Pat Mayo Experience

Welcome to the Pat Mayo Experience, presented by Underdog, the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, 2026, Picks, research and preview.

I'm also going to be recording my colonial research and preview because I'm going to be away on vacation week from now.

So I still want to get you guys prep for that course too. But we're here. You can always hit the time codes and jump around.

But we're back to the Gibroni circuit on the PGA tour, which I am welcoming. I'm not going to lie to you.

I don't need a no-cut signature event followed by a major just every month. Like, it's too much. We have two tournaments now where we get to see kind of the rest of the PGA tour play along with Scotty Schaffler. Scotty's back. He's a defending champion. He won by seven strokes last year over Eric Van Royan is actually who he won over.

Remember Eric Van Royen?

Apparently came second in a golf tournament last year on the PGA tour.

Don't really remember that all that much.

There's also been extensive renovations to the Bunny Ranch this year to hopefully not make

it the easiest course of all time.

We'll see how that goes more in that detail a little bit later on once we jump into the course. But honestly, after Sheffler, you do have a decent tier of the next level. It's like Siwu, Brooks, Sungjay, and Speath are like the next four in line. And then you're into your younger bomber type dudes, Cootie, Pearson Cootie, Michael Thorbjornson, Wyndham Clark.

I guess he's not really a young gun anymore, but he's a part of this tier now. Rasmus Hoygard, Pendrith, Keith Mitchell, Michael Brennan, Johnny Kiefer, and then it's a full field of 145 players in McKinney, Texas this week. So I'm looking forward to it. betting is going to be difficult because of Sheffler and him being here.

And obviously I'm filming this to it. Betting is going to be difficult because of Sheffler and him being here.

And obviously, I'm filming this before the conclusion of the PGA Championship that last year there were a bunch of WDs in this tournament.

Although it is being played 21 days later.

Oh, boy.

21 days later than it was a year ago.

It was at the beginning of May last year. Now, obviously, it's towards the end of ago. It was at the beginning of May last year.

Now, obviously, it's towards the end of May. It was before the PGA Championship and the truest a year ago. Now, obviously, it's the week after those things. So it's probably going to play a little bit firmer, a little bit faster, and we still might see some WDs from this field. So I think this is a great potential for an each way week, a top five, top 10 week. A really fun Draft Kings week. Blickle and I will break that down this week. I'm really looking forward to that. And I got to sweat the PGA Championship, although I just checked in on Ryan Gerard. And he's already like two over in his front nine. I needed like a day out of him or like a chip in eagle or something to

prop up the bottom of my lineup in the big $5. But if Smalley and Rye want to go one too, then we're in business. I'm not going to lie to you in these giant tournaments. It was actually a lineup that we built on the show last week that is crushing right now. So I wish I had played it in the milly or a single entry, but of course I didn't.

I just have it in the $5.

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