Golf Smarter Premium Number 497, published on July 14, 2015.

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2015 open championship betting picks and misses this is golf smarter premium here's your host

fred green welcome back to the golf smarter podcast gentlemen hey good morning fred good morning, Fred. How are you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you so much. It feels good to be live here. This is a better look. Yeah, it's definitely better to be looking right at you. Way better. And we have to keep you anonymous, so that's why you're back is to the cameras. We are recording this on video as well as the audio podcast and live on Periscope,

but I can't take any of your questions on today's episode. We thought we would do this outside

and see what it would look like in video next to the golf course, except the jet planes are flying

low today. We're recording this on the Tuesday before the British Open, or the Open Championship,

to be respectful. Yes, sir. But from this point on, we'll just call it the Open Championship, but we're referring to the British Open to everybody in the United States. I think it's more glorious in the U.S. Open. I'd rather win the British Open than the U.S. Open. Isn't it the granddaddy?

To me, I think it's cool.

I think a lot of people would rather win the U.S. Open, but I wouldn't. I was on the Wikipedia page 1855. I think it was the first term in the world. Well, you know, the other thing is that the U.S. Open is such a test. And this year, let's recap how you did on the the u.s. open so it's supposed to be such a test

of mind and game and it truly was yeah clearly it ended up as a mind game um when dust and johnson

on the 18th hole on the 72nd hole that was so painful yeah we're all watching this bug um so how did you guys do it wasn was so painful. Yeah. We're all watching this bug.

So how did you guys do?

It wasn't so painful for me because it pretty much saved my weekend because I had a large

bet on Jordan Speath as an outright winner at 8 to 1 that I got really early before his

price dropped.

So I was pretty darn happy to see DJ tank it off there on the 18th.

But at the same time, as a golf fan, I was like, I would have liked to probably

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