

The Bearded Talisman's picks for the 154th Open Championship
Scottie Scheffler to WIN (+620, 1.5 units) – Three weeks ago, the world number one came within an inch of winning The Travelers and settled for his 4th solo 2nd of the year. He missed the cut last week at The Genesis Scottish Open but that was nothing more than a tuneup for this week’s major, and he may have benefitted by the missed cut with more practice time at Royal Birkdale. The +620 odds – his longest pre-tourney odds of the year – are like manna from heaven. And
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Choosin' Texas: The Bearded Talisman's 126th US Open Preview
Scottie Scheffler to WIN +455: 1st, T-3rd, T-4th, T-12th, T-24th, T-22nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, T-14th, 3rd and T-12th. Those are Scottie Scheffler’s finishes in 2026. Every other golfer on Earth would kill for those results, except Scottie has set the bar so high, any year without multiple wins and major championships is a “disappointment”. At the Masters in April, Scottie became the first golfer since 1942 to play a bogey-free weekend. No one remembers that because he fin
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The Bearded Talisman's 2026 Masters picks
THOUGHTS on Scottie Scheffler: The world’s number #1 ranked golfer and two-time Masters champ has struggled – by HIS standards - over his most recent 3 PGA Tour events. After 19 consecutive Top 10s in PGA events, he failed to make the Top 10 at The Genesis, the Arnold Palmer and The Players. Even if you go back to Waste Management in early February, his game was beginning to show cracks in the armor. Overall, his driving accuracy is off, his approach game is off – n
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