 Master's week is finally here. We've got ourselves a big favorite of FanDuel Sportsbook for this one, Scottie Scheffler plus 450 to win it over at FanDuel Sportsbook down in Augusta, but plenty of other contenders in the field for this week. We're gonna break down the betting markets at FanDuel Sportsbook, break down what you gotta know for Augusta, let's know which golfers we are targeting in FanDuel DFS lineups as well. This is the heat check right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and FanDuel Research. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a managing editor of digital media for FanDuel Research, joined here as I am every Tuesday by Brandon Gdula. Check him out on Twitter at Gdula13. He is a senior managing editor for FanDuel Research. Brandon, you are back off of WrestleMania here for the Master's. Pretty fun week for you, I assume. How are you doing today? I'm good, Cody Rhodes finished his story. That was great. Really the whole weekend, my wife and I did both of that to Mania, Smackdown and Raw, but then also the NXT show, which is like the WWE's third brand or like developmental brand. That was awesome, crowd was hyped for that. I'm not like a big crowd guy, believe it or not. I know I give off like big crowd energy, but it's the kind of place I could be. So I was there for it. I got amped for it. It was really fun. And the fact that like you even asked me a little bit of like, you know, you checked it out. You know, it's hard like when you're in a bubble to really know like how popular something is, but we got some of that like kind of crossover, casual appeal and what better way to sort of parlay that than to talk about the one week of golf where we get that of like, hey, what's going on with Phil this year? What's up with Tiger? Like this is the time where people ask those questions. So going back to back between these two weeks, feels like for two of my niche interests, I would probably say golf is relatively a niche interest. It's kind of my sweet spot here. Do you have a favorite moment in the weekend? I mean, the easy one is the main event of night to with Cody Rhodes getting the win with some help. That was just phenomenal. But yeah, boom in the rock Monday night. Thought it's gonna lose my voice. So thankfully I didn't because I have to do this podcast, but also another one with you. Yeah, we do have, as you mentioned, the covering this spread tomorrow full betting breakdown of the masters, but glad you made it back in one piece. Glad you had a blast. A fun event that lived up to the hype. Can't really top that. So I was interested just cause like I wanted to see, you talked about it a lot, but also it seemed kind of interesting. So I did check it out. I tuned in after the finale thing, like Cody Rhodes is hugging Triple H. So I missed like the fun stuff, but I was happy. I knew you kind of wanted the outcome. So I was still glad to see it. I saw a lot of Twitter clips after. So I think I got enough of a rundown. It seemed like it was a blast. So glad you were there to experience it all. Big week for this week here on the show, as you mentioned, not just breaking down top bets and DFS plays today here on the show, but also tomorrow, a further in depth betting breakdown with the two of us over on the covering, the spread podcast feed, breaking down more group level stuff, breaking down some round one bets and stuff and all of that. So we'll give you like outright, finishing position, all the basics you want. We're going to cover on the show here for today from a betting perspective, but then some of our granular stuff tomorrow too over on the covering the spread podcast feed. So these podcasts can both be consumed and still still get new information over there as well. 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I mean, simplified, it's a major, so everything matters. It's just anytime we get a major or a really difficult field, you have to pretty much do everything well, but especially at Augusta, there's kind of one stat where you can be lacking and it's driving accuracy. And a big reason for that is the fairways are wide, over 50 yards on average, according to DataGolf's course table, that's like 85th out of 88 courses in terms of width and it's not super penalizing to miss the fairways here, but it's about 250 yards longer than the average par 72. I've changed that number around a bit because my sample was a little outdated and then I kind of updated it, but it just also depends on how things get measured every now and then. I think they also lengthened one of the holes by 10 yards or something like that, it's possible. There was a very dramatic shift, 10 yards, huge difference. I try not to, like I know we want to get every sort of edge we can. It's not gonna change things too much. I get being reactive and trying to get out ahead and think about things differently, but there's, well, golf's volatile and I don't want to get into the weeds to that degree, especially because we kind of know, like you said, by now what matters at Augusta and you have to hit your irons well, which is stroke scan approach. Maybe people were listening, like you said, who don't really watch golf, follow golf. Stroke scan approach is effectively your iron play and it's a very critical stat. Week in, week out, it's the one where you gain or lose the most strokes, aside from putting in a particular week, but Augusta National, you need to hit these greens. These greens are a little bit larger than average. They're like just under 6,500 square feet. PJs were averaged around 6,000, so they're definitely not small, but they're also not really large. And one thing while we're talking greens, first week of the year with bent grass greens, I'm not doing a whole lot with that information. I don't look at putting splits like I used to on surfaces, but for anyone who does, that's an angle to play this week if you want to. But winning scores, 12 under, 10 under, 10 under, 20 under when it was held in the off-seat, or I guess in the fall, just to clarify, then 13 under. So it's not a birdie fest by any means. It's gonna be a pretty grueling test. So going back to the key stats this week for me, stroke scan approach, stroke scan off the tee, but with an emphasis just on driving distance. With the caveat, again, for people, how do I implement things like driving distance? Well, you can look at things like rankings, sure, but sometimes there's about a three-yard difference between golfers with like 15 spots different in their rankings. So it's a little bit tricky, but you basically want to kind of maybe be a little bit wary of the really short hitters and maybe bump up some of the really long hitters. That's kind of, I think what the real takeaway is in that instance. And then really to finalize, like I want total strokes gained. I want it all. I want good form. Data golf, true stroke scan query is pretty invaluable, especially for these majors with newcomers or returnees to the fields that we dissect from the live tour. Data golf gathers all that info. They try to, they adjust for field strength. So total stroke gained, I think, is probably not a bad way to go for it this week. And then we don't look at course history a ton. We talk about it, it helps, but at Augusta National, it's the most important that we get all year. So I'm kind of factoring in way more things than normal, but to simplify what I'm looking for is approach off the tee around the green putting. Those are the big four strokes gain stats, little bit of driving distance and then course history. So I want it all. And if you're really weak in certain areas, the only place I'm willing for it to be weak is driving accuracy for the most part. And I think that one thing to emphasize here is because accuracy doesn't matter here, we can sometimes get the misconception that we want to sell out for bombers. And I think that is a misconception. I think it really is about, you know, we're looking at all the tee play emphasizing distance, but it's really about all around play versus selling out for distance. And there are guys who are not super long off the tee, you can still be pretty strong here and have good course histories. Like back when Matt Fitzpatrick wasn't long off the tee, he still played really well at Augusta because the rest of his game was so good. So I think it's important to kind of emphasize that, that even though we're not going to look at accuracy, it's not just a bombers paradise kind of thing. You want the all around play. And if you're looking at off the tee play, you emphasize distance, but you don't just like say, okay, sort by distance and go from there. I think that's an important thing to note because I think that sometimes you can see that discussion around Augusta and I don't think that plays out in the data. Yeah, there's more to golf than distance. Distance is a massive factor, but the reason that someone like Bryson DeChambeau or Wyndham Clark are- I wear my Wyndham shirt today, by the way. This shirt kind of has like some weird, like it's black with some weird texture on it, which looks a lot like Wyndham's old player headshot. Actually it's a current one too, over at Fandall. So I've got, actually it's not really that black I guess, but it's still like, this is my Wyndham shirt. So I've got it on. I'm not using him, like not high on him this week for DFS or for betting, but I did have to rock the Wyndham shirt regardless. I want that exact shirt though, we can make that happen somehow. I would never wear that shirt in a million years. Vacation gym would, vacation gym don't care. And he would like work gym, I'm going to go with like the fake Wyndham shirt, but either way, I think the exercise that you alluded to is course history, matting it, adding a bit more and speaking to Wyndham Clark. I, it is important that we do want to be, I guess the way I phrase it is skeptical of people playing here for the first time, Wyndham Clark is one of them, just because course history does tend to matter a lot here. So I think I'm phrasing it that way intentionally where you don't cross off guys who were playing here for the first time, but if their salary is 10, 6 and they're like 22 to one to win, I'm going to need a lot of stuff working their favor to get on board with them for this week. Yes. So to finish my thought about Bryson and Wyndham before we talked about Wyndham shirt, the reason those guys are good in their major winners is because they're long off the tee, but they're also good at other things. There are certain golfers who hit the ball a mile and don't do a whole lot else. And sometimes those golfers can show up like Cameron Champ at Augusta historically, something like that. But yeah, it's not a, who hits it the farthest wins situation. There's way more to Augusta national than that. So I agree there. And to go back to the debutante angle again, data golf.com, they have a course history tool. They show where course history is the most predictive. This, it's basically the Augusta national scale. It's like twice as predictive as any other course on tour. Now part of that is because you get a lot of the same golfers playing it a lot. And so that helps with the sample, but it also just is basically a reminder that the best golfers are the best golfers as a sample grows larger, which makes sense. And that's what you want to see. But as far as like, it always comes back to the, okay, first timers haven't won here in forever basically, but that's not to say that they can't play well or finish well. So someone like Wyndham or Ludwig this week, very interesting, hard to model because if I keep my traditional model situation, it doesn't have like anything built in where it says, this is the first time that they play they're winning probability zero. You can't do that. So they're really fascinating this week with as far as like the debutants go, it's the only week of the year we can say that word, but it's a piece of the puzzle. It's definitely not all of it. And just because someone's played well here and maybe they're in bad form doesn't mean I want to roster them or bet them. So. Well, of course, history matters more. Let's dig into that right now and talk about golfers who have done well at Augusta. And like you said, it's kind of just a list of all bangers all the time. Who stands out when you look at past history at Augusta National? John Rom is, so I look at the past five years. I don't want to look past that really. His salary is $12,200 on Fandle this week. And if you look at the betting board, which Jim has pulled up for anyone watching, I'm having a hard time and I'm gonna just go on a slight like, I'm gonna get derailed a little bit. Like John Rom's 11 to one. Rory's 11 to one. Scotty Scheffler as we already talked about, plus 450. And my guy's Ander, 14 to one, but then it's Hideki and Brooks in his 20s. Like, it's just because Scotty's playing as well as he is, but the fact that there are two major tours, it feels like the star power isn't quite what it used to be leading in. And I could be way off base in that, but like when I'm building a betting card or like lineups, you know, I love Xander this week, but everyone else is kind of, and I love Scotty for DFS. Can't quite get behind betting him. I feel like I'm kind of low on everyone else like a John Rom or Rory by default. Does that, is that a bad viewpoint this week? Just like weird. I don't get the bad viewpoint, just not a viewpoint I personally feel because we go over to the DFS salaries on Fandle. Scotty Scheffler's salary is 13. My mouth dropped when I saw that number this week. So $13,000 for Scotty Scheffler, then it jumps down to Rahmat 12-2 and Rory at 11-8. So I actually do think those guys have value because we talk a lot about having balance in a major field in DFS. It's hard to get balanced with Scotty. Now, if you go Scotty is your top guy at 13,000, you still got 94 to left per golfer and you can do that and have a balanced lineup, but it means it's just Scotty. You're not getting too flexible in equity. You're getting one. Now, the one swipe with Scotty might actually get you more win equity than getting two with like a, you know, a ROM plus a Xander or something like that, but it is different. So I actually think that ROM and McElroy are very interesting. I currently have Rory as a player pick. I am about 75% likely to change that to ROM by the end of the show. Okay. Like the more I think about it, I don't know why ROMs odds to win are the same as Rory's given we have not, like I think there's a wider range of outcomes on ROM in a positive sense. So I have Rory as a player pick right now for DFS. I might wind up on ROM just because he's more volatile in the positive sense. That's not really what you asked, but it was on my mind. No, it's not. But like before we get into everything, and there's a lot to talk about, we're probably gonna go a little bit longer than normal, which just, it's the masters, but I like, as I'm doing my notes, building out like shells of lineups, looking at the betting odds, I'm kind of really overlooking, we're, I don't wanna say overlooking, but like my process is not pointing me to Rory, not pointing me to ROM. And then after Xander, it's like a kind of a shrug as well in a sense. And I usually have a little bit more conviction, I think, for the masters. But the thing with Scotty, you know, when we talk DFS, I have him more likely to win than like Rory and ROM combined. I'm sure, yeah. So like, and there's the second. It makes some implied odds in the market. The markets is the same thing. Yeah, so like salary wise, Schaeffler still makes sense to me, but betting wise, you know, it's interesting. But then you get to like get into ROM at Augusta. So I got distracted because Vandal has a note up here, which is good, you know, they're noting the house rules within the thing, but it says any players who would draw after completing at least one stroke are considered as players and therefore losers. Like the end therefore losers phrasing is amazing. So I don't know who's responsible for this, but they deserve a raise and are therefore losers. Amazing. I don't know. I just got really distracted by that. And I'm, this is why we can't record in the afternoon. I just get distracted by and are therefore losers. This is great. Yeah. I'm still getting into the swing of things of recording later in the afternoon, so that we can implement betting a lot better to our typical show. And we, you know, we have a specific betting podcast this week coming out for Carving Spread, but it is a little bit distracting, but let's get back into the swing of things here. Sure, if we have to. If we have to. John Rom, winner 27th, 5th, 7th and 9th over his last five starts at Augusta National. If you want to look at the current form, he's been T8 or better in five straight live events in 2024, which were his only starts in 2024. That's like a top 15, top 20, depending on the field you're comparing it to on the PGA Tour. So like a lot of top 20s or so, if you're trying to compare it, again, data golf, very helpful for more easy, like easier comparisons in that sense, but he's golfing well. He's played well here. He doesn't have all the pressure that Rory's gonna have trying to win the Masters again, or again trying to win the Masters. Yes. Sorry, Rory, I know you're a big fan of the show, but I do think that Rom should be a smidge above Rory if I had to pick one. So I think I'm with you where by the end of the show, I would lean that way. But someone else who's played well here, one Scotty Schaeffler, his salary is 13,000 on Fando, as we talked about, plus 450 to win on Fando Sportsbook, but 10th, first, 18th, and 19th, we know the form is on fire. That's why he is plus 450 to win the Masters, get his second win. I mean, the fantasy points, the finishes here at this player card are pretty wild and his putting is definitely coming around since the switch too. So like, he's like who Dustin Johnson used to be effectively back when we really started podcasting. So it's, but better in a sense. So Hideki Masuyama also great form at Augusta National, 11,100 is his salary, 16th, 14th win, 13th, and 32nd over his last five starts at Augusta National. He's got five straight top 25s, including a win at the Genesis, really good irons across the board too. So Hideki, actually someone we've been flagging in current form who wasn't in great form, but now he's rounding back, which is very interesting leading into Augusta where he's played well. But so is Zander Schaeffler. He always plays well at majors or virtually always, did miss the cut two years ago, but 10th, 3rd, 17th, and 2nd for him and his other four starts, four straight top 25s, seven of them in eight starts since January 1st. Form's good. He's basically the best golfer in the field behind Schaeffler, you know, across any recent sample. Just you want to look at Cameron Smith, his salary is 9,900, 34th, 3rd, 10th, 2nd in his last four starts, did withdraw at Liv Miami last week due to food poisoning. So just kind of wanted to shout that out was T2 in Hong Kong after a T41, T15 and T8 in a 2024 on the lift tour, which is not great. It's really hard to get good stats from the lift tour, but Rick Gaiman at Rick Rungood on Twitter has posted some stroke scan stats. He's found a way to get stroke scan numbers for the lift tour. So if you want to look at that, check out Rick again at Rick Rungood on Twitter. Dustin Johnson, you know, shattered him out before in terms of like being phenomenal. It's been a while since we've seen that, but he did win here four years ago and also has had a runner up before that, another top 15. But T5 and a win on the lift tour in February and then kind of struggling since then T27, T27, T24. Again, not a full field, three rounds. It's tricky in that sense. But other live golfers have played well here, which is why I wanted to cut this off sooner, but I think it's interesting. We don't talk about these golfers very often. Big P, Patrick Reed, 9,100 is his salary. Fourth, last year, 35th, 8th, 10th, and 36th. The form was really just okay to start 2024, but finished fourth on the Asian tour in mid-March, T9 at Live Miami last week. It's sort of like a, if it was just the Valera last week, it's like a T25 and like a T8 sort of equivalent. So good numbers there. But again, going back to those stroke scan numbers from our game and really riding a hot putter, hot short game, ball striking is kind of bad. So what's the narrative bump for Patrick Reed being back in Georgia given his interesting collegiate career? Is it a bump up or is it a Georgia revenge game against Patrick Reed being back in that state? You're the narrative guy, you'd have to tell me. It's a bump down. I just wanted to ask you to give you the floor in case it was not the case, but it's a bump down. I just want to, 91's not bad for a salary, but no. Okay. You got any narratives on Brooks Kepka? No. Did switch to a mallet putter, which is interesting. I thought he'd never switch. Just seems like he would have powered through anything, but. Brooks is stubborn? Hmm. Putting numbers haven't been great for when I can gather. Please don't quote me on that. Cause it's not a quote that's just like, I think trying my best, he hasn't putted well. We don't have great stats since the switch, but two runners up a seventh and two missed cuts over the last five years for Brooks. So, and he's not putting well for him to switch putters, I think is probably a sign. So that might be the best narrative. In 11-6, if I went exposure to Brooks, I'd probably just find a way to bet him or something, but long-term data makes it hard to model him. So I'm not quite there. And then just quick shout outs to some golfers with just two starts in the last five years, but Wills Alatoris, six and second. He's baby Brooks, shows up in the majors. Okay. I'm right. I think he needs a couple more wins, maybe before we. Okay. Didn't play last year with the back, but has played well here in his two starts. And then Russell Henley, 30th, two years ago, but fourth last year, his salary is only 8,800. Just gonna let you guys know right now. And Jim and I both like Russell Henley kind of a good bit this week. Russell Henley rules, happy to be there. Now, two guys I wanted to talk about a bit more. Are Hideki Matsuyama and Wills Alatoris? Because as you mentioned, Hideki's form had been off, but recently it's been a lot better. We know the course history is good. Now, for guys whose form is trending up, that's the spot to buy low. With Hideki, we missed the window to buy low because he's getting a big bump due to course history. So where are you with Hideki at 11-1? He's just above Xander in terms of a Fandal salary. He's 20-1 so longer than Xander as far as win odds. So how are you handling Hideki this week? The salary's high. I would have a hard time getting to Hideki, frankly, in lineups, but I'm not gonna talk anyway. I guess this is really where everything, where when all the dust settles, when it comes to a major, you really gotta see something in some of these top guys to say no, flat out no. Hideki's been striping the irons. He's hitting his driver well, gaining distance, not substantially, but gaining some distance. The wedges for him are good, but he's a really good wedge player long-term, and then it comes down to the putting. And he won the Genesis, putted really well, putted well, book ending that on either side of it, and then caught off a bit. Let me see where he is. Hideki, 15th percentile putter on tour this season from within 15 feet. Don't love to see that, kinda hate to see that actually, but you're never gonna get great putting splits on Hideki anyway, so it's fine. You know what you're getting into with Hideki, and you want him to ball strike it to the point where he just puts it slightly better than expected, and then you can go from there. Now with Zalatoris, he had those back-to-back top fives, but since then things have fallen off a bit, two or one missed cut and then one two weeks ago where he made the cut, but then didn't perform well. Both those bad putting weeks for Zalatoris, the approach play is still pretty good in both those, but again, it's not a low salary of 10,000, so what are your thoughts on Zalatoris this week? So he's 29th percentile from within 15 feet this year. I still can't really look at Zalatoris and heavily buy into him as a putter. With that in mind, I get the case, but he's putted well on these greens, and then it comes down to does he putt well on these greens or was it luck? Was it just variance that he putted well? I think he's fine. I think the big issue is the guys in his range are really good. I was just gonna say, who else do we have in that tier? I'm gonna scroll back down. Matt Fitzpatrick is 99, Love Fitz, Bryce Nisha and Bo I think is very interesting this week in 98, a lot of interest there 98. Saathagal I think is probably better for betting than for DFS, but like, is a guy I'm broadly interested in in 97. So like, I'd rather go Fitz at 99, rather go Dishambo at 98, so, and like I can't, I don't see Zalatoris for betting right now, so I love the Augusta form and I love that he's spiked. It wouldn't be shocked if he does well, but I don't think I'll get there personally for this week. So let's talk some current form. Talk about golfers who are entering this event in good standing and we'll check back in on some live golfers in this as well, but who's popped from a form perspective when you dig into the numbers? Just for a quick Scotty check in, over the last three months, he's at a plus 3.16, true strokes gain per round with nobody else above a plus 2.50, so Scotty 316, I don't know, Austin 316, I think I'm gonna play that narrative this week for DFS, but shout out to Xander, who's salary is 10,900. He is second in this sample over the last three months at a 2.48, and then Waki Neiman, a name we'll talk about more in a bit, 10,400, he's third at a 2.31, so I don't want this to get lost in that conversation, but Schaeffler's basically a shot per round better lately than everyone but two people. Yeah, but also the guy who's third in that discussion is 28 to 1 to win this week. He is, and he's putting that out there. Basically a mid-tier, upper mid-tier salary. He's 10-4 on Fandall, correct, yes. We'll be talking to Waki Neiman later in several different sections. Yes, and then the guy who did a heel turn, I'll call it with the wrestling terms, but you turned on Wyndham, said you're not interested in him, but he's fifth in this sample. He's not 80 to one. I can only use Wyndham when he's 80 to one, he's 40, he's half, I can't do that. We're never gonna see that again, but. Get the flowchart out, bud. Come on. So the best form among golfers with a salary of 10,000 or lower on Fandall over the last three months includes Syeth Tagala at a 1.78 true strokes game per round. That's pretty high, like pretty elevated. I mentioned Neiman at a 2.31. It is a big gap, but like, you know, just for context. He's been T20 and four of six starts with good irons. Usually the putting's there as well. He's got a really fascinating profile, quite volatile because he can hit the irons well or not. He can putt really well or not. Volatility though is not a bad thing in golf. Volatility affects everyone. And if you have volatility on a high end, like that's appealing. And was top 10 here last year as well. Yes, in his debut solo ninth, I believe. Sam Burns, kind of interesting. He's at a 1.76 in this sample, but he's tailing off four straight top 20s with hot putting. But then, since then, T30 at the Arnold Palmer, T45 at the Players, and then missed the cut at the Valspar. I always wanna look more at Burns. Something about him, just, I don't wanna say he's like a Xander Light, but he's easy to overlook, doesn't like pop from a personality standpoint really, but like tends to have good underlying data. I'm not quite there with him. I don't wanna like bail too soon. But at 1.76, true source gain per round over the last three months, 29 rounds for him. It's appealing. Do you have any thoughts on Burns? I looked into him. I didn't quite talk myself into him personally, but like, I definitely had interest. And like, let's say I have $9,400 left. I might go Tommy Fleetwood over him, but like I'm not opposed to Sam Burns at 94, I guess, right? Yeah, that's fine. I think, I like Tommy Ladd, I'll talk more about him later. Bryson the Shambo, 9,800 is his salary. He's at 1.65, two wins in the fall on the live tour, which is not factored into this sample, which is from basically early January, but four straight top tens on the live tour. Sounds like you have some interest in Bryson. Yeah, I think that he's one of the better plays in the upper 9,000 range. I like Fitzpatrick more, no shock to anybody who has ever listened to us. But I think D'Shambo is a rock solid number two for me in that range. How about you? I don't know if I could, as far as like ranking that range goes, I do like Matt Fitzpatrick a lot. If I could bump up to like Colin Moore-Calla, I think he's fascinating this week at 10-1. He's played pretty well here, despite not being long off the tee. But if I go back down, I think the real question is, I guess like Bryson or Saw-Hiff. So yeah, he might be the second name there. Behind Fitzpatrick? Yeah, that's a really, this is my favorite part of the full golf season is when we get to these majors, because you got to like do some tweaks to figure out is it Cam Smith week or Dustin, or do I go up and like, hey, Patrick Cantlay, everyone's quote unquote forgetting about like Cantlay. I am okay with that. I don't see enough to discredit any of these names, but I'd say Fitz number one in this tier and then probably Bryson or Saw-Hiff. Yeah, I would do the exact same thing personally. I agree with that as well. Although I am tired of Matt Fitzpatrick ruining all my spreadsheets. I'm tired of Colin Moore-Calla ruining my lineups. So we're both dealing with something here. That's fair. Matthew Pavon 8600, he's at a 1.59. He was 270 to one to win. One of the farmer's insurance opened with really good irons and putting, but and then was solo third at Pebble the next week. Since then things have fallen off pretty quickly. T28 is the cognizant classic. T41 at Arnold Palmer missed the cut at the players. Fifth at the Porsche Singapore classic, but even though we need value or are open to value, I don't think I'm there with Pavon at this point. Siebel Cam 9300, he's at a 1.53. Five top 25s in his last seven starts and six out of nine starts in 2024. Getting approach every single event in 2024. I go back to that number with Scotty Schaeffler. If you start your lineups, I think it was what? 9400? Yeah. Like you got your Sam Burns, you got your Tommy Fleetwood, you got your Siebel Cam. It's, you know, I don't really want Scotty in five of these names. Scotty in like three of these names and of another value and then go back up. I think that's appealing. So shout out to Siebel Cam. Hopefully he can gain with approach for another week in a row. And just below or sorry, just above him and salary is Cameron Young. Irons are there right now. Solo second at Valspar. Three more top 20s in his last six starts, you know, playing good golf. We know that he can definitely be in contention. Still need to see him close it out. He's probably like baby Zander if we're gonna throw those out. And then Akshay Bhatia, 8,900. Don't think we'll get super popular, but boy, he made a statement this week. I did not follow golf a ton this weekend. I'll just be transparent. That's some other stuff going on. But coming off a win at the Valero and other good finishes at the Houston Open, T11, Valspar, T17, putting well. Irons are on fire though. The last two events and he's young enough where these kind of small samples can matter. So where are you with Akshay? Anything like enough to say, look, if I'm building one lineup, I'm considering him. How many lineups do you need to get to Akshay this week? Probably not gonna get there. He has a shoulder injury that he suffered right before the playoff. He obviously still won the playoff. So like he was fine enough to do that. But like when you combine that with the fact that it is, I believe this is his first time playing Augusta. Let me fact check that. I'll get the, we don't have an intern to fact check for us. So we'll do it ourselves. Yeah, first time playing Augusta. Yeah, sorry, I spaced out. I could have answered that quickly. So first time playing Augusta combined with a question marks around the shoulder. I also do like some guys in this range you alluded to Russell Henley before at $8,800. I'm probably gonna go there over Patia, but you know, it was really cool to see him. I was worried, I was like, I had some McCarthy DFS exposure sort of been better for me had he won that playoff, but I, well, it felt really bad if he had blown that lead. So I'm glad that he finished it. He finished his story as well. But I probably not gonna get there for DFS for this week personally. Weather for this week at Augusta is actually going to be annoying on Thursday, but not as bad as last year was. There's a good chance of rain early Thursday, which is probably gonna cause some issues as far as tee times go. The wind will be high the entire day, both Thursday and Friday. So it already plays tough. It's probably gonna play a bit tougher this week as a result of the wind the first two days. You could justify prioritizing golfers with certain tee times, hoping that they catch good wind gaps or catch some good rain gaps, but it kind of looks like everyone will deal with similar conditions. Lower wind on the weekend, no rain there. So I don't think any specific tee time will benefit from the weather, but just note that it will be rainier on Thursday morning and likely windy for Thursday and Friday. Let's take a look now at the odds board over at Fandals Sports Book and Outline. Our favorite bets at Fandals Sports Book for this week. Of course, Scotty Scheffler does lead the way. He is plus 450th at Fandals Sports Book, Brandon. You've already said you're not seeing a lot of value in Scheffler at that number. So where do you see value when it comes to outrides for this week? I'm gonna do it again. It's a tradition unlike any others. Andrew Schoff led to win the Masters 14 to one. His odds of, they did lengthen very briefly to 16 to one today if I am not mistaken. And then went right back down to 14. So, I don't think we're alone in that, but he just has a lot going on for him as usual. Over the last 50 rounds for every golfer across all tours, according to DataGolf, Xander owns a true stroke sand average of plus 2.37. It is 0.27 shots better than anyone other than Scotty Scheffler who's at a 2.81. He's really good. He can get in contention. He can stay in contention. And I'm not a believer in the fact that Xander doesn't have the ability to close out wins. He has won on tour. He's been in this position a lot. He's an Olympic gold medalist. I think that's a lot of additional factors going against Xander to the point of he's getting unlucky. And I would rather have a golfer, frankly, who's in contention and not winning than someone who wins out of nowhere. So, I'm good with this. My model likes it well enough. Even at 14 to one, I would rather go Xander than Rory or Rom at 11 to one. Pretty comfortably, even though my model is relatively high on Rory and Rom, just not quite enough to get there. But he is top eight, Xander that is, is top eight in all three of the T-to-green stats over the last 50 rounds. He's 21st in putting, but over the 2024 PGHW season, Xander is in the 64th percentile in putting from within 15 feet, 23rd percentile on puts longer than that. So probably not getting a whole lot of luck on those lengthy putts. So regression could be coming for Xander, 14 to one, he's played well at Augusta, was very much in contention against Tadecki, and then kind of fell off because he got aggressive. But I'd rather see that than, you know, not like just playing for a second, basically. I also like Joaquin Neiman at 28 to one. We talked about him and his form. We've had enough of a sample now of live golfers coming over and playing well in majors that I don't have that fear. I thought it was a reasonable fear. I don't think we need to have that at this point. And the data for Neiman, again, from either data golf, you know, long-term shows that he is quite good from Rick Gaiman, the strokes gain numbers, showing that he is gaining a lot of strokes from approach. And off the tee play, love to see that. The one potential reason not to go fully in on Neiman is just that he's played the Masters four times, made three cuts, tee 16 last year, but didn't exactly like light Augusta on fire in his starts. So maybe it seems like he should be a great course fit, but it doesn't see it that way or something. That's really all I got against Neiman though. 28 to one, very good number for Neiman in my opinion. And then I was between a few other names, including like Ludwig, but there's the debut angle. That's enough for me not to want to get there, Bryson. But I'm going with spreadsheet ruiner, Matt Matthew Fitzpatrick, 40 to one, two straight top 15 finishes at Augusta, eight consecutive cuts dating back to 2016 at the Masters, gained strokes off the tee, gaining with approach. He can gain distance. He's a really good putter, supported by good underlying stats. And he's got two straight top tens that were centered on great putting, but the ball striking has been really good as well. So 85th percentile putter from within 15 feet. I'm not worried about like putting luck or anything like that. Fitzpatrick to win 40 to one, I think will be my third name on the card at this point this week. So we are in agreement on two out of three. And the third one, which is Xander, which I don't have on my card here. I did bet at 16 to one earlier on this week. So I have bet all three of these guys. And maybe that's boring to be on the same dudes, but I feel like we're there for a reason. Let's start things off here by talking about my favorite outright, which is Joaquin Neiman 28 to one to win for this week. And I feel like if Neiman were doing on the PGA tour what he's done on live, this number would be a lot shorter than what it is right now because over at data golf and their true strokes gain query, Neiman ranks third across the past six months behind just Scotty Schaeffler and Xander Schaeffler who are plus 450 and 14 to one, respectively. And it's over a pretty large sample because he's played on the DP World Tour as well. It's an 11 event sample for Neiman in that time, which is more events than Schaeffler, more than Schaeffler, more than John Rom. So it's a big sample of Joaquin Neiman playing tremendous golf. Yeah, the Augusta history is not perfect, but he was 16th at Augusta last year. He's improved in all four trips to this course. And clearly Neiman's form is at an all new level right now. The implied odds of 28 to one are 3.5%. So I think it's a great time to buy Neiman. I'm betting that on in other majors this year, if he's there, we're probably gonna see shorter numbers on Neiman as well. So I like Joaquin Neiman 28 to one as my favorite outright for this week. Once again, no shocker. I'm with you on Fitzpatrick as well. He was 35 at FanDuel. He lengthened it to 40 and has not budged from there. I would have been okay with him at 35. I was talking about 40 earlier on this week, but I want to take him at 35 too personally in case he does shorten once again. Just because like he actually does have the decent course history, couple of top tens at Augusta in his past. This will be his 10th time playing here, which is absurd given how young he is. He was 14th in another one as well. And a key thing for Fitzpatrick is that he's adding distance because that was not part of his game previously. He's had good distance at Augusta, but like in general, he's not been a guy who was gonna gain yardage off the tee, but he is doing that now. The Irons were awesome at the players. He finished fit there. He's already shown he can beat a major level field. He's a grinder who can do really well on these par fests and stuff like that. And he's not gonna collapse under pressure. I know that's like narrative-y, but like he's proven it. Like that stuff does matter to an extent. I don't think that that's a negative for anyone. Like, you know, that's not a negative for Shafley. Again, I bet him at 16 to one, but like it's can only be a plus for a guy if it's Patrick who's definitely proven that. So I've got Fitzpatrick 40, Neiman 28. And Brandon has Fitzpatrick 40, Neiman 28, Shafley 14 to one is his favorite outrides for this week. What about non-outrides? Where are you seeing value there at Fandall Sportsbook right now? I wanted to get a Tommy Fleetwood. I think 50 to one outright is interesting, but I can't quite get there with the outright position. And that's okay by me, because even though he's on the cusp for outright value for me, those golfers aren't always like values at their current top 10 or top 20 numbers. And so I want to kind of lampshade that I like Fleetwood, but I can't quite get there currently. I right now have two top 20s that I like. First on Sahed Fagalla at plus 160. Debuted last year at Augusta, ninth place for him, gained strokes in all four facets, gained distance, gained fairways on the field as well. He's got that like high end type of volatility that might make him sound like, why not just, why not go for a top 10? But I see the value in this field where things can get clustered to stick with a top 20, although 55 to one to win partial unit, very interested in that as well. You know, he can get really hot with a putter, but it's stabilized with 83rd percentile putting from within 15 feet. The irons can go, I think like, I'm more than fine taking a chance on Sahed and the data for me bears it out as well. And then Russell Hanley as well, top 20, also plus 160. I was ready to scroll, but then realized I was confused. I was like, wait, are you scrolling? Cause he's not there anymore. So it just gave me a little bit of pause, but fresh off a solo fourth at Valero, I missed the cut at the players, but it was T4 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He's played at Augusta pretty well. T4 last year, he's now finished T31 or better in six consecutive years plus top 15 or better in three of the four, 85th percentile putter from within 15 feet. I love that at Augusta. It's a stat that I like to look at. My research says that it's important. So I have been citing it throughout the show. He is short off the tee, I get it, but he's not prohibitively short and he's actually gained some distance at Augusta sort of over his long-term career. Not a ton, but he can still hit it when he needs to. So Henley, Thigala, top 20s plus 160, draw on my attention right now. I think both those make sense. No objection. I like an exposure to Thigala as well and Henley, but I'll get DFX exposure to Henley to kind of cut off that. I have one top 20 as well. And there are some downsides, some red flags here. It's on Denny McCarthy. He shortened to plus 230, but still a fine number. He was plus 240 earlier on. Still okay with that. The red flags from McCarthy are that he's not long off the tee and he is also a debiton here at Augusta. First time playing here, but we've seen him do okay in majors in the past, finished 20th at the US Open last year. And we talked before about how distance matters more than accuracy, but it's not everything. And McCarthy, right now, approach through putting is playing really well. And the approach part is important because that wasn't always the case in McCarthy. He was kind of like a short game merchant who would just obliterate around the green and putting, but like the irons have been better for McCarthy recently. And I think that really does boost expectations for him quite a bit at a course like this where you can make up ground that fashion. Last week, like again, it wasn't that the Batia collapsed. It was that McCarthy ran him down by playing really good golf. They were both like eight shots clear of the field. So it was more an endorsement than McCarthy than it was a downside for Okshay. So I think with McCarthy, there's a lot of interest there. Again, plus 230 finished top 20 where I'm going with him. I do have a Xander bet as well. I'm gonna go with Xander. He finished inside the top five. Like I said, I think that the 14 to one to win is totally fine too, but consistency with Xander is actually a plus. And I think that's what you're getting here at three to one to finish inside the top five. And we seem to do this already at Augusta. He's done this twice, 2019 and 2022. Finished 10th year last year. He's finished top five in three of his past four events, including at the players, which is a very tough field to no live guys in that one obviously, but still tough field, tough course. He's great around the green, which does help here. He's actually one of the best around the green players in the field over the past six months, like not the top, but he's up there for sure. So I'll definitely take that. I prefer this slightly over the outright at 14 to one, but honestly, pick your poison. You could do a partial unit on the top five and then put a partial unit on the win. If you want some upside, should he actually finish this whole thing off? But either way, I think exposure to Xander makes a lot of sense. So I'm going McCarthy, top 20 plus 230. Xander top five, three to one. Brandon has Henley and Figala plus 160 for a top 20s as his two non-outrights for this week. We'll talk more betting. Talk about some more granular markets on tomorrow's covering the spread as well. First though, let's transition talks in DFS for this weekend as mentioned, kind of a fascinating dynamic for this week, given that Schaeffler's salary is $13,000. So Brandon, when you consider Schaeffler's salary, consider the hotspots in the player pool this week in terms of areas you want to get to. Who are your loves for DFS on Fandle at Augusta? I love Scotty Schaeffler in DFS on Fandle for the Masters. I know the salary is 13,000, but you plug them in, you have 9,400 on average for your other five golfers. It is very doable. You can still get back up into the 10,000 range if you are open to a value that we both have as a like this week. You can do a lot. Are you doing this now? Yeah, sure, why not? Okay. Denny McCarthy's salary is $7,200. If you put McCarthy with Schaeffler, got 99.50 left. So you can still get in that range. It just kind of locks you into using McCarthy because I don't think there's anybody else down that low who grades that well. And you could do it without McCarthy, like you could live in the upper eights in the low nine. That's okay too. But there's really only two kinds of rosters to build with Schaeffler. That's not saying you can't use him, but that's a downside, at least in my eyes. You can get to our guy walking Neiman though. You can, you sure can. Without using McCarthy. Okay, let's do that here. So if you go with Schaeffler plus Neiman, 91.50 left, doable. Definitely can do that. Yep, absolutely. Yep. So that's appealing for me. Schaeffler, I have him basically twice as likely to win compared to anyone. I don't want to ignore that. I know that the salary's up there, but there are other potential options to build around and you have your Matt Fitzpatrick's, your Neiman's, Sahith, and maybe you don't have Sahith quite in that tier or anything, but in the low 10,000 range, you have some star power still. Maybe you guys who are in imperfect form, but guess what? Golf doesn't quite work that way where your form over the past month or three months or 50 rounds or whatever is just how you play. That's not how it works. Love what Jim's doing here though. Schaeffler plus Schaeffler plus Neiman and McCarthy. That leads you with 92.50 left for two golfers. I will have a lot of that has these four guys in it somewhere. It is interesting. Data golf has three years of stroke gain data from Augusta. Schaeffler is averaging 3.34 true stroke gained T-degree. That's wild. Only a decade of 2.92 is above a 2.6. I know the putting is potentially still an issue with Schaeffler. I don't quite see it that way. He's putted pretty well or at least neutral since the switch for the most part. So switch, sorry, the switch equipment to a mallet putter if anyone doesn't know that. So I don't know how you go down to John Rom and save 800 over Schaeffler as like a primary decision. So for me, I love Schaeffler. I also love Xander. And yes, you can play both Scotty and Xander together. You have $9,025 on average left for your other four golfers. Very doable, even if you don't go down into the 7,000 range. But we've talked Xander a ton. He is just the second best golfer in the field over most recent samples. And the salary being below 11,000, I get it. Xander doesn't win as much as his talent says he should. He's like always popular at majors. He's gonna be popular this week, but I don't particularly care. Only he and Schaeffler are both top 10 in all three of the teeter green stats over the last 50 rounds. And only he, Schaeffler, Victor Hovland and Corey Connors are both top 10 in both of the ball striking stats. So like what he's doing is really hard to replicate. The salary is frankly too low for me. So I think Xander's gonna be just a core play for me. My third love this week is Russell Henley. Little bit of a risk, little bit of volatility for a golfer who, or I guess not volatility, but not the most ideal process for a golfer who isn't long off the tee, but he's gained 2.3 yards per drive in his career at Augusta National according to data golf. So it's just one of those kinds of things where golfers can change what they do with driver depending on the course at this level. That's I think something that Henley is willing and able to do. So he is short like long-term against this field. I get it, but overall he can kind of make things work at Augusta and he is 30th in this field in stroke skiing approach over the last 50 rounds, which sounds okay, whatever, but he's still gaining almost half a shot per round from approach. It's that this is a good field and that's who he's being compared to. So just because he's like near the field average in terms of ranking doesn't mean that he's completely neutral with approach. So I think Henley is, I know we're gonna talk McCarthy in the like section, but Henley to me is the best play below 9,000 this week. And it's not particularly close to me. Do you know where Russell Henley is in data golf rankings? Like they had their own world golf rankings and these had to live guys in it. And like they're like, you know, ROM's top five, Neiman's seventh. So like they had the live guys in there. Do you wanna guess where they have Henley right now? I don't. You don't wanna guess or you don't know? I'm bad at guessing stuff. I would say, okay, I was gonna say probably 15th if you were asking me, but- Patrick Cantley is eighth, then it's Russell Henley, Ventero Hatten, then Wyndham Clark, then Tommy Fleetwood and all those guys are, well, Fleetwood's 93, but like all those guys are basically 10,000 this week. So no surprise. Russell Henley also a core play for me. I agree with your assessment that he is pretty easily the top ranked guy below $9,000, $800. He finished fourth year last year, also top 20 and 20, 18 and 2017. So it's an event where around the green play matters more. He could do that well in addition to his irons, good putter. So I think that Henley makes a lot of sense. My other two core plays this week are going to be Xander Shafley and Joaquin Neiman. That means that I don't have Schaeffler as a core play, but it really does come down to just the salary. I think that for the reason that Xander and Neiman here is because I can get to them, whether I go with Schaeffler as my top guy or if I go elsewhere, which means they fit every single build and we'd be priorities for me in every single build. With Xander, again, it's a really good mid tier and he's a big part of why it's a good mid tier. He's been top 10 at Augusta three separate times, two top fives, ranked second behind Scotty and Truesgrove scained the past six months. So loves Xander, Neiman at 10-4, obliterating the live tour, the DP world tour, two live wins since January 1st. He also won the Australian Open back in December, just okay at the majors last year, but 16th at Augusta. So I think he makes a lot of sense. I did build that lineup with Schaeffler, Schaeffler, Schaeffler, and Neiman. You can make that work and I will do that. But I think the key thing for them is that they fit every single build this week and they're guys I wanna get to aggressively. So my three loves Schaeffler, Neiman, or sorry, Schaeffler, Neiman is ruining me. The Schaeffler, Neiman and Henley, my core plays this week. I got a question for you then. Sure. You're open to Schaeffler for sure. Yeah. I'm not trying to downplay that. But we both love Zander, love Neiman. I mean, he's not technically a love for me, but like process-wise fits everything. If you're not playing Schaeffler, who's your highest salary golfer in a lineup? Is it just Zander or is it the tier that we- I think you consider a lineup with Zander as your top guy. I think you'd also consider like, why would I not consider John Ramarori McElroy? Like from a production per dollar or salary perspective, are they gonna be as good a process plays as Schaeffler? No. Is there a non-zero chance that they beat Schaeffler this weekend and are the better plays? Yes. So that's the reason I am okay, starting a lineup with Ramarori McElroy, probably not getting to Brooks, no one Spieth, no one Hideki. I would be okay with going Zander as my top guy. But like, I can almost guarantee you both Ramarori McElroy will have much lower roster rates than Schaeffler this week. So I feel like I'd be foolish to cross them off and not get there just because their win equity is a lot lower than Schaeffler's this week. Let me rephrase. Okay. You're building a lineup. Uh-huh. You do not want Schaeffler in this particular lineup. Uh-huh. Does it have John Ramarori McElroy? Like you give me one single entry lineup this week, I am giving very strong consideration to John Ramarori. Okay. Like I'm not saying I'm definitely going to do it, but I'm giving strong consideration. In our head to head, I'm using Schaeffler. Yeah. No doubt. So effectively, no, that's not true because you said you'd build a lineup with Zander. I was going to say effectively, every one of your lineups is going to have Schaeffler, Ramarori, but you said that's not the case. So it's more like you're- I wouldn't be shocked if every one of them has one of those three. Okay. I'm receptive to starting with Zander, but that doesn't mean I'll do it. Yeah, okay. I'm more likely to have Ramarori than start with Zander because Zander's win equity to me is much higher than his salary. So I feel like- His win equity is like 45%, what are you talking about? I'd love it if you won. Like you put Zander and Neiman in the same lineup, you've got 117% win odds across two golfers. Like why do you even bother filling out the rest? That's true. And then you said 117% if you add Scotty, it goes up to 118%, so. Yeah, exactly. I suppose if you want to add the extra 1% you can, that's a little pig issue of you, so teach their own. Who are your likes for this week, your secondary plays? Neiman, for me, is a like, I think I'd probably get there in a main lineup because I might have a hard time getting to Zander, which is a really hard predicament to figure out is it's not so much Scotty plus five golfers at 10,000 or lower, it's more Scotty and then what can I really do to get to Zander? And am I okay settling on Neiman? And I think I probably am, although I would love to find an extra 500, so it is going to be difficult. I built a lineup with a lot of names I like a ton and love with Scotty and I get up to Neiman and I'm like, I like this lineup, but I'd rather get to Zander, but I don't want to go down from anyone else because then I get into a lot of situations that I don't love, but for me with Neiman, there's still a level of unknown to the live golfers and majors, even though they've answered a lot of these questions. For Neiman specifically, is he going to be good at Augusta longterm? Is he just now better than ever before? And so he's building on his Augusta form. I think there's still question marks there. He's more of a like than a true love for me at this salary. I also like the lad Tommy Fleetwood talked about him, kind of lambshaded him in the betting section. I just can't quite get there. I want to see some numbers shift around and lengthen a little bit, but 9,300 that salary is not moving. I think he's in a great position at that salary. The expectations are basically zero because the salary is a true value salary at this rate. He's a positive in all four stroke skeined stats, 15th and a T degree in over the last 50 rounds. Putting is above average from fit within 15 feet. It's not amazing, but it is above average. I win simulation models pretty into him. Again, I'd consider him at 50 to one would like to see that tick down a little bit, but he's someone I got my eye on. And then we have not mentioned Corey Connors. 9,100 is his salary. Same as big P Patrick Reed. Stop calling that. I can't. It takes me out so much. He's killing it with the irons lately. He is one of those four names. Who's top 10. I'm a big P or Corey Connors. If I'm talking good ball striking, I'm not talking Patrick Reed. Yeah. Connors is one of four names in the top 10 in both ball striking stats over the last 50 rounds to stroke off a T and stroke scan approach. He's gained stroke scan approach in 13 straight measured events. Putting is bad. 17 percentile in 2024 from within 15 feet. Missed the cut here last year, but I had three straight top 10s at Augusta prior. He was a name that was running hot earlier this year. A name that we always look at at Augusta. The salaries there, expectations again, pretty much low. Any thoughts on Connors? Yeah. My thought is why didn't I have Corey Connors in my player picks? Oh, it's the putting. That's why. Yeah. Okay. I figured it out. It's an issue, but yeah. I mean, he's had, he's been a bad putter his entire life. Like since he walked out the crib, do you people walk out of the crib or like crawl? Since he crawled out of the crib, he's been a bad putter, but like he's still had three straight top 10s at Augusta. So, you know, maybe I should chill out a little bit, but that's the reason why I wasn't hired. Well, that's the reason that he's a like for me and not alone, but that salary goes a long way trying to get to Scotty Schaeffler or like Rom and Xander kind of a thing. Like even, you know, he could be 95 and I'd still probably be a little bit interested in him. So I guess appealing. And then I also have Danny McCarthy as a like, 7,200 opens up a lot, very short game driven. I understand it, but 87th percentile putter from within 15 feet and the irons are like average long term. They can go up and down certain weeks, but like average iron, like average irons are way different than bad irons. So if I want to get different, if I want to experiment with like a Scotty Rom lineup, I know I'd have to tie it to Danny McCarthy, but it's something to think about. Yeah. I think he makes a lot of sense. I've also got McCarthy as a like for me too. Again, $7,200 just goes a long way. I want to be careful to make sure I don't have every Scotty lineup tied to McCarthy because I think McCarthy after that, that second, that runner-up last week is going to pop quite a bit for people. So if you go with the Scotty McCarthy pairing, you're just kind of swimming with the rest of the group. And I don't really want to do that personally. So I want to make sure I split up, you know, have McCarthy without Schaeffler, have Schaeffler without McCarthy, only be cognizant of that to make sure I don't have the exact same builds everyone else. I do like McCarthy quite a bit at 72 for this week. I got Matt Fitzpatrick in this range, $9,900. Gaby both like from a betting perspective at 40 to 1, but also like just pretty steady relative to this salary. It's a good range. I like Bryson here. So I think it's a good range overall. But again, Irons seem to be getting back up a bit, which is good. Top 10s at the Valero and the players putting this always been good. You know, that's a plus for him. Distance is better now than it was. He's been good at Augusta, even when he was super, super young and he may fit the course better now than he did back in the day since he's had a distance. So I do like Fitzpatrick quite a bit at 99. Final secondary play for me, I think is gonna be Rom. Just because again, I feel like he's not going to be as popular as he should be. Like you alluded to Rom's live results in the course history section. You talked about, you know, top eight, which is fine, but not like exploding. But you think about like, this is very narrative driven. So like if you were like, no, Jim, shut up. That's totally okay. No, Jim, shut up. Okay. I shouldn't give you that opening, but like think about John Rom's mentality. John Rom, when there's like weird music playing in a 54 hole event is not going to be in killer mode. John Rom this week is going to be in killer mode. And so Scotty's a better process play, which is why I'd rather use him for a head to head. But if I'm going like one single entry dart for a tournament, I'm leaning towards Rom right now. I'm not crossing off Rory for that discussion just because I think people who, you know, if you watch full swing, you saw him miss a cut of Augusta last year. It looked pretty bad. He had a weird stretch this year where he was just fine for a long time. So I don't think we're going to see a heavy roster rate on Rory. So honestly, I'm going to have all three between Scotty, Rom and Rory at some point. But if you give me one lineup, I kind of lean towards Rom just because golf is volatile. Sheffler had some weird putts in Texas that maybe they play, they stick in his mind. The putting regresses a bit from where it has been the past three weeks. I don't know. And the salary is quite high. So leaning towards Rom, if I have one single entry lineup as of right now, we'll see. You do you. According to Kyle Porter from CBS on Twitter, he's great golf writer, journalist, et cetera. He mentioned that ROMs, to quote his tweet, Rom is clearly bothered by all the live stuff, deep size, Kurt answers, truly getting close to the, that's made a huge mistake. Gift territory. I also do think that John Rom shows up locked in, which for someone like Rom is a plus someone like Rory. I think he can get into his own head too much. So between the two, I do like Rom. And I think that like for Rory, it's a lot of pressure of like, you know, carrying the PGA tour banner. Ron's not carrying the live tour banner. He's just like, he's just like PO'd. Like, and like, it's a very different classification for it, you know, you know, we're all trying to figure out what happened. Yep. Okay. Win picks for this week. You're going Xander, I assume. I'm absolutely going Xander. Okay. So you got Xander 14 to one. And then I'm assuming that your, your dilemma after that is between Neiman and Fitzpatrick. How are you viewing those two? Is it between those two? Or is there someone else you're looking at too? I was also thinking about like Tommy. Okay. Fleetwood, Sahith. I think like the value says Fitz. My heart says Neiman. I think I'm going to stick with, I think I'm going to stick with Neiman though. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to go to the gym and I was like, I mean, Victor Hollins 35 to one. We thought this was like, Oh wow. That this is going to be the guy who overtakes Scotty. That's, that did not last very long, which is a testament to Sheffler for like how good he's been for how long. Sure. But I think I have to go Neiman. Okay. So you have Neiman 28 and Xander at 14. Yeah. I was hoping you would take Fitzpatrick. So kind of want to Neiman, but I can't, I don't like him enough to like overlap with you. So Fitzpatrick at 40 to one. I do prefer Neiman. Like if you forced me to have only one outright for this event, it would be on walking Neiman. So I would go that way. But for the sake of the game, I'll go Fitzpatrick. So Fitzpatrick 40 to one. And we're going with the killer. John Rahm 11 to one will be my other outright for this week. Again, what I talked about before with Rahm is that he has unknowns in the positive sense. There's a lot of volatility there because we have not seen him in what he would view, I think to be a legitimate. Well, he'd said flat out, like it should be 72 holes and live. So like he said, it's not legitimate. So like I'm not speaking for him. He'd said it himself. It's him in a legitimate event where he can be locked in and be killer Rahm. The guy who was winning tournaments left and right last year, like only a year ago. And I don't think it's lost that form just because we haven't seen it on the PGA tour recently. I'm going to go a John Rahm. So back to back defending champ. John Rahm 11 to one. Mathis Patrick 40 to one for me. You've got Xander Shafley 14 to one. Joaquin Neiman 28. And again, I would have taken Neiman had you not because I think that he truly is my favorite guy for outrides for this week. Any final thoughts for you before we transition to tomorrow's show and talk more betting over uncovering the spread? A couple of things. One to clarify at the end of the show. We have a season long tally where we pick two. We got to do a good job of clarifying. We thought we had a whole betting section for the week of where we think the best value is Jim. And I do a head to head against one another. So basically Jim thinks John Rahm is a good bet for our game. Like that the wind probabilities there, not that he would bet him himself. I'm thinking about it. Like give me some kind of like odds boost. I might take Rahm. I have not yet, but you give me an odds boost, which I'm sure I'll get an offer for somewhere in the ether. Actually, I think does Fandall have 30% boost? Yeah. 30% profit boost if Fandall sportsbook for the masters. So there you go. Maybe you want to use that boost on someone with higher win odds than, you know, if it's Patrick or Neiman, I think Rahm's okay for that. So there you go. Company guy. Yes. Also check out Fandall research. Zach busier doing a lot of additional golf coverage for the masters this week. Wanted to shout that out. We'll be back on Wednesday with some more detailed dives into betting in different betting markets at Fandall sportsbook. And as always the caveat I got to throw out for majors. A lot of names. A lot of names to consider. Jim and I have our processes, processes. Prosci. Prosci. But you might like Rory a ton or you might like Brooks or Spieth. And I don't think that's wrong in any sense. You can be different without being silly this week. And so I think that's always the, my main takeaway when it comes to major week. Absolutely. You know, trust your own process. And that's the way you want to go as always. That is all we have here for today. But as mentioned, we are back once again tomorrow going more in depth in the betting side of the week. We'll be back on the covering the spread podcast. That will also be up on the Fandall YouTube page and Fandall TV plus. If you like what you heard on this show that we are here every Tuesday breaking down that week's PGA tour event talking betting and DFS. So make sure you're subscribed to the Fandall research podcast. We also got NBA podcast for the rest of this week till the regular season is done with Tom Vecchio MLB shows with myself breaking down favorite strikeout and home run props along with DFS plays as well. 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Get out of here. He's much faster than me. He could beat the daylights out of me. So full respect to him, but the form was interesting. I will not be sending clips of me running to John Cena. I don't want to get roasted. I'll DM him. I'm a microphone warrior. We're not actually getting out from behind the mic here. Uh, Godula 13 at Godula 13 GDULA13 and I'm on Twitter at Jim Honest. You can also follow fan dual research on Twitter at fan dual research. Want to thank you all for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your bets and DFS lineups. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow on the covering of the spread feed. Talk more betting for the masters. This has been the heat check right here on the fan dual podcast network.