 The PGA Tour is headed to the Motherland for this week. They are at TPC Twin Cities for the 3M Open. It could have been the Target Open. That would be more Minnesotan than the 3M Open. That's like the one thing that could have been more Minnesotan, but 3M pretty gosh darn close. We're going to break down the 3M Open from a DFS perspective, probably slip into some Minnesota accents, because why not at some point and have some fun? Breaking down a unique field for PGA DFS for this week. So let's dive on in and get you set for some PGA DFS this week on FanDuel. Welcome on into the He Check Fantasy podcast powered by Numberfire. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and Numberfire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for Numberfire.com. Joined here as always by Brandon Gedulla. He is the senior managing editor of Numberfire.com. And Brandon, we had a pretty fun Open Championship this past week. Ken Smith, a guy you talked about, and I didn't. You did. You talked about on the show. We had Steve Hennessey of Golf Digest on Covering the Spread last week. He talked about Ken Smith as well. And it wasn't just that Smith won and we liked Ken Smith, but also a pretty fun Sunday and a competitive Sunday too. So how are you doing today? Yeah, I mean, that's really putting it lightly. I had a joke where I was going to say, you know what, Jim, just like half of this field, I'm actually going to have to withdraw from the podcast so you can do it yourself. But I've been waiting for this day for my entire life. Didn't really want to derail it with that whole thing. I'll give my best gas station recommendations in Minnesota. And I think that we could probably do an hour on that if I needed to. But yeah, I mean, this Sunday was one of the more entertaining Sundays or just any days of golf that I can remember for quite some time. I know that for our final picks on the show, I didn't end up with Cam Smith, but hopefully it was clear enough that I was back in Cam. Boy, when he got hot, when he gets hot with a putter, it's just, it's something else. But you know, some of the just, I mean, he had some strange decisions throughout starting from specifically like Friday. But yeah, I mean, it was, it was phenomenal. I was heartbroken for Rory. I know what a win would have meant to him and like everyone who was at the old course, it was very clear what, what the rooting interest was. But it's been a while since I felt like maybe I want one of my bets to lose for a narrative. But like, but one of your bets, other bets did win. So I didn't care if Rory won. I just needed Tommy Fleetwood to like go away effectively because I had, you told me to bet the Rory top UK player, whatever it was. And so I didn't really care if he won. I got to just kind of enjoy it because that was like my, my biggest one that I had out there. And so like, I didn't care if Rory won. I just needed Tommy Fleetwood and like Shane Lowry to go away. And so like, I got to just enjoy it, which I was grateful for. I had a GT over Lowry and that had no shot of doing anything on Sunday. So I got to just kind of enjoy. It was, I prefer to have a good sweat, but like, okay, that wasn't bad. And I got to just like sit back and enjoy, but with some very entertaining golfs from like legitimately world-class golfers across the board. It was fun. Yeah. And it's just a reminder. Like I remembered I had that bet as well. I get so focused on the outright and I don't do enough, you know, finishing positions or special matchups or anything like that. And then I was like, you know what? I have probably the best, I mean, the best situation for me is for Cam to win and for Rory to, you know, finish his top, you know, Britain, Ireland player. So I mean, you know, enough about, I guess, like our bets this weekend, but. Well, Denny Carter is chiming in to say that Rory lacks that dogging in per the analytics. And Denny, that's why I didn't have the outright, you know, just the minus 10% dog ding, dog ding for Rory. That's why I couldn't do the outright. So, hey, analytics win again. Just helping us make good bets here on the PGA tour. Let's dive in here to the 3M Open, which is this week at TPC Twin Cities. It is 7,431 yards and a par 71. There are 156 golfers in the field. The top 65 plus ties make cut after the first two rounds. I say 156 golfers in the field. They keep dropping like flies. There've been like the Rob Bolton thread of withdrawals is like 15 tweets deep now. So like you said, you may be called in any point. Good luck to you if that does happen. But Brandon, we got three years of data here at TPC Twin Cities. Kind of know what to expect. What have you seen here the past couple of years? Yeah, going from the old course to TPC Twin Cities is quite the shift. This is just really sort of one of the more run-of-the-mill courses that we have in the PGA tour. I'd say it's it's pretty easy. It's not like let's not let's let's you can say what you've got to say, but do without side swiping. Minnesota is I will take everything personally. You say I can tell. But you know, it's going to play pretty easily overall. The winning scores we've seen have actually gotten lower from year to year 21 under 19 under 15 under have been the winning scores. But notably, it's not just the par fives to play really easily. The par threes at this course are sixth easiest among shot link courses on tour. Par fours are easier than average as well, according to DataGolfs course table, which is a very, very strong tool that they have up on data golf.com. Just look for the course table and it shows you a whole different lots of different types of stats, including, you know, how panel or how penal it is to to miss fairways. And that's kind of the case this week. You'll see driving accuracy probably pop a few places depending on where you look. And it does matter this week because you're going to basically you need to be in scoring position off the tee. So it's it's penalizing to miss the right spots because you're trying to hit these greens in regulation and make make putts. Speaking of the putts again, according to that that course table, one of the easier putting surfaces on tour and that's going to be kind of a key component for me this week where I'm going to I'm going to be focusing on golfers who should be able to hit fairways this week, have good irons and usually I've been, you know, more I've been elevating the importance of putting. But if the the greens are easy, I'm going to be more okay taking some chances on some heat check favorites. Those guys who fit the archetype of can they hit greens in regulation? And if so, it's going to level the playing field. If the if the greens are really flat and easy to to score on. So I think I'm going to play it pretty close to as down the barrow as we can. So my key stats for the week going to be stroking approach is always number one stroking off the tee, but with an emphasis on driving accuracy. I don't ever really want to make just driving accuracy itself right a key stat and then birdie or better rate. It's really like three and a half key stats this week. I think you can really complicate things sometimes when you're looking for certain proximity splits, which I really don't. I mean, I want to buy into because I want that granular data, but it's not really going to adjust ever for, you know, how certain greens the field as you're playing against that kind of stuff. So, you know, I'm looking for ball strikers who can make birdies and everything you said just sounds like Hideki like that's kind of like basically been like screaming at me throughout the entire time you were talking there. We can potentially not ignore putting but downplay it relative to where it usually is. We want good irons players. The hit and fairways part not as much, but he's not like erratic. So I think that that's that's positive as well. So if I get an excuse to just build around Hideki Matsuyama, I'm probably not going to complain. Also, I just realized you're wearing a Houston Texan shirt. What is what is this? Why are you doing this? It was like $4 at TGMX. They should pay you $4. The Texans should pay you $4 to wear that. Well, questioning your decision making right now. You'll I mean, give it one thought as to why I would be more inclined Chris Conley. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. He's not there is. Yeah. You resigned, right? I have no idea. I have not paid attention to Chris. I'm not in full football mode. But yeah, I got to do some auditing of stuff. Just that's what look, I'll be a lifelong chief's Jaguars and Texans fans. So he's only got what 29 more teams to play for. And then I got the guy the whole league covers. Question you're over on the Fandal YouTube page on the live stream here from Deakin the legend. What do you think about Bogey avoidance this week since there are so many water hazards landed 10,000 lakes. Technically, they're like 21,000 for the record. We should point that out, you know, Wisconsin tries to say they have 10,000 lakes too, but that includes manmade lakes. Let's get your your stupid stuff out of your Wisconsin. But what do you think about Bogey avoidance given the water hazards for me personally? I think because we have to go, we need golfers to go so low. I don't care about Bogey avoidance, but I wanted to get at least get your thoughts from Deakin the legend there. Yeah. So Bogey avoidance is not necessarily what I'm looking for because you're going to be able to bounce back pretty easily from making Bogey. Bogey avoidance matters more. You should give that a bit more weight whenever you're looking at maybe like a U.S. Open where you're just trying to grind to make par. If birdies are available, I want to aim for birdies as opposed to avoiding Bogeys. Yeah. That's kind of my mindset on it. Yeah. And to bring in like my personal just gripes with golf sometimes like I love whenever a par is a good score and like if you make a birdie it's a really good play. This is the kind of event where, you know, so long as you're not bogeying the easiest holes and dropping like a shot and a half to the field, you're going to be okay because there's going to be birdie potential out there. But yeah, that's a good call out. Water is in play in 15 of the 18 holes according to the GCSA. PDF that they post 27 water hazards on tour. It's up there for some of the most that we have on the tour. But again, that's not necessarily going to come through in bogey avoidance so much as accuracy off the tee, but then also iron play. If you're losing if you're losing strokes with your approach play, that's when you're going to be in the, you know, in the water. But yeah, it's a good call out for sure. Yeah. And I think what you said is the way I'd phrase it is get your account for the number of water hazards via emphasizing putting more of an emphasis on accuracy than other and other stuff and precision with your approach play than other things. So we're still accounting for a deacon. I think that's why it's a good question, but just doing so via a different stat than that. So good question there as well. We'll break down golfers who have done well at TPC Twin Cities in the past three years and much more in a second. But first, quick reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. Of course, we have this podcast every week. We have our NASCAR podcast. We've got Pocono coming up this week. 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Byron Buxton batting six that you want to go with the Minnesota narrative for this week, which I think is the only one that matters. You know, just put them in your single game lineup and then go win some cash. Is there like a, is there a historical precedent for wherever the PGA tour is playing that those players play better? You're the numbers guy and you didn't look into this. I know this. Of course there is. I'm not a baseball. It's wrong with you. Are there any Byron's in the golf field this week? It seems like a golf name. There are no Byron's in the field. Buxton's? Bucks? No. Jonathan Bird, closest I can get to Byron Buxton. We're not going to do that. Let's dive into course history of TPC. Twin Cities and talk about some golfers who have done well here in the limited history at this course. Again, they've been coming to this course on the PGA tour since 2019. So Brandon, you're talking about Adam Hadwin. Hadwin is near the top of the field this week in terms of salary. What have you seen with him in his two trips to TPC Twin Cities? Well, I was going to ask you, do Canadians get a bump in Minnesota or is that? Absolutely not. How dare you? So rude. I love Canada. I want to make that clear, but they're very different. Okay. Didn't sound like you loved Canada. No, full respect to Canada. Canada is better than 49 U.S. states. It's not a state, but it's better than 49 U.S. states. It is not better than Minnesota. Nothing is in that tier. All respect to Canada. You're better than everyone else except Minnesota. All right, I'll just talk to Adam Hadwin. I don't know if we want to get, I don't know if we want to go down that path, but yeah, two starts for Hadwin at TPC Twin Cities. And he's finished top six in both of those years, fourth in 2019 at sixth last year. But if you look at the, you know, how he did that through the shot link data, good iron play for sure, gaining off the tee, actually losing strokes around the green, which is one of the, it's sort of implied whenever, whenever I'm not looking at strokes in around the green, I don't care so much about strokes being around the green, but he put it extremely well both years, which Adam Hadwin at his peak is a very good putter. So that's definitely fine. He's fitting the archetype of what I'm looking for, gaining enough strokes off the tee, gaining strokes with the approach play and then, you know, converting whenever he is on the green. So usually whenever I say someone's putting really well, I'm looking to avoid it, but you're going to have to put well. You don't make, you don't get to 15, you know, 1921 under with a lukewarm potter. I'm not sure like Justin Thomas, I guess he could probably do it, but that's about it. We've seen Hadwin with pretty solid recent form as well, 18th at Memorial, 35th at the Canadian Open, which is very different than how it'll play according to Jim this week, TPC Twin Cities, 7th at the U.S. Open, missed the cut at the John Deere, but in total he is fifth in true strokes gained according to data golf over the past six months. So again, current forms there, course form is there. And not everyone has course form or at least as, you know, two top six, you know, finishes at this course. So I think that he's very intriguing toward the top of the salary pool. I think that you and I have two golfers in particular who stand out above the rest, which is Hideki Matsuyama at 11,900 on Fandal and Sung J.M. at 11,500, but Hadwin at 11,400, I think is very much in place. So any thoughts for you on Hadwin? Is he sort of tempting you away from those top two guys? Yes, I think that there is a very realistic scenario where Hadwin beats those guys and wins at this course because of the stuff you mentioned. I just think that if I'm thinking about things from a probability perspective, I would say although his odds of beating them are better than most of the rest of the field, the odds that they beat him, those top, I would say three because I put Finau in there as well. I would say the odds that those three beat him are pretty high, which means that the opportunity cost of going with Hadwin when I couldn't said get up a hundred extra bucks to Sung J or something like that or go with Finau Hideki, something like that, there is a pretty big cost there. So I think that Hadwin is probably top six or so golfer in this field right now and probably top six or so golfer relative to the field, but I'd rather just get the top guys in there than go with him. So it's less about Hadwin himself, more about I think those top three are really, really good and I want to be on them pretty heavily for this week. I think that's my key issue is the salaries too close to those guys for me to get there. Yeah, I think in a vacuum, it's very easy to rank Hideki, Sung J and Finau over Hadwin, but I think that if we find out who the chalk is and it ends up being Hideki, Sung J and Finau, which seems quite likely, someone like Hadwin makes a ton of sense. I'm not saying that I personally am trying to fade any of the top three. I guess I'm lowest on Finau just by default, but Hadwin I think deserves to be where he is in that salary. And I think that that makes for a really interesting case because it's not the strongest field by any means. So we're going to have some golfers who probably over salaried a bit. I don't think that applies to Adam Hadwin. I also don't think it applies to Cameron Trangali who is at 11,000. So let's talk about him here because he does have some history at TPC Twin Cities. Well, he's been here all three times. What? Did I like Cam Trangali? Good golly, man. Don't diss on Cam Trangali. Looking at Trangali in those events, the big one for him was 2020, finished third there thanks to some really nice approach play and some good putting. Last year, Trangali actually gained 3.1 strokes off the tee, pretty wild for Cam Trangali to do that. He finished 16th there, put it well again. The form for Trangali recently is mixed, I would say. Couple of miscuts here, but he was sixth that the Scottish open. He played the weekend at St. Andrews too. So what is your interest level in Cam Trangali at 11,000 this week? Low, primarily because I had like other options better. Okay, give me a bet. I'm not doing David's Riley if you're going to ask about him. Here's what I will say about Trangali that I'm not necessarily like eager to pick anyone against him. Obviously, he's a heat check favorite for a reason. One thing that really stands out to me is that he is due for mega putting regression. Over the past 50 rounds on tour, according to Fantasy National or their data, he's in the 93rd percentile in this field in stroking and putting from within 15 feet to sort of the bankable money range, the stuff you control. First percentile in lag putting. So basically not having any luck on long putts, but is making putts that are makeable. And he is one of the best bent grass putters on tour. I think that he could definitely go low. But I've kind of been down the Trangali boulevard too many times. I'm looking for a boulevard. Yes. Well, it's not really an alley. I think it's a little more prestigious than that. But I think the lack of upside is what's getting me to look somewhere else. If we could pronounce his name different, like if we could butcher his name pronunciation, I know this is wrong, but Trangali alley be pretty right. That was where my brain went. Yeah, I can't I can't spend 30 seconds thinking of all the different. We got a fully respect Trangali. Good golly. I think I'm higher in him than you. I'm not sure if I'm high enough though to take the discount on him compared to like a Finaw Hideki year or something. And it's kind of the key for me this week is like everything revolves around those three guys. And you need to be real good for me to like draw me away from them. So although I'm higher on Trangali than you, it might not wind up meeting anything just because I'd rather build around those other guys. So the net result is the same as that will probably not use him. But I do think I'm higher on him than you may be for this week. Let's move now to Bryce Garnett. He's been here all three years as well. What are you seeing with him? Yeah, one of six golfers in this field to play TPC Twin Cities all three years and make all three cuts. The other guys are in my article up on numberfire.com. I probably should have listed them out just for completion's sake. But yeah, Garnett has three straight top 26 results at the 3M Open. Hard to hit on that if you're solely looking for course form. That said, he's missed four straight cuts, largely struggled with the iron. Whoa, he finished 16th at the CUDA. Let's not look at the CUDA here, man. Come on, rude. Yeah, I don't know. I guess maybe that wasn't updated when I when I had my notes. But yeah, no, you're hating on the CUDA. Well, I mean, I'll save my diet for a different time. But just golf can come off as really boring if it's the same format week after week. But like until I get excited about like the Barracuda, like being stable for then I can't. I have no room to complain. I got to like if I want something different, I got to like enjoy that kind of stuff. But largely struggled with the irons lately. It's not like terrible week after week, but it's consistently losing in that department and to go back to like the question about like, you know, the water, that kind of stuff. Losing consistently with irons, it's going to be hard to be in the right position this week to convert on birdies. I know historically he's done it, but the form right now, not particularly great. I have been the 30th percentile in long-term adjusted iron play over the field. After off the tee, though, I mean, I could kind of see it to weak field, but did Bryce Garnett do anything for you this week when you were digging into the field? No, I can't. I can't overlook the form. I think that's kind of the issue that I have there. And it comes down to what you were talking about. Like I would like more than iron perspective out of Garnett. So I think for me, although the Garnett in Minnesota angle would work, but I just that's not enough. I need I need a little bit more even as a narrative, the big ticket. Yeah, exactly. I can't quite get there. So, oh, well, we tried. Let's talk about Adam Long, who ironically is not long off the tee. So he'd be someone who could benefit may course that's similar to this. And he has in the past long has played here all three years. Did miss a cutback in 2019. It's not one of the six you mentioned, but came back to finish second in 2020. He gained in all four stroke skiing categories there. And he was awesome from a ball striking perspective. Last year, the putting failed long. So he finished 25th, but everything else there was really nice. So pretty good. The past two years and the more predictable numbers long has finished top 25 and three straight. And even if they weren't stellar fields, that's better than a lot of guys here. I think the one issue you could have with long is that his salary is not low. It's 99 and there are some legit golfers in that range. So where do you settle in on Adam Long this week at $9,900? Yeah, it's it's more a matter of I don't know if I'm going to be in this tier a lot because if you want to build around, you know, pick two, whether it's a decky or some Jay, Tony Finau, maybe Hadwin, maybe see he's the Gala, Davis Riley, Camtring Gala. If you're if you're building around two golfers in the 11,000 range. Um, it's a little tricky to get back up to the 10,000 range unless you're digging into the 8,000 range, which in a field this week, I understand the case, but I also kind of believe that the low 9,000, the upper eights pretty strong overall as a tier. And so that does worry me a little bit about getting too off the radar with my value plays. So it's less to do with long. Um, and I think more to do with rostrum instruction for this week for me personally, I would also say that there are going back to what you were talking about with the 9,000s. Like broadly, I could see being tempted by the lower like the low to mid 8,000s. I just don't see anybody there who really like catches my attention for this week, which could be an oversight on my part. Um, and also I do think that there are some other guys in the high 9,000 range were from there to rather go like Brendan Todd is there. I like him more. I like Chris Goder up. We'll talk about later on more. So I go Brendan steal over. Yeah, that works too. Yeah. I think that works as well. Um, so even when I'm in that range, which I agree that you would probably won't be super, super likely of building more around two studs and then that that other tier, um, like the around 9,000s, the blob around 9,000, I'd rather be there personally. So I think that's way. I'll do things this week, which will likely not put me on Adam long, just by thinking that he's, you know, got some appeal overall. Let's move now to the current form section. Talk about some golfers who have been tearing things up recently. Davis Riley, Brandon. He is a guy you mentioned at 11,100 dollars. You were talking about Hadwin before and I was talking about how, you know, Tringale could be interesting. I kind of think Davis Riley might be the reason either him or, you know, again, another shocker, Mav, uh, Mav McNeely might be the reason I don't get to have learned Tringale this week. If I decided to deviate from those top options. So what do you see with Riley here? You're like, I love Tringale more than you, but I'm not going to play him because I like everyone else around him better, which makes it sound like I just don't like Cam Tringale. I think you like him less than you think. I think that's more of what's going on here. Possible. Yeah. Davis Riley. Very interesting because when I was gearing up, you know, I have some content where I give, you know, some, some picks and I was gearing up and before odds come out, I'm like, okay, looking at the field. I'm like, Oh, Davis Riley, I think he's going to be great, uh, great play opens up at 26 to one on Fandall Sportsbook drops down to 22. Now he's 20 to one. Um, I like what I see from Davis Riley as I'll get into in just a second, but with some JM 18 to one and Davis Riley 20 to one, um, the gap there statistically is large. The gap. They're also, um, just subjectively like sometimes you have to look and be like, am I going to regret betting Davis Riley at 20 to one when it could add some GM at 18? Like that's the kind of factors in, but I mean, there is a lot to like with Davis Riley. So kind of what I'm getting at is he's more popular than I thought he would be higher salary than I thought he would be. Uh, but he has five, he had five consecutive top 15s, um, including three top 10s, 31st at the US open, then a 64th at the travelers, which came from just awful putting, which you can really forgive over a one event sample. It doesn't, it's not predictive of anything. So if you're, what you're looking for is great ball striking. Riley has that, uh, according to the recent data, um, we've seen him convert that into good results, um, with, you know, just solid all around game. You like to see that hasn't played the three I'm open in the past, but I don't care so much about that because it's been a limited, uh, but B we've seen, uh, you know, you're, you're just you're not going to get like we've seen who's played here a lot and it's not necessarily the most daunting types of golfers. So I think he's a great play in a vacuum, but kind of a two part question, like one is 11,100 too much and B against the other options in that specific tier. Is it does he do enough to separate? Cause I think, I think he's going to be one of those sort of byproducts of a weak field bumping up someone's salary and win odds where I, I love the play in a vacuum, like I said, but I personally won't have that much exposure. So let me talk about JT Poston and then we'll talk about who we like, like let's exclude the top three, just lop them all off. Uh, so exclude Fina, Hideki and Sung Jae lop those three off. I'm going to ask you who you would deviate to first if you were to deviate that upper tier. So Poston, uh, his heater came to an end last week, missed the cut at the, at the open, but still is very noteworthy for him. Obviously you have the one of J, that the John Deere, he was runner up at the travelers and he did have some spike weeks before that too. Poston was ninth at the Wells Fargo. He was third at the RBC heritage. So he has pads to upside. He's a good putter benefits from a course. It's not as long. So you can see the case for Poston at 10 eight. The question is, does he rate out as the best guy in this tier for you? It doesn't for me, but I want to ask you, uh, who is your favorite guy? None. Fina Matsuyama in division at the top. So I think if, if I'm playing the assumption that I'm fading those three guys or in a specific lineup, it's not going to be Poston cause I'm not going to start a lineup that low. Um, if I'm, if I'm planning, like, you know, those guys are all, you know, have some travel or other rumors, I guess not Sung Jae, but I'll just say other rumors. Um, wait, Fino hasn't, right? Oh, he does. Oh no. Yeah. Oh no. Um, then I want, I'm going to be looking for, uh, probably Riley first and then Hadwin second. That said, if I'm like trying to, let's say I play Hideki and I don't want to jam in Sung Jae or try to get to Fina, um, then I'm going to go to Riley probably, and if not him, then Poston, I think is the best at salary. So it's kind of a different, different question. Like, I'm not going to post, I'm not going to put Poston number one. Um, if I'm fading those three. Yeah. I'd go probably Riley followed by Hadwin there. What about you? I put Riley first too. I think that's the key. That's the one thing I feel firm in is I don't know what I'd put second, but I feel firm putting Riley first. I just want the birdies. Um, he actually leads this field and birdies are better game the past 50 rounds per fantasy national. Um, I like the ball striking. You mentioned he can find fairways. Uh, he's, he's accurate. So I think that's enough where I'd put him first and feel good about that. And I think that like, I could see like, we'll talk about roster construction in the bookmaker section, but my default and I want 80% of my launch to have two of those top three guys in the ones where I don't, I'd probably just go Riley with one of them. So that I'm not spreading myself too thin. I think that's probably where I'd be for this week is he's the top alternative. He's the one guy I use. So I don't really feel the need to rank a second guy personally. So it's Riley for me as being the top guy, uh, outside of this, this, this three, the holy trinity for this three. I'm open. Let's move now to the mid range. Talk about some guys, uh, in the upper nine thousands, I think we'll be able to get back here for that, like, is 90 is 96 now upper? Or is that that's not mid? I think it's an upper mid. Did I not? I'm not mid. Whatever. Who cares? Well, you said, you said upper, but you yell at me all the time. So I wanted to try to get out. I wanted to try to got you there. Speaking of mid, let's talk about Adam Svensson. Sorry. Just kidding. Adam, you're great. Um, talking about him, uh, for this week. Well, Jim had a four straight top 25 sound. Oh, I don't know. You taught me not to care about finishes. So I'm actually, I say, I say it finishes for a few reasons. Um, it's, it's easy. Um, but yeah, like when we do those, like those quick hitting videos for social, I always feel like I'll mention finishes because like, I think it is easy to like communicate, but I like want to crawl in my shell as I'm saying them. I'm like, please don't roast me for this. Please. I know I know they're bad. And I guess to elaborate on that, if anyone is like confused as to why we don't like finishes, finishes that are supported by good ball striking and T degree numbers are good. That's what you want to see. Um, good finishes that are just elevated by poor ball striking, but, um, or sorry, elevated by a great putting that's, that's like making up for bad ball striking. Those are misleading. They also affect salary. They affect perception. They affect betting odds. And so you're getting basically worse numbers on guys who are overperforming and it's like the easiest way to sort of figure out where you should be deviating from, uh, or taking advantage of there's one golfer in particular who is basically the poster boy for this and, uh, he might not say seventh straight cut, but I think he's great play this week because of the underlying data that is not Adam Spencer. Is it Tom Bogey? It's Tom Hogey, baby. No, it's not. It's Tom Bogey. He has to earn the H back. Um, but yes, Svensson. So he has, uh, the, the top 25s, sixth at Barbasol, 24th at the John Deere, 25th at the Travelers, 21st at the RBC Canadian Open, but he's actually been losing strokes basically in three straight, but, um, losing strokes with the wedge play. And that's just volatile. That's not an important staff this week. The iron play can be very hot. Um, really played well with the irons at the Barbasol generally gaining strokes a few off the T and putting well and like, again, if you look at, uh, you know, go to data golf, look at their query, just search for a golfer. You can see how, how golfers finished. Um, I think that the top 25s here are supported by what you want to see for someone like Svensson. Um, he's got 82nd percentile long-term irons in my database, 80th percentile accuracy, 96th percentile and birdie or better rate over the past 50 rounds, according to fantasy national putting from within 15 feet is awful. So that's a concern. But again, easy greens this week. I'm willing to overlook that a good bit. Um, did he pop for you or I guess talk to me about Goddard up and we'll talk about this, this mid tier. Yeah. So Svensson is 97. Goddard up is 96 and Goddard up is still pretty fresh in the PGA tour, but some nice showings in that small sample. The big one was a John Deere classic Goddard up finished fourth thanks to tremendous ball striking. That's kind of been his key, his key pitch so far. He gained 3.8 off the tee at the John Deere 5.8 on approach at the travelers. He finished 35th despite losing 2.6 strokes around the green. He gained four strokes ball striking and three putting there Goddard up is coming off miscut at the barbersaw. So that's a ding, but most of that was poor chipping and that can be kind of fluky Goddard up is 96. I think if I'm going to prioritize a guy in this range, cause I agree with you where I don't want to be here super, super often. I'd rather bank on the guy who has like sick ball striking then since good, I think that Goddard up might be sick and I kind of want to bank on that. So I'd rather go Goddard up over Svensson personally at 96 and I actually think that Goddard up if I can get there for my head to head. I'd like to where do you wind up on him? Yeah, Goddard up is one of my favorite wind bets for the week. I know that digging into small samples is hard. You have to kind of figure out what to believe, but I did try to try my best to dig in and see when stroke scan numbers stabilized and I found that basically 12 rounds is enough for something like approach play to start to stabilize. If you factor in, you know, the missed cuts, but also the U.S. open, which data golf has stroke scan numbers for he's very good. He is eighth in the last 20 rounds, but he has 16 qualified rounds there in terms of the approach play, which is enough rounds for me to believe that he's going to be a good long term iron player, at least over like the next year or so next 100 rounds give or take something like that. So for me, Goddard up is someone that I'm prioritizing. I think he's a good wind bet, even though he's his odds have shortened. It's just sort of what you get in a field like this. But I think that even if I don't quite get there for an outright, he's going to be a top 10 play for me. He's going to be someone that built around in DFS because the iron play is there for Goddard up. Yeah, I think that I'm not going to like bend over backwards to get him in a cash game lineup, but like I'd like to. So like two of the top three is a priority for me. And then Goddard up is like someone I'd like to have. I think that's the way I classify it. If I'm like right now tears in terms of prioritization, he's someone I'd like to have and that that is pretty high. That's much higher than everyone else in this range and pretty high for someone in a tier I don't like this week. So that's where we're at with Goddard up this week. Let's dive into the bookmaker odds and talk about some roster construction at four this week. Tony Finaw is a favorite of Fandall sportsbook. He's 13 to one fall by Hideki Matsuyama at 16 to one. Sung Jay in is 18 to one. We got a gaggle guys at 20 to one Davis Riley, Adam Hadwin, see the Gala and Maverick McNeely all there Cameron Davis, 22 to one Cameron Trangalli on an Island at 27 to one. Then Brendan steel JT post in Chez Rivi Adam Long and Martin Laird round up the top group. They are all 34 to one. So let's talk about the top three here. We got Finaw Matsuyama. Are they far enough ahead of the pack for you? Were you trying to jam into per lineup? Yes, but I'm like lower on Finaw. Why I just am I just like not to be a tacky. I'm not trying to be a tacky. I'm trying to like, you know, flesh it out flesh out to me while you're lower on Finaw. So Finaw is not as good long term as either Hideki or Sung Jay. Um, he's not as accurate. Sung Jay is actually pretty accurate. Hideki is like above average accurate and Finaw is below average accurate. Finaw also has ninth percentile putting splits from within five feet, which is where more than half your putts come from because includes it happens. I know that I'm not banking on great putting. But if I let the the data sort of tell me what to expect with putting Finaw is a very lucky putter. He's got good results here. I get that, but I just I would rather go with Hideki and I'd rather go with Sung Jay. So I'm lower on Finaw. That said, if it's like I can play, I have 12,000 left. I can play Finaw or Hadwin. I'll play Finaw like I'm not that low on him, but I'm not going to build around Tony Finaw this week. So to answer your question, probably not jam in like then both for me with just Hideki and Sung Jay, not in every lineup, but in my default, I'm trying to get there. Yeah. Um, and you mentioned God her up being at 96, you're trying to get him into your head to head. I'm kind of at the crossroads where if I won Hideki and Sung Jay, I can't just stick in the 9000 range for my other four. I have to drop someone down to the 8000 range. It could be God her up or it could be like, like a Tom Hogan or something and I just get way down so that I can keep God her up. So that's where I am. Uh, but I think Hideki and Sung Jay again, just the clear top plays. Yeah. So I'm higher in Finaw than you. I know this is going back to, I would say that he's overvalued both in the betting markets and the Fanduil odds or the Fanduil salary. However, I think that he is so far above the like a Hadwin in the rest of the field that if I'm multi-engineering for tournaments, I will still have him as like somewhat similar exposure levels to Hideki and Sung Jay, where I think I'll just play the combination game and rotate through combos of those two that two of those three and just hit each combination. I think that's what I want to do basically. So like that'll be my default build, including Finaw in there. Um, and then a couple lines right DVA and get down to Riley, uh, with one of, but like one of those three will be in every lineup and I'll have two out of three in almost every lineup. Um, because I feel that much better about them could have compared to the field that does include Finaw, despite the fact, I do agree that he is overvalued in both numbers. Which golfers odds have shifted most notably since things opened? Um, Sung Jay in move from 20 to 18. Now we didn't get a lot of withdrawals. I didn't see it like really affect things. Charles Howe withdrew. Um, Eric, Ben, Ryan, Lonto, which should have all they should have all shortened significantly after Lonto. Yeah. I don't really think this is anything to do with that. Maybe a few guys, as you mentioned, there's a gaggle which reminded me that in Minnesota, you guys don't play duck, duck, goosh. You play duck, duck, gray duck. I'm sorry that you don't play the right one. Like why, why are you shouting at Minnesota for being right? Like that's kind of weird. Just made me think of that. It got a little bit irrationally upset. Um, but Sung Jay moved, uh, 20 to 18. Davis Riley and Sahi Figala from 26 to 20. Maverick McNeely 22 to 20. Chris Goddard up 50 to 45. Troy Merritt 60 to 65. Michael Thompson, uh, 80 to 65. And that's kind of, uh, what you're seeing here in terms of, of the movement. My interpretation with Thompson was that it was a result space play because he won here in 2020 and I didn't see a lot of reason to really dig into him. Did you agree with that? Yeah. It's, it's really like there's, I'm not saying like he's terrible. He's kind of like field average and a lot of stuff. Um, but to be bet down to be, you know, that number now 65, like that's just a result of having won. Okay. Uh, which lower salary golfers about to you? This will include Thompson because he is 65 to one at lower than 9,000. So keep that in mind. Uh, but who else stands out in that regard? Yeah. So Thompson, um, as you mentioned, definitely makes the list. Um, but then behind him, if we look at golfers with, with salaries of just below 9,000, uh, Doug Gimm, John Hough, Danny Lee, uh, Nick Taylor, Bo Hossler, Danny Willett, Tyler Duncan, Adam Schenck, Hayden Buckley, all 70 or 80. I guess Gimm and Hough are 70. The rest of those guys are 80 and then at 95 to one, we have Pat and Kazair, Callum Taren, Matias Schwab, Grayson Sigg, Steven Yeager, and that's it. So what's your read on the huh and Gimm, because they're both kind of guys who benefit from it not being super long. Both have like decent approach play and both are bad putters, which like checks a lot of the box you're talking about before. I still couldn't quite get there to make either than player picks. What's your read on those two guys? Yeah, they're fine. It's just once you get down below like 9000, you really start to lose any semblance of like confidence that these guys can can go out and win. Gimm specifically awful putter, but kind of overlooking that for this week. If I had to pick one of those two guys, I'd go Gimm for sure. But I think Danny Lee, Tyler Duncan, Matias Schwab would be the other names on that list that I'm into. But again, you're just you're starting to lose a lot of win equity, not necessarily just from a sports book odds standpoint. But in my in my model, you start to dig down a little bit. That said, we see like the breakthrough winners here or like early career with Cam Chimp, Thompson and Matthew. So 2019, the leaderboard is actually kind of wild. You had Matthew Wolf winning, but like other guys who finished well, Colin Mora Kawa. This is again 2019. So a while ago, Sam Burns, Victor Hovland was up there. I think there were others, but those are the primary ones. Like it was kind of a precursor of what was to come the next couple of years. Like that definitely happened back then at least. Also, you're not losing win equity with Tyler Spike Week Duncan. We'll talk about him later on. Let's dive into the weather for this week. It actually could matter. The wind speeds do spike during the day. Thursday, they start around a seven miles per hour for the first T tons. They'll be closer to 13 miles per hour the entire afternoon. So there actually will be a benefit for the early wave golfers there Friday, much more mild afternoon wave. We'll get about eight mile per hour winds versus five in the morning. So still advantage toward the morning guys, but smaller gap than we have on Thursday. So I do think there is an edge for those teeing off early Thursday. I probably will give them a bump if the forecast holds the weekend is pretty calm. So the big takeaway is that the early way Thursday does have a big enough edge me to consider it again not like throwing out everybody if they are teeing off later on. But what why are you laughing? You checked private chat. What do you mean? You said eight mile. I thought it was hilarious. I made a I made a joke event about Eminem. My only exposure to that movie is like those awful scary movie movies. So I don't I've never seen it. You said eight mile and for whatever reason, that's where where my mind went. It's the three. It's the three and open. We got an eight mile per hour three Eminem open. Is that where you're going for? All right, let's go into player picks here for the three Eminem open based on the salaries at fandwell.com. Brandon, who are you building around in the upper tier for this week? Um, we're both on this. I mean, it's no surprise. We're both on Hideki and Sungjae. I think we just stick with those two. Yeah, I think that even though we could like, oh, give you other options. This is the most reflective of what we're going to do this week. Yeah, I'm going to build around Hideki again. I know that there are like rumors. He's got the travel issues after being non-competitive basically at the the open. But if you want a golfer who should be able to, you know, hit enough fairways, hit irons close, and then benefit from easy putting surfaces, like as you mentioned, whenever I was saying that, like that's what came to mind with Hideki. I've been trying to like talk myself out of Hideki for a few reasons. Like those narratives, the travel stuff, like that's the travel can be a real thing. Um, but it's really hard to walk away from this and just like say, you know what? I'm not going to play the guy who makes the absolute most sense because I'm assuming his, he's not going to bring it. So hypothetically, if Heki, Hideki were to a draw to let's say play elsewhere, um, would you go with Sungjae and Finau? It's building blocks or would you have more diversity in the way you build things then? Hypothetically, of course. Um, I probably just try to get up to Finau then. Okay. Because his win because for me, Hideki has the highest win equity. Yeah. And if you remove that, then Finau is going to be less of a. Correct. Bad. Like not, again, he's like 4.1%. It's not dreadful, but. Hideki is probably five, five or so, right? Seven. Seven? My goodness. Okay. So if you take out Hideki, like, you know, that stuff matters. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. So I have Hideki as my top guy too. So I'll talk about Sungjae and it's like, our, we have both. These guys are top two. So I'll talk about Sungjae and we'll move to the mid range after that. Sungjae, past few events have been really rough. He has two missed cuts and an 81st. Kind of open for a bounce back here. Uh, but last week was the open. He made the cut there and then just like torpedoed on the greens. Real, real bad there. But the two weeks before that it was his irons. Those were really good the previous couple of weeks and they did rebound at the open. So different things ailing him, which to me says is not one consistent thing that's dragging him down and still a small sample. That's why I feel okay with buying into Sungjae despite the rough events. He ranks 10th and good drives gained the past 50 rounds. He's at least decent on bank grass. Overall, like a pretty good putter Sungjae is. So I'm very okay with him at 11, 5, even if it's not the safest way to play things. Any read for you on Sungjae with the issues the past couple of weeks? Uh, yeah, just not enough of a sample to start to worry. That's again, one of the things you can really learn take advantage of with golf is when they're overreactions. I'm not saying there's an overreaction in terms of Sungjae's win odds or his handle salary. But if the perception is that he's in bad form now because, you know, he missed two cuts right before that he was 10th, 15th, 14th, 21st, 8th. He finished 8th at the Masters. It's it's not it's not predictive of anything unless you think Sungjae's career is over and it's not. Be pretty hot take. Okay, let's go to the mid-range. Who stands out to you there? One Chris slash Chris as sneaky as sneaky spreadsheet ruin her. Chris, we did add Ted Potter Jr. with no comma and no period to the lexicon this week via data golf. So pretty excited about that. Another Ted Potter iteration. Yeah, but got her up. I think makes a lot of sense in terms of an upside play got her upside. He's got he's got her upside that we're looking for. Let's party. He's just training up pretty quickly and that helps me buy in because it's based on iron play. But top five at John Deere again made the cut at the U.S. Open when he finished T 43. I think that there's enough data for him to believe that the irons are legitimate. And I there's just again look back at who's one here kind of fits that mold. I'm not saying he's going to win, but I think that there's enough here for me to want to build around got her up and to answer my like the question that I posed to you if I've had decky Sungjae and then some value guys and I need to go down from someone. I don't want it to be got her up. Basically. Yeah. Yep. I get that. Um, I want to acknowledge that other people might not build the same way that we do this week. Like maybe you love, uh, I don't know. She's posting. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you love. Everyone loves to eat the Gala. Yeah. Maybe you love him. So you're maybe in a different range than we are. So let's talk about Brent and Todd here because let's say you're around the high 9000's need one more guy. I would go with Todd. I like got her up more. We talked about him already. So let's talk about Todd here quickly. He's the one of the guys who benefits most from the setup of this course according to data golf course fit tool and he's a pretty solid golfer. All things considered. Todd ranks 15th in data golf's true strokes gained across the past six months. That's even with courses in there where his lack of distance is a pretty big hindrance. He's also 47th and birdies are better game. That's not a great number, but again, the lack of distance drags him down there. Not as big of an issue this week. He gets fairways. He puts pretty well and I think he has some more upside relative. He's shown more upside with his with his irons recently than he has previously again. It's compared to him. So it's not doesn't take a lot to show more upside but he's you know had some had a spike week in there. I think that he works in 98. Again, I go got her up first, but like let's say you're going with a totally different building. You have two guys in this range. I would go Todd number two behind got her up there. Who else do you like in the mid range and this 9000 range this week? Would you do a Todd versus fence in head to head? Pretty sure I would. Let me check. Yes, I would. Okay. I don't love to hear that, but Jim always beats me in these. So I should note that I'm taking $100 and salary from you in this one with Todd 98 and Stenson in 97. So well, that's big of you. I know. Look at me. Wait. No, that's not picking me. To admit that you're getting an advantage. Oh, yeah. Okay. I thought you said, yeah, cool. We're good. I have to be full transparency, Brandon. Who do you like in the mid range? Like a second guy. Yeah. Who's your second guy? I thought I was like, did we not get into the mid range yet? Um, Tom Hoagie. 9100. Six straight missed cuts. Need I say more? Yes. Get someone excited. Yes. Yes. I love, I love golf, man. Um, six straight missed cuts, but. A lot of that comes from really, really bad around the green play numbers and that's pretty fluky. Now we are reaching the point where it's like starting to stabilize and that's a little bit of a concern to be that bad around the green, but it's according to my research, wedge play like around the green play is even it's even more volatile than putting, but he's a good birdie maker and he should have putting regression come his way eventually. So I'm cool going after someone who generally has good ball striking numbers and who is being forgotten about. Um, I thought his salary would be even lower than this, but yeah, you know, if he were in form or like normal Tom Hoagie form, which is always volatile anyway, he misses a lot of cuts, um, his salary would be higher. So in a field like this, I think Hoagie makes a lot of sense. Uh, that said, I probably should not put my full stamp of approval on Hoagie for cash games and head to heads, but I think process wise it's very strong for Hoagie this week. Yeah, I do like Tom Bogey. He will be called that until he earns his actual name back. Um, I, despite calling him that, I do think that he is a quality play this week. So Bogey works at 91 and fine with him. My second midairings play a CT pond. Most the time he doesn't are pretty good. Better than Bogey. Um, he doesn't have a lot of upside usually, but I think he could in this field at 94. A pond ranks 19th and good drives gained. He is 24th in approach and 26th and birdies are better gain the past 50 rounds. Even without the upside, he makes cuts. Um, he has made 10 of the past 12. He has just one finish outside the top 50 in the 10 cuts he has made. And I think that gives him steadiness, but I also think that his upside is better than usual. So I'm in on him at 94. What's your read on CT pond this weekend at that salary? Yeah, I like pawn. Um, he's now with with Eric Monroe in withdrawing. Um, I put, uh, pawn as an other to consider in my helper up on number fire, just a really good tea to green player. Um, accurate off the tee should fit the course well and, uh, he's someone who I would definitely consider for, um, our bobble head or bobble hat con, uh, head to head. And, uh, I would also play him in tournaments. I think there's enough there for, uh, things going up when juice. I agree. Let's go to the value tier. We once again have an agreement. This is scary this week. We actually have three agreements and player picks. What could go wrong? That agreement is Tyler Duncan 88. What do you see with him for this week? Um, really good ball striker, 80th percentile there in my database, accurate off the tee. Just, uh, the putter is, is fine, kind of struggling from between five and 10 feet, which you don't love, but if you're playing the narrative that, uh, it's an easier week to put on, um, then he's going to see a big uptick, like a big chance for, uh, him to sort of overperform what he, what he would otherwise. So trying to basically buy a low on someone like Tyler Duncan, not that I think he's like a free space, but Duncan definitely does stand out in the, in the 8,000 range. Yeah. He's pretty volatile. So maybe he's kind of like Hogi where like he's not necessarily like a prime target for a cash game, but I'd be receptive to him there just because I think the upside is good and that doesn't matter. Uh, in all formats, uh, Duncan in the past nine individual events has three top 15s. Uh, he was 14th at the, the Zurich in that time to not counting that, but the other ones were the RBC heritage, uh, the Charles Schwab challenge and the Barbasol, Barbasol, obviously not a great field, but like the heritage and the Charles Schwab, like those aren't too bad. Um, can implode, uh, but he hits fairways. He has good irons can make birdies. The floor is not good, but I do like him at 88. So I like, I like Duncan. I'm probably going to wind up on him in our head to head, despite the fact he's not necessarily an ideal cash gameplay. I just think that there aren't enough other guys I like to use over him. Who else do you have in the value range here? Yeah, this one's probably more of a cash gameplay, but Matias Schwab at 86, um, just one of the better long-term golfers in my model and at a certain point, whenever value is hard to find or like feel great about, I just sort of default to best long-term adjusted form. I'm really good short game, 91st percentile combined around the green and putting, which it's not really the key stat for me this week, but the putting the underlying putting numbers are basically supported by what he's doing from different distances. 20th, sorry, 30 second here in 2020, 16th at John Deere recently. I think it's enough. He might be my final cash gameplay. If I can make that work, not super jazz on him in tournaments, but definitely wouldn't wouldn't cross him off by any means. I'd be open to considering him too. I think that if I just, you know, outside of Duncan, they're not a ton of great stuff in the 8000 range. So I'd be receptive to him too. Other guy on my list is Nick Taylor at 89. He's a good approach player, which is kind of tough to find down here. He ranks 10th in approach to the past 50 rounds per fantasy national. The driving is not good anywhere. Like he's not good distance wise, not good with his accuracy, but he's also not abysmal in any of the individual stats. Doesn't tend to lose big off the tee. He doesn't lose, but not big. He's 89. I can live with his warts at that salary in this field. I don't know. He's kind of a guy. I think that he's fine 89. What's your little Nick Taylor? Yeah, it doesn't really do anything poorly. Should experience some putting regression come in his way and in the positive sense. Nothing really against them. Just again, the more I look at this, the more I try to build my lineup throughout the show. Like my main lineup to play Hideki and Sung Jae together. You really got to take a swipe somewhere and I'm not against taking like one swipe on a golfer, but you really can't go with a balanced build after that because you run out of salary, which is like obvious, but the ideal case would have been get Hideki, get Sung Jae and then four golfers in the upper eight, low nine. Maybe I am going to have to come off of Chris Goddard up to make that happen, but two names don't run by you outside of Matias Schwab. Nate Lashley and Sam Ryder. Any interest for you and either of them is being mid mid eight thousand guys or no? Lashley for sure. He's just like solid across the board. He's accurate. I'm fine with Lashley. And then I'm usually a Sam Ryder guy. He didn't really pop for me this week at 84. I think I'd rather go Ryan Moore who's like hyper accurate, good irons and then just someone, you know, I might go this route just to open things back up. But Peter Monotti at 78 really doing a lot with the short game right now. But overall form is better than 7800 would suggest. So I'm open to him again. There are a lot of names down here who I'd consider, but none that I feel pretty phenomenal about. So, you know, one of the one of the questions we try to answer every week is are we are we locking in the studs and rotating in values? Absolutely this week. I'm locking in studs, rotating in values, trying to hit on the right value place for the week. Well, they agree. You are a Ryder guy, but you're not a Ryder guy. Pretty disappointing right there. Let's finish up with some win picks for the 3M open. I've locked you last week at Zalataurus. Yeah, I should have locked you again this week. By the way, I think we're both gonna be on Hideki and I'm fine with locking you there. I'm I don't care if we overlap. I think that I have to there. Yeah, I really if I was thinking things through better, I should have gone Rory last week because I any sort of any win kind of really helps me separate. I should have gone Rory and Cam Smith last week, but I didn't. So we're both gonna Hideki at 16 to 1. Yep. Again, these are we're trying to win units here. These aren't necessarily our favorite 100% bets outright and they're also not the only bets that we would make, but I am torn between Sung Jae and I wouldn't bet Hideki and Sung Jae together myself. And Chris got her up at 45 is also in the conversation. So if I'm trying to play it safe here for the show, I'll go Sung Jae. Okay. But again, I'm gonna bet Hideki and not Sung Jae myself because that's too much at the top of the board to bet. Yeah, I can see that. Okay. So you have Hideki and Sung Jae. I actually would be okay with a 16 and an 18 maybe just because I do a lot of NASCAR and I have two guys at 10 to 1 this week in Ross Chastain and Martin Truex Jr. Yeah, but with NASCAR, I can't like two guys win ever. No, Eric Jones. Eric Jones, by the way, during the show shortened tweeted about him at 100 to 1. He's an 85 BT dubs. Speaking of guys who have moved. Davis Riley. I kind of want to do Davis Riley. He's 20 to 1 now. I like it's between him and Mav. I'm going to do one of the guys at 20 to 1. What? I just love. I love you. You're like not talking about that. No, DFS and betting are different. It makes sense that I would like have different takes. Yes. For one thing that's versus the other. Yes. That's why I picked and bet Justin Thomas instead of Rory. I'm not doing that. Justin Thomas. I played Rory and DFS. I'm not doing that. It's just funny. You know, be really funny. Did Tom Hogan? I mean, it's bad, man. I'll say this much. We're both we're both up in terms of units for the year. Yeah. Hitting on like Tom Hogan would go a long way because we're running out of weeks for the season. But like I said, for me, I'm trying to I'm trying to play it safer with these personally. Oh boy. Oof. Oof. What's what's this guy's number 34? 34. Makes me real nervous. Oh man. Poston. No. Are you going to go chess out of nowhere? No, what? I thought you're going to get chess from the top rope from the rafters. Oh, Martin Laird. 10-3. I think. No. It's the fourth guy. You can name it. At 34. Yeah, I'm kind of in there. Interested. I should just pick someone. Okay. Yeah, you got to pick someone. I'm going to kind of you and just like think for a second here. I'm going to take my headphones out and just think. So if you're saying something, I can't hear you right now. He's going to pick Mav. I hear nobody wants to. I know no one. They've already stopped listening. This is for us. Well, how's it going to know where to find me on Twitter if they already tuned out because of this? I'll downfall you. Oh, so you weren't 18. I could just take I could just take freaking Riley and feel good about it. Yeah, it's so Jay is there and it ruins everything. Yeah, that's that's where I am. I would have taken Davis Riley. Brendan steel. Okay. Brendan steel. Whatever. If whatever. Okay. Okay. But if I lose because Brandon still wins the three I'm only so mad if he if he wins and I like went through all this stupid, stupid, stupid thinking just to pick a guy who's stupid, stupid wins. Who'd be so tilted if a Brendan steel 3M open winner is what gets me because I didn't go with Cam last week. Yeah, he's going to win. So. Brendan steel. You can use steel to make a lock. I don't know if that's true. My win picks are Brendan steel and Hideki Matsuyama. You have Hideki Matsuyama and Sung J.M. I do think they're the best values in this week. I can't be deadlocked on to when I'm behind. So yeah, that's what we got for this week. Okay. That is all that we have here for this week at the 3M open from a DFS perspective. Once again, do not forget to subscribe to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast for MLB, PGA, NASCAR, UFC podcast and football less than two months away. Oh boy. What go wrong there? Find all that by searching for the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcast. Brendan. Any final words of wisdom for people before we send them off to fill out their beautiful, beautiful lineups. Yeah, this is the type of field and week where it feels kind of like a let down from what we had last week, but the contests are, you know, the contests and cash spends the same. Yeah, you can really if you dig in, you take the time to research, think, think a little bit differently. You can have a lot of leverage in a week like this. All right. Where could people find you on Twitter? I'm at Gadoula 13 G D U L A 1 3 and I'm on Twitter at Jim Sonnis G I M S A N N E S. You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast. Big thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your DFS lineups. We'll talk to you once again next week. This has been the heat check fantasy podcast powered by number fire.