Brady Kannon

Our expert likes Justin Thomas’s chances this week.
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Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour Gambling-Tips column, displaying the choice from Golf.com expert Brady Kannon’s prognostic. An experienced golf betting and commentator Kannon is a regular guest in Sportsgrid, a trade union audio network dedicated to sports and sports betting. You can follow on Twitter in @LasvegolferAnd you can read his choices below for Arnold Palmer Invitational, who begins on Thursday in Oralndo, Fla. 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.
We have reached the second stop in Florida Swing, the 10th tour of the 2025 PGA Tour season, and the fourth New Year’s signing event. Welcome to Orlando, Fla., And Bay Hill Club & Lodgehouse of Arnold Palmer Invitational.
This week’s field is made up of 72 players. There will be a cut of 36 holes, shrinking to 50 players and best connections. Bay Hill is a golf course of the big boy, for sure. A par 72 originally designed by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee, Arnold Palmer bought the property in 1976 and began to put his hands on the tweaks and redesign for the next four decades. Today’s version lies in about 7,500 yards and is Bermudagrass Wall-to-Wall. The greens are relatively large, strong and fast, and are some of the most difficult areas in the tours to reach the regulation. Most of this may have to do with the thick, strong severity that limits the roads.
We have noticed This ball stroke is the main theme of the swing in Florida in terms of what is the main skill set for success in this four-week stretch, and thus, I have looked at the shocks: out of tee, the shocks: access, car distance and greens in the won this week. In addition, I have looked to clash, strange avoidance and SG: Bermudagrass. When you include parles 3 in Bay Hill, it has the largest collection of access shooting shooting 200 yards or more, throughout the tournament calendar, so I have also looked at the proximity of holes from 200+ yards and also success in the 450-500 yard.
TPC Scottsdale It’s probably my strongest interconnected course this week. Scottie Scheffler He has won twice here and Bay Hill twice. I like The empty quil AND Memorial (Houston Open) this week. I also looked Southern hillsPGA 2022 championship house, Olympia fieldswhere both BMW 2020 and 2023 championships were held, and HillHome for the PGA 2023 championship.
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We also need to mark the weather forecast for this week in Orlando. Thundershowers are expected to arrive on Wednesday afternoon, and while the Sunshine is supposed to return on Friday and Saturday, the wind is also expected to be a factor. We could have gusts over 20 km an hour on Thursday and Sunday. It is a bit of everything that seems and it seems very likely that the weather will play a role in this event.
With the limited field, it has to pay more for the Top-20th completion, but I have yet to do so in addition to playing each of the following for a full victory.
Justin Thomas (25-1)
It seems to me that Thomas is overlooking a little now and this is understandable with his latest victory coming to the PGA 2022 championship. I like the fact that the victory came to Southern Hills, one of our interconnected courses. Thomas has also had tremendous success for many years at TPC Scottsdale, lately ending sixth there a month ago. This was his first one of what is now two right Top-10 conclusions that come this week, and his third general of the new season. During the last 36 rounds, Thomas ranks third in this field for SG: access and is seventh in the yard 450-500 par 4s. It has a lot of tee lengths and is one of the best game scramblers. I like how he is also trending in this special tour. This will be his fourth time playing API and his conclusions have been progressively every time, 49-21-12.
Maverick McNealy (56-1)
Like Thomas, McNealy also has three endings of Top-10 this season already and comes this week from two straight, with the first month in TPC Scottsdale. It ranks 13th in this field for SG: Access, 19 for the Greens to the Won Regulations, 17th near the 200+ yard holes, and is sixth in the yard 450-500 par 4s throughout the last 36 rounds. McNealy also ranks seventh in this field for SG: Bermudagrass.
Mino Wae Lee (75-1)
Australians are usually great wind players and they have had great success here at this event in the past. Marc Leishman and Jason Day won in the back-back years and Leishman has also ended up competitors. Lee comes out of a 12th place at WM Phoenix Open and was the 18th at the PGA 2023 championship at OAK Hill. He is one of the longest hit in this field and ranks sixth in SG: outside the last 36 rounds. Lee also ranks 24th for the proximity of holes from 200+ yards. The form this season has been very good with the three Top-20 ends in four starts.
Matt Fitzpatrick (95-1)
We are a little removed from the Red-Hot 2023 season of Fitzpatrick, but I can’t ignore how well he is done here and in interconnected courses. He has not yet been spectacular this season, but has made three cuts in four starts. The cut he lost was in Phoenix but he has also completed 10 and 15 there in the past. He has been the 14th and ninth here in Bay Hill, fifth in Southern Hills, and the sixth and competitor in Olympia Fields. During the last 36 rounds, Fitzpatrick ranks in the first half of the field in almost all categories and is the 13th in SG: Bermudagrass. After all, I like his story in these types of golf courses, he is a skilled wind player, and nearly 100-1 to win is a straight prize if not generous.
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