00:00Brady Cannon is with us to break down the upcoming tournament this week, which no doubt
00:04everybody will be just getting ready for the Masters. This is the preview before the main
00:08course. Masters is next week. We'll have a lot of coverage here on Newswire of it, including
00:13live coverage next Thursday and Friday here on Newswire as well. But let's bring in Brady to
00:18get some picks for the upcoming tournament this week. A lot of the key players are playing in
00:23this one this week, so we'll see what ends up shaking out, Brady. Great to have you back here
00:26on Newswire. But before we get to that, clearly the national golf story of the weekend and
00:31the week is Tiger Woods. Unfortunately, with a DUI for him, made an announcement that he's
00:36going to be stepping away from, I guess it is the spotlight, because he's not really playing
00:39a lot of golf, but stepping away from the spotlight for the time being. We know he made a cameo
00:43at the TGL when they played that last week, but these circumstances have definitely clouded
00:49Tiger's future, and his playing future was already cloudy, Brady. I mean, for those people
00:55who were talking about it and asking, I mean, Brady, the odds of him playing this season
01:00seems to be pretty bleak at this point. Yeah. Before this incident, I did an interview with
01:06a good friend of mine, Dave Tindall from the UK, and he was asking a number of people's
01:10opinion on would Tiger play in the Masters, and then secondly, would he make the cut? And
01:16my answers were yes and no. I thought he would, you know, after that appearance on TGL, I thought
01:21he would try and play in the Masters, and then I felt, no, he'd be a heavy favorite to
01:26miss the cut. In fact, I said he might not even finish two complete rounds. It might be
01:31a withdraw, you know, with injury and what have you before, and now, obviously, all of
01:36that is a moot point, but it's kind of along the same lines. He didn't even complete two
01:41rounds, right? You know, I think, I don't know if we're ever going to see, if he's going
01:47to play again, Craig, does he play on the Champions Tour, the Senior Tour? You know, I would think
01:53maybe he gives that a shot, you know, plays in a major, I mean, he's going to obviously
01:57probably try Augusta at some point again, but does he play in a regular tour event? I don't,
02:04TGL maybe? I don't know. I think slim and none are the, you know, times we're going to see
02:12Tiger Woods in any sort of regular, true competition, I believe, at this point in his
02:18career. Yeah, and he said it himself, he's got to get himself healthy, and that is not something
02:23that happens in a month or two or five. I mean, I would be hard-pressed to predict that he'd
02:28play,
02:29even in the British Open this year, but I guess we'll see. Okay, let's go back to the Houston Open
02:33real quick. Congrats to Gary Woodland, 21 under par. He ends up winning your pick last week. Brady was the
02:39second-place finisher, so that's a really good call by you, but there was never really a point
02:43where I thought that Hoygaard was going to win. It felt like this was Woodland's to win, and he came
02:47through. Yeah, and great for Gary. What a story. I mean, it, you know, maybe overshadows the Tiger
02:54Woods, you know, sadness a little bit, and that's a good thing. The Woodland story is such a remarkable,
03:01you know, the brain surgery, and to win a PGA Tour event, and you look behind the scenes and some
03:07of the
03:07fear and anxiety that he went, this tumor that was on his brain was directly affecting the part of your
03:15brain
03:15that deals with fear and anxiety, and for no other reason than an ailment, he was scared to death all
03:21the time.
03:21So good for him. I was happy to, you know, oblige and finish in second place there. I thought maybe
03:28he would
03:28overtake Woodland going into the final round, but good for Gary. He hung tough. He didn't crumble, and, you know,
03:36good for him, and now he's in the field next week at Augusta National. Yeah, that's really cool for
03:40Woodland to capture a PGA Tour win. All right, Brady, let's see if we can capture a win heading
03:45into the Masters, and then we're going to have to lean on you pretty heavy next week. So we've got
03:49probably, I would say, three quarters or half of the big names of the field playing in this one.
03:54The rest are going to wait till next week, like Scotty, Rory, and the others. But Tommy Fleetwood and
03:59Ludwig Oberg, those are the favorites going into this week, and everyone knows them. They're going to be among
04:03the top 10 favorites, I would say, going into the Masters next week as well. But as you can see,
04:07there is no 3-1, 4-1, 8-1, 10-1 wide open field, Brady, this week.
04:13Yeah, and I think you have to take some shots with some long bombs here this week. And a lot
04:18of people
04:18have withdrawn because they've qualified for next week, and so they've decided to take the week off.
04:24Vince Whaley is a guy that I went with at 150-1. You know, you go back, this tournament has
04:30been
04:30played here at this course, TPC San Antonio, since 2010. And there have been seven or eight
04:36triple-digit long shots that have won here before. So I think you've got to sprinkle a few of those
04:42in
04:42your card this week. Vince Whaley at 150-1 made my card. I tried Jordan Smith at 84-1. The
04:50Englishman
04:51has been playing really, really well, just finished third at the Valspar. Alex Norin is on my card this
04:57week. Thorbjorn, Olesen, Sepp Straka, a very popular pick, one of the closer guys to the top
05:03of the board this week. And then finally, Siwoo Kim at around 20-1, Craig. I really like that pick.
05:09Nobody talking about him as far as one of the shorter price guys. All right, Brady, save some
05:14time for us next week. We'll see you ahead of the Masters. Thanks again. I'll have my green jacket on.
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