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2026 American Express | Comprehensive Tournament Preview | Best Bets | Gotterup Is Here To Stay

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Polo already runs a pro-am: each team's rich 'Patron' is rated a 1 handicap beside 8s and 6s.

1. Preferred Lines previews the 2026 American Express at PGA West after Chris Gotterup's win at the Sony Open in Honolulu, adding betting angles for a three-course rotation. 2. Hosts John Haselbauer and his co-host run the show every Monday at 8:30 p.m., and they announced a move to the Read the Line network starting around the Phoenix Open. 3. The core thesis is that the Amex is a birdie-fest and putting contest where long shots win, with four winners since 2019 at 150-to-1 or longer. 4. On Gotterup, the hosts note that he started at Rutgers, transferred to Oklahoma, and beat Rory McIlroy in the Scottish Open, and that his offseason move to Florida let him practice in November through January. 5. A graphic compares Gotterup and Ludwig Åberg over 12 months, with Gotterup holding one extra win, but Haselbauer stays "team Ludwig" because Åberg has played the Masters and has the "robotic repeatable" swing. 6. In a Pro-Am segment, Haselbauer pitches a competitive-eating Pro-Am pairing Joey Chestnut with a CEO, while his co-host suggests swimming and points to polo's "Patron" system, with a 21-point team handicap cap. 7. The course breakdown puts La Quinta and the Nicklaus course at little resistance, with dormant rough and easier Pro-Am pin positions, while the Pete Dye Stadium Course carries water and a double bogey on most holes. 8. Haselbauer advises live bettors to buy golfers who start hot on the Stadium Course but to wait on those who start hot on the other two, and one host's model puts Scheffler, Si Woo Kim, Russell Henley and Ben Griffin in its top four. 9. Scheffler is 3 to 1 and has no top-10 here since 2020, so both hosts take him on, and they back Patrick Cantlay at 30 to 1 while one host sours on Ben Griffin after four days near the bottom in strokes gained approach at the Sony. 10. Golf bettors who like long shots and course-fit analysis will enjoy this.

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