Carlso Ortiz wins another International Series event for LIV Golf. Anthony Kim is playing this week at LIV Jeddah and Digsies looks at The Masters odds.
Yo yo it’s digies baby and welcome to 54 live shorts happy Monday February 26 only a few days left in February uh it’s still cold outside up here in the Northeast on Long Island and you know few more days March is right around the corner and you know March up here in the
Northeast it’s not like the rest of the you know country uh down south out west what have you you know around St Patrick’s Day is really when we start getting out to the course and and and start being able to play golf again so we’re a few weeks away from that we’re
Six weeks away from the Masters uh diggies is heading down to Myrtle Beach uh the weekend before the mes for a Long Island Golf co uh photo shoot commercial shoot so I need to get my gameing gear and I’m excited to get out there but somebody who does have their gameing
Gear and another live goer Carlos Ortiz completely tore up the weekend at the International Series in Oman and he won he went out and shot a 65 on Sunday to hold off Louie us haen uh Waco Neeman and uh Meo Pereira and the live guys completely dominated the international
Series event we had Ortiz us heisen Neiman Pereira Uline wolf pan Herbert all of them were in the top 10 so it was a great week for Liv go they’re heading into Jetta and um the yeah big news coming out of Jedi you got the tqu guys
Completely killing it uh last year they had four team wins they finished the season in third place for the team competition and you know this year they started off completely where they ended you had Waco Neeman he won the Australian Open he had a tied fourth at
The Dubai desert open a win at the Liv GF Maya Coba and a third in the international series Oman Carlos otiz like I just said he won The Intern national series Oman event uh Sebastian Munoz tied 13th live Maya COA tied 9th live Las Vegas and Mido Pereira came
Around and came in fourth place at the international Series uman so they have completely torred up torque and their team member from last year David P uh David pugge I apologize who they traded for Ortiz ores and and pug were uh flopped for each other um he’s killing
It too uh he won the last in AAL series event he won an international series event over in the winter as well so the young kids on live are starting to show up and it’s great to see man it’s really great to see and another guy Louis USIS
And they just came out with the Masters invitations they gave it to Neiman hit satun and thorberg olison and a lot of people on Twitter and around the live Community are complaining that gu did not get an invite now gu was the best golfer in live golf LH year he deserves
An invite but another guy that deserves an invite other I know like everyone’s saying like oh we need to get more live guys in there there’s two guys that deserve to be in the masters from live it’s gu and the other guy is Louie us heisen because us heisen has you know
Completely tore everything up and uh yeah you know he’s playing Great Golf and you know he is someone that won twice in the winter he has a runner up at the Masters uh he has an Open Championship so the guy is a stud and he
Can get the job done so us heisen does deserve to be there Taylor G deserves to be there um I don’t know about you know the only other guy that I would say has a chance other than USIS and G would be Dean burer you know he had a win um in
The winter as well so you know gu USA in burm but you know what begas Campion chooses Neiman’s in the tournament and honestly hopefully by next year you know things get straightened out you know you saw Bryson dambo he went on that um I don’t know what podcast it was but he
Was complaining that you know the world the world golf rankings need to get everything in order they ask Liv to do this that and the other Liv has done this that and the other and they haven’t you know given live world ranking points yet and we’ll see how that plays out
Obviously you know PGA Tour took a lot of money with SSG um they completely boxed out piff right now but they’re still at the negotiating table with piff so we shall see what happens now um big news jedha it has been confirmed that Anthony Kim will be playing as a live
Golf wild card in Jetta and that’s great to see man back in you know 2008 2009 Anthony Kim was the next everybody thought he wouldd be the next Tiger Woods he was a rising star he had injuries and he took out you know like a Lloyds of London or another insurance
Policy on his body he insured his body and his golf game and when he got hurt he took that insurance money so he’s been living off of that insurance money for the past 10 plus years what have you and you know the second he hits a from
What I believe I’m not 100% sure on this but the second that he hits a t-shot he loses that insurance money like he doesn’t lose the money that he got in the past but any future earnings from that insurance money he doesn’t get so it it it was didn’t make sense to go
Back to the PGA Tour because you know if he goes out there I’m sure they would have gave him special exemption from an injury because he was a past you know winner on tour he had you know uh you know I’m sure some sort of money
Exemption for the money that he made um and you know sponsors you know he drives you know you know he drives Revenue you know he he brings viewers to the TV viewers to the program so I’m sure some sponsors would have wanted AK in the
Field but on the PGA torf he misses the cut he doesn’t get paid if he doesn’t get in the top 120 top 70 whatever it is now he doesn’t get paid so it was a nerve-wracking decision for him because he could lose the millions of dollars he’s getting from insurance to maybe
Make that back on the PGA tour but with Liv Liv probably gave him some upfront money I don’t know if that has been announced yet I haven’t seen it but he’s guaranteed a downside with Liv he’s gonna make x amount of money if he plays
An x amount of events he knows how much money he can make and if that is equal to or surpasses that insurance policy it makes sense for Anthony Kim to play so Anthony Kim will be teeing up in Jetta this weekend and it’s a big event man jetta’s coming up the following week
They got Hong Kong and then after that it’s smooth sailing into the Masters and the Masters are really starting to shape up the odds are out and you know it’s it’s the the the main guys you know are on the top you got sheffler Rah Rory are
The top favorites uh after that you got spe and havin and some of these live guys are not getting respect Bryson D shampo Dustin Johnson they’re like 33 to1 you got someone like will Alat Tores who’s 22 to1 who has better odds than Bryson and DJ two guys that are former
Major Champions and one guy that’s a former Masters champion and DJ just won you know zalatoris still hasn’t won on the PGA tour so you know he doesn’t have a win underneath his belt so I don’t know why they’re not I I guess these bookmakers really don’t respect the wins
On live because even Neiman Neiman’s like 50 to one uh you got rahen Rah Sheffer and Rory are the only I don’t know I think Rory might be 10 to one but I know Rah and Sheffer are under 10 to one I believe sheffer’s eight 8.5 to one
Rah’s like nine to one so they respect Rah um but you know Rah has showed us time rah’s a top three player in the world if not top two top one I think right now in the world the top three players in the world are Sheffer RAM and
Rory and we know Rory hasn’t been able to get it done at Augusta maybe that will change but you know you know Ron can get the job done and I think he’s lives best chance to win a masters and other than that you know I I you know
Bryson I’m not sure like he went out and said like it’s a par 67 for me and he’s never had a good showing at the Masters DJ we know he can win a masters and you know there’s a few Green Jackets you know on you know live from the guys that
Won in the past Sergio Patrick Reed you know Phil mikkelson we saw last year any you know Phil Mickelson’s a guy that can go out there and play horribly all year but anyone week in the year he completely turn it on and be the best
Golfer in the field we saw that at the 2021 PGA and we saw that last year with the tired for second with Brooks at uh Masters and I’m completely forgetting about Brooks Brooks is a complete assassin he’s the alpha male of the golf game and you know Brooks is uh one that
Can easily win I believe he’s like 15 to1 maybe 20 to1 so I think Brooks is also a guy that can win The Masters so it’s a very exciting you know six weeks we got got going in Gulf right now and you know the PGA Tour there were in
Mexico this week they did not have a great leaderboard but you got a nice young rookie winning Jake knap and this week at the cognizant classic down in Florida they got a good field so it looks like you know the PJ tour is starting to have every other week type
Of thing you know last week they had a good field in Riviera it was a good tournament this week you got the big boy showing up Ricky Rory Matthew Fitzpatrick can’t L like I haven’t really looked at the I I sort I don’t know who exactly is playing but I
Remember looking at the the the uh people who are playing and there’s at least you know 15 to 20 guys that are recognizable and are stars in the game so it should be interesting we got jeda this week we got the PGA Tour cognizant Classic this week and we are a few weeks
Out from the majors but the big story today Carlos Ortiz wins the international series event in Oman and the live golfers have completely been tearing up to Asian tour and that’s great for the game of golf man it’s really getting the Asian tour these eyes because if these guys and these live
Golfers weren’t playing on the Asian tour would the Asian tour be getting this much exposure me personally you know I didn’t watch the Asian tour before the live golf golfers started playing on the Asian tour so Asian tour just got a new fan in me I’m paying attention now for the international
Series event because a live golf so you know that’s a good thing you know people could say all they want about live golf growing the game they’re not growing the game it’s all about money they’re growing the game over in Asia the Asian tour has been a better product because
Of Liv golf but uh tomorrow we be recording episode 5 54 live podcast Jake and I it will be out Wednesday morning and we’ll be back with another 54 live short later on in the week I’m looking to do two shorts a week one podcast a
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