Welcome to the Early Wedge Best Betts show. I'm your host, E.C. I'm not lying when I say this is one of the bigger shows that we have all year in terms of the number of picks. I literally cannot believe

the rundown. We have new names on the no bet list, by the way. Four new names. We'll talk about those

later in the show. We have a parlay from Sobel that is so big. I can't even explain how many

numbers there are. But first, let's bring in the stars of the show. And I want to give

kudos to see you in Najat for hitting Cam Young in the without Scotty market, didn't even need that

at plus 1050. And by the way, courtesy of producer Matt, you guys have hit a cashed a ticket of

plus 1050 year longer in three of the last four weeks. Great job, guys. So we have Patrick Sobel. See ya. All right. See ya. You get the first word. Congrats on Cam Young. You and I shot up in OAD as well. Somehow I find a way to be negative about a win. So I'm happy I got it. But I didn't have Kim Young as a first round leader, like, which I absolutely should have. I don't know.

I'm happy I got one on the board. I've had a lot of near misses, but I got to build off of this one. Patrick, all right, Cam won here. Why is he playing this week? Like, if you're Cam, you just won, take a break before the PGA, right? No? Yeah, you know, these guys are creatures of habit. he was going to play no matter what so keep a good thing going. Four million dollars.

He's 29 years old. It's not like these guys can't handle another four competitive rounds. Let it run. He had a long break before the Masters, too. So, Sobel, the story about Cam Young this week, and I'm sure you've talked about it as well,

is where a year ago this time, he's what, 150th in the world, had to qualify for the U.S. Open, and now the guy's the number three player in the world. I mean, it's pretty unbelievable what we've seen from him in the last, what, a few months. Yeah, EC, this is something that we talk about all the time. the players that come close, and I think there's a big disparity here in what the public thinks about these guys who come close and, quote, don't get it done, and what the players themselves and the people inside the game think, because Cam Young's probably not won three times the last nine months if he didn't have those seven runner-up finishes or at least some of those beforehand sometimes you got a knock on the door before it opens up and you can barge right through it and so that's going to be one of the themes i talk about when we get to my outwrites later in the show so let's get we since we have so many picks let's get right to it and we're going to start with storylines and patrick i actually kind of with you. We have some signature event fatigue. Kind of. You only kind of agree with me? Kind of. Think about the last three stroke play events on the PJ tour. They've been all 72 man fields with no cuts. At least, you know, Harbortown Golf Links was a little bit different,

but you think about Doral and Quill Hollow, big ballparks, you've got to hit it far.

And I think Miami was a little bit of a snooze fest throughout the week.

I've heard really bad things from the ground saying there were just no one there at all and uh you know

luckily charlotte comes out for this tournament so there's probably going to be a little bit more

juice the golf course is in uh good not great shape from what i've heard also uh but i'm just

i'm getting tired it's like i'm going through the motions. I'm waking up on Monday. I'm

doing the same thing every day. I'm clocking in. I'm walking into my cubicle. I'm punching. I'm

doing the nine to five. I'm eating the slot bowl from Kava or Chipotle every single day. I'm

just doing it over and over and over again. That's kind of what this part of the schedule has felt

like for me,

at least. If I can, real quick, did you say bowl as opposed to burrito? Is that, are you a bowl guy? Yeah, I don't think you can do a burrito when you're, when you're at the desk or you're at a, you know, a place of work, see ya. That's a little too messy for me. Yeah, that's fair. Okay. Three soft tacos, see you.

And Patrick.

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