Eight course wins, one course record and an enthralling return to top-level contention at the Open Championship - the case for Tiger Woods winning the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is not difficult to make.
The latest of 90 worldwide triumphs came here at Firestone five years ago and in some style, a second-round 61 sending him off into the distance before he ultimately won by seven. And that's not even his most dominant display at the course, nor is his eight-stroke success in 2007. No, turn-of-the-century Tiger, surely the most dominant sportsman of his time, shot 21-under to win by 11.
All these positives, combined with top-six finishes in each of his last two starts, add up to 14/1. It's just about the price you'd expect and whether you consider it value will largely depend on how strongly you weight history, for one thing is clear: time waits for no man, not even Eldrick Tont Woods.
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His first win as a professional came under tough conditions here in Ohio, where earlier this season he finished eighth in the Memorial Tournament, and while he began his PGA Tour career winning a series of shootouts he's subsequently shown that demanding conditions are absolutely no problem.
Thomas lost a play-off for the WGC-Mexico and was a losing semi-finalist at the WGC-Match Play earlier this season and although his form right now is not as strong as he'd like, I don't believe it's as far away as the price implies. Quite how he's chalked up alongside Henrik Stenson, who complained of an elbow injury during Open week, and Tommy Fleetwood, is beyond me.
Let us not forget that Thomas has won at a one-in-six strike-rate since the start of the 2017 season. While six of these seven wins in 42 starts came when demonstrably in-form, the biggest and most significant came on a run of MC-MC-MC-28 and if there's any form line I can forgive, it's that which is drawn up in The Open.
As you'd expect, there's a case to be made for all of the best players in the world. DJ in particular looks solid - he won this immediately after taking the US Open two years ago and is more than capable of going back-to-back - while McIlroy is equally well suited to Firestone, despite there being just two par-fives to go at and one of them giving up just three eagles in the history of this event.
Justin Rose has been superb for a year now and produced his career-best Open finish last time out, Rickie Fowler has plenty of course form to his name, Jordan Spieth is Jordan Spieth and there is no hotter player on planet earth than Francesco Molinari, who looked to be getting to grips with the course on his last visit.
For better or worse, in such circumstances I tend to look for the elite players who aren't the order of the day for potentially spurious reasons and as well as leading me towards Thomas, they also point to Jon Rahm and Jason Day.
Both are winners at Torrey Pines, another of Tiger's favourite tracks, and that's significant. The South Course at Torrey is another ridiculously long, demanding par 70 which tends to favour a certain type of player, and the fact that Rahm and Day go so well there suggests to me that they can be factors here.
The trouble with both is that their iron play has not been up to scratch this year from a statistical perspective. Day leads the PGA Tour both on and around the greens courtesy of numbers which look borderline unsustainable but is well down in strokes-gained approach, and Rahm isn't much further up the charts at 128th.
These figures can be a little misleading - not every round has been measured - and while they are just about enough to put me off Rahm, one of just four players to produce three rounds of 68 or better here last year on what was his debut in the event, I am willing to give Day the benefit of the doubt.