Keith Stewart's PGA TOUR Championship Winner Picks

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00:00In Hot Town right now, it's hot as Haiti. It's 100 degrees. It's going to be steamy

00:08ass morsels for the tour championship. How is that going to affect this tournament this

00:15weekend? I mean, it's just brutal heat. We saw it in in Memphis. I saw them golf and

00:21then they were dying.

00:22Oh, I mean, I was there too. I mean, Carver on Golf Wednesday, he had to resuscitate me.

00:28It was it was so hot and it's equally as hot now. You know, this tie, it's it's choking

00:33me out, but that's all right. I do it for the folks at SportsGrid. And here's what's

00:36going to happen. We are down at East Lake Golf Club. It's the tour championship. Thirty

00:41players and they start with strokes. I know it's something new and everything, but forget

00:45all that for a second. They've completely redone the golf course and with the heat and

00:48the humidity and redoing an entire golf course, removing all the grass and bringing it back.

00:54What happens, folks, is that without any rain, it becomes a very, very firm surface.

00:58So what we're looking for this week, if you're building out your own betting card, is you're

01:01looking for guys that can hit the fairway because if you don't hit the fairway and you're

01:04in that Bermuda grass rough, you have no chance of holding these greens on approach.

01:09Once you're in the fairway, you're trying to hit these greens. Now, the new greens,

01:12they are super, super firm. They are like a brick. So a lot of the even good shots are

01:16going to roll through the green. So as you build out those betting cards and you'll see

01:20by who I've picked that you have to have guys that have a little bit of acumen around

01:24the green. That's a fancy thing for saying, hey, you got to save par or score with that

01:28short game.

01:29And this Bermuda grass, it's super grainy down here. It's a weed. You got to be able

01:32to putt on it, which is why I have two guys selected. Now, there's two types of tournaments

01:37this week. The first one is the FedEx Cup. That is the guy that wins everything. Twenty-five

01:40million dollars for first. And that includes the starting strokes. I'm taking Xander Shoffley

01:44for that. Yes, I know. I know. I'm giving up two strokes to Scottie Scheffler, but his

01:48form hasn't nearly been as strong as Xander. And Xander loves this place. He's been here

01:53seven times and he's been the low gross player three times with a win. He's never finished

01:58worse than seventh. You got to bank on him now on the other tournament, the shadow tournament,

02:03they call it where everyone starts at even par.

02:06There's two guys I like. Xander's one of them. I'm going there again. I am just pushing the

02:09chips in on him because he loves this place and because with the firmness of the greens,

02:14he is the best scrambler in the world. He's still going to continue to score. The other

02:19guy further down the board, Sam Bermuda Burns, plus twenty-two hundred back, back in Minnesota

02:25in the 3M. He finishes 13th. Then all of a sudden he gets in the playoffs. St. Jude at

02:31the Hey Jude, he goes fifth place. Bermuda grass, greens, Bermuda burns, cashes in, make

02:36some birdies. Then last week in Denver, runner up out there at Castle Pines in the BMW guy

02:42runs off with an X7. I mean, he's runner up. Fantastic. I love him coming into this place.

02:47He was fourth here last year. Those are my outright picks.