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Welcome to the Action Network podcast presented by Draft Kings. I'm your host, Mike Calvries, and I'll be joined every Wednesday by Spencer Aguilar and Kyle Murray as we dive into upcoming PGA tournaments throughout the entire season. But today, we're going to be starting with the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which if your bartender doesn't know it, it's the half lemonade, half iced tea invitational. This, of course, was a course that was dominated by Tiger Woods throughout his career.

He won the Arnold Palmer Invitational eight times, and he also won at Bay Hill in 1991 for the

U.S. junior amateur. While Woods loved Bay Hill, this course has the potential to chew up and spit out

the field.

It helps if you're long off the tee, but there's many fairways that are very narrow.

And the rough is going to start at three inches, but it's going to be increasingly difficult to deal with as the week goes on.

In totality, this is a course that I think is offering just on the verge of a major in terms of its overall quality and difficulty.

So at this time in the year, you can see some tournaments where, you know, the winning score is up there in the high 20s under par. This is one, it's a bit more survival. But enough for me. Let's bring Spencer and Kyle into the full to speak specifically about head-to-head matchups in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, as well as their outright winner,

placement bets, anything else that they're hot on coming into the weekend. Spencer, let's start with you first. What's your thought on this course and potentially the obstacles is going to put in the way of this field and some of the golfers that are just in a better position to compete at the very top of leaderboard? Yeah, I mean, I think you said it at the beginning when you just look at the dominance that Tiger Woods has seen on this course.

If you... to compete at the very top of leaderboard. Yeah, I mean, I think you said it at the beginning when you just look at the dominance that Tiger Woods has seen on this course.

If you, it's not just the Tiger Woods answer.

Like, Beil has one of the highest rollover predictability rates between seasons that you get

on tour.

The funny part about that is, is that's not exactly the narrative that you might expect from a venue, that when you dive deeper into the stats, it's generated this various strokes gain interpolation over the last five to 10 years.

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