Top Golfers to Watch at Farmers Insurance Event at Torrey Pines

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00:00Let's start with this though Keith a lot of guys have pulled out of this event

00:04Now the rumors have been out there nothing official yet when it comes to the Genesis potentially

00:11Moving to Torrey Pines, so we saw some guys like Morikawa, etc

00:15Go out, but I still think we have a pretty good board of guys that are gonna be down there

00:20Well, I tell you what with Scotty being hurt and Xander being hurt now one and two in the world kind of off the you know

00:27Off there at the get well soon Center, right? You've got a guy like Hideki at Matsuyama who's fourth in the world

00:33You've got Ludwig Oberg who's sixth in the world?

00:35I think this is a moment right here where these two guys if they go on a little bit of a run right now

00:39And it sounds like we're gonna play here twice

00:41It sounds like hey when I get a text that says hey Keith get a hotel room in San Diego for three weeks

00:46That means it's good. We're gonna be back to the South Course and that makes sense

00:50They already have a setup there and the South Course that hosts us opens. That's a good venue

00:55That's fitting like a Riviera for a signature event and a 20 million dollar purse

00:59So I do like the top of the board as far as the kid because you know Ludwig Oberg when you look at this

01:05Right from top to bottom. He was t9 there last year in his first time ever

01:09I mean he gained over six strokes, you know

01:12Not only just on approach but off the tee he launches it high all of these factors involved

01:19I do think some of the favorites are somebody you have to pay attention to

01:23It's no doubt about that

01:25Anything different here this year north north course south course pretty much the same track that we've seen over the last few years

01:31Well, I like if you're betting anybody

01:33I like the guys that start on the north course because they get a little momentum scoring average is about two and a half strokes

01:38Easier on the north versus the south my Keith's keys for this week are three things

01:42200 plus 200 plus yard approaches. There's more here than anywhere else. It's a lot

01:47The South Course is the longest course on tour. That's a non major, right?

01:50A lot of long iron play. The second thing is is that you got to be a top gun. That's right

01:54I mean, we're right next to Miramar down there. We might see Tom Cruise this weekend

01:58Who knows probably not but guess what?

01:59You got to launch it high here like those Jets because the greens are small

02:047,700 yards with 5,000 square foot greens on average, right?

02:07You got to hit the ball high like a Jason Day who's won here twice

02:10And the third thing is is that it has been super dry in Southern, California

02:14Obviously the horrific wildfires up in LA

02:16But they haven't seen substantial rain down there in the San Diego area either this place is gonna play like a brick with

02:235,000 square foot

02:25On average size greens these guys hitting shots in from 185 205 par threes that are 225

02:31You better be able to launch it high and when it hits the green, it's probably gonna run through

02:35so I'm

02:35favoring a lot of around the green play which I normally wouldn't when the marine layers down there and things are kind of sticky and

02:41The guys get it in the fairway and they hit the greens and they're able to hold the green

02:44So little short game launch it high and long iron approaches