Jon Rahm a Popular Pick for LIV Chicago: Analysis & Predictions
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00:00Let's start, Brady, with your card.
00:05Tell me who you're backing this week, Live Golf in Chicago.
00:09You know, I went right to the top, Mike.
00:11I think Jon Rahm is clearly the best player on this tour, and the fact that there's not
00:17that many players on this tour, you know.
00:19So there's 54 guys in the tournament.
00:22How many guys can really win it?
00:23Maybe it's 15 of them.
00:25So Rahm is probably the best player of a group of 15, 16 guys, and he has been for the last
00:31couple of months.
00:32He just comes off of a loss in a playoff to Brooks Koepka in August, had a win back in
00:37England right after the Open Championship.
00:40So I think Rahm is, you know, head and shoulders above the rest, and it's reflected in the
00:45odds as well.
00:46He's in the neighborhood of 5-1.
00:48The next closest guy is twice the price in a DeChambeau or a Hatton or something like
00:53that.
00:54Rahm was really the guy I looked at.
00:56He's number one on the tour in birdies.
00:59He's number one on the tour in greens and regulation.
01:02He's sixth in driving distance, and he's sixth in putting, and I think those are probably
01:07the most important categories this week.
01:09So I like Rahm.
01:10I went to the Chalk, and then again, the other guy that's probably been the hottest player
01:14the last couple months is Tyrell Hatton.
01:16These guys are teammates, and they have combined for 20 top-10 finishes on the LIV circuit.
01:23Hatton is third in birdies.
01:24He's third in putting.
01:28He's tenth in greens and regulation.
01:30So he checks the boxes as far as the stats as well.
01:34I got him at 12-1.
01:36And then I went with Koepka, who we know is a guy that can play like a bomber.
01:40Jon Rahm absolutely can play bomber mode.
01:43We know Koepka can as well.
01:45His wins at, you know, Bethpage and Oak Hill, and his win last month at the Greenbrier,
01:50which I thought was another course that was perfect for the bombers, where we've seen
01:54DeChambeau and Joaquin Neiman do well, Xander Schauffele's done well.
01:58So I think, once again, we're going to see the big hitters flourish here, and I wanted
02:02to go with the guys that I feel are the best on this circuit.
02:06Koepka's got reason.
02:07He still has a chance to get on that podium for an individual award.
02:11Rahm, as we mentioned, is the frontrunner to win that award, and Hatton is currently
02:16sitting in third place.
02:17So all these guys have reason to try and finish strong.
02:21I think they're the best players on the circuit, and they're also in good form, and I think
02:25they can tear this course apart, lending itself to the bomb-and-gouge style.
02:29I think all these guys can play that way this week.
02:31And like I said, it's fairly chalky, but, you know, it's hard.
02:35I just didn't see myself going a lot deeper down the board this week, Mike.