Inside Sports Network is a community and data information company designed to help members find a definitive edge in golf betting and daily fantasy.

Our expansive team of industry leaders provides hours of weekly research and to provide our members with the most comprehensive models, projections, daily fantasy ownership projections and betting picks that cater to all levels of members.

We provide weekly course reports and inside information from the grounds every week, as well as access to the most comprehensive model builder and data hub for professional golf.

Every week, Andy produces two 2,000 word plus articles. The Monday morning piece is a course preview of the upcoming tournament. In addition, Andy puts together an article, posted Wednesday morning, going over his final DK thoughts, core players, final weather update, and his opinions on the player field.

Insider Sheet

The Insider Sheet will be posted every Wednesday morning on our website. Think of this like a beefed up, one stop shop for all DFS/Betting Information you will need in a given week. The Insider Sheet is very digestible if you don’t have time to watch one of our 7 shows before the tournament starts.

The content of the Insider Sheet consists of price, ownership, model rank, tee time, betting odds, and Andy’s thoughts on the player.

We will update our ownership predictions 3-4 times between Tuesday midday and Wednesday night.

On-Course Information and Caddie Reports

Andy has been fortunate enough to build a network in the pro golf scene. We believe at ISN that what sets us apart from other sites is the access that we have to inside information from actual players, caddies, and other media members on the road from week to week.

If any of our team members hears any information, it will be shared in our discord. We expect to have a team member boots on the ground at every major going forward.

Discord

The purpose of the discord is to have a community for subscribers to be able to interact with each other and with the ISN team. You will be able to ask questions, sweat out your bets, and banter about anything else with the group.

The discord will be the home for any updates the ISN team has to their betting cards, DFS Core Plays, inside information we get from the tournament grounds, and much more!

Wednesday Premium Show

Andy, Kyle Hewett, and Coby Dubose host a premium show every Wednesday night for subscribers of ISN only. The show is very interactive and fun, but also wildly informative. This will give us one final opportunity to update ownership and give our final calls on on weather before lineups lock.

Staff Picks

Similar to the Insider Sheet, the Staff Picks article will be posted on our website every Wednesday morning.

For each tournament, the entire ISN team will select:

• Pick to Win

• Long Shot (must be above 50/1)

• Fade of the Week (must be top-10 on the odds board)

• Top-20 Lock

• Gummy Play of the Week

• One and Done Selection

We will be monitoring each person’s individual results throughout the year. This will provide insiders with a quick overview of who the staff is bullish or bearish on in a given tournament week. At the end of the season, we will find out who the best ISN expert is!

Multiple Golf Tour Coverage

One of our biggest assets is that the team members on our staff have also had a ton of success on the DP World Tour and LIV. Our team members will also engage in discourse on other tours and share their betting cards in the discord. We will have a LIV Betting Show/Course Breakdown for every LIV event.

“Other Sports” Channel

Despite the fact that all of our content is golf in year one, we will have an “other sports” channel, and conversation on NFL, CFB, CBB, NBA and all other sports are encouraged.

Our goal is to launch a full fledged NFL product in year two. You are locking in a “Golf only price”, but we are confident our team members are second to none in our knowledge of other sports.

The entire ISN content team drafted teams of 7 players for the 2025 Major Championships. The total money earned for each team at the end of the four majors will determine our winner.

By no surprise, Scottie Scheffler was picked first overall. If you are wondering how the rest of the first round played out, make sure to check out the video below:

We are happy to announce that we have formed a partnership with our friends over at Betsperts. They have a premier golf database called “The Rabbit Hole”.

In the database, you can make unlimited models using official PGA data, with an abundance of filters and data points to choose from.

The entire ISN team uses the database every week and it’s an integral part of everyone’s process to make key weekly betting and DFS lineup decisions.

If you do signup for Betsperts, use code INSIDEGOLF for 25% off. Additionally, to get yourself familiar with the database, Betsperts just posted tutorial videos on how to navigate their key features.

The “Closing Stretch” segment of the newsletter is where we will share three things from the past week that members were thinking about.

In lieu of watching “The Showdown Presented by Crypto Dot Com,” a made-for-television exhibition between the PGA Tour and LIV, I fired off (what I believed to be a harmless tweet) sharing my lack of affection for Shadow Creek, the host venue. 

The tweet got far more traction than I had expected, and while most responses overwhelmingly agreed with me, I did receive some blowback from the Shadow Creek hive. This got me thinking, why exactly is it that I don’t respond to Shadow Creek and the opulence and grandiosity of courses in a similar fashion. I was asked this question directly, and I took the time to respond thoughtfully.

The key point here lies not in specifics of why I, personally, didn’t respond to Shadow Creek, but rather it’s the concept of subjectivity in GCA, and why this is so important. I can give you all of the reasons why Shadow Creek doesn’t land for me, and Mike Keiser sums of many of these reasons more articulately than I in his 2022 book, “The Nature of the Game,” where he outlines the black licorice taste of American opulence and why he felt more engaged to the spirit of the game at courses such as Ballybunion and Royal Dornoch -- which eventually became the model for Bandon Dunes and all of his future development projects. 

This quote on his experience in Ireland (an incredibly special place to me) really resonated. “We stayed at guesthouses or small hotels with creaking floors and antique plumbing. The bathtubs had claw feet and the toilet tanks, mounted high on the wall, had long pull chains. The hosts were delightful and eccentric. The food was plain but hearty.

At Lahinch, the ancient barman served us delicious pork crackling. The Ballybunion clubhouse was a repurposed Quonset hurt. We felt as though we were roughing it, but no one missed the luxury and comfort of American golf resorts. On the contrary, the sense of being in a place teeming with local characters and customs made our trip an adventure…

Was what won me over, the beauty? Was it the warmth and humor of the people we met at the clubhouses and guesthouses? The caddies? The overall sense of golf as a pursuit that gave meaning and pleasure to every part of the day? Why had we all adopted without a moment’s hesitation the mindset that we would play in any kind of weather? What had made us so happy to walk? Why didn’t we miss the service and pampering of golf at home? Why did the game here, played with the same implements, feel so ancient and right? To put it another way: Where did American golf go wrong?” 

In many ways, Shadow Creek is the direct antagonist to the spirit of links golf. It was a development by a billionaire, for billionaires, and no penny was saved on the construction of the most opulent and maximalist golf course in the world. And yet, the end result (for me personally) felt completely soulless and antithetical to all of the reasons why I love the rugged, spiritual, inclusiveness of golf in the British Isles.

This is not to say that all American golf courses are as empty as Shadow Creek. Dozens of golf courses in America (National Golf Links of America, Chicago Golf Club, The Creek, The Valley Club, Bandon Dunes, and Pasatiempo, just to name a few) engage my spirit and make me feel grounded in the beauty of the game in ways that words can hardly describe.

Yet the sumptuous grandiosity of Shadow Creek didn’t land for me, and guess what? That’s okay! Golf course architecture is art. The beauty of any art form is its openness for interpretation. All art is meant to inspire, be cherished, criticized, and everything in between. While Shadow Creek doesn’t resonate with me, it may be the greatest golf course in the world for someone else. There’s no right answer.

The professional golf season is right around the corner, as we are a week away from The Sentry, hosted at the Kapalua Plantation Course in Hawaii. We are technically still in the off-season, so I thought I would give my 2025 bold prediction before time expires:

After a slow start to the 2024 year for Morikawa, particularly with his iron play, he rounded into form at the Masters. This could be attributed to reuniting with his old swing coach, Phil Sessinghaus, and splitting with Mark Blackburn, who is a well-respected coach on the PGA Tour circuit.

Since working with Phil Sessinghaus again, Morikawa posted 7 top-10 finishes. His most notable tournament was his runner-up finish to Scottie Scheffler at The Memorial, which came down to the 72nd hole of the tournament.

Not only did Morikawa find his world-class iron game again, but he improved his short-game significantly, especially making an equipment change with the putter.

The two-time major champion has been knocking at the door to win his first green jacket. His career finishes at Augusta are:

• 2020: T44

• 2021: T18

• 2022: 5th

• 2023: T10

• 2024: T3

Additionally, he has improved his putting every year on these tough Augusta greens.

Collin Morikawa is due to win another major and find the winner’s circle multiple times on the PGA Tour. I believe 2025 will be the year of Collin Morikawa…unless Scottie Scheffler has other plans.

After moving the league launch date from 2024 to 2025 due to a storm crashing on the newly constructed SoFi Center, the TGL is set to begin on January 7th.

For the folks who are not aware, there are six franchises consisting of a roster of four PGA Tour players. Here are the list of team names, rosters, and their future betting odds via DraftKings SportsBook:

• Boston Common Golf (+350): Rory McIIroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott

• The Bay Golf Club (+400): Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry, Min Woo Lee, Wyndham Clark

• New York Golf Club (+400): Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Cameron Young

• Los Angeles Golf Club (+400): Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Sahith Theegala

• Atlanta Drive GC (+450): Justin Thomas, Billy Horschel, Patrick Cantlay, Lucas Glover

• Jupiter Links GC (+800): Tiger Woods, Tom Kim, Max Homa, Kevin Kisner

My official TGL prediction on who takes home the trophy: New York Golf Club (+400)

With no Scottie Scheffler in the field, I believe Xander Schauffele is the best player in the league. It will be interesting how the players react to the shot clock. This shouldn’t be a concern for Matt Fitzpatrick, as he is already one of the fastest golfers on tour.

Additionally, Rickie Fowler is on the record stating that he has made some scouting trips to the SoFi Center. He has practiced hitting drives and iron shots into the simulator, along with getting some work in the live short game area.

Finally, Cam Young seems like a great locker room guy. He won’t complain if he doesn’t play and will have that team-first mentality.