Wyndham Clark's Key Golf Tactics from US Open Success

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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.

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