
finish at the three m o Ben Haul's an excellent potter,
fares pretty well on Bermuda greens, but he's missed the
cut at the wind in the last two years, which
were his first two appearances here.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, he struggles off the tee Fairway's gained he's ninety
third in this field, and strokes gained approach he's ninety
second in this field. So as great as his short
game is, I think he's a little short this week.
I do understand he makes more birdies than just about anybody,
but the fairways gained and the accuracy on approach, it's
got to be better than what Harry Hall has shown us.
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Bogey avoidance is good, strokes gained part four is good.
It all checks out. I just would like to see
a little bit more value on the books for Harry
Hall because he really hasn't chased any wins recently, especially
on a full field event like this. So I think
I'll skip Harry Hall this week, even though I do
really enjoy watching him play.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, the top twenty bet might be in play for
Harry Hall, but I agree he doesn't look like a
great value to win out right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't know if there's much else to see here
from this group.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Decki Matciama he's missed the cut here in his last
three appearances. Aaron Raye won here last year, but he
had finished seventy first and missed the cut in his
two previous wind Him appearances, and hasn't really contended seriously
in any tournament since February. Your guy Kurkidiamobo just doesn't
seem like a good fit for Sedgwick. Not that accurate
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off the team is putting hasn't been all that sharp
until last.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Week, and sudding has been bad, been bad.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And Seawoo Kim also not real sharp lately. He did
win this event in twenty sixteen, has had three other
top five finishes here in the last six years, but
based on recent form, doesn't look like a great play.
Let's get to some more of the odds. Danny McCarthy, JT.
Post and Ryan Gerard, Nikolai Hoigard and Matt Wallace are
all plus fifty five hundred Thorbiorn Olison, Sung, J M. Pearson,
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Cootie and Kevin Yu are plus six thousand, Yes, Perspens
and Tony Finow, Davis Thompson and Maxhoma are plus sixty
five hundred, Andrew Novak, Tom Kim, Bud Cowley, Ryan Fox
and Keith Mitchell are plus seven thousand, and at plus
seventy five hundred are Jackson Coyven, Alex Smalley, Emiliano Grio,
Rico Hooye, and Michael Kim what about the mid range
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options bow? Is there anyone worth an investment here?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I'm gonna be monitoring Luke Clanton, who's currently at
forty to one, but is very likely to slip here
with the field kind of moving away from him as
a popular choice after last week. If he slips to
that fifty range, I'll be all over Luke Clanton because
he's at fifth in my model, sixth in my model
ball striking extraordinaire, Bertie making extraordinaire. He has struggled at
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avoiding bogies, which doesn't seem to be too big of
a deal here. He's a good enough putter middle of
the packing of putting there. But I'm going to really
be looking at You're gonna love this. Ryan Gerard, the
winner of the Barracuda. He was another guy that I
chatted up on the practice screen before his Saturday round
a couple weeks ago. This guy's dialed in, and Ryan
Gerard when he he's dialed in, he's really tough to
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beat because he is absolutely nails with the irons and
he's very accurate off the tee. He's he's really kind
of only struggled with the shortest approach bucket. But he's
been so good at the one twenty five to one
fifty and the one fifty to one seventy five buckets
that I'm not too worried about that. He's seventh in
overall approach in this field and the hot putter recently
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with the win at the Barracuda, that's going to help
him here. I really like Ryan jard at fifty five
to one and at seventy to one Bud Collie. Every
time there's a short golf course with birdies that need
to be made, we're gonna have Bud colly go scoop
up those birdies for us, because this guy is a
machine on these shorter courses. Would I like to play
him at any any place over seventy four hundred yards, Nope,
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But it's it's the short golf courses with wedge play
that's required. Bud Callie is the best par four golfer
in this field. Number one on strokes gain par four,
He's he's pretty much in the top half of the
field and every other statistic category thirteenth and putting, eighteenth
and birdies and fourth and bogie avoidance. He's he's a
really solid player that shakes advantage of bermudas surfaces. I
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think Bud Colly is the one to bet it's seventy
to one, seventy five to one depending on the books.
That's a green light right there.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
There are a couple others in this group who kind of
interest me. Denny McCarthy, great potter. He's had two top
fifteen's here in the last five years and the lack
of distance off the tea won't kill him at this course.
And Ryan Fox, who missed the cut last year in
his Wyndham debut bought. He's won twice this year and
has been pretty good putting on Bermuda's surfaces. Then there's
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some guys who they've been horses for the course maybe,
but I just don't know if the form justifies a
JT post in poor form of late. Did win this
event in twenty nineteen and has had some other good showings.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Sung j M be interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
If Sedgefield can perk him up because he has either
missed the cut or finished outside the top fifteen it's
last seven than events, but he's had three top tens
and five top twenty fives at the wind him in
just the last six years, and Tom Kim seems like
he's slowly but surely getting his act together after mostly
disappointing season. He won this event in his only other
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appearance here in twenty twenty two. What about long shots
of eighty to one or longer boa does anyone stand out?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, this guy has been playing great the last few weeks,
including a win at the ISCO, which I did shout
out beforehand. William Mao eighty to one, That's exactly what
we're looking for. The ISCO in Louisville was a seven
thousand yard course much like this one with Actually I
think the ISCO Championship course was tougher than Sedgefield. Is
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so William Mao on these shorter golf courses. Another guy
that really ups the updy ante when it comes to
wedge approach game. Makes a ton of birdies, pretty strong
putter as well. I'll be betting him at eighty to one.
Patrick Fishburne. I've thrown out a couple bets for him
this season, one hundred and twenty to one. Another guy
who makes a lot of birdies, not necessarily good at
avoiding the big numbers, but Fishburne young player he'll keep
(22:10):
getting better. And these are the types of events where
we see the Tom Kims at twenty years old a
couple of years ago win this tournament. These are this
is the opportunity where if you're not pushing for a
playoff spot, you're looking for prize money of course, and
you're looking to keep your status. Some of these guys
are coming up on conditional status. They're trying to get
the lock up the top one hundred to keep their
(22:30):
card next season. That's both of Mao and Fishburn are
both looking to keep their card through twenty twenty six,
and so I expect strong performances there. And then at
two hundred to one, Jackson Suber. Suber is coming in
really strong in my model at number twenty two on
the strength of number two in this entire field and
(22:51):
Birdier better percentage. That's great well, he's also number three
in bogie avoidance. Ironically it's because of his short game,
especially hutting. He's also a really good approach player at
thirtieth in this field. The one thing I worry about
with Suber is off the tee. He's number one twenty
two and fairways gained, but at two hundred and one.
I think that's baked in. I think that he's got
(23:12):
the firepower to make some noise at two hundred and one.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Some of the names I'll mention as compelling long shots
Christian Bazutenhout eighty to one, shortened, straight off the t
in ranks twelfth in strokes gained putting. He's finished top
twenty and two of his last three events and was
twenty second at the Windham last year. Nico Etriveria has
kind of a similar profile to Bizutenhout short and straight
off the tee. Very good putter. Nico is ninety to one.
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Kevin Royd one hundred to one, has played pretty well
of late, straight driver, pretty solid potter. Adam Spencon one
hundred and fifty to one. He's finished seventh here in
each of the last two years and is coming off
a fourteenth place finish at the three M Open. Although
Man Svenson ranks one hundred and sixty eighth in strokes
gained putting. That's the BlimE the profile there and both
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a favorite of mine this season. Sammy Vallamaki one hundred
and seventy to one. Excellent potter and I love the price.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yes, yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm going to give a little comment on Niko Echavaria,
since he seems to be the darling of the entire
golf betting industry today. I am going to be completely
fading Niko Echevarria because even though he is number one
in putting in this field, which is a very valuable
stat at Sedgefield, he's outside the top one hundred and
five of the other categories here, including off the te ball,
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striking and proximity on approach, outside the top one hundred
in this field. So even though he's ninety to one,
I think that's still not a value for Nico because
if he can't find the fair way here, it won't
matter if he's putting for birdie bogie parr. He's he's
not going to be looking at enough bogies to keep
pace here. I am completely off of Niko Echeveria, and
(24:55):
I'm I'm kind of surprised to see that everybody seems
to putting all their eggs in his putting ability when
it takes two or three shots to get into a
putting situation.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Good points.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, Let's compare the early betting cards. Bo who
is on yours.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So starting off, I have Keegan Bradley at twenty five
to one. Ok Sha Batia thirty to one. That ox
shay bed is going to be a full ladder. I
got Luke Clanton at forty to one, but I'm going
to be looking to invest more if he slips to
deeper odds. Ryan Gerard fifty five to one, Bud Caley
seventy to one, William Mout eighty to one, Patrick Fishburne
hundred and twenty and Jackson Super two hundred to one.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I too, am betting Aksha Batilla at thirty to one.
I've got Danny McCarthy at fifty five to one. I
think I've let you talk me into Bud Cauley Baul.
What is Bud seventy to one?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yep. I'm also going to go with Christian Zudenhout.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
At eighty to one, and a little something on Sammy
Vallamaki at one hundred and seventy to one. Now for
a one and done competition, pretty good week for both
both of us. At the three I'm open BO had
Jake Knapp. He tied for third and earned four hundred
and ten thousand and twenty five dollars. Could have been
better if he hadn't splashed down on number eighteen on Sunday,
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could have at least had that solo third and goten
you a few one hundred thousand dollars more.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But one hurt a little bit. That one hurt a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, I had Chris got her up.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He tied for tenth fell off a little bit on
the weekend after contending for the first two days, but
his tie for tenth was good for two hundred and
sixty three nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And so, yeah, I'm a million on you.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I got a million.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Bo was banked about eight point seven million for the season.
I'm about a million behind at seven point seven million.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Your honors this week? Bo, who you got?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So I'll just say it now. I did have Kurt
Kitty I'm a fourth in my model last week, but
because of his putting form which showed the first two days,
I didn't pick him in the one and done, and
I'm also not going to pick him this week. But
I was kicking myself because he should have been my
pick last week and that would have been great. But
this week I'm going to go with Kegan Bradley.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Captain America is I'm gonna go with Akha Batiya. I mean,
after the way you've talked him up, all I need
not go with young Aksha.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I think you're gonna need all million dollars from the
prize money to catch up.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's all for this week's Betting Pros PJA podcast. Please
come join us again next week when we'll be previewing
the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the FedEx
Saint Jue Championship.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Until then, so long everyone.
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