Open Championship Set for Record Ratings Amid Quiet Sports Week

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00:00it is going to be great for golf with such little sporting activity going on i think the british

00:05open may get better television ratings and streaming options than ever before well craig i

00:11mean to your point we hope that people were looking ahead at that but it might just be a

00:16coincidence coincidence who knows but the ratings have been unbelievable lately i mean in detroit at

00:21the rocket classic with just a regular season event the ratings were up the john deere classic

00:25last me the john deere you know we love the john deere but it's the john deere the ratings were up

00:30for that so i'm very optimistic like you next week for port rush and port rush is one of those venues

00:35that doesn't happen all the time like a saint andrews that people just aren't familiar with

00:39and the scenery there is spectacular and the golf course is going to be very challenging for these

00:44guys you're going to see the cream rise to the top and that's going to be very good for tv as well you

00:49know we were there once in 2019 in the modern era we were there in the 50s too but we were there in

00:542019 shane lowry he won by a couple of strokes but the leaderboard was loaded finau kepka fleetwood

01:01you know we had all these names at the top rom so we're going to go down that road again next week

01:07and i tell you what the stars have been showing up for the big events i am i am highly optimistic

01:12that we're going to have uh just a legendary close to the major season this year yeah and you know you

01:18look at what jj spawn did i mean hitting that shot to end a tournament i mean i i guess keith my

01:25question is it's going to be fantastic but i just don't know how it can get much better like we've

01:29had so much drama going down to the end well there was there was positive and negative drama at the

01:35u.s open right you had the positive drama of the way that bobby mack and robert mcintyre and jj spawn

01:41finished that thing off but then there was also the controversy of like should these guys have even been

01:45out and playing on a saturated golf course for our national championship so the elements are going

01:50to play a role next week um i would stick to some of the favorites at least when you're building out

01:56your betting card or your dfs lineups but all across the board you're going to need ball strikers

02:01those names i mentioned before for port rush right they're going to be there i mean when you start

02:06talking about shane lowry and tommy fleetwood and brooks kepka and those guys that were at the top of the

02:11board lee westwood six years ago right those guys are straight flushers of the golf ball right that's

02:16where you have to start to build out for next week as you start to preview and you want to put in your

02:21winner's bets come monday when the odds officially flip from futures to what they are going to be for

02:25that week that's where i would really center my attention i wouldn't be focusing on guys that are

02:30putting really great i think you can get by there by just being a really really good ball striker and

02:35right now the early forecast looks very port rush which is not very positive it looks it looks windy

02:41it looks wet