 Let's talk about Brooks Kepka because he is always an interesting cat when it comes to him in non-majors because he is openly said he doesn't really care and that's slightly concerning however Brooks did do well here last year. The problem is the current form is pretty bad so let's talk about Brooks Kepka here at 12,000 and then morph that into a discussion of the top tier of guys with Kepka Fleetwood and Fowler. Yes, so Brooks Kepka at $12,000, priciest golfer in the field. The betting favorite as well that almost always means that he's going to be the most popular pick on Vandal. Runner up here a year ago, really churned out strokes t-degree with a solid putter on top of it but the current form is sparse at best and also iffy since finishing third at the Tour Championship in late August which was quite a while ago at this point Kepka was cut at the Shriners which speaks to a lot about Brooks Kepka in non-majors, missing the cut at the Shriners for someone as good as Kepka is concerning with Drew from the CJ Cup, 34th in Abu Dhabi, 17th at the Saudi International and then 43rd at the Genesis. The t-degree, t-degree play has been fine. It's not really elite right now. Kepka is one of the golfers though who you just kind of don't really care about the stats because we know what he can do and it's not it's not even high end variance. It's high end engagement but he's two events away from the players so he could run away with this thing. He could just be out there trying things because some of the world's best golfers especially someone like Kepka will go play a high profile tournament to try things and that's wild to me but I don't know how to handle Brooks just yet. What are your first thoughts on Kepka? Well I think that if you were to assume which is an assumption we can make and we love making assumptions on this podcast because it's very beneficial for DFS. If you were to assume that Brooks Kepka were locked in for this event he'd be a no-brainer. Like I think that's the way that I view it there. So you think about what are the odds that he's locked in? I don't know but the other thing too is even looking at the events where he hasn't been locked in and some of them being you know post his knee injury he's been okay. Past 50 rounds does include time before the knee injury so with this caveat it's worth noting that but he's eighth and stroking off the tee, eighth in approach, fifteenth in Bermuda putting over the past 100 rounds. The stats profile despite including a lot of events where he probably didn't care is still tremendous relative to this field. So when I look at Brooks Kepka locked in he is multiple tiers above everybody else here at least in my view. Brooks Kepka not locked in I think that you have to differentiate a bit and you can't go like we will have golfers where we go 70% exposure. Brooks Kepka cannot be that guy inherently but I can see a situation where at least among these top three guys he'll be the guy used most often. So I have concerns I think those concerns are very valid however I am still willing to gamble with Brooks and throw him out there despite those concerns because of how big the upside is if he decides to try even a little bit in this field. So what about for you? Yeah I mean so to answer your question if if Kepka is locked and loaded he's easily the number one it's really not even that close in this field again we don't know that but the thing for me is that you know the players is coming up all these majors are coming up he's coming off an injury I don't think he necessarily needs to play in any events when before he's ready to play so I don't think the health is as big of a concern as it is just kind of the mental toughness because it's almost scarier now to target Brooks Kepka before the majors as opposed to some sort of events in between two majors because he got burned out last year we know that he said as much and he might just be trying to take it easy up until all these majors and the fifth major the players so it's very very very hard to figure things out and I think all we can do is assume build some line-ups based on those assumptions now again historically the most popular golfer is the the priciest golfer and the betting favorite and he's both so honestly I might be underweight relative to the field this week on Kepka