Keith Stewart's Arnold Palmer Invitational Outright Winners

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00:00Let's get to the outrights and you know what, Keith, I don't blame you here.

00:04You are going to what has worked so far here early in 2025.

00:10And that is the kid.

00:12Oh, absolutely.

00:13I mean, I watched him hit balls the other day.

00:15I could do it for hours.

00:16Mike Ludwig Oberg is he's been fantastic this year.

00:20You go to century out there in Hawaii.

00:21He's fifth AT&T.

00:23He had a little upset stomach.

00:24Comes back at the Genesis.

00:26He's first.

00:27And he sounds so confident.

00:28And the ball striking is just absolutely impeccable.

00:32He spent the last two weeks in Jacksonville with his coach

00:34working on Bermuda grasses, working on a short game,

00:37coming out of these type of green surrounds.

00:39He sounds like he's really focused on the next two weeks.

00:42And why not?

00:42I mean, both courses absolutely suit him.

00:45And speaking of being suited, Hideki Matsuyama plus twenty eight hundred.

00:50The number on this guy, it always is.

00:52He's always undervalued.

00:54And I love our domestic bias.

00:56You know, hey, make America great again.

00:58That's fine by me.

00:59Hideki is so talented, right?

01:01He's already won the century in his last not his last 15.

01:06Right. I'm sorry, Mike.

01:07His last nine signature events.

01:09He has two wins and five top fifteens. Right.

01:12Let me say that again, because I messed it up. Right.

01:15Nine signature events.

01:16Hideki's got two wins and five top fifteens.

01:19Mike, think about that. Right.

01:20And the value there.

01:21What do you need at Bay Hill?

01:22You need short game.

01:23I already talked about it.

01:24You've got to be able to score difficult conditions.

01:26And there's a huge comp between here.

01:28The winners here in Augusta.

01:29Think about the last two times Scottie's won.

01:31He went on to win down Magnolia Lane.

01:34Daniel Berger.

01:35Here's a story for you. Plus seven thousand last week.

01:38He's plus like twenty five hundred, even less. Right.

01:41First and par four scoring.

01:42You need that here. Second off the tee.

01:45The long iron game is there.

01:47Tina Green, he's top ten in the field.

01:49Last week, he's in the press conference.

01:51He's one of the favorites.

01:52You know, the weight of expectations

01:54for some of these middle to guy mills here, guys, is just too much. Right.

01:57All of a sudden now he can let his clubs do the talking

02:00instead of himself in the media center.

02:03And I think that means a lot.

02:04I think Berger, who's still in really good form and plays well on Bermuda

02:07grass, could be somebody with the way he drives it.

02:10It's a big threat this week.

02:11And I love that number at 70.

02:13And then the last one, Akshay Bhatia, plus eight thousand.

02:16This was a guy that was considered for the President's Cup team.

02:18And now look at him. Right.

02:21He could very well be on that team.

02:22At Beth Page, he's that talented of a ball striker and he's getting better

02:25and better for straight positive events with the approach, with his iron game,

02:30three straight in a row with his with his off the tee game.

02:32And we know he can score.

02:34You know, he can score.

02:35I think he's the type of guy here around Bay Hill

02:38that could surprise a couple of people at an 80 to one. Why not?

02:42Why not, indeed?

02:43And look, you're right about Hideki.

02:45Me and Smiley were talking about it earlier.

02:48He never he's always overlooked at these huge events.

02:52And I think some people shy away, Keith, because you know why you get

02:55you've been burned maybe once or twice in the past with the back hurts

03:00on Friday morning or so, you know, but the proof's in the pudding.

03:04You just said it.

03:05He's huge events.

03:07He's always there on Sunday.

03:08You look around on Sunday.

03:09Yeah, let me see.

03:10I'm again sitting here at six, three shots back in the lead.

03:14Like you just know he's there to burn you at any point.

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