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Masters Tournament | Fantasy, Betting, DFS Q&A, Weather 2026

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Masters Tournament | Fantasy, Betting, DFS Q&A, Weather 2026

The transcription discusses preparations and insights for the Masters golf tournament, focusing on weather, fantasy golf strategies, and player analyses. The forecast for Augusta is exceptionally favorable, with dry conditions and mild temperatures expected throughout the event. In fantasy golf, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm are projected as highly owned picks, while Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Åberg also draw attention, though ownership dynamics may vary. Several promotions are mentioned, including a fantasy contest with a $350,000 prize pool and a giveaway featuring exclusive Masters memorabilia. Player evaluations highlight factors like recent form, course history, and statistical strengths, with notes on contenders such as Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, and potential underdogs. Key strategies emphasize scrambling and distance control as critical for success at Augusta, with specific concerns raised about certain players' adaptability to the course conditions. The discussion blends practical advice with engaging commentary for golf enthusiasts.

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Welcome in happy Tuesday. This is the live chat for the masters and just let that soak in breathe it in. Breathe it in. It's time. We are going to spend the next. Who knows amount of time go through your questions, your concerns, your comments for this week's first major championship of the year. Thank you very much for tuning in a day earlier than normal. I'm flying to Augusta tomorrow. So we had to rearrange the schedule, but job is just getting started. We've got a lot to get through. I'm going to give you the announcements at the start. While I'm going through those announcements, get your questions in. I'll roll through them all that fun stuff. But we're going to start where we always start. And that's me playing weatherman. Now the good news is I don't think I have to play too much here because this is about as beautiful of a forecast as you have ever seen in April in Augusta, Georgia. Mid 70s on Thursday and Friday, a little bit warmer on Saturday and Sunday, not an ounce of rain in the in the forecast and wind at a minimum. I will also note this is one of the driest years they've ever had. Only eight inches of rain has hit Augusta this year. They're on pace for a historically dry year. So however, Augusta National and the Masters once this golf course to play, it will play because their mother nature has just stayed away and they will do whatever they need to do. One and done. Oh, the one and done is heating up. So for this week, it appears because this is the first week that we're getting access to live golfers, they are going to be some of the more popular players. Pull genius. I'm using their tool right now projecting both Bryson and John Rob to be the two most popular players. Scotty Sheffler third, Ludwig Oberg, Zander Shafley, Rory Mackle Roy, Cam Young, Matt Fitzpatrick in the next year. Feels about right. I tweeted this out a little bit earlier. Actually about third of the field has already used Scotty Sheffler. So who knows if they will use him here. If you if you made me guess, I think maybe Ludwig is more popular than Scotty is in this scenario and then Scotty's maybe fourth or fifth, but I do think Bryson and Rom are going to eat up a lot of the ownership. I imagine Cam Young is going to be more popular than Rory Mackle Roy and Zander is kind of the X factor in the middle there. I think he's going to garner a lot of attention as well. We'll go through your one and done questions in just a few minutes. This is the contest that we have going on on splash right now. $350,000 guaranteed. It's got my face on it. It's got presented by Trune. $100,000 for first place and anybody who enters is in a draw to win a round of golf for four at any true course that they want and I'll be there. So that's pretty good. We did this last year with John Daly played a round of golf with John Daly. It was a raging success. This year you get to pick the course out of any of the true courses that they have. Please pick a good one link is in the description for that. As if there wasn't more I need to share slash giveaway. The masters has their own fantasy leak. Very similar. It's tears and on splash. It's one of eight tier. You pick one golfer from eight tiers. Your best seven scores count on the masters website. It's you know, pick a past champion pick a US player pick a whatever. We're going to have the biggest leak. Okay. The Rick Rungood League is going to be the biggest league and then I'm going to email info@master's.com and I'm going to say, Hey guys, look, we had the biggest league. Let's collab on something in the future. Probably isn't going to work, but I'll take my chances. Link is in the description to get into this. If you want to win the prize pack, you also have to connect your email because I'm not, I don't want to chase. I always chase people down and try to figure out how to get in touch with them. There's a very simple Google form. You put your username in and you put your email address in so that I can find you if you win. I don't care what your finishing position is here. I'm just going to draw somebody at random for that prize, that prize, which is right here next to me. This year's Master's Journal, 90th edition. Master's Hat from last year, New With Tags, and the finest example of a 1983 Sevy Biosteros win Master's Badge, full week Badge PSA 9. There are only four in the world. There are none with a higher grade than this. It's a beauty, little golf memorabilia thing. Yeah, it's gorgeous. I will part with it. I will do it. I will do it. Okay. I believe that is all. I believe now I will get into your questions. Here we go. Xander and Rob McIntyre or Cam Young and Fitsy. I have no idea what this is for, but I'm going Young and Fitsy. Top five first round leader picks. All right, let's go. Everything you see from this point forward is my website rickrunkgood.com. I am going to use it to the best of my ability to get you these answers to your questions. Here we go. I'm going to go to the custom model. I am going to open this up to, I will leave it at a hundred rounds. We're going to go to scoring, round one, scoring for 20, round one, relative score. So that's to themselves for 20. I'm going to go 20 on gaining four more strokes, 20 on gaining five or more strokes. I want upside. That's all I care about. And then I want a course history Augusta national. My five would be pretty chalky quite honestly. Scotty, Ram, Ludwig, Colin, Rory, be aware of Colin. Do we need to have this conversation? Paul Hodo from the PGA tour has done a fantastic job with this. More Cali does not look anything close to 100% by the way. He's not hitting many drivers on the range. When he is hitting them, they're coming out. They're going like 280 yards. We have access to the masters at the range now. Also, he did not hit a full shot until 16 yesterday in a practice round. Quotes weren't very good. Rory, Cam Young, Zander, DJ, Speed. Oh boy. Not a lot of value there. I would say Ludwig would be interesting. I would say Sergio would be interesting. And then if you wanted to get a little bit freaky, SungJM, Max Graserman, probably be pretty interesting. Who do you think has a better finish to speak? Rasmus, Huigard, or Marco Pange? For me, it's pretty close, but I'm going to go with Marco. So here's the thing. Marco Pange is an elite driver of the golf ball has always been. He's an elite winner, at least on the DP World Tour. Now he is starting to figure out the rest of his game. The putters coming around, the approach play is coming around. This is a very good spot for him to continue this maturation process. Thoughts on Harris English. I believe Harris English is one of the longest major cut streaks going on right now. I'm going to have to double check that. I have that in my notes to go pull that up. You would think that he would have a better record here. It's okay. It's not bad. T12 here last year, 22nd year before that. It's actually three top 25s, but nothing inside the top 10. I just, I always think that you show up in a major championship. And Harris English is like kind of weasel's his way to the top of the board a little bit. Runner up finished at the open in the last major last year. If you look at his form coming into this week, he's a little bit more of a reliant on the putter than I would like. Harris English, when he's playing his best golf, he's got that well-rounded nature. I'm not really seeing that right now. So count me as cautiously pessimistic. There always seems to be an amateur hanging around on Sunday. Who do you think will win low M and who can go low? I like Ethan Fang. He's the, I don't even know if I have anything. I do. Played the open last year, played the pro core, played into buy to start this year. Three missed cuts. Fang is out of Oklahoma state. And he is to me the most complete kind of ready polished of the amateurs. Can we hear your Mark Imelman impression? Well, you have to understand here, Will, I I kind of looked at him and I said, right, you know, are you holding thumbs for that shot? Amen, corner. It's good to take all of your fancies to turn one over there on number 12. Okay. All that stuff. Hey, Rick, love the second cut, second cut podcast with Mark Imelman. It's coming up later today, actually, five PM Eastern time, second cut podcast, also on YouTube. Go check it out. Thanks, Chris. He says I'm also 5 million back, but I'm in 46 out of 120. Okay. That's not bit. Any players under the radar to make up some ground. The good news for you who are trying to make up ground is I don't think you have to like do anything super crazy. Bryson and John Ram are going to eat a lot of the ownership. So what does that leave us with? Does that leave us with only having to go down to Zander? Maybe what about Cam Young who I'm playing quite a bit of. I think that's okay. Tommy Fleetwood. Why not Tommy? Right. I don't think you have to get crazy. I am an investor and read this week. I've got him for like finishing positions top 10, For example, I've stopped short of of playing him in a one and done. I think that's a touch aggressive. But if you want to Chris, I think it's okay, but you really could probably get away with being different enough with any one of those guys that I mentioned. Hey, Ray, can we get a look at Nick Taylor? Ooh. We're already into Nick Taylor conversation. What do you believe his prospects are? For this week's asks Benny Buckets. Let's take a peek. Benny Buckets. All right. We've got some good news here. We've got some bad news. He's gained a lot of strokes on approach in the last seven. He's gained strokes around the green and five, a lot of them, which is, believe it or not, scrambling is like the highest correlated stat to success at Augusta National in the last decade. The putters really bad. Historically, he's putted, okay, man, this is, you know, he's always, he's difficult enough to figure out because he's all over the place. I don't like that his, usually his best weapon, the putter that he's struggling there. I don't, I don't like that. I'm going to give him a four out of 10. I'm currently in first place. What? Oh, in your majors one and done on splash is the play this week, Ludwig Xander, Rom or Scotty Ludwig Bryson. Yeah. Okay. So you can just kind of chalk this thing up. So yeah, you either one of those is fine. I would prefer Ludwig Xander, Rom, the reasoning being, I'm, gosh, I think Bryson's going to have a very good week, but I also think his floor is a lot lower than John Rom's floor is. Okay. He is probably going to gain four to seven strokes off the T. Assuming he can keep it in play. He's not going to gain six and a half around the green like you did last year. And really that's the only year he's gained strokes around the green. There are still a lot of spots where he could get in trouble. I could see this. I mean, you're looking at his outcomes here. I could see this being any one of these fifth or 45th, for example, or a miscut. I could see that. I don't think he's going to miss the kind of thing he's going to have a pretty good week. But John Rom, on the other hand, when you've got over the last 10 years, he is the best player at the masters hard, hard stop. Let's pull this up. And I'm pretty sure he's only played it nine times. So let's look at this. Here he is. Nine one strokes gained per round in nine starts. So it is worse than Scott. He is worse than Ludwig, but those guys have played six and 10 times or six and two times. Not only is it the win, but it's a bunch of really good play here. So I think that one's a little bit safer. Jack, I would go if I were you, Ludwig Xander, Rom. After his meltdown at cog, Lowry showed some promises. Houston, thoughts on him for this week. Okay. So let's go back to this. Make sure I got to keep my tabs clean. This is an important show. It's going to be a lot of questions. I got to make sure I stay on top of my tabs. Here's Lowry. So there's that runner up, Miss cut, Miss cut, and then the bounce back that you're referring to there, which was, yeah, it was okay. Hold on. The masters histories, not the greatest in the world. Third place finish in 2022 has struggled on the putting surfaces each of the last three years. I think it's good, not great. The thing with Lowry is he's going to have to come with the short game. If he doesn't come with the short game, he's pretty troubled. And that's something that he has not in the last half, last couple of years has not been very good at here. Probably a pass for me. Do you expect JJ spawn to keep it rolling? So this is so interesting. No way in the world would I have thought JJ spawn was going to win that golf tournament last week. He made a really great comedy afterwards, basically saying that for the first part of the year, he was trying to live up to what he did last year, which was going to be impossible. Major championship, a lot of really good finishes. He was never going to do that again. And then he finally decided, like, I'm just going to play what I have. He said, I'm just going to play that left to right shot and I'm going to make some thoughts. That's what I have. That's what I'm going to play. And to kind of spur him on a little bit. So I did like to hear that quote. I think that he's going to have a good year. I don't think this is a great spot for him. You know, I would prefer he be longer off the tee. I would prefer that he would not have just one very good start this year. I let he did something special on on Sunday. He gained a stroke on approach at 16 and a and his next very next full swing. He gained a stroke off the tee on the 17th tee back to back full swings in which he gained a stroke on the field is crazy. But feels a little trappy to me. He has one good start this year. And now he's going to a spot that I don't think sets up really well for. If you were to create a list of your top 10 golfers ranked one to 10 heading into this week, how would it differ from the OWGR? I mean, listen, it would look probably very similar to like the pricing, right? I would say, I made it one. So maybe you'd be like Scotty, Ludwig, Rob Rory Bryson, Cam Young, maybe I put Cam Young ahead of Bryson, Tommy, Zander, Fitsy. Fitsy might be. Yeah, I actually, I guess it would look pretty different. All right. Last year, I was sitting first overall. Oh, out of 627,000 patrons in the Master's at Fantasy game until Ludwig tripled 18. I almost got hit with that ball. He hit it left on 18 right by that. There's like a concession stand there. That was, they couldn't find it. I don't know if they ever found it or not. Chance of using Scotty here with recent form. Okay. I think this is a pretty good spot to use Scotty. Now I like to play the game theory, right? So I like to look at this and say, are people going to play Scotty? Well, the answer is, you know, you've got this quote down year, which is crazy because it's been awesome. You've got the big boys in in in ramen Bryson. You've got Ludwig and Cam Young who are going to be popular. You've got, he's already been used the seventh most of anybody in the field. And like, I mean, you're seeing it. You're seeing his odds drift, right? You're getting a little bit of an odds drift on Scotty right now. And he is, he has had the, I think it's the best six start stretch of anybody in Master's History. I'm pretty sure that's the number. And I think this is a great spot to use them if you can stomach it. That's really what I think it comes down to. Will Augusta allowed Jake Naptum, brother of the N. Hyde Ducks logo on this green jacket. That's funny. Did you see that his logo for this week? They kept the Ducks logo, but they swapped out the hockey sticks for golf clubs and it looks so sick. This says, do you think, do you think Scotty has the best chance of it? Yes. Even if you agree, here's the thing. Even if you agree that he's had it down here, which it's been a fantastic year. Could it have been baby related? You know, baby number two is imminent. They had the baby 11 or 12 days ago. The world class touch around the greens is going to be very valuable here. Just everything he does is going to be valuable here. Yeah, I think, I think Scotty's, if I have Scotty available, my one and done, which I used him, I have used them a bit, but when I have him available, I've used them. Well, I guess maybe that's the best way to, best way to put it. When you ride a model the other day, I didn't notice any live guys. Is that correct or was there a certain filter? I don't know, but this one I just ran right now has Rom and second, Sergio and 12, Dustin and eighth. So I don't, there's nothing stopping them from, from being in here. Are you worried about Fitzpatrick's apex with him being able to hold these greens, dry fest greens? So here's the radar. Let's pull it up real quick. Hopefully in this field we'll go lowest apex. So DB Stray Vibon is the lowest, Daniel Berger, 79 feet on average, Brian Campbell, Russell Henley, Aaron Rive, then you get to Matt Fitzpatrick. I want to see though, because that is an average. Is he capable of going high? He doesn't really do it very often, especially with the driver. Yes, I am worried about it, but that's probably the only worry that I have. There's a reason that he's not, you know, $14,000 on driftkings or he's not five to one. He has, he has concerns. That's the concern. The concern would be, can he hit it high enough to contend here? I took nap at the player, Strachga last week, now just outside the top 30, leaning Scotty, but is he too popular to pick? Poojinius has the best, the third most popular somewhere between eight and 14%. I would be surprised by that. I think Ludwig will be more popular. I think there's a chance that Cam Young is more popular than what? Poojinius thinks, which might eat into Scotty a little bit. I would, again, I am using Scotty. Everywhere I have him available. It's it's probably Half of my one and done so I have him available. I'm I'm using him there Is there a way to sort Players Prioritizing distance control slightly more specific that stroke skin around the green so the short answer is no Not Quickly the long answer as I was messing around this the other day and I'm hoping to have it on the site soon So what I was kind of thinking about doing was um, you know, I know how far away the pin is I know where the pin is on the green I know where the player hit it or at least where it wound up I don't know if it's good enough to say hey Did it land here or did it finish here? I think finishing here is is better because they also include spin control and things like that How often are they within 10 feet longer short right so I don't really care if left the left right axis the the the x axis I don't care about in this scenario be the y-axis it would be the long short So I'm messing around with this. I don't have anything tangible for you, but if anybody has any ideas Let me know Top one top 50% one and done I've used Scotty and Rory so far is Bryson and Romtrupa If you're top 15% I'm not worried about popularity as much hey where can we dig dig into the 7k range yes How would you rank the guys? Between Okay, so here's the 7k range I'm gonna rank them The guys that that Griffin is asked for here. So I would say Minwoo Connors I'm sorry. I missed auction. I think auction is one minwoo's two Connors is three c was four Then I would rank them Adam Scott nap McNeely bridgeman Nikolai is how I'd rank the other ones just real quick because I can cover a lot of a lot of potential questions right now Oxay Bittia is the longest guy that I've bet on my card this week Here's the cell on oxay What he did at the indian open I don't care about okay. He flies to India He plays one of the most difficult golf courses in the world He stinks on Thursday and he plays much better on Friday. He still misses the cut That was after an unbelievable run where he destroyed signature events and got away at the API He is also one of the very few and when I say a few I mean two Players that work their ball right to left Over 67% of the time and he does it 80% of the time He is also Going into his third year at the masters you usually get a significant increase from year one to year two Terms of knowledge and results and then you usually get a bigger a big one as well from two to three so I'm in okay, so that I'll just that's all the oxay I'll answer it there and I'll refer you back anywhere else Can gotter up Minwoo nap pens can they move it right to left can they or do they like to kind of different stories They all can whether they are good at it or not is kind of a different story so Penge moves it right to left 20% of the time minwoo 23% of the time Can't who else was it Gotter up and nap Gotter up is Uh gosh, where is it 11% of the time and nap is 25% of the time they don't do it very much. Is there any value with comparing pest winners and strokes gains by round at Augusta Any correlation Yes, uh, Gustav National is one of the stickiest golf courses in the world Yes, yes Is there a way to see if pest first round leaders have been a mpm It would take me a couple minutes. I'm not going to do it live now But remember it's not there's not real waves here So everybody goes off number one in order so t times are all day long So there's not that natural wave, but it would take me I would need like 20 minutes, but so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that right now In tears With only 15 people on between zander cam Ludwig for one tier Okay, well, I mean they're all very close. I would take Flip a coin between Ludwig and cam Siwu akshay minwoo akshay and then bridgeman over huigar. Is it just me? This is this is I I love this is it mayor is Jordan's beef being slept on To the masters no one is sleeping on Jordan's feet. He's got one of the greatest records around here ever Um The problem is he's just not playing all that well The approach plays great the putters miserable Who knows what he's gonna do with the driver I I have no idea what Jordan's being is gonna do this week, but I do not think he's being slept on I think I've heard a lot of conversation about him. I like that. He's wearing a Like a blade necker is that a pullover? I can't tell but I kind of like that That looked there. I do not think he's being slept on. I just think he is a walking Roller coaster A hundred one thousand three hundred eighty six in the one and done. So you're like top Quarter So you should are you in trouble? No god no there's so many signature events left and no, no, no um You should pick from the non-live division Anybody that's not a live player you're fine with deep dive on Patrick read. All right. Here's the other one. I'll cover the Patrick read stuff Uh, really quick right here I'm invested in Patrick read. I want Patrick read in Very high upside scenarios. I don't want Patrick read To make the cut. I don't want him top 30 or top 20. I want him like win Top five top 10 and I want him in like one and done like things that are really really high Leverage and upside here's the thing with Patrick read if you go and look at everybody at the masters since 2019 Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob there we go all those years close it up He is the one two three four fifth best player and if we roll out Ludwig Because you only has two starts. He's the fourth best player So Patrick read is the fourth best player in the masters since 2019. Why is that important? He won in 2018 this does not even include his win He is the fourth best player at the masters and it doesn't even include his win Okay, so now he's playing the best golf of his life Two wins already this year on the DP world tour. He's gonna be back on the PGA tour then he shows up all confident Talking about the the short game areas and how he's excels and he's right. He's a hundred percent right in these short game areas at Augusta national Then you look at the the correlates that's the success and scrambling is such a big one Yes Patrick read yes Hobi on my top five top 10 card Tbd everywhere else There is not a tears contest I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There is a tears contest. There is not a $25 contest from me. Mine is one hundred this this week Do Do Again, I would need I Would need uh I would need like 20 minutes to do this. So I'm not gonna do it right now According to data golf since 2021 the masters has favored accuracy or has been neutral I think distance is the most important secondary stat your thoughts. How is data golf coming to this conclusion? I have no idea. I don't I can't speak for them. I don't know if that's just only The tournament that week the way that I do it is for the the year as a whole and then what types of profile what type is a pro players profile in that way For every single course and then compare them relative to one another so I don't I don't know how I don't know But uh, I think distances is is critical Do you think do you think the course will set out how do you think the course will set up well off the tee for players that hit it Low and rely on roll out. Uh, I think it's gonna roll a lot Right. I mean we talked about how dry it's likely to be I think it's gonna roll a lot the benefit of the carry If you can carry it obviously can there's a lot of conditions that go into this But if you can carry it like 310 you are You're gonna be in a couple of better spots But otherwise, I don't think it's I don't think it's a big deal Again, let last thing I'll say about um column work out uh The the stuff that Paul Hodo put out on Twitter looks like it is not I mean doesn't look great for Colin. It seems like he's still very much dealing with it Doesn't look like he's back to full speed We have the masters at the range stuff. I mean I could pull it up But it's it's a very heavy app and I've got like 900 windows open. I don't really One of the pull it all up here, but so he hit 45 shots today. The longest shot that he hit was 280 yards. That's not great. I don't know how many drivers that ended up being, but it was about, it looked like he hit about five or six drivers is what it is what it looks like. Yeah, so I don't know, man. And then yesterday, the report was that he only he did hit his first, take his first full swing until he got on the T of 16, he started on the back nine. I don't like that. I, okay, the question around Zach Johnson here, this is really strange. So I did play him in one, I believe, of my like tier eight selection. So he's, he's in like that, that tier eight. The eighth tier is very bad. It's most of the past champions or maybe amateurs or whatever. Zach Johnson has, has just gotten a new, like a new resurgence in his, in his golf and career because it just turned 50 and now he is crushing the DP, uh, the senior tour. Okay. So he is now competitive again. He wins, he finishes 30, he finishes second in his three senior tour starts this year. So I think he's got the juices flowing again. And then there is, you know, really no other place where he could get away with uh, game planning his way around the course like you're at Augusta National, T8 here last year. I don't expect a lot, but I, I do kind of expect him to be like the best out of that eighth, that eighth tier. First time doing a three and done got off to a rocky start. Thanks to Colin WD and Ludwig Meltdown. I'm in the same boat as you. Should I avoid chalky picks? Uh, I did. I just again went no live. Um, I will save, you know, Bryson and Rom for probably the PGA championship in the open. And I'll be fine with that. Uh, Hey Rick, when you showed the correlated stats, it looked like birdies are better. It was a top five stat. Burier, better percentage was here. It's like 15th if that's what we're looking at. Rivier is often a correlated stat for Augusta National and he won as a debut. There has to be another. I think I'm missing like the second half of that question or something. One my pool using your NCAA bracket. Go blue. How about that? Had a good run on those. Yeah, that was a very, very good. It's a very good situation for me. I want a nice little nice little league as well. Brooks is a top 10. Has he shown enough to warrant the bet? I'm going to cautiously say no. He's not driven it well. The putter, it looks like he started to fix the putter and then he lost three strokes in Abemorial Park and he's really struggled around the greens here. The runner up he had in 2023 required him gaining six strokes. Putting, do you think he's going to do that again? He's been really bad with the flat stick. I, um, I don't think he has shown enough. I'm happy to be proven wrong there. I just, I just think that it, it's not, it's not good enough. Carlos Ortiz asks David. Okay. So he's played all five times on live 13th, 42nd, 6th, 21st and 8th. His sister here at the masters. He missed the gun 2021. Just trying to see his full gamut. What are their majors as he played? Oh, not very good. So he finished fourth US open in 2025 and he's missed. I don't, I don't know if I love this. It's okay. I don't, I don't think I love it. Okay. Min Wu, I don't know if I did the full deep dive on Min Wu or not yet, but let's, let's do this. So Min Wu hits it a billion miles. He is also fixed the putter ever since he went to that. I always forget. Is it Odyssey or Calaway or are they the same thing now? I think it's an Odyssey like that prototype. He is capable of gaining five strokes on approach and he's got decent hands around the green. I think this is probably an opportunity for him to have his best finish at the masters, which was 14th in 2022. I think there's a chance he beats that. So I think when I was asked earlier about a group of four or five players and Min Wu was in there, I went with Midwo. Gun to your head. Oh God. Pick three players you need for a top 10 top 20 top 30. Gun to my head. Scotty Shuffler. No. All right. So I get you. Let me just go down the board a little bit. I would say Tommy top 10. Fitsy top 20. I need somebody who cares about a top 30. Oxay top 30. Pivots. Okay. So first run of ownership. The 10k range. Rory seems to be the one lagging behind 16% projected ownership right now. Oh boy. I'm a little worried about Rory, but I also want to play him. This is definitely like a gut thing. I mean, he is going to gain two to four strokes off the tee. He's going to do that. He hasn't won this year, but he's done well enough. I mean, the WDF Bay Hill looks bad, but he was inside the top 10 going into the weekend. So he's basically played. I mean, he was bad with the putter at the players, but I assume he's kind of cleaned that up since now. I also just kind of think like he's enjoying the champions dinner and being able to wear the green jacket and like, it doesn't feel like he's going to, it doesn't feel like he's going to defend this thing. And I kind of need that. So I get it, but I want to be in on the stats are really good, are good enough for me on Rory, but man, the vibe is not there. Rose at 11% is shocking. He's gained over a hundred strokes to the field at the masters. He's playing. He has high upside player. Could absolutely win this thing. He's lost in a playoff twice. Victor at 8% very, very quietly. Right? You know, the thing that he struggled with, the driver, you can spray it a little bit here and get away with it. The rest of his game has been probably good enough. It's had a couple of good runs at Augusta National. I mean, there's going to be some things that give him issues, but 8% is a little bit, a little bit too crazy for me there. God, I would love to go back to Strock at 6%. I don't know if I can get there though. Ben Griffith, let me look at Ben Griffins profile really quickly. Because there's a chance, like he needs, he just needs something to, okay, okay. This is kind of what I wanted to see. And I think I'm going to mention this last last week. What have that been two weeks ago? No, yeah, two weeks ago. I thought it was, I thought he needed to get out of Florida and be able to cut the driver loose is what I, is it was my sense of, of, of things is that he was being hemmed in. He wasn't driving it well and all of a sudden it unravels the rest of your game. So he drives it well at Houston. Really good metrics throughout the bag picks up five and a half strokes from T to green. I'm in, I'm in, $7,600, $4%, Ben Griffith. Best live finish besides ramen Bryson. Kind of think it might be Sergio. Do you have any info on Casey Jarvis? Yeah. So he's, he just won. I think back to back or back to back to back to, no, he did not win three in a row. He won back to back. So he won Kenya. He won South Africa. And he finished a second in, in Johannesburg. So now his year, I mean, it's all DP world tour stuff. But it has been nothing but God plus 17 strokes plus 15 plus 15 plus 11. Has he ever played a major? Play the US open in 2024. Miss the cut. He probably qualified for that somehow. He's a talented player. I really don't know what to expect. I mean, if this was DP world tour event, he'd be great. But it's not. I think you're going to see him next year because he's almost certainly locked up his, his tour card for next year. Could be a good top debut talk. Why do I feel like Bridgeman is being disrespected at this price? There's always this weird thing is that this weird thing that happens with guys that have never played here. But Bridgeman, so let's look at this. So since the start of 2026, excuse me. I've done a lot of talking today, and I still have more to do, so I've gotta be a little bit cautious here. Since the start of 2026, let's do PGA tours so that we have all the metrics here. I bet you he's the number one putter, he is. So 1.35 strokes gained putting, okay? Very solid floor there, has picked up another three quarters of a stroke ball striking. My goodness. I've been impressed, it's past the eye test when I've seen him out there. I thought he's played great. I think he's been able to separate. The price is just because he's, because he's never played here before. That's the disrespect. He's being projected at 13% though. So it's not like people are completely forgetting about him. Two questions. Ken, Cam, Smith, Ken, wait. Ken is driver doing enough to make him playable, and when are they gonna update his pick from the eighth grade? This is the pick I have. That's a, that's a RIPPA GC. That's RIPPA GC. Cam's in, Cam's, Cam's hurting right now. Cam's game is, is, I don't believe good enough to, to contend here. Am I taking the field or Shephler, Bryson, Rom, Ludwig, Cam and Fitz? I'm taking those six. I think it's, I think it's gonna be a, a big guy. Talked about drivers, talked about Victor. Okay. Well, Chandler, I don't really want to run this model because we've got the wrong putting surface on there. I'll come back to that. I'll, I'll mark it. My betting card, which you should not follow, 'cause it doesn't matter. Go bet whatever you want to bet. As of right now, is Ludwig, Cam, Young, Akshay. Those are the three outrits. Then it is finishing positions on, Reed, the higher the better, Conor's top 20, UK or Irish, winner at plus 370, lots of matchup positions. Trying to think what else. Pinch top debut, Taunt at like nine to one. But spend your money however you want to spend your money. Favorite day of the masters. It's either Thursday or Sunday. Thursday feel like there's hope for everybody. It's the first time you've done it a while. It's probably Thursday. How much weight are you putting into high Apex? A little, not a ton. So the thing is this, what you see from the Apex numbers are, they're accurate, but like guys can hit shots when they have, like they might like to go low or miss, but like they can hit it high if they need to or they can generate enough, like these guys hit it, they know how to spin their ball or bring it in from the right. Like there's so much more that is going to go into attacking. Augusta National. And you could do it in a million different ways that the it's not the only way to do it is come in high. It's not the only way to do it. So it's not, it's not lodging must be an premium. Where do you get to stay for your three days? I've got a very great friend and, and there's when you got a house, there's a house down there that I was able to crash at. So I'm sorry. I'm just, I was just reading some of these questions here. There, I'm going to lump some of these questions on Corey Connors together. So Corey Connors is just the king of the T17 finish or whatever, right? And if you look at his run here, generally pretty good potting and a lot of top 10s. I can't remember any of the things that I'm going to do and I can't remember any of these in which he might have actually contended to win. But I think we're going to get something very similar. I think we're, he's going to separate himself from T to green like he always does. And he's probably going to lose strokes potting or potting or two. And, yeah, I think he's going to finish like T14. So he's one of my larger positions as well. You mentioned Michael Kim's unusual shot shape in the lead up video. Was I understanding correctly that it possibly makes him better suited for Augusta National? So what I probably referenced was that he is. So there's only two guys in this field that hit it right to left more than 67% of time. It's Akshay who's left handed. He hits a cut. And Michael Kim, who is the righty who hits a draw, 70, it's a lot. It's a lot. It's like 10% more than anybody else. Those two. So the right to left shot gives you a couple of advantages. You know, around, there's like three or four shots at Augusta National where that shot shape is definitely better. Whether you executed or not. Different story, but that's it's, it's definitely better. If you want to see his. Radar, you'll see it. I mean, it's just, it's high draws. It's all it is, which is, which is nice. How should I approach players? For finishing positions. I like to think of what their range of outcomes are. And then try to get. The highest end, which is weird, but like, okay. I'm never going to bet Corey Conner's. For a top five. I'm not sure that's his upside, but I think his range of outcomes is like 14th to 27th. It's very small in that part of the board. So top 20s and top 30s for Corey Conner's are like, yeah, let's ride. Let's ride. Patrick Reed, who I think is a very volatile, more volatile golfer, but when he has his good stuff, I think he could win. I don't want to only get in on a top 40 on Patrick Reed. I want to be, I want to, I want to realize the expectation when he finishes inside the top five. I want to realize that. So it's higher markets there for me. So I try to look at it like that and then choose a court. I don't know if that helped or not, but that's there. So, I mean, you know, the live strokes gained data. It exists. They removed it from their official data feed, which is where I get it from. I've been in conversations with them. They're, they're, they told me it's coming back. I just don't know where it's at. I follow up with them all the time. My understanding is they might be, I don't know if they, the sense that I got was maybe they're in between two data providers and switching. I don't know. That was kind of the sense that I got. I don't know if that's true or not. But I'm hoping to have it soon. Every, all the other data is there. It's just not the stroke change stuff like the, you know, the fairways and the drive, like all that stuff is there. I get, or I guess I could just calculate it myself. I was trying to avoid doing that because I, because it was already in the feed, but my, my, might just, might just have to do that. Fourth out of 40 in my one and done, should I pick Ram or Lou Vig and why? Probably doesn't really matter for you, but just Ram. You're going to have to use them somewhere. Using him here is as good as it gets. And you're not worried about. You're not worried about ownership or anything like that. I'm going to run Alex's model for him. He did not tell me what number of rounds that he wants. So I'm going to go 35. And I'm going to put, let me clear these weights out of here. Oh boy, now I'm misclicking everything. All right, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. All right. 30 on approach for Alex. 15 on driving distance. 15 on scrambling. 10 on Bogey avoidance. 10 on master's history. 10 on weighted strokes gained. 10 on fast greens. Alex's model. His top 10 is Xander by a mile. Fitsy Hadecki, Scotty, Ludwig, Rory, Nikolai, Bryson, Kurt Kadeyama, Tommy Fleetwood. Do we think Colin plays? Yes. I do. Whether he finishes or not is a different story. I think if you're there, and you have taken, you know, you withdrew last week, try it in something that you thought might have been able to warm up, you have played some of the things that you've been doing. nine holes, you have hit 45 shots on the driving range today. You have to try. I think you have to try. And if it, if it starts to go south and you're four or five over and you don't feel good, you can withdraw. But you know, what happens if you go, you know, you shoot one or two over your in it, maybe it gets better as the week goes on. I don't know. And who knows you get to the weekend, maybe adrenaline starts kicking in. I don't know. I think he will tee off on Thursday. I'm not very confident that he will finish, but I think he will tee off on Thursday. And if he doesn't, I think that is really telling about how bad it is. I am in on Ryan Fox, uh, law outside of the miscut at Texas or Houston, I confused it to all time. It had to have been Houston. It was outside of that miscut. He's had a great year, top 25, top 25, top 25 at a T seven. And that was the first start after his kidney stones pass. I give him a pass, not, not I'm, not I'm passing. And Brisbane win here. No, probably not. That's not a knock on, I meant to show you the right Fox graphics. Uh, that's not a knock on Bridgeman. I think Bridgeman is fantastic. It takes a hell of a lot to win here. And it is usually won by an absolute stud. It just says what up? Uh, what's the best way to attack a betting car for guys like Penn, Brennan, key for other than top debut, Tom. Penn should be like a lot of upside stuff would be like top 10. Brennan would be the op, Brennan's like a make the cut guy because I think you might get one or two good rounds. You might get one or two really bad rounds. And it depends on where they come key for. I think is a, I don't know if I know enough about key for yet because he's got such a short career. He's, he's done a little bit of everything. It would be like a top 20. I don't love, I don't love, I don't know how to get exposure to key for outside the top debut top market. What are the top five rate stats? You're putting the most weight on. So scrambling, any kind of approach play, you want to call it proximity or you want to do the buckets or you want to do stroke scan approach, driving distance, experience and that. Kitty Yama, Davis Riley, Michael, Kimmer, Ryan Fox. I don't know. I don't know what this is for, but it's either it's probably either Kimmer Fox, Fox, nothing go off related, but I won my NCAA bracket challenge. That's nice. Justin Thomas, what version of Justin Thomas are we going to get this week? Are we going to get the guy who looked completely miserable in his first start out of the gate after the injury? Are we going to get the guy who looked like one of the best players in the world at the players championship? I don't know the answer to that. The master's remember, he was, he had those years where he was building up to a win basically and then he missed back to back cuts in 23 and 24 before playing a little bit, a little bit better last year. I might just be a sucker for Justin Thomas, but I, I think we're going to get good enough JT this week. I understand what Tyler is trying to do here. So it says, is JT plus 105 versus more account of free money? I mean, there has definitely not been a player that I can remember. Well, I should not say that because my memories, whatever, I think there is a huge amount of withdrawal equity in Colin Moore, Cal this week. And that's withdrawal after the tournament starts. He might not withdraw at all. He might withdraw before the tournament starts or he might, he might search to play like 13 holes and be five or six over and just call it. I think that's possible. So yeah, I like that. Is there anybody in the sink 6K range that you would consider to stack a viable stack in a single letter? So I'll work my way down because there's, there's definitely guys that I would consider here. Rasmus, Boyguard, Casey Jarvis. We're about running out of guys now. I, I'm for skier than most. So Zach Johnson and Aldrich Pock eater completely different ways they would play golf. I think are okay. My favorite obscure market, I don't know how obscure this is, but I do like the UK or Irish player to win it plus 370. I thought this was a college basketball channel. That's funny. So, so you have to see here. I'll work on that one. Yeah, the, the, the Victor stuff is while he's be concerned, while it's been concerned, the stuff that he has done, the worst is probably not as, as bad here. Got to move it back to Wednesday next year. Okay. I'll talk to my people who are just me. I'm actually going to travel to a custom instead. I would rather do it Wednesday too, but like listen, once in a lifetime thing comes along, talks about campus myth, not very, not very excited about them. Favorite 3K players in the 7 and a half, who are your favorite three? Who are your favorite three plays? Oh my God, I can't read under 7500 in order. Nap. Pange Fox. Is this a week to use weight as stroke skates? Yes. Can you do stroke skates for only the API and the players? Yeah. So go to the Holy Grail API, just hold control or command on a Mac. Cam Young. Number one, Ludwig to Okshay, Colin, Russell Heimlich, T to Green, Cam Young, Ludwig, Mora Kawa, Conor's Roy. I agree that more people, it does feel like more people have a chance this year, but I think the bar is, that bar is very low. I think there's like 12 guys who can win. I think Zach Johnson has a pretty good chance of making the cut. Here are the people that can actually win. Scotty Roy, Bryson, Ram, and that's on paper if I was using my gut, I would say, Roy can't win. Ludwig, Zander, to wait, that's six Fleetwood Young, that's eight Fitzpatrick is nine. That might be it. I could be generous and say, Rose and Reed to get me to 11. And I could say Okshay because I want it, but I think it just might be those nine. Scotty, Roy, Bryson, Ram, Ludwig, Zander, Fleetwood, Cam, Fitz. I think that's it. I think that's it. 280, Carrie for Colin is fine, Rick. Yes, but it's definitely shorter than he is than he normally is. But that's what I'm saying. I think he has to try. I think he has to try because 280, 280 out of fairway is going to be fine if he's flushing it, but that's he's clearly not 100%. You can go to the, so to look up fast greens, you can go to the Holy Grail. You can go to, you can do green speed on stimp. So anything over like 12 and a half would start to be fat. So we can do this, right? Just do gosh, I got to clear, let me just clear out all this. So I know I'm starting from scratch. Everybody like last couple, at last three years, everybody on greens that are like 12.5 or faster, sort by strokes game putting and then give it like a 10 minimum starts. Is that enough? I guess I should probably only get players in this field, huh? Okay. Grazerman, Macintyre, Harry Hall, Mathets, Patrick San Burns would be your top five. Lauren Griffin, Ludwig, Jacob Richmond would be the next ones. If Hawaii is number one on your custom model for your true access courses, what course comes in at number two? I don't know that. You know, I'm not, I'm not as familiar with the true courses as I should be. I know it was a ton of Arizona. I think my buddy has a true membership. So, and he loves in Arizona. So I don't know what, okay. So I've played, so Monarch Beach is awesome, but like I play that this is going to sound so I I play that relatively frequently. So I wouldn't wanna go there, 'cause I played a lot. I don't know, man, there's probably so many. I mean, I thought there was a ton in Arizona. They're unfortunately, they're in alphabetical order. El Conquistador, why is that sticking out in my head? There's a lot. I mean, these all look sick. Sedona would be sick too. True North, that's like one of their flagship ones, I think. I'm not as familiar with them as I should be, but from what I understand, there's a lot of them. Is there a master's special on Rick Run Goodsight? No, I don't do specials or sales. Everybody gets the same price. Once you sign up, you keep that price forever. There are still people who pay $8 a month 'cause they've been with me for a long time. And if you hate it, I'll refund you. So no. Oh, I have this, but it's gonna be in a different database. Is this where the best par five players and par three scores at a gust? That's whole by whole. I would have to open up. I did some work for Taylor, made this year for both the players and the masters. I provide them data and then they turned into like beautiful graphics. That was a lot of it. There are, how do your March, Manus Bracket finish standing's wise? 99.1% tile. Top 10 scrambling players in this field? Well, a couple of different ways we could do it. Go to the Holy Grail, go to Stats, go to around the green. Hideki, Robert McIntyre, Jake Nat, Russell Henley, Zander Shoffley. Rick, the previous, oh, I forgot about Frouder, show your my screen. The previous chatter was correct to the custom model. There are no 2026 livs that's, well, there are, but not the strokes gained breakdown. But there is still fairways and greens and driving everything else. So there are strokes gained numbers at Augusta National that I've calculated from the shop by shop stuff back to 2019. So if you go to 2019, these are not official, but like they're calculated in the same way that strokes gained on the PGA tour would be. So if you go to everybody at Augusta National, since 2019, minimum of three starts, Kampsmith is the best potter, is gaining a stroke per round. Justin Rose is two, Harman Reed Willett, Fitzpatrick, SongJM. Thoughts on Terrell. I appreciate these super chats that are coming in. They are not, they're not required. They're always appreciated though. I'll try to, I mean, if you send me a couple bucks, I'll try to get your question in here, but certainly not. I'm also not gonna like, you know, pimp myself out for two bucks, but I appreciate it. I just, I don't want people to start sending them, thinking I'm gonna answer their question no matter what. So I would like Terrell a lot more in this spot last year. The game was great in Adelaide other than that. It's been okay. The 10th and Singapore was fine. It's a little bit inconsistent at times. His run at the end of the DP World Tour was a little bit better, but you can see he struggled with the putter in some cases. So I don't feel, I feel pretty neutral on Terrell Hatton. I ranked these guys Fitzpatia NAP, and I feel pretty comfortable about that. Thank you, Chris. Chris, you owe me your, I don't know if you've seen my email, send me your address. I have a box to send you. You had to email me your address. Who will do the best out of the first time? I think it's Penge or I think it's God of R. Don't you worry that Akshay lost multiple shots on his approach in his first two years? Yes. I worry about everything. I'm a very full of worry kind of guy. But as I mentioned, there is usually big improvements in your first couple of years. And I also look at what he's done recently and I'm a lot more confident in how he's hitting the ball now, as opposed to how you might have been hitting it leading in to last year, which was, which was still pretty good, but a couple of bad ones as well. So yes, I'm concerned. But I'm hoping I'm trying to catch him early as he takes that next step as opposed to waiting and finding out. My splash contest is eight tiers, pick one from eight tiers, best seven scores count. There will probably be a hole in one on 16 as long as they go back to that traditional Sunday pin, which they did not use last year, which is stinky. Of the big dogs, God, this is going to hurt. This is going to get me say something stupid of the big dogs. Who do you think is most likely to flop? I think there's two. Rory and Bryson, I like. Could you see Rory just finishing like T30 here and smiling his way through and ever just getting the ad adoration every single hole. I could see that and it's still almost it's almost just like a four day victory lap. I could see that. And he finishes like T 25. Bryson might just do something in same and lose three golf balls off the T and then he might not gain five strokes around the green. Can you show how to join your fantasy league on the masters? The link is in the description. You click the first link and sign up for whatever the master's wants you to do. And then you click the second link and you put your email address in. You press submit. I think I probably mentioned this, but Ethan Fang is my pick for top amateur. Okay, I've answered a lot of these Patrick Reed, first round leader, top amateur, best players at Augusta, sleepers in the 6K range. This is just conversation. I'll do the Justin Rose deep dive. I did the Patrick Reed stuff a bunch already. So Rose's history at Augusta National's fantastic. Obviously, I probably don't need to tell you that. He is, he gets all of his results out of a few very good weeks a year. You saw that at the farmers last, uh, earlier this year, you saw it at FedEx, St. Jude. Last year, you saw it at the Scottish Open. You saw it at the masters. And then you didn't really see much else, right? I mean, it is, it is all or nothing, which is fine. You just have to understand what you're getting yourself into. So the deployment of Justin Rose, this is a perfect example of that question that was earlier. Like I'm never going to bet Justin Rose to finish inside of top 40. There is just not enough meat on that bone. I'd much rather bad on top 10 because if you place well, he's, he's not gonna finish 38. He's going to finish like third. Gosh, the, the amateurs, guys love the amateurs. It's cool. I like that. Oh, now I'm just scrolling through, now I'm just scrolling through conversation. Who do you feel more confident holding on to a lead heading into Sunday, Bryson or rom rom? Oh, that's very sweet. Gifted one Rick Rungood membership. Oh, how does that sweet? Thank you. My card, which you can follow if you want, but you shouldn't. Ludwig Cam Young, Okshay, read top 10, Conor's top 20, a bunch of other stuff, but that's, that's it. The radar tool is the best place to find the apexes. Talked about spieth, talked about Keppka. Why would it be, why would it be quote, impossible for spain to win another major and have a great season again? What? Why would that be impossible? They've John wrong. They have, what's this face? Bios there, right? Sergio, I think it's great. I don't understand. What, what's the quote? Who's the, who's the quote? Brackets. Okay. These are either questions that I have covered. I heard the broadcast noting players that have never missed the cut the masters. Can you find that in your data? Yeah. All right. Go to the Holy Grail. Go to open it up to every year, I guess, if that's what you want. Make sure you have Augusta National. And sort by miss cuts, but sort by the other direction. So ROM is nine for nine. More cows five for five. Sheffler six for six or the, the, oh, minst, that's minimums three starts. If you want to see everybody, this would go back tonight. 1997. Uh, Ogle V's eight for eight back to 97. Is anybody more than nine? I don't think so. So, Ram, Ram looks like he's got the best street going right now. Did a lot on pinch. I, I, I, I did a lot on Oxe. I, however, I feel about Oxe, which is pretty high. I feel about 80% of that for Robert McIntyre. Clearly not of his best stuff on Sunday last week and still kind of gutted through it. Has a couple of good results. He still gets the lefty boost. He's very good with the potter. He's very good with the driver. He can get hot on approach. I, I feel 80 to 85% as good as I do about Oxe as I do about Robert McIntyre. So that's a good thing. I'm having trouble deciding between Bridgeman, NAP, Bobby, Mac, Henley and Oxe. I'm going Oxe in that group. Silverado in NAPA is a true resort. Don't mind if I do. See, we, whoever wins, we need to like get them this knowledge of like, Hey, don't be stupid. Take a good course. I was hoping to make a huge parlay. Is that a good idea? No, but you should do it. If it like, it's going to be fun and do it responsibly. You making a big parlay is not good. The sports books are going to be very happy with you. I'm probably going to do it too because it's the masters and like, I don't, it's not my livelihood. But yeah, it's a, it's a horrible bet. But I'm going to do it. And if you do it, do it responsibly. Adam Scott, how have we gotten this far and not done the Adam Scott deep dive? Is he long enough? Yes. Is he beautiful enough? Yes. Can he make enough pots? I don't know. Is his history here besides the win good enough? I don't know. It's actually not that good. Especially since the win. It's okay. So let's go since 2024. So that's the year after he won. So since 2024 is Adam Scott like in the top since 2014. I mean, where would Adam Scott rank? He's here. He's like an average player. Point one six to the positive. Slightly better than average. In in in 12 starts. That's kind of the concern. The rest of it I like. I don't know. I don't know why it's been so bad here. Five hottest players. Adam Scott, Cam Young, Marco Penge. That's what my wife says. Oh, hottest players. I don't know. Do you think Jake napkin win? It would be it would be pretty unlikely. And I love Jake nap. It would be pretty unlikely. The idea that he would the idea that he would have a second win after Mexico and have it being the masters is probably unlikely. This is not and I know I thought I saw a comment earlier like, oh, Danny will it won this? Danny will it was the ninth ranked player in the world when he won this. It just felt so crazy because spieth collapsed and it felt like this guy is complete unknown out of nowhere one. He was the ninth ranked player in the world. That the outlier in the last decade, the worst player to win this in the last decade is is Hideki Matsuyama, who is a generational player. It's it's it's just not some guy is going to sneak up and steal this. It doesn't happen that often. What username do we put for the master's entry? I don't know whatever you want. Whatever your username is Jacob put your name in there. Jacob. Now I'm getting hungry. I should have eaten lunch before this. I'm sorry, Jacob. Oh, Mina will beat you. Yes, she is very good at one and done. She will beat you. What's your champion's dinner menu? Pizza all types of pizza bagel bites to start or derves. Then some thin, some thin crusts as a first course and then like some thicker the main course will be like thicker and then a dessert pie. Are you betting the first guy you ride into in Augusta? That is a that is a bit that I do. Yes. And I've done it unsuccessfully every single time. So so when I embark tomorrow morning 6.45 a.m. flight that starts the clock. The first professional golfer that is in the field of the masters that I lay my eyes on. I will bet. It's been I think it's been Keegan Bradley twice in the last year. It's been I saw Kurt Kinne-Yam at the airport. Like picking up my bags. I saw Lee Hodges at a Chick-fil-A. Yeah, so yes, I will. How do I want to answer this? There is there is still a gap. There is still a gap between your first year and your second year for sure. But you can still have a good year even or good a good a good result even if you don't win, right? As a debut time, right? We always look at wins wins wins wins wins wins. Stroke's gain it's it's it's not as bad. And and I think the gap is getting smaller, right? With data and information, it is getting smaller for for debut tonts. So I still like I'm using Chris Goddard up in places that are not win markets. Could be a top debut taunt. Could be whatever groups matchups etc etc. Okay. I think yeah, that's my bad. Nick Taylor is also very hot. Okay, I have I have to stop there. We're going to do the second cut podcast in about 45 minutes. We're going to continue the conversation. I'll Greg Duchamp. I'll have Mark Gammelman. It'll be a blast. We'll go through a lot of stuff. I hope this has been valuable. We've done a lot. If it has, if you've taken anything from this, do me a favor and subscribe. I probably should ask you to do that. RickRuggood.com, I stand by that. Like if you sign up, you don't like it. I always just refund you. You're getting the same price as everybody else. There's no deals. There's no sales. You keep that price forever. The links for everything you need are in the description. I think I've exhausted all of my stuff and I'm very much looking forward to it. Much love to all of you. Goodbye.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The Masters forecast is ideal with mid-70s temperatures, minimal wind, and no rain, contributing to a historically dry course condition.
  2. Popular fantasy golf picks include Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, and Ludvig Åberg, with considerations around ownership and player form.
  3. Several contests and giveaways are highlighted, including a $350,000 fantasy league and a prize pack featuring Masters memorabilia.
  4. Player analyses cover form, course history, and strategy, with insights on contenders like Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, and under-the-radar picks.
  5. Key stats for success at Augusta include scrambling and distance control, with concerns noted for players like Matt Fitzpatrick’s apex height.

Summary:

The transcription discusses preparations and insights for the Masters golf tournament, focusing on weather, fantasy golf strategies, and player analyses. The forecast for Augusta is exceptionally favorable, with dry conditions and mild temperatures expected throughout the event. In fantasy golf, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm are projected as highly owned picks, while Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Åberg also draw attention, though ownership dynamics may vary.

Several promotions are mentioned, including a fantasy contest with a $350,000 prize pool and a giveaway featuring exclusive Masters memorabilia. Player evaluations highlight factors like recent form, course history, and statistical strengths, with notes on contenders such as Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, and potential underdogs. Key strategies emphasize scrambling and distance control as critical for success at Augusta, with specific concerns raised about certain players' adaptability to the course conditions.

The discussion blends practical advice with engaging commentary for golf enthusiasts.

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The forecast is ideal, with mid-70s on Thursday and Friday, slightly warmer on the weekend, no rain expected, and minimal wind.

Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm are projected as the most popular picks, followed by Scottie Scheffler, Ludvig Åberg, and Xander Schauffele.

It's a fantasy league for the Masters on Splash where you pick one golfer from eight tiers; the link to join is in the description, and the league aims to be the largest.

Top picks include Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Ludvig Åberg, Collin Morikawa, and Rory McIlroy, with Ludvig Åberg and Sergio Garcia as interesting options.

Despite some drift in odds, Scheffler has had an excellent six-start stretch and is a strong pick if available, especially given his world-class short game.

The main concern is his low apex height with drives, which may make it difficult to hold the firm, dry greens at Augusta National.

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