The Canadian Open field is wide open this week and the right sleeper at the right price could be the best value bet on the entire tour schedule. The Betsperts Golf crew breaks down the full RBC Canadian Open field, covering the sleepers worth backing, the names we're fading, and the best bets we're making heading into the week. We go through course fit at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, historical trends that matter, and where the value is sitting in the market right now. Whether you're playing a tournament winner, building a DFS lineup, or hunting for props, this breakdown covers every angle before the first tee shot.
0:00 - JT Poston's Memorial Win and What It Means
0:02:00 - TPC Toronto: Why Form Matters More Than Stats Here
0:06:00 - DFS Strategy: Fading the Bomber Narrative in GPPs
0:08:00 - Andy's Five-Man Card and How He Built It
0:14:00 - Burns at 16-1: The Only Short Price Andy Can Back
0:22:00 - Wyndham Clark at 46-1: Birthday Bonus Bet
0:25:00 - Kristoff Reiten: Wedge Work and Tee to Green Form
0:27:00 - Bobby Mac Rolling the Wrong Way at the Same Price
0:34:00 - Nikolai Hojgaard: Six Top Tens in Last Seven Starts
0:36:00 - Is Scottie's Dip the Kids Factor? The Spieth Comparison
0:38:00 - Alex Fitzpatrick Inside 15 Feet Data Deep Dive
0:47:00 - DFS Targets: Burns, Wyndham, Eric Cole, and Alex Fitz
2026 Canadian Open Betting Guide: Best Bets and Sleepers
Everyone, welcome in. Betsperts Golf, Ryan Noonan and Andy Molitor, headed up north to our fifty-first state, the Canadian Open. Andrew? Incorrect. The Canadian Open is south of me. I am further north than the city of Toronto and all of its contents. Toronto's further south than you think. It is.
Yeah, this is a course, and as always we'll get to what we think of the course, the key stats this week, our models, and our bets. Before we do that, please hit the like button, that helps us a lot, and if you haven't subscribed, that would be great. Only about forty percent of the people who watch these videos are actually subscribed, and that hurts me to the core. It cuts me deep. I wish you would just hit the button, it's not that hard. Appreciate you on that.
And I will mention, as I got into this a couple weeks ago, I looked at the schedule and thought, oh man, we've got two weeks in a row where I have to figure out a new course, because the U.S. Open is often a repeater, but it's not like Shinnecock last year. I need to go back and find some notes and figure out if they made changes. And traditionally the Canadian Open is that way too, but I guess we're just stuck at this Osprey thing now. It's like the Frisco thing for the PGA Championship. Well, this is where our headquarters is, so now we're just going to play here, we don't care if it's a good course or not, because I have my doubts about PGA Frisco. I'll get to that in the offseason. But yeah, we played here last year.
Maybe it's not a course where there are a lot of predictive stats based on how it plays, but we kind of know what it takes to win here. And I think, rather than looking for predictive stats, it's almost a who's in form and can hit a few notes here and there to win this week. Because there are some guys who are falling out of form, and I don't know if you're always going to be able to bet on somebody like that to just find it, even on a place like this. There are plenty of guys playing really good golf, and a lot of them played last week. There were some guys I wanted to bet on, and then they played forty-five holes of golf Monday and Tuesday somewhere else, and that kind of ruined it for me. Just spoiler alert, I was going to bet Andrew Putnam, and I'm pretty sure he's still playing golf at this very moment. It was like a ninety-five-person playoff to get into the U.S. Open. Yeah, still going out there in Oregon.
So, what's your favorite Canadian province or territory? I'll open up the territories for you too. I mean, everyone likes British Columbia, it's nice, Seattle vibes, Vancouver's cool. But I haven't been to many, man. Really? I would have assumed you'd been to a bunch. Nah. I drove up, crossed at Detroit, came back at Buffalo, did that drive, went to a Blue Jays game, but it's been a hot minute since I've been up there. I love Canada. British Columbia's good. Alberta, you're getting the Canadian Rockies, getting that Banff area. We did talk about that, I want to go to Banff. We should have talked to the Canadian tourism department to see if we could get some sponsorship for this one as we're highlighting the best parts of Canada. You know what's not the best part of Canada? Toronto. It's big. I'm not a big city guy. I don't mind going to the big city, I love coming down to Chicago, I've loved time I've spent in parts of LA and other big cities, but Toronto's a megalopolis.
I've told this story on the air, but when we stayed there I was like, oh, we're going to stay in the suburb, it's called Mississauga. And this is how little Americans know about Canadian geography. Mississauga was a city of like a million, it's huge. It's not some suburb, it's a massive city I didn't really know about. It's close to Toronto. So this course is a little further out, not in the sticks, but a little further from city central. You hear Feinberg and Pat talk about how it's funny it's dubbed TPC Toronto, but it's a solid hour drive north without traffic. We're going to have that here, and I'm sure you have that too, like Blaine, not really in the city. We're going to get Chicago flyovers for Medinah here in the fall, and that's a solid thirty-five, forty minutes. Yeah. I went to St. Paul for a baseball game Saturday, takes me about an hour and twenty minutes. Blaine takes me like two hours. These cities do sprawl out like that.
And I guess we're going to keep playing here once in a while, so we'll get to know this place. We saw last year it can spring some funny results. So for general betting, and DFS, you always have to go down the board, it's not like, hey, this is a chalk week, stick with the top of the board. That's just not how DFS works with the math, you can't build a sixty-thousand-dollar lineup, they're not going to let you do it. They're not going to let you build seventy on FanDuel either. But there are places where, hey, somebody good is going to win this tournament, and I just can't get behind some long shots. I don't think this is a week where I'm just spraying and praying in the middle and bottom of the board. There are some really good names at the top. Granted, none of the elite of the elite are here, they're skipping for next week, getting ready for the U.S. Open, but there are some guys in pretty good form up top, and I don't think I can ignore them. Then there are some guys in the middle that are good enough form, good putters, good wedges, fitting a lot of the course-fit stuff, that are very attractive. And there are definitely some long shots that I like here. So I've got a spread-out card. I've got five guys. It started at eight and I had to whittle a few away, but I have five guys I'm betting and it's kind of all over the place. I did take a peek at your article, I don't usually because I love to be surprised, but we have a little overlap, and you have a nice diverse card as well this week.
Yeah, I'm kind of living in the middle tier, because I'm with you, I think there are some really good course fits, and it's tricky. We're looking now, if you're watching live on YouTube, at our core stats page with one year of data. It's better than no years of data, but I think it's probably better to leverage in DFS where you feel like the bomber narrative is going to be pretty prevalent. You can get away with being competitive around here even if you aren't necessarily the longest off the tee, because it still is going to be predominantly a wedge fest. So if you can get a guy who can keep the ball in play off the tee and is absolutely dialed sub-one-fifty with his wedges, he's going to have some looks. That probably plays out better leveraged in DFS.
But you can see here, long par 70, about seventy-four hundred from the tips, meaning we have to take advantage of the par 4s because we have two fewer of the par 5s. In terms of everything else, it's fairly easy. Driver heavy, significantly driver heavy, about eighty-two percent driver usage off the tee last year, which is about twelve percent above tour average. It was easy to gain off the tee and on approach, greens in regulation were easy, pretty much everything was up. You see the par 3, 4, and 5 scoring, everything's easy. The only thing that pushed back a little bit was it seemed a little difficult on lag putting, some of the longer putts, but that's about it. The weather can kick up a little. We had that early last year where it was a little wet, because I think we were trying to figure out, looking back at last year's model, whether it was going to be a carry distance or dry course conditions.
But Burns, Yu, Cam, this is where Cam started. Cam went nuclear on Sunday, I remember. Ben An. And then some of the other plotters. Guys are finding fairways and making putts. Cam Champ popping here with a sixty-two on Thursday, so that definitely led into the bombers thing being a thing. But you see the Matt McCartys and the Matteo Manasseros and Putnam and Skinns, those guys are not long off the tee. No, you don't have to be long. You just have to be good and be able to pull your driver out and be long enough, and it's going to be hard to miss. Pretty wide fairways here, big greens, like you're talking about the lag putting.
It's hard to predict, but a lot of the players near the top, if you go look at the strokes gained data, a handful of the top ten did gain quite a bit putting. There are going to be some hot putters who win here. It is going to be a semi-putting contest, it is going to help separate. As you mentioned yesterday, and any preview article worth its salt is going to mention, it is wedges and long irons. There just isn't a good chunk of that middle that we usually find. There's going to be a ton of short ones, but there are some pretty long par 4s, because we're looking at a par 70 and how it's set up. You've got to have a decent amount of distance to play on tour if you're going to be a par 70, so there are some pretty long iron shots you're going to need to make as well.
Around the green is kind of irrelevant here because of the high greens in regulation. I did look at something I've been working with, an aggressiveness index, basically looking at old data on tournaments. It's harder when you only have one year, but looking at bogey avoidance versus how aggressive players are playing and whether it's working out, the birdie chasers versus the grinders. Birdie chasers, obviously, it's kind of a birdie-chaser place, a place where you can play a little more aggressively and go for it. So bogey avoidance isn't going to be something you really have to look for. If you are constantly having to get up and down, you're missing greens, which means you're bad at golf this week. And sometimes you're just bad at golf, and you can play really good for weeks and then be very bad. Go look at the bottom of the leaderboard from last week. There are names that have played amazing rounds of golf that went and shot just terrible at Jack's Place.
So, wedge proximity, a little bit of putting, obviously off the tee, and approach matter. Ball striking matters here, where you're going to have to score. It was, like you said, a small sample, but we're doing the best with what we have. I'm trying to figure out exactly what I'm looking for in a golfer. You can get into the rabbit hole and look at some of this stuff too, because it is a nice week when you get into the filtering by conditions, where you can start to look at easy, very easy, and average scoring conditions on longer golf courses. I think it's a good week to look at how guys have done with easy ball striking, to suss out some of the more difficult tests we've seen lately. Pound town off the tee, dialed with your wedges. I don't necessarily want to look at how you played it, I'd like to see how you played last week at Jack's Place, but you can capture that in different data, just rolling form, tee to green play, however you decide to do it.
Good question to chat. Charles asks, Feinberg says one of my goals was to bet every LIV event. I don't even think I bet every LIV event the first year, I got so sick of it. It's funny because we're talking about a tournament where the scoring is going to make it harder to be predictive, soft scoreable conditions help randomize the field a little. And immediately when I started betting LIV, I'm like, I don't know if half these guys are trying, half of them don't seem to care, these randoms I don't know are playing well sometimes, and I have no data. After like four events I gave up. At first we didn't even know if they were going to post any odds. It felt like the first tournament came up late and it was like, are these going to be on domestics, are they going to actually embrace this being a thing. It was such a weird time. I do bet them sporadically here and there when there's a good field, a good event, a good course. I like to watch some of it, but I think we can put that experiment to bed. Let's just make the DP World Tour more of a thing. And obviously we had the news about the Australian Open, golf edition not tennis. Let's embrace more of that with the crossover events. That was always the goal, expand the game, but do it in a normal way that actually works, where I don't have to watch it on the WB or whatever, with DJ Khaled blasting in the background.
I did enjoy some of the spectacle around the Australian Open, but a much more subdued national tournament here in Canada. Did you take any of that into account in some of these top names, the fact that it's Shinnecock next week? Yeah, I think Ron's done some work on this too. I feel like it'll always be somewhat statistically noisy, because it's hard to capture how guys approach it, part of it is mental, who plays well in lead-in events for big events. I don't think most guys are going to an event and teeing it up to work on something per se. That could happen mid-tournament if you're out of it, but at the same time you're still trying to be competitive, post a number, go in with some momentum. It's not like, oh yeah, I'm going to use Canada to work on my fade because I lean draw and there are a bunch of fade shots. I don't think that's a thing. So you can use rolling form and mess around with some of that in the rolling averages view section. I just see that narrative, and it's one of those things where it probably exists, but the only way you could take advantage of it is if you were a mind reader, or inside every camp, or had some inside information. You don't know that. If you come somewhere, you're coming to play. Look at the leaderboards for these qualifiers, there are ten, fifteen withdrawals in all of them, and a lot of them are PGA players with PGA cards, not some guy who worked his way up, because they're like, well, I've got eight to play, I'm six out, and I'm playing like shit, I better get to Canada, I'm done for the day. A lot of people withdraw. It's not the same thing, there's a paycheck here, there's money to be made, and a lot of these guys are definitely here to win.
I was a little worried about Tommy winning last week when he was right there on the leaderboard. I'm like, oh man, that hurts, this is going to hurt the Toronto field, because he would have just taken a week off. But he didn't, because it's Tommy Fleetwood, who's almost won here in the past. They've commemorated his loss by changing the logo, which is maybe hurtful to him, but boy, that was such a cool moment. Hopefully we can have some more cool moments.
There are no real Canadians vying strongly at the top of the board. Obviously Corey Conners is your top name. I bet, and spoiler alert because I will bet him especially at places like this, Yellamaraju. You got some money from me, because I haven't written down here what I got. Eighty to one at BetOnline, yeah, I'll take that money. Give me somebody who definitely has some of the chops to win here, who can play decent at a course like this and chase some scores. So I bet some Yellamaraju. I am cheering for one Canadian, I guess. I think the rest are not Canadian. Eighty is a good number, eighty was just a bit much for a guy like that. I think he can play well at a course like this where the field's a little tampered down. So that's a fun angle if you want to bet some Canadians, and they're a little further down the board for me. Yeah, Nick Taylor, Taylor Pendrith, Corey Conners, who's not in good form, Yellamaraju, who's probably playing as good as any of them. Maybe Yellamaraju and Nick Taylor. Not a ton of Canucks toward the top of the board. They do, it is the Canadian Open, so you do see quite a few Canadians when we get to the back end, well, fewer. We've got a lot of red, white, and blue down here, so fewer than normal. Adam Hadwin is in the field, has been kicking around on the Korn Ferry Tour for a bit. Yeah, it's not a great week for top-of-the-board Canucks.
Going back to what we were talking about, I can't imagine a player feels like winning the week before a major precludes them from winning the major the next week. I feel like they probably feel pretty good about their form leading in. It seems to be a better thing, a bettor would hate it if they had a future. Everyone hated that when Cam was playing well before the Masters, like, oh no, now he can't win. But if you're actually that player, you put yourself in their mindset, oh my god, I'm flushing everything right now, I'm making every putt, I've got to be coming in with so much confidence. Maybe it does affect their concentration and their prep a little, because you've got to celebrate, live in the moment a bit. It is funny how we as handicappers and bettors and DFS players hate it when you win last week or win this tournament the year before, but it's got to give you a lot of confidence when you're actually that golfer.
So are you betting Fox? I got Fox last year. I didn't get to watch much of this tournament last year because I was traveling, I was in Nashville, but I did sweat the Fox win on the ride home via my wife, who was tasked with updating me because Burns was in the mix and Cam Young made a hot run there as well. But yeah, I got home on Fox. I did not go back to Fox, but I did stay in the same golfer-archetype type of fit. Was this the one with Cam where he was right there and then just blasts one over the green? It was like in the shit over the green. It's like, what are you doing, that was not your thing. He went hot on the weekend, especially Sunday, went super low and almost got himself into the playoff, then right at the end kind of bottled it.
Speaking of sweating, I didn't even mention I had Ryan Gerard, a hundred and ten to one. You did have Ryan Gerard, that's right. I forgot you had Gerard. Yeah, I was mostly betting on Fitzpatrick, who played like hammered dog shit, but I sprinkled on some long shots. It doesn't matter if you take it down to a half unit, a hundred and ten to one still pays pretty well. I thought about hedging in the playoff and I should have, but I'm like, I think he can do this. I hate hedging too, I know it's the right thing, especially in the playoff. It's the only time you can hedge in golf. Correct. I did enjoy it. It's funny, I just wanted to watch the women's tournament, from a name perspective and honestly a course perspective too, that's a great course, you had some great names on top of the leaderboard. It was on TV, but I'm like, well, I better pay attention to this, I can make some money here. Shout out, Gerard, you tried, we'll get there sometime. Maybe we'll get a long shot this week. It was a good multi-view day, some good golf, getting Riviera in June was awesome to see.
You talked about the top of the board. Did you take any stabs at the Englishman at the top, and then we have a bunch of Americans right behind? Burns has played well here last year, is playing pretty well. If you look at Burns on his player card, this is his time of the year. He never plays well early, but then in the midsummer he starts to trend up, I'm not sure what that is. Did you take a stab toward the tip top? I know we got Yellamaraju out of you so far. Yeah, I did take Burns. I found him sixteen at Bookmaker. Yeah, fourteen a lot of places, you're not going to find anything a lot better than that. It's not an exciting price, but the profile is complete in a field where it's what this course rewards. He's a great putter and it's consistent, his putting just hums along enough above average where a place like this, if you get hot and make a bunch and start scoring, you're going to be right up there. Everything else is great, his tee to green rolling is really good, his proximity going for the green is great. Everybody's going to be hitting these greens, he's going to be hitting them closer, and then we go right back to, obviously, he's a great putter. The combination of his skills reads like a guy who's going to score really well here every single day. He was the only short price I could really get behind. If I were to go toward the top, it would be Burns.
Clark's obviously lava hot right now. He is. I bet Wyndham Clark, transparency. That was the other one where I'm like, god, I've got to think about this too, he's such a hot ball striker right now. Technically, in my head, when I agreed Burns would be the play, at the time it opened on Monday Burns was separated a decent amount, eight, ten points. And then FanDuel hit me with a hundred-percent birthday bonus, which I thought was very kind of them. Happy birthday Saturday. So I threw that on Wyndham Clark because it was like forty-six to one. So that doesn't count, that's very generous. I will agree, Wyndham Clark, current form, skill level, course fit at forty-six to one is a good price. Correct. But not featured in the article, not a play, but I like that quite a bit. So disingenuous, touting that, the outright overlords would properly flame me for it. I'm DMing Kirshner right now. Oh, is he part of the outright overlords? Yeah. If he's got something he can send a Twitter reply to, he's going to find it. Don't get that check, thirty bucks every month.
But Burns is playing better, I like that. You get this West Coast, Florida, no, spring, summer, playoffs, fall, and in the summer he starts to play some better golf, so I don't hate that at all. I love him on these surfaces, the bent Poa, so he is my short one. We did match on somebody, which I found out, and I told you, shortish, with Kristoffer Reitan, I'm going to call him Christoph. Reitan is another one where, if you look at a decent sample size off the tee, and again his proximity when going for the green, a lot of the wedge work, is that a thing, can we call it wedge work, I like wedge work, and obviously current form, rolling four, rolling eight, rolling twelve tee to green, they're all plus two strokes gained tee to green over the last tournaments, the past three weeks, so it's coming in nice and strong, especially off the tee. And it's not just recently, if you look at the season as a whole, he fits this course's profile, long, straight, positive tee to green, and he's in the same price as McIntyre, who's kind of rolling the other way. Yeah, Bobby Mac's been struggling for sure. He looks like a wildling from Game of Thrones, he could hang with Mance Rayder and all those guys, he looks like he'd be pillaging villages to survive, but also good at golf, so there's that.
My only worry is when is the first match, oh, never mind, we're not till the sixteenth, it's not till Tuesday, I was worried that Norway's national football team had a match this weekend. They don't play until Tuesday, they play Iraq on Tuesday, they're in Group I, they're not going to play this weekend. They haven't been to the World Cup for a while, so it's a big deal for Norway, enjoy the heat boys. So you'll be nervous next week clicking on him, or Hovland, he's in the field, right? Yeah, I'm like eighty percent sure that's true. For the U.S. Open he's in on world ranking. Oh yeah, I forgot we've had a decent run there where the world ranking is going to get you in. And winning a tournament gets you into all sorts of things.
Speaking of that, Poston was scheduled to play the U.S. qualifier on Monday. That was a big, oh good, I don't have to go play golf, I've got tomorrow off work, this is really nice. I love those moments, that's life. You could see his wife on the green feeling that this was a life-changing moment for that family, she was trembling in tears. He's made a good living, he's in the signature events, he's fine, but now status is locked up, big old pot from the Memorial, four milli, and just the money he could make at the next two majors. I like that Ben Kohles won from, yeah, it was great, he won on the Korn Ferry Tour on Sunday and then needed to leave immediately to catch his flight to get to, I think he played in DC for the U.S. Open qualifying, and I believe he qualified. That guy won a Korn Ferry event and just basically couldn't stick around, hey, I gotta get to a different golf tournament. Lovely, love that stuff.
All right, so we've got Reitan, we like him. Twenty-six, fifty-two on Bookmaker this morning, you should be able to find him twenty, twenty-five widely available. Where'd you go from there? I got a third one. I never get the prices you do, I'm stuck. I shop at basically Bookmaker, BetOnline, and Bovada, and I need to start pulling up Novig and Kalshi and all of these, because it feels like, especially on some of these prices that aren't the super favorites, I can get a decent look. Yeah, I do my model Sunday night, I'm doing some work to prep the site for Monday morning, do my model, and start to get a feel for who my guys are going to be. We don't have the Sunday data popping up necessarily yet, so I'm typically flying before that stuff pops, but I try to set lines for the guys I like, and if they're within that range or fair pricing, I take those shots first thing Monday morning. It's not for everybody, and that's worked against me sometimes too, I'm early on a guy I think is going to move one way and it moves the other, and Ron will swoop in three hours later with a better number than I get, but that's okay, it's the process.
Personally, I trusted the model this week, I leaned on it. Top of the model for me was Nicolai Hojgaard, who was one of the guys you talked about playing really good golf of late and struggled at Memorial. Just kind of love the fit. It's been awesome all year, can putt, obviously can bomb it, the whole game has really improved and he's been in the mix a bunch. He's got three top-five or better finishes this season, three T-5s in like forty-seven starts on tour, so he's definitely coming into his own this year. We like him on these longer, driver-heavy setups. It was amazing, if not for Gary. We both had him that week, right? Gary Woodland just played out of his mind, and Hojgaard was pretty much separated from the rest of the field with how good he was playing. We talk about that all the time with golf, it's like, what if you had your best four rounds of the year, but somebody else had their best four rounds of the year the same weekend. Nobody's going to remember that, you don't have a trophy, you don't have a blazer, you don't have a 1972 Bronco to drive home, you just get the second-place check and move on. So I obviously looked at him, he's one where a better course fit probably this week than last, it's the sum of the parts, the sum of the year, the rolling form, it looks pretty good for him. Picked him off at thirty-five there, which was more than fair, but there's still some decently available, thirty-three on FanDuel, thirty-five on MGM if you can get down there.
So they still held a little bit with you, and Reitan, Alex Fitzpatrick, did you bet him? I did. Oh, me too. Let's go. He's been awesome. Honestly, I found a forty-six on him. Well, that's a bit much for this guy, and he's another one where he might just be one of the best iron players in the field right now. When you look at our proximity range stuff, he's tops in some of the sub-one-fifty stuff and in the two hundred plus. And I know it's a small sample, but he's played enough now where his sustained approach numbers in a course like this, where the correlation is going to be big, he's a bet at thirty. I was going to bet him at thirty-five, then I found it, and some other places have bigger numbers. Six top-ten finishes in his past seven starts worldwide, including a win in Europe and obviously the Zurich, but it's not like this is all just the Zurich and his brother carried him with that bunker shot on the second hole. He's been competitive in the weeks after. He's played great. Proximity numbers on some of the wedge stuff weren't as good as I hoped, but the overall approach-bucket numbers look pretty good, and the rolling tee to green, last eight, last twelve, confirms the season-long numbers, rather than sometimes you see season-long numbers and then the rolling contradicts each other.
I know somebody made the Scottie comparison to Spieth out loud, and I was thinking that the other day. Some of these golfers do unspeakable damage for three or four years, and then take a half step back. Do you know what it is? I'm scared, what if he just doesn't win anymore, it would be weird. Well, I talked to Byron about that this weekend a little, it might be kids, the second kid. Kids mess with your whole routine. These professional athletes in any sport are creatures of habit, they have routines, especially golf, it's so mental, and it gets upset, the apple cart, and it might be the kids. I hate blaming children, but I'm going to. Not specifically their children, but to your point, the process. Spieth knocked out a bunch of kids, JT a couple, Ricky, kids, they're all kind of on the comeback, but there was a little valley there, and I'm sure there are others we don't know as much about that also had children mixed in. I've seen an LPGA golfer I think is going to have that happen soon. Did you see her on the broadcast? She's like seven months pregnant, it was amazing how well she was swinging around her baby bump. That would be difficult, you'd almost have to adjust your swing.
I took a soft path there, but I've been thinking about that. You start looking at long-term results, even just six months, for some of these guys, and then you look at the short term and try to determine, is this a blip or is this who they are. That's kind of where I'm at with Alex, because we don't have a big sample size and a lot of it just confirms he's a pretty good golfer coming into his own. Look at that, this is Alex inside fifty to one hundred, this is fine, one-oh-one to one-fifty is excellent. We don't have as much of this one-fifty to one-seventy-five and one-seventy-five to two hundred this month, though he's been excellent, and then you go out to two hundred plus, where inside fifteen feet is fair, and he's third, so this is all very positive. If I'm hitting an iron two hundred plus, I'm happy if I can see the green when I park my cart for my next shot. I just want to be within a stone's throw of the putting surface, inside fifteen from that. That's obviously going to help on these long 4s. Glad you love him too. All good stuff for Fitzy.
So I also have two more. Infatuated with Michaels that can hit it a mile. Paying the tax back on Michael Thorbjornsen, I've been off him a few weeks, he's given me a couple of sweats by popping up toward the top of the leaderboard early in tournaments, and I'm like, no, not this week, buddy, don't do it. And he handled his business, he fell back. But this week I'm back on him. And then I had to click our boy Michael Brennan as well, who's been playing well. He was one of the ones that just got barely cut here too. I might put together a small first-round-leader card and put him on there, because he is probably cut out for this course as well.
That's it for me, do we have any for you? As I mentioned, Yellamaraju, another one where it's just positive off the tee across the meaningful sample, tee to green, tee to green rolling, wide fairways, everything's going to suit his game here, and his price is kind of long for somebody who can play pretty well here, and he's Canadian, we should give him a little bump there. And then Zac Bauchou. Almost bet him, he would have been one of my long ones. Bauchou, yeah. I was actually a little surprised, because when I looked at him I'm like, man, this is a Noonan guy. Again, you look at the rolling tee to green, the off-the-tee numbers, everything that's going to probably matter here, it's good long-term, good short-term, his proximity is above average when he's going for the green. We're doing him dirty here, we just have to get him a pick, he does need a picture. This is the type of guy I was talking about, if you want to fly in the face of the prevailing bomber narrative of the week, this is a guy that probably in DFS I think can get it done, because he's going to find fairways, and the ball striking and the approach is going to make up for some of the distance. He's fine from middle irons, where he's going to be playing more than a wedge on a few of those where other people will be closer, but what he did at Byron Nelson, what he did earlier in the year, give me him at an easier track like this.
And his teammate from Oklahoma State, who used to be a favorite of ours back when he was popping up, was a similar profile off the tee, Eckroat. I thought you were saying Matt Wolff, long time ago. Or Kristoffer Ventura, that's a good squad. I think Ekro is very similar to Bauchou, they're going to find fairways and then get them with a wedge in their hand, and they're awesome, they just have to hole putts, which is sometimes a problem for both guys, but I think they have a similar profile. So I didn't fire at any bombs in outrights, but I like Ekro, Bauchou, and you know who's been playing really good golf, and I almost bet him, and then he went out and steamrolled his U.S. Open qualifier, do I need to bet Jackson Suber? Because Jackson Suber is playing some really good golf. I think he won his qualifier by like three or four shots yesterday, and was T-5 or T-10 here last year as well. He's a big number, I'm not sure I can sell myself on him winning the golf tournament, but an each-way bet, a big number on the top ten or something. Jackson Suber, I think, is interesting.
Do you have any guys you're fading, if you want to throw some names around for DFS? I think at price, the other Fitzpatrick, maybe, the way he's putting right now I'm not sure I can go. If you want to find some crazy middle-of-the-pack to lower names, a guy who can just drain everything and is decent ball-striking, like Steven Fisk. You're going to get weird with some of these lineups and have a lot of fun. Eric Cole is like eight thousand, Eric Cole's been awesome, I feel like he's going to be very popular at that price point, so for sure, maybe not somebody you want to play. But like we mentioned, Bobby Mac, Bobby Mac's ninety-four hundred here, his putter is all over the place, his game in general is all over the place, negative tee to green over some rolling samples. I mentioned Corey Conners is probably the best Canadian, maybe that's not even true, Taylor's probably priced ahead of him and probably playing better right now, and Conners' tee to green last time out was pretty rough, a lot of the categories are red right now for him. I'd love to back some Canadians here if you're doing some DFS, but Conners and honestly maybe even Taylor are fades, Taylor's approach has been whittling into the red here and there as well.
A guy I bet a couple weeks ago, Tom Hoge. He's cheap as shit, but I think I might have just been wrong, he's not figuring it out, so he might be a concerning profile right now. Yeah, he's tough, he's down in like the six K range, and there's just not a lot of great looks in the six K range. But you go back into right at seven, you can get some of the guys we were talking about, like Jackson Suber and Eckroat, right there. I think Max is still out there trying to qualify. Hossler can roll it. We know Kevin Yu was in the mix here last year. It's a tricky thing. Yeah, and near the top too, love Rosie here, he was somebody I just couldn't quite bet at the price, but he's expensive, he's nine thousand, but man, he just kind of fits off here. I mean, he fits everywhere if he wants to, but the ball striking is hot enough where, if his ownership comes in at a low enough spot, I think he's a really nice piece to build around up there.
What do you think of Aaron Rai? He's kind of the last one I had on the list. Yeah, I was going to ask your thoughts. Coming down off the big one, this is a good fit too for somebody who can really gain a lot off the tee. I don't love it. I feel like a lack of distance, not a great putter, obviously in some really good form, two gloves is still just ridiculous. Morikawa is the one that's tough too, I don't know what to make of Collin Morikawa, who also apparently is expecting a baby, I don't know if they had it, I'm not sure if that's why he wasn't in the Memorial. But to not be in that field where he's played so well, he came back and played the Masters, limped through that, played well the next week at Heritage, and then the two following events have not been great course fits, he hasn't played really well. Now he's here, so I just don't know what to make of where he is. If you told me someone was just trying to get some tune-up reps, to our point at the top of the show, I would buy Collin Morikawa being a tune-up-rep guy this week, but that doesn't mean he can't win in the midst of tuning up. I just don't know what to do with him, and his price on the odds board, ninety-nine hundred on DraftKings.
One and done. It is a smaller purse, nine point eight million, so you're talking like one point two or whatever to the winner. But we're running out of events. You are running out of events. Like we talked about the other week, work backwards through the majors, through the playoffs, decide who you're going to use. Fields are starting to firm up for some of the other events, you can look on their websites. If you're really in it and think you're going to win a bunch of money, it's time to buckle down and do some work on who's playing Detroit, who's playing when. What is the third one out there, the Wyndham? Well, Wyndham's last. Yeah, but you have Detroit, Minneapolis, Wyndham, those three, sometimes those are hard to figure out, who's in the field on those three. So you start figuring out who's actually playing in Detroit and Blaine and the Wyndham. What city is it in? Greensboro. Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, couldn't think of the town. Start putting together who you're going to use at those and work backwards to this one.
It does feel like there are some names. I think a lot of people have Justin Rose left. I don't think he was somebody who's been, oh man, I've got to use Rosie this week. Like I said, I think he's a good play here as far as how he matches up, and honestly how well he's played over the last couple of years consistently at a course like this, where he can just let the experience go out and score. It's not a station-to-station course, it's just, the fairways are inviting, go bomb it down there, throw some darts, and try to get to fifteen, eighteen under. So I like him. I don't know who else I'd use in that range. I think Hovland's probably available a lot. It's not a spot where you can, you can use who you like here, it's honestly like the top twenty names are all pretty feasible to win. If you're chasing, you can go with something a little more unique, but I don't know if there's some cut-and-dried, here's who I'd use, here are three or four guys. I guess I'll write about it tomorrow.
We haven't even mentioned Brooks. If you haven't used Brooks, where else are you going to use him? Do you want to use him somewhere? Do you like him here? Not necessarily. If you have a feeling on Brooks. I think my favorites would be Burns and Wyndham. Burns is a good one, I don't think a lot of people have used him. The ones, and I know the Mayo Cup doesn't do this, but certain ones do make you play the team event, and it's funny because a lot of people probably just said, well, I'll take Alex Fitzpatrick, because then you can still use Matt and you get the partner. So there are a bunch of people for whom Alex Fitzpatrick is probably a decent play here, and a bunch who don't have him available because they used him in the team event, which, god bless them, they got their money. So you can't have your cake and eat it too. But Eric Cole, I think, is a nice play here, a little further down the board. Yeah, Burns sticks out, that's a good call. And Wyndham wasn't on anyone's radar, no one was using him. Who's used Wyndham? Exactly. No one's used Wyndham, and I think you can, great course fit and insane recent form. So those are probably some good ones. But I think Andy's advice, like you said, at the top, it's time to start reverse engineering, and from there it's going to be easier to see who you can use, even if you put a guy or a guy and a half on some events. You can start to really see who you can operate with freely right now and not worry about using, because I'm not going to be punished for taking them off the card. So in a vacuum, Burns and Wyndham would probably be the best way to go.
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