TRUIST CHAMPIONSHIP CHEATSHEET: Bets, Weather, Underdog, DraftKings Notes
TRUIST BETS
Xander +1700
Conners +4000
Keegan +6600
Thorbjornsen +12500 (8 Places)
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K. Yu +3500
Valimaki +4000
P. Coody +5500
Champ +7500
Xiong +25000 (8 Places)
EURO
Otaegui +4000
Pulkkanen +6600
PGA Championship
Bryson +1600
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TRUIST QUICK NOTES
First time course for the PGA TOUR
Jason Day withdrew Tuesday and was replaced by Patrick Rodgers. Cust has switched his One and Done pick from Day to Daniel Berger.
Because of inclement weather concerns, players are being grouped in threesomes and off split tees Thursday and Friday. All 72 players will tee off within two hours of each other. There will be no split advantage based on tee times Thursday and Friday.
Rory would become the 14th player in TOUR history to win the same event at least five times with a victory.
I asked Mike Kim what he makes of how hard the course is going to play this week and here’s what he told me: “Scoring is going to be pretty good. It reminds me of Detroit a bit. It’s too early in the year so there’s not much rough around the fairways and if you’re a bomber, a lot of the bunkers are carry able (at least back nine).”
Somewhere from -15 to -18 should be the winning score unless Friday sucker punches everyone.
Here’s Rory on the course: “It’s very similar to a lot of these old school courses that have been renovated over the past few years. A lot of trees have been taken out. The green complexes are, for me, the interesting thing about the golf course.” This almost parrots exactly what Blickle told us about the course on the research show Sunday from his experience winning the Pennsylvania Open.
BETS
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.
Corey Conners +4000 —It’s difficult capping a course we’ve never seen tackled by the top end pros. But from what I can tell, because of the tiered greens, around the green may mean a little less this week than most. That’s a boost for the Canadian as, if you’ve ever watched him, Conners… struggles… with his chipping. Everything else, he’s a viking. Even his once lackluster putting has been improving in 2025. You can get a boost on Conners up to +4000 at Coolbet.com btw.
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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 Corales, 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. And it’s against Homa, who is live for last place.
MYRTLE
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.
Pierrrrrrrrrrrrrceson Coooooooooooooooooooody —
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.
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WEATHER
As mentioned, they’re worried about delays because of the weather so it’s split tees, and groups of three the first two rounds. That doesn’t look like an issue for Thursday. In fact, Thursday looks entirely gettable. Friday there may a hold up though. Fortunately, with them being proactive with the groupings, there should be enough dry spots to squeeze all of round two in. But cold, rainy and windy looks like a tough round.
WIND TOWER: Newtown Square
UNDERDOG
You can target some lowers with the easier day, but I do think there are going to plently of bogeys available for the field as well, so I zagged and went higher on some of those. Then threw in Rico Lowey because I’m greedy.
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DRAFTKINGS
Currently, it looks like Rory, Conners, Spieth, and Keegan are going to generate a lot on interest at the top of ownership at Truist. Of the big names, Aberg is the only one who could be comparatively low-owned. Tambo and I broke down different lineups on the show and talked through the thought process.
Truist Championship 2025 DraftKings Picks & Lineups
I only made 45 lineups this week so I had to strategically fade some players from my lineups. Those guys ended up being Collin, JT, Spieth, Cantlay, and Hovland from the top end. So if any of those guys win, I’m cooked. But that’s no different than most weeks.
Predicting ownership from the $6Ks is pretty tough this week as all the momentum could just go to two players and they come in well above all projections. We’ve been seeing it all year. From what I can guess, I’d expect Cole and Hoge to be right around 10% in large fields, with Jaeger, Gerard, Thorb, and EVR on the next ownership their down.
Here’s who I used from the $6K range.
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