Deep Dive into Canadian Open Picks: Thompson, Ghim, Hojgaard
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00:03 Let's start Davis with the PGA and the RBC.
00:07 We, me and Cam did some selections earlier.
00:09 I like what you're doing.
00:11 You're going a little deep bomb hunting here.
00:14 We don't care that we have the one heavy favorite with Rory,
00:16 a couple other guys like Fleetwood and Tagalic, etc.
00:19 You're gonna go a little deeper down the board.
00:21 >> Okay, so I mean, look, obviously Rory,
00:24 overwhelming favorite here at this event as he should be.
00:28 Maybe not as much as he would be.
00:30 Remember they used to play this event at Glen Abbey.
00:33 Rory won it actually when it was at Glen Abbey and
00:36 actually Rory won it when it was at a different course.
00:38 They haven't played at this course since 2019, I believe.
00:42 They've rotated it around a little bit.
00:45 This course I think is gonna play a little bit more to the wedges.
00:49 They have, what they did is they've renovated it to basically block off
00:54 some of the bombing alleys for these guys.
00:56 They've narrowed the fairways.
00:58 They made the rough a little bit more deep.
00:59 So we're going a little bit deeper down the board.
01:02 We are beginning with one Mr. Davis Thompson.
01:05 I mean, look, we had Davis Riley win last week.
01:08 So I think it's only right for
01:10 us to go a little bit further down the board.
01:12 Thompson having an awesome season.
01:14 T2 at the Myrtle Beach Classic for him.
01:16 He is gaining strokes on approach more or less every single week.
01:20 He's had some truly awful putting performances this year, but
01:24 also gains a lot of distance off the tee.
01:27 I really do just want to attack this 55 to 100 to 1 range quite a bit.
01:32 >> Yeah, and you actually go next with an old friend of ours,
01:36 the Gim Reaper, you're gonna get involved with this week, Dougie Gim.
01:41 >> Yeah, Doug Gim, so our friends over at Data Golf have him as one of the better
01:45 bets of the entire week.
01:46 He is not writing particularly hot form into this event.
01:49 He does not have a T8 since the Mexico Open.
01:52 I mean, look, maybe he just loves country open.
01:55 So you take him US Open, Canada Open, Mexico Open, that's where you get it.
01:59 But one of the better approach players on tour,
02:02 not a particularly strong driver of the golf ball.
02:05 But again, I'm not thinking you're gonna have to crush the driver this week.
02:10 I think that, I mean,
02:10 obviously you're gonna wanna gain strokes to the driver.
02:13 But I think there are other ways to gain strokes on this course.
02:16 Mostly it's gonna be irons and putting.
02:19 And then our final guy here was a little bit surprised that our friends at
02:22 BetMGM were hanging this price 90 to 1 on Nikolai Hogyard.
02:26 Now, he's actually been completely brutal since that really strong showing at
02:31 the Masters.
02:32 I mean, he was one of the better players in the field at the Masters,
02:35 totally melted down on Sunday.
02:37 But a winner on the DP World Tour Championship this year.
02:41 Second at Torrey Pines, couple seconds, couple top fives over on the European
02:45 Tour, did well at both the Scottish Open and the Open Championship last year.
02:50 Just an all around strong player.
02:52 I just, I mean, 90 to 1 at this event.
02:54 It just felt, I felt like he was a 50 to 1 player.
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