Players

Ancer -125 v English
Ancer was 12th here last time event was held in 2019 in his only try here and he was in the mix for the win until back 9 when he had a few bogeys and faded.
Last time out at the Concession (tour course) Ancer was good at T18

Meanwhile English seems to have lost his edge. Last 4 events
26/66/MC/MC
What's more he is awful here having MC his last 6 years here and before that was 33 and 64

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 I meant to write Concession is a tough course not a "tour" course

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 Harris English WD Before he tees off

Damn it

Ah brutal. Any other matchups you like?

Panther just checking in again now for rd2

RD2 

Spieth -110 v Niemann

Rd2
Spieth -110 v Niemann
Spieth playing well right now with 4 straight events Top 15 or better.
With 3 times top 4 or better

Rd1 Spieth drove the ball great missing only 2 fairways (made par on both) and was #1 in field in strokes gained tee to green.
Watched his post round interview and he said he got the absolute highest score he could've gotten and felt he hit the ball very well. He said he hit some irons right over or at the flag only to be 5 yards too short or long. Driving the ball straight had been the thing missing so he seems to be getting better and better and closer and closer to the form that made him great.

In his interview they talked about confidence and he confirmed he is more and more confident.  You can see it in his body language and anybody that has played competitivesports, really at any level, knows that confidence is half the battle...probably more. 

Niemann just ok at +1 hit
50% fairways
67% greens

Spieth hit
86% fairways
83% greens

Spieth (-2) was +1.03 strokes gained putting while Niemann was -0.1 but Spieth made less than 70' of putts

Spieth has struggled here in the recent past years but was 4th years ago in his 1st try when he was playing good. his round today shows how well he is playing. I'm looking/hoping for more of the same

Niemann comes into this event having never played the tourney
His last 2 starts finished 28 & 43
Maybe emotionally struggling with the health struggles of his young nephew?

For those that may have followed this bet is cursed

Spiehitting 90% greens through 10 holes and has already missed putts of

4’

5’

6’

7’

11’

-2.78 strokes putting through 10

and he took a 4 from the green side bunker 37’ away for a double bogey

what a sh!tshow

meanwhile Niemann the opposite making putts and sand saves 

gonna need a miracle down 3 on back 9

Gonna try again after Rd2 Spieth disaster.  Can¡¯t believe how badly he putted

and kind of pissed that English withdrew as Ancer is playing well so I am pretty sure that would¡¯ve been a winner the way English is playing lately and his awful past history here.  Kind of makes sense his awful play of late now that we find out he w/d due to his back

Rd3
Dechambeau-115 v Fitzpatrick
If u can't beat him (Dechambeau) join him.
I didn't Bryson played all that great to win last week and I thought betting against him this week might be a good idea. I didn't because lines were high lays and good thing because he is playing much better this week. Earlier this week Bryson in his interview described his win last week as his "C" game!
So if he play that good with his "C" game it's scary what "B" or "A" game is.
Anyway just looking at rd2 he started off with a lousy drive which led to double bogey when he missed a 7' bogey. Came back to go -5 last 17 holes to finish -3.
His proximities the hole was very good. He had 12 birdie putts of less than 20' compared to only 6 for Fitzpatrick.
Dechambeau longest made putt was 8'2"and finished -1.15 strokes gained putting or his round would've been better. Only made 50' of putts all day
Fitzpatrick on other hand made a lot of long putts and finished +4.07 strokes gained putting.
Fitzpatrick made 4 putts of 9' or more compared to the 0 made by Dechambeau and included were putts made of 32'/20'/10'/9'

Dechambeau will make some putts today and his proximity to the hole is in large measure due to the fact he hits it so far as he hit it 32 yards longer rd2 this giving him the shorter approach shots

Fitzpatrick is playing very well lately but I don't think you can expect him to be +4 strokes gained putting again today and his past history at this course is nothing great 41/46/MC/MC

Line is ok at -115

Well Bryson was easy.  Wire to wire by open lengths.  Gets the Spieth Rd2 money back
Was gonna play Spieth right back too at +115 v Morikawa and wish I¡¯d done that too

And Ancer played good again so the English w/d is pissing me off