 The Olympics are underway over in Tokyo and this year, once again, we have both men's and women's golf and with golf on the menu, we have DFS. We'll talk about four to day. We'll be focusing on the men's side of things, getting you set to fill out your DFS rosters for the Olympic Games. Welcome on into the Heat Check Fantasy podcast powered by Number Fire. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network in numberfire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for Number Fire.com. Joined here once again by Brandon Gedula. He is the managing editor for Number Fire.com. Brandon, back from his vacation, and Brandon, we did not get to discuss Colin Warakawa and his open championship victory. I didn't get to talk to you last week to maybe prevent me from like doom with my DFS lineups. So welcome back. How was the vacation and how are you doing? Well, vacation's a bit of a strong word. My wife always has some extreme stuff planned for us. We had to go down to Florida for a wedding. So we ended up attacking on, the wedding was in Key Largo. So we went the whole way down to Key West and took a ferry 70 miles off the Key West to go to Dry Tortugas National Park because we were trying to check off all the national parks. Tortugas National Park as well? I haven't checked the list, but we do have a, I got my wife a poster where she can like check off all the parks we've been to, but. Was Williams Ostudio, La Tortuga at the Island or no? He did get sent down to AAA. So it's very possible he was just roaming loose in the wild. I mean, it would take some effort for anyone to get there because it's a two and a half hour ferry ride. Ever doubt La Tortuga? I mean, I don't know. He plays baseball based on context. So who knows what could happen? Context clues. No, anything about him. I do have a shirt of Williams Ostudio. So I should have sent that with you. Yeah, to lay it on his homeland. I could have done that, but I'm glad that you're back because it's going to be an interesting week this week from a DFS perspective talking about the men's Olympic games. They are at Kasumi Kaseki Country Club out near Tokyo, $7,447 yards and a par 71. It is a no cut event for this week. There are 60 golfers in the field. So no cut. That's a bonus. And we'll talk about the implications of that in just one second at first. As a quick reminder, the PGA Q&A, although it's not PGA, the golf Q&A is back once again this week, 3.30 p.m. Eastern on the Fando YouTube Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. If you want to quiz Brandon on his thoughts on betting a DFS for this week, and I believe you'd be talking the women's side of things as well there, correct? That's next week. Oh, next week? Oh, wow. I don't know how to win. Big whiff, Jim. Big whiff, idiot. Are the odds posted yet? I believe so. I will run simulations and have some content up on Number Fire for it, but... Okay, Nelly Corta is a favorite. Thoughts? Well, I've been doing my best with LPGA stats, which are incredibly hard to come by because of the state of the game, but hopefully things are supposed to be getting better. But I did run some adjusted strokes game numbers, which is probably some of the more advanced stuff that's out there for LPGA. Not the hugest on the Corta sisters, necessarily, but I was just proving wrong, so I think I'm gonna have to make some manual adjustments for Nelly Corta. Okay, perfect. We're gonna talk about that next week then, I would assume, on the Q&A. I won't be here, but you will, so you can talk about that then. But we will be talking about the men's competition this week from a DFS betting perspective. That's at 3.30 on the Fandil YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter pages, so make sure you're subscribed to your platform of choice there. Also hit us up on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed to get this podcast and others as well. Quick note about lock for this week. We are used to Thursday morning. It will lock at 6.30 p.m. Eastern or Wednesday night because there are, I think, 13 hours ahead of us in Tokyo, so make sure you have your line of sets early if you are a procrastinator like me. Don't do that this week. Brandon, we don't know a lot of Kasumi Kiseki country club. We don't have shot link data, et cetera. But based on the course layout and stuff like that, we can kind of make some assumptions around how this will play and who may benefit from the course layout. So when you look at this course, what stands out to you as far as stats we should emphasize for this week? Yeah, I was trying to pull up. In my course primer on Number Fire, I linked to an article. I believe it was a... Maybe I didn't, maybe I just didn't save and I closed it out because I was writing stuff from the car, but I'll pull it back up. But someone from either golf.com or golfchannel.com or golfdigest.com or one of those was talking to Tommy Fleetwood and his caddy. And Fleetwood was trying to come up with some sort of like comp for this course and throughout like three or four that don't really quite mesh together and then kind of realize like he doesn't really have a comp for the course. So I mean, that probably is telling. I would take their word over mine from just looking at any and all notes that I can come up with. But some interesting things that I did come across is that the greens are supposed to be bent grass. So we should have some putting splits available to us for golfers who play on the PGA Tour. The stimp meter though, which if anyone doesn't know is basically just a device to measure how fast the greens are. Usually we're at around like 11 and a half on the PGA Tour. It's anticipated that these will run at like a nine to 10, which is going to be really slow. What does that mean? That's a great question. It's still up in the air. I've tried to research it myself. I do think that anecdotally, the slower greens will allow the better putters to be more aggressive. But also worse putters probably won't be running things past the hole quite as easily. So I would say probably don't anticipate making too many changes based on green speed. If anything, probably bump up the better putters overall who can get a little bit more aggressive and actually find the line and sink some putts. And so this is a long standing course. It's been around for more than a hundred years. Tom Fausio had a redesign in 2016, added more than 400 yards to the layout. So there are concerns that the fairways are too wide, which would be good for golfers who are long off the tee not necessarily the most accurate. But I do think that distance as well is kind of a key stat because of how the holes break down. Seven holes in total are at least 109%, I usually do 110%, but an extra hole was 109% longer than the median hole length of the same par on the PGA Tour. So basically, are these like 10% longer than your average par four, for example? And we have seven holes out of 18, obviously, that do rate out significantly longer than normal. It's two long par threes, three long par fours, two long par fives. There are some short par fours as well. So all of that kind of points me to driving distance, especially if the fairways are a little bit too wide. So distance is kind of the one key stat that I'm honing in on that is at least something other than approach and stroke scan tee to green and all around. So distance is something that I'm going to weight in pretty heavily for this week. My key stats though are just kind of gonna kind of be all encompassing because this is a 72 hole format with no cut. That means that yes, you can punt with some lower end plays, but they also will be falling behind over 72 holes. So don't get too cute. And actually I think finding golfers, you do everything well to some degree, have a lot of appeal. My key stats are stroke scan approach, driving distance, birdie or better rate for that fandal scoring boost, stroke scan putting on bent grass. And then just to have five, I do have around the green as well, but that's easily the one that I'm least concerned about. And regarding the ability to punt, I think the one thing we'd keep in mind too is that not everyone here is like on the same level necessarily from a quality perspective. And I think there is a drop off at a certain point where you kind of reach the end of like the guys who can realistically push for a top 10. And I wanna make sure I'm living in that range. Like if you look at data golf's true strokes game number, there is like a fall off like around, Christian Bizet and Hote after him, after Guido Miliosi, after Sioux Kim, things do start to tail off pretty quickly. And there are some relevant guys down there like you've got, you know CT Pana, I guess, Sebastian Munoz, Derek Higo, guys like that, but there is a certain point where it falls off the table. And my goal from a roster construction perspective is going to be to make sure I have six guys who can realistically get a top 10, which means I can't punt. I don't think I can personally this week. I think there are guys, like there are guys in the, like me to Pereira $7,800, maybe I could go to him, but like the number of guys I'm willing to punt with is not very large. So although it's a no cut event, I still feel like it's a week where having some semblance of balance or at least avoiding the true punt plays to me will be valuable. Yeah, that's kind of what I was talking around, but I was trying to focus more of it on a course fit standpoint. Like it sounds really like, we talk about this every time we get a no cut event, it sounds like great to be like, well, if I just play, you know, a guy or two at $7,500 or below, they're not going to miss the cut. So it's going to be fine. What you're really doing is, you know, undercutting your chance to hit the winner and you're going to need the winner in a 60 golf or no cut event. And if you roster two guys who are way down the list, not even, I think, Pereira's good play, but below that, you're just really saying, you know, I don't need this fifth or sixth roster slot because I already know who's going to win. And it's a little bit more over, it's a little more confident than I typically am. But speaking to the field strength, we have only three golfers and the official World Golf rankings might not be perfect, but we have three golfers inside the top 10. All of them are inside the top five. That's calling more Cal adjust than Thomas and Xander Shafley. 28 are inside the top 100 and then 20 of the 60. So I think that's a third, if I'm not mistaken, outside the top 200. So, you know, speaking to what Jim said about that drop off, it is a drop off. So just be careful with getting a little bit too confident with the low end plays. And we'll talk about some of the low end plays who do work later on throughout the podcast for today. But first, baseball fans, Fandall is giving you an exclusive way to get in on the action with the MLB Single Entry Series presented by Roto Grinders. Each week, enter a featured Single Entry Series contest to win cash and compete for a seed in the $40,000 online final. Just play daily and we'll add your four highest point little together to get your combined score and rank for the week. Head over to Fandall and enter the MLB Single Entry Series today, eligibility restrictions apply. Head over to Fandall.com or download the Fandall Fantasy App for more details. And because it is 15 games late on Tuesday, scores will be high. So if you wanna jack up that score for the full week, get in for today. Let's take a look at some current form here. Obviously there is no course history to discuss. We do have golfers whose form we can investigate and try to decide how we're gonna handle them for this week. And an interesting one for this week, Brandon is Rory McElroy, comes in at $11,500. But as we know, things have been a little dicey for Rory McElroy as of late. Coming off a 46 at the Open Championship, he is 11-5 for this week. When you look at Rory's form, what are you seeing and what are your thoughts in him for this week? Yes, I mean, there are a lot of red flags. And with so few golfers in the field, it's definitely important to avoid the landmines, but also to be open to ways of differentiating. And that could easily just include rostering golfers without elite current form. That would apply to McElroy, who since his win at the Wells Fargo in early May has gone 49th to 18th, 7th, 59th cut in 46 at the British Open, as you said. And the Irons have actually been pretty strong overall in that sample. Over his past 20 rounds, McElroy is 10th in Data Golf's true strokes game approach. He is 14th Tita Green, but that's out of 53 golfers in this field with shot link data. So keep that in mind. And he's the fourth highest salary golfer in the field. Again, just 14th in that really recent sample, Tita Green, so it doesn't quite match up. 20 rounds is not enough to know who a golfer is, but Rory's longer term sample is not as strong as other golfers at the top, including especially Xander Shafley, whose long-term form is just always great, but Colin Markawa and a few others. So even with only 60 golfers, it can still be hard to like whittle things down. I think McElroy is the one place where we can look at the top and say like, no thanks, but this is a very volatile sport. And we know that Rory McElroy still has win upside, we saw it at Wells Fargo. So do you see anything with McElroy to get you there this week? I think the distance is good, like that helps. I think that as you mentioned, the approach play has been very good. So distance and approach is good. His bank grass numbers are not terrible. He's about neutral for the most part of bank grass. He's not actively bad around the green. He ranks 18th there. So like there are reasons to at least have interest here. And I would say that that kind of combines to make him viable. The question that I would have is, is he the best guy to pivot on? Because not everyone who is in good form at the top will be popular. So I feel like to me, I'd rather try to find someone who is in good form, who will go over looks for one reason or another. I think that we're gonna see a lot of popularity for Colin Morkawa. I think we can say that with a pretty decent amount of confidence. Hideki, you know, I think that- Xander is always popular. Right. And then you also have Hideki who's very popular and coming up the masters, obviously the narratives are there as well. I feel like if we kind of lop off those guys, you're looking at maybe Justin Thomas, looking at Rory, Victor Hovland might honestly go a bit overlooked. So I feel like to me, there are a couple of guys that would rather turn to over Rory and try to differentiate. I think that Hovland especially is really enticing because he's not gonna be one of those like automatic like pop-up guys. So I feel like even when I'm trying to differentiate, Rory might wind up being a little bit lower on that list. We should have a segment each week with the automatic pop-up guys. Automatic pop-up guys. So used to be Ricky back in the day when people wanted to use Ricky in DFS. I think Hideki is on that list this week for sure, given the- Are we talking about like just popularity standpoint pop-up? Okay. Yeah. I thought it was like, oh, this guy's like an auto place. Like a whack-a-mole type thing? Like, no, no, like, oh, this guy, like as I'm doing any precursory information or research at all, like all the information just like, oh yeah, this guy, play this guy. I thought that was like the autumn, pops up to the top of the list. That's how I interpret it. I think Hideki checks both boxes. And I feel like more cow will check those boxes. So I think that like, you're asking what I, would you rather go Rory, JT or Hovland? If they're not the guys who have like those automatic like popularity for red flags, I feel like I'd just go Hovland then JT then Rory among those three from trying to differentiate. Yeah, I like JT. He's one of my favorite plays. I'll talk about him in player picks. No cut event. Like Superstar, that's something I'm factoring in. I think that that probably is an angle that a lot of people will get to by, I can't say Thursday by Wednesday evening. But yeah, JT and a no cut event is really appealing to me. Okay, so let's talk about more cow as what I would assume will probably be the most popular play in the field if I had to bet because coming off victory at the open championship, that is his third straight top five and two of those were in majors. He now has five top tens in the past six events. The one bad event in there was a 14. So clearly slacking there and each of those measured events more cow gained at least 6.8 strokes in approach which is just absurd. Did that in three of the previous four as well. Basically more cow has been lights out no matter the course, but this week it could skew towards distance. More cow one, not the longest guy at the tee. His short game is not immaculate. It was very good at the open, obviously. So it's harder than I how great more cow has been and that does matter no matter the course but he's the highest salary guy. The betting favorite would be popular. If I ignored popularity, I feel like more cow would be fine. Problem is I think he's gonna be very, very, very popular and that worries me a bit. So what are your thoughts on calling more a cow for this week? Yeah, so this week it's gonna come a lot, come down a lot to game theory because you need the winner in your lineup and if a golfer, let's say more cow Xander GT like these high salary guys don't win, you can still have a great lineup. You can still win tournaments on Fandall with those guys if they don't win but more cow based on historical popularity numbers and no cut events for favorites like and with more cows form right now I wouldn't be surprised if he's on 50% of lineups. My win simulation model has him at 6.3% likely to win. Like that's not the highest because more cows long-term form doesn't quite match up to someone like Xander or JT or really even Hovland. It's just that more cow has been really good at closing out his opportunities to win and you can say this is where the paths diverge is more cow just that good under pressure or have things broken his way and I'm inclined especially as someone who loves Xander to say that it's probably just how things broke for him. It's definitely, he does not get, if he's on flap, what does that, can we say that he doesn't get flapped? Is that? But I think for like FCC reasons, although they don't regulate YouTube, like maybe we should avoid, like it's not Marcus explicit, he's not flapped. I don't know, that seems like we're toe in the line here. If you're not disgruntled, are you gruntled? Like that's an age old question that I always think about from the office, but with more cow, I think it'll be more popular than he deserves to be, just based on how likely he is to win and how at the high rate he's converted these. So more cow is not my favorite play this week by any means once I'm factoring in popularity. Yeah, I mean, it's popularity combined with salary in a sport or in an event where I do think there is a pretty big fall off, combine all that stuff together, he's coming off a major win. So that's kind of a tough thing to rebound from, like mentally to like lock in, travel, you know, go overseas, stuff like that for back overseas across the world effectively from England. So I don't know, I think there are enough factors where I will comfortably be underweight on Calamora Cower for this week. Always scary because he's disgusting, but I think that's right to play things for here. Let's move now to the mid range. Talk about Shane Lowry checking in at $10,600 and it's an interesting range for sure because I think there are some good names here, but, you know, Lowry always worried the discussion, what are you seeing with him coming off a 12th at the open? Yes, I mean, Shane Lowry is really not someone that we're in on often. Well, I am, you might not be, I tend to, I used him when he was in that 9,000 range over the early summer, I was there, happily. I just historically have been a little bit lower on Shane Lowry, but he's been lighting it up with the irons lately and he's turned that into eight top 25 finishes in his last 11 starts since mid-March with no missed cuts. And in his past 20 rounds, he ranks seventh in Data Golf's true-show scene approach. He's third, T-degree in trailing just Paul Casey and Calamora Cower. And the salary of $10,600 is not that prohibitive. The putting is still a concern, at least in an unreliable sense. You know, you never kind of know what you're gonna get with Lowry from the putter, you could probably say about every golfer, but it's a little bit different for some golfers where it's truly kind of all over the place. But for that salary, again, $10,600 on Fandal, there is a lot to like in terms of the recent data. So I think that someone like Lowry, you know, it's gonna come down to roster construction and how you view the slate, whether we simply view him as like not in the same tier as the studs. And so I'm not actually not even gonna be in that salary range or can we just view him as a stud who's kind of under-salaried and we can just build around, you know, someone like Shane Lowry instead and save, you know, roughly a thousand in terms of our salary cap by just going with Shane Lowry. So any thoughts for you on Lowry? I like the thought process. I just like to apply that thought process to different individuals because like for me, I like Karen Smith and I like Joaquin Neiman. Those two guys are both directly beneath Shane Lowry. So like, Ken Smith has a really good short game. Joaquin Neiman has the distance. He's also Ben Grass, which should be good for him as well. So I like the idea of having my second golfer be in this range or using something like me to priority to get back up into this range. But I think that when I'm doing, so I'd rather do that with Joaquin Neiman or Cameron Smith. So how do you view Lowry relative to those two guys specifically? I would have him a third behind, actually, well, let me do this. I would prefer Cameron Smith, Joaquin Neiman, Corey Connors and Sloan J.M. over Shane Lowry. Yeah. I think I'd agree. Connors is the one that kind of makes me fluctuate a bit. Connors is in, I don't actually know if I'm talking about him on the picks. Maybe I am, but he's been lighting it up in big events. I mean, he's awesome. I used to met the open, it was great. But like, I have enough concerns that I'm a little bit cautious with it. But I do think that Lowry is low enough where when I'm in this range, I'll probably gloss over him for other guys. Seventh of the players, eighth of the masters. Connors? Yeah. Seventh of the players, eighth of the masters, 17th of the PGA, missed the cut at the US Open, 15th of the British Open. I mean, it's because he's good. He's a good golfer. Just like there are enough concerns where if you give me four rounds of sample where things could go wrong with the short game, it might happen. I know the putting has been much better recently. He's had events where he's actually been good around the greens accidentally too. So I'm not writing him off, but like I'm a little bit lower on him then. I'd rather go, just go Neiman, just go Smith. I agree with Sung Jae too, but. I would say not even looking at what my simulations or data says. So like you give me Cam Smith versus Corey Connors. They could easily just finish like 10th here or something and I wouldn't be surprised or fit, let's just say 10th. Corey Connors is probably gonna make significantly more birdies than Cameron Smith. And so I think from that perspective, Connors would get, like I don't wanna sleep on Connors just because there are concerns. He can make a lot of birdies. Do you wanna do a Fandall point head to head then? Because that seems like that's the angle. It's like more birdies, better for Fandall points. Do you wanna do a Cam Smith versus Corey Connors head to head? Sure, Canada versus Australia. Do they have any quarrels with each other? I don't know, international relations at all. I studied in college, but I don't remember any of it. I wanna create a rivalry here. We'll work on it. We'll work on it. I got like a concentration in international finance, which. What? The only way I could graduate on time. Fair enough. Yeah, graduation's good. Anyway, let's move now to the value plays here. We're talking about three different guys who have been doing some interesting stuff recently, starting off with Johnny Vegas, like the only thing that I did okay with last week. We're talking about Johnny Vegas, another runner up, the second runner up in his past four events. He did that by gaining everywhere. He gained 2.6 off the tee, 4.3 in approach, 1.6 around the green and 2.1 putting. And the approach play has been especially good recently. He's gained at least 3.5 in four straight events, including the US Open. The problem is that the other events were definitely weaker fields. I wouldn't say tough. I'd say top heavy. Big time contenders here, top heavy field. When you account for field strength, Vegas ranks 18th in true strokes game the past six months, according to DataGolf. That's pretty good for a golfer at $8,500. So I'm still cautious with Vegas, but I'm very interested and I'm very likely to use him. How do you feel about Jonathan Vegas this week? Like the Venezuelan, I got to get more into like the Olympic mood and like site nationalities and stuff, but... I like to call Thomas Peters the wrong nationality again. That's good. That was bad. 18th percentile and birdie are better at game over the past 100 rounds, according to Fantasy National. Percentile ranks are screwing me up because it's such a small field, but either way, it's a good mark no matter what. And I think that he like Connors fits a little bit extra from, he should be able to gain distance and make birdies. And so depending on where he finishes, like I would expect him to outscore most of the golfers that he finishes in the same position as this week. And so someone like that has extra appeal for me. Also, Australia and Canada. Oh, sorry, I don't know if you had more. Yeah, I'll go ahead. I want to know this. According to Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Canada's and Australia's military have fought alongside each other numerous times, including World War One, World War Two, the Korean War and many United Nations Security Council sanctioned missions. Boring, I don't want that. Anyway, let's move now to Antoine Rosner, $8,100. He's not a guy we talked about in the heat check because he's not a PGA to a regular, but it sounds like he should be our new Corey Connors. So what are your thoughts on Antoine Rosner's? We can $8,100. Yeah, I mean, I was looking at like value plays for all my content this week. And Rosner at $8,100 certainly fits. But I was like, well, the short game's not good enough. And then I was like, well, that's exactly what we're typically look for. So his salary, I have him 28th in the field and salary. I don't know, 28th in the field and salary. But over the past 50 rounds, he has 25th in true stroke skiing according to data golf. So that's right on par. But he's 17th in stroke skiing to Tee to Green, which is better. And if you would combine that from just the ball striking standpoint, it would be better yet. 9th off the Tee and 16th in approach is around the green play. Not very good. His putting not very good. So if you compare the ball striking to the salary under salary, if you compare the overall player, it's a fair value. But that makes him a heat check mark of the week, basically, with that short game. Now, upside does get capped when short game can never be good. But birdies can still come from elite ball striking. And again, I would rather have golfers who should hit greens in regulation and have a chance to make some putts than golfers who I don't trust to hit as many greens and are just really strong putters whenever we're guaranteed that safety of 72 holes anyway. So did he do enough for you? I don't know if he looked into Rosner at all at 8,100. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that he would be a consideration. Because to me, he comes in before that fall off we were talking about where the quality of golfer falls off a cliff. So he's a consideration for me. I would just have to decide, do I prefer him over Sebastian Munoz is down there? I know things have not been dazzling for him recently. Guido Miliosi is down there. Carlos Ortiz is down there. I think Ortiz is really fun this week. So he did a consideration for me. And so I had to decide, do I want to build around Ortiz as someone I do feel good about, or do I want to differentiate down there? And I feel like it will be differentiating down here a bit because I would rather build around studs and try to get those right and then differentiate with the value plays. So I feel like I wouldn't be shocked if you want my player pool, not a priority, but someone I'm open to at least. I think that's the way I phrase it personally. Yeah. I mean, one thing we always talk about too is if you're building multiple lineups, you have to have some somewhat of a core. You can't just play completely different lineups all over. So you got to lock in either the studs, the mid-range, or the values. For me, I'm going to narrow down the studs that I like most, probably to JT, Zander, Patrick Reed, and then rotate in these more volatile value plays. So Rosner, while not necessarily someone I'm locking into a head-to-head, would be someone I would have a lot of interest in rotating into my tournament core. Yes. I think that he's interesting for me. But one guy I like more than him is Mito Pereira. Now, Brandon, don't look at the sheet. Don't look at DataGolf. If you had to guess without context, just pretend that this conversation is starting now. Let me ask you, if you had to guess, who leads the field in true strokes gained off the tee over the past six months, according to DataGolf, who would you guess? Just true total. True strokes gained off the tee. Oh, off the tee. I got nothing. It's Mito Pereira. I don't know how you do it. Wow, shocker, right? It's crazy. Wow. Where did that come from? He's golfing really well. We can get him at $17. What's his shot link sample in that? Oh, 17 events. Yeah, but how many others have shot link? I don't know, man. Do I care? Yeah, I don't know. He looks good. How's the narrative? What's that? Not with the narrative. You just ignore anything like that. Yeah. How dare you try to counter my fun stat with your idiocy and common sense. 14 rounds. It's not irrelevant. Yeah, get out of here. Stop trying to random my parade. So I was trying to random Mito's parade. Don't ask. Don't ask. Don't ask. Just let Mito. Let Mito thrive. Let him flourish. All right. Do you know who ranks first in true strokes gained approach over the past six months? Moracala? No, Rakuya Hoshino, because he has six rounds of shot link. Yeah, but that's not as cool as I thought. He's at a plus 1.71. Moracala is at a plus 1.55. So take a back seat, Moracala. Samples are irrelevant. Take that third jug in the back seat, Moracala. Yeah, Hoshino, the best iron player in the field if we're not caring about the facts. He takes the best off the tee. My gosh, Moracala is so good with his irons. He's gross. Anyway, back to Mito. He gained 10.6 tee to green at the Barbasol. It's the Barbasol, but whatever. He did a bit more of his work on the greens at the 3M Open. He did still gain 2.6 in approach there, though. He also gained 2.4 in approach before that at the John Deere Classic. So Mito doesn't grade out as well in terms of true strokes gained as a guy like Jonathan Vegas. And he's a couple of spots behind Antoine Rosner as well. But something is kind of under salary to $7,800. So I think that to me, if I'm going to quote unquote punch, I don't think this fits the true definition of punch. But if I'm going to take a super low salary guy in order to jam in more studs, I would say Mito Pereira is the first guy I turned to there. And I'm OK having 30-ish percent Mito Pereira this week. What about you? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to be down in this range a bit just because of the no-cut format. But I would say Pereira is the only golfer in the 7,000 range, aside from approach god, Brecouya Hoshino. No, Scott Piercy has been dethroned. But I think Pereira is the only golfer in the 7,000 range who I will actually roster. And for what it's worth, his win-auds on Fandals Sportsbook did shorten from 150 to 1 to 80 to 1. When I saw him at 150, I was a little confused because like Rossner was 80 to 1. So people know people are now Rossner's 90 to 1. So wow, Mito's better. Mito better. Sorry, facts only, bro. Speaking of betting odds this week, Colin Moore Cowell, the favorite of Fandals Sportsbook. He checks in at 7 to 1. Yeah, boy, Xander Schoffle is 9 to 1, followed by Justin Thomas at 10 to 1. We got Victor Havan, Hideki Matsuyama at 11 to 1. Roy McElroy, 12 to 1. Paul Casey and Patrick Reed, check in at 14 to 1. Then there is a cluster at 20 to 1. Those guys are Cameron Smith, Shane Lauer, Abraham Anser and Joachim Neiman, everyone we discussed before. So, Brandon, it is a no-cut event. There is a big drop-off in quality at a certain point. How are you looking to construct rosters this week? Final answer, what you doing? I'm going to pick like five to six golfers above 10,000. The 9,000 range is like non-existent and not even from a quality standpoint. They're just like aren't a lot of golfers with a nine in front of their salary. So probably about five or six that I'm trying to get anywhere between 30 and like 60 because it is a small event and I need to take some chances. So basically what I'm trying to get at is lock in my favorite studs, narrow that part down and then just be rotating in the values. If you're asking me from a head-to-head or cash game standpoint, it's going to be a little bit more balanced where I'm not going to try to force in more Kawa. I would even be more open to avoiding Zander and building around someone like Patrick Reed at 11,100 as my high salary golfer just because I don't anticipate Patrick Reed disappointing, representing his country over 72 holes. I think he will find a way to be very relevant this week. So tournaments, I laid that out, but cash games, more balanced. Probably only one golfer in that like below 8,500 range just because you never know. And I want to at least feel really confident with all six of my golfers in a head-to-head lineup. Yeah, I think that that's probably the way I want to go to. And I think that for me, if I, I think that the way I'm phrasing it is, can this guy realistically get a top 10? And if I can't say yes with a decent amount of confidence to that answer, then I can't get to them. So although it's no cut event, I can't go stars and scrubs full on because I want, I can go scrubbing stars like with a meetup Herrera, but I can't do more than that. And I think that that's, take away from me is making sure I have golfers who have relevant paths, viable paths, realistic paths to a top 10 finish. And that's the way I want to play things for this week. Which lower salary golfers have odds to stand out to you? Yeah. Sorry, I was looking up some movement. I know we're not specifically talking about it, but because I mentioned Herrera, I was curious. Again, Herrera was 150 to one, he's now 80 to one, but Sebastian Munoz fell from 90 to 65, some GM 27 to 22. I think those are some of the most relevant ones. So that's good news for Munoz because we know we both like him a good bit. Lower salary golfers with odds that stand out to me would be Garakiego at 41 to one, he's 9,300 on Fandle, Siwakim's 42 at 9,000, Guido Miliosi 45 to one at 8,900, Alex Noran, Thomas Peters, Jonathan Vegas, 50 to one, Mackenzie Hughes, Carlos Ortiz, very similar in play style, really. 60 to one, Thomas Detry, Sebastian Munoz 65, Mito Herrera 80, and Antoine Rossner 90. And it seems like all those guys are people we'd be willing to roster. Detry's not someone who really popped up for me personally, but- I would say no Detry, no Peters, no Noran. I'm not really into Hughes either. I don't mind Hughes. He has, I mean, he's shown some flashes with the irons, he actually at the open was doing it, again, I was using traditional stats, but his putting wasn't actually very good and his screens and regulation numbers were pretty good. So, it's a one event sample, so I don't want to get too involved in that, but Hughes is like a good golfer overall. So like, he's someone I'm always historically low on because he doesn't fit the profile, but, and by that, I mean, not strong, he's stronger putting than he is tee to green. That's usually not what I'm looking for from a predictiveness standpoint, but overall he's actually just one of the stronger golfers in that range. Again, he's a 600. So, not out on Hughes. I know it probably is getting to the point where I sound like I like everyone, which is not the case, but- You know, you know, you can like all them, that's okay, they're all good. But this is speaking more to, I'm saying I like this guy a bit and this guy a bit, but that's more of the value plays and not, well, I like Abraham answer a lot at 10, 7, like Shane Lowry, like I'm not, I'm really finding myself, I'm finding it easier to whittle down the studs than the values. I agree. I think that's been honestly, like that's what we tend to play things in general too. Thomas Peters $8,750 to one to win. He doesn't have like any data recently because he doesn't play very often, but like we know that he has decent distance. We know it can be about the tee. It's just like it's, when he has played it hasn't been good recently. So any interest for you and Thomas Peters $8,700, no, he's starting to feel like more of a known name than others down here. So that would probably just naturally bump him up a bit more than I even would want to. Yeah, I think Vegas or tees, Noren, Munoz, Pereira all well ahead of Peters for me. Whether for this week, you probably have heard that there is a typhoon heading to Tokyo, which seems less than ideal. However, it seems like it'll be mostly gone by the time they tee off Wednesday night our time. There will not be a lot of wind throughout the weekend. There will be some waves of rain though. So, I mean, obviously tee times won't be that different given 60 golfer field. So it's not like a situation where you may need to stack. It's also doesn't seem to be the worst weather. So I would say you're okay to play things largely straight up. Maybe if you want to stack the guys who tee off earlier in the day, you could. But again, it's a lesser lower gap than usual because of the smaller fields for this week. So let's move now to our player picks for the men's Olympic golf competition. Brandon, who do you like in the upper tier for this week? I mean, it's going to sound like we don't like Colin Morcalo, which is not the case really, but we're not picking him here and we weren't quite as high on him as we probably should have been. So it's less to do with Morcalo, more to do with his salary, more to do with popularity and more to do with the other options we have, which is always the biggest question. If you don't have pivots, it's easier to play. Someone who's chalky. If you have pivots, it's a lot easier to pivot. So that's why I'm going with Justin Thomas, representing the United States of America. His salary is 11,600 on Fandall. And if you want to talk golfers in small field, no cut events, I still always think of Xander first, but that's dumb because it should be JT. It's actually hard to find just who has the most wins at no cut events. So I went back and tallyed them up. I think I got them all. I have 10 for JT in his career, which is wild. And according to Fantasy National, which does have a no cut filter, which is not necessarily going to show you all the wins or whatever, but leads the field in stroke skiing average or in no cut events at 1.6 strokes per round gained. Xander's at a 1.5, more Kawa is at a 1.2, and there's only three above one. And that also is, it's not gonna show what type of course that is or what the event is, but if you're playing in a no cut event, it's a strong field. Even the Olympics is somewhat of a strong field. So I'm not worried about any of that. And we know what Justin Thomas can do when he's on and that's just look like one of the best, if not the best player on the planet. So a 92nd percentile adjusted T-degree over the past year. So JT, I feel really good with probably not going to be quite as popular as someone like more Kawa, Xander or Hideki. So that's the angle I'm playing at the top this week. You don't even need like the no cut angle to like JT. The stats by themselves are good. And the wedge play too is like, that's I think probably what makes someone like JT and Xander so good is like, you can get into trouble over 72 holes if your wedges are bad, but if you have really good wedges, you probably are saving par a lot more making birdies that you probably shouldn't make. So that's something that's really appealing to me. I didn't mean to cut you off, but. No, you're good. I was done talking, which is for the best. So yeah, I thought, I agreed with what you were saying. The only thing that I would say is that I think I like Hovland a bit more if I'm trying to pivot off of the guys I think are likely chalk. I think that Hovland is tremendous. He's not my player picks, but from a tournament perspective, if I had like, I think for a single entry contest, I think that Hovland is really, really intriguing to this week. My favorite high salary guy. Can you do a Hovland JT bet then? Yeah, sure. Let's do it. It's not that I dislike JT. I just like Hovland a lot for this week. My favorite high salary guy because I got to the sheet before Brandon is Xander Shafley. Xander is someone who shouldn't be able to handle this course no matter how it may play because he's accurate enough to avoid the hazards, but he's also fifth in distance so he can launch it. He ranks seventh in approach and third in bankgrass putting in addition to being a plus around the greens. Xander leads the field and truth strokes gained across the past calendar year. He has a full 0.32 strokes in the field per round in that time. At 11.8, I feel like Xander is where we start for cash games. Do you agree? Yeah, I think so. You can never make a case against Xander at any course because of what he does statistically. The only thing you can really say at this point is that he's not going to win, which is something that you cannot guarantee for any golfer. Yes, other golfers convert their wins or win opportunities at a higher rate, much higher rate than Xander, specifically Morakawa, JT, but we don't really have a whole lot of closures in this thing. Otherwise, Roy hasn't been doing it. Hovland hasn't really done it. Hideki hadn't done it forever until the Masters. Reed probably you could say does, but like Paul Casey, a random answer, I mean, from a process standpoint, Xander is the best play from a win simulation standpoint. I was under 12.4% likely to win. JT's at 8.7% or 8% even and only Hovland is at above 7.0 right now. Yeah. Do you know that his full name is Alexander? I didn't know this. Shroffly? Yeah. Does he have a cool middle name too or no? I don't know, but I was on the Wikipedia page. I mean, sorry, we could pay to you. See here, Alexander Victor. I thought it was, that's a strong name though. Alexander Victor Shroffly. No, I think I was going to say the amount of foresight and swagginess it takes to go with Xander over Alex or something like that, that's 10 out of 10. So another reason to go all in on Alexander Shroffly for this week. Who is your second high salary guy for the Men's Olympics golf? I'm going to go with Patrick Reed and I think that now that we've mentioned Xander, JT and Reed, it's probably gonna be my big three for the week. Reed coming in to replace Bryson DeChambeau, who tested positive for COVID, has a lot of appeal this week. Even though I'm seeking birdies because from what I kind of gather, it's not gonna play super tough, especially if fairways are wide, which helps Reed, who's not a good driver from a distance or accuracy standpoint, but Reed's actually a really good birdie maker. He's in the 91st percentile and birdie a better rate gained over the past 100 rounds. And I know JT and to a smaller extent, Xander will be pointed out as like no-cut mavens, but Reed has a lot of small field wins, two WGCs, the Tournament of Champions, the Northern Trust twice. Even the Masters is like not a full field if there's a cut obviously, but like we've seen good stuff from Reed. We don't do this kind of stuff, but I do think he'll probably be really, really focused because he's representing his country, which seems to matter to him. So I think Reed won't be nearly as popular as some of the other options up here. And I think he's got, I haven't been 7% likely to win, which is just behind it puts him forth right in that conversation for like the favorite. And I don't think what we treated as such on Fandle. So I'm gonna get you a try to wiggle out another head to head here because my second guy mentioned before that Xander Shafley leads the field in true strokes game the past calendar year, the guy who is second is Paul Casey. And Casey is also tops in the field in that category the past six months. He's 11,000, do you want to Paul Casey versus Patrick Reed head that you're already writing it down? Yeah, I'm already writing it down. Okay, so we got to say baby, that's really concerning that you wrote that down so fast. Maybe I should be concerned. Is it because our podcast head to heads are now 22 to 12 in favor of you. And also by the way, 15, 13 in the bottle hat. So I'm losing my lead quick. Yeah, I need to renew our league because it expired. I'll talk to you about that after. But anyway, Paul Casey has gained, do you count last week? I told you not to count last week. I just put it in there for fun. I counted last week. I told you not to. It's 14, it's 15, 12. Anyway, Paul Casey has gained at least 4.7 strokes in approach and 1.0 at the tee in four straight measured events in the lone non-measured event. He finished 15th at the open. Casey is typically rough on the greens, but he does rank ninth in the field in strokes game putting on bed grass the past 100 rounds. He adds distance as well. So I think he's a full package here at $11,000. Why have we not talked about Paul Casey yet? And what are your thoughts on him this week? I don't know. I think it's great. You hate greatness. Admit it. I think it's honestly fatigue. Just long-term Paul Casey fatigue, which is not a good example or a good excuse, I should say. Similar with Xander, I think people are still high on Xander, but not quite to the point that they used to be. Just because, yeah, Casey's got some wins won earlier this year in Dubai, but the data is really strong for Casey. So I don't really have a process-based reason not to like Casey. Except you hate greatness. That's the process. You hate greatness. I get it. But I will say that over the past year, once adjusted for field strength, I have Patrick Reed as a better player, more likely to win. And again, I'm really not going to go against Patrick Reed when he's got that red, white, and blue on. Is he actually going to wear like a, I hope he goes with like a red and white or red and blue, like striped polo with like white pants. Like that's what I want. I think they have like pre-determined uniforms. I'm not sure. I actually did not even like watch the 2016 event, but although I made a great book socks joke with Patrick Reed and one of his polos at the open and like nobody got it. But you know, people I guess don't remember book socks. I have no idea what book socks are. It's the like stretchy like material you put on your books in middle school. And then I have like the- Except for- The cool patterns. Unless you were broke and had the- The brown paper bags. Yeah, brown paper bags, yeah. Hey man, I did that. I would just- Oh, where'd it go? Yeah, but there was like a blue camo one that everyone had. And it looked just like Patrick Reed's polo. And I thought I made it for you. If you saved money on book covers, you could have more allowance for Spider-Man figures. So who's actually the winner here? It's me. Guaranteed. It's Patrick Reed. It's not. Let's move down to the mid-range and talk about some guys who like around 10,000 and 9,000 in that range. Brandon, you're going to a guy who could also wear red, white, blue, but for Chile and not for the USA because Chile's flag is also red, white, and blue. That's Joaquin Neiman. What stands out to you about Neiman here? I like that you had to explain. People don't know what the Chile, I mean, they probably do, but like, you know, not everyone, not obviously the listeners, or millions of listeners may not all know what Chile's flag looks like. A lot of these flags are red, white, and blue, though. True. But yeah, Neiman, love him. That's all I got. Now, he's got some question marks with the wedges. 23% tile adjusted stroking around the green over the past year in my database, but green lights elsewhere. Teeter, you know, off the tee approach and putting and he's on bent grass, at least from what I'm seeing from my research. So that's pretty nice. And I do think that Neiman, coming off that 59th of the open is not going to, you know, drum up a whole lot of interest, especially with some other golfers who, one of which you'll be talking about in just a second, drawing some attention. But he's been heating up long-term with that potter, and that leads to upside over those guaranteed rounds. So I like Neiman, and I think the low 10,000 range has a lot of big names. And I'm kind of treating them as like tier two studs, just like low, like more affordable studs to roster this week. So I do like that range a lot. If you want to be in this range without overextending yourself without punting on like a meet a prayer type guy, I would say getting your Xander, getting your JT, getting your whoever, and then getting two guys in this range, that's pretty attractive to me. And Neiman would be in that, in that rotation for me. Yeah, like I said, Cam Smith, Neiman, Connors, and someone else. Is it Sung Jae-in? It is. Speaking of another guy who could wear red, white, and blue, but there is black on the South Korean flag too. So we'll add in like black shoes for Sung Jae, and we'll just have more of the same thing as Patrick Reed. That is Sung Jae-in, $10,000 for this week. So you were talking about how Patrick Reed may be extra motivated wearing the flag or whatever he's wearing for this week. Sung Jae-in has motivation, man. It's a big one too. He and Si-woo Kim skip the open. You feel probably there's like 16,000 times this week, but I don't care. They skip the open to rev up for this event because if they meddle, they get to skip mandatory military service in South Korea. So clearly laser focused on this event and their travel schedules have likely been optimized. Like Johnny Vegas is playing last week, et cetera, et cetera. They probably have been planning around this and I'm fine baking that in because like psychologically it matters. The travel schedule does matter. So Sung Jae, I think he comes from the big fall off in this field. It is more narrative based than we usually go, but I think for an event like this, I'm actually okay doing that. So that's why I'm in on Sung Jae. What about you? Yeah, I mean, that's part of it, but he's always good with the driver, like just to gain strokes it feels like and the putting is quite good as well. So he's at least 81st percentile and strokes off the tee and putting once adjusted for full strength and recency over the past year, good birdie maker. And like you said, just that extra motivation not that anyone here is gonna be unmotivated and sometimes that pressure could be a bad thing, but Sung Jae doesn't really seem that flappable either. So yeah, he's gonna be popular. Because of the narrative. And I think there are ways pivot. So keep that in mind. I would say that like the high 9,000 range is not all that attractive to me though. So well, there's what like six golfers with the nine in front of their name. You're true. You're true. That's true. One, six, yeah. Yeah. I mean, Tommy Fleawood at 99, Mark Leishman 98. You, I think a lot of people will probably lump them into that cluster, but I won't. Christian Pizzerian Hote 97. So yeah. Let's move down to the other mid sour guys we like. Jumping down beneath that range. Who else do you like here? Yeah, I mean, I struggled with this because for us, we're looking at golfers generally in the 9,000 range. And outside of those three names I just listed, we have Garak Higo at 93, Alex Norin at 92, who I'm out on after he burned me, but then it looked closer and I shouldn't have liked him anyway. And then Siwo Kim at 9,000, who you'll talk about in a second. So kind of by default, but also not something I hate is Higo at 9,300. We've seen him just light it up. We had two European tour wins, a PGA tour win at the Palmetto within a five start span. And then it all came crashing down, four missed cuts in his past five starts, which is not what you want to see, but if you look back at his finishes, we've seen like missed cut streaks followed by strengths of top 20, strengths of like top 15s and wins and then some cuts. So still young, still probably working on some things. And we know that the sheer upside is basically in the first place in a field, this good may be more realistically top five because he's got the JT, Xander Morcala in the mix, but I think Higo a higher risk play, but a little bit less risky because it is the no-cut event. Yeah, I think that he's interesting for sure. And I would also say Alex Norin's in that consideration. He is $9,200 and tremendous bank grasp putter. He's good else. You don't like him? No. Why? I never really liked Norin. And then- You recommended him like two weeks ago. Did you not hear what I just said? Come on, I forgot. You know what? I forgot about how you never listen to what I say. I leave and I'm optimistic and then come back. And no, I said like his iron play is always two week and he's just really good with the short game. And that makes him the type of golfer I don't like to roster. And yes, I recommended him at the open because he had really good open numbers and seemed like it was gonna be a tough event at the open and it wasn't. So that's just, yeah. Well, I'm gonna go here. The irons are not a baked in negative. He has some distance off the tee ranking 18. They're the past 50 rounds, leads the field in bank grasp putting. He finished fourth the rocket mortgage. So Norin 92 is good. I would say though, I'm okay skipping over this tier going like, you know, see what came at $9,000 with like Ortiz or something like that and just living in the high 9,000 range or the low 10,000 range trying to make that work. That could work, but I think that I'm fine with Norin if I wound up at 92. No objections here, but you're a haters. Let's be down to the value tier. Who do you like there? I mean, I think it's justified hate. Like it's not hate. It's just like, I'm not interested. So I want to make that clear. Also over the past 100 rounds, could you guess who is last in this field with data in opportunities game, which is a fantasy national stat that basically indicates birdie opportunities. Could you guess who would be last? Xander Schoffle, just to be spiteful. It's the other Alexander and that's Alexander Norin. Or Alex. He's going to like stay out of trouble. He's first in doubles avoided, but I don't think that's really what we need this week over 72 holes. So I liked him at the open. Don't like him at the Olympics. Can we make a bet then? Like he go versus Norin? No, I like he go. That's fine. I don't mind him. So no, think of a Norin bet because I want this. Okay. Alex Norin versus Hurley Long. You told me to give you one. Guillaume Ozi-Noti. Gavin Kyle Green. Kevin? Gavin Green. Kevin Green. Gavin Green. I'm going to talk about Guido. You tell me if you'll take a bet against Norin. Oh, I like Guido too. Mille Ozi is 11th in data golf true stroke scan approach numbers over the past 20 rounds across his shot link data sample, fifth in overall true stroke scan, which doesn't necessarily need shot link. So that's the more reliable stat. So really good, super recent form. If you look back 50 rounds, he's 22nd in true stroke scan, which makes him just basically one of the best value plays in the field and just like kind of undervalued. I would not be surprised if he would have been like 9,200 as well. I think it's just naturally where the salaries fell for Guido. I like him way more than Alex Norin this week. Way more. Wow. So do you want to give me like Norin plus 30 versus Guido head to head? See, I should have stayed on the track. Stay on the island. Roasting and stay with Williams Astudio. Stay there, hang out with Latertuga and you could have been fine. You could have avoided this, but hey, you came back. This is your choice. You can only blame yourself. So let's talk about Siwu Kim. I love Siwu. Even outside of the narrative, the narrative is like, you know, that is what it is, but $9,000, low salary, not the longest got the T, but he should have everything else here. He ranked 16th in approach, seventh around the green, 13th in bank grass putting, and Kim is a good driver. He's not, I wouldn't say he's not a bad driver. His left turns are. Come on, man. It's more the right turns that I get to see with him. It's like racing. I get it. I get it. Also, I was thinking about Olympic racing and he got me very excited and I wish we would do it. But anyway, he's not a bad driver despite the fact that he's not super long off the tee. So if I had to choose between one of the guys from a strictly narrative perspective between Sung Jam and Siwu Kim, I would go Siwu Kim for me. Brandon, what are your thoughts on Siwu Kim this week? Love him. Would have talked about him if you did not. There are question marks, obviously, with someone like Siwu Kim, but he's actually one of the best per salary dollar values when I combine stats that I'm looking at in overall long-term form. Combine those into one number compared to the salary. He's just like a top three value this week. So I'm gonna have a lot of Siwu Kim. I won't be alone in that, but I don't feel that worried. I agree. He's gonna withdraw or something. Yeah, we'll see. I don't think he would this week. I think he'd get through it for sure. Let's move down to our other value guys. Who else do you like here? Jonathan Vegas, the Venezuelan. I mean, I forgot to mention all the darn. Where is Guido Miliosi from? That's a tough one. Who could say? Ho-ho! But I'm Jim, welcome back Brandon. I think that like the ball striking from Vegas is really promising for four guaranteed rounds. He's not gonna make every birdie chance he gets, but he is gonna get into those opportunities. Again, 89th percentile in birdie or better rate gained. 80th percentile in opportunities gained over the past 100 rounds according to Fantasy Nationals. I think that again, he's probably gonna outscore the golfers he finishes tied with on the leaderboard because it will make some extra birdies, possibly some eagles. I like Vegas a lot. I also like Carlos Ortiz, because once you adjust for competition, Ortiz is under salary here, $8,400. He is 25th in salary, but his win odds rank 23rd and he has 16th in true strokes gained over the past six months. And he'll have the distance keep up here. Ortiz ranked sixth in distance the past 50 rounds. The approach play has been trending back up recently. He has gained in five of the past six measured events. That includes to what I would deem to be like pop events. He's gained a 4.8 at the Byron Nelson, 9.5 at the Memorial, also had a three strokes gained approach events in there as well. You could do a lot worse for $84. Brandon Ortiz or Vegas for you this week. I don't know why I didn't, I think I just forgot, I was writing some of this in the car ride home, but Ortiz is the most likely winner in my simulations among golfers with the salary below 9,000, just 1.6%, but that's gonna stem from really strong long-term form. We've talked a lot about Carlos Ortiz over the years, so I need to inject him in my article on Number Fire and I probably would rank him, yeah, you're right, that's a great call with Ortiz. Do you prefer him or Vegas? Actually, probably Ortiz long-term. I think it's close, but I like both. I would probably go Ortiz by a hair, but I think it's very close and I like both. So they will be among the core rotational guys to me this week in the value section. Let's finish up here with some win picks. You are riding high off a Colin Mora-Cowabunga win at the Open Championship because he was your win pick there, so you can have honor and go first. Who are your win picks for the Men's Olympics Golf Competition? It's a good question, I didn't even think about this. I'm just deciding between like, do I go with Sander at nine to one because we're looking at bets that we'd actually make. It's a little bit short for me at nine to one, so I'm more inclined to go with Patrick Reed, at 14 to one for my first option. Well, then we're gonna keep the head to heads going. So we have a Reed versus Casey head to head, and I'm gonna go with Paul Casey. It's my first win pick because Paul Casey, known winner, who wins all the time, 14 to one, I just think the data is too good for me to ignore him in an event like this. So I'll go with Paul Casey. Struggling with the other guy, honestly. Yeah, it's not species. Actually, I know, sorry, I know. Who's it gonna be? How are we shortened? No. Cameron Smith, he was 22 and he's now 20. I'm still gonna pick him though. Okay. So I want Paul Casey and Cameron Smith. All right, well, then I'll go Corey Connors at 27 and then we'll have both of our head to heads. So yeah, this is all types of hedging. Love to tie all my head to heads to Paul Casey and Cameron Smith and we'll see what happens. Let us hope that off the tee play does not matter as much for all Cameron. And the good thing is he does fit with the Cameron narrative, just being the year of the Cameron. So I guess that helps. Only Camerons are allowed to win except for Tringale because why would he be allowed to win? I'm not mad. Anyway, that is all that we have here for this week, Brandon. Any final thoughts for you on this men's Olympics golf before we close up shop for today? The one thing I would say is take a stand if you feel strongly about any particular golfer, someone like Rory or Hovland, who I know Jim's higher on than I am. Or they were going to answer, but I kind of said in jest, but there are going to be guys who don't get talked up a lot and they're all here for a reason, like Jim said. So look out for those guys and just trust yourself because it is a no cut event. I think that I agree where I will be building around studs, identifying who I want to go with there and then still having like core plays among the value plays, but the exposure to said core plays being lower than with the studs for sure. That is all that we have here for this week, but don't forget Brandon is back with you 3.30 PM Eastern on the Fandall YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages, taking your questions on the men's Olympic golf competition. We're talking about golf or DFS and betting there. So tune in then and stick around for the MLB Q&A at 4 PM. Do not forget to subscribe to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. 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