Our expert is sold on Scottie Scheffler's chances this week. Getty Images Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour gambling-tips column, featuring picks from GOLF.com’s expert prognosticator Brady Kannon.

A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a regular guest on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio network devoted to sports and sport betting. You can follow on Twitter at @LasVegasGolfer , and you can read his picks below for the U.S.

Open, which gets underway Thursday in Pinehurst, N.C. Along with Kannon’s recommended plays, you’ll also see data from Chirp, a free-to-play mobile platform that features a range of games with enticing prizes, giving fans all kinds of ways to engage in the action without risking any money.

For the 124th edition of the U.S. Open , we are going to back to a golf course that opened 117 years ago.

Pinehurst No. 2 , an American classic, for this season’s third major and our national championship. Pinehurst No.

2 was designed by Donald Ross, a legendary figure in the industry who designed somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 properties around the world. Ross called No. 2, “the fairest test of championship golf I have ever designed.

” Payne Stewart won the U.S. Open here in 1999, holding off Phil Mickelson.

Michael Campbell was the champ in 2005, beating Tiger Woods by two shots, and Germany’s Martin Kaymer, lapped the field by eight shots when he hoisted the trophy a decade ago in 2014. It is a very long test of golf at over 7,500 yards and a p.