⛳️ FedEx St. Jude Bets

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Trivia: A signed Tiger Woods Rookie Card was sold in April of 2021. It was the most expensive golf card ever sold. How much did it go for?

Here's what we've got for ya today:

• Doin Lines: FedEx St. Jude Championship

• Hot Girl Golf

• Golf Shots Heard Round The World

• Phil’s Gamblin’

• Golf Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke

Doin Lines: FedEx St. Jude Championship

It’s playoff time baby.

The best golfers in the world are gathering in Memphis, Tennessee and getting acclimated to the heat, and we are over here combing through the data to see if we can hit pay dirt.

Wait, how do the playoffs work anyway?

🚩 Location: TPC Southwind

💰 Purse: $20M - Winner gets $3.6M

👑 Previous Winner: Will Zalatoris

👀 Watch On: Golf Channel, CBS, ESPN+

The Field at a Glance

We can’t bring ourselves to write “Top 70” anymore. We just cannot do it.

This is a no-cut event, due to the limited field size. Four days of golf for everyone!

Featured Groups and Tee Times

The Course

TPC Southwind has got some hazards that would make a long day for pretty much everyone that reads this newsletter, but it isn’t significantly long by tour standards.

You can win here with strong iron play and great putting on the Bermuda grass.

Past Winners at TPC Southwind:

• Will Zalatoris (-15)

• 2021: Abraham Ancer (-16)

• 2020: Justin Thomas (-13)

• 2019: Brooks Koepka (-16)

• 2018: Dustin Johnson (-19)

💰Shanks Picks💰

Shocker. Guess who the three favorites are this week?

Scheffler (+600) Rahm & McIlroy (+850). 

• As always, there just ain’t enough juice for us to pick any of those three. Love the golfers, hate the numbers.

Outright Winner: Tyrell Hatton +2200

• We are backing The Peoples Golfer this week. Why? He ranks Top 5 in Bogey Avoidance over his last 24 rounds. Plus,

Top Five: Tommy Fleetwood +600

• He’s only finished outside the top ten once in his last five starts, plus he posted on social media that he was working with Butch Harmon this week.

Top Ten: Sam Burns +320

• Sam fell short in a playoff in 2021 at TPC Southwind, and finished 13th last week. A few experts are even picking him outright this week.

Top Twenty: Tom Kim +135

• This feels like easy money. Maybe too easy…

Long Shot: Brian Harman +4500

• His number just feels sooo disrespectful by Vegas. The man just won The Open!

Hot Girl Golf Alert

This story is about an anonymous hero on the internet, two beautiful women, and golf. Shall we continue?

First, the boring part. Kay Adams (you may know her from her NFL Coverage) was at Bengals camp and got herself an ice cream.

Enter our hero, from the rafters, totally disregarding the ice cream and getting down to brass tacks.

Yes, yes they should.

Would watch these two play golf over the latest version of The Match, any day!

Golf Shots Heard Round The World

More Gambling: ESPN, PENN Entertainment strike $2 billion sports betting deal, Dave Portnoy buys back Barstool Sports.

LPGA: Boutier and Zhang stand out as contenders for Women's British Open at Walton Heath.

Doubt: Few golfers attend players meeting with Jay Monahan as doubt over PGA Tour-LIV Golf deal continues.

Signature Event: The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is cutting its field nearly in half and eliminating one of the three courses, part of the price to become a signature event with a $20 million purse in a revamped 2024 schedule the PGA Tour released Monday.

Phil’s Gamblin’

Billy Walters, the gambling legend who has been described as "the Michael Jordan of sports betting," will publish his book Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk on August 15, 2023.

It’s been well known for decades that Phil Mickelson likes to gamble, but just how much he likes to gamble is up for debate. Will be interesting to hear these details…

Also, did you watch the Youtube Video of Phil and Bryson from this week?

You might’ve seen the clip of Phil talkin’ bets before their round. It’s pretty funny.

Even funnier… Phil Claiming that he hasn’t gambled in years… like two months ago on Twitter.. or X… or whatever it’s called now.

Trivia Answer: 

$336,000

Golf Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke

Malbon and New Balance go together like golf and glizzys at the turn. It sounds great, looks even better, and just feels right. Which is why we feel like Malbon and New Balance have hit new highs with their latest collaboration on the newly released “Heritage” golf shoes.

Priced at a totally unreasonable $170, the Malbon x New Balance Heritage golf shoe feels more like what your grandpa might be wearing in todays round of golf, and that is totally cool my man. These beautiful yet practical shoes come with FastTwist 3.0 removable Pulsar cleats and the CUSH+ insole for increased comfort on those long days out on the range.

Get yourself a pair of these and you’ll just have to get used to hushed tones of “He looks so handsome and distinguished!” from the older gals at the country club, moments before you pipe a drive 300 yards down the middle of the fairway.

That's all folks! See ya’ll Friday.