PGA DFS Core Plays - DraftKings & FanDuel: RSM Classic
Top-ranked DFS player, Notorious, breaks down his favorite PGA DFS plays at various salary ranges for the coming week’s golf tournament. Who should you be building around? Find out below.
RSM Classic
As sad as it is, this will be the last golf article until the new year. We have a couple exhibition events in December, but nothing with a full field and we’ll likely only have DFS for the Hero World Challenge. Even if our lineups fall apart before the weekend and even if our bets look dead, let’s enjoy the final PGA Tour event of the year. The RSM Classic will be held at Sea Island Golf Club and will be played on two different courses — the Seaside Course and the Plantation Course. Golfers will play each course once before the cut and then the final two rounds will be held at the Seaside Course.
Given the fact that three of the four rounds will be played at Seaside, we will focus most of our attention on that course. However, the Plantation Course is a Par 72 that should yield more birdies than the Seaside Course. Golfers will want to take advantage of their single round on the Plantation Course. The Seaside Course is a Par 70 that measures just over 7,000 yards. It’s not long by PGA Tour standards and should play fairly easy with little wind expected in the forecast. The last five winners of this event has all reached at least 19-under par and there’s nothing to suggest that won’t be the case again this season.
Distance is not a prerequisite to contend at this event. There are many holes where it’s better to club down off the tee and the course is obviously short compared to many. Driving accuracy is preferred over raw distance, but the longer hitters won’t need to hit many drivers. Ultimately, we don’t need to focus too much of our attention on off the tee metrics. The greens here are large and very easy to hit on average. We’ve seen good scramblers perform well here over the years, but gaining strokes on the greens is more important than gaining strokes around the greens. Typically, birdie-fests that feature easy to hit greens turn into putting contests.
All styles of play are viable this week, but I am not taking my chances with the ball strikers that can’t putt. Everyone is going to have birdie looks this week, so I’m focusing on golfers that I can expect to gain strokes putting in the long run. Keep it in play off the tee, be good enough on approach, and get red-hot on the greens. This place is a plodder’s paradise. If you aren’t familiar with the term plodder, think of the Matt Kuchar, Zach Johnson, Webb Simpson, and Kevin Kisner types.
Downloadable Link and Model Video for the RSM Classic
Tournament Info
Field Size:
- 156 golfers
Cut Rule:
- Top 65 and ties
Weather Forecasts
Key Statistics
- Strokes Gained Approach
- Strokes Gained Putting (Bermdua)
- Driving Accuracy
- Strokes Gained Around the Green
- Birdie or Better %
Core Plays
Brian Harman
DK: $10,300 — FD: $11,500
SG: OTT — 29
SG: APP — 23
BOB% — 29
SG: ATG — 30
SG: Putting — 52
Noto’s Rating — 89.8