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00:00Let's get to the outrights and you know what, Keith, I don't blame you here.
00:04You are going to what has worked so far here early in 2025.
00:10And that is the kid.
00:12Oh, absolutely.
00:13I mean, I watched him hit balls the other day.
00:15I could do it for hours.
00:16Mike Ludwig Oberg is he's been fantastic this year.
00:20You go to century out there in Hawaii.
00:21He's fifth AT&T.
00:23He had a little upset stomach.
00:24Comes back at the Genesis.
00:26He's first.
00:27And he sounds so confident.
00:28And the ball striking is just absolutely impeccable.
00:32He spent the last two weeks in Jacksonville with his coach
00:34working on Bermuda grasses, working on a short game,
00:37coming out of these type of green surrounds.
00:39He sounds like he's really focused on the next two weeks.
00:42And why not?
00:42I mean, both courses absolutely suit him.
00:45And speaking of being suited, Hideki Matsuyama plus twenty eight hundred.
00:50The number on this guy, it always is.
00:52He's always undervalued.
00:54And I love our domestic bias.
00:56You know, hey, make America great again.
00:58That's fine by me.
00:59Hideki is so talented, right?
01:01He's already won the century in his last not his last 15.
01:06Right. I'm sorry, Mike.
01:07His last nine signature events.
01:09He has two wins and five top fifteens. Right.
01:12Let me say that again, because I messed it up. Right.
01:15Nine signature events.
01:16Hideki's got two wins and five top fifteens.
01:19Mike, think about that. Right.
01:20And the value there.
01:21What do you need at Bay Hill?
01:22You need short game.
01:23I already talked about it.
01:24You've got to be able to score difficult conditions.
01:26And there's a huge comp between here.
01:28The winners here in Augusta.
01:29Think about the last two times Scottie's won.
01:31He went on to win down Magnolia Lane.
01:34Daniel Berger.
01:35Here's a story for you. Plus seven thousand last week.
01:38He's plus like twenty five hundred, even less. Right.
01:41First and par four scoring.
01:42You need that here. Second off the tee.
01:45The long iron game is there.
01:47Tina Green, he's top ten in the field.
01:49Last week, he's in the press conference.
01:51He's one of the favorites.
01:52You know, the weight of expectations
01:54for some of these middle to guy mills here, guys, is just too much. Right.
01:57All of a sudden now he can let his clubs do the talking
02:00instead of himself in the media center.
02:03And I think that means a lot.
02:04I think Berger, who's still in really good form and plays well on Bermuda
02:07grass, could be somebody with the way he drives it.
02:10It's a big threat this week.
02:11And I love that number at 70.
02:13And then the last one, Akshay Bhatia, plus eight thousand.
02:16This was a guy that was considered for the President's Cup team.
02:18And now look at him. Right.
02:21He could very well be on that team.
02:22At Beth Page, he's that talented of a ball striker and he's getting better
02:25and better for straight positive events with the approach, with his iron game,
02:30three straight in a row with his with his off the tee game.
02:32And we know he can score.
02:34You know, he can score.
02:35I think he's the type of guy here around Bay Hill
02:38that could surprise a couple of people at an 80 to one. Why not?
02:42Why not, indeed?
02:43And look, you're right about Hideki.
02:45Me and Smiley were talking about it earlier.
02:48He never he's always overlooked at these huge events.
02:52And I think some people shy away, Keith, because you know why you get
02:55you've been burned maybe once or twice in the past with the back hurts
03:00on Friday morning or so, you know, but the proof's in the pudding.
03:04You just said it.
03:05He's huge events.
03:07He's always there on Sunday.
03:08You look around on Sunday.
03:09Yeah, let me see.
03:10I'm again sitting here at six, three shots back in the lead.
03:14Like you just know he's there to burn you at any point.