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00:00We have a large group of players who finished it even.
00:04We have my boy Tom Hoagie finished it even.
00:07Nick Taylor finished it even.
00:08Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark, Seis, Davis Thompson.
00:12There's a lot of guys in that area.
00:15Do you see any of them, Keith?
00:16Maybe not obviously make a run to win,
00:19but maybe some putting themselves in positions for 20s
00:22or maybe even 10s with a great early morning round.
00:26Well, you know what, Mike?
00:27The first name that pops out to me is a guy that yesterday shot four over,
00:30today he shot four under, and that's Wyndham Clark.
00:32He's a past U.S. Open winner,
00:34and we all kind of felt that he'd be a good fit around this place.
00:37Why?
00:38He's got plenty of power, right?
00:39He gets down in that wedge zone, pretty good wedge player,
00:42great around the greens, and very good lag putter,
00:44very good scorer when it's difficult like U.S. Open conditions.
00:48You know, he's won in a place like Quail Hollow,
00:49which is, you know, kind of a cop course for this place.
00:52You know, again, another big playground, you know,
00:55the type of place we're going to see next month for a PGA championship.
00:58Wyndham Clark is sitting at T to Green, Strokes Game T to Green.
01:01He's eighth right now in the field.
01:03So there's a guy right there that, yeah, he had a terrible first day.
01:06He had a terrible last year here.
01:08But if he's found something here that he can keep doing a steady climb,
01:12and yeah, he's not going to win the golf tournament.
01:14But those are the types of opportunities that we look for.
01:17And the books, you know, with a plus four, minus four,
01:21I think that there's an edge right there.
01:23There's a bunch of guys right there.
01:25Neiman, of course, JT just went in the creek that we heard during the break.
01:29He's sitting there.
01:29He's top ten, you know, Strokes Game T to Green.
01:32And that's really the factor that we're looking for.
01:34Yeah, Bryson with 51 putts makes a difference.
01:37But that's really the factor that we're looking for.
01:39Can these guys get it around completely from the tee box,
01:43around the green, on the surface, and in the hole?
01:45And those are the types of guys I'm looking at at even par.
01:49Who's going to be more likely?
01:51Because I can see it coming, Keith, over Saturday or Sunday.
01:53Because they've both kind of been around even and plus one even
01:57is obviously JT and Jordan, right?
02:00Which one of them is going to do the Saturday or Sunday 64?
02:03Maybe Sunday they'll be out of it,
02:05and they'll shoot 64 in backdraft with a great round.
02:08I could see JT doing that just because of those numbers that you just rang off.
02:12Oh, yeah.
02:13JT's middle name is Backdoor, Mike.
02:15I mean, how many top tens, top fives in his career have you and I bet him?
02:19And then we're texting on a Sunday morning, and then we're like,
02:21oh, here he goes again.
02:22He's going off like, you know, at 8 a.m.
02:25And, you know, the leaders are going off at 2, and then here he goes.
02:27He goes shoot 63 when it doesn't matter, right?
02:30We can't get the guy to do it on Thursday.
02:32You know, I would have to say JT just looks like he's in much better form
02:36overall than Jordan.
02:37I know he has the magic beans around here,
02:39but Jordan's just been too much of a roller coaster this year.
02:41And I'm not quite sure he's still in that level of form with approach play.
02:45I mean, it's really important to point out right now.
02:48I know that the top ten is in a little bit of flux, Mike,
02:51but if you look at that from a strokes gain perspective, right,
02:55when it comes to approach, the guys in the top ten,
02:58seven of them are in the top 25 when it comes to approach,
03:02and eight of them are in the top 25 when it comes to putting.
03:05We have the recipe now.
03:06Those are the guys that you're looking for.
03:08If you want to live bet this thing, whether it's head-to-heads,
03:10you know I love those, or you want to hit a couple placements,
03:13top fives, top tens, top 20s over the weekend once the cut
03:16and the top 50 in ties is set, right,
03:19those are the two factors that I'm going to weigh the heaviest
03:22going into the weekend when I'm looking at my matchups
03:24and also my possible prop placements.
03:26Let's finish the recipe now.