 What is up everybody branding a duela here with three of my favorite bets for this week's Charles Schwab challenge at Colonial Country Club over at Fandalsports book starting off I like Victor Hovland to win last week wedge play and around the green numbers were all the rage It was expected to matter more than usual at the PGA championship And it did end up mattering more than usual But this week not so much stroking around the green correlates quite weekly with total strokes gained at a colonial That should be great news for Hovland who isn't the sixth percentile and adjusted around the green play over the past year in my database It's pretty bad, but Hovland is an elite ball striker This course rewards accuracy a good bit as well And he has that plus distance off the tee is just a great driver of a golf ball had really good tee to green data at Colonial in his debut. This feels like a great setup for Hovland this week And my data also pinpoints him as a prime putting progression candidate because of his splits within 15 feet moving on I like Sam Burns as well this week Burns wound up top 20 at the PGA championship last week He ranked 19th in a stroke scheme approach But 69th of 78 golfers to make the cut in stroke scheme around the green We'd be talking about him a lot more if the wedge game was even neutral when he finished top 10 But Burns, you know has win equity. We've seen that in the past with him Be open to a top 10 market though this week a lot of good names at the top of the field But with those big names with the nitpickle a little bit more and one thing you might hear about Burns this week Is that it's got a lack of course history. He has a missed cut in 2018 T 31 in 2019 and that's it But that was Burns before he broke out as a different Sam Burns. This is a new and approved Sam Burns He's a legitimate contender at Colonial and because of the field at the top We get a pretty good number on him this week also like Maverick McNeely this week If you looked at the bottom of the leaderboard at the PGA championship among the cut makers You will see Maverick McNeely's name down there at a plus 15, which is Admittedly not good the ball striking the overall t-degree data also not good, but one event's worth of data It's not predictive of anything let alone just the next event. It's very misleading the longer term data on McNeely is quite good for the price He's another golfer who should benefit from a de-emphasis on stroke skiing around the green this week McNeely 73 percentile in this field in adjusted ball strike over the past year. He's a plus putter He's got three straight main cuts at Colonial. I like him as a sleeper But also as a top 20 option that'll do it for my favorite bets for this week's Charles Schwab challenge best of luck this week Let's hit a winner