
Our expert likes the chances of Denny McCarthy 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 Valero Texas Open who begins on Thursday in San Antonio. 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.
This year marks a 15th year in a row that Valero Texas Open will provide the final tuning before the masters. The tour dates back to 1922 but began to be held at its current location, TPC San Antonioin 2010.
In case you have lost it, we have been tuing for masters as well With five shows already in the pocket.
OAKS course at TPC San Antonio is a highly sought after Greg Norman design. It is a standard of money 72, extending to over 7,400 yards, where the precision of the steering trumpets the distance of the car. Bermudagrass supervised greens are double and on the slowest side to protect against the frequent winds of Texas. Bounds gained: Tee to Green, Access, par 5 note, greens in adjustment and clashes have tried over the years to be some of the most important elements for success in this course.
Four par 5, as a collection, are among the most difficult in the tournament. Straight roads are relatively narrow and treated, but rough is not particularly long.
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Weather is an interesting factor this week, with the prediction of temperature everywhere from the high 1960s to the low years over four days. It seems that the wind will get on Friday and on the weekend and Friday and Saturday are predicting a chance for storm. Depending on what the weather does, we have seen that the winning results here range from 12 below 20 under the money. The Westgate SuperBook here in Las Vegas has set the subscribe proposal at 270.5, which means 17.5 under the money.
Interconnected courses are difficult to reach this week after TPC San Antonio is a very unique layout. I believe that the similarities and success of the intersection exist however TPC Summerlin In Las Vegas, Port Royal Golf Club (Bermuda Championship House), and Silverado in Napa (ProCore Championship).
There are 27 players in this field that are already in Augusta National in the next week. The rest of the field will try for “win and log in.” The handicap of trying to understand who is a better bet this week is difficult – to go with a player who is already in the field of next week against a player who is not. I did the favorites of the big names in Ludwig Aberg, Patrick Cantlay and Tommy Fleetwood, but ended up with five choices that are not yet in this year’s masters and one that is already inadvertently. While it is an interesting turn, I stuck in the process according to normal and didn’t pay much attention.
Denny McCarthy (30-1)
McCarthy is the shortest shot on our card this week and is already qualified for next week’s journey to Georgia. He lost in a play off here last year in Akshay Bhatia and has two additional Top-20 conclusions at the event. He also pencils as one of the best in the field in our interconnected courses. His short game is one of the best in the sport and he is very strong for accessing and avoiding Bogey. McCarthy is 8-per-8 in cuts made this season and the results of its last five beginnings were 16-5-48-18-14.
Cauley bud (45-1)
Cauley suffered major injuries from a car accident in 2018 and was just turning into tournaments in recent seasons. He has always been a very good player and is starting to show up once again with the successive endings of the sixth and fourth place in players and Valsspar championships this week. He has previously completed 10 top 10 here, in TPC Summerlin, and in Napa. It is good at almost the entire board in statistics this week, including the sixth in the field for greens in regulations won during the last 36 rounds.
Lee Hodges (66-1)
Nothing is almost so serious, but Hodges is turning from damage as well, feeding on an injury to the ribs that have kept it in the borders since the opening of the WM Phoenix. Like Cauley, Hodges was also a collegial golf star at the University of Alabama. He returned the action last week to Houston and ended up in 11th place. This is after two ends of Top-10 already this season. Hodges ended the sixth here in 2023 and as part of the Korn Ferry tournament, he also got in 14th place in 2020, when another Alabama player, Davis Riley, happened to win. He is another player who is too strong in statistics this week, including eight in this field for SG: par 5s.

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Andrew Novak (66-1)
There has been little a bag mixed with Novak lately. Normally, a Balli prime minister striker who ranks 23rd in the tournament last season for SG: Access, currently ranks 137th in that category. At 11 starts so far this season, he has lost six cuts. At the same time, he ended up Top-15 in two signature events and got third at Farmer’s Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. We are banishing in Novaki good to appear this week, the one who has completed the ninth here before, the 24th in the 2020 KFT event, and was a race in the Bermuda Championship last fall. Two important areas have been excellent during the last 36 rounds – fifth in this field for scrambling and third in SG: par 5s.
Rico Hoey (66-1)
Hoey is no. 1 on tours on total driving, ranking 51st in the distance of the car and 16 in the accuracy of the steering. During the last 36 rounds, Hoey is 33th in this field for SG: Access and is eighth for the greens in the obtained adjustment. He has had a very good success in interconnected courses and comes out of an 11th place last week in Houston, where he closed well, shooting a round of 64 on Sunday. Hoey’s weakness is with putter but historically, we have seen a very average number to below the average of putters earn here in the past.
Victor Perez (90-1)
The Frenchman made four straight cuts and his last three ends were 18-22-18. Last week in Houston, Perez opened with a round of 66 and ended with a round of 65. It ranks 13th in the tournament tours and during the last 36 rounds, it is the 18th in this field for the Green in the obtained regulation. It is 35 ball in both scrambling and SG: par 5s, and ranks fifth for avoiding bogey.
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