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Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour Gambling-Tips column, displaying choices by Golf.com expert Brady Kannon’s prognosticator. An experienced Bettor and commentator Kannon is a host and regular guest on Sportsgrid, a trade union network dedicated to sports and sports betting, and is a golf betting analyst for CBS Sportsline. You can follow Brady on Twitter in @LasvegolferAnd you can read his elections below for the 2025 open championship, which begins on Thursday at Royal Portrush in northern Ireland. Together with Kannon’s recommended shows, you will also see data from Chirp Golf, a mobile app that contains free golf competitions to play free and everyday where you can make money and prizes with each round and tour.

Last week, we gave some early tips Five players liked to win the 153th open championship In Royal Portrush, the bets I had made not long after it opened in the US last month at Oakmont. Those players were Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Ryan Fox. The open championship week is now over us and I’ve added three other winners choices to the transport. But first, let’s talk a little about the golf course and how I came to these conclusions.

The Dunluse Links course at Royal Portrush was created by Harry Colt in 1932. In 2017, Martin Ebert was called to provide some renovations before his Open 2019 reception. It is a coastal property in northern Ireland with spectacular dunes, narrow roads and small, bare, garden greens. The first harsh cut of straight roads is only about two inches high, but outside of that, players will find gorsse, heather, grasses meadow-ac, bad things.

The golf course is not loaded with pot bunkers as we often see in the open championship and there will be not so many options for shooting in these greens as many are raised far higher than the level of access zones. There are also particularly large areas of flow around the greens.

I believe Royal Portrush is one of the best rehearsals in the open championship rota. The course will make a player do a little of everything well. I favor the accuracy of the direction over the distance of the car. Setting will be essential as players negotiate bumps and bumps of slow greens. Scrambling will be primary as it will be accessing-hitting the greens in adjustment and doing this with longer handcuffs, more often than not, from a 150-200 yard window outside. The other two areas I watched this week were kicks won in par 4s and Bogey deviations.

Coming with other golf courses that are well compared to connections courses may be an incorrect science, but I have found some examples. We mentioned Harry Colt’s model and Martin Ebert’s renovation. This same combination of both tasks at Hamilton Golf & Country Club, Canada’s 2019 and 2024 opening house. Both Colt and Ebert also performed extensive redesign in Royal Liverpool, 2023 open championship houses. Ebert also did wide work in Royal St. George and Royal Troon, home for the latest championships opened in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Colt also designed Wentworth, home at the BMW PGA Championship, England. Whereas I believe they have some features that match the states are Bay Hill (Arnold Palmer Invitational), TPC Sawgrass, PGA National (Cognant Classic) and Pebble Beach.

As noted, we have briefly passed Our Games in Rahm, Hatton, Spieth, Day and Fox last week. Note that Rahm has ended the seventh in Royal Troon, a Royal Liverpool race, the third in Royal St. George’s and was 11th in 2019 in Royal Portrush. He ended up the fifth in Pebble Beach and was third there at US Open 2019. He was as high as the 12th and ninth at TPC Sawgrass and ended up in fourth place in Wentworth along with being a two-time race. Hatton was the 20th in Liverpool in 2023, the sixth in Portrush in 2019 and the fifth in Troon in 2016. He won in both Bay Hill and Wentworth, ended up to the fourth PGA National and was a Scheffler championship championship in 2023.

Spieth has been the fourth twice in Bay Hill and once in TPC Sawgrass. He ended up ninth earlier this year in PGA National. His record in the open championship and at Pebble Beach is almost unmatched. He has never lost a cut on any tournament. He won Open in 2017, there are four additional Top-10 conclusions, including a Royal St. competitor. George’s, and ended the 20th in Portrad in 2019, 23 in Liverpool in 2023 and was the 25th last year in Royal Troon. He has six Top-10 conclusions in Pebble Beach, including a win in 2017. Jason Day is similar to spieth in Pebble, never missing a cut. He has never won there, but there are nine endings of Top-10 and three 15th 15th. Day won at TPC Sawgrass and Bay Hill and ended up in 13th place in Troon last year and was a race in Liverpool in 2023.

FOX ended up 16th at Royal Portrush in 2019 for his best open result. He was seventh in Hamilton in Canadian 2024 and won in Wentworth in 2023.

In addition to the full winners market, I have played each of these players for a finish position: Top-10 Rahm (+110), Top-20 Hatton (+110), Top-20 Spieth (+200), Top-40 Fox (+100) and Top-40 days (+105).

Three other right bets

Robert Macintyre (35-1)

It was in 2019 that Macintyre had his best end of the open championship when he received the sixth here in Royal Portrush. Two years later, he ended up eighth at Royal St. George’s. The Scots ended the 11th earlier this season in Bay Hill and followed him with a ninth place in the player championship. Moreover, it was just last season that he won the RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. It is also noteworthy that Macintyre ended last month’s race in the US Open, hunting a round 68 round in the rain (and rain is what the forecast is looking for this week in Portrush). He has the accuracy, the game of access, the short game and the knowledge to play in the elements. In addition to a complete victory, I played Macintyre for a Top-20 finish at +150.

Russell Henley (65-1)

Georgia Bulldog has ended the fifth, 10 and the competitor in his last three beginnings and that the 10th came to the US Open last month. Henley went to a similar run earlier this season and happened to come to some of our interconnected courses. He was fifth in Pebble Beach, won Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill and ended in the sixth PGA National for The Cognizant Classic, a tour he also won in 2014. His best open end came to the Royal Troon last season. During the last 36 rounds, Henley ranks 11th in this field for SG: Access, ninth to avoid Bogey, 17th for the accuracy of the direction and the 13th in the clash. I played Henley for a Top-20 finish as well as on +175.

Mackezie Hughes (400-1)

Who is ready to collect a 400-1 ticket? Wouldn’t this be the pleasure? Of course, that’s a long time, but I think the price is very high and that we’re getting a bargain. The form has not been perfect since late, but he had a run between the end of March and the middle of May, where he completed 10 in three of the beginnings, including loss in a play off to Ryan Fox in Myrtle Beach Classic – and his results in interconnected courses are strong. Hughes was the 16th last year in Royal Troon and was sixth in 2021 at Royal St. George’s. In his hometown of Canadian Open, he has ended the seventh and the 14th in Hamilton Golf & Country Club. He has been as high as the 16th at TPC Sawgrass, has two Top-30s conclusions in Bay Hill and was a PGA National Honda Classic race in 2020. During the last 36 rounds, Hughes is no. 1 in this field for scrambling. I also played it for a top-40 finish on +240.

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