Mexico Open 2022 Heavy Petting

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Hola Amigos! Bienvenido a la Mexico Open!Esperamos que hayas traído la madera pesada para esta semana.Bombea a los chicos!Here are a few key things to know that may not have been covered on the podcast enough. Keep these in mind when narrowing down your bets and/or player pool.

• This is shaping up to be one of those high variance events that rewards length and a hot four days with the putter. The fairways are muy wide. The rough is muy short. The greens are muy large.

• Hit the long ball. Pound these big greens in regulation. Make putts on the slow, flat, paspalum surfaces. That's it. That's the game. The end.

• We've received a lot already from our Caddie friends on the ground. We're sharing it all in the Nut Hut, but here's a quote about the areas around the greens: "Greens aren't very undulating. Collection areas around the greens are minimal. It's really pretty easy around the greens."

• Other Tournaments that feature Paspalum grass according to Fantasy National: OHL Mayakoba, Puerto Rico, Corales Puntacana. None of these have shot link data so we don't have a clue who putts well on them.

• If we look at Strokes Gained Total from only courses with Paspalum and we look at a minimum of 24 rounds played on those courses for sake of sample size, your top players are: CH3, D. Lee, Grillo, Knox, Lahiri, Garnett, Lashley, Baddeley, Woodland, Perez, Poston, Finau, Todd, Schenk, Na

• They added nearly 300 yards of length and 51 bunkers to this course to make it PGA TOUR worthy. There are a total of 106 bunkers on the course, and water in play on about 5 to 7 holes (setup and wind dependent). 

• 6 of the 9 par 4's can tip out over 450 yards. 4 of the par 4's can tip out between 495 and 520 yards. Hello long iron ball strikers and bombers

• The 18th is the only gettable par 5 in two for the entire field. Our caddie friends tell us that will be a full send hole for everyone. Expect tons of birdies and eagles there, and be on the lookout if PrizePicks drops one of those O/U 4.5 Par 5 lines. Pound the under on your favorite long hitters.

1. Strokes gained T2G leaders from last 4 rounds: 1. Poston 2. Kirk 3. Jones 4. Duncan 5. Woodland 6. CT Pan 7. Ernst 8. Diaz 9. Seiffert 10. Ghim 

2. Total strokes gained leaders on Paspalum grass: 1.Garnett 2. Lee 3. CH3 4. Grillo 5. Long 6. Baddeley 7. Lahiri 8. Lashley 9. Knox 10. Woodland

3. Strokes gained T2G leaders in the last 3 calendar months: 1. Rahm 2. Kirk 3. Munoz 4. Knox 5. Woodland 6. Streelman 7. Jones 8. Ghim 9. Duncan 10. Wise

4. On courses >7400 yards, average to difficult scoring, & short rough, your top 10 in total strokes gained are: 1. Lashley 2. Woodland 3. Tringale 4. Rahm 5. Garnett 6. Finau 7. Clark 8. Schenk 9. Baddeley 10. Reed

5. Top 10 JUST strokes gained ball striking on courses >7400 yards, short rough, & average to difficult scoring: 1. Woodland 2. Garrigus 3. Chappell 4. Wise 5. Champ 6. Tringale 7. Hearn 8. Rahm 9. Hahn 10. Wallace

6. Top 10 in birdies or better gained the last 50 rounds: 1. Rahm 2. Riley 3. Ramey 4. Lee 5. Brown 6. Whaley 7. Munoz 8. Na 9. Griffin 10. Wise

7. Top 10 in good drives gained last 12 rounds: 1. Lahiri 2. Munoz 3. Long 4. CT Pan 5. Rahm 6. Wise 7. Stuard 8. Van Der Walt 9. Ancer 10. Tringale

8. Top 10 in GIR's gained the last 12 rounds: 1.Wise 2. Lahiri 3. Taylor 4. Rahm 5. Wu 6. Kitayama 7. Tringale 8. Kirk 9. Smalley 10. Munoz 

9. Top 10 in proximity from the 2 main approach shot buckets (200+ & 175-200): 1. Munoz 2. Champ 3. Rahm 4. Smotherman 5. Dufner 6. Taylor 7. Murray 8. Svensson 9. Bryan 10. Finau

10. Top 10 projected points per salary dollar (good values): 1. Rahm 2. Whaley 3. Smalley 4. Wise 5. Long 6. Sigg 7. Taylor 8. Hickok 9. Hubbard 10. Poston

Since we didn't have PrizePicks lines up on Monday night at the time of recording, I (DB) thought I'd slide this in here on the HP email. This is a Power Play (have to hit all 3 to win for 5x) for me on round 1. The par is 71. The weather looks pretty mild so far and this is looking like a straight up birdie bonanza!

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