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2026 Farmers Insurance Open | Brooks is BACK! | Comprehensive Tournament Preview + Picks

·1 hr 3 min·2 clips

It's dome golf. There's no wind. He gets a stock number, and the first cut of rough is the same lie.

1. Preferred Lines previews the 2026 Farmers Insurance Open after recapping the American Express and the DP World Tour's Dubai Desert Classic. 2. Hosts Joe and John record from a snowed-in New Orleans Airbnb on day four of a bachelor party, and they announce this is the last week on the Preferred Lines YouTube page before the show moves to the Read the Line channel. 3. The central thread is Scottie Scheffler's dominance, with a four-stroke Amex win that was his 14th victory in 35 PGA Tour starts, roughly a 40% clip. 4. On Patrick Reed's 15-stroke Dubai win, John says "you need options" for leverage, and Joe notes Reed is second in the DP World Tour race, where a top-10 finish earns a PGA Tour card. 5. John attributes Scheffler's win to "dome golf" with no wind, uniform lies and no bogey threats, and he says he will favor without-Scheffler markets and each-way bets over a three-to-one outright. 6. Joe questions whether runaway wins hurt ratings, noting the final round aired against NFL conference championship games, and John adds that "Bernie fest" scoring at PGA West leaves no two-shot swings. 7. Both hosts praise 18-year-old Blades Brown, who threatened a 59 while playing rock paper scissors with fans, and Joe notes Max Homa's four sub-70 rounds and Will Zalatoris's final-round 64. 8. In the bullish/bearish segment, Joe is bullish on Shot Scope's $200, no-subscription launch monitor due in March and bearish on LIV's awards that named Jon Rahm "clutch player of the year" despite no wins. 9. John is bullish on the Sazerac cocktail after a distillery tour and bearish on "snow football," calling it a "travesty" after the Patriots-Broncos conference game. 10. Golf bettors and PGA Tour fans following Scheffler's run will get the most from it. 11. The course guide notes that Torrey Pines has hosted since 1968 and that the South Course plays 7,765 yards with a 73.68 scoring average, while the North is 7,258 yards. 12. John says seven of the last eight winners ranked top five in strokes gained approach, and he cites 100-to-1 or longer winners Luke List, Matthew Pavon and Harris English.

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