TV times Memorial Tournament:
Thursday/Friday: 1-5 PM CT, Golf Channel
Saturday/Sunday: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM CT, Golf; 1:30-5 PM CT, CBS
Winner
Give me the 31 year old from Louisville by way of the University of Alabama to get the job done at this Signature PGA event with a $20 Million purse and a $4 Million check for first place. That’s massive. He finished tied for 8th at the PGA Championship at Valhalla and I like his momentum going in here.
Justin Thomas, 25/1
The 156th Belmont Stakes winner
Post time: 5:41 PM CT, NBC/Peacock
Winner
I’m going to take the Preakness winner. This year’s race will be run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, 187 miles north of the Big Apple, as Belmont Park is under renovations. The race will be 1 1/4 miles as opposed to the 1 1/2 mile normal race. This thoroughbred gets the No.1 Post Position which features the most winners at the Belmont with 24. It ran very well on a muddy track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore three weeks ago and I like it to do it again at Saratoga on what should be a wetter course with rain expected the rest of this week in Saratoga Springs. I’ll take 88 year old trainer Darrell Wayne Lukas (Antigo, Wisconsin, 15 triple crown victories, 4 Belmonts with the last coming in 2000) and 25 year old Puerto Rican jockey Jaime Torres to get’er done again in an American Classic, this time in “The Test of the Champion” at Saratoga.