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.

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