Keith Mitchell gets defensive with Christo Lamprecht over college banter

Keith Mitchell and Christo Lamprecht are in the field for the 2024 Shriners Children's Open at TPC Summerlin in Nevada. The Shriners Children's Open has been on the PGA Tour for the last 41 years, and the field has seen winners over the years.

During the practice rounds, the PGA Tour social media team asked the golfers to say something about fellow golfers. Lamprecht talked about Mitchell and stated:

"Keith is probably the smartest Georgia grad I've ever seen."

The PGA Tour posted the video on their Instagram account, to which Mitchell reacted and said that Lamprecht's comments are false. They posted the screenshot of his response on X, where the 32-year-old golfer said he won one academic award while at UGA, which was an Anchor award, the lowest GPA on the team for a semester.

"Disgraceful comments by @christolamprecht224 about the finest Univeristy in the land. I did win 1 academic award while at UGA. It was the Anchor Award, the lowest GPA on the team for a semester... a stellar 2.1," Mitchell said.

"Thus confirming christo's comments as slander in an effort to hold the only metric which Georgia Tech grads believe they have the advantage over UGA: intellect. Now, knowing that Christo's comments are false and incorrect, their argument based upon intellect shall be in question," he added.

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Who is Keith Mitchell paired with for the 2024 Shriners Children's Open?

Keith Mitchell is paired with Henrik Norlander and Chandler Phillips for the first two rounds at the 2024 Shriners Children's Open. They will tee off at 11:45 am local time (2:45 pm ET) for round one and 6:55 am local time (9:55 am ET) for the second round on Friday, October 18th.

Mitchell has odds of +3300 and is one of the favorite golfers to win the tournament. Tom Kim is the topmost favorite to win this week, as he has won the previous two editions of the event and is looking to register his third win. He has odds of +1200 going into the event.

Keith Mitchell will be headlining the field this week at the 2024 Shriners Children's Open - Source: Imagn

Here are the odds for the most favorite golfers this week, according to CBS.

1. Tom Kim +1200
2. Taylor Pendrith +2200
3. Davis Thompson +2500
4. Tom Hoge +2800
5. Kurt Kitayama +3000
6. Beau Hossler +3000
7. Seamus Power +3300
8. Keith Mitchell +3300
9. Matt McCarty +3500
10. Adam Hadwin +3500
11. Stephan Jaeger +3500
12. Eric Cole +3500
13. Ben Griffin +4000
14. J.T. Poston +4000
15. Cam Davis +4000
16. Maverick McNealy +4000
17. Harry Hall +4500
18. Jhonattan Vegas +5000
19. Matti Schmid +5000
20. J.J. Spaun +5000
21. Harris English +5000
22. Michael Thorbjornsen +5500
23. Andrew Putnam +5500
24. Erik van Rooyen +6000
25. Ryan Fox +6000
26. Chan Kim +6000
27. Kevin Yu +6000
28. Sam Stevens +6500
29. Andrew Novak +6500
30. Brendon Todd +6500
31. Ben Silverman +6500
32. Patton Kizzire +6500
33. Doug Ghim +7000
34. Rickie Fowler +7000
35. Austin Eckroat +7000
36. Emiliano Grillo +7000
37. Matt Kuchar +7000
38. Patrick Fishburn +7000
39. Adam Svensson +7000
40. Webb Simpson +7500
41. Taylor Moore +7500
42. Justin Lower +7500
43. Charley Hoffman +8000
44. Jacob Bridgeman +9000
45. Nick Hardy +9000
46. Daniel Berger +9000
47. Alex Smalley +9000
48. Nick Taylor +9000
49. Gary Woodland +10000
50. Chandler Phillips +10000
51. Rico Hoey +10000
52. Chesson Hadley +10000