Hero World Challenge Placements: Thomas, Dunlap & More

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00:00We go to the placements next and you do have a few guys on here that I am

00:07personally going to be playing this week and one of them is Justin Thomas and

00:11I've seen all the data about how he's improving the swing speed and he's

00:16driving the ball further. I want to see it this week, Keith. Let's go. Well we all

00:21want to see it but the one thing we will see is that he is a top three short game

00:25player in this field and that's one of my secret sauces for this week. You know

00:29nine of the ten of the top ten players last year in that top ten they were also

00:34in the you know they were also in the top ten for around the green scoring. You

00:39know we've got those two short drivable par fours, we got the five par fives, you

00:43got to be able to get it done with a wedge, knock it close, make some birdies

00:46and JT can do that. Now I worry about him winning. He is a classic backdoor guy

00:52here. Everyone's gonna talk about the four straight top fives and that's why I

00:55have him for a top five but guess what his final round scoring average here

00:59when maybe it matters maybe it doesn't is 67.8 so he tends to slide in there

01:04late and if you look at some of those those top five finishes of the last four

01:08in a row that's been the case. The other guy Patrick Cantley I already talked

01:12about I'm telling you I think that he's there because Tiger wants him there. He's

01:16his boardroom buddy, they're on the pack council, they're on the piff council,

01:20they're on every council they can be but Patrick doesn't show up to not collect

01:23right so I love him for a top five going top ten Bobby Mac for all the

01:28items that I already discussed and then the second guy Nicky Dunlop right how

01:32about this kid this time last year he was like getting ready to go drive to

01:36Atlanta for the SEC championship game and now all of a sudden he's he's playing

01:41in Tigers Pro-Am he's playing in Tigers event with the top 20 guys the Tiger

01:45hand-selected it's pretty good if you're Nick Dunlop and I love him as a as a

01:50par-5 scoring machine and a top three Bermuda grass putter in the field. And

01:55you have him for a top ten I'm not gonna lie Keith I made a small play on him at

01:5945 to 1 to win the entire thing just because you talk about who's there that

02:05wants to win like it would mean everything to them to win and I think

02:09he's a kid that you could say that about other guys are there with their families

02:13it probably doesn't mean as much to them imagine Nicky Dunlop if he's able to say

02:17I beat these 19 guys at the Hero World Challenge to top off my year I took a

02:21little splash with Nicky what about head-to-heads? Well I you know what you're

02:25gonna see his name come up again and I'll just say it right now Nicky Dunlop

02:28over Brian Harmon I did not like two weeks ago when I was down at Sea Island

02:32what I heard from Brian Harmon and what I saw from Brian Harmon he is enjoying

02:36the offseason Nick Dunlop can certainly win this thing I agree with you I think

02:40it's a little bit of a stretch but hey top ten you can make some money you can

02:43make some money on some head-to-heads and you make some money on some live

02:46bets this guy can score on par fives and he takes care of easy golf courses this

02:50is an easy golf course and then the other one Patrick Cantlieu over Ludwig

02:53Obert another guy didn't look sharp at the RSM when I was on property