Top Picks for the 2025 Mexico Open: Who Has Value?

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00:00Keith, maybe this week not exactly the most robust field of the Mexico Open, so as you look at the

00:05odds board and who you expect to have a good week in Puerto Vallarta, who are a couple of names for

00:11us to know. I tell you what, you know, it's not often that you're gonna have Akshay Bhatia carry

00:16a tournament as the favorite. He did finish T9 at the Genesis, so he's somebody to watch out for,

00:21and we have seen the favorites win here before. Rob did it in the first edition, and in the second

00:26edition, Tony Finau did it. I'm not quite sure, though, Akshay Bhatia has the resume quite of

00:31those two. I'm looking a little bit further down the board for my early leans. The first guy I like

00:36is Bo Hostler. Bo Hostler is the type of player that plays very well in the desert, and that's

00:40what this golf course is going to seem like, almost like you're over in Dubai somewhere,

00:45right? It's wide open. Donnie already mentioned it. It's super, super long at 7,400 plus yards.

00:50You gotta be able to bomb it. Gotta be able to hit some long irons. Bo can do that, and he can

00:54get up and down at plus 3,500. I like him in that middle tier. I mean, some of these guys are at

01:00some crazy numbers that normally are in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and they're down in the 20s and 30s.

01:05Bo, he's definitely a guy that's been out on tour. Four main cuts this year, and he absolutely has

01:09had two top 15s, one of which was at Amex, which is also in the desert. The second guy, and you

01:15guys are gonna love saying this name, Mateo Manisero, all right? At plus 12,000, 120 to one,

01:22this guy's an absolute stud. We remember him as a kid coming out of Italy, made it on the DP World

01:27Tour early. Well, you know what? He is qualified for the PGA Tour this year because of his play

01:33last year over there in the Rolex standings. Mateo is absolutely a perfect fit for this place. He

01:38bombs it, and he's a really, really solid long iron player, much like Francisco Molinari,

01:43his countryman, was for so many years on the PGA Tour. Must be something in the past over there.

01:48I don't know, but Manisero is definitely somebody hard this week, and further down the list,

01:54we can make some money this week, guys, because without all those headliners,

01:57there's definitely gonna be some bombs and contention.