2025 Truist Championship Picks, Bets, Course Preview + Myrtle Beach Picks
TRUIST QUICK PICKS
Xander +1700
Keegan +6600
Thorbjornsen +12500 (8 Places)
Myrtle Beach
K. Yu +3500
Valimaki +4000
P. Coody +5500
Champ +7500
Xiong +25000 (8 Places)
PGA Championship
Bryson +1600
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TRUIST CHAMPIONSHIP
72 Players
NO CUT
First Tee Time: Thursday, May 8
Defending Champion: Rory McIlroy (Different Course)
Scottie Scheffler is taking a pass for this signature event after dominating the field at the CJ Cup over the weekend.
Following his win at Corales, Garrick Higgo is in the field at the top of the AON Swing 5 standings, he’s join in Truist field by Erik Van Rooyen, Sam Stevens, Michael Thorbjornsen, and Rasmus Hojgaard.
Per usual, Rickie Fowler, Keith Mitchell, Jordan Spieth, and Gary Woodland all received sponsor’s exemptions.
KEY STATS
Driving Distance
SG: Approach
Putting: 25+ Feet
Approach 175+
Mayo’s Key Stats powered by FantasyNational.com
COURSE
Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon)
Par: 70
Yardage: 7,119
Greens: A1/A4 bentgrass
Average Green Size: 5,779 sq. ft.
Number of Sand Bunkers: 118
Number of Holes Water is in Play: 6
First hole will be the course’s No. 8 and then proceed in order with No. 9-7 as tournament’s No. 2-18.
Most bunkers of any course this year.
Par 3's (4): Average distance - 188 yards
Distances (sorted by length): 122-172-215-122
Par 4's (12): Average distance - 440 yards
There are seven Par 4's ranging from 423-449) with two short ones (sub-375) and three longer ones (over 485)
Par 5's (2): Average distance - 550 yards
There is one in the middle of both 9's (#5 is 546 yards and #15 is 553)
For more on the course, check out the Truist Research show from this week with Alex Blickle. We do flyovers for the holes and Alex gives his insights from when he won the Pennsylvania Open at this same course and breaks down the types of players he expects to do well.
Truist Championship Picks, Research, Trends, Sleepers, Course Preview
PICKS
Xander +1700 — I’d like to believe I’m not walking into a trap… again. Guess we’ll find out. Despite consistently losing strokes off the tee, Xander’s results have started to veer towards the top of the board again. The distance remains elite, his irons didn’t really suffer at all upon his return and his short game and feel is improving every week. As long as he’s in the third tier of favorites on the odds board he’s probably going to get my money.
Keegan Bradley +6600 — Really, outside the Masters, it’s been Keegan’s putting that’s sinking his results. He’s lost over four strokes on the greens per start over his pas three. Still, he’s sits sixth in the field T2G over his past 24 rounds. Here’s to hoping a stiffer challenge, combined with traveling back up the the North East find us a spike putting week.
Michael Thorbjornsen +12500 (8 Places) — Fifth in distance and third in carry distance over the past year, and playing some solid golf entering Philly. After his T2 at Corrals, he followed it up with a stellar result at the team event before one bad round at CJ Cup had him finish T29. There’s a worry all Thorbjornsen’s good results in his short career have come at easy venues. But he comes with substantial upside and did play his high school golf in the North East so hopefully he’s comfortable with the set up.
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ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic
The Dunes Golf and Beach Club
Par: 71
Yardage: 7,347
Greens: Bermudagrass
Average Green Size: 6,000 sq. ft.
Number of Sand Bunkers: 72
Number of Holes Water is in Play: 6
No. 10-13 is Alligator Alley, while No. 13 runs along Singleton Lake.
Average Fairway Widths: 20-25 yards
Renovation in 2023 included leveling and re-grassing all championship tees; building new championship tees on No. 1, 2, 6, 8 and 14; rebuilding lake edges on No. 1, 10 and 18; rebuilding practice green; and building new chipping green and bunker.
Here’s how last year’s leaderboard looked from a strokes gained standpoint.
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PICKS
Valimkai & Yu — More or less rolling out the same goobers I’ve been betting for weeks. Valimaki finally dropped strokes on approach for the first time since the beginning of March at CJ Cup. He’s not an elite player so that’s to be somewhat expected; hopefully he can rebound. Yu just did he normal routine: Sat among the leaders in ball striking (+8.2; 6th in the field) and sunk himself with the putter. Hopefully he week he finally putts the rest of his game comes around with it.
Champ — Champ — He bombs it and sometimes he’s the best putter on the planet. He’s got a bit of form (T15/T16) past two starts. I’ve bet worse.
Xiong — I always like Xiong at these inflated numbers. He’s basically the mold of every loser I like to bet wrapped in one. He mashes it off the tee, vacillates between tremendous and horrendous weeks with his irons and makes putts about half the time. He’s never lined everything up at once in a PGA event but it’s happened a few times on KFT. And if there’s ever a field which looks like a KFT event, it’s this.