00:00So this is always a heavily bet event.
00:03It's the Masters.
00:04It's the Open.
00:05This is going to be interesting.
00:07Here are four golfers that should be worth your time going into this tournament.
00:13Victor Hovland just won the Travelers.
00:17And then last week, he tied for 13th at the Scottish Open.
00:21He is 33 to 1 to win this tournament.
00:24Maybe Norway gets a win over England this time with Victor Hovland getting a W at Royal
00:30Burkdale.
00:31Chris Goddorup is one of the hottest golfers in or on the PGA Tour.
00:36Hasn't been great in the majors, however, but he's been comfortable overseas.
00:41He's performed very well on link style golf courses.
00:45Tommy Fleetwood, more on Tommy here in just one second.
00:49Local favorite, deep ties to this golf course.
00:52Grew up nearby, 16 to 1.
00:55And then we've got Scotty Scheffler, plus 750.
00:59He missed the cut last week at the Scottish Open.
01:03So what is he going to look like coming up here for this?
01:06It's been an up and down year for Scotty.
01:08And really, since Scotty Scheffler's second child was born, Scotty hasn't been great.
01:13Scotty has been okay.
01:15Now, coming in second, coming in third, there's nothing to shake a stick at for a guy like
01:19Scotty Scheffler when you're coming in the top three, top two consistently.
01:23The problem is he's not winning, which is what you want, right?
01:27You want to win.
01:28If you were looking for the feel-good story of the summer, it would be Tommy Fleetwood winning
01:36this golf tournament.
01:37Tommy Fleetwood has never won a major.
01:40He was the 2025 Tour Championship winner, but not a champion at a major.
01:47He won the silver medal at the 24 Olympics, but he's coming in the top five seven times
01:54in majors.
01:55He's been the runner-up at the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, and now he goes to his
02:02boyhood home.
02:04This is the golf course that he grew up going to.
02:07This is your feel-good hometown story.
02:12Tommy Fleetwood and his dad would often sneak onto this golf course to play it.
02:17In 1998 at Birkdale, seven-year-old Tommy Fleetwood attended his first Open Championship.
02:24He was seven.
02:2619 years later, at the 2017 Open at Birkdale, Fleetwood, with a huge crowd behind him, tied
02:34for 27th.
02:35He'll have even a bigger audience backing him this week in search of his first major win
02:41in front of his hometown last year, winning the Tour Championship, entering this week
02:47as the number ninth-ranked golfer in the world.
02:51Fleetwood told Golf.com earlier this year, quote, it's probably my biggest dream in the
02:56game to win that tournament.
02:58It never happens.
03:01It never happens.
03:03This is a story.
03:05This is a dream.
03:08This would be the best story of the summer if Tommy Fleetwood wins his first major golf
03:14championship at the course that he snuck onto as a seven-year-old.
03:19I mean, that would be unbelievable if this guy could shock the world and finally win his
03:28first major golf championship.
03:30I love Tommy Fleetwood.
03:32Either it's the accent, it's the hair, it's the fact that he's little, he's a leprechaun.
03:38I mean, there are so many good stories around Tommy Fleetwood, and he's been knocking on the
03:44door, he is the best golfer on the Tour to have never won a major golf championship.
03:51It is all about Tommy Fleetwood this week.
03:56I don't know if he can do it.
03:58It's a lot of pressure.
04:00It's really hard.
04:02And we saw at the Masters two years ago, we saw Rory McIlroy be able to do it, right?
04:08It was the career grand slam.
04:10Could he finally win the Masters?
04:12It had been eluding him for so long, and then he goes and wins one, he wins another.
04:17He goes back to back.
04:18Okay.
04:19If Tommy wins one, you think he's going to win multiple.
04:23We saw it with Phil Mickelson, right?
04:25We were like, hey, when will Phil win a major?
04:27Phil wins a major.
04:28Phil went on to win multiple.
04:29It's breaking through that glass ceiling for golfers when you finally get stopped.
04:35The question stop about when are you going to win a major?
04:40That was always what Rory talked about, that he would show up at Augusta, and he would know
04:46the very first question would be, when are you going to win the Masters?
04:51And he would be having to come up with a new answer and a new conversation point to tell
04:56the media, I'm sorry.
04:58I know I haven't won one yet, but someday I will.
05:01And then he won back to back.
05:03So, Tommy, when are you going to win a major?
05:06Tommy, when are you going to win the Open?
05:10Seven-year-old Tommy Fleetwood stood there in the gallery dreaming of winning the Claret
05:14Jug at the Open Championship.
05:18Here's your shot.
05:19Your game is at near peak.
05:22You are one of the best golfers in the world.
05:24You're coming off of a huge Tour Championship last year.
05:28Now you have a chance to get into here, to this golf course, which you know, like the
05:33back of your hand, and you get to go play at a golf tournament that is built for you.
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