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This is long Shots. Here's

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Wes Reynolds.

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Welcome in.

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It is long Shots around the World

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edition with the Sudau Open this

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week. Kelly Bidlin here Wes Reynolds

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as always, Wes. How you doing, my friend?

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I'm well, Kelly. How are you good?

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Felleynods just mispronounced your name somehow,

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which is really tough to do with Wes Reynolds.

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All right, buddy, when we've got PGA coming up, I'll

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be out tomorrow morning for everybody. Charles Schwab

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challenge myself, Matt and west All

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on the pod for that one. We're going around the

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world this week. And where

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are we headed, Wes.

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We're actually going to be in Europe for the first

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time.

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This season on the DP World Tour used

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to be known of course as the European Tour, even

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though all the events aren't in Europe.

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But they've been everywhere.

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They've been, you know, to the

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Middle East, they've been to South Africa,

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they've been to Asia, India, China,

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Singapore, what have you. And now we

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actually have a good old fashioned European event

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in Belgium. And for the

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Pseudout Open.

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I like it. I like it. The odds board looks

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like, so Thomas Peters is your favorite.

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Him and Jordan Smith eighteen to one. Adrian

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O. Man, you're gonna have to help me with this last name, Wes andrean

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Otagwi, thank you, eighteen to one

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as well. Over at DraftKings right now, Jan

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Paul twenty two to one, Berne Visberger twenty

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eight to one, Tristan Lawrens

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thirty five to one, everybody else thirty five

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to one or longer.

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So first give us a breakdown of the course

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in tournament. What we're looking at this week?

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Yeah, this this event, it's

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been known as the Belgian Open. They've actually

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been having a Belgian Open since nineteen

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ten. It disappeared from

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the schedule for about seventeen years and then got

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brought back in twenty eight They did that weird

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format, the Belgian Knockout, where they had

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a two day stroke play event to make the cut

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and then they had nine hole matches over six

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rounds at a determined of champion. So that lasted

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for a couple of years. Now it's back to a regular stroke

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play event. The course is

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Rink VN International, located in Antwerp.

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It was also the host for that Belgian knockout

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event, so sixteen.

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That format, yeah it is, they

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already cut you off, but that is an interesting I like that

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format they did.

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They do different formats, yeah, and I

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kind of I kind of liked it too. It's a little hard to handicap,

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but it was unique and different from the

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usual boilerplate stuff that we get. It's

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pretty flat, scorable sixty nine

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forty par seventy one on

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this course front nines, a little bit longer

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than the back nine par four.

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Sixteenth is actually drivable par four so

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get eago opportunities POA base

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whipped over with bent grass, so

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eighty percent bent grass, twenty percent POA.

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At least on the green. So not a

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very long course.

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If you look last year, the winner was

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this from Sweden, Simon Forstrom

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at two hundred and one, shot seventeen under Sam

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Horsefield.

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The year before was twenty two to one. He shot

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thirteen under.

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So not an easy track,

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but not a hard track by any stretch of the imagination.

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But because it's shorter, you may be have

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to be a little bit more strategic. It's not just

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like grip it with driver off the tee.

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Okay, I like it. I like it and what

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did you who'd end up looking at this week?

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Yeah? I did play, and I know it's kind of dipped a little

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bit because it's going to be popular. I played Thomas Peters

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at twenty two to one. He is a Belgian

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returning to his home Open. In years

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past, he'd probably been the favorite in this event, but

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because you know, a little bit out of side, out of

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mind on the live tour, he only had he

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only had one top ten on live last year

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twenty twenty three, but he's got two top

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tens in his last three starts. Was fifth last

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time out in Singapore. I think this

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field has a drop in class,

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you know, just from at least

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the top of the field still usually still pretty

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strong in live, and he's going to have the support

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of the home crowd that overrides anty animosity

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he might get from his you know, former DP

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World Tour mates over there that

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that are that are playing this event. So I

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think maybe this is like a feel good spot for

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him. It's like, hey, I get to go back home. I get

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to play in my home event. So Thomas

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Peters twenty two to one. You'll

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honest, Veerman an American at fifty

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five to one, who is eighth last start out at the

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Volvo Chino Open, was T two

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at the Hero Indian Open five weeks before

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first, and fourteenth in approach over

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those last two starts, seventh and fifth

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for strokes, gaining te degreen over those two starts,

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plus he was third and six for scrambling.

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So Vererman I think could go well

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here at fifty five to one, and then another

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Belgian sixty to one. He's actually been

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playing exclusively on the PGA Tour

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this year with not a ton of success,

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even though he's made four cuts in his last five events.

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Adrian Dumont de Cha start another

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Belgian here at sixty to one. The

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field, look, the field is a massive downgrade

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from the ones he's really been competing

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against state side, because this is not a guy

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that's necessarily exactly killed it on the PGA

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Tour.

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But the PGA Tour is hard to win for

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a.

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Very young player who's pretty new in

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his professional career. But if

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you look, you know T forty at

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Myrtle Beach, T thirty at the Byron Nelson, T twenty

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three at the Punta Cana, missed cut at the barely

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did make the cut at Houston, missed the cut

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at the Valas Bar, was T six in Puerto Rico.

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So you know, he's way down

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there on the stats on the PGA Tour

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if you look at all of them. But this is kind of a gut

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thing. He's going back home, you

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know, dropping field class. But that's

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something they always using horse racing, right, you know,

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dropping class field, and

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that's what this is. This feels like a guy,

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you know, in a stakes race going into an allowance

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race. And so I went with him at

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sixty to one Adrian Dumont ditcha

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sart. I'm trying to get that pronunciation right.

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And then one great way, Yeah,

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we made it work. And then and then

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one guy that's actually been tipped. I'm not getting

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the best price on him, but I can't ignore the form.

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Joel Gerbach at sixty to one, five

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straight cuts on the DP World Tour hes made

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was T three at the Volvo chrying to open three weeks

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ago. Was actually in the mix in Japan

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going to the Sunday and then kind of fell back a little

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bit. Third for accuracy, eleventh

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on approach for the DP World Tour this

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season, and then two more here Matteo

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monta Soro from Italy sixty six to

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one, who won twice on the Challenge

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Tour. Last year he had lost his full

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time DP World Tour card, and then

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this past March he got his first DP World title

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in over ten years when he won the Johnson

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Work We're Open in South Africa. Also,

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he comes in with a lot of feel good too, because

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US Open qualifying did start this

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week now. In essence, I think it's going to be in two

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weeks. The day after the Memorial is when most.

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Of them happened.

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But there were a couple sites that happened yesterday,

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one state side, one was in Dallas and

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then one was over at Walton Heath over

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in England. We get I think it was the top

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nine spots and Mateo Montaso got one

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of those spots to qualify for the US Open.

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So you know that.

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Maybe takes a little bit a little

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bit of stress off of you. I think, you

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know, when you qualify for that major, you don't have to

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worry about it. You don't have to get over the disappointment

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if you didn't make it, So he can

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focus on winning here and then Mattia

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Schwab eighty to one. Another guy that played a lot

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on the PGA tour over the last couple of years, with

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not.

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A ton of success at a couple of decent

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starts.

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But back on the DP eighth

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at the China opened three weeks ago, his third

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and accuracy third and greens regulation first

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and scrambling fifth on approach tenth

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on te to green.

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It's difficult.

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As I mentioned, we talked about that Belgian knockout

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format, so it's tough to put much weight

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into like course form. But he did make

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the weekend both times, so you know at

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least he was able to do that. So Mattia

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Schwab eighty to one, all.

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Right, I like it? All right, Well, that will do it

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over there the I want

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to get your thoughts real quick. I don't know if you dug into this at

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all. I probably should have given you heads up, but we do have

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the Senior PGA

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Championship this weekend as well. I

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know you don't dabble too often with

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the old dudes, but any any thoughts on that one?

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Was? Yeah, look, look looking

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at that, Stricker is obviously going to be the

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favorite as he as he

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usually is. FO. Yeah, that's

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what I'm seeing, but we see a new face who

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is playing on LIB.

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I'll be curious how you play.

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I believe this is his debut on

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on the Champions in the Champions event,

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and that's Richard Blant, who is the

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second price at seven to one. Stuart

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Sink just recently turned fifty, He's

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seven to one. Patty Harrington eleven

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to one. Patty's still playing pretty solid golf. Then

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you go down the board a little bit. kJ Choy and Erniel

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is about sixteen to one.

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Jerry Kelly twenty Bernard Longer coming back

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off that injury.

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I was just gonna say his achilles

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or something.

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Yeah, yeah, So I wonder he's as high

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as I believe twenty five to one at

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Caesars. So you know, Bernard

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Longer, look, I know he's always tempting to bet

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on because his all time winner basically

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on that tour. So you

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know, looking at this, it is

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the it is the Senior PGA. I believe they're

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playing that. I think they're playing that in Benton Harbor

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again this year. Yeah, Benton Harbor, Michigan

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Golf Club at Harbor Shore. So if

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you look at if you look at recent years, Steve

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Stricker did win the playoff, not on this

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course though, but did win the playoff

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over over Patty Harrington last

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year. Steven Alker won this two

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years years ago at Harbor Shores. Paul

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Broadhurst is one here at Harbor Shores

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before, so yeah, I didn't go

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too deep down the board. It is very hard

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obviously to get past Steve Stricker in

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this. But you know one thing I will

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say for like Richard Bland, is

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he at least has been playing. Remember,

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this is a guy that went like twenty years before he finally

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won on the DP World Tour. This is a guy that

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is playing against better competition, at

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least on live. So that's why you're seeing

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him already discounted. I would have liked to seen maybe

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a price in double digits and now I would have been all

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in on him, But nothing.

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That I've done yet. Maybe I have one or two for interest

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coming this weekend.

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Man Burrow longer back after tearing

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his achilles in February.

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February, yeah, because he missed them.

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He missed the Masters for

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the first time in many years. So you

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know, back here on the Senior

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Tour. Miguel Alan hell Jimenez also

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around twenty five to one. I mentioned Ames, and

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Al I mentioned Alcar rather but Ames,

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Stephen Ames twenty five to one, Paul Broadhurst, who's

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one here at already three to one.

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So you know a lot of

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different guys. And when you notice these

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guys, it's like, wow, they turned fifty here. So

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haven't done a ton necessarily

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with PGA Tour champions It's just time.

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Yeah, and you know, I would like to do more,

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especially with like the major championships.

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But if you look some of the guys

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that have won this year, Stephen Ames, by the way, he has won twice

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on the Champions Tour this year. Stephen Alkers

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won, Broadhurst, Harrington

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won at Newport Beach Retief Goosen

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In California, Doug Barron actually won

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the region's tradition, which is the first

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of five major championships on the

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PGA Tour champions two weeks ago.

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So stricer the rightful

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favorite as he usually is.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well, I

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don't know if I'd be running to bed against him on

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the Champions Tour high anytime soon. All

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right, great, well that's gonna do it for around the world. Tomorrow

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morning we will have our Charles Schwab Challenge

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preview Uphead back to the podcast

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feed to check that out. For Wes,

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I'm Kelly, talk to you guys too,