Golf’s Longest Day + RBC Canadian Open Preview

Kyle talks about Golf’s Longest Day, Brian Kirschner recaps JT Poston's surprise win at Jack's place, Steve went 12-1 on round score props, and our Memorial content recap

Weekly Content Schedule

Re-Watchables

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Memorial Tournament Content Recap

If you are a new reader to the newsletter, I want to introduce you to Twitterless Steve. For those who know Twitterless Steve but not familiar with his work, you need to know about his round score props.

In our discord, Twitterless Steve every morning will write a full in depth weather analysis and use that information to come up with a hypothesis on how the course will play from a scoring perspective.

Twitterless Steve has been exceptional using his data and analysis, finding an edge in round score props. Two weeks ago, he went 20-5 on round score props. Last week at the Memorial, he went 12-1

Check out the tweet below of some screenshots on example of his analysis he writes in the course report channel in our discord and how he thinks about scoring props.

RBC Canadian Open Tournament & Course Preview

Andy Lack

TPC Osprey Valley’s conditions and setup didn’t do it any favors last year, but even under drier conditions, the fairways are very wide and easy to hit, and the greens are rather large and easy to hit (65.9% driving accuracy and 72% greens in regulation percentage). It played as the 9th easiest golf course on the PGA TOUR last year, and it featured the second-easiest set of par 3s, and the par fours and par fives also ranked as the easiest on Tour as well. It ranked 38th in OTT difficulty, 35th in APP difficulty, 25th in ARG difficulty, and 22nd in putting difficulty. It was one of the easiest ball-striking courses on Tour, and there was not one category where it played harder than Tour average.

TPC Toronto featured a very high driving distance and very high driving accuracy, and it does not feature very many water hazards, as water only comes into play on three holes. The greens are very flat and the green side surrounds are very easy, as it ranks 21st out of 40 courses, 25th in ARG courses from the rough, 35th in fairway ARG, and it ranked middle of the pack in all the putting difficulty categories, and every player in the top-5 ranked top-15 in putting, whereas the other categories where a little more all over the place. Fox didn’t drive it well, Burns didn’t chip very well, Yu didn’t hit his irons well or chip well, Young didn’t hit his irons well or chip well, and McCarty didn’t hit his irons well or chip well, but they all had strong putting in common.

This is statistically not the pure distance and putting contest that some may think. Just like TPC Craig Ranch, it’s more balanced across the board, where most skills are actually de-valued compared to Tour average—it did not separate skill well in year one.

For the rest of Andy’s preview article, click here.

One and Done: Nicolai Hojgaard

Josh Segal

The Ludvig Aberg Memorial experience was certainly frustrating. He finished 39th on the week, winning $90,000. In a OAD pool at a signature event, that placement is not going to cut it. We head up north to the RBC Canadian Open that is not a signature event.

For the RBC Canadian Open, my pick is Nicolai Hojgaard.

Some of the key statistics I am looking at this week are elite drivers and players that perform well on long easy golf courses. Despite losing strokes off-the-tee at the Memorial last week, Nicolai has had roughly a two month stretch gaining positive strokes off-the-tee. He ranks 26th in strokes gained off-the-tee and ranks inside the top 5 in driving distance. Finally, Hojgaard ranks 1st in strokes gained on long easy golf courses.

Nicolai has had a pretty solid year on the PGA Tour, most notably finishing 2nd at the Houston Open and Truist Championship. Both of those courses you need to excel off-the-tee with your driver and driving distance is a substantial advantage.

2026 OAD Total: $10.5 million

Closing Stretch

Brian Kirschner

An Ode to JT Poston

Look, not every single guy on the PGA Tour is going to be a flashy big name personality that hits the ball 330 yards. JT Poston is the anthesis of that and yet he is putting together quite the PGA Tour resume. He now has four tour wins, 2019 Wyndham Championship, 2022 John Deere Classic, 2024 Shriners and now his crown jewel the 2025 Memorial.

You really have to respect a guy like Poston, who is well below average in driving distance but has shown to be a high end iron player and putter having this good of a career on the PGA Tour. He seems to play an old school style of golf that we do not see much on tour anymore. He has never been in jeopardy of losing his PGA Tour card and shown that he can win in the best fields when he gets in the mix.

His career has definitely gone through some peaks and valleys over the past couple of years but I do think that this most recent win is going to put him back on the right track in being a more consistent PGA Tour player.

You also have to respect how well he battled on the back nine, going into an event that no one thought he had a chance to win, he stumbled late. I think that would certainly deter most guys on tour in that position. However, JT held his head had and made a bunch of putts coming in culminating in a stellar birdie on 18 when he had to have it. He showed a lot of guts.

Is Poston ever going to be a major champion that is known by all sports fans? Likely not but he’s made a damn good career and its very admirable in todays day and age.

The Longest Day In Golf

Kyle Hewett

We saw the last of the us open qualifiers this week on Monday which is known as the longest day in golf. One of my personal favorite days in the sport of golf always seems to produce some amazing stories. This year we saw the likes of JB Holmes (who hasn't qualified for a U.S. open since 2019) get a spot in this years event at Shinnecock hills at age 44. We also saw Miles Russel one of the games top amateurs qualify at 17 years old with Charlie woods on his bag. One of the top players in last years pga tour university Ben James was another great young talent who secured a spot in this years U.S. open through qualifying.

We saw an 8 way playoff in Canada to decide 3 spots (one of the largest playoffs I can remember in recent years from qualifying). Keep an eye out for 17 year old Giuseppe Puebla #2 ranked on ajga ranking who shot -7 finishing one shot ahead of miles Russel in his qualifier. A few other names that impressed me were Vaughn Harber who's currently at the Ohio state university, Jackson Ormond university Florida commit who went 65 63 to qualify, and recent Vanderbilt grad Jackson Van Paris who has been cut 4 straight starts on the KFT who finished birdie birdie in his qualifier to secure his spot.

The longest day in golf always produces some of the coolest stories in golf and gives guys who range of age from 17-44+ a chance to get into one of the most difficult tournaments to qualify for in the world. You can also see it in the emotions of the players themselves in the interviews. Couldn't be more excited for next weeks U.S. open at Shinnecock hills 🇺🇸.

Also shoutout to Zac Blair and Cole Hammer who ISN are big supporters of who also qualified. Goodluck next week and enjoy watching one of the best events of the year at one of the most unbelievable tracks in the world.

Flex of the Week

Shoutout to our very own Rishi and subscribers Ace Boogie and Wade for having exceptional DFS weeks. Rishi took home 15k, placing third in the high stakes Thunderdome contest. Ace and Wade both took home 5k, with Wade shipping the 33 SE contest.

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