The Draw: The LPGA Rivalry We Need and the 2026 PGA Championship Preview

In this episode of The Draw, hosts Nathan and Brian recap a busy golf week. Jeeno Thitikul won the Mizuho Americas Open for the second year in a row, fueling a season-long LPGA rivalry with Nelly Korda, who has three wins and three runner-ups in six starts. Amateur Aphrodite Deng won the AJGA portion of the event for a second straight year and is now No. 2 in the Rolex AJGA rankings. 

On the PGA Tour, Brandt Snedeker won the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic for his 10th career title and first since 2018, while Kristoffer Reitan won the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow Club for his first PGA Tour win. 

In the DP World Tour stop in Spain, Yurav Premlall won the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship by an impressive 14 strokes. 

Coming up this week, we have the Ladies European Tour’s Amundi German Masters, the LPGA Tour’s Kroger Queen City Championship and, of course, the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink. The hosts go on to give their picks for each event. 

The Draw is a Fairway to Green podcast. See all episodes at www.fairwaytogreen.com.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello and welcome back to the draw. Busy week this week and

A Battle Between LPGA Stars

SPEAKER_01 0:04

last week. Let's we're gonna hop right into it and we'll start with the LPJ Tour. Gino Tun wins again at the Mizumo America's Open, and it's just it we have a great battle on the LPG tour between her and Nelly right now, and it's it's it's great for the game of golf.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Yeah, 100%. Uh I actually got a prediction right. I think for the first time I picked Gino to win last week. So uh round of applause for myself. It's a great battle for the LPGA tour. I know we talked about Nelly, she's kind of running away with it. She has in her sixth arc, she has three wins and six and three runner-ups, which is absolutely insane. And then now you have Gino with her second one of the season. So right now you've got her, Gino, Nellie, uh Yoju Kim, and Hannah Green all playing excellent golf. And I believe, at least, and I saw I know Gino and Nelly will be in the field this week. So definitely, definitely a great tournament in store for you this week.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Yeah, I mean, wins the same event two times in a row. Pretty cool. She won not really close, wins by four again. It's just kind of her and Nelly's world and everyone else is living. I mean, Hannah Green is is up there, but I think that Gino and Nelly are doing this strictly on the LPJ tour, gives them a little more uh upper echelon stats, I'll say. Nothing to take away from the ladies' European tour, but good for Hannah Green still. Um, yeah, and it's just like you said, like it's gonna be hard to not pick either of them this week because of the way they're playing. It's and again, I like it. I think it's great. I want to see the best players go at it. Now, all we need is a duel between them coming down the back nine this week or a major, and uh that'll be great.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Yeah, I mean, it's the first tournaments they've both been in since the Chevron Championship a few weeks ago. They played in Mexico, Nelly was in there, and then last week they had in uh New Jersey, then it was just Gino. So now they're both in the field, both ready to go. Uh Charlie Hole's in the field, uh Miu Yamashida, I believe, is also in the field. So some really big names in the field this week. Great tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio. So, you know, another a mid-major there. I mean, I'm sure the fans are gonna they love it there. Um, it's gonna be a great tournament, definitely one to watch.

Spotlighting Aphrodite Deng of the AJGA

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Yeah, and then on the kind of amateur side of this tournament, Aphrodite Dang wins the second consecutive time, the AJGA competition at this event. So good for her. Now she's second in the Rolex AGA ranking. So again, back-to-back winners on the amateur status two. That's really cool. Good for her. See her here in the LPG in a couple years. Again, the young stars are shining bright early on in the LPJ. So to win that event twice, it's gotta give her a ton of confidence going into her career.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Yeah, for sure. Uh back-to-back wins for her. Uh, I know in the postrun interview, she talked about she's she was playing with Gino and you know, having to go back going back to back with Gino. She had a picture taken with Gino. I I saw that too. And uh she talked about hey, like, you know, I try to emulate Gino swing, you know, her game, and she's uh she's very nice. And it's gotta be a great experience for the number two, you know, former number one player of the world, uh, playing next to you and you know, being liking your game, and just it's probably it's gotta be so cool. So great, good for her. I know I think I noticed she was like a different grade level than other people in her class. She might be class of 2028 or something. So she's she's a little uh younger than the rest of her grade, I believe. So that's pretty cool. That's all that's very impressive as well. So good for her.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Yeah, it's a cool format. They let these amateurs play with the pros. And it'd be interesting to see what a PJ tour event would do like that. I don't know if they will, but again, good for those two winning back to back is pretty cool. You can say it's one back to back with Gino is not something many people can say. So really cool, cool event over there on the LPJ Tour.

Recounting Brandt Snedeker's Emotional Win

SPEAKER_01 3:47

The PG Tour had two. We'll start with the one flight Myrtle Beach classic. And Brant Snedeker out of seemingly nowhere wins for the 10th time on the PJ Tour, first time since 2018. He's the presence comp captain this year for the US team. And yeah, he he gets it done in Myrtle Beach. He beats Mark Hubbard, which I was really pulling for Mark Hubbard. A bogey on the last, though. It just it's tough. I mean, I read the stat that he has the second most starts on a PJ tour without a win, only behind Patrick Rogers. And that he was right there, a bad drive on the 18th, makes him make a bogey, and and Snedeker walks away with his 10th win and a spot in this week's PJ Championship field.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Yeah, unfortunate for Mark Hubbard. I you know, he shot a final round of 70, which is you know isn't too bad. But you know, coming down the stretch and uh, you know, Brand Snedeker's charging coming back. Um, probably have to do a little better than that. And I mean, Brandt Snedeker played very well. And you know, give the credit to him. He, you know, I haven't heard his name on the PGA tour uh too frequently, but you know, uh in the last few years that is, and now he comes back and wins whatever you said, his 10th PGA tour win, which is extremely impressive. And uh, you know, Brand Snedeker he played very well. He was fourth in strokes gained putting. So as we know, driver show, putt-furdeau, and uh, you know, Brandt Snedeker uh put on a clinic with a putter, apparently.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

So yeah, I mean that's been kind of his his calling card, his whole career as a putter. And yeah, again, like he hasn't, I don't even know how he has status. I don't know if he's playing on one of his exemptions or past winner exemption or money ranking exemption, but now he's exempt for two years. So so good for Brandt. I know people love him. He's Ryder Cup assistant captain in the past, present cup cap assistant in the past. So it'll be interesting. I mean, we're not gonna have another Willie play on the President's Cup team like we did with Keegan at the Ryder Cup. That definitely won't be happening, but again, good for him. And I'm pretty sure he was also named uh, or I don't think he's been named a Ryder Cup assistant captain for next fall, but I gotta assume he'll be there too, especially after leading Team USA this year at the President's Cup. The

Reitan's First PGA Tour Win

SPEAKER_01 6:01

other event on the PJ Tour, the True's Championship at Coil Hollow, Christopher Ritan wins his first uh PJ Tour, but becomes the second player from Norway joining Viktor Hovlin to win on the PJ Tour. And he outlasted the Green Mile when his competitors didn't. And it comes down as that. I think Fowler, Hogarth, and Fitzpatrick all were over par on the final three holes. He was even and he wins by one, and there's the difference.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Yeah, it was really anyone's game, it seemed uh down the stretch there uh at the uh at the championship this weekend. And you know, Sung J Im, a couple other names, Alex Fitzpatrick kind of kind of lost it there. Um, you know, another name talked about that was kind of on the leaderboard, uh JJ Spawn. I think last week give you credit. I think he finished his top. He spit tied tied for fifth, yeah. So not just not gonna victory lap a fifth place because he didn't win, but you know, building momentum at the end of this week, not gonna pick him, though. Don't worry. I'm not gonna go that far. It was just a fun pick, but I love that from JJ Spawn. Uh, putter was doing all right. Um, but yeah, uh Chris Ray Tan, you know, we talked about putting with Brand Statiker. Um, he was second in Stroke and putting this week. So, you know, putter all very important as we all know, and uh congratulations to him.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Yeah, I mean, he wasn't in this event, he finishes second in the Zurich with his playing partner, Chris Venture to Alex and his brother, gets him into the Dorail Cadillac Championship last week, then his high finish there gets him in to this week, and now he wins. And again, coming from the DP World Tour, he was one of the 10 that earned their card via the race to the bye ranking. He's won twice over there. He's young, he hits it far enough, but like you said, his putting is the difference maker. And he he made some putts and he made some really good the the t-shot on uh the 17th hole there, like with a one-stroke lead. I mean, it's a difficult t-shot, hits it to 20 feet, two putt par. I mean, where you see Alex Patrick misses right, chips up, doesn't get to the green, and ends up, I think makes a five, so it makes a double on the second last hole. So, yeah, it's again, Ricky was great, makes a bogey on the 18th hole. It like good for Ricky, where Ricky's been playing really well the last. I think what is the stat that I read that Ricky that I was shocked? He's the only player with top 10 finishes in each of the last sport signature bands. So he goes T9 at the Arnold Palmer, T eight at RBC Heritage, T9, KLAC Championship, T2 here at the Truist. Now, not saying he's gonna win this week at the PGA, but he's he's trending in the right way. He hasn't won since the Rocket Morgan's, I think, in 2023. So it's been a while. For him to win his first major, he's gonna have to play really good golf this week. But it's an outside name that if he gets the putting rolling, he he has a shot maybe. But it's good to see Ricky playing well again.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Yeah, I'd love to see Ricky Fowler win a major. Um, you know, Ricky Fowler, he has his stretches of playing good golf like wow, Ricky Fowler, you know, he was really good in his prime like 10 years ago. But now, you know, you don't really when you see Ricky Fowler, it's just kind of like, hey, you know, maybe he's making some noise, but don't really expect any of it really. But um, I'd love for Ricky Fowler to win this this next weekend. That'd be a great story. Him and Speeth, you know, those guys. Um, but uh I'm not really expecting much, no offense. But uh it'll be I would love it, but no, yeah.

Premlall's Blowout Win in Spain

SPEAKER_01 9:25

I I we're gonna head to the DP World 2 or two. I I think what is the most impressive win of the weekend in Urav Premlaw wins by 14. I mean, I think the craziest stat out of this week was if he didn't play the first and second round and they only took his scores from the third and fourth round, he still wins the golf tournament by four strokes. I mean, just absolutely blitz this field uh to win the Australian Cataluna Championship down in in Spain. And again, it's big. He wins for the first time. He's 22 years old. He moves up, I think, all the way up to the 26th in the DP world or race of the by rankings again. Get into that top 10, you get a PJ tour card. So this win definitely helps. But he's one shot away from tying Tiger Woods' record of winning by 15 on the DP World Tour. Made a bogey, I think it was on the 14th hole. And again, did follow that up with I think another birdie on the 18th hole to push out to 14. But just I mean, I looked at the scoreboard when I woke up Sunday morning and go, Oh, he's he's up six. And all of a sudden, next thing I look and he's up 12, and I go, I can start writing my article right now. Like, what are we like? I just was like, whoa, like, but very impressive round, two rounds of golf from from premile.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Yeah, I was I was on Twitter, and you know, I don't really get DPU World Tour popping up too often, but when I do it's something big coming on, and I see, you know, I get my friend text from my friends and I see him on my Twitter, it's like he's up by 13 shots. I go, is this guy even playing the same tournament? This is this is a different level. And I I feel like you should get something extra, like some extra points or some extra money for winning by that much.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

And because he set the course record, he did like earn an extra $50,000. But the thing is he set the course record twice, he shot two 63s. It's like, so does he get 100k now? But I think he only gets 50. But yeah, again, 50,000 nice. Go give it to the caddy or give it to someone. But yeah, it was just and then watching the highlights, I'm like, he just made everything. I mean, he makes he was making putts, he chipped in at one point. I'm like, good lord, it's just the hole is massive for him right now.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Yeah, it's just incredibly impressive. It's something that you don't really you don't see very often, but you don't see you know even five shot leads, let alone 14 shot wins.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Yeah, yeah, it's it was it is exciting past week, and this week the excitement is in the air for the PJ Championship, the second major of

Preview and Picks: Amundi German Masters

SPEAKER_01 11:51

the year. Before we preview those, let's head over to we'll start with the ladies' European tour. They're playing over in Germany for the a Monday German Masters again. Ladies' European tour event they took last week off, so a lot of their players rested, and we'll see. It's doesn't look not the longest course in the world. So par 73, which is is strange. You don't see many par 73 courses, but again, we'll see who comes out with the German Masters.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Yeah, first tournament in Europe for the ladies' European tour. They were over in Australia, then they were in Africa for the last couple weeks, and now they're finally in Europe for the European tour. Um, so it's in Germany this week. Uh courses uh courses hosted the you know European Open on the DP World Tour, uh, seven times, which is pretty cool. And so my pick for this week, I've got Alexandra Forsterling. She is top five, I believe, on the order of merit on the European tour. Uh, she has five top tens uh this season, which is pretty crazy. And then she was finished run, including a runner-up to Hannah Green in Australia in one of the tournaments there. So, you know, if it wasn't for Hannah Green being uh not from this planet for that month, uh she could have had a win. So that's my pick for this week. She's also German, uh, German course, German player. Yeah, always helps to play in your home country.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

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Preview and Picks: Kroger Queen City Championship

SPEAKER_01 13:12

we mentioned earlier, the Kroger Queen City Championship on the LPJ tour is uh just a loaded, loaded field. I mean, you have 21 of the top 25 players in the world, headlined by Nellie, Gino, Running, Yin, Charlie Hall, Mi, Yamashida, Lydia Cole, Lottie Wood. I mean, there's a ton of talent in this. It's it's always a good term. I mean, you look back at the last three winners: Charlie Hall last year, two years ago, Lydia Cole, three years ago, Minji Lee. So it's a it's a course and a tournament that people, the the better golfers thrive at. Gino spinished runner up the last two two times at this event. So we should have some fireworks and and hopefully a close tournament with some of these players at the top of the leaderboard coming down the back nine.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Yeah, as I mentioned, it's gonna be a great tournament this week. You know, if you're not watching the PGA championship, I mean definitely check out the LPGA tour event. This is gonna be insane. Stacked field, great course. Uh, they usually play this course. This is the first time this tournament's being played in this in the spring, so that'll be a little different. I know Cincinnati in the summer is the hottest place, maybe in the it's it's extremely hot. So being the spring, probably a little nicer for the people there. Uh fans would come out, as I mentioned. Uh for this week, uh, my pick, not not a surprising one at all. Um, I see this tournament as you know, Nelly Corda or Gino. Uh no disrespect to the other, you know, other competitors in the field this week, but they have been on a different level um the last few weeks. And I'm going with Nelly Corda. Uh, you know, she hasn't finished outside of second place this season in six starts. So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna pick her until it doesn't work, until she shows me that she's not gonna be uh immortal, basically essentially. So going with her, not very bold, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Yeah, honestly, yeah. I don't have that crazy picky. I've been looking at it. It's like Charlie Hall won here last year, two years ago in 2023. She lost in playoff to Minji Lee. She's played well, I know a different course, but still, you have Gino who's finished runner up the last two years at this event, just won last week. It it's I you could go with Lydia Co. who's won here two years ago. It's it's again the the stars play well in this event for whatever reason. And I'm I'm gonna be boring like you, but I would love this down the stretch. And I I think Gino wins back-to-back events, won last week, wins this week. And I really want a duel of Nelly and Gino down the stretch to see who the winner is. Like, I want one of them to have a one-shot lead or tied with like four holes to go, and and let's see, and let's see what they do. And again, that'd be great viewing right before watching the final nine holes or whatever it is of the PJ Championship. You watch that duel and then you flip over to the PJ Championship to see who wins the major. And I think it'd be a great day of golf on Sunday with these two tournaments.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Oh, yeah, I'm so excited for Sunday. You got this, you've got this tournament in Cincinnati. You got the PGA championship. Um, I'm so excited. Uh definitely a lot of high caliber golf being played. Best in the world. Um, well, it's what's there to not like?

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Yeah, it it's gonna be fun. Again, we'll see how it's played. It's Cincinnati. I don't know if it's getting all the rain that that kind of up here in the northeast have. So if that course gets like dry and and quick, that that could be fun. But if it gets wet, we'll we'll see. It could be going low.

Preview and Picks: PGA Championship at Aronimink

SPEAKER_01 16:35

And and that's the same case for this week at the PJ Championship at a Ronamink Golf Club down in Philadelphia. And boy, it the the videos I've seen, the the flyovers, the hole-by-holes, it's it looks fantastic. It looks I know it's not the longest course, and I know from what I've talked to people. I mean, I talked with the one golf professional there. She said the defense is the greens and kind of around the greens. So we'll see. And listening to some people, it's it's I I think it's gonna be maybe a high scoring, especially if it rains. I hear that it could rain Wednesday night. So if it gets soft for them on Thursday, Friday, we could see some players go low. But boy, I I don't know why I'm so excited for this one. I don't know just because it was we're back in Philadelphia or back in the northeast, but this one, I it I feel like some some strange things are gonna happen. I think we're gonna have a close PJ championship.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Yeah, uh, really, really exciting week on the PGA tour. Uh, you know, you got uh this at a Ronam Inc. And I for the regarding the golf course, I kind of I kind of don't necessarily like that they remove a lot of the trees. I'm kind of on team trees here. Uh, you know, when I golf, I don't want there to be trees. I have it seems I always find them, but when the PGA tour golfers, I want there to be trees as a challenge. I know this is kind of giving off Oak Hill vibes or oak in Oakmont last year at the P at the uh US Open, especially. Yeah, no trees at Oakmont, they got rid of almost all of them. So I am not necessarily a fan of just a wide open golf course. I know it's better for the grass, yeah, yeah. But I like it, I like the bit of challenge, especially for the pros. They can just I want them penalized for hitting a wayward drive, like exactly punch out, right? You gotta punch out, and yeah, no taking wedge and just hack it up near the green because you know you got nothing, no challenge, no, no obstacles, you're just hacking it up there. But that being said, still gonna be a great week of golf, and I'm very, very excited.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Yeah, I I think the cool part about this again, it's a Donald and Ross, so the greens are gonna be tricky. And I was listening to Keegan Bradley talk about, I think it was on another podcast, and he goes, like, some of these pin placements that they have available to them are hard. Like he was like, You're gonna have to like be content with hitting it to 10 feet, like you're not getting it close to some of these pins. And I'm like, Okay, that that sounds fun. And he was like, You have little areas on the green that you need to hit, and if not, you're gonna be in trouble. And then the other part is these bunkers. I don't know if you've seen any of these bunkers, they're like they're not small bunkers, but imagine a large bunker, but then they split it up into four mini bunkers, so they're not so it's like four separate bunkers, and for some reason it looks great on the flyovers and all the like hold by holes I've watched. And it's just like if you're like stuck between the bunker, like on that little strip of grass between the bunkers, I just it's gotta be a difficult, it's gonna be. I'm hoping we get some weird lies or weird stances, and just to see some of these players hit some cool shots. And I know what I've heard is that it's short, and some of these long guys are gonna bomb and wedge it and all that. And hopefully it gets really dry and really hard so the greens get firm, and maybe some of the shorter hitters have a chance because I I don't know. It I've heard a whole bunch of different people think. Like, I've heard Colin Morikawa could win here, I've heard Cameron Young can win here, John Rahm. Like, so it'll be interesting to see who holds the round wanna make a trophy come Sunday night.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Yeah, uh, regarding your the your point about the bunkers and the greens, the bunkers having the little sections in there. I want to see some nasty lies. I know this course you mentioned the greens hearts defense, but if there's if there's no trees, make it tricky with the bunkers. I know the PGA championship is not necessarily known, kind of like the US Open for course being ridiculously hard, um, kind of a lower more of a lower scoring uh kind of uh tournament, you know. But uh I did see Michael Kim's Twitter, uh, you know, he's great following he talked he talked about the the greens uh and he kind of pointed out a couple pin placements that they could that they could choose, kind of on your point with uh with Keegan Bradley, and they are nasty, like on kind of like some pockets like near some slopes and in like the ridges. And it could be there if they choose to, there could be carnage on those holes. So very, very interested to to see what they could do there. Um and then in terms of people winning, uh, I think you know, in terms of the players, I think no one is coming into this tournament with more pressure on them than Cameron Young. Cameron Young is playing the best golf of his career, you know, uh, you know, going back to last fall, probably a top, top, top four player in the world. That's that's not ridiculous at all, yeah, for sure. And then uh, you know, he won the players, he won the event two weeks ago down in Florida, and Cameron Young is expected, he is in the prime of his golfing career. And when you're in your prime, you know, we saw with Xander Shoffley, you are kind of expected to win a major, and he kind of and he had the chance at the Masters and didn't didn't capitalize. And now all the eyes are on Cameron Young for this week at the PGA championship. And I don't know, uh he is not my pick for this week. Um, I won't say who my pick is this week. All the pressure is on him to win a major in the next three months. He's got three more chances, and go for it. Have a shot.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Yeah, and you bring up a great point because uh again, I I've seen I think it's Scotty's the betting favorite, then Rory, and then Cam Young and You can argue Cam Young is playing the best of those two. And I I I tend to agree with those people that say that. I think he's probably playing the best right now. He did kind of fade last week down at Coil Hollow, which was a little concerning, like heading into a major. He was up there, and then he shoots, I think, a final round 74. And I get it, Coil Hollow is a hard golf course. This one isn't going to be as hard. I I think. I again, I don't know. I've never played it, but I would think that he's battle tested enough from the Masters. I would hope. But again, like I could see Scotty winning here. I could I could see Bryson winning here. You you maybe could see like Max Fitzpatrick. He's not super long, but he's long enough, and he's a really good iron player, and that's going to be important on these greens. You could see someone like JT who has an incredible short game around the greens and is really good with the wedges. Again, the other thing I've heard is you're gonna need to be good between 60 and 120 yards with your wedges. And so, like, if if you can be good with your wedges and give yourself good looks at some of these tough pin placements, that I think we'll see. It's it again, it's tough because I think going into the Masters, you're like, all right, like there's clear favorites in this one. I don't I don't know if there is one.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

I've gone guys who could win.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Yeah, and I've gone back and forth with who I want to pick and who this, and I'm I'm gonna do it because I just think he has an advantage. He grew up in New York, he's played northeast golf, he's playing really well, and I'm I'm gonna pick Cam Young. I I said it two weeks ago on this pod, like he's my pick, and that was before he won, and then finished. I think he still finished in the top ten last week at at Quail. But I I I think he showed me enough at the Masters that he's gonna play well again. And again, I I think this is a different golf course than Augusta that I think he'll play well at. And his if it's wet at all on Thursday and Friday, his distance is just a massive advantage. And same with Rory. If if it gets any rain, the bombers are gonna have a heyday on Thursday and Friday, I think.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Yeah, uh Cameron Young. Uh he I can all I can totally see him winning. Uh, I know I said earlier I don't think he's going to win, but I wouldn't necessarily be surprised the way he's been playing the last few weeks if he did win. But uh, I'm gonna go. JJ Spawn was fifth place last week, so I was gonna pick him, but he if he won, I would have picked him, but I'm not going to. You know, everyone knows, but I I'll calm down. Um instead, I'm gonna go with a really boring pick. Really, really boring pick. Uh, I'm gonna go with Scotty Scheffler. Uh you know, Scotty Scheffler has finished as the runner-up in the last three events that he's played in. He's this currently this season, he's fifth off the tee, second in uh strokes gains around the green, and 14th in putting. So his weakness actually has been a strength his entire career, which is those irons. I think he's in the 40th or something stroke's game, just still very which is still very good. Yeah, it's not Scotty. It's not Scotty Scheffler like alien robot kind of golf that we know. But um, I'm predicting that we see something along the likes of Nelly Corda here with Scotty Scheffler. You know, Nelly Corda was going runner-up, runner-up, runner-up, and then all of a sudden she just rattled off a few wins. And Scotty Scheffler, he won beginning of the season, just like Nelly, one of the first few events, and then rattled rattled off a bunch of runner-ups. So Scotty Scheffler is due for a win this week, 100%. Um, I am very confident in picking Scotty Scheffler. He is the best player of the world. We've all seen it. He's he's a robot, and I think people have maybe forgotten, not that the number one rated uh like golfer in the world is is slept on, but he might be. Um, you know, all this talked about Cam Young, Matt Fitzpatrick, Rory, you know, which is justified, but Scotty Scheffler is still Scotty Scheffler. So I think Scotty Scheffler is is going to win this week. I don't my prediction is that he I'm gonna go even further. I think he'll win by you know three or four shots. I think he will just be that good, at least. So we'll go even further.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Yeah, I I I think it it's it's a fair pick. And and like you said, I I think I think when they played at this course in 2018 when Keegan won the BMW championship, I think him and Justin Rose winning the playoff at 18 under, I think it was, or 17. I I think I I I wouldn't be shocked if you see the winner there, or even again, if it there's any slight rain. I I could you see a 20 under? I don't know, but I I think you could be right. I think you could see someone run away with this if the conditions are right. Um, so it's gonna be fascinating. I'm I'm excited to watch come Thursday morning and some pretty interesting tea times and groups. I think you got Rory and Rahm with with Jordan Speith, so that's one Jordan Spieth looking to complete the career grand slam. Come on, it that'd be a really cool storyline. He hasn't really played well in the last two weeks, but again, if he gets hot with the butter, he's good with the wedges and around the green, and he's long enough. It you never know. It could happen. But again, it's gonna be an exciting week. LPJ tour, great event. You got another major on our hands. And again, check us out. I'm Verried a Green. I'm gonna have some daily recaps after each round, so go check those out. Go check us out on Instagram and YouTube, and we'll be back here next week to discuss this exciting uh tournaments this week.