Procore Championship: A Potential Birdie Fest and Player Insights

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00:05Uh let me start with this.

00:07What underwins this tournament

00:09because this feels like a

00:10birdie fest USA. No. Oh,

00:13there's no doubt about that

00:15Joe. Par seventy-two scorecard

00:17measuring just a little over

00:187100 yards with four par fives.

00:21Um the average winning score

00:23over the last 5 years is 19

00:25under par. Uh the last 10

00:26winners have averaged somewhere

00:28in the ballpark of twenty-four

00:29So, you know, a third of the

00:31holes that they're going to

00:32play, they're going to make

00:33birdie or better on. So, and at

00:35the length that these guys are

00:36going to play, we have nine par

00:38fours of the ten. They're under

00:40435 yards. These guys drive the

00:42ball 300 yards in the air.

00:44That's a wedge to attack all of

00:46these holes and if you look

00:47historically at the guys that

00:48have played well here, not just

00:50the Heath Tagala who's

00:51defending champion but then the

00:52two years before that, Max

00:54Homa, when Max was in the prime

00:56of his playing ability, right?

00:57He he was driving the ball in

00:59play all the time and he's a

01:01super good putter. Very

01:02opportunistic. So, he hits it

01:03close with a wedge and he makes

01:05a ton of birdies and that's why

01:06he was such a good fit here.

01:07Now, Max has got a lot on his

01:09plate right now. He's the last

01:10captain selection for this

01:12President's Cup team and those

01:13matches happen in 2 weeks.

01:15There's six guys here that are

01:17in the matches that are

01:18competing in the Pro Court

01:19Championship and in Tagala,

01:22Wyndham Clark, Max Homa, these

01:23guys at the top of the board,

01:25Corey Connors, I get the feeling

01:27that as we talk about, you

01:28know, the favorites and

01:29everything, I'm going to look

01:30past those guys because overall,

01:33I think they have to be,

01:34especially Tagala, even as the

01:35defending champ. He, it's his

01:37first time going to one of

01:38these matches. It's his first

01:40President's Cup for Wyndham

01:41Clark. Yes, he went to Rome last

01:42year for the Ryder Cup. You

01:43know, Max Homa's got a lot on

01:45his plate. He's just switched

01:45coaches. I mean, these guys,

01:47I'm going to skip past the

01:48President's Cup guys when I

01:50look at the pro core, you know,

01:51kind of early leans and I'm

01:53definitely going to be looking

01:53further down the board when we

01:55get to that point. Just over

01:57two weeks away, the 2024

01:59President's Cup up in Montreal

02:01between Team USA and the

02:03international team as well.

02:05We'll talk about that in a few

02:07weeks time. So Keith, you

02:08mentioned looking deeper down

02:10the board can always be a time

02:11during the fall series on the

02:13PGA tour to find some big plus

02:15money prices. Who gets your

02:16attention? Well, you know what?

02:19Over the last 10 years, the

02:21average pre-tournament odds of

02:23the winners have been somewhere

02:25around 90 to one or plus 9000.

02:27So we got to look a little bit

02:28deeper down the board. Oh,

02:29yeah. So there's one guy that

02:32we've been talking about a

02:33couple of times off and on,

02:34whether it was golf Wednesday

02:35or with you guys on Tuesday

02:36morning. And that's J.J.

02:38Spahn back in Minnesota at the

02:403M top 10 ninth. He was on

02:42nobody's radar and we were

02:44playing him at read the line a

02:45week later. He goes to the

02:46Wyndham and he comes in third.

02:48Now, he didn't make the

02:49playoffs because he had a nice

02:50run toward the end of his

02:51season, but he's still hitting

02:53the ball great over his last

02:54five starts. He's gaining over

02:56seven strokes against the

02:57field, and he sits right at

02:59that 40 to one mark, that plus

03:014000. Now, as we start talking

03:03about him here on sports grid,

03:04that number is going to drop.

03:05So I would jump after him

03:06early. He's definitely one of

03:07my early leans on the early

03:09line. The other guy, speaking

03:10of fours, fourth place last

03:12year here at the Pro Core

03:13Championship, Eric Cole, and

03:15he's been a little hot lately.

03:16Now, his big Pachadillo is

03:19getting the ball in play off

03:20the tee. You don't have to hit

03:21driver everywhere here at the

03:23Silverado Resort on the North

03:25Course, which they play this

03:26tournament and have since 2014.

03:28So it definitely favors Cole,

03:30who's an excellent wedge player

03:32and unbelievable putter and

03:33score. Guy makes a ton of sub

03:35par scores, and that's why he

03:37was fourth here last year. He's

03:38sitting at plus 4500. So those

03:40two are very good early leans

03:42on the early line.

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