Golf Best Bets: PGA Zurich Classic, LIV Golf in Mexico City

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00:00Welcome back to Newswire here on Sports Grid. Brady Cannon has got his eyes on several tournaments

00:04this weekend. There's a lot of handicapping for Brady to do in one week. Normally we just look at

00:08one tournament, the Masters or the RBC Heritage, but this week he's got several. So we don't have

00:13a lot of time, so let's get right to it. Brady, great to have you back here on Newswire. A bit of

00:17a surprise last week at the RBC Heritage, I guess. Justin Thomas shows up and wins as a 20 to 1

00:23at the Heritage in a playoff, Brady. And, you know, this is basically if you had that crystal

00:29ball on Justin Thomas, you would know that he's going to win a tournament, but we just never know

00:34which ones. This is probably the only one of the year, but he got it done. Yeah, no, you're exactly

00:39right. It's so frustrating trying to time it right with Justin Thomas, and you just know it's coming

00:44because he shoots, you know, 62 or whatever at the Players' Championship, and he looks like he's

00:50ready to be the Justin Thomas that we remember from a few years ago. This is the first win he's had

00:55in three years since the PGA Championship in 2022. We still know he is JT. It's just hard to pinpoint

01:03when he's going to show up, and I kick myself every time he wins, and I'm doing it again, you know,

01:09for not landing on him because he was so close. It just didn't, it just doesn't look like he's ready

01:15really ever, and then all of a sudden you're like, oh yeah, of course, he won. Fair enough. All right,

01:21so I know your opinion on the PGA Championship. You said you'll be fading Rory McIlroy. We're going

01:26to see him back this week at the Zurich Classic. I'm going to get him to fade him here again. I

01:30believe this has got to be, right, this is the first time he's back on a golf course since

01:34winning the Masters, but there's a different format to this. I think we probably need a little

01:38bit of an explanation. Yeah, it's a team event, a really casual, fun event that the players have

01:44really started to embrace here, and of course, it's in New Orleans. That's a lot of fun. Shane

01:49Lowry and Rory McIlroy are defending champions, and they partied it up here after they won last

01:55year, and they're probably still partying from Rory's win at the Masters. Their price was extremely

02:00short here to repeat at around plus 350, so I went down the board a little bit further, and it's a

02:06really tough handicap, Craig. You know, typically we're given one player and one set of data statistics

02:14for that player. When you have a team element, now you have a two-headed monster. We don't have stats

02:20for how that two-headed monster performs. You have to kind of go off of what you expect out of each

02:26individual. I like to look at complementary skill sets. I took Keith Mitchell and J.T. Poston. Poston's got

02:35the great short game. Mitchell's great off the tee. I took Wyndham Clark and Taylor Moore. Moore great

02:41off the tee. Clark really good on and around the greens. Ben Griffin and Andrew Novak. Novak in great

02:48form, lost in the playoff to J.T. last week. Griffin has been very good this week, and then I took a

02:54couple of long shots who show up here at this tournament as well. There's a lot of unknown and a

02:59lot of randomness to this team event, and with the long shots, I took a couple of PGA Tour rookies,

03:06Danny Walker and Ryan Gerrard, and then a couple of veterans in Doug Gim and Chan Kim. We're off to a

03:13pretty good start so far with Poston and Mitchell and also Gerrard and Walker. They're both currently

03:19tied for seven. Okay, so the Zurich Classic this week. We also have the first LPGA major of the season.

03:26It's the Chevron Championship, and, you know, this is, again, I'm not familiar at all with this,

03:32Brady, so naturally, I know you have some picks to win. Who do you think is the favorite in your mind?

03:38Yeah, this is pretty cool. It's the old Dinah Shore, which they used to play in Rancho Mirage,

03:43California for the last few years, couple of years, rather. It has switched to the Woodlands in Texas

03:49at the club at Carlton Woods. Nelly Korda, of course, is your defending champion. You know,

03:55the Scotty Scheffler of the Ladies Tour. She is actually the second choice. She is not the favorite

04:00this week, but I played three of the shorter shots, A-Lim, Kim, Lauren Coghlan, and Yalimi Noe,

04:07and our colleague, Keith Stewart. He also likes Lauren Coghlan and Yalimi Noe. You know,

04:13he's been very good historically with the LPGA and his selections. They're yet to tee off today,

04:19Kim, Coghlan, and Noe, so you can possibly still jump in on them.

04:23And then two longer shots, Nana Cortez, Madsen. She's even par through 11 right now. I got her

04:30at 70-1. And then another long shot, Carlota Siganda, one of the bigger hitters on tour,

04:36her and Madsen. This course, a lot of rain here in this area, so it may favor the bigger hitters.

04:42Siganda, one over par through 10 holes currently, got her at 70-1 as well. Again, Lim, or excuse me,

04:51Kim, Coghlan, and Noe, yet to tee off. So hopefully, good rounds out of them. They were

04:57the shorter shots all around, 25-1 that I played to win this first major on the ladies' circuit of

05:02the season.

05:04Live Golf is in Mexico City this week. I know you have some selections here as well. Is it one of

05:09the favorites or a long shot?

05:10Yeah, we're all over the place with golf this week. Mexico City, Texas, you know. But I played

05:18actually two of the shorter shots and one little bit longer shot. You know, in Live, we're only

05:24selecting from roughly, you know, 50-some players in the field. Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia,

05:30and Carlos Ortiz, I think you can argue, are the three best players on the Live circuit right now.

05:36Sergio Garcia already has a win this year. DeChambeau, you know, in the final pairing there

05:42at the Masters a couple weeks ago. Ortiz has been very, very good. Just in your neck of the woods a

05:47few weeks ago before the Masters, Craig, these three players all finished top five at Doral,

05:53at Live Miami. And I was on all three of them. And in my handicap, I have come to the conclusion that

06:00there's a lot of similarities and a lot of similar results. Big beast of a golf course with Doral,

06:06and Chapultepec, what we have here in Mexico City. So I went with the same three horses. Again,

06:13they all finished top five at Doral. Sergio has a tremendous history here. This used to be a part

06:19of the PGA Tour from 2017 through 2020. They used to play the WGC Mexico here at this course.

06:26Sergio finished top 10 a couple of times. Ortiz finished 16th once. And DeChambeau finished

06:32runner-up once. So they've all had good experiences at this golf course. I took DeChambeau

06:38at 6-1, Sergio at 14-1, and Carlos Ortiz at 25-1 for Live Mexico City.

06:47So Byron Nelson is next week. I know that used to be a big event, but it's not now as big as the one

06:52the week after. Is it Truist that's after that? I think that's the next big one.

06:55Right, right. The Truist is a signature event. They're going to play it in Philadelphia because

07:01normally they would be playing in Charlotte, North Carolina, but that's where the PGA Championship is

07:07the very next week, where Rory has won a number of times and where in 2017, Justin Thomas got his

07:13first major championship. So those will be the two big names coming in as we head into Charlotte,

07:18North Carolina. Thanks again, Brady. Have a great weekend. You too.

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