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Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour Gambling Competition column, which includes the draft picks of Golf.com’s expert prophet Brady Kannon. Kannon is an experienced golf pitcher and commentator, host and regular guest at Sportsgrid, a joint voice network dedicated to sports and sports betting and is a golf betting analyst at CBS Sportsline. You can follow Brady on Twitter @lasvegasgolferyou can read his draft pick below for the 2025 Open Championship, which was played on the Royal Portrait in Northern Ireland on Thursday. In addition to the drama recommended by Kannon, you will also see from Chirp Golf, a mobile app with free games and daily fantasy golf competitions You can win cash and prizes in every round and match.

Last week, we provided some early tips on the five players I liked to win the 153rd Open Championship in Royal Portrait, which was the bet I bet shortly after last month at Oakmont Open. These players are Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Ryan Fox. Open Championship Week is now coming, and I have added three more thorough championship options. But first, let’s talk about the golf course and how I came to these conclusions.

Royal Protush’s Dunluce Links course was designed in 1932 by Harry Colt. In 2017, Martin Ebert was asked to offer some renovations before hosting the 2019 Open. What we have today is a 71 shot that extends to nearly 7,400 yards. It is a coastal area of Northern Ireland with spectacular sand dunes, narrow fairways and small, rolling fescue vegetables. The roughness cut from the fairway for the first time is only about two inches high, but other than that, players will find gors, heater, grass grass – aka, annoying stuff.

The golf course is not as full of pot bunkers as we often see in Open Championships, and there isn’t much chance of colliding in these greens, as many of them are well above the level of the approach area. There is also a particularly large runoff area around the green.

I believe Royal Corporush is one of the best tests in the Open Champion Rota. This course will make the players do a good job. I agree that driving accuracy is in driving distance. Putters will be crucial as players negotiate slow green hump and bumps. When approaching the game, the scramble is crucial – hit the green in adjustment and operate with longer irons, usually starting from a window of 150-200 yards. The other two areas I checked this week were the strokes that were avoided by 4 strokes and bogey.

Proposing other golf courses that are good compared to linked courses may be an inaccurate science, but I did find some examples. We mentioned Harry Colt’s design and Martin Ebert’s renovation. The same combination performed both tasks at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, home to Canada’s opening in 2019 and 2024. Both Colt and Ebert have undergone extensive redesigns at the 2023 Open champion Royal Liverpool. Ebert has also done extensive work for Royal St. George and Royal Troon, winning the most recent Open Championships in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Colt also designed Wentworth, home to the BMW PGA Championship in England. I think that classes with some matching characteristics in the United States are Bay Hill (Arnold Palmer Invitational), TPC Sawgrass (Player Champion), PGA National (Cognitive Classic) and Pebble Beach.

As mentioned, we briefly covered our game last week on Rahm, Hatton, Spieth, Day and Fox. Note that Rahm finished seventh in Royal Troon, runner-up at Royal Liverpool, third in Royal St. George’s and 11th in Royal Prothush in 2019. He ranked fifth on Pebble Beach and third at the 2019 U.S. Open. He finished fourth in Wentworth with 12th and 9th in TPC Sawgrass, finishing second in second twice. Hatton ranked 20th in Liverpool in 2023, sixth in Porthush in 2019 and fifth in Troon in 2016. He won championships at Bay Hill and Wentworth, finished up to fourth place at PGA National, and finished second with Scottie Scheffler in 2023.

Spieth ranked fourth twice in Bay Hill and once at TPC Sawgrass. He finished ninth in PGA National earlier this year. His record on Open Championship and Pebble Beach is almost unparalleled. He never missed a layoff in any game. He won the Open in 2017, finished four top ten in Royal St. George’s, including runner-up, and finished 20th in Porthush in 2019, 23rd in Liverpool in 2023 and 25th in Royal Troon last year. He has six top ten at Pebble Beach, including a 2017 victory. Jason Day, similar to Spieth on a pebbles, never missed layoffs. He never won, but there were 9 top ten and three top 15. Day won the wins at TPC Sawgrass and Bay Hill, winning its 13th last year at Troon and finished second at Liverpool in 2023.

Fox won 16 in 2019 at Royal Porthush for its best open effect ever. He ranked seventh in Hamilton at the 2024 Canadian Open and won at Wentworth in 2023.

In addition to the thorough winner market, I played the finishing spots for all of these players: Top 10 RAHM (+110), Top 20 Hatton (+110), Top-20 Spieth (+200) (+200), Top 40 FOX (+100) (+100) and First 40 Days (+105) (+105).

Three other thorough bets

Robert McIntyre (35-1)

It was in 2019 that MacIntyre won his best open title ever when he finished sixth in Royal Porthush. Two years later, he finished eighth at Royal St. George’s. The Scots finished 11th place earlier this season at Bay Hill before finishing ninth in the Players Championship. Additionally, just last season, he won the Royal Bank of Canada Open at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. It is also worth noting that MacIntyre finished second in the U.S. Open last month, driving the final round of 68 in the rain (the rain was called for in Prothush this week). He has the expertise to be accurate, approach games, short games, and play a role in elements. In addition to a complete victory, I also played MacIntyre, finishing the top 20 with +150.

Russell Henry (65-1)

The Georgia Bulldogs finished fifth, tenth and second in his last three games, last month at the U.S. Open. Henry played similar games earlier this season, just in some of our related courses. He finished fifth at Pebble Beach, won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and finished sixth at Cognizant Classic at PGA National, a race he won before 2014. His best open-end result was last season at Royal Troon, where he finished fifth. Over the past 36 rounds, Henry ranked 11th in the field: approach, ninth bogey, avoiding bogey, 17th driving accuracy, and 13th in the competition. I also played the top 20 in the top 20 of +175.

Mackenzie Hughes (400-1)

Who is ready to cash out 400-1 vote? Isn’t that very interesting? Obviously, it’s a long photo, but I do feel the price is too high and we’re bargaining. The table isn’t perfect lately, but he did have a run between late March and mid-May, where he finished the top 10 in three games in four games, including a playoff loss to Ryan Fox in the Myrtle Beach Clashic, and the courses associated with it were also well done. Hughes ranked 16th in Royal Troon last year and sixth in Royal St. George in 2021. He finished seventh and 14th in the Canadian Open in his home country at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club. He ranked up to 16th in TPC Sawgrass, finished in the top 3 top 30 in Bay Hill and finished second in the PGA National at Honda Classic in 2020. Hughes ranked first in this field in the past 36 rounds. I also scored him in the top 40 of +240.

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