Exploring the Top Contenders at The Open This Weekend

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00:00our fourth and final major championship of the year golf's oldest major at royal port rush in

00:06northern ireland who performs well this week at the open and has a chance to be crowned the

00:11champion golfer of the year i honestly think john rom sits at a decent number there's a lot of value

00:17for him at almost three times the price of scotty scheffler plus 1200 he is he is my first early

00:23lean this morning rom has been really really good in this championship he's got a couple top fives

00:28in his last three his last four british opens i mean look what he's done in the majors this year

00:34a 14th an eighth a seventh you know last year at true and he finished seventh after he showed up at

00:39the u.s open and he withdrew because he had a sandal on and his foot was hurt i mean that was an

00:43impeccable performance last year he came out of the bad weather wave and then you know he's back for

00:48more second last week in live spain you know i i don't i like the fact that he didn't win i i love

00:54john rom this week i think he gets the job done he puts the ball in play he's a heavy ball

00:58striker in that wind and in the weather and he was t11 there in 2019 the second guy he was good last

01:04week we talked about him last week as one of our early leans and i'm going to go back to matt

01:08fitzpatrick and a big reason for that at plus 5500 is that i think there's a ton of value there

01:13for a guy that can win a major championship in that middle tier we start talking about all these guys

01:19that haven't won before right matt's proven it and he did it on a small target classically designed

01:24golf course there at the country club back in 2022 in the u.s open he was fourth at the scottish open

01:30eighth at the rocket and in all of that the ball striking was really really good but the putter

01:35hadn't popped and last week i said when he gets back to the united kingdom and the british isles on

01:39those fescue greens it was going to go crazy he gained seven with the putter last week i love me

01:44some john rom this week give me the spanish bull give me maddie fits right over there from the uk

01:49these guys are ready to handle this thing i think a european wins the 153rd open championship

01:56we take a look at the top of the leaderboard right now particularly with the odds market a

02:01seven to one price on rory mackerel plus 450 on sheffler we already spoke about scotty sheffley

02:05here rory mackerel in ireland what are the expectations and what do you expect out of rory

02:11this weekend i think he's one of the most dangerous guys you know i don't like to bet guys

02:16at single digits pre-tournament but there's there's a there's no doubt that obviously augusta

02:21helped him but he's back to being rory mackerel the kind of like slide that we saw in there in

02:27late april early may early june rory's back to being fixed on this championship and i tell you what if

02:33you're over there everyone i've talked to over there everything is all day rory and you know it's

02:37it's somewhat consumed him donnie back in 2019 that it was the first time it came to ireland his home

02:43course he had the course record there and he goes out shoots 79 in the first round that's not going

02:48to happen again right the 65 in the first round is something more along the lines i expect and if you

02:53want a really fun bet for tomorrow first round top five you can get rory at plus 500 he's just got to

02:59finish in the top five places he's plus 700 to win after four rounds you give me 18 holes where rory's

03:06gonna come out strong and i tell you what the guys that have won this championship over the last five

03:10years have been very good in the first round because it's tough to catch up in the weather they are

03:15gonna go out strong tomorrow so your roms your scotties your rory's i think they're all going to attack

03:20because they have to and i love the fact that rory has that disappointment from last time didn't even

03:25play the weekend plus 500 for top five plus 250 you could get a third of his winning odds for a top 10

03:32tomorrow i'm absolutely smashing both those bets and i think everyone else should too

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