00:00When you look at the odds board, it starts at the top, but you know who, Scotty Scheffler,
00:08who took this tournament off, good thing, bad thing, do you think, for him, and is he
00:13bettable at this price?
00:15Well, he's proven that he's bettable at pretty much any price, because what, he's won six
00:21of his last eight tournaments.
00:23He didn't show up there at Pinehurst, which does give us all a little bit of pause, but
00:27at the end of the day, I don't throw much stock at all into last week.
00:31Last week, everyone was asking, you know, should Scotty be here or whatever, and I was
00:34just happy he wasn't, because then it makes the betting market so much more fun.
00:38When he's there at the top of the board, he's difficult to fade, especially what's going
00:42to be a ball striking test this week.
00:43If we got to get into the Open Championship now, we got to start talking about the weather,
00:47and we are going to have a proper mess on our hands come the end of this week.
00:50Now, the wind isn't going to be anything crazy, Joe, but it's the type of rain where you and
00:55I love to watch golf from the bar and not play in it, let me tell you, because it's
00:59going to rain all four days, Thursday through Sunday, and it's going to be that, like, nuisance
01:03style rain, just, like, persistent rain all day long.
01:06I don't think that, at this point, we know that there's going to be a wave advantage
01:09for AM, PM, or PM, AM, but when it comes down to it, Sheffler's going to have to go out
01:14with the rest of these guys, and he's going to have to battle the elements, and since
01:18he's the best ball striker in the world, I think you could pretty much put him at any
01:21price right around there at 4, 5, 6, I mean, we can get 6 to 1, it'd be great, but right
01:25around 5 to 1 where he sits now, I mean, I think it's fair.
01:29I also think that Rory did enough last week in his little recovery from what happened
01:33there from his putting at Pinehurst to show us that, you know what, Troon could be a real
01:39opportunity for him to get off that 10-year slide in the major championships.
01:43He's sitting at 8 to 1, and as a favorite, and I don't say this very often, Joe, I am
01:47not a huge Rory fan when it comes to big tournaments, but he looks pretty good.
01:53His T4 there at Scotland, it looked like he had plenty in the tank to go, and that he
01:57was just rounding himself into shape for what's going to be a true test this week for the
02:01Open Championship out there on the west coast of Scotland.
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