Keith Stewart's Arnold Palmer Picks: Cantlay, Burns & More

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00:03 - Let's get to the outrights first.

00:05 I like a few guys on your card.

00:06 Of course, you got Willie Z on there.

00:08 Tell me who else you're looking at.

00:11 - At the top of the board,

00:12 I get the sense from being in the press room in these weeks

00:16 and when they actually don't,

00:17 when they actually ask the guys about golf, right?

00:20 You get some really telling remarks.

00:22 The two guys in the press room that were all business,

00:25 very focused, love where their golf is at,

00:27 is Willie Z and Patrick Cantley.

00:30 And those guys in particular are very happy

00:33 with where their golf game is.

00:34 They're sitting on my card.

00:35 Cantley, I really get the sense that if he wasn't sick,

00:39 he would have won by a couple of shots out there at Riviera

00:41 and he knows that and he knows he was really sick.

00:44 He's not giving excuses,

00:45 but I think he feels like he's got some unfinished business.

00:48 And to kind of round out the card,

00:51 I don't know that there's a guy that's playing better

00:54 with the driver and the putter.

00:56 And the putter than Sammy Burns.

00:58 And he's sitting there right around 30, I got him at 28,

01:01 but not a lot of people are talking about him.

01:04 That could be a guy to take advantage of

01:06 because we know he can use the putter.

01:08 And when he drives the ball like this,

01:10 like he has been over the last couple of weeks

01:12 in these four straight top tens,

01:14 he becomes a favorite in every event that he's playing in.

01:16 Zalatoris, there's a common theme I think about

01:19 every time I come to Mr. Palmer's house.

01:21 Now I worked down here in Orlando

01:23 for five years across the lake over in Isleworth.

01:26 And I was very influenced in my career by Mr. Palmer.

01:29 He is a Wake Forest Demon Deacon.

01:32 And if you're looking for a guy like Will Zalatoris

01:34 to come back, or you're looking for a Cam Young

01:37 to be super focused and break through

01:38 and get that first win,

01:40 why not a Wake Forest Demon Deacon?

01:41 If the golf gods love anything, they love a great story.

01:45 And then at the end of my card, I've got Adam Scott,

01:48 another guy in the middle who's hitting it better than,

01:50 he might be hitting it better than he was

01:51 in the prime of his career.

01:53 I mean, the driver's on point,

01:55 the approach game is really, really sharp.

01:57 And he's working with Trevor Immelman on his short game.

01:59 Whew, I'm telling you, Scotty around this place,

02:03 he's played here before.

02:04 I mean, okay, who's won here a hundred times?

02:06 Tiger Woods, right?

02:08 Tiger?

02:09 Whose game in your lifetime and mine

02:11 mirrors Tiger's the most?

02:13 The swing, the swag, everything.

02:15 Adam Scott, makes sense to me

02:17 that he could put a good week up for us here at Bay Hill.

02:20 - Yeah, Cameron Forever Young on the card here.

02:24 I have him for first round leader as well in the mix.

02:27 So I like him to start fast on a Thursday.

02:30 The finishing positions now, your top tens,

02:33 twenties and thirties, some fun ones here,

02:35 including Chris Kirk, who doesn't get talked about

02:38 like these other guys, Keith,

02:40 but he has been a machine so far this year

02:43 and he always plays well in Florida.

02:45 - Well, Cantley, you brought up first round leader.

02:48 The guy leads the tour this year

02:50 and his scoring average on Thursday is 64.6.

02:53 So what, I mean, he'll get to that top 10 easily on Thursday

02:56 and then hold on for dear life

02:58 as the golf course gets harder.

02:59 In the top twenties, I'm glad you brought up Chris Kirk.

03:02 Chris Kirk has five top twenties

03:03 in his last seven starts here at Bay Hill.

03:06 The only thing that was wrong with him last week down there

03:09 at PGA National was the putter.

03:10 He's obviously very comfortable here.

03:12 The ball striking is on point.

03:13 I saw him on the range today.

03:15 You go in these limited fields

03:17 and you try to find some even money,

03:18 some opportunity in the top 30 land.

03:21 There's two guys right there.

03:22 I don't know that anyone's hitting the ball better than them

03:24 than maybe Adam Scott.

03:26 And that is Eric Van Royen and Matthew Pavan.

03:30 Van Royen, striping it.

03:32 And then the other guy, Pavan,

03:34 I saw him on the West Coast, but I didn't really watch him.

03:37 I put my PGA eyes on him today and I couldn't stop watching.

03:40 This guy, absolute laser show.

03:43 I love this guy's move.

03:45 He's for real.

03:46 This guy is certainly for real.

03:48 And when it comes to live ads all weekend,

03:51 I think you and I, with our recency bias or France

03:55 or anything else, we need to start getting used to saying

03:57 Matthew Pavan.

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