Complete Sports Media Podcast with golf analyst Casey O'Donnell from his new sailboat

This is another great episode for the Complete Sports and Media team. Today's episode is featuring an analyst with a wealth of knowledge and insight into the PGA tour.

This is a breakdown of this past weekends PGA return to play at the Colonial tournament in Fort Worth Texas. There was a 13 week shutdown of the tour due to the Corona Virus. It was tough for golf fans especially as this is when the season is typically in full swing.

I had a short intro before welcoming Casey onto the show. He was joining us from his new sailboat. I forgot to ask if he was parked beside or near Tiger's yacht "Privacy"! There have been many sightings of Mr Woods Yacht around as people try and speculate where his is in the world and that could shed some light on when he will return to tournament golf.

Casey began by saying that the Champion of the tournament Daniel Berger was a little hungrier for the win compared to Brooks Koepka and Bryson Dechambeau. We both observed the immense size that Bryson has put on his frame and overall physique. "Did you see him next to Justin Rose he was twice the size of him" Bryson is changing so much in his swing and with the added size he noticed some rigidity on some of his shots. he thinks that if he can just calm down and control some more of those shots he will lap the field in some tournaments. Bryson was the talk of the tournament because of this workout regiment he was on during Covid-19. Casey brought up the fact that the golfers were still sharp despite the layoff. His statistic was impressive as he said that 16 golfers shot all of their four rounds in the 60's. Even with no tournament play they still shot low scores. Casey smartly made the point that some of the wayward shots guys had would have typically hit grandstands and places where fans would be congregated normally so that gave them better opportunities at salvaging scores. The biggest aspect of no fans that We at Complete Sports observed was when Sung Kang made a hole in one and nobody cheered "there were crickets" and he didn't even know that it had went in. Casey then wanted to breakdown Xander Schauffele"s day. he hit a 30 foot bomb for bogey on 15 then hit another long putt on 16 for birdie then the "Power lip out on 17" golf can be so cruel. We discussed how many guys had a shot at the title but so many putts that just missed or lipped out. Daniel Berger had finished 9th, 5th and 4th in tournaments before the break so it was good to see he was able to continue his hot play and get a huge win over a world class field. We both noticed how Berger had come from behind and wasn't in the last few groups so he was able to post a number and let the other guys have to try and match or beat that -15 score. When Collin Morikawa stepped up to his short putt on 18 they showed a shot of Berger watching the putt that if it is holed wins the tournament for Morikawa and he pulled it. Once Schauffele fell off the pace there was a two man playoff. Morikawa hit it way wide right off the tee and had to scramble to get in position to have another short putt to tie the hole and send it to more extra holes but missed his chance again and handed the win to Berger. Casey said that he would have put money on Morikawa nailing those short putts.

Speaking of bets Casey won a big 8 game parlay on Friday so he sailed into the weekend on a high. We are going to get some betting tips from now one from the guru lol. He didn't fare as well on the weekend but had went for longshots. He mentioned that he was quite high on Canadian Corey Conners and had some money riding on him. He had a really good first three rounds shooting 66 67 67 before a 71 on Sunday saw him fall back in the pack. His win on tour was a Cinderella type story as he made it into the tournament as a Monday qualifier and won the whole thing and qualified for the Masters etc.

The tournament had an amazing world class top golfers field and then a lot of them missed the cut and we listed off a bunch. Dustin Johnson, John Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar, Graeme McDowell, Defending Colonial champion Kevin Na, Marc Leishman, Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Charley Hoffman, Webb Simpson.

Casey added some more humor as he wondered what was the look that Phil Mickelson was sporting with some dark shades. Look online you will laugh at the pics posted of his new look. Jason Kokrak was brought up as he shot 65 64 on the weekend to get himself right in contention but just started the weekend too far back. It was a very impressive performance.

We spoke a little about Olympic View Casey's home course when he is in Victoria and Duncan Meadows when he is up the Island. It was a great conversation and nice to have a lot of golf to breakdown and discuss. Love having golf back and being able to consume it and analyze it for days after especially with such a great guy in Casey Odonnell.

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