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00:00All right, welcome back into Newswire here on this Tuesday on the Sports Grid Network.
00:09We do have some breaking news, by the way, in the NBA, it's being reported that all-star
00:14Laurie Markkinen is about to sign a massive extension with the Utah Jazz.
00:20We don't have any numbers on it, but Champs is reporting that Utah looks to be locking
00:26him up here for the foreseeable future, which no doubt is going to include a lot of zeros
00:33in that payday for Laurie Markkinen.
00:36So we'll keep you posted when we hear anything more on that.
00:40In the meantime, we still have golf on our mind.
00:43Let's not forget with football back in action here.
00:47We still got to finish the season strong here, FedExCup playoff, and of course this week
00:52the Wyndham Championship will be on our minds on the PGA Tour and nobody better than Brady
00:58Cannon to help us navigate through all of this here.
01:01And Brady, before we get to the Wyndham, which is an interesting tournament, let's just rewind
01:08the clock here a little bit about one Scotty Scheffler versus one Xander Shoffley and who
01:14the player of the year might be in your opinion, because I keep going back and forth and I'm
01:20like, I have no idea.
01:22What he did Sunday and the fact that he's the number one player in the world and we
01:27all discounted it like he's not going to do it, he can't putt, he's just, it just goes
01:33to show you how special this guy is.
01:36And I can't figure out why he doesn't cut through like the Tiger Woods of the world
01:41in that kind of dominant fashion in years past.
01:44He was absolutely amazing, Joe.
01:47That's one of the most incredible performances.
01:50I think I've ever seen.
01:51I mean, he had five holes left.
01:54He stepped up to the tee box on the 14th hole and he was 60 to one to win that golf tournament.
02:01You know, he was trailing by six shots and he comes out on top.
02:07He makes four birdies in a row on the hardest stretch of the golf course.
02:11That final four holes is the hardest stretch of that golf course, the Golf Club National
02:16in France.
02:17He birdies four out of the last five holes, doesn't even get to a playoff uncontested
02:22without extra holes.
02:24Just incredible.
02:25I mean, and Rom, you know, did he choke?
02:29I don't know.
02:30He was minus 450 with a four shot lead through 10 holes.
02:35And then I was on Rom and Fleetwood and I'm going, okay, this looks good.
02:40Thank goodness I didn't pile on and bet more on Rom.
02:42I was about to in game.
02:44And then I'm like, okay, he's fallen off here and okay, well, I still got Tommy.
02:49Oh, well, I don't have Scheffler.
02:53That was just, God, it seemed like kind of a microcosm of everything he's done.
02:58I mean, he's digging out of the rough.
03:00He only hit eight out of 14 fairways on Sunday and still found a way.
03:05All of a sudden the putter got hot.
03:06I mean, the 20 footer that he drained on 17 to get to 19 under, just absolutely stunning
03:12the performance that he put together.
03:15And as far as player of the year, I think he firmly put his foot down and said, I'll
03:19tell you who player of the year is.
03:22Enough of this.
03:23Who are you kidding?
03:24I mean, look at that list of accomplishments.
03:26My goodness here.
03:28And it all adds to have a gold medal, him up on the podium, tears.
03:32I mean, you could not have wrote a better script for him.
03:37He goes from getting arrested to winning a gold medal.
03:41What a year for Scott and his Scheffler.
03:44It's unbelievable.
03:45All right.
03:46So tell me what we got.
03:47We don't have a lot left in the PGA season here, but we certainly have a pretty good
03:53tournament coming up here in the Wyndham.
03:55And then, of course, the FedEx Cup, the playoffs will begin.
03:58So what are we doing this week here at the Wyndham?
04:01Yeah, this is the final regular season tournament.
04:05The top 70 players after this event, the top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will
04:11move on to the postseason.
04:12So, you know, you've got you've got money and postseason and jobs on the line.
04:17There's really a lot at stake for this particular tournament.
04:20Jordan Spieth, you know, might not even make it to Eastlake for the tour championship.
04:24He's on the cusp of being sent home early.
04:28It was similar with Justin Thomas last year, where he didn't even make the playoffs.
04:33So, you know, there's a lot on the line at this tournament.
04:36And, you know, I went with guys, I've got one guy, Seamus Power, I went with this week
04:41who I think is 69th in the FedEx Cup playoff points race.
04:46So he's right there on the fence currently in.
04:48But if he doesn't perform well, could go out.
04:51But the rest of the guys, I really didn't pay too much attention to the numbers as far
04:55as where they sit in the standings.
04:58This is a golf course where course history and course form is really strong.
05:04Guys that perform well at this tournament tend to do so year in and year out.
05:09And guys that perform well at the correlated courses, you know, those are real strengths
05:14this week for Sedgefield Country Club in the Wyndham.
05:17Seamus Power is a guy that just makes a lot of cuts here at this tournament and all the
05:22correlated courses.
05:24The correlated courses are TPC Sawgrass, Harbor Town, where they play the RBC, TPC River Highlands,
05:31Eastlake Golf Club, where they play the tour championship, Innisbrook, where they play
05:35the Valspar.
05:36Some of these shorter, more positional, accuracy-based golf courses, they're all kind of one in the
05:41same here.
05:42Seamus Power has done really well at those.
05:44I played him at 90-1, took a long shot stab at Mack Meissner.
05:49The young kid is doing really well, and he fits well.
05:53He does well in the par 4s, accurate off the tee, all that good stuff.
05:58And then I went with some more chalkier guys, kind of a mid-range price guy with Thomas
06:02Dietry, who comes off of a very nice finish, a 9th place finish at the Olympics last week.
06:07I think this guy's going to win pretty soon, Joe.
06:09He's really, really good.
06:11He's a hell of a putter.
06:13And another guy I think kind of falls into the same boat is Christian Bezadenhut, who
06:18I got at 35-1.
06:20Another exceptional short game, accurate off the tee, comes off of a top 20 finish at the
06:25Olympics.
06:26This guy is, I think, knocking on the door to get a PGA Tour victory as well.
06:30And then a couple of guys that have just tremendous history at here, at Sawgrass, at River Highlands.
06:36You know, the consummate short course players, Brian Harmon and Siwoo Kim.
06:40Siwoo Kim has won at the Wyndham.
06:43He's won at Sawgrass.
06:45Harmon was runner-up at Sawgrass this year.
06:47He's got multiple top-five finishes at the Wyndham.
06:50So Siwoo Harmon, Bezadenhut, Dietry, power, and a flyer with Mack Meissner.
06:56We'll see if we can land on one here in Greensboro, North Carolina, this week.
07:01I'm going to have to buy a vowel with all those names there, Brady.
07:06There are a lot of consonants, a lot of vowels in that list of names there, but it should
07:10be a pretty good golf tournament with a lot of guys trying to make that last push.
07:15We appreciate it, as always, Brady.
07:17We got some last licks coming up next here on New...