Exploring Valspar Championship Tight Scores & Top Golf Picks

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00:00Who are you going after this week?

00:02And I always say to you, love when we're reading the same mail

00:05and we are on a lot of guys this week.

00:06I love it.

00:08You know, Mike, one last point that we were talking about

00:10during the break.

00:11You need to know this about the Valspar.

00:13The concentration of scores here is the tightest of almost

00:16any tour event, right?

00:17That means if you can get through Thursday unscathed

00:20with this weather, no matter what it turns out to be,

00:22and you have great players with huge leverage opportunities

00:25in their value on Thursday afternoon,

00:27that's what I'm going for.

00:28I'm starting with Willie Z.

00:30I mean, the Happy 2 Gilmore, the trailer drops this week.

00:33Why not go with Happy's caddy?

00:34Willie Z, he started the week at 25.

00:37He's up to 45.

00:38The guy's got five top 30s this year.

00:41His approach game has been stellar,

00:43and the putter was good over there at Sawgrass.

00:46When Willie gets hot and on tough golf courses,

00:49you got to love it.

00:50You keep asking me all year.

00:51I've been out there eight straight weeks.

00:53I've seen Willie a bunch of times play golf.

00:55He keeps getting better and better and more and more

00:57comfortable since the back surgery.

01:00I love the opportunity there.

01:01Alex Smalley, another great ball striker.

01:03This guy, you know, it is all,

01:06if you look at the average gain per start in 2025,

01:10this guy's gaining six strokes on the field, right?

01:12He was 14th at the players.

01:14Duke grad, you want a little NCAA madness in there,

01:17throw him in there.

01:18Lucas Glover, plus 4,500.

01:21Now he's up to plus 7,000.

01:23We have five par threes on this golf course

01:25with an average length of 212.

01:27I will take Lucas Glover on any kind of golf course

01:29like that where he gets a perfect lie

01:31for five par three shots a day.

01:33Great with the long irons.

01:35And he's been playing well lately, third at the players.

01:37And then don't go to sleep on this guy.

01:40Jake Afternoon Knapp, who you love.

01:42Started the week at 50, he's up to 90.

01:44The approach game and the putting,

01:46which are the two things that you need at this place

01:48in order to contend are really, really sharp for Knapp.

01:51And I just love it.

01:53I love the fact that he swings easy when it's breezy,

01:56it gets windy there, you know.

01:58Thursday, I love Jake Knapp to get the job done

02:00with the putter and the iron game.

02:03Yeah, no doubt.

02:04Willie Z is on my card as well, Keith.

02:06Let's hope he can get home.

02:07And remember, I saw you tweet this, I think,

02:09over the weekend, or you mentioned it somewhere.

02:12If his game's rounding into form,

02:14he's played well at Augusta in the past.

02:18Keep it in mind as we're getting a little closer here,

02:20as you said, to Magnolia Lane.

02:22And this is a tournament also.

02:24I was looking at the average, you know, odds for the winner.

02:27You've had bombs here.

02:28You know, you've had lots of bombs.

02:31I mean, Malnati won last year, for God's sake.

02:33So you've had Peter Malnati win this thing

02:36after the Burns double.

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